Events Archive
SPRING SEMESTER 2011
January 10, 2011
Jens Andermann, Professor of Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London visits Indiana Uniersity, Bloomington Januaray 2011
A Horizons of Knowledge Lecture "Memory in the Expanded Field:Postdictatorial Landscapes in Argentina and Chile"
Monday, January 10, 2011 1:00 p.m., IMU Walnut RoomJanuary 11, 2011
Jens Andermann, Professor of Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London visits Indiana Uniersity, Bloomington Januaray 2011
Workshop: "The Past, Present, and Future of Latin American Cultural Studies"
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:00 a.m., IMU Walnut RoomJanuary 21, 2011
“Negotiating Identities: Shell’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Quilombola Communities in Brazil” a talk by Paula Dias of Brown University
Friday, January 21, 2011, 12pm
ACT conference area (SB 331)Paula is currently in the 2nd year of the Ph.D. program in Anthropology at Brown University. The presentation will be Friday, January 21 at noon in the ACT conference area (SB 331).
IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer 2010 Field Research Grant Presentations
Friday, January 21, 2011
3pm Ballantine 004
- Emily Miller (CLACS and SPEA Public Affairs): “Sexual and Reproductive Rights and the Development Paradigm in Guatemala”
- Julia Sornicelli (CLACS and SPEA Public Affairs): “The Impact of Female Self-Employment on Household Well-Being and Decision-Making Power in the Dominican Republic”
- Lyra Spang (Anthropology): “Food and Sex in Belize: A Gendered Arena for the Production, Contestation and Reinforcement of Identity”
- Michael Perkins (Geography): “A field visit to Calakmul Municipality, Campeche, Mexico”
- Amy Miller Gray (Geography): “Indigenous Control of Tourism in Kuna Yala, Panama”
- Laura Garrett (SPEA Public Affairs): "Roots, Fruits, and Jamaican Ecologies: Mapping Ambassabeth Ecolodge and Neem Park”
January 24, 2011
"Documentary Filmmaking in Haiti: Directors' Perspectives," a Q&A Discussion with film directors Renee Bergan and Alex Hammond
Monday, January 24, 2011
11:30 a.m., IMU Walnut RoomFollowing Sunday’s Haiti Film Festival, visiting directors Renee Bergan (“Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy”) and Alex Hammond (“Strange Things: Children of Haiti”) will once again join IU and Bloomington community members for a brown bag lunch Q&A session at the IU Memorial Union. The filmmakers will share their own experiences with documentary and ethnographic filmmaking as well as their personal engagements in Haiti before and after the earthquake. In addition to questions about the films screened at the film festival and the issues raised in their films, directors will be open to more general inquiries about ongoing advocacy and development work in Haiti.
The Department of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)/ Brazilian Studies Program Presents “An Anthropology of Food Choice: Eating, Environment and Everyday Life in the Amazon”
Monday, January 24, 2011
4:00 p.m.
Student Building 159Rui Murrieta is Professor at Institute of Biosciences, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He obtained his PhD degree from Colorado University at Boulder in 2000. His research has been mainly focused on the nutritional anthropology and environmental anthropology of Amazonian Peoples. In the last decade he has also studied rain forest maroon communities in Southern Brazil and is about to start a new project in Chile, in the Atacama desert, regarding the transformation of food production and intake in the last century. In Sao Paulo, Dr. Murrieta teaches classes in Philosophy of Sciences, Anthropology, Human Evolution and Human Ecology.
January 23, 2011
Haiti Film Festival to commemorate earthquake anniversary, raise money for relief efforts
Sunday, January 23, 2011 • 1:30-7:30pm
Buskirk-Chumley TheaterThe Haiti Film Festival will focus on the ongoing social and economic needs of people in Haiti and commemorate the anniversary of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and other communities in Haiti and left 1.5 million people homeless.
For more information on the festival and the schedule of films, visit http://bloomington4haiti.wordpress.com/events or write to bloomington4haiti@gmail.com.
January 28, 2011
IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer 2010 Field Research Grant Presentations
Friday, January 28, 2011
3pm, Ballentine 105
- Michael Mixtacki (Music): “Arará Drumming and Song in Matanzas, Cuba”
- Eric Bindler (Folklore and Ethnomusicology): “The Island Life: Music, Tourism, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Jamaican Reggae”
- Jonathan Warner (History): “The Development of a Pan-West Indian Ethnic Consciousness in Panama”
- Christopher Davidson (Spanish and Portuguese): “Production and Perception of Boundary Tones in Puerto Rican Spanish”
- Katherine Forgacs (Folklore and Ethnomusicology): “A Study of documents that relate to Caribbean Creoles and housing and are located in St. Lucia's major cultural repositories”
January 29, 2011
First Brazilian Samba Workshop
January 29, 2011, 1-3:30pm
$35 general
$20 Students (must show student I.D.)
**Sign up for all 4 workshops and get a $10 discount!Our workshop will surely get your blood pumping as Brazilian born Anita DeCastro along with members from the Flores do Samba Dance Company lead you through the basics of Brazilian style Samba dance.There is no partnering in this style of Samba - just you, the music, and a really great workout! With recognizable African roots, the movements of this dance are aerobic and fun, rhythmic and fast. Each month you'll learn new steps and Brazilian regional variations of Samba while boosting your confidence and expanding your knowledge of the music and culture of Brazil! No prior experience required. The workshop is designed for all!
Workshops will be held monthly during Spring semester on the last Saturday of the month at Panache Dance Studio.
For more information about the dance studio visit http://www.panachedance.com/.January 30, 2011
Latin American Music Competition Final Round
Sunday, January 30, 2011
4:00 pm, Auer HallThe Latin American Music Center at Indiana University announces the Latin American Music Recording Competition 2011. Grand Prize: Recording of a Professional Quality, Fully Produced CD. For any questions or repertoire consultations and application package, please write to the LAMC (lamc@indiana.edu)
February 3-17, 2011
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Present a film series on Mario Vargas Llosa
La Ciudad y los Perros*, Dir. Francisco Lombardi.
Thursday, February 3rd 6:00 p.m.Written in 1962, La Ciudad y los Perros is based on the popular novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Four cadets in a brutal military academy in Lima, Peru form a secret group called “The Circle” which controls the flow of cigarettes, liquor, and other contraband in the school. When the leader of the group is caught, he reacts violently and the ensuing scandal threatens the school. The book on which this film is based was said to have been denounced by military officials because of its portrayal of power and violence in the military academy.
Pantaleón y las visitadoras*, Dir. Francisco Lombardi.
Thursday, February 10th 6:00 p.m.Pantaleón y las Visitadoras is based on Mario Vargas Llosa’s 1973 comic novel. The straightlaced Captain Pantoja is charged with creating a brothel for the Peruvian armed forces in the Amazon. The film depicts his adventures as he runs the brothel as an efficient branch of the army, and becomes involved with one of the “visitadoras,” known as “La Colombiana.” The film was chosen as Peru's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards.
La Fiesta del Chivo**, Dir. Luis Llosa.
Thursday, February 17th 6:00 p.m.La Fiesta del Chivo is based on Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel by the same name and is set in the Dominican Republic. The film depicts the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo and focuses on two periods of the country’s history, thirty years later in 1996 and the periods during and immediately after the assassination in 1961. The film follows three story lines, each of which provides a distinct perspective on the assassination of ‘The Goat’ and on Dominican politics, in general.
All screenings to be held at SE105 (Swain East)
Joining in the celebration after the announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, this Film Series is an opportunity to get to know the author through film adaptations of his novels. Awarded "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat," Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the most important figures in the literary world and, along with other renowned Latin American writers, a member of the prestigious generation called “Boom latinoamericano”. Among his best known works are La ciudad y los perros (1963), Conversación en la Catedral (1969), La guerra del fin del mundo (1981), and El sueño del celta (2010). *In Spanish with English subtitles **In English
February 4, 2011
Department of Folklore and Enthomusicology Research Colloquium Series: The Aesthetics of Fear presents “The Ballad of Narcomexico” by Professor John Holmes McDowell
Friday, February 4, 3:30 - 5 pm
Performance & Lecture Hall, 800 N. Indiana Ave.
Violence associated with underworld activity is everywhere, but Mexico is perhaps unique in having a grass-roots chronicle of the events that shape its history - the corrido, a ballad form deeply intertwined with the Mexican experience in all its phases. In this presentation, Folklore Professor and Departmental Chair John Holmes McDowell inspects the contemporary manifestation of this ballad tradition, the narcocorrido, that is, corridos telling tales from the Mexican drug underworld. He seeks to identify the main tendencies in today's narcocorrido and to assess lines of continuity with past expressions in this genre. It emerges that the narcocorrido is a legitimate heir to the corridos that accompanied the Mexican Revolution, yet it presents some facets that are distinctive to the current moment. One of these is the integration of corridos, their composers, and their performers, into a messaging system connecting (sometimes in quite grisly manner) rival cartels in the Mexican drug world.February 1-28, 2011
“Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature 2010" Poster and Book Exhibition in in Herman B Wells Library
The Latin American Studies Collection is hosting “Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature 2010," a poster and book exhibition honoring Mario Vargas Llosa in the lobby of the Herman B Wells Library.
February 23, 2011
"Javatrekking: Social change and Sustainable Business in the Coffeelands,"a talk by activist and entreprenuer, Dean Cycon
Dean Cycon is the CEO of Dean's Beans and award-winning author of Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee. His writing and business practices illustrate a deep knowledge of the manner in which coffee production impacts and depends upon individuals and communities
Wednesday, Februrary 23, 2011, 6 p.m .
IMU Frangipani Room
at the local level. As both an activist and entrepreneur, Cycon offers a critical approach to fair trade and a broader understanding of its place
in building a more sustainable way of life.February 24, 2011
Join Dean Cycon for an Informal discussion with faculty, students, and community members
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Foster International Living-Learning Center
Foster-Shea Ground Floor Lounge,1000 N. Fee LaneFebruary 24-25, 2011
Workshop: Introduction to Traditional Peruvian Dance
Thursday, February 24, 9:00 p.m.
Panache School of Ballroom and Social Dance, 325 East Winslow Road
Led by Cynthia Paniagua, New York-based professional dancer and protagonist of the 2007 documentary “Soy Andina.” With live musical accompaniment and demonstrations from professors and students in the IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. *Free and open to the public.*
Workshop: Master Class on Afro-Peruvian Dance
Friday, February 25, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, A217Led by Cynthia Paniagua, New York-based professional dancer and protagonist of the 2007 documentary “Soy Andina.” With live musical accompaniment and demonstrations from professors and students in the IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. *Free and open to the public. Prior dance experience recommended. Participation in the entire workshop mandatory*
Documentary film screening of “Soy Andina,” and Q&A with Director and Film Protagonist
Friday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Grand HallDirector Mitch Teplitsky and one of the film’s two principal protagonists, artist Cynthia Paniagua, will be on hand to discuss this documentary film. Soy Andina tells the intersecting stories of two women – a modern/hip-hop dance dancer raised in Queens, and a folkloric dancer from the Andes – on a visually engaging journey through Peru in search of roots and a world of folkloric dance. http://www.soyandina.com/.
February 26, 2011
12th Annual Indiana Latino Leadership Conference “Identity: the Search for Collective Consciousness”
Registration Deadline: Feburary 19, 2011
Conference Dates: February 26, 2011 8a.m. – 5p.m.
Ball State University Student Center
Muncie, INBall State University and Indiana University are proud to collaborate this year by hosting the 12th Annual Indiana Latino Leadership Conference. This event has been cultivating leadership and has provided etworking opportunities since it first began. Together Ball State University and Indiana University will be providing opportunity to learn more regarding issues that affect Latino students on culture, education, identity, current affairs, career development, and leadership.
This year’s conference seeks to cultivate the exchange of ideas, values, and beliefs. In order to make changes in our communities, we should understand where we came from and who we are in order to move from idleness to action in making a difference in our communities. This year’s theme is “IDENTITY: the search for collective consciousness”. The theme reflects the idea of individual’s identity coming together and working for a common community, inviting young adults to join and help build their community through action, all the while embracing their identity. We are a people of action, furthermore, we must lead by example showing younger generations that by coming together as one we can make change happen and reach the masses. We are not the future we are the present! No somos el futuro somos el presente! For more information visit http://www.illc.info/home/. Click here to download the registration form.
March 3, 3011
Gerry Cadava (Northwestern University) presents "Mexican and Indigenous Borderlands Histories since World War II"
Thursday, March 3 at 4:00 p.m.
Walnut Room, IMU
Professor Cadava will present his research on Ambos Nogales (on the U.S.-Mexico border) and the transborder Tohono O'odham Nation. His work speaks to comparative and transnational frameworks for understanding Mexican and Indigenous histories.This event is part of the Borderlands Speaker Series and is sponsored by the Latino Studies, American Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Asian American Studies, Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund, and College Arts and Humanities Institute.
Alex Chávez presents !Vamos a Da’ Las! (Let’s Go to Dallas!): Transborder Geographies of Illegality in Mexican Speech Play
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Lindley Hall 102
Alex Chávez is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame University. He recently earned his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in folklore and public culture and holds doctoral portfolios in both Mexican American studies and cultural studies. His lecture will draw from his recently completed dissertation on huapango arribeño music in Greater Mexico.
This lecture explores a variety of common sociolinguistic practices –ranging from humorous verbal put-ons to the virtuosic use of the Spanish décima in poetic flyting– as interactional means of self-making across the U.S.-Mexico border among undocumented Mexican immigrants from the Sierra Gorda region of central Mexico. Immigration and trans-border relations are among the most pressing concerns in the political economy of both countries. Dr. Chávez’s lecture, which offers a perspective on the immigration experience and the transnational border from the vantage point of the immigrants’ own forms of expression, will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members in a wide range departments.
Reception for Graduate and Undergraduate Students to meet with Roy Germano, director of “The Other Side of Immigration”
Thursday, March 3, 3:00pm-4:00pm
Woodburn Hall Rawles RoomRoy Germano founded Roy Germano Films LLC and shot, directed, and edited The Other Side of Immigration, an award-winning documentary film that explores why Mexicans migrate to the US and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Germano has conducted extensive research in the Mexican countryside with support from the National Science Foundation. His dissertation advanced a unique theory about the billions of dollars Mexican immigrants send home every year. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School in New York City and frequently speaks about immigration issues at universities and conferences around the country.
Film Screening of “The Other Side of Immigration” followed by a Question and Answer session
Thursday, March 3, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Whittenberger Auditorium in the IMUBased on over 700 interviews, The Other Side of Immigration asks why so many Mexicans leave home to work in the United States and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind. Through an approach that is both subtle and thought provoking, The Other Side of Immigration challenges audiences to imagine more creative and effective solutions to our immigration problem. Filmmaker Roy Germano holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted extensive research in the Mexican countryside with support from the National Science Foundation. The Other Side of Immigration emerged from his research.
March 4, 2011
Minority Languages and Cultures Program (MLCP) presents “Expressive Culture as Heritage in the Andes"
Friday, March 4, 2011, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Featuring presentations by Catherine Allen (George Washington University), Serafín Coronel-Molina, Javier León (IU), John McDowell (IU), Zoila Mendoza (UC-Davis), Jonathan Ritter (UC-Riverside), Michelle Wibbelsman (Texas), and Juan Eduardo Wolf (IU)
For more information, contact MLCP Graduate Assistant Julián Carrillo: juancarr [at] indiana [dot] edu.
March 4-April 5, 2011
Yuyanapaq (To Remember) Photo Exhibition
March 4-April 5, IMU Gallery
Opening reception with comments by Jonathan Ritter, UC-Riverside
Friday, March 4, 5:00 p.m.
IMU Gallery (Starbucks seating area)Exploring political violence in Peru between 1980 and 2000, this exhibit features 40 photographs culled from the exhibition organized by the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2003. The photographs will rotate weekly. To view all photos in chronological order, together with a brief historical essay, see the exhibit catalogue at the Peru: Contested Representations website http://www.indiana.edu/~clacs/peru/representations.shtml
March 4-12, 2011
“Creative Voices: Empowerment of Argentinian Women and Photography Exhibit” at Paper Crane Gallery
March 4-12, 2011
Exhibit Opening: Friday, March 4, 2011 at 8:00 p.m
Paper Crane Gallery, 401 W. 6th St. Suite J
This 2-week exhibit will showcase Courtney Miller’s (IUB student) culminating work from a workshop she taught at Sol Naciente, a women’s shelter in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The images selected for the exhibit convey the women’s narratives through their own eyes and attempt to create a space for social awareness about violence against women worldwide.
Entrance to the exhibit is free, but all profits from photography sales will be put toward the Sol Naciente project. Please come show your support and become a fan of the project on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Creative-Voices/184055298293049?v=wall.March 4-5, 2011
The Paul Lucas Conference in History at Indiana University presents "Making a Choice: Conflict, Consensus and Compromise in Cultural Change”
Keynote Address of 2011 Paul Lucas Conference in History: Professor Jeff Gould, Rudy Professor, Department of History, Indiana University "The Word in the Woods: Reflections on Documentary Film and Historical Analysis"
Friday, March 4 6:00 pm
Business 202Conference Dates: Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, 2011
The History Graduate Student Association at Indiana University invites paper submissions from graduate students for its 2010 conference entitledMaking a Choice: Conflict, Consensus and Compromise in Cultural Change.
This year’s conference seeks to utilize the idea of agency and choice as a lens through which to encourage a more interdisciplinary discussion that reaches into the local community and engages with a variety of sources and perspectives about the role of the individual, the community and the memories created in the processes of conflict and conflict resolution. The conference aims to highlight intersections of both historical and interdisciplinary value and to engage with multifaceted themes that are particularly relevant to numerous contemporary fields of historical inquiry, both inside and outside the academy. Our hope is to engage with historical topics that not only cross disciplinary boundaries, but that reach within and beyond the social and academic borders that influence our understandings how choices affect cultural change.
For more information on the conference visit:
http://www.indiana.edu/~hgsaconf/2011-making-a-choice-conflict-consensus-and-compromise-in-cultural-change/March 5, 2011
Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics, and Culture at IUB
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Balantine HallConferences presentations are organized in the following area: Hispanic Literature and Cultures: Rethinking Female Roles in Hispanic Literature; Hispanic Literature and Cultures: Poetics and Modernism; Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture; Pedagogy; Hispanic Literature and Cultures: Morality and Rethinking the Past; Hispanic Linguisitcs; Hispanic Literature: Bodies and Conflicts. For a complete list of paper titles, times, and locations, see the program brochure.
March 10, 2011
Natalia Molina (University of California, San Diego) presents “The Complexities and Inconsistencies of Immigration Law: Case Studies of Mexican Deportations in the 20th Century”
Thursday, March 10, 4:00 p.m.
Georgian Room, IMUUsing Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Professor Molina will discuss deportation cases from the 1920s-1950s. The agency’s records give us insight into how individuals and the media shaped notions of belonging, exclusion, and citizenship.
The Borderlands Speakers Series is a collaboration of American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latino Studies, and Native American & Indigenous Studies. We hope you can join us for this event.
March 13, 2011
Women of Color Reading & Conversation Group
Sunday, March 13 at 5 p.m.
La Casa Latino Cultural Center
This is a non-exclusive group focused on exploring issues faced by women of color. We will begin by working through selections of Daisy Hernandez's Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Anyone is welcome to participate. Readings will be provided, and the meeting will focus on discussion of the text as well as other issues brought to light by group members. Sponsored by the Bloomington Latin American Solidarity Collective
March 21, 2011
U.S. Women and Cuba Collaboration: A Conversation with Cuban Scholar and Feminist Dr. Norma Vasallo
Monday, March 21, 4pm
Rachael’s Café, 300 East 3rd StreetDr. Vasallo, Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of Havana, is a leading Cuban scholar and educator in the fields of social psychology and global feminisms, and a prolific author. She will join the Bloomington community to discuss the status of women in contemporary Cuba and US-Cuba Relations. This event is open and free to the public. Language interpretation will be available for the conversation.
This event is sponsored by CUBAmistad, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and Rachael’s Café. For more information visit http://cubamistad.wordpress.com/ or http://www.indiana.edu/~clacs/news/calendar.shtml
March 22, 2011
"Avon in the Amazon: Gender, Work, and Consumption in the Marajo Island, Para, Brazil," A talk by Jessica Chelekis, PhD candidate in Anthropology at IU.
Tuesday March 22nd, 6:30pm.
Graduate Business School. BU1032March 23, 2011
Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh prestns "Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century"
Wednesday March 23, 2011, 5 p.m.
College of Arts and Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater AvenueNot only has the ratio of European to non-European newcomers changed, but recent arrivals are coming from the Asian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, South America, and other regions which have not previously supplied many immigrants to the United States. Along with her co-authors, Alex-Assensoh examines how the arrival of these newcomers has affected the efforts of long-standing minority groups—Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Pacific Americans—to gain equality through greater political representation and power. The authors predict that, for some time to come, the United States will function as a complex multiracial hierarchy, rather than as a genuine democracy.
March 24, 2011
David, Chang presents “In a World at Sea: Concow Indians, Native Hawaiians, and South Chinese in Indigenous, Global, and National Space”
Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:30—6:00 p.m.
Sassafras Room, IMUDavid Chang is Associate Professor in the Department of History at University of Minnesota. This talk is part of the Borderland Speakers Series in American Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, College Arts & Humanities Institute, Latino Studies Program, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs
March 24-25, 2011
5th Annula Landscape, Space, and Place Graduate Student Conference in Landscape Studies
March, 24-25 2011
IMU-Oak Room
Indiana University’s Department of Geography and Landscape Studies Program is hosting its fifth annual Landscape, Space and Place Graduate Student Conference. Graduate students from all disciplines and stages of research will be presenting their landscape-related work. In addition to paper sessions, there will be a landscape architecture poster/model session. We welcome all levels of graduate study and strive to create a dynamic, interactive atmosphere in which to foster discussion and academic growth.
Landscape studies is multidisciplinary, and landscape’s far-reaching academic connections give the field its strength. The goal of the LSP Conference is to bring together graduate students from various disciplinary backgrounds in order to find common ground. We also hope to foster a more cohesive and dynamic framework upon which to build the future of the field. For a complete schedule click here or visit http://iuconference.com/landscape2011/.Jeffrey Lesser presents "Birth names, Code names and False names: Militant ethnics and ethnic militancy in Brazil, 1960-1980 "
Thursday, March 24, 7 pm
Swain Hall East 105Abstract: The Brazilian left in the post-World War used a language and ideology of class struggle. Thus, in spite of the large numbers of Japanese-Brazilians, Arab-Brazilians and Jewish-Brazilians involved in leftist political activity, we find no Brazilian versions of the Black Panthers, the Jewish Defense League or the I Wor Kuan. That class permeated the surface discourse of the left should not lead us to diminish the importance of ethnic factors. Indeed normative Brazilian ideas about race and ethnicity, and challenges to those dominant notions, were expressed on a daily basis even at the most extreme ends of the political spectrum. This paper examines the ethnic dimensions of membership in the armed struggle against Brazil's military dictatorship, focusing on the role of Brazilian Nikkei, and especially Shizuo Ozawa (known as Mario Japa - “Mario the Jap”), one of the most famous guerillas of the period.
Jeffrey Lasser presents "Challenging Particularity: Jews as a Lens on Latin American Ethnicity" as part of the Jewish Studies Colloquium Series
Friday, March 25, 12 noon
University Club Faculty Room (upstairs) Indiana Memorial Union
Jeffrey Lesser is a Professor of History and Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy (2007); Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (1999); and, Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question (1994). Sponsored by the IU Brazilian Studies Programhttp://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lesser.html.
March 24-25, 2011
Kimberly Theidon presents "Pasts Imperfect: Working with Former Combatants in Colombia"
*We regret to announce that Kimberly Theidon's visit to IU has been cancelled. Please click here for information on other events in the Peru: Contested Representations series.*
March 25, 2011
International Public Affairs Association (IPAA) Spring Conference "Global Problems, Sustainable Solutions: Creating Policy for a Rapidly Changing World"
Friday, March 25, 2011
School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), 1315 E. 10th StreetFaculty and students are invited to attend the 4th Annual International Public Affairs Association (IPAA) Spring Conference, which will take place on Friday, March 25, 2011 at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA).
The IPAA Spring Conference is an annual, entirely student-run conference that seeks to promote cross-disciplinary research and inquiry in the fields of global public policy and international affairs. This year, the conference theme is "Global Problems, Sustainable Solutions: Creating Policy for a Rapidly Changing World" and will feature panels on economic development, international aid, administrative policy, international law, education, vulnerable populations, and environmental challenges.
This year's keynote address will be delivered by Mr. Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy. The title of his talk is "Democracy's New Moment: A Forward Strategy for Advancing Freedom in the World."
The conference is free and open to the public, and those interested are encouraged to register for the conference. Registered participants will receive breakfast and a copy of the conference prospectus. A limited number of seats at a luncheon following the keynote address are reserved for registered participants on a first-come, first-serve basis. Participants may register by emailing ipaa@indiana.edu.March 25-27, 2011
This is Tango Now Performance
March 25, 26, 27, 2011
Waldron Performing Arts CenterThis is Tango Now explores two issues: identity and willpower. The performance explores the lives of three characters Marionette, submission incarnate, who suddenly realizes that all her life she has been under the control and will of a domineering Puppeteer. Under the guidance of the Duende (a mysterious and mystical figure of ambiguous motive), Marionette embarks on a journey of self-exploration, awareness, discovery, and liberation unlike anything she’d ever dreamt able. The intense and highly kinetic energy, pulse, and sound of tango are the backdrop for this story, intertwined with powerful dance, live music, lights and pure spectacle that reaches to tell her story.
Event details:
Friday, March 25, 2011 — at 8:00pm
Saturday, March 26, 2011 — at 6:00pm and then again at 8:00pm
Sunday, March 27, 2011 — at 6:00pm (matinee)March 28, 2011
Sara Wong presents, "Trade Liberalization and Family Agriculture in Latin America: Empirical Evidence and Lessons."
Monday, March 28, 4:00 p.m.
IMU Walnut Room
Sara Wong is Associate Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Management of Ecuador’s Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral. She will present her ongoing research on the relationship between trade liberalization and policy efforts to alleviate poverty across Latin America.
March 30, 2011
Previous Knowledge, a film screening
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
School of Education, Auditorium – Room 1120Follow the teachers and students of Tucson High School as they form the front lines of a civil rights battle in Arizona. A documentary that captures the transformative impact this innovative social justice curriculum has on its students. See this year-long journey and get to know these students, who become engaged, informed, and active in transforming their communities. A truly inspiring movie about overcoming obstacles against all odds! For more information on Precious Knowledge visit: http://www.dosvatos.com/InProduction
Presented by Latino Graduate Student Association • Latino Studies Program • Multi-Cultural Greek Council • Office of Diversity Education • Indiana University Student Association • Office of Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs • Latinos Unidos at IU • Black Graduate Student Association • School of Education
March 31, 2011
A Peruvian Night of Dining at Café Django
Thursday, March 31, 2011
116 North Grant Street, Bloomington
(812) 335-1297Join Café Django for an evening of Peruvian dining and entertainment. A special menu inspired by Peruvian tradition and culture will be served this night, consisting of such dishes as Papa a la Huancaina, Ceviche de Pescado, Ají de Gallina, and much more, all accessibly priced for the IU and Bloomington communities. Vegan and Vegetarian options will be available. Download a complete menu here.
Plan to join us between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. (Service will be by table, so arrival time is flexible.) The event is open to the public so feel free to send this information along to friends and colleagues.
This will be one of the closing events in our semester-long program series, Peru: Contested Representations, and we are grateful to Café Django for creating a unique cultural event at which your family, friends, and children will be most welcome.April 1-2, 2011
Annual Cultural Studies Conference
April 1-2, 2011
IUB Campus (see location details in schedule below)
The 2011 conference, "Marxism and Cultural Studies," will explore the role of Marxism in the field. Some questions that motivate this year's conference are: How do we understand the relationship between the base and superstructure today? Does ideology critique still have an ongoing usefulness? Do globalization and the world recession require new objects of study? To what extent does Marxism provide a utopian impulse for existing social movements? Do iterations of Cultural Studies in South Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe retain a commitment to Marxism and how is this work revitalizing the field more broadly? Does the Marxist imperative to historicize challenge current paradigms of cultural analysis such as the "New Formalism"? What exactly does a historical materialist methodology enable? How do we articulate media analyses with questions
of political economy, geo-politics, and activism? What is the role of the intellectual and Cultural Studies more generally?
April 1, 2011
International Work: Careers with NGOs and IGOs
Friday, April 1, 1-3 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial UnionWant to work for an international organization? Interested in human rights, relief, development and public health? Plan to attend IU Bloomington's first career event focused on international non-governmental and governmental organizations. This event will include a panel discussion, networking and resource tables for each organization.
Learn about employment opportunities and network with representatives from the following organizations:
* Amnesty International USA, www.amnestyusa.org
* International Rescue Committee, www.rescue.org
* Oxfam America, www.oxfamamerica.org
* Pan American Health Organization (Regional Office of the World Health Organization), www.paho.orgThis event is sponsored by the IU Area Studies and Title VI Centers and the Indiana University Career Development Center and Arts & Sciences Career Services.
Spanish and Portuguese Song Festival
Friday, April 1
5:00 p.m.
IMU Frangipani RoomThe Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino Studies, La CASA, the Latin American Music Center,the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the International Latin American and Spanish Student Association invite all IU and Bloomington community to the 1st Spanish and Portuguese Song Festival to take place on Friday, April 1st from 5 to 7pm at Frangipani Room (IMU).
9 IU undergrad students will be singing music from Colombian, Mexican, Brazilian, Spanish, Puerto Rican artists among some to compete for the festival`s top prize. There will also be special performances from students and professors from Folklore Department and the Latin American Music Center.
Any question regarding current festival or interested in participating in the 2nd version in Spring 2012 can contact Israel F Herrera: herrerai@indiana.edu 812-679-9169April 4, 2011
March and Rally. Solidarity with Immigrants: Resist SB590 and HB1402. Fight Racism
Monday, April 4, 2011, 5:30pm
Sample GatesThis march is family friendly but unpermitted. There will be a sidewalk option.
Join others in a discussion following the march to determine the next steps in the struggle against SB590 and HB1402 at the Monroe County Library, Meeting Room 1b, on Wednesday, April 6, at 5pm.
April 5, 2011
Multimedia, Mediation, and Context: Transcription and Analysis of Performances Captured on Video
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 3-6pm
Bridgwaters Lounge, Neal-Marshall Black Culture CenterPresentations will be made by the students of F494/F794, Transcription an d Analysis.
1st Annual Richard M. Dorson Memorial Lecture with Dr. Roger Abrahams, "The Zoot Suit Kid Goes Global: From Tango to Hip Hop"
Tuesday, April 5th
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Wells House, 1321 E. 10th St.
Roger D. Abrahams is a prominent folklorist whose work focuses on the expressive cultures and cultural histories of the Americas, with a specific emphasis on African American peoples and traditions. He is the Hum Rosen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught in the Department of Folklore and Folklife. He is the author of a large number of books, among which "Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices" is a recent title.
Having earned his Ph.D. there, Abrahams returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 after teaching previously at the University of Texas and at Scripps and Pitzer Colleges in Claremont, California. He was the founding Director of Penn's Center for Folklore and Ethnography, a research and public outreach unit associated with the Department of Folklore and Folklife. He was awarded the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership by the American Folklore Society in 2005 and is also an American Folklore Society Fellow.
A light reception will follow the lecture.April 8, 2011
Bloomington Brazilian Carnaval 2011
Friday, April 8
Jake’s Night ClubApril 10, 2011
Brazilian Percussion Ensemble
Sunday, April 10, 2011, 4:30pm
Neal Marshal Grand HallThe IU Brazilian Percussion Ensemble will perform their spring concert Sunday, April 10 at 4:30 PM at the Neal Marshall Grand Hall. The group, directed by Prof. Michael Spiro, studies and performs samba batucada music from Rio de Janeiro, as well as other folkloric and popular regional styles from Brazil including pagode, samba de roda, candomble, and maracatu. Come early to claim a seat for this popular event.
Latin Jazz Ensemble
Sunday, April 10, 2011, 8:00pm
Neal Marshal Grand HallApril 12, 2011
The Day Diplomacy Died Film Screening and Director Meet and Greet
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 7 p.m.
The Black Film Archive, Wells IU Library Bldg 004Bernie Dwyer will be in Bloomington April 12 screening her recent film The Day Diplomacy Died. This new documentary by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo exposes the story behind the lock up of 75 “independent” journalists, trade unionists, and librarians in Cuba in 2003 through the eyes of four ex-Cuban state agents working undercover. The mainstream media never fully investigates the role played by the US diplomats in Cuba in controlling the "dissidents" movement. In this film former Cuban undercover agents speak out for the first time on film about the inner workings of the dissident groups they infiltrated and the various plans, supported by the U.S. government, that were being developed to destabilize Cuba. The event is sponsored by CUBAmistad and Indianapolis Peace and Justice.
April 14, 2011
First Latin American Music Recording Competition (2011) Grand Prize Winners Concert
Thursday, April 14, at 8 p.m.
Auer HallThe Latin American Music Center is pleased to present the concert of violinist Colin Sorgi and pianist Jooeun Pak, who are the Grand Prize Winners of the First Latin American Music Recording Competition (2011). The program features some of the most exciting composers from Latin America, most of whom have enjoyed wonderful recognition in the United States. It includes works by Peruvian-American Gabriela Lena Frank, Cuban-American Tania León, Venezuelan-American Paul Desenne, Uruguayan Miguel del Aguila, and Chilean Juan Orrego-Salas, founder and first director of the Latin American Music Center.
April 18, 2011
John Ackerman, "Rethinking political change and democratic institution building: the Mexican case"
Monday, April 18, 9:30 a.m.
Woodburn Hall 120John Ackerman is a prominent political and legal scholar at the UNAM; he also writes regular columns in major dailies and weeklies, and maintains a popular blog. He has written a chapter about the 2006 presidential elections and their aftermath in a new book called “Mexico’s Democratic Challenges.” Though he is originally American, he has been living and working in Mexico for many years, and he is deeply committed to the democratization process in Mexico.
April 21, 2011
Dr. Penelope Eckert presents “Doing Adolescence: Linguistic Variation, Stylistic Practice, and the Construction of Social Meaning” as part of the 2011 Annual David Skomp Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
April 21, 2011, 5:30 pm
Swain West Room 007Penelope Eckert received her PhD in Linguistics from Columbia University in 1978. She is now a Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where she is also associated with the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. She is widely known for her ethnographic approach to the study of variation in language, and is the author of numerous books and articles which have explored the ways in which variable features of language are reflected in individual identities and are used in turn to build and shape those identities. Among her best known works are Jocks and Burnouts: Social Identity in the High School (1989), Linguistic Variation as Social Practice (2000), and Language and Gender (with Sally McConnell-Ginet, 2003).
Sociolinguistic variation is best known for its correlations with broad demographic categories - class, gender, age, ethnicity. But the demographic patterns are in a sense epiphenomenal, reflecting indexical activity on a local level that connects indirectly, but systematically, to these categories. As a key element in stylistic practice, variation calls up social types and concerns that are constitutive of local, and ultimately global, social categories.
This construction of social meaning is particularly active among adolescents, whose intense symbolic activity makes them the movers and shakers in linguistic change. This symbolic activity is an integral part of the emergence of a peer-based social order as the age cohort jointly appropriates social control from adults. Based on long-term ethnography in elementary and high schools, this talk will trace the emergence of a peer-based social order, showing how the formation of this social order is foundational to the organization of stylistic practice, and the emergence of an integrated system of social differentiation in language use.
April 21-29, 2011
Fair Trade Coffee Awareness Collaboration
These activities are being conducted collaboratively by students of E328 "Ecological Anthropology" and I300 "Human Rights and the Arts" to increase awareness on campus of the availability of Fair Trade Coffee. Conventional coffee production and market arrangements are associated with a number of human rights problems and environmental issues around the world. Fair Trade coffee provides an alternative that can help address some of the problems with conventionally marketed coffee. These activities are the result of students' ideas from joint class meetings to explore connections among our consumption decisions, environmental problems, and human rights issues.
Thursday, April 21, 2-6 pm
Try free Fair Trade Coffee. Outside the Ballantine KioskFriday, April 22, 3-5 pm
Showing of "Black Gold" (a moving documentary on the Ethiopian coffee farmers’ struggle to get a fair price for their coffee). Free Fair Trade coffee for attendees.
Radio and TV Building (BLTV) Room 251Thursday, April 28
Showing and discussion of “Coffee and Cigarettes” (an artistic film that explores the roles of coffee - and cigarettes -- in US society) (Details TBA, contact Gina Eastwood geastwoo@indiana.edu,Trevor Hunsberger thunsber@indiana.edu or Alanna Ewert aaewert@indiana.edu for more information).Friday, April 29, 9-11 am
Coffee Tasting in front of Ballantine Hall. Compare the taste of Fair Trade organic and conventional coffees.The activities are sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, as part of its sustainable development initiative.
April 26, 2011
Helaine Silverman presents "Contested Representations of Identity in Cuzco, Peru: Cultural Heritage in the Former Inca Capital"
Tuesday, April 26, 4:15pm
Ballantine Hall 205Helaine Silverman is a Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the editor of Intangible Heritage Embodied (2009) and Handbook of South American Archaeology (2008); she is the author of Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society (2002). http://www.anthro.illinois.edu/people/helaine
April 27, 2011
Cicero Sandroni, "Euclides and Nabuco Today"
Wednesday, April 27, 4:30 p.m.
Maple Room, IMU"Euclides and Joaquim Nabuco Today" examines the works of two of Brazil's most important figures. Euclides da Cunha is best known as the author of Os Sertőes (1902) (Rebellion in the Backlands), about the war waged by the Brazilian government against the Canudos community in the interior. Joaquim Nabuco, a diplomat in the U.S., was one of the primary figures in the abolitionist movement in Brazil. Cícero Sandroni discusses the paral-lel lives of these two major turn-of-the-century writers.
Journalist, editor, translator, critic and author of numerous books of fiction, Cícero Sandroni is a member and past president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters as well as a senior member of the Pen Club in Brazil. Most of his journalistic writing has focused on arts, culture and politics. Among his best known non-fiction works is the criti-cal biography of newspaper magnate Austregéliso de Athayde, which was awarded the Brazilian Academy of Let-ters' prestigious José Emírio de Moares Prize in 1999. Sandroni has also written film criticism and has worked in television, directing educational programs such as Arte de ler (The Art of Reading). Among his publications to ap-pear this year are two collections of short fiction and a memoir titled Teu nome guardei.
May 28-June 21, 2011
Bloomington-Katmandu
Exhibit runs May 28-June 21, 2011Bloomington-Katmandu is a collaborative artistic endeavor that will bring artwork from all over the world here to Bloomington for a one-month exhibition.
On display will be artwork from artists from over 20 different countries which explores the concept of "home" in the 21st century. In addition, the program for the evening will include poetry readings, musical performances, and short films by local, regional, international artists. The art show will be open from May 28th until June 21st.
This year's Bloomington-Katmandu will explore the concept of “home” in the 21st century. “Bloomington-Katmandu” reflects the impermanence and the mobility of the 21st century’s ever-changing geographical, emotional and physical borders that we cross daily. Local, international, and nomadic artists are being asked to create works of arts that best represent the place, the person, and\or the object that they call “home.”
The work of two Latin American artists will be featured at this year's art show. Mariana Palova is a digital photography from Mexico who plays with transformation and experience's influence, getting surrounded by a certain aura and holding special devotion for elements of nature, analogies, monster-like humans and the astrological environment. Brazilian artist, Vinicius Berton, will show work from his "Subjective Traffic Sign Project," which consisted of mapping out the social problems of downtown of São Paulo through the media, creating specific symbols, making of yellow road signs warning and installing them in the places where these problems were chronic.
Refer to the project's website for more information: www.bloomingtonkatmandu.com
FALL SEMESTER 2010
September 3, 2010
Benefit Concert featuring Steel Panache, Curtis Cantwell Jackson, and Blue Sky Back
Friday Sept. 3, 7-9pm (doors at 6:30pm)
Unitarian Universalist Church, 2120 N. Fee Lane
Tickets: $10/adults, $5/students and children
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109327232456043 (search: Haiti Benefit Concert)
*Official presentation of the proclamation for Bloomington's Haiti Awareness Month
“Language and Education in the Reconstruction of Haiti”
Rudy Professor Emeritus Albert Valdman, Director of the IU Creole Institute
Wednesday, Sept. 8, 3pm, IMU State Room East
September 14, 2010
FILM: The Road to Fondwa followed by Q+A with co-director Justin Brandon
September 14, 7:30pm
Boxcar Books
408 E 6th street
More about The Road to Fondwa at their site www.Fondwa.org
More about Hatian Awareness Month at http://bloomington4haiti.wordpress.com/haiti-awareness-month/September 15, 2010
National Hispanic Heritage Month Reception
September 15, 4pm
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Grand HallCity of Bloomington Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs, Latino Studies Program, Latino Faculty/Staff Council and La Casa cordially invite you to the opening celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. RSVP lacasa@indiana.edu.
Visions of Mexico: Through the Eyes of IUPUI Students, Staff, and Faculty
September 15 and runs until October 15, 2010
Daily MCC Hours at the IUPUI Multicultural Center (MCC) in Taylor HallSeptember 16, 2010
FILM: As Long as I Remember: American Veteranos
September 16, 1pm
WTIU (http://www.varelafilm.org/)"Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities"
Thursday, September 16 4pm
Ballantine Hall 310Her talk will explore “ways in which race infuses ordinary acts of reaction, resistance, appropriation, and ambivalence as they have played out in selected service industries, including restaurants.”
September 13, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
Stacie King (Anthropology): “Conquest and Colonialism(s) in the Archaeology of Southeastern Mexico, Past and Present”
Monday, Sept. 13, 12:15-1:45pm
Collins Living-Learning Center, Room EO B01Septebmer 17, 2010
“La terapéutica como camino de creación, la poesía como camino de bienestar: Dos vías que se entrelazan a través de las palabras.”
4pm at La CasaMarcela Mena compartirá su experiencia en el campo de las terapias tradicionales en Uruguay, dentro y fuera de la cátedra de historia de la Medicina de la Facultad de Medicina de la República Oriental del Uruguay. Lo hará tras leer su poesía con el fin de ilustrar los vínculos entre la terapeutica y la poesia, entendiendo que ambos representan caminos que permiten lograr un equilibrio entre lo corporal, lo intelectual y lo emocional. Marcela Mena ha investigado las plantas medicinales del Uruguay y sus aplicaciones para tratar diferentes dolencias, así como los beneficios del barro en la técnica fangoterapia para sanar heridas de la piel. Conjuntamente con estas disciplinas ha estudiado las distintas tradiciones naturistas en la alimentación y en el uso del agua como medio de recuperación de la salud. Ha colaborado con investigadores de la facultad de Medicina, Ciencias y Química y ha divulgado sus trabajos en periódicos locales.
September 20, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
Matt Guterl (American Studies and AAADS): “Refugee Planters: Confederate Exiles in Mexico”
Monday, Sept. 20 1:30-3:30pm
Collins Living-Learning Center, Room EO B01“A Chat about Haitian Music and Culture” with Emeline Michel
Monday, Sept. 20, 4-5pm
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1125 E. Atwater Ave.
*Please note: This conversation will be conducted mainly in Haitian Creole.Public Lecture by Textile artist Carmen Benavente, author of Embroiderers of Ninhue
Monday, September 20, 4:00-5:15 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditiorium
Born, raised and educated in Santiago, Chile, Carmen Benavente is a teacher, lecturer, and author of Embroiderers of Ninhue. In Benavente’s poignant telling, the embroiderers of Ninhue map a social, economic, and artistic journey inspiring to artisans, aficionados, curators, historians, and economists. Download a flyer here.
Equality in Our Schools: The Case of Mendez v. Westminster
September 20, 7pm
Whittenberger AuditoriumSylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the 1946 landmark desegregation case brought to court by her parents. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California and paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education. Sponsors: Gamma Phi Omega, La Casa, School of Education, and Union Board.
Education, Identity and Language
September 20-21, Time TBD
IUPUI Campus Center, IndianapolisOmar Nuñez of Ollin of the Tlahtoalli Center in Oaxaca, Mexico, will speak about his research on his Oral Traditions project and how language and immigration inform identity. More more information visit http://www.ollinoaxaca.org.mx/about_us.php
FILM: Cachao: Uno Mas and Orozco: Man of Fire
September 20, 9pm
WTIUA profile of an artist who had a profound impact on American artists and inspired President Roosevelt to employ painters to work on public walls during the Great Depression. Often thought of as the other Mexican muralist, beside his more flamboyant compatriot Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco was a leader of the Mexican Renaissance. His most famous US murals still exist, and still convey their power, in New York, New Hampshire and California. This program examines an iconoclastic personality with unique drama, including the loss of his left hand and the destruction of more than half of his early work by US customs agents.
September 21, 2010
Latino Student Education: Then and Now
September 21, 12:30pm
School Education 2277Discussion with civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez, Mendez v. Westminster, whose successful case paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education, which ended school segregation nationwide. Sponsors: Gamma Phi Omega, La Casa and School of Education.
Ibero-American Film Series Presents “La teta Asustada”
Tuesday, September 21st, 6 pm
Fine Arts Building 015The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, LA CASA and the International Latin American and Spanish Student Association invite you to the screening of Berlin 2009 Golden Bear winner for best film and Oscar 2010 nominee for Best foreign film "La teta asustada" (Milk of sorrow, Peru 2009). The film refers the folk belief that the trauma experienced by women who were raped by members of security force was passed on to their children through the milk from their breasts. Thus, this period of violence continues to affect not only those who experienced it, but also the next generation.
“An Evening with Emeline Michel”
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 7:30-9pm
Foster Formal Lounge, Foster-Shea, 1000 N. Fee LaneEmeline Michel, the premier Haitian female vocalist performing outside of Haiti, is a member of a unique generation of Haitian musicians that emerged in the late 1980’s, emphasizing complex themes, conscious lyrics, and a broad palette of musical styles, including the native Haitian compas, twoubadou and rara. While living in New York, Emeline continues to use her music to bring awareness to the rich history and culture of Haiti.
Join Emeline Michel, Haitian vocalist and songwriter, for a discussion of her life, work, and experiences as a Haitian woman and musician.
Find out more about Emeline at www.emeline-michel.com.September 22, 2010
Real Borders, Real Fences, and Real Laws: Immigration Reform
September 22, 7 p.m.
IU Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th StreetThe controversial immigration reform laws in Arizona bring to the surface issues of politics and race. These laws have the power to affect domestic and international individuals. This talk will approach questions of legality, future of similar laws across the U.S., and broader ideas about immigration in the 21st century. Sponsored by Asian Culture Center in partnership with La Casa.
September 24, 2010
"Reforestation as Restoration: An Examination of the Link between Environmental and Economic Restoration in Post-Earthquake Haiti," Lizzie Cooke, Co-founder of Imagine Haitian
Friday, Sept. 24, 7-9pm, Boxcar Books, 408 E. 6th St.September 25, 2010
Festival del Otoño Fall Cultural Festival
Saturday, Sept. 25, 10am-12pm, Farmer’s Market, City Hall PlazaSeptember 27, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
Roundtable Discussion with IU Historians Peter Guardino and Arlene Díaz: “Meanings of the Independence Bicentennial in Latin America”
Monday, Sept. 27, 12:15-1:45pm
Collins Living-Learning Center, Room EO B01September 28, 2010
FILM: El secreto de sus ojos (Argentina, 2009)
September 28, 6pm
TV/Radio Blg. 2452010 Oscar Foreign Language Film winner. The film captures the story of a retired legal counselor who writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
September 30, 2010
FILM: 2501 Migrants: A Journey
September 30, 1pm
WTIUOctober 2, 2010
Bloomington Multicultural Fair
Saturday, October 2, 10am-4pm
Bryan Park“A Night of Haitian Poetry”
Saturday, October 2, 7:30-9pm
Pour House, 314 E Kirkwood AveJoin us for readings of Haitian and Haitian-American poetry and literature. Selections will be read in English, French, and Haitian Creole. Discussion will follow.
Project Condom Variety Show
Saturday, October 2, 8pm
Rachel’s CaféOctober 3, 2010
Joint Concert between the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble and the Violin Virtuosi
Sunday, October, 4:00 pm.
Auer HallOctober 4, 2010
Latin American Research Forum
Gustavo Esteva (Mexican rural sociologist and environmental activist): “People Regenerating Places: The Oaxaca Commune and Its Aftermath”
2:00-3:30pm
Collins Living-Learning Center, Room EO B01Gustavo Esteva is an independent writer and a grassroots activist. He works both independently and in conjunction with a variety of Mexican NGOs and grassroots organizations and communities. For more information on Gustavo Esteva, his contributions and work please visit: http://gustavoesteva.org/09/
October 5, 2010
FILM: "Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden”
Tuesday, October 5th, 4:00-6:30 p.m.
Education 1230Come join us for a showing of the brand new hour-long documentary, “Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden,” which depicts recent efforts to provide modern schooling to the Buddhist inhabitants of the province of Ladakh (Kashmir, India). Dr. Madhu Suri Prakash and Gustavo Esteva will lead a discussion of the film, and situate it in relation to the arguments made in their book, Escaping Education: Living as Learning Within Grassroots Cultures. They propose a radical rethinking of the “development” paradigm, in which schools provide knowledge and orientations that alienate students from the deep, grounded educational processes occurring in their cultures and communities. For information on how to access readings related to this event please email clacs@indiana.edu
October 6, 2010
"Commons, Common Sense, and Community Collaboration in Hard Times"
Wednesday, October 6th, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Tocqueville Room, 513 N. Park Ave.This talk is part of the workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Gustavo Esteva Figueroa, a leading environmental activist and author in Mexico and founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico and Professor Madhu Suri Prakash, Professor of Educational Theory and Policy at the College of Education of Pennsylvania State University, will present their paper on “Commons, Common Sense, and Community Collaboration in Hard Times.
October 7, 2010
Mediating and Mitigating the Impact of the Belo Monte Dam: The Role of Community Activism in Amazon Town and Beyond By Prof. Richard Pace (MTSU)
Thursday, October 7, 12pm
Student Building 159
701 E Kirkwood AveOctober 11, 2010
Latin American Research Forum
Marvin Sterling (Anthropology): “On Afro-Asian Ethnography: The Japanese Presence in Jamaica”
12:15-1:45 p.m., Collins Living-Learning Center, Room EO B01Marvin Sterling’s research affords analysis of how ideas of race and particularly blackness have been constructed and re-imagined around the globe. He has shifted geographical perspectives from Japan to explore the Japanese community in Jamaica, one primarily centered on an interest in learning Jamaican culture at its source.
October 13, 2010
Activism and advocacy as a student and as a lawyer: Experiences from a Cuban American lawyer dreaming for a Free Cuba-Cuba Libre!
Wednesday, October 13, 7-8pm
Maurer School of Law, Room 121October 14, 2010
“Emergent Cuban Civil Society and the Rule of Law in 21st Century Cuba,” A Talk by Aldo Leiva
Thursday, October 14, 12-1pm
Center for Constitutional Studies Conference Room
624 E. 3rd StreetOctober 14, 2010
2010 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium Special session: Variation in L1 and L2 Pragmatics
Thursday, October 14, 9am-4pm
Oak Room , IMUThe HLS workshop that will address the issue of variation in L1 and L2 pragmatics. This session is intended to provide graduate students, teachers, and researchers with basic theoretical and methodological tools for analyzing topics of current interest in L1 and L2 pragmatics including: formulas and conventional expressions, NS-learner interactions, pragmatic acquisition in study abroad and at home contexts, application of variationist analysis to improve research in pragmatics, and an overview of current empirical research on pragmatic (regional) variation across varieties of a language. The workshop is followed by the opening keynote address of the 2010 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium that will be hosted at Indiana University from October 14-17. See details on the HLS website: http://www.indiana.edu/~hls2010/index.shtml.
The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2010
Thursday-Sunday, October 14-17
Indiana Memorial UnionThis year’s conference theme will be variation and linguistic theory. The conference will take place throughout the IMU during the weekend of October 14th. For more details on the program of the conference please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~hls2010/index.shtml
October 17, 2010
Indiana Project for Latin American Cultural Competency (IPLAAC) Presents Latin American Culture Series: Crossing Borders – Education in Mexico and the U.S.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
St. Paul’s Catholic Church ( 1413 East 17th Street on the IU Campus)This event will begin with a screening of the film, The Three Worlds of Maria Gutierrez (Mexico, 1986). Following the film, Sonia Velazquez, Monroe County School Corporation – crossing educational school borders in Bloomington and beyond through ESL with Latino youth and Lillian Casillas, Director of La Casa - crossing school borders between Mexico & the U.S. will be speaking.
October 18, 2010
Latin American Research Forum
John McDowell (Folklore and Ethnomusicology): “Embracing Expressive Culture in Latin America”
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Collins Living-Learning Center, Room EO B01John McDowell, is the director of IU’s Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America program. He acquired a lasting affection for the Andes when studying Cochabamba Quechua with Bernardo Vallejo in Austin, Texas in the 1970s. This involvement with the language was extended through tours of ethnographic research at the other end of Quechuan geography, among the Ingas of Colombia's Sibundoy Valley. In Colombia he made contact and common cause with IU Professor Francisco Tandioy, Inga teacher and cultural activist, and initiated a research collaboration that has endured for more than a quarter of a century. His current research is with the Quichua Runa around Otavalo, Ecuador, with an emphasis on the folklorization of indigenous tradition. Professor McDowell has also published extensively on corridor balladry in Mexico.
October 21, 2010
“Defining Intangible Cultural Heritage in Latin America—UNESCO and National Initiatives” with Dr. Anthony Seeger: A Fall 2010 MLCP Working Group Event
Thursday, October 21st, 4:00-6:00 PM
Folklore/Ethnomusicology Meeting Room
510 North FessRelaciones , A Grupo de Teatro VIDA yearly production,
Thursday-Saturday, October 21-23, 2010, 8pm
Bloomington Playwrights Project in BloomingtonOctober 22, 2010
Mexican Film Festival at Indiana University
Friday-Saturday, October 22-24, 2010
Time and Location: See details for each film belowThis year Mexico commemorates two historical events that helped form the country: the bicentennial of the independence movement and the centennial of the Mexican revolution. This film series presents the opportunity to reflect on the ideas that inspired these events, to help us better understand Mexico’s past, comprehend its present, and be prepared for the future. The films selected for this series illustrate the ethnic diversities and multicultural particularities as well as the artistic capacities reflected in this portrait of Mexico’s Golden Age cinema. We welcome you to enjoy these films by director, Emilio Fernández, and Cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa.
“Sign Seen at Water’s Edge on a Beach on Isla Mujeres: ‘You Are Not Away’” A talk by Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach
Friday, October 22, 2010
3:30 Meet & Greet Reception
4:00 MESDA Lecture
Oak Room, IMUThis lecture is part of the Merle E. Simmons Distinguished Alumni (MESDA) Lecture series. The MESDA Lecture series was initiated in 1996 to honor Professor Emeritus Merle E. Simmons for his contributions to the department and university. Each year, a distinguished alumna or alumnus is invited to visit Bloomington, present a lecture and reconnect with his/her roots. Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach is the President of Salisbury University.
October 23, 2010
After 100: the Legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Work in 21st Century Arts and Humanities Cross Disciplinary Symposium
Anthony Seeger of UCLA will present on“Performing Claude Lévi-Strauss’
Saturday, October 23, Session 3: 9:30am-12:30pm
Law School Room 122
Cesar Gordon of Universidad Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro will present“L'Apothéose d'Auguste: Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Despair and Hopefulness”
Saturday, October 23, Session 4: 2:30-4:30pm
Law School Room 122October 25, 2010
Latin American Research Forum
David Jacho-Chávez (Economics): “Lessons from the Ecuadorian Economic Crisis and Productivity in the Manufacturing Sector”
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Collins Living-Learning Center, Room EO B01Professor David Jacho-Chávez is a native of Guayaquil, Ecuador. His main research interest is Microeconometric theory and applications, particularly in nonparametric identification of economic models and higher order statistical properties of semiparametric estimators. During his doctoral studies, he took part of many projects involving real data analysis. Through this experience, he developed a keen interest in computational and applied Econometrics, research topics that he continues to pursue in his academic career.
October 26, 2010
Politics, Public Service, and Law Networking Night
Tuesday, October 26th 6:30-8:30pm
DeVault Alumni Center - 1000 E. 17th St. (across from Assembly Hall)October 27, 2010
Multicultural Halloween Fair
Wednesday, Oct. 27, Event time is 4:30-6:30pm
Trinity Episcopal Church (Great Hall)October 29, 2010
“The AFL-CIO’s Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?” A talk by Professor Kim Scipes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University North Central
Friday, Oct. 29, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Education Building 2140, IUB (and with teleconferencing to other campuses, call 800-822-4743)November 1, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
“Escaping Latin American Domestic Legal Systems in Search of Human Rights Protection”A Talk by Christiana Ochoa (IU Maurer School of Law)
Monday, November 1st, 12:15-1:45pm
Collins Living Learning Center,Edmonson Room B01Before joining the IU faculty in 2003, Professor Christiana Ochoa dedicated her efforts to cross-border capital markets and asset-backed finance transactions. Ochoa has also worked for a number of human rights and non-governmental organizations in Colombia, Brazil, and Nicaragua. She has lived for extended periods in Latin America and has significant academic and other work experience in that region. Ochoa's scholarship focuses on global governance and human rights. Her research concentrates in two interconnected areas: the role of individuals in law formation and the inextricable links between global economic activity and human rights. Ochoa's more recent work examines the individual's participation in law formation and in civil society as means to increasing the democratic legitimacy of international law and global governance mechanisms.
November 5, 2010
Noon Concert Series: Indonesian Myth and Colombian Music
Friday, November 5, noon-1pm
Hoagy Carmichael Room, Morrison Hall 006
Café Cubano at the Video Saloon
Friday, November 5, 11pm
Video Saloon, $5.00 CoverCafé Cubano is a salsa dance band composed of eleven students from the Jacobs School of Music. Focusing on the musical traditions from the Caribbean Islands, namely Puerto Rico, Cuba and The Dominican Republic, the band brings together all cultures through dance and music, the same way as a delicious cup of Café Cubano!
November 7, 2010
A Discussion of Uruguayan music on WFHB’s “Planetary Caravan.”Sunday, November 7, 2:00 p.m.
WFHB 91.3FMCLACS Associate Director and Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Matt Van Hoose, will present and discuss a wide variety of Uruguayan music on WFHB’s “Planetary Caravan.”
November 8, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
"Her Master’s Voice: A Transatlantic Approach to Literary Studies from Modernism to the Boom"A Talk by Alejandro Mejías-Lopez (Spanish and Portuguese)
Monday, November 8, 12:15-1:45pm
Collins Living Learning Center, Edmonson Room B01Professor Alejandro Mejías-Lopez specializes in the study of modernismo, the Spanish-language literary movement of the late 19th – early 20th century. In his most recent publication The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism he describes this movement as the first time postcolonial literature took over the literary field. Modernismo is often described by Latin American writers as a reversal of colonial relations, taking cultural authority away from Spain and moving the cultural center of the Hispanic world to the Americas. Alejando Mejías-Lopez continues to center his research on Latin American literature, transnational modernism and the topic of modernismo.
“Sumak Kawsay (“Good Life”) or Sustainable Development? Refounding the State and the Economy in the New Constitutionalism of Latin America”A talk by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Monday, November 8, 2010, 4-5:30pm
Moot Court Room, IU Law SchoolIt is as difficult to imagine the end of capitalism as it is difficult to imagine that capitalism has no end. Even though the compound effects of the financial , economic, energetic, and environmental crises show that the current model of capitalist development is exhausted, the recent summits on climate change ( Copenhagen and Tikipaya, Bolivia) show how difficult it is to start a transition toward post-capitalist, post-colonial ways of life. In this context, the political innovations coming from the Global South, which are products of both large social mobilizations and of transformative constitutionalism, deserve particular attention. This lecture will discuss some of these innovations present in the current political processes in Bolivia and Ecuador."
“Whither the Global Left and Grassroots Democracy” A Conversation with Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Monday, November 8, 2010, 6-7:15pm
Boxcar Books, 408 E. 6th St.Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick. Sousa Santos is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on how to mobilize socially to achieve democratic, post-capitalist sustainable development. He has written and spoken extensively about the promise of the World Social Forum and about grassroots democratic experiences from Brazil to Bolivia and from Mozambique to India. This event is open to all members of the Bloomington community, and will include ample time for questions from those in attendance. This event is sponsored by Boxcar Books, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana Democracy Consortium, and IU Progressive Faculty and Staff Caucus.
November 13, 2010
Meet the Instruments & Musica Latina at the Wonderlab
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 11:00 am – 4:30
AND Sunday, November 14, 2010, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Wonderlab, 308 West 4th StreetMusical Fun at the Mathers Museum
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 2-3:20pm
Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 North Indiana AvenueNovember 15, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
"Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy During WWII" A Talk by Darlene Sadlier (Spanish and Portuguese)
Monday, November 15, 12:15-1:45pm
Collins Living Learning Center, Edmonson Room B01November 21, 2010
The Latin American Popular Music Ensemble Presents: Diaz em Ipanema (Days in Ipanema)
Sunday, November 21, 8pm
Auer HallNovember 22, 2010
Yenny Perez to talk about Sweatshop Conditions in the Dominican Republic
Monday, November 22, 2010, 7:00pm
La Casa (715 E. 7th St.)November 29, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
“Quechua Language and Education Policy in the Highlands of Peru” A Talk by Serafín Coronel-Molina (School of Education)
Monday, November 29, 12:15-1:45pm
Collins Living Learning Center, Edmonson Room B01Serafín Coronel-Molina is an educational linguist and a sociolinguist. He is a native speaker of Huanca Quechua, the variety of Quechua spoken in the central highlands of Peru. He also speaks Ayacucho and Cuzco Quechua, and Spanish with native fluency. In addition, he has considerable experience in second and foreign language education, having been a Spanish and Quechua lecturer at various universities in Peru and the United States. His research interest include revitalization of indigenous languages (Quechua and Aymara), the politics of language, multilingualism and bilingual education, as well as issues of language, culture, and identity in the Andes and beyond.
November 30, 2010
Dr. François-Michel Le Tourneau, Research Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle presents: “The Yanomami of Brazil: Geography of an Amerindian Territory”
Tuesday, November 30, 4:00 pm
Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology (423 N. Fess)Integrating cultural, historical, and geographical analysis, Dr Tourneau examines the current condition, distribution, and challenges faced by the Yanomami Indians on the Brazilian side of their territory. He analyses changes in their territorial arrangements, the evolution of threats, and the ways in which Yanomami groups are adapting, in their own terms, to new social and environmental challenges common to them and other indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
December 1, 2010
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Meeting
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 3:30-5pm
Woodburn Hall 100A screening and discussion with Kelly Hayes (IUPUI Religious Studies) and Catherine Crouch (Independent Filmmaker) of
Slaves of the Saints at IUB
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 5:30pm
Swain Hall East Room 105Slaves of the Saints is an ethnographic documentary about Afro-Brazilian religions, which combine elements of African traditions, popular Catholicism, indigenous religions, and Spiritualism. Popular throughout Brazil, but especially in urban centers like Rio de Janeiro, these religions focus on a variety of spirit entities who are believed to be active in the lives of human beings, for good or ill. Through an elaborate body of myths, rituals, songs, symbols, offerings, movements, and gestures, participants seek to build reciprocal relationships with these spiritual entities who offer in return protection, wisdom, and guidance. IUPUI Religious Studies Professor Kelly Hayes produced the 64-minute documentary film with Catherine Crouch. The professor says the documentary focuses in particular on devotion to a group of unruly spirits often are associated with ‘black magic.’ The video combines video footage of ceremonies and personal interviews with practitioners, many of whom are women living on the working class outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Slaves of the Saints will be distributed as a companion to Professor Hayes’ book, Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil, due out in February 2011 from the University of California Press.
December 3, 2010
Minority Language and Cultures of Latin America Program presents Graduate Student Round Table
Friday, December 3, 10am-12pm
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
501 North Park in the Seminar RoomThe Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America Program invites you to a unique opportunity to interact with our students and colleagues and learn about their research first-hand. Please join us for the Graduate Student Round Table with Matthew J. Van Hoose and Mintzi Martinez-Rivera. Van Hoose and Martinez-Rivera are both newly returned from the field and will present on their respective ongoing research before an audience of faculty and students (snacks and refreshments will be served).
Musical Performances by Afro-Cuban Folkloric Ensemble and the Latin Jazz Ensemble
Friday, December 3, 7:30pm
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
275 North Jordan Avenue in the Grand HallJacobs School of Music presents the Afro-Cuban Folkloric Ensemble and the Latin Jazz Ensemble. Two extremely talented ensembles from IU’s Jacob School of Music will be showcasing their skills in Latin American and Caribbean musical performance. This event is FREE and open to the community. Contact musicpub@indiana.edufor more information.
December 4, 2010
Paranda Navidena: Desde Las Raíces De Nuestras Familias
Saturday, December 4, 2-4pm
Leo R. Dowling International Center (111 S. Jordan Ave.)Middle Way House Domestic Violence Training for Volunteers
Saturday, December 4, 2010, 9am-5pm
First Methodist Church, Room 218-219, 219 4th StreetMusic, Food and Dancing with Café Cubano!
Saturday, December 4, 7:00pm
The Lodge, 101 E. 6th StreetLive Salsa with Café Cubano! Join the talented ensemble for a night of food, dancing, and entertainment! This event is FREE and open to the public.
December 6, 2010
Latin American Studies Forum
“Neighborhood Water Activist in Buenos Aires: Symbolic Actions and Ecological Flows” A Talk by Stephanie Kane (Criminal Justice) Monday, November 1st, 12:15-1:45pm
Collins Living Learning Center, Edmonson Room B01The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will host the last discussion of the Latin American Research Forum for the Fall 2010 semester with Stephanie Kane. She is a cultural anthropologist and ecologist whose fieldwork and writing addresses a range of justice issues. Her current ethnographic study of water security in port cities is based on 11 months of fieldwork in Brazil and Argentina 2006-2007, in addition to preliminary observations in Panama, Veracruz, Amsterdam and Hamburg.
December 7, 2010
IU African American Dance Company's annual studio concert
Tuesday, December 7, 7:30 p.m.
Willkie Auditorium, 150 N. Rose St.The African American Dance Company conveys the spirit of dance styles of the African Diaspora. Its repertoire includes original choreography fusing modern, jazz, African and Latin American dance styles. This year's concert will include Collaboration 2011 dance pieces presented by students in two courses at IU.
SPRING SEMESTER 2010
March 26, 2010
3rd Annual International Public Affairs Assocation Spring Conference:
Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Context: Public Affairs in the 21st CenturyThis year’s kenote address will be given by Dr. Jamil Mahuad, former president of Ecuador on “Negotiation and Conflict Resoluation in the Peru-Ecuador Border Dispute and Beyond.” Presentations will be given under the following areas: climate change and energy policy, education and human rights, international resource, EU and former Soviet Union, and comparative and collaborative policy. This conference is free and open to the public. This event will take place in the Kelley School of Business, Room BU 200 and 202.
February 11, 2010
Professor Silva will be visiting IU to provide and intimate discussion on his recent publication. The book explains why diverse social actors mobilized and coordinated prolonged massive resistance to free-market policies in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. This talk will take place in the Oak Room of the IMU at 4pm.
FALL SEMESTER 2009
October 29, 2009
Laura Lewis (Indiana University- Bloomington)
Professor Lewis will be giving a lecture titled, "Border Crossing: Southern Guerrero, Migrations, and Black Indianness." The talk will be held at the Dept. of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at 3:30pm.November 5, 2009
Diana Taylor (New York University)
Professor Taylor will be presenting a lecture titled, "Trauma as Durational Performance: A Walk Through Villa Grimaldi with Pedro Matta" in Morrison Hall, Room 007 at 6:30pmNovember 12, 2009
J. Michael Dash (New York University)
Professor Dash will give a talk titled, "Location Matters: Grounding Creolization in the Caribbean Imagination." This talk will be held in the Oak Room of the IMU from 4:30-6:00pm.
SPRING SEMESTER 2009
February 26, 2009
Eric Hershberg (Simon Fraser University, President of the Latin American Studies Association)
Eric Hershberg will be giving a lecture titled, "The Latin American Studies Association and Contemporary Scholarship: A View from the Presidency." All are welcome to attend.
4pm in the University Club Faculty Room.February 27, 2009
Eric Hershberg (Simon Fraser University, President of the Latin American Studies Association)
Eric Hershberg will be presenting a paper at Indiana University Conference: "Area Studies in the Future of Higher Education." The paper is entitled, "Porous Boundaries, Disciplinary Engagement: Foundations for a Reinvigorated Latin American Studies."
Time and Location TBDFrances Aparicio (University of Illinois at Chicago)
13th Annual Merle E. Simmons Distinguished Alumni Lecture by Frances Aparicio. The lecture is titled, "Cultural Twins and National Others: Allegories of Interlatino Subjectivities in U.S. Latino/a Literature." Reception to follow lecture.
2:30 in the State Room East (Indiana Memorial Union)March 27, 2009
Frank McCann- University of New Hampshire
The formal lecture is titled: "The Official Story Redux New Interpretations of 20th Century Brazilian History". Portuguese speakers: please plan also to attend a special cafezinho in Professor McCann's honor, to be held immediately after the talk in the IMU Starbucks.
3pm in Ballantine Hall 224April 1, 2009
Carmen Ochoa- University of Chicago
Carmen Ochoa will be delivering a talk titled "Professionals-Turned-Taxi-Drivers-and Sausage Vendors: Surviving in the Aftermath of Mexico's Neoliberal Economic Restructuring.
1pm in Oak Room (IMU)April 2, 2009
Masha Salazkina- Colgate University
Masha Salazkina will be giving a talk titled: "In Excess: Eisenstein's Mexico".
4pm in Woodburn Hall 007
FALL SEMESTER 2008
September 15, 2008
September 18, 2008National Hipanic Heritage Month
September 15th marks the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month with events held on campus and throughout the Bloomington community. For a complete schedule of events see this schedule or visit La Casa's calendar.September 19, 2008"Platicas"- CLACS, Latino Studies and La Casa Fall 2008 Brown Bag
Ellen Moodie (Anthropology, University of Illinois) will present her Brown Bag Lecture titled “Worse than the War: Democratic Disenchantment in El Salvador.” All are welcome to attend.
Noon-1pm in La Casa.Guest Lecture by Professor Dionicio Valdés - Sponsored by Latino Studies, La Casa, College of Arts and Sciences, History, and CLACS
Dionicio Valdés (Michigan State University) will present his lecture titled: "World War I and the Federación Libre del Trabajo Agricultural Workers' Campaign in Puerto Rico." All are welcome to attend.
3pm in Ballantine Hall 004.Guest Presentation by Professor Dionicio Valdés - Sponsored by Latino Studies, La Casa, College of Arts and Sciences, History, and CLACS
Professor Dionicio Nodín Valdés (History, Michigan State) will lead this presentation titled: "“Mordidas y Comidas: Politics, Food and The Rise of the United Farm Workers” which will discuss how the United Farm Workers brought the discussion of food into the labor movement and made it political. All are welcome to attend.
Noon in La Casa.September 20, 2008
Festival Latino 2008
This festival is a free outdoor concert open to all campus and community. Held in IU's Dunn Meadow, the concert consists of Latino music groups. This year the festival features Grammy Award Nominee group Sones de Mexico. The event also provides the opportunity for individuals to visit the food, cultural activities and information booths set up throughout the meadow area. The festival is part of the National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration and education programs.
Noon-6pm in Dunn MeadowOctober 2, 2008
"Platicas"- CLACS, Latino Studies and La Casa Fall 2008 Brown Bag
Micol Seigel (African American & African Diaspora Studies/American Studies) will present a Brown Bag Lecture titled “The New Imperialism & the New Cold War: U.S. Police in Latin America Today.” All are welcome to attend.
Noon-1pm in La Casa.October 7, 2008
Film Screening Presented by CLACS, Jewish Studies, Latino Studies, La Casa, Spanish and Portuguese, and Communication and Culture
Alejandro Springall will present his film "My Mexican Shivah" (Morirse está en Hebreo) which provides a fascinating look into the life of a family in Polanco (a Jewish quarter in Mexico City) who mourns the death of a loved one. Surreal and sometimes humorous, the drama is filled with excellent performances by an ensemble cast. Springall will follow with a discussion and question and answer session following the screening.
7:30pm in Woodburn Hall 101.October 10, 2008
CLACS Guest Lecture by Aurolyn Luykx
Aurolyn Luykx will deliver a lecture titled "Socialism or Secession? Evo Morales and the Prospects for Democracy in Bolivia," with a discussion to follow the talk.
12pm with a location to be determined.October 11, 2008
Fiesta del Otoño 2008
The City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department proudly presents the third annual Fall Festival. Bring the whole family and learn about our Latin American neighbors at each festival booth where Latino artists and community members from over 15 different countries will showcase their talents, traditions, and diverse heritage. Learn from cooking demonstrations and enjoy authentic Latin foods, peruse the interactive booths and don't forget to dance along to salsa, merengue, reggaeton and more. Live performances from Mariachi Nacional. Free and open to the public.
Noon-4pm at Bryan Park. (Rain Date October 12th)October 24, 2008
Guest Lecture Presented by Spanish and Portuguese, CLACS, and International Programs
Jean-Philibert Mobwa Mobwa N'djoli (National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination in Mexico City) will present a historical overview of the presence of Afro-Mexicans in Mexico, and will comment on their identity or lack thereof, their confusion, and their marginalization in intellectual, political, and social spheres.
3 pm in Ballantine Hall 006.IU Homecoming Parade with La Casa, Latino Studies and CLACS
Interested in marching in the 2008 Homecoming parade with La Casa, Latino Studies and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. We will be decorating a truck and handing out Mexican candy to people along the parade route. We really want to have great representation at this year's parade, so join the fun! Please let me know if you want to participate, and your t-shirt size by October 20th. We will be making t-shirts for all the participants who march with us in the parade, otherwise they are $5. Please RSVP to mlcasill@indiana.edu as soon as possible if you like to join the fun!
5 pm along the parade line at 3rd and Rose.November 6, 2008
"Platicas"- CLACS, Latino Studies and La Casa Fall 2008 Brown Bag
Serafin Coronel-Molina (Education) will present a Brown Bag Lecture titled “The Sociolinguistics of Indigenous Languages in South America in Contemporary Times.” All are welcome to attend.
Noon-1pm in La Casa.Richard Bauman Lecture in Performance and Ethnography presented by the Department of Communication and Culture
Inaugural Richard Bauman Lecture in Performance and Ethnography to be
presented by Professor Charles Briggs, Alan Dundes Distinguished
Professor in Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Briggs' presentation is entitled "Bats, Rabies, Reporters, and
the Wrath of the State."
5:30-6:45 in Swain Hall East, Room 140.November 8, 2008
Graduate students and faculty Brownbag with Professor Charles Briggs of the University of California, Berkeley
Graduate students and faculty are invited to join Professor Briggs for a brown bag discussion of his work and his longtime collaborations with Professor Richard Bauman. Light refreshments will be provided. Email James Paasche (jpaasche@indiana.edu) or come by the CMCL mailroom for copies of the readings to be discussed.
12 PM-1 PM, Classroom Office Building, Room 100 (800 E. 3rd St)November 9, 2008
"Singing for Social Justice: 1968's Legacy in the Americas" presented by Indiana University's Latin American Music Center, Latino Studies Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the African American Arts Institute, with support also from musicians, arrangers, singers, volunteers and other IU departments and organizations as well
Join the world in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the turbulent and unique year of 1968. "Singing for Social Justice" will feature artists Krista Detor, Curtis Cantwell Jackson, Luke Gillespie, Anya Peterson Royce, Yuriria Rodriguez, Hallie Orgel and Priscilla Borges. This musical event will remember the 40 years of the social and political activities of 1968 through songs of social justice of the era. The multi-departmental and community event will unite the three Americas through songs, narration, and pictures. The topics covered in the music are among the most critical issues that arose in 1968, such as civil rights, antiwar sentiments, gender equality, peace, inner city issues, poverty, identity, human rights, land rights, social justice, empowerment, democracy, work relations, social nonconformity, anti-government, student movements, and others.
6pm at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.November 13, 2008
Forum with Mexican Solidarity Network Presented by CLACS, Latino Studies, and La Casa
The Mexican Solidarity Network will hold a forum titled "Examining Immigration Policy History: The Bracero Guest Worker Program" in which they examine the post-World War II Bracero Guest Worker program and details the current struggles of workers to recover wages that were garnered for a retirement fund but never returned to the workers.
5pm in La Casa.Horizons of Knowledge Guest Lecture by Michael Renov Presented by Spanish and Portuguese, Communication and Culture, CLACS, Comparative Lit, Cultural Studies, and Film and Media Studies Program.
Michael Renov is Professor of Critical Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Southern California. His recent work includes The Subject of Documentary and the forthcoming Time Past: The Archaeological Cinema of Peter Fogacs (with Bill Nichols). This lecture will be titled “Documentary, Contemporary Art and the Ethical Function.”
5:30pm in Swain Hall East 105.November 14, 2008
CLACS Symposium 1968 in Latin America: Events, Impacts, Legacies
CLACS invites you to join us for an interdisciplinary symposium on 1968 in Latin America. Panels will include:
Echoes: 1968 in Hemispheric Perspective
Luis A. González (IU Libraries):1968: An Era in A Year
Alfredo Minetti (IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs): Singing for Social Justice: Reflections and Roundtable Discussion on the Concert
Love-in, Love-out: Gender and Sexuality in 1968
Deborah Cohen (University of Missouri - St. Louis)
Lessie Jo Frazier (IU Department of Gender Studies ): Love-in, Love-out: 1968 Latin American Genders, Sex, and Sexualities in Comparative Persepctive
Emily Maguire (Northwestern University): Plus ça change...Gender and Revolutionary Ideology in Cuban Cinema of 1968
What's Left?: The Shifting Political Landscapes of 1968
Patrick Barr-Melej (Ohio University): "An Orgy of Drugs and Corruption": Rock, Counterculture, and Salvador Allende's Road to Socialism
Jeff Gould (IU Department of History): Solidarity under Siege: Old and New Lefts in the Latin American 1968
1:00-6:00pm in Godfrey Graduate and Executive Education Center CG 1032 (New Business School Building at 1275 E. Tenth Street)November 18, 2008
A Minority Languages & Cultures Program Working Group Session in colloboration with AAADS and American Studies
Olivia Gomes da Cunha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) will present on the topic of "Afro-Atlantic Voices: Revisiting Lorenzo Dow Turner's 1941 Sound Archive" with Dr. Stephen Selka (AAADS) as a discussant.
4:30 pm in the IMU Walnut RoomDecember 4, 2008
"Platicas"- CLACS, Latino Studies and La Casa Fall 2008 Brown Bag
Archana Sridhar (Law) will present a Brown Bag Lecture titled “The Uncertainty of Death & Taxes: Tax Evasion & Nonprofit Regulation in Post-War Guatemala.” All are welcome to attend.
Noon-1pm in La Casa.
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