LASP News
Seminar: Paramilitaries, Democratic Reform, and Human Rights in Colombia
Posted on: 11/9/2009 Archived on: 11/24/2009 A lunchtime seminar given by Claudia Lopez, Political Researcher, New Rainbow Corporation and Civil Society Electoral Mission Columnist, El Tiempo.This will be LASP's final seminar of the Fall 2009 semester. Come here Claudia Lopez speak about her work and research as a journalist in Latin America.
Film: Juizo
Posted on: 11/9/2009 Archived on: 11/19/2009 JUIZO (BEHAVE) follows the process of minors (less than 18) who have fallen into the hands of the Brazilian legal system. Boys and girls from underprivileged backgrounds faced with crime, ruling, and sentences handed down for theft, drug trafficking, and even murder. JUIZO walks dead-end corridors and encounters the sheer volume of cases within the system seen in JUSTIÇA (JUSTICE), Maria Ramos' previous prize-winning film. The film shows the process of judging and how easily we are swayed over questions involving minors breaking the law. Who really knows what to do? At the end of JUIZO, the film sequences reveal the consequences of a formal society that recommends their children to behave, but does not set a right example itself.(Brazil, 2007) 90 mins. by Maria Augusta Ramos
Discussant: Jonathan Ablard, Dept. of History, Ithaca College
IIPP Fellowship Information Session
Posted on: 11/9/2009 Archived on: 11/18/2009 Are you a minority student interested in an international career in the public, private, or non-profit sector upon graduation?Looking to gain skills to become competitive in a global economy?
Interested in which Area Studies exist at Cornell?
The IIPP Fellowship is one of the most prestigious fellowships in international affairs available to minority students at U.S. universities helping students to gain practical skills necessary for success in foreign policy careers in the public, private for profit, and non-profit sectors.
Come and learn what the IIPP Fellowship provides in skill building policy and language institutes, study abroad, internships and graduate study for underrepresented US and Permanent Resident minority students.
Refreshments will be served!
Cafe con Libros: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Posted on: 11/6/2009 Archived on: 11/14/2009 Come join the Latino Studies Program for Cafe Con Libros, a reading group dedicated to the discussion and analysis of new Latina/o thought and literature.This week, we will be discussing the book, "The Brief and Wondrous LIfe of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
Seminar:Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Indpendence
Posted on: 11/2/2009 Archived on: 11/17/2009 Come join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Harold Langfur (Department of History, SUNY Buffalo)State-Society Relations Across Borders: Migrant Transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador
Posted on: 10/26/2009 Archived on: 11/10/2009 Come join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Katrina Burgess (Tufts University)Film: Madeinusa
Posted on: 10/26/2009 Archived on: 11/5/2009 Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can’t see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl.(Peru, 2007) 100 mins by Claudia Llosa
Discussant: Billie Jean Isbell, Cornell Univ. Anthropology
"Mestiza Power" performed by Sa'as Tun (Mexico)
Posted on: 10/22/2009 Archived on: 10/25/2009 The Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group(MITWS) is pleased to present "Mestiza Power" performed by Sa'as Tun (Mexico.
Lecture: "Ancient Aztec Medicine in Contemporary Minority Health: Two Perspectives"
Posted on: 10/22/2009 Archived on: 10/29/2009 The Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group(MITWS) is pleased to present:
Dr. Ricardo Reyes Chilpa (UNAM) and Dr. Eloy Rodriguez (Cornell) will
give a joint lecture "Ancient Aztec Medicine in Contemporary Minority
Health: Two Perspectives"
Seminar: Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America
Posted on: 10/19/2009 Archived on: 11/3/2009 Join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Eduardo Silva (Dept. of Political Science and Center for International Studies, Univ. of Missouri)Film: Maquilapolis - City of Factories
Posted on: 10/19/2009 Archived on: 10/29/2009 Carmen works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana’s maquiladoras, the multinationally-owned factories that came to Mexico for its cheap labor. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. She earns six dollars a day. But Carmen is not a victim. She is a dynamic young woman, busy making a life for herself and her children. As Carmen and a million other maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos -- life on the frontier of the global economy. In MAQUILAPOLIS, Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change: Carmen takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor rights. Lourdes pressures the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing factory. As they work for change, the world changes too: a global economic crisis and the availability of cheaper labor in China begin to pull the factories away from Tijuana, leaving Carmen, Lourdes and their colleagues with an uncertain future.(Mexico, 2006) 60 mins by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre
Discussant: Maria Lorena Cook, Dept. of International & Comparative Labor, ILR, Cornell University
Seminar: Electoral Effects of Fiscal Transfers: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Posted on: 10/12/2009 Archived on: 10/27/2009 Come join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Kevin Morrison (Dept. of Government, Cornell University)Latino Studies Program 17th Annual Unity Dinner
Posted on: 10/7/2009 Archived on: 10/17/2009 * Guest Speaker: Eric Rosario '91Ithaca Common Council, Co-founder of Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County
* Presentations and Performances by Latino Students
& StudentOrganizations
Doors open 5:30 pm * Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room
Tickets: available at LSP Office, 434 Rockefeller Hall
Film: Sin Nombre
Posted on: 10/5/2009 Archived on: 10/15/2009 After murdering his gang's leader, a teenager joins a family of Honduran immigrants making the dangerous journey across Mexico to the United States, avoiding a fellow gang member who has been send to kill him along the way.(USA, 2009) 96 mins by Cary Fukunaga
Discussant: Cecelia Lawless, Dept. of Romance Studies, Cornell University
Seminar: Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Imagination
Posted on: 10/5/2009 Archived on: 10/20/2009 Join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Rick Lopez (Dept. of Environmental Studies and History, Amherst College)Cafe con Libros: The Moths and other stories
Posted on: 9/25/2009 Archived on: 10/3/2009 Come join the Latino Studies Program for Cafe Con Libros, a reading group dedicated to the discussion and analysis of new Latina/o thought and literature.This week, we will be discussing the book, "The Moths and other stories" by Helena Maria Viramontes
Seminar: The Latin American Left's Mandate: Free-Market Policies, Economic Peformance, and Voting Behavior in 3 Countries
Posted on: 9/21/2009 Archived on: 10/6/2009 Join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Ken Greene, Assitant Professor in the Department of Government, University of Texas at AustinFilm: La Onda Chicana/The Chicano Wave
Posted on: 9/21/2009 Archived on: 10/1/2009 From the birth of Tejano, through the musical innovations that would galvanize the Chicano movement, to the top of the charts with Ritchie Valens, Freddy Fender, Los Lobos, and Linda Rondstadt, and finally to the extraordinary rise and tragic death of Selena, this film explores the evolution of Mexican-American music from the 1950's to the 1990's.(2009)60 mins by John Valdez
Discussant: John J. Valdez, Writer/Director/Producer
IIPP Fellowship Information Session
Posted on: 9/21/2009 Archived on: 9/29/2009 Are you a minority student interested in an international career in the public, private, or non-profit sector upon graduation?Looking to gain skills to become competitive in a global economy?
Interested in which Area Studies exist at Cornell?
The IIPP Fellowship is one of the most prestigious fellowships in international affairs available to minority students at U.S. universities helping students to gain practical skills necessary for success in foreign policy careers in the public, private for profit, and non-profit sectors.
Come and learn what the IIPP Fellowship provides in skill building policy and language institutes, study abroad, internships and graduate study for underrepresented US and Permanent Resident minority students.
Refreshments will be served!
Father Roy Bourgeois from the SOA Watch speaks at Cornell
Posted on: 9/18/2009 Archived on: 9/25/2009 Fr Roy Bourgeois has lived in a small apartment next to the main gate of the world’s largest military training base for the past 18 years. His concern is the US Army training of Latinos at Ft Benning, Ga. . SOA Graduates (renamed WHINSEC) are trained in combat arms with a sprinkling of ‘new’ human rights courses. Graduates have gone back to their own countries to commit horrendous crimes against their own people. A blood trail left by graduates of the US Army School of the Americas extends from Central to South America. America tax payers subsidize the horror.Long before Abu Ghraib, Roy Bourgeois knew well the tactics of teaching torture by the US Military. When Americans began to realize that our claimed moral superiority was a false assumption, Roy Bourgeois and others had long pointed to our history of terror teaching at the US Army School of the Americas. Back in the 1990’s Roy spent a total of over four years in federal prison in his attempt to publicize the crimes of American foreign policy in Latin America.
Long a supporter of human rights, Roy has also taken the struggle of women within his church to a controversial high in American Catholicism. His support for the ordination of women has made him a target of derision by church hierarchy.
Film: Who Killed the White Llama?
Posted on: 9/14/2009 Archived on: 9/24/2009 Jacinto and Domitila are happily married—as well as the most wanted criminals in the country. Under contract from “El Negro” to transport fifty kilos of cocaine to the Brazilian border, they embark on a journey through the jungles, mountains and deserts in a riotous adventure that will test their relationship. Upon its release in Bolivia, the wildly creative and fast-paced WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA shattered domestic box office records, quickly becoming the must-see film of the year.(Bolivia, 2006) 112 mins by Rodrigo Bellot
Discussant: Patricia Rodriguez, Dept. of Politics, Ithaca College
Seminar:The Current Context of Guatemalan Human Rights: Violence, Impunity, and Corruption
Posted on: 9/14/2009 Archived on: 9/21/2009 Join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Amanda Martin, Executive Director, Guatemalan Human Rights Commission.Latino Studies Program Welcome Lunch
Posted on: 9/11/2009 Archived on: 9/19/2009 Please join the Latino Studies Program in welcoming new and returning students, faculty, and staff, and those interested in Latino Studies!Film: Rudo y Cursi
Posted on: 9/11/2009 Archived on: 9/14/2009 (USA/Mexico, 2009) 103 mins by Carlos Cuaran (Village Voice)A talent scout shows up in a remote village, notices the nifty soccer skills of two banana-schlepping brothers,and they trade in their plantation jobs for a trip to Mexico City and sports stardom. This "puckerishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy" (LA Times) reunites the co-stars of Y Tu Mama Tambien (directed by Cuaron's older brother) "playing half-brothers to boffo effect. Nearly as popular on its home territory as the first Cuaron hit...Rudo y Cursi is as fatalistic as any film noir, but it's played for cartoonish screwball comedy."
Judy's Day : Traditions - Journey the World through Plants
Posted on: 9/11/2009 Archived on: 9/21/2009 Join us in celebrating plant traditions around the world at Judy’s Day—a free learning festival. Deepen your understanding of the rhythms of the Earth and the traditions that bind us together. Enjoy exhibits, stories, music, food, and more in the beautiful outdoor setting of the F. R. Newman Arboretum. Bring your friends and families too!Volunteer to do an exhibit, share a plant-related tradition, or assist with activities by contacting Raylene Ludgate RGL3@cornell.edu or 607-255-2407
Free parking for visitors at Cornell’s B-Lot off Route 366.
From there, a shuttle bus will make regular runs to the arboretum.
Film: Rudo y Cursi
Posted on: 9/10/2009 Archived on: 9/13/2009 (USA/Mexico, 2009) 103 mins by Carlos Cuaran (Village Voice)A talent scout shows up in a remote village, notices the nifty soccer skills of two banana-schlepping brothers,and they trade in their plantation jobs for a trip to Mexico City and sports stardom. This "puckerishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy" (LA Times) reunites the co-stars of Y Tu Mama Tambien (directed by Cuaron's older brother) "playing half-brothers to boffo effect. Nearly as popular on its home territory as the first Cuaron hit...Rudo y Cursi is as fatalistic as any film noir, but it's played for cartoonish screwball comedy."
Cornell Concert Series Presents: Pianist Gabriela Montero
Posted on: 9/10/2009 Archived on: 9/21/2009 Venezuelan-born pianist Gabriela Montero’s interpretive and improvisational gifts have won her a devoted following around the world, and in America she has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today, CBS’s 60 Minutes, and at the inauguration of President Obama. Along with masterworks of the classical repertoire, improvisation plays an important part in Ms. Montero’s musical life – just as it once did for Bach and Mozart. “When improvising, I connect to my audience in a completely unique way – and they connect with me." – Gabriela Montero "... poetic, scintillating, rhapsodic." - The New York TimesRelated Links
www.gabrielamontero.com
Program
Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118 JOHANNES BRAHMS
Sonata No. 1, Op. 22 ALBERTO GINASTERA
I N T E R M I S S I O N
Improvisations on themes or pieces suggested by audience members
(Please be prepared to sing the theme if Ms. Montero does not know the piece)
Tickets
Adults range from $20 to $32 depending on section
General Public $32 | CU Fac/Staff $30: Mezzanine/Balcony Center (A)
General Public $28 | CU Fac/Staff $26: Orchestra (B)
General Public $22 | CU Fac/Staff $20: Mezzanine/Balcony Wings (C)
Students, all sections: $16 other institutions, $15 Cornell students
Cornell employee and student discounts available on-line only with valid netID.
Currently, subscriptions are available for the 09-10 Season - visit the Subscription Information page for more info.
Individual concert tickets go on sale in August 2009.
* All repertoire, based on information available as of this posting, is subject to change at artists' discretion. Sign our mailing to receive the latest updates. CCS does not issue refunds for program changes.
To Purchase tickets: http://www.cornellconcertseries.com/ccs_calendar.taf?_function=detail&ev_id=139&_UserReference=040775701272F8674AA1692B
Palante Open House
Posted on: 9/10/2009 Archived on: 9/18/2009 An introduction of Palante, its mission, and activities to all interested individuals. Music, dance, and food available!-Introduction to Palante activities and mission.
-Brief presentations from Palante collaborators: Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance, Ithaca Friends of Cuba, Full Plate Farms Collective/Healthy Food For All
-Dance, percussion, demonstrations and workshops
-Food and Music
-$1 Draft Beer (ID Required)
-Free and open to all
Film: Rudo y Cursi
Posted on: 9/9/2009 Archived on: 9/11/2009 (USA/Mexico, 2009) 103 mins by Carlos Cuaran (Village Voice)A talent scout shows up in a remote village, notices the nifty soccer skills of two banana-schlepping brothers,and they trade in their plantation jobs for a trip to Mexico City and sports stardom. This "puckerishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy" (LA Times) reunites the co-stars of Y Tu Mama Tambien (directed by Cuaron's older brother) "playing half-brothers to boffo effect. Nearly as popular on its home territory as the first Cuaron hit...Rudo y Cursi is as fatalistic as any film noir, but it's played for cartoonish screwball comedy."
Film: Rudo y Cursi
Posted on: 9/8/2009 Archived on: 9/10/2009 (USA/Mexico, 2009) 103 mins by Carlos Cuaran (Village Voice)A talent scout shows up in a remote village, notices the nifty soccer skills of two banana-schlepping brothers,and they trade in their plantation jobs for a trip to Mexico City and sports stardom. This "puckerishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy" (LA Times) reunites the co-stars of Y Tu Mama Tambien (directed by Cuaron's older brother) "playing half-brothers to boffo effect. Nearly as popular on its home territory as the first Cuaron hit...Rudo y Cursi is as fatalistic as any film noir, but it's played for cartoonish screwball comedy."
Film: Five Factories
Posted on: 9/8/2009 Archived on: 9/17/2009 The film documents worker cooperatives that have searched for new forms of political activism after Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, particularly at Alcasa aluminum plant in Ciudad Guayana, a textile factory in San Cristóbal, a tomato-processing plant in Altagracia de Orituco, a cocoa factory in Cumaná and a paper factory in Morón. Workers’ “co-administration” of the factories is portrayed as a transition to their total control and “self administration.” The film shows the relations of production in the factories, and the efforts to organize an independent worker’s democracy with wage equality. As one worker says: “We don’t think like Commandante Chávez. Commandante Chávez thinks like we do.”Discussant:
Howard Botwinick – Associate Prof. Economics SUNY Cortland
Study Abroad Info Meeting: The Americas
Posted on: 9/7/2009 Archived on: 9/17/2009 Come to hear about the many opportunities available in Latin America through CU Abroad!Seminar: The Obama Administration's Foreign Policy towards Latin America
Posted on: 9/7/2009 Archived on: 9/22/2009 Join LASP for a lunchtime seminar featuring Michael Shifter, Vice president for policy and director of the Andean program, Inter-American DialogueAudtions for Palante Salsa en Rueda Dance Troupe
Posted on: 9/4/2009 Archived on: 9/6/2009 PALANTE SALSA EN RUEDA DANCE TROUPESaturday September 5th 1:00-2:30pm
Helen Newman Dance Studio
The Palante Salsa en Rueda Dance Troupe is looking for energetic individuals with a passion for Latin music and dance to join our dance group. Pa'lante dance is inspired in classical Afro-Latin "street style" Salsa and emphasizes rhythm, timing, music flow and lead-follow connection. We teach and learn Salsa in Casino style, a dynamic form of Salsa which brings out the true collective and expressive essence of Latin culture. New troupe members will learn Salsa, Rueda de Casino and other Latin social dances as part of a dedicated and uplifting community of dancers. Troupe members will become excellent social dancers and will enjoy opportunities to perform in dance demonstrations and choreographical arrangements at various venues at Cornell and in the Ithaca area. We welcome dancers of all levels to our audition. More so than a refined set of dance skills, we are looking for new troupe members who possess a strong sense of commitment and a lot of heart. It's not about where you are currently at; it's about where you want to go and arriving there as part of a collective. At our auditions, we will introduce our group, what we are about, and how we make it a success. You will participate in a fun workshop in which you learn some open-step and partnered routines. We can't wait to check out your moves! Hope to see you Saturday.
Questions? Contact palante@cornell.edu To find Helen Newman and other Cornell locations use Campus Map
Bienvenidos! Welcome back Salsason Latin Dance Party!
Posted on: 9/4/2009 Archived on: 9/6/2009 Live Music, Drumming, Food & Dance WorkshopsSurvival Latin Dance Lesson with Nikolay Karkov (free with cover) 9pm
Admission $4 Students, $6 Non-Students
$1 Draft Beer, $2 Imported Drafts
18+ ID Required
Latinos @ Cornell: Then & Now
Posted on: 9/4/2009 Archived on: 9/5/2009 As part of the Latino Living Center's Cafe con Leche Series, a panel of former Cornellians will be speaking about their experiences.Panelists:
* Maria Cristina Garcia, Professor, Latino Studies/History
* Hector Velez, Professor, Latino Studies/Sociology
* Eduardo Penalver, Professor, Law School
Facilitators:
* Sofia Villenas, Director, Latino Studies, Professor, Education/Latino Studies
* Nick Diaz, '10, English
* Melanie Berdecia, '12, ILR
Deadline for Latino Studies Graduate Research Grants
Posted on: 9/4/2009 Archived on: 10/10/2009 Research grants are available to graduate students working on projects that focus on some aspect of Latino/a experiene in the United States. Preference will be given to projects that will result in a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation.Examples of research-related activities that will be funded include, but are not limited too:
*Acquisition of documents, reports, and books
*Travel and registration expenses to attend professional conferences
*Photocopy expenses
*Purchase of research related software and hardware, or specialized equipment
*Travel to libraries, archives, special collections, or other research sites
For more details about the application, visit the Latino Studies Program at 434 Rockefeller Hall or http://latino.lsp.cornell.edu/Grad%20Research%20Grant_09.pdf
Deadline for Latino Studies Undergraduate Research Grants
Posted on: 9/4/2009 Archived on: 10/10/2009 Research grants are available to undergraduate students who wish to engage in research projects whose ultimate goal is to enhance the understanding and knowledge of the Latino/a experience in the United States.Examples of research-related activities that will be funded include, but are not limited too:
*Acquisition of documents, reports, and books
*Travel and registration expenses to attend professional conferences
*Photocopy expenses
*Purchase of research related software and hardware, or specialized equipment
*Travel to libraries, archives, special collections, or other research sites
For more details about the application, visit the Latino Studies Program at 434 Rockefeller Hall or http://latino.lsp.cornell.edu/Research%20Grant_09.pdf
Afro-Caribbean Percussion Classes Coming Soon!
Posted on: 9/4/2009 Archived on: 9/21/2009 Dates for First Session: 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/66:45-8:15pm Beginner - No Experience Necessary
8:15-10pm Intermediate
Online Registration Necessary - http://www.palantetroupe.org/percussion.html
Go to Campus Map for Directions .
Instructors:
Head Instructors: Hiram Jimenez (see profile below) and Jonathan Kline
Assistant Instructor: Ben Ortiz
Payment:
Students $40 per four week session, Non-Students $50. Please pay at the first class by cash or check.
Class Description:
Hiram and Jonathan will teach Afro-Cuban drumming technique and rhythms. Participants will learn and practice conga, clave and bell patterns as well as Tumbao, Son, Guaracha, Guaguanco and more. Drums and small percussion instruments will be available, bringing your own instrument is not essential. If you are able to bring an instrument anyhow, please inform us by replying to this email as it will allow us to accept more students.
Salsa & Latin Dance Classes with Palante Starting Soon!
Posted on: 9/4/2009 Archived on: 9/13/2009 MONDAYS 9:00-10:30pm - LATIN DANCE SURVEY & IMMERSIONTUESDAYS 8:30-10pm - LGBTQ SALSA & LATIN DANCE
WEDNESDAYS 6:30-9:30pm - ¡SALSA! AT BIG RED BARN
WEDNESDAYS 9:30-11pm - PE 1162 INTERMEDIATE SALSA & RUEDA DE CASINO
FRIDAYS 6:20-7:50pm - BEGINNER 3 SALSA
Same and different sex couples welcome at all classes. No partner necessary.
Classes taught by Palante head instructor Michael Luis Ristorucci (see bio), with co-instructors and assistants from Palante Salsa en Rueda Dance Troupe.
See Details about all the different classes: http://www.palantetroupe.org/salsaclasses.html#fridays
To register for classes: http://www.palantetroupe.org/registration.php
LASP Welcome Reception. Open to the Public!
Posted on: 9/1/2009 Archived on: 9/15/2009 Debra Castillo, the of the Latin American Studies Program, is hosting a reception for all people currently involved with LASP and all people interested in hearing about the classes, programs, and events LASP has to offer.Live performances of Latin Jazz with the Chris White Trio. Food catered by Cocina Latina.
Clientilism as Persuasion and as Mobilization
Posted on: 4/20/2009 Archived on: 4/30/2009 A seminar given by Susan Stokes, Department of Political Science, Yale Universityhttp://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/sstokes.html
Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America, 1945-2008
Posted on: 4/15/2009 Archived on: 4/23/2009 A seminar given by Scott Mainwaring, Department of Political Science, Notre Dame UniversityFulbright U.S. Student and Fulbright-Hays Programs (for graduates only)
Posted on: 4/14/2009 Archived on: 4/22/2009Fulbright U.S. Student Program (for undergraduates only)
Posted on: 4/12/2009 Archived on: 4/21/2009Seminar - The Collective Protection of Democracy or Old Fashioned Interventionism? Lessons from the 2005 Constitutional Crisis in Nicaragua
Posted on: 4/5/2009 Archived on: 4/16/2009 A seminar given by Shelley McConnell, Department of Government, Hamilton CollegeTendencies in the Political Party System of Argentina: Is Peronismo Still Alive?
Posted on: 3/31/2009 Archived on: 4/9/2009 A seminar given by Torcuato Di Tella, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentinahttp://clas.berkeley.edu/Events/spring2007/02-05-07-ditella/index.html
Film - Everyone their grain of Sand
Posted on: 3/31/2009 Archived on: 4/9/2009 The award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government's attempts to evict them from their homes to make way for multi-national corporations seeking cheap land and labor. Filmmaker Beth Bird followed the fiercely determined residents for three years as they persistently petitioned the state for basic services like running water, electricity and pay for their teachers, only to be met with bureaucratic stonewalling. Eventually, several community leaders are targeted for persecution, and one is arrested while others are forced into hiding (Mexico 2005). Discussant: Alicia Swords, Department of Sociology, Ithaca Collegehttp://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c680.shtml
Too Many Heroes (Demasiados Heroes)
Posted on: 3/21/2009 Archived on: 4/1/2009 Reading and panel discussion of Laura Restrepo's new novel, released June 2009http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/latinamerica/academics/schedule2009.asp
Conference - Regional Identity in Times of Globalization and Diaspora
Posted on: 3/20/2009 Archived on: 4/4/2009 An interdisciplinary conference combining issues of political economy, migration, art, and humanitieshttp://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/latinamerica/academics/schedule2009.asp
Labor and Migration in the Americas: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Posted on: 3/17/2009 Archived on: 3/27/2009 A seminar given by Raymond Craib, Department of History, Cornell Universityhttp://www.arts.cornell.edu/history/faculty-department-craib.php
Seminar - Power Asymmetries, Constitutional Change, and Hyperpresidentialism: Venezuela Compared
Posted on: 3/15/2009 Archived on: 3/26/2009 A seminar given by Javier Corrales, Department of Political Science, Amherst Collegehttps://www.amherst.edu/users/C/jcorrales
Short Film - The Kids
Posted on: 3/15/2009 Archived on: 3/26/2009 This documentary focuses on the problem of child soldiers in Colombia. Children who live in poor communities in Cali are recruited by business owners, drug lords, paramilitary leaders, and other groups to commit brutal assassinations in exchange for pay. The film centers on the life of one teen soldier and a group of his followers, and their motivations, desires, frustrations, and difficulty in getting out of this situation (Colombia 2008). Discussant: Elvira Sanchez-Blake, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University.**Note: This short film will be followed by a screening of "The Route of the Chontaduro" (see Calendar event for more information)
Short Film - The Route of Chontaduro
Posted on: 3/15/2009 Archived on: 3/26/2009 The Route of the Chontaduro is a documentary that shows the life cycle of an exotic and aphrodisiac fruit: the Chontaduro. Through an exhausting journey from the heart of the most diverse tropical jungle to the big cities, the Chontaduro's men and women show us all the states of the crop and commericialization of this fruit: the plantation in the deep jungle, the gathering from palms more than ten meters high totally covered with horns, their skill to plough teeming rivers against the current, their ingenious ways to take this exquisite fruit to the urban centers and all the situations they overcome to offer their ethnic and cultural diversity to the World, but above all, their capacity and wisdom to preserve an ecosystem fundamental for the world climatic equilibrium (Colombia 2008). Discussant: TBASeminar - Radical Populism: the Foe or the Essence of Democracy
Posted on: 3/1/2009 Archived on: 3/12/2009 A seminar given by Carlos de la Torre, FLASCO Ecuadorhttp://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=472235
Film - The Border Wall
Posted on: 3/1/2009 Archived on: 3/12/2009 The Border Wall is a new documentary from Wayne Ewing about the attempt by the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Michael Chertoff to erect 670 miles of walls along the 2000 mile southern border of the United States in the waning days of the Bush administration (USA 2008). Discussant: Maria Lorena Cook, Department of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell Universityhttp://www.theborderwall.com/about.php
SalsaSon Spring 2009 Celebrations
Posted on: 2/28/2009 Archived on: 3/8/2009 Paz en Colombia: Solidarity Chat and ShowIn 2003 the Syracuse, Cortland and Ithaca chapter of Colombia Support Network established a sister community between Central New York and the Small Farmers Movement of Cajibío, Colombia (MCC). The MCC is one of many groups struggling for peace and justice in Colombia. Made up of campesinos, other local community members, indigenous people, and Afro-Colombians, Cajibío is a small municipality located in the violence-torn southwestern department of Cauca, Colombia. Through PowerPoint and discussion we will talk about how The CNY-Cajibio Sister City partnership or "hermanamiento" works in solidarity to support one another in our mutual efforts for economic justice, a clean environment, health care, and peaceful communities.
This event will also feature a Latin dance survival lesson by Nikolay Karkov and Xhercis Mendez and live music from 9pm-1am
Presenter: Colleen Kattau (SUNY Cortland)
Invisible Discriminations - Uncovering a Global Underclass: Women Made Visible Speaker Series
Posted on: 2/28/2009 Archived on: 3/4/2009 Arun Kundnani (Deputy Editor of London's Institute of Race Relations) and Jane Berger (Visiting Fellow - Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations) will be speaking. Issues pertinent to Latin America such as female domestic servants and neoliberal effects on agricultural production will be covered.This event is a three day series uncovering ways power relations are changing while simultaneously being preserved. Each lecture presentation will strive to make vivid the realities faced by the global "underclass" so as to reveal how western transnational linkages are creating power barriers by reconceptualizing borders.
Invisible Discriminations - Maintaining Power Structures in a Globalized World
Posted on: 2/27/2009 Archived on: 3/5/2009 Gallya Lahav (Professor of Political Science - SUNY Stonybrook, Visiting Fellow - NYU) will be speaking at a luncheon."Invisible Discriminations" is a three day series uncovering ways power relations are changing while simultaneously being preserved. Each lecture presentation will strive to make vivid the realities faced by the global "underclass" so as to reveal how western transnational linkages are creating power barriers by reconceptualizing borders.
Seminar - Participative Innovations in the Chavez Era: Cases in Caracas
Posted on: 2/26/2009 Archived on: 3/5/2009 A seminar given by Margarita Lopez Maya, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow.http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=472275
http://www.ucv.ve/cendes.htm
Film - La Patagonia Rebelde
Posted on: 2/25/2009 Archived on: 3/4/2009 Based on the historical work of Osvaldo Bayer, Patagonia Rebelde recounts the bloody events of 1920 - 1923 in southern Argentina. In 1920, urban and rural workers in Patagonia organized into anarchist and socialist societies, resolve to strike to demand better working conditions. A colonel at the head of military detachment sent by the government of Yrigoyen negotiates a settlement between the unions and the landowners but the landowners soon break the terms of the treaty, leading to a lengthy and bloody confrontation. The film, released in 1974, was initially banned by the government and a number of the film's main actors has to go into exile (Argentina 1974). Discussant: Raymond Craib, Department of History, Cornell Universityhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071976
From the Heart of Cauca: Art as Seeds of Liberation
Posted on: 2/20/2009 Archived on: 2/27/2009 Jafeth Gomez Ledesma is an artist and cultural activist from Popoyan, Cauca Department, Colombia. He creates beautiful paintings which portray the lives, culture, and political struggle of the people of Cauca. He will speak about the role of art in community struggles for liberation, and show slides of his work.Spirituality, Art, and Culture: A New Dawn in Colombia
Posted on: 2/20/2009 Archived on: 2/27/2009 Jafeth Gomez Ledesma is an artist and cultural activist from Popoyan, Cauca Department, Colombia. He creates beautiful paintings which portray the lives, culture, and political struggle of the people of Cauca. He will speak about the role of art in community struggles for liberation, and show slides of his work.Junot Diaz: Eissner Artist of the Year Award and Class of '63 Presentation
Posted on: 2/17/2009 Archived on: 2/20/2009 Junot Diaz received an MFA from Cornell in 1995 from the Creative Writing Program, and has won prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2008 for distinguished fiction by an American author for his work "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", the National Book Critics Circle Award, the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Dayton Library Peace Prize. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and in The Best American Short Stories. His critically praised, bestselling debut book, "Drown", led to his inclusion among Newsweek's "New Faces of 1996" -- the only writer in the group. The New Yorker placed him on a list of the twenty top writers for the twenty-first century.Diaz is the recipient of the 2008-09 Eissner Artist of the Year Award, which is presented annually to an alumna/us who has achieved national or international success in the arts. The award is funded by an endowment from Bruce and Judith Eissner, and is administered by the Cornell Council for the Arts.
This event includes:
2:00pm - Panel Discussion: Arts and the Impact on Immigration - Are the arts poised to address the most pressing issues of immigration, its myths, and its strengths?
4:30pm - Junot Diaz Reading and Award Presentation
Seminar - Experience Latin America: Chiapas Edition
Posted on: 2/15/2009 Archived on: 2/26/2009 A seminar given by Robert Blake, Department of Animal Science, Cornell Universityhttp://www.ansci.cornell.edu/faculty/blake.html
http://einaudi.cornell.edu/latinamerica/academics/experiencela.asp
Film - The Judge and the General
Posted on: 2/15/2009 Archived on: 2/26/2009 When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzman was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. Guzman had supported Pinochet's 1973 coup against the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and had worked as a judge during Pinochet's dictatorship. The filmmakers trace Guzman's descent into what he calls "the abyss" where he uncovers the past - including his own role in the tragedy (Chile 2008).Discussant: Patricia Rodriguez, Department of Politics, Ithaca College
The Genesis of Natural Medicines
Posted on: 2/12/2009 Archived on: 2/18/2009 Dr. Eloy Rodriguz, the James A. Perkins Endowed Professor and Research Scientist at Cornell University, will visit the Syracuse University campus on February 17, 2009 as a guest of the University Lectures, the high profile series that regularly brings to campus some of the world's most renowned figures in the human sciences, education, art, and science. His research focuses on the importance of culture, indigenous health care systems and health disparities in Chicano/a and Native American populations.A vocal advocate for science education, Rodriguez created the Kids Investigating and Discovering Science (KIDS) program for kindergarten through eighth-grade children in underrepresented populations. His studies of the genesis, discovery and application of natural organic medicines for breast and pancreatic cancer and Type 2 diabetes directly connects his research with compelling community involvement
Lecture - Medellin: From Fear to Hope
Posted on: 2/10/2009 Archived on: 2/20/2009 A public lecture given by Sergio Fajardo, Mayor of Medellin, Colombia from 2003-2007http://www.sergiofajardo.com/