April 17th: Carlos Decena. "The work of 'Trans' in Jaime Cortez´s Sexilio"

April 4th: Daryle Williams. Artists and Models in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Slave Society

April 3th: Race In Latin America Guest Speaker Series

April 6th: Hispanic Studies- LALS Grad Mixer

April 5th: Screening of Los Colores de la Montaña

 

Desplazados: that is the usual term given to the forgotten victims of the Colombian armed conflict, a conflict that has lasted more than half a century. Between three and five million people, these desplazados are mainly peasants from the rural areas, trapped between the crossed-fire of the multiple combatants, forced to leave behind everything they owned and cared for. Separated from those they love, their flight is marked by the awareness of an uncertain future. How can anyone relate the story of the Colombian countryside, both battered and beautiful, without resorting to commonplaces or a Manichean approach? With his opera prima, Los colores de la montaña (The colors of the mountain, 2010), director Carlos César Arbeláez tells the story of a vereda, a rural county, through the eyes of three kids whose only passion is to play soccer. Following their friendship, the viewer is exposed to the increasing fear that marks the daily lives of humble and hard-working people ran over by forces they can’t control in any measure. Los colores de la montaña is an aesthetically crafted approach that does not avoid the horrors of war, without forgetting the humor and tenderness of life itself.

Rutgers-Newark-New Brunswick Lecture Series: Reimagining Antillean Diasporas--Jason Cortes--Tuesday April 3 at 4:00 p.m.‏

Marzo 23: Reina María Rodríguez

The Spanish and Portuguese Department
of the University of Pennsylvania
invites you to a talk by

Reina Maria Rodriguez

Cuban Poetry after 1989

Friday, March 23, 2012
3:00 pm
Cherpack Seminar Room
543 Williams Hall

Reception to follow

Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Madame Sata- Febrero 23

Ana María Bidegain- "Lay Women and Catholicism"

The LALS program is sponsoring a presentation by Dr. Ana María
Bidegain, from Florida International University.  Dr. Bidegain directs
the Colombian Studies Initative of the Latin American and Caribbean
Center at FIU and is affiliated with the Department of Religion
Studies.

She is a guest of Dr. Farnsworth-Alvear's seminar course, Gender in
Latin America, and will speak in College Hall 209 at noon.


Ana María Bidegain
Florida International University

"Lay Women and Catholicism"

College Hall 209
Friday, 2/17/2012
noon

Eva Lucumí Moreno- "Mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual en el contexto de Buenaventura"

The LALS Program will host a presentation by Eva María Lucumí Moreno,
a visiting MA student from the University of Manizales and currently
an instructor at Colombia's Universidad del Pacífico.

Where: Center for Africana Studies

3401 Walnut Street, Suite 331A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Intramural Building Code: 6228 

When: Weds, 2/15/2012  at noon

Title of Eva's presentation: "Mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual en
el contexto de Buenaventura - Colombia: una mirada a las formas de
subjetivación."

Cuban Revolutionary Cinema

Samba Sessao: Afro-Brazilian Art and Film

Samba Sessão: Afro-Brazilian Art and Film

Weekly Film Series in the Sky Lounge of Harrison College House – all films begin at 7pm unless otherwise noted. Free Snacks.

February 9th:  Gabriela w/ Phoebe Jean-Pierre 
February 16th: Bye Bye Brazil w/ Sam Sharf 
February 23rd: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands w/ Jake Rosenbaum
March 1st: Quilombo w/ Ruani Ribe 
March 15th: Kiss of the Spider Woman w/ Erica Shockley (7:30) 
March 22nd: Central Station w/ Mansi Kothari
March 29th: Orfeo Negro w/ Adrianna de Svastich

Schedule may change. Check the Harrison website for updates.http://harrison.house.upenn.edu/calendar.aspx

Happy Hour- Viernes, 10 de Febrero- Gratis para SAS

Una opción para el viernes y no es cerveza...

  SASGOV HAPPY HOUR FRIDAY 

 Friday Feb 10 5:30-8:30pm in Amado Recital Hall (in Irvine Auditorium, 34 & Spruce).  

Pizza Rustica din-din catered, AND A RUSSIAN LIFE WATER THEME—White Russians and Vodka martinis!  Leave your beer steins at home, this is FANCY FRIDAY.  Free for SAS graduate students, $5 for non-SAS-graduate-students.  Food runs out quick, drinks never do.  21+ id required.

PLAS events- Princeton

For more information on PLAS events: www.princeton.edu/plas

Upcoming PLAS Events

 

February 8 (Wednesday) 12pm 216 Burr Hall	PLAS Lunch Other Histories: A Tenth of a Second Jimena Canales (Harvard University) Co-sponsored by the Program in History of Science
February 9 (Thursday) 4:30pm 219 Burr Hall	PLAS Lecture Tropical Delusions: The Origins, Essential Differences, and Fragile Links of a Shared Ideology for the Americas Ambassador Ricardo Luna (PLAS Visiting Scholar) Discussant: Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University)
February 15 (Wednesday) 12pm 219 Burr Hall	PLAS Lunch The Sun of Brazil: Nicolas Taunay and the Difficult Images of a Tropical Country (1816-1821) Lilia Schwarcz (PLAS Visiting Scholar & Universidade de São Paulo)
February 16 (Thursday) 5:30pm 219 Burr Hall	PLAS Lecture On Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire (Yale University) Lecture followed by a panel discussion with Miguel Centeno (Sociology) and Anthony Grafton (History) Co-sponsored by the Arts Council of Princeton

 

 

 Other Latin American Events on Campus

 

January 16-March 8 Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall

Woodrow Wilson School Art Exhibit ASARO: Art and Activism in Oaxaca, MexicoProtest prints from a collective of Mexican artists