CLACS Events 2006-2007
FALL 2006- SUMMER 2007 EVENTS: For more information call (212) 998-8686
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[Venezuelan Film Festival]
[Voices of Latin American Leaders]
[Education and Youth in Global Cities Seminar Series]
[The Mexican and Mexican-American Authors Symposium]
Friday - Saturday, May 4-5, 2007 |
The New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW) and the New York City Consortium on Latin American Studies invite you to the symposium:
“Common Vocabularies, Different Perspectives: New Political History on Nineteenth Century Latin America”
This symposium will bring together historians from Latin America and the United States to present some of the most exciting current research within Latin American history. Recent political historiography, particularly that of the turbulent decades after independence, has been characterized by innovative approaches to old questions about nation building, institutional legitimacy, and political culture. Panels will highlight prominent conceptual categories such as hegemony and subalternity, state-formation, the public sphere and civil society, liberalism and republicanism. Participants will address key approaches to questions of political culture, elite and popular politics, and the connections of political history to intellectual, cultural, and social history.
Friday, May 4
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Renato Gonzalez-Mello (Tinker Visiting Professor, Columbia University)
9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Panel One
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University), “Empires, Sovereignty, and State-formation in Latin America”
Nara Milanich (Barnard College), “From Hijos del Rey to Hijos de Don Nadie: Kinship, Filiation and the Law in Chile from the Bourbons to Andrés Bello”
Commentator: Paul Gootenberg (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Panel Two
Cecilia Mendez (University of California, Santa Barbara), “¿Es posible una historia rural nacional? Los derroteros de una ausencia en la historiografía peruana del siglo XIX”
Jorge Myers (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes), “En los orígenes de la historiografía argentina: Revolución, Estado, Nación”
Commentator: John Coatsworth (Columbia University)
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Panel Three
Marixa Lasso (Case Western Reserve University), “Anti-Colonialism and Racial Equality”
Peter Guardino (Indiana University), “According to Virtue and Merit: Afro-Mexicans, Social Status, and National Identity in Early Nineteenth Century Mexico”
Commentator: Ada Ferrer (New York University)
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Panel Four
José Elias Palti (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes), “The Revolution of Independence: Old and New Idealism. Revisionism Revisited”
Mark Thurner (University of Florida), “Genealogies of Political History”
Commentator: Sinclair Thomson (New York University)
Saturday, May 5
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Panel Five
Sarah Chambers (University of Minnesota), “A Right to Support: State Responsibility for Family Welfare in 19th-Century Chile”
Pablo Piccato (Columbia University), “The Privatization of Honor and the Fall of the Public Sphere in Porfirian Mexico”
Commentator: José Moya (Barnard College)
11:45 - 1:15 p.m. Panel Six
Rafael Rojas (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica), “Del 10 al 8. La nueva historiografía política y el bicentenario de la independencia”
Carmen McEvoy (The University of the South), “Guerra, nación y civilización: La guerra del Pacífico y la forja del nacionalismo en Chile, 1879-1884”
Commentator: Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia University)
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Final Panel
Commentators: Renato González Mello (Tinker Visiting Professor, Columbia Univeristy), Claudio Lomnitz (Columbia Univeristy), Barbara Weinstein (New York University).
All panels will take place at 301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University.
The symposium is made possible by the generous support of The Tinker Foundation, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.
Please email latinamericanhistory@columbia.edu for questions.
This event is free and open to the public. All presentations will be in English and Spanish
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Location: Columbia University, New York City
Room 301, Philosophy Hall |
Sponsored by CLACS and Columbia University |
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 6-8pm |
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, Auditorium |
Sponsored by CLACS |
Friday, April 27, 2007 9am - 4pm |
The Mexican and Mexican – American Authors Symposium:
Reflecting the Migrant Experience
    
This Symposium will showcase the experience of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. through a range of literature in Spanish and English by Mexican and Mexican-American authors. Participants will have an opportunity to interact with the authors and learn strategies to incorporate Mexican students’ experiences into the classroom through writing and literature.
The key-note speakers are Dr.Christopher Mitchell (NYU), Dr. Ofelia Garcia(Columbia), Dr. Robert Smith (CUNY), and the Honorable Consul General of Mexico in New York Licenciado Ramón X. Ramirez.
The featured authors presenting at this event are Alma Flor Ada, Isabel Campoy, Rigoberto González, Reyna Grande, and Silvia Dubovoy.
Registration is limited to 150 people. Please be reminded that you will be admitted to the symposium only with registration confirmation, which will be sent via email a week before the event.
Please follow the link below to register:
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| Location: Faculty House, Columbia University,
400 West 117th Street |
Sponsored by The New York State Spanish BETAC at New York University,
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU, and The Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University |
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4-5:30pm |
" ciudadMULTIPLEcity "
Art and the City: an Experiment in Context
A presentation by Gerardo Mosquera and Adrienne Samos
curators of the 2003 urban art event in Panama
 
Images courtesy of Gustavo Artigas
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
4:00 – 5:30pm
53 Washington Square South, 1st floor auditorium
The connection between art and the city has become an increasingly urgent matter of debate. ciudadMULTIPLEcity was a project that gathered international artists, including Francis Alÿs, Ghada Amer, Gustavo Artigas, Cildo Meireles and Gu Xiong, and had them respond to Panama City’s fascinating complexities. Curated by Gerardo Mosquera and Adrienne Samos, the event, in George Yudice's words, 'make the public experience even more audible and legible, turning the city into creative actor and artwork'. For Okwui Enwezor, it was ‘one of the most ambitious attempts of its kind; a spur to critical action and an important contribution to the rethinking of the city’. Mosquera and Samos will discuss issues on art and the public realm and screen a video documentary on ciudadMULTIPLEcity by Rich Potter.
Gerardo Mosquera (Havana, 1945) is a free lance curator and art critic based in Havana, Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, advisor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam, and member of the advisory board of several art journals. He was a founder of the Havana Biennial, and has curated many exhibitions, including the Liverpool Biennial International 2006, the international urban art event MultipleCity. ArtePanama 2003, Panorama da Arte Brasileira Contemporanea (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Vigo, 2003-2004). Author of numerous books and texts on contemporary art and art theory, Mosquera co-edited Over Here. International Perspectives on Art and Culture (Cambridge, 2004), and edited Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America (London, 1995).
Adrienne Samos (Panama, 1961) is an editor, art critic and curator based in Panama City. She founded and was editor-in-chief of the cultural supplement Talingo (published by the newspaper La Prensa, 1993-2001), which won the Prince Claus Award, and is now an independent online magazine. Head of Arpa (Art<Panama), a non-profit organization created to investigate and promote artistic and cultural manifestations in and out of Panama. She has organized solo and group exhibitions, and contributed to numerous art journals. Recent books include Sombras del Paraíso: Los dibujos de Guillermo Trujillo (coauthor), Bogotá, 2005, and ciudadMULTIPLEcity. Art>Panama 2003. Urban Art and Global Cities: an Experiment in Context (coeditor & coauthor), Amsterdam, 2004.
For more information, please contact the Center at: 212-998-8686
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, auditorium |
Sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6-8pm |
American Visa
by Juan de Recacoechea
translated by Adrian Althoff
A book presentation with the author and translator of the novel
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South, Room 404W
(between Sullivan and Greene Streets, across Washington Square Park)
Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa, his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami. Mario Alvarez's dream of emigration takes a tragicomic twist on the rough streets of La Paz, Bolivia's seat of government. Alvarez embarks on a series of Kafkaesque adventures, crossing paths with a colorful cast of hustlers, social outcasts, and crooked politicians--and initiating a romance with a straight-shooting prostitute named Blanca. Spurred on by his detective fantasies and his own tribulations, he hatches a plan to rob a wealthy gold dealer, a decision that draws him into a web of high-society corruption but also brings him closer than ever to obtaining his ticket to paradise.
JUAN DE RECACOCHEA was born in La Paz, Bolivia, and worked as a journalist in Europe for almost twenty years. After returning to his native country, he helped found Bolivia's first state-run television network, served as its general manager, and dedicated himself to fiction writing. Mr. Recacoechea is the author of seven novels. American Visa is his first novel to be translated into English.
ADRIAN ALTHOFF (Translator) is a freelance journalist and translator based in La Paz, Bolivia.
For more information, please contact the Center at: 212-998-8686
or the Bolivian-American Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 6721 - FDR Station - New York, NY 10150 - Tel. 1.212.729.1665 - Fax 1.917.546.6915
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, Room 404W |
Sponsored by The Bolivian-American Chamber of Commerce and NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Friday, April 6, 2007 ALL DAY |
You’re invited to a one-day mini-conference entitled
Virgenes Viajeras/ Traveling Virgins.
See flyer attached and website: http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/virgenes/.
TO RSVP or for more information: email alyshia.galvez@nyu.edu
Download Flyer
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM (Portrait Room)
Meeting of Working Group Members
The afternoon and evening events are free and open to the public.
2:00 PM (Auditorium)
Panel:La virgen se fue mojada: Migrating Devotions Across Borders
Screening of short film clips with presentations by Elva Elisabeth Bishop, Altha Cravey, Alyshia Gálvez and NYC-based artists and activists.
6:00 PM (Auditorium)
A conversation with Jean Franco and Renato Rosaldo, with story-telling by Pedro Lasch
Artist Pedro Lasch will launch the evening’s events by telling a story, “La Virgen Más…” Our distinguished guests will respond to the story and to each other in an informal conversation touching on the topics of religion, globalization, local religiosities, Marianism, migration and dueling virgins…
7:00 PM
Wine and Cheese Reception
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
Sponsored by NYU’s by Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute
Cosponsors: Museum of Chinese in the Americas, LUCHA, China House
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 2pm |
“From Slavery to Freedom?
New Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution”
Laurent Dubois
Michigan State University, Department of History
“Voltaire and Dessalines in the Theater of the Atlantic”
Jean Casimir
Université d'État d'Haïti, Faculté des Sciences Humaines
“The Haitian Victims of 1804”
Discussants:
Ada Ferrer, NYU, History
Sibylle Fischer, NYU, Spanish and Portuguese
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
Sponsored by NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS),
Department of History, The Atlantic World Workshop, and
Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM) |
Friday, March 9, 2007 pm |
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| Location: Kimmel Center, Room 909 |
Sponsored by NYU’s Cuban American Association and CLACS
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Thursday, March 8, 2007 6pm |
Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals In The Cuban Revolution
A little-known but important chapter of Chinese and Latin American history is told through interviews with Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong, three Chinese-Cubans who fought in the revolutionary war that brought down the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship and became generals in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces.
In Our History Is Still Being Written, the three men explore the unique weight of Chinese immigration to Cuba and its importance in Cuba’s revolutionary history from 1868 to the present. They talk about their role in Cuba’s socialist revolution and what it has accomplished. From firsthand experience, they describe Cuba’s aid to struggles against colonialism and imperialism in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Join a panel discussion on these topics with:
Awam Amkpa, Director of Africana Studies at NYU
Peter Kwong, a professor of Asian American studies at Hunter College, is co-author of Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community
Kathleen López, professor, Lehman College, Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies
Lok Siu, Assistant Professor of Asian/Pacific/American Studies at NYU and author of Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama.
Mary-Alice Waters, president of Pathfinder Press and editor of Our History is Still Being Written.
For More Info: www.apa.nyu.edu
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Location: A/P/A Institute and Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
41-51 E. 11th street, 7th floor gallery
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Sponsored by NYU’s by Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute
Cosponsors: Museum of Chinese in the Americas, LUCHA, China House
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 6pm |
Adolfo Gilly
The Lawless Planet
Globalization, Dispossession, Lawlessness
Adolfo Gilly is one of the leading public intellectuals in Latin America today. Over the course of half a century, and moving between Mexico, Central America, the Andes, and the Southern Cone, he has closely observed many of the most important political processes in the region. Historian, essayist, journalist, he is the author of numerous books. His classic The Mexican Revolution, which has gone through more than thirty editions in Spanish, was recently re-released by The New Press in 2005. His most recent book Historia a contrapelo (2006), a reflection on the work of Benjamin, Polanyi, Gramsci, Thompson, Guha, and Bonfil Batalla, is based on lectures he delivered at NYU in 2003.
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| Location: 19 University Place, Room 102 |
| Sponsored by NYU’s History Department & Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
Thursday, February 8, 2007 6pm |
An Evil Hour in Colombia
By: Forrest Hylton
Introduction and comments by Sinclair Thompson and Joaquín Chávez
From Publishers Weekly: Colombia's long-drawn-out internal strife between guerrillas, paramilitaries and the state is confusing to many outsiders. The numerous groups fighting for land and power, combined with the presence of powerful narco-traffickers, have created an environment of violent chaos and political conflict. Hylton, a researcher in history at New York University, helps make sense of this disorder in his detailed and concise history of Colombia over the last 150 years. In this short book, he manages to create a full picture of Colombian history and the violence that marks it. At a quick, consistent pace, the book moves through the early causes of radical mobilization in the mid-19th century and the system of repression that emerged in response. Hylton examines the fractured social and political circumstances that spawned the extremist groups as well as the forces, such as the rise of coffee exports after 1880 that have fueled them. He also examines the major role the United States has played in Colombia's history and how the "war on drugs" was often executed with Washington's broader political and economic goals in mind. By the end of this well-researched book, Hylton clarifies Colombia's endemic violence as a social and political phenomenon.
Forrest Hylton is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at NYU, and author, with Sinclair Thomson, of Revolutionary Horizons: Popular Struggle in Bolivia (Verso, forthcoming in 2007).
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Sponsored by NYU’s History Department &
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
Thursday, February 1, 2007 6:30pm |
Carlos Monsiváis
and/y
Rossana Reguillo
México:
¿Ahora qué/What Now?
Two of México’s foremost intellectuals discuss the elections, Oaxaca, y los futuros posibles
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Location: Silver Center Room 703,
Randolph Sommerville Theater,
100 Washington Square E |
| Sponsored by NYU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and NACLA |
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:30pm |
El País del nunca jabaz:
Humor político y nuevas tecnologías mediáticas.
Jose Antonio Baz (Jabaz)
Premio nacional de periodismo, México 2005
Comentarista/interlocutor:
Felipe Galindo (Feggo)
creator of The Manhatitlan Chronicles
José Antonio Baz Nungaray, designer and visual artist, is Mexico’s best known political cartoonist today. Jabaz replaces the traditional hand-drawn political cartoon with hilarious photomontages created on the computer by skillfully piecing together real images from television and the web. His feature, “El pais de nunca jabaz” appears daily in Mexico’s Milenio newspaper chain.
Felipe Galindo is a visual artist and political humorist from Cuernavaca, Mexico, who now lives in New York City. His work has appeared widely in Mexico, the US and internationally. His Manhatitlan Chronicles received the Best Animation Award at the Cambridge Latino Film Festival.
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Sponsored by NYU’s The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and CLACS |
Friday, January 26, 2007 2- 4pm |
Stephan Palmié
(Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago):
“Ecue's Atlantic: Time, Space, and Historical Consciousness”
Please join us for a discussion and refreshments
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, room 404W |
| Sponsored by The NYU Humanities Council, Cuban Studies Working Group and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
Thursday, January 18, 2007 4pm |
H.E. Gustavo Guzmán Saldaña
Ambassador of the Republic of Bolivia to the U.S.
"Bolivia: A New Democracy, One Year After Elections."
remarks will be in Spanish with consecutive wireless translation
Thursday, January 18, 2007
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Venue:
New York University
King Juan Carlos of Spain I Center
53 Washington Square South, 1st floor auditorium
Gustavo Guzmán has spent the past twenty years working in journalism, as well as publishing various works. He served as editor of La Razón, one of Bolivia’s leading newspapers, we well as having founded La Prensa, another important daily. From 1999-2004, he was editor of Pulso magazine, which he also founded. He has worked for the Municipality of La Paz, as an independent consultant in political communication, and has been the proprietor of small graphic design firm. Academically, he has pursued studies in economics and literature. His partner and he have three children.
Space is limited. RSVP to: Carolina Fermin <cf62@nyu.edu>
For more information, please contact the Center at 212-998-8686
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Sponsored by NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 4:00pm |
"How to Make Enemies Doing a Non Fiction Magazine: The Case of How Inca Kola beat Coke"
Julio Villanueva Chang
Director, Revista Etiqueta Negra
Peru and Latin America
(Presentation will be in Spanish)
Julio Villanueva-Chang is founder and editor-in-chief of Etiqueta Negra, an acclaimed Spanish-language nonfiction magazine based in Lima, Perú. Chang is a 1995 recipient of the Inter-American Press Association Award (IAPA) in Feature Writing. His profiles and features written for El Comercio, Lima’s most important daily, are collected in Mariposas y Murcielagos (1999), with an epilogue by Jon Lee Anderson. He was a scholar at Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Fundación Nuevo Periodismo. The Asociación de Prensa de Aragón published A Day With Julio Villanueva Chang (2006), a written and abridged version of a workshop he gave the previous year in Zaragoza, Spain.
As a non fiction writer, Villanueva-Chang has published in Se habla Español, Voces Latinas en USA (2001), and other publications in America and Europe, including El País, La Vanguardia, Il, El Malpensante, Reforma, Gatopardo, La Nacion, Vogue and World Literature Today.
He has been speaker at The Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism (Nieman Foundation of Harvard University) and visiting professor in the Master of Journalism program at Barcelona University-Columbia University and at Universidad Diego Portales de Santiago de Chile. Villanueva-Chang also has been panelist at The Seminar on Editing of Fundación Nuevo Periodismo, presided by Gabriel García Márquez, and at the Congreso de Periodismo Digital de España. He has taught workshops and conferences for reporters and editors of newspapers and magazines in Latin America and Spain, including Proceso y Gatopardo (México), El Mercurio (Santiago de Chile), El Nacional (Caracas) and El Comercio (Perú).
Villanueva-Chang is currently reporting a profile for The Virginia Quarterly Review about Cali’s blind major. Next year he will publish his second book of a collection of non fiction and will be a visiting professor at the Master of Editing at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
For more information, please contact Patricio Navia at 212-995-3728.
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, Room 324 |
| Sponsored by NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
Friday, November 17, 2006, 1:30 - 3:30pm |
"My Brazil - A Journey of Faith, Strength and Struggle"
A screening and talk with documentary filmmaker Daniela Broitman
In the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, local community leaders put their lives on the line to fight for basic rights and services for their fellow citizens. What compels these volunteers with no political ambition to make such a personal sacrifice? “My Brazil” explores this question by following the daily lives of three courageous leaders and their participation in the Fifth World Social Forum the most important global meeting on social and economic justice. As they interact with activists, policymakers and leaders from all over the world, they seek ways to combat social, gender and racial discrimination, and improve living conditions in their communities.
The documentary features 33 community leaders, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, Portuguese writer José Saramago, Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, Frei Betto and Leonardo Boff – two of the major voices of social justice in Latin America.
Daniela Broitman, an independent filmmaker with a Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley, worked as a reporter for Brazil’s leading newspapers Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo. In 2003, she received a grant from the Ford Foundation to complete the documentary “Voices From the Edge: The Favela Goes to the World Social Forum,” which she co-directed and co-produced. This film received the Award of Excellence from BRASA and was selected by a number of prestigious festivals. In 2004, she became a member of the World Social Forum Rio Committee, and began work on her most recent production, “My Brazil.”
For more information, please contact the Center at: 212-998-8686.
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Sponsored by NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 5 - 7pm |
A SHORT RADIOGRAPHY OF HIP HOP IN CUBA
AND
THE MAJI-MAJI READINGS
Two Documentary Films by Cuban filmmaker Ricardo Bacallao
Discussant: Professor Awam Amkpa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Drama, Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts
Director, Africana Studies
Academic Director, NYU in Ghana
Short Radiography of Hip Hop in Cuba (2004)
![[Country Flag of Cuba]](eventscurrent_clip_image002.gif) Despite significant social change in Cuba, blacks continue to be ostracized and subjugated to a colonial outlook. In 1995, a group of creative young people founded the Rap festival, since then the government has taken control of the Hip Hop movement, undermining its intentions
The Maji Maji Readings (2006)
  This documentary is about the colonial mentality that still persists in Germany, seen through theatrical drama based on the Maji Maji war that took place in German-occupied Africa. It features theater with afro-German actors, the first of its kind.
Born in Havana, Cuba, filmmaker Ricardo Bacallao graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, (ISA) as a Director of TV, Radio, and Film. A multitalented member of the Cuban Association of Young Creators (AHS) and the National Movement of Video, Bacallao is also a screenwriter and cameraman, as well as painter and sculptor. Besides Short Radiography of Hip Hop in Cuba and The Maji-Maji Readings, Bacallao’s filmography includes Un Angel Caído o Aprendices de Van Gogh, Mimesis and Transhumancia. While in Berlin, he taught several documentary workshops in Baoyuma Hause and The Open Space and received two talent awards from Filmfestspiele Berlinale (2003, 2004). He is presently working in two fiction projects: Crónicas Cubanas Berlinesas (Cuban Chronicles from Berlin about Cubans in the former East Germany) and Un Cubano en Berlin (A Cuban in Berlin, a road movie), Los Samaritanos, (The Good Samaritans, about American volunteers who aid illegal immigrants making the perilous journey through the desert to cross the border) and Greetings from Berlin (about Black culture in contemporary Berlin).
For more information, please contact the Center at: 212-998-8686.
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
Sponsored by NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, The Germanic Languages and Literature Department, The Music Department &
Africana Studies |
Thursday, November 2, 2006 12:002:30pm |
Tinker Summer Field Research Presentations
2006
Jennifer Adair
Writing and Representing Recent Argentine History
Ph.D., History
Lina Britto
Cafeteros, Marimberos, and Parranderos: Regional Identities and Nation During the Marijuana Boom in La Guajira, Colombia, 1970s
Ph.D., History
Andrew Ehrinpreis
Law, Genocide and Historical Consciousness in Guatemala
M.A., CLACS
Alicia Kingue
Microfinance in El Salvador: A Survey
M.A., CLACS
Anna Wilking
Sex Work in Ecuador
Ph.D., Anthropology
Emily Yates-Doerr
Body Image, Dietary Practice and Nutritional Health in Guatemala
Ph.D., Anthropology
Thursday, November 2nd
12:00 2:30pm
53 Washington Square South
Room 324
Tinker Field Research Grants cover round-trip airfare and in-country travel expenses for graduate students in all NYU schools and programs who are doing summer research in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean for periods ranging from two to twelve weeks.
Information on next summer’s research grants will be available at a later date.
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, room 324 |
| Sponsored by CLACS |
Thursday, October 26th 12:002:30pm |
Tinker Summer Field Research Presentations
2006
Marcela Fuentes
Getting the Picture: Argentineans in the After Event
Ph.D., Performance Studies
Sam Howard-Spink
The Brazilian Challenge to Global Copyright: A Musical Perspective
Ph.D., Culture and Communications
Rebecca Howes-Mischel
Some Insights into the Cultural Context of Prenatal Health Care in
Oaxaca's Central Valleys
Ph.D., Anthropology
Marcos Rohena Madrazo
Social variation of žeímso/šeísmo in Buenos Aires Spanish
Ph.D., Linguistics
Federico Sor
The "Reorganization of Personality": Dictatorial Education Reform and
the Construction of Argentine Subjects, 1976-1981
Ph.D., History
Franny Sullivan
Immigration, Race, and Labor in Cuba's Republican Period
Ph.D., History
Tinker Field Research Grants cover round-trip airfare and in-country travel expenses for graduate students in all NYU schools and programs who are doing summer research in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean for periods ranging from two to twelve weeks.
Information on next summer’s research grants will be available at a later date
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, room 324 |
| Sponsored by CLACS |
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:30-8:30pm
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“Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)”
The national broadcast premiere was on P.O.V. (Point of View) on August 1, 2006
Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival
Moderator: Juan Flores, Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Presenter: Natalia Almada, Independent Filmmaker, Director of “Al Otro Lado”
Presenter: Martha I. Chew Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Department, St. Lawrence University, Author of Corridos in Migrant Memory (University of New Mexico Press, 2006)
Discussant: Ana Maria Ochoa, Associate Professor, Department of Music, New York University, Author of Músicas Locales en Tiempos de Globalización (Grupo Editorial Norma, 2003)
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| Location: Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU
41 E. 11th Street, 7th floor Gallery |
| Sponsored by NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU 41 E. 11th Street, 7th floor Gallery |
Thursday, October 19th
12:002:00pm |
Tinker Summer Field Research Presentations
2006
Diego Benegas
The Struggle for Justice in Post Dictatorship Argentina
Ph.D, Performance Studies
Sandra Rozental
The Monolith and the Nation
Ph.D., Anthropology
Mateo Samper
Re-domesticating Coca
MA, CLACS
Lisa Viscidi
Market-assisted Land Reform in Brazil
MA, CLACS
Tinker Field Research Grants cover round-trip airfare and in-country travel expenses for graduate students in all NYU schools and programs who are doing summer research in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean for periods ranging from two to twelve weeks.
Information on next summer’s research grants will be available at a later date
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, room 324 |
| Sponsored by CLACS |
Education and Youth in Global Cities Seminar Series
October 17, 20006 - November 28, 2006 |
The Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS) at New York University is launching its “Education and Youth in Global Cities” seminar series that will explore the educational implications of the processes of globalization on the lives of young people through an interdisciplinary perspective.
Below are the seminar dates for Fall 2006. All seminars will take place at IGEMS Conference Room – 726 Broadway, Fifth Floor. Light refreshments will be served. Please join us.
October 17th 2006, Tuesday, inaugural session. Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Presenter: Carlos Alberto Torres, University of California at Los Angeles
Topic: The University, State and Markets. The Political Economy of Globalization in the Americas
October 31st 2006, Tuesday. Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Presenter: Paulo Marques, Senior Advisor, Special Secretariat of Human Rights, Federal Government of Brazil
Topic: Youth Violence and Gangs in Cities of Brazil
November 8th 2006, Wednesday. Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Presenter: Cameron McCarthy, Research Professor of Communications and Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic: Contesting Culture: Identity and Curriculum Dilemmas in the Age of Globalization, Post-colonialism and Multiculturalism
November 28th 2006, Tuesday. Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Presenter: Suzanne Grant Lewis, Director of Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, New York University
Topic: Urban Youth and Transitions to Higher Education in Africa
Please RSVP to: Tamo Chattopadhay, IGEMS
Please check the IGEMS website http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/igems/IGEMS.html for updates
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| Location: IGEMS Conference Room – 726 Broadway, Fifth Floor |
| Sponsored by NYU’s Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). Co-sponsored by NYCCLAS (Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies of NYU and Columbia U.) |
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6 -8 pm |
Using Information Technology to Fight Poverty: A Report from Brazil
A talk by Rodrigo Baggio
Rodrigo Baggio began working on this concept 11 years ago in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he founded CDI, the Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (www.cdi.org.br). CDI began by opening information technology schools in Rio’s favela communities where it is extremely difficult to break the cycle of poverty due to chronic lack of education and resources. CDI's experience has proven that information technology is a powerful tool to promote development and foster the social and economic inclusion of the world's most marginalized populations. CDI students have gone on to complete their education, find better jobs, open their own small businesses and transform their communities. Today, there are over 900 CDI schools in eight countries. And more than a half million people have benefited from CDI programs.
Rodrigo Baggio has been named by the World Economic Forum as one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow and by Time Magazine as one of the 50 leaders in Latin America that will make a difference in the third millennium. More recently, Baggio was invited to join the Strategy Council of UN’s new Global Alliance for ICT and Development and was also named by the Principal Voices project (sponsored by CNN, Time and Fortune) as one of the world’s three leading voices in economic development along with Jeffrey Sachs, head of the UN Millennium Development Goals, and Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank.
For more information, please contact the Center at: 212-998-8686.
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Sponsored by CLACS |
Friday, October 6, 2006 4:10 - 6:00pm |
OUR BRAND IS CRISIS
directed by Rachel Boynton (2005, 87 min.)
Part of the Film series: Gods Elect? Religion, Media and Elections in the Americas
Bolivia’s turbulent 2002 re-election campaign of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni), and the work of his team of U.S. political consultants, is chronicled from the inside as Goni is re-packaged as an appealing brand. He wins the razor-thin election but the aftermath is devastating.
Discussion with filmmaker Rachel Boynton, Sinclair Thompson (NYU Department of History) and Jeff Himpele (NYU Department of Anthropology).
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Sponsored by NYU’s Center for Religion and Media/Center for Media, Culture and History and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Performance Studies |
Wednesday, October 4, 2006 6:00pm |
BOLIVIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION
During Bolivia’s Gas War of 2003, 67 people were killed and over 400 wounded. The former President responsible for the killings, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (known as Goni), and 2 of his ministers Carlos Sánchez Berzaín (pictured with Goni) and Jorge Berindoague Alcócer all currently reside in the United States. After repeated calls from the Bolivian Government to serve Goni and these ministers with papers demanding their return to Bolivia to answer charges, the United States government still has yet to comply.
Rogelio Mayta and Oscar Olivera are visiting the US this month to talk about the case, the events of October 2003, and about the new Bolivia under the leadership of its first democratically elected indigenous President, Evo Morales. Rogelio Mayta is a lawyer representing the victims and their families in the case. Oscar Olivera is executive secretary of the Bolivian Federation of Factory Workers and spokesperson for the Committee in the Defense of Water and Life in Cochabamba . Oscar emerged in 2000 as the leader and defining voice of the nationwide protest movement against water privatization in Bolivia. He was honored with several high-profile accolades, including the 2001 Goldman Environmental Prize and the 2000 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights International Award.
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Location:
New York University Law School
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 206
40 Washington Square South, between Sullivan and McDougal |
| Hosted by Law School at NYU |
Voices of Latin American Leaders |
In the fall of 2003,
Jorge Castañeda, Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU and former Foreign Minister of Mexico,
initiated an exciting series of conversations with Latin American luminaries to discuss issues facing the Americas and the world today.
Whether you are interested in Latin American politics, economics, history, or culture, this series might be of particular interest to you. We want to invite you to join Professor Castañeda for two conversations this fall:
- Thursday, September 21st, José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States
- Friday, October 6th, Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Please visit www.nyu.edu/latinvoices to reserve your place and for more information about our guests.
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| Location: Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, various locations |
| Hosted by the The Office of University Events and Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at NYU |
100% VENEZUELA: VENEZUELAN FILM FESTIVAL NYU 2006
Thursday, September 21 – Sunday, September 24
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100% VENEZUELA: VENEZUELAN FILM FESTIVAL NYU 2006
100% VENEZUELA will show 14 films from the South American oil-exporting country. Presented by NYU's King Juan Carlos Center, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Festival focuses on the violence that has characterized Venezuelan cinema through its history, exhibiting classic films from the 70's, 80´s and 90´s, and some recent productions of Venezuelan filmography. 100% VENEZUELA wants to trace a history of violence in this very polemic Latin-American country. Solveig Hoogesteijn, Diego Rísquez and Alfredo Anzola, among other important Venezuelan filmmakers, will attend the screenings and participate in a symposium. Curated by Javier Guerrero, NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese. With the generous support of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities, Santa Teresa, Cinematográfica Blancica, Caracas Arepa Bar and Cinema Tropical. For more information, please log on http://www.nyu.edu/kjc and
http://100x100venezuela.blogspot.com/
PROGRAM
Thursday 21
4:15 Pandemonium, Hell’s Capital/ Pandemonium, la capital del infierno (1998, 97’)
6:15 I’m a Criminal/ Soy un delincuente (1976, 112’)
8:30 Gala Night
Friday 22
2:00 Amor en concreto/ Love in concrete (2003, 102’)
4:15 Sangrador/ Bleeder (2000, 89’)
6:15 Manuela Sáenz (2000, 97’)
8:15 Se solicita muchacha de buena presencia y motorizado con moto propia (1977, 90’)
Saturday 23
11:00 Symposium
The symposium will be focused in Venezuelan cinema and the violence that has characterized it through history. Also, it will tackle on the actual political situation of this Caribbean country. The filmmakers Alfredo Anzola, Solveig Hoogesteijn and Diego Rísquez will talk about their filmographies and share some comments on their own experience filming in Venezuela. Moderated by Javier Guerrero, NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Refreshments will be served (in Spanish). RSVP to jeg333@nyu.edu
2:00 The Wedding/ La boda (1982, 110’)
4:15 3 nights/ 3 noches (2001, 105’)
6:15 Tender is the night/ Tierna es la noche (1990, 90’)
8:15 Santera (1997, 97’)
Sunday 24
2:00 Jericó (1990, 90’)
4:15 Punto y raya (2004, 105’)
6:15 De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez (1986, 90’)
8:15 Maroa (2006, 102’)
*For more info, please e-mail Javier Guerrero at j.guerrero@nyu.edu
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at NYU |
| Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:30pm |
“Where Affection Meets Figuration:
Narcocorridos Between Violence and Ethics”
A talk with
Hermann Herlinghaus
(University of Pittsburgh Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies)
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| Location: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor, auditorium |
| Hosted by the Department of Music and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at NYU |
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