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CLACS Events
2007-2008
Fall 2007 - Summer 2008
Events
For more information call (212)
998-8686
WRITING WORKSHOP
June 6, 2008
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University
Registration link: vocesdemexico@gmail.com Code: June 6 |
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Voces
de Mexico Conference
June 5, 2008
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University
Registration link: vocesdemexico@gmail.com Code: June 5 |
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Voces
de Mexico Conference
June 5, 2008
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University
Registration link: vocesdemexico@gmail.com Code: June 5 |
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Voces
de los Andes Conference
May 16, 2008
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University
Registration link: vocesdelosandes@gmail.com |
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Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:30pm |
"With Our Bodies and Our Souls: Thinking Feminism from the Andes"
(in Spanish with English translation)
a talk by and conversation with
JULIETA PAREDES
Bolivian/Aymara feminist, lesbian activist, writer, and founder of
Mujeres Creando and Asamblea Feminista (well-known Bolivian women's collectives)
When: Thursday, May 1st. at 6:30pm
Where: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU
King Juan Carlos of Spain I Center
53 Washington Square South. Room 324E (3rd floor)
Julieta Paredes will discuss the experiences of indigenous and other Bolivian women working towards a decolonized feminism in today's Bolivia. Even as possibilities for radical change grow under the first indigenous president, there remain debates and tensions about race, class and colonial legacies within the feminist movement. Indigenous women are too often spoken for and about, but their bodies, voices, struggles, thoughts and hopes must be taken into account. Julieta will address the opportunity to forge critical alliances across borders, to learn from our differences, and to forge a radical feminist agenda in Bolivia.
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| Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53
Washington Square South, Room 324 |
Hosted by NYU's Center
for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
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Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:30pm |
The Center for Global Affairs at New York University, the Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University, and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York
University
invite you to a book
presentation:
For more information, please
contact CLACS at 212-998-8686 or clacs.info@nyu.edu |
Location: Center for Global Affairs, NYU
Woolworth Building, by City Hall 15 Barclay Street, room 430 |
Hosted by NYU's Center
for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Center for Global Studies, and the Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University
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Friday, April 25-26, 2008 |
IBERIA & THE AMERICAS: Contacts and Migrations
A Two-Day Conference co-sponsored by Columbia
University’s Institute of Latin American Studies,
New York University’s Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, and Barnard’s Forum on Migration.
It is difficult to exaggerate the influence of
Spain and Portugal on Latin America.
Iberian colonialism in the region began centuries
earlier, lasted longer, and ran deeper than
European colonialism in Africa or Asia. And the
Iberian connection did not die with the end of
imperial rule. On the contrary, in terms of
social ties, of the circulation of goods, ideas,
and people, Iberia and America were more densely
linked during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries than they had been in colonial times.
More Spaniards and Portuguese came to Latin
America after independence than before. Return
and circular migration made the impact mutual.
The last two decades have witnessed both a shift
and an intensification of Ibero-American
connections as Spain has become a major exporter
of capital to Latin America and the latter has
become a major exporter of people to Spain and
Portugal. And the Iberian presence, as any one in
New York City can easily tell, is not restricted
to the south of the Rio Grande, or even the west
of the Mississippi.
This conference will explore
these shifting contacts, conflicts, and migrations.
Schedule:
FRIDAY April 25
1:00 PM Welcome and Introduction: Iberia and America, Ties that Bind
Jose C. Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University
1:30 PM Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
2:00 PM The Impact of Return Migration from Latin America to Spain
in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
2:30 PM Discussion (followed by a coffee break)
3:30 PM The “Argentine Empire”: Fascism, Hispanidad and Nacionalismo
across the Atlantic, 1922-1945
Federico Finchelstein, The New School
4:00 PM Latin American Immigrants in Spain: First results from the National
Immigrant Survey
David Reher, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
4:30 PM Spanish Investment in Latin America, 1990-2008
Thomas Trebat, Columbia University
5:00 PM Discussion (followed by reception)
SATURDAY April 26
"Nueva York: The Long History of Gotham's Ties to the Spanish-speaking World"
8:45 A.M. Coffee
9:15 A.M From Gotham to Nueva York
Mike Wallace, Director, Gotham Center for NYC History, and
Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College
10:15 A.M. New York's Spanish-language Literary Traditions
Carmen Boullosa, Mexican author, City College, CUNY
10:45 A.M. Puerto Ricans in New York
Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Brooklyn College, CUNY
11:15 A.M. Discussion (followed by coffee break)
12:00 P.M. Cubans in New York
Lisandro Perez, Florida International University
12:30 P.M. Spanish Enclaves in New York
James D. Fernández, New York University
1:00 P.M. Discussion
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For more information, please
contact CLACS at 212-998-8686 or clacs.info@nyu.edu
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WHERE: Columbia University, Philosophy Hall,
1150 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027 |
Hosted by NYU's Center
for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, and Barnard's Forum on Migration
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Friday, April 25, 2008,
12:30 - 2:30pm |
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
invites you to attend the talk / workshop on
Community Media Practices in Colombia and Venezuela
by documentary filmmaker and community media expert
Diana Coryat
FRIDAY APRIL 25 at 12:30pm
19 University Place, Room 222
(corner of 8th Street)
After a addressing the historical context for current work, we will screen a few videos produced by young people’s media collectives. In particular, we will explore how their work provides powerful counter-narratives to mainstream media and its dominant public discourses about social conditions. Work featured includes:
Somos alzados en bastones de mando / We are rising up with our staffs
Produced by the Tejido de Comunicación de la Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas de Norte del Cauca – ACIN - Colombia (2006, 24 minutes – in Spanish with English subtitles)
De Barrio en Barrio
Music video by Flaco Flow y Melanina, directed by Victor Palacios Romero of Colectiva Me Joda, Aguablanca - Cali, Colombia (2006; 4:59 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles)
La Rutina
Music video by, directed by Lucas Perro. (2000- in Spanish ) Medellin, Colombia
Excerpts of full-length documentaries:
La Revolución Bolivariana y la Cuarta Guerra Mundial
El Viejo y Jesus: Profetas de Rebelión
Produced by Calle y Media, a media collective in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela,
Directed by Marcelo Andrade and the Calle y Media Collective.
Diana Coryat, is the Founding Director of Global Action Project (www.global-action.org) an internationally recognized social justice media organization whose mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create media, and to use their media for dialogue and positive change. With a BFA in filmmaking and a MA in Communication, Coryat has over two decades of experience working in youth and community media. She has designed and facilitated media programs, workshops and screenings for youth and adults in New York, Massachusetts, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, and Venezuela. She has also worked as a consultant with filmmakers, community organizations, schools, festivals and foundations. As a 2007 Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, she taught at La Universidad del Valle’s Escuela de Comunicación Social in Cali, and engaged in exchanges with numerous universities and community media groups.
For more information, please
contact CLACS at 212-998-8686 or clacs.info@nyu.edu |
| Location:19 University Place, room 222 |
Hosted by The Center
for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
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100% Venezuela 2nd
Edition
NYU Venezuelan Film Festival
April 23 - 27,
2008 |
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This second edition will focus on Politics,
exhibiting classic films from the 70’s, 80´s and 90´s, and the
most recent productions of Venezuelan Cinema. This event,
which attracted an unprecedented turnout in its first edition
(2006), will this year screen 14 films that reflect the
various political movements within this polemical OPEC
nation. In addition to the screenings, the festival will
also host four symposiums in which interdisciplinary
perspectives, regarding Venezuelan Politics and Power, will be
discussed.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23
3:00
El pez que fuma / The Smoking Fish (Román Chalbaud,
1978) 120’
Probably the most famous film
within Venezuelan cinematography: A sort of coat-of-arms of
the Chalbaudian universe, and also the fruit of his theatrical
background, the film displays a remarkable expressive
maturity, evidenced by a míse-en-scène with Fellinesque
trimmings, an excellent control of the narrative tempo and a
rounded, passionate script that creates a wonderful parable
about power and its fleeting expressions, through the
characters and activities at a famous brothel in La
Guaira.
5:15
Desnudo con naranjas / Nude with Oranges (Luis
Alberto Lamata, 1997) 110’
An art historian
comes to the home of Doña Matilde in hopes of purchasing a
masterpiece painting from her, "The Blue Virgin".
Unfortunately, the painting was destroyed long ago. Instead,
she offers the historian glimpses of life at the turn of the
century. She tells the hidden story of the "Blue Virgin" and
how it was stolen by an Indian leader of the Liberal Army. The
film takes place during Venezuela's Federal Revolution, a time
of war and upheaval in the 1800’s. A visually attractive
picture from the director of Jericó.
7:15
First Symposium Perspectives and Leadership of
Bolivarian Venezuela
Introduced by
Jo Labanyi, Director KJCC
(NYU)
Presented by Javier Guerrero (Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, NYU)
Teodoro Petkoff (Tal
Cual): A New Left?
Margarita López-Maya
(Universidad Central de Venezuela):The Bolivarian Movement
and the Fall of Constitutional Reform: Causes and
Tendencies.
Fernando Coronil (University of
Michigan): A new debut of the Magic State.
Discussants: Tulio
Halperin-Donghi (UCLA, Berkeley) and Luis Duno-Gottberg (Florida Atlantic
University).
Internationally renowned Venezuelan politician, former
Minister of Economic Planning, Editor of Tal Cual,
formerly of the party Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and
outspoken Oppositional figure, Teodoro
Petkoff; Awarded Historian and Professor at the
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Margarita López-Maya; and Author of
The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in
Venezuela Fernando Coronil
(University of Michigan) will discuss leadership, the “new”
Left, the perspectives of Venezuelan power after the
Constitutional referendum, and the international agenda of the
Venezuelan Government (including the polemic with Colombia).
The discussion will be led by Emeritus Professor and
renowned Argentinean Historian Tulio
Halperin-Donghi (Department of History, UC Berkeley)
and Venezuelan Professor Luis
Duno-Gottberg (Florida Atlantic
University).
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24
3:00
Golpes a mi puerta / Knocks at My Door (Alejandro
Saderman, 1993) 101’
A very impressive film
about the horrors of the militarism that recalls past
dictatorships in Latin America. The picture set, in an unnamed
South American country, is an emotional examination of two
courageous nuns who provide refuge to a rebel soldier.
5:15
Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano / Chronicle of a
Latin American Subversive (Mauricio Walerstein, 1975)
101’ *
During 1964, accused of
assassinating the US Secretary of Defense, a guerilla soldier
in Vietnam will be executed. In Venezuela, a leftist
group kidnaps an American army Colonel in exchange for the
release of the Vietnamese soldier.
Q&A by Tomás Urayoan Noel with Filmmaker Mauricio
Walerstein.
7:15
Second Symposium Cinema and Politics in
Venezuela
Followed by the NYC PREMIERE, Postales de Leningrado/ Postcards
from Leningrad
Presented by Javier
Guerrero and Ronald Briggs.
Guests: Mauricio
Walerstein and Mariana
Rondón.
In this symposium, Rondón and Walersetin
will discuss the problems of representation within
political cinema, the
relationship and differences in presenting the guerilla and
the reception of these films nationally and
internationally. In addition, this symposium intends to
put into perspective Venezuelan Cinema.
Postales de Leningrado/ Postcards from
Leningrad (Mariana
Rondón, 2007)
During the leftist uprising in the
1960s in Venezuela, a young guerrilla-girl, living in secrecy,
gives birth to her first daughter on Mother's Day. Due to
that, her photos appear in the newspaper, from that moment
they are forced to run away. Hidden places, false disguises
and names are part of this young girl’s daily life. Alongside
with her cousin, they re-live the adventures of their
guerrilla parents, building a labyrinth filled with
superheroes and strategies, where no one knows where the
reality or the madness began. However, this children's game
does not hide the deaths, tortures, denunciations and treasons
within the guerrillas. The kids want to convert themselves
into The Invisible Man in order to escape from the danger.
However, they know that their parents might never come back
and therefore, they'll only receive Postcards from
Leningrad
Mauricio Walerstein, prolific
director of more than 13 full length films and producer,
winner of the Premio Nacional de Cine award and foundational
figure in the establishment of Venezuela’s film industry. Two
of his films will be screened in the Festival, Crónica de
un subversivo latinoamericano and La máxima
felicidad.
Mariana Rondón, director of
various experimental short films, including Cáscaras
and Calle 22, and her opera prima A la media
noche y media. Her full length film Postales de
Leningrado (2007), presents the guerilla movements in
Venezuela from the gaze of a young girl. Postales de
Leningrado was the official Venezuelan entry for the
Oscar's 2008 Foreign Film category.
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FRIDAY,
APRIL 25
2:00
País Portátil / Portable Country (Iván Feo and
Antonio Llerandi, 1979) 102’ *
Based on the
acclaimed novel by Venezuelan writer Adriano González León,
the film exposes political chaos and revolution in a powerful
drama. The fragmented flashbacks are set in the late 19th
century, 1925, 1933, and the late 1970s. A patriarch boards a
bus for a symbolic showdown with the police to seek vengeance
for the plight of his beleaguered ancestors. The film
underscores the fact that every generation must overcome
social and political obstacles and stand up for their rights
in spite of revolution.
4:15
El escándalo / The Scandal (Carlos Oteyza, 1987)
105’
Venezuela is shaken by the news of an
incredible case of oil industry corruption. Someone has
managed to orchestrate a complex web of operatives within the
industry. Together with a secretive group, the conspirators
have managed to find a way to leak confidential information to
dubious external contacts in order to divert
enormous profits out of the industry and at the same
time do irreparable damage to the nation’s most precious
treasure. The Scandal is a tale of corruption and is
based on a true story.
6:15
Third Symposium Politics of the pose in Venezuelan
entre
siècle
Presented by Sylvia
Molloy (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU)
Javier Lasarte (Universidad
Simón Bolívar): Política de la fábula: representación
enmascarada de la nación en Las memorias de Mamá
Blanca de Teresa de la Parra.
Paulette Silva-Bauregard
(Universidad Simón Bolívar): Poses femeninas de fin de
siglo.
Nathalie Bouzaglo
(Northwestern University): Visitas médicas y adulterio del
fin de siècle venezolano.
Discussants: Alicia
Ríos (Syracuse University) and
Sibylle Fischer (Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
NYU)
Presented by Albert Schweitzer Professor in the
Humanities Sylvia Molloy
(Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York
University), awarded Venezuelan scholar and Editor of
Revista Estudios Paulette
Silva-Bauregard (Universidad Simón Bolívar); Editor of
La nave va Javier Lasarte
(Universidad Central de Venezuela) and Scholar Nathalie Bouzaglo (Northwestern
University). Discussants will be co-author of The
Latin-American Cultural Studies Reader, Alicia Ríos (Syracuse University) and
Haiti/XIX century Caribbean specialist Sybille Fischer (New York University).
The symposium will be focused on the imaginary of hysteria,
homo-social exhibition, adulteress’s novels, feminine lectors
and writers of the Venezuelan entre siècle. The
participants will discuss the strategies of exhibiting and
disguising politics of the nation.
8:15
Oriana (Fina Torres, 1985)
88’
Winner of the Camera d'or for
best first feature at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, this
first feature by filmmaker Fina
Torres (Celestial Clockwork, Woman on Top, Un té en
La Habana) is a spellbinding drama that starts when a
married woman living in France, María, returns to the hacienda
where she spent her summers as an adolescent. As she prepares
to sell the house, she is reminded of her aunt, Oriana, a
mysterious figure who never left the hacienda and appeared to
harbor deep inner secrets. As Maria continues to reflect upon
her adolescent days, she eventually stumbles across a secret
that will bring Oriana's behavior to light. The film features
the performance of legendary Venezuelan actress Doris Wells,
in the roll of Oriana, and reflects upon the silence lived
during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26
2:00
Señora Bolero (Marilda Vera, 1991)
101*
The sudden suicide of Pedro and
Amanda’s son prompts her to reflect on her life and remember
the times when she dreamt of being a bolero singer while she
co-plotted to overthrow the dictatorship regime
along with Alejandro, a radio disc
jockey and Pedro a leader of the resistance, fighting for her
love. After 30 years of exile,
Alejandro returns and seeks her out.
4:15
La máxima felicidad (Mauricio Walerstein, 1983) 103’
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A gay couple and a woman are about to
experience living as a threesome, this process brings out
their fears, some moral barriers must be dismantled before the
complex process of understanding and accepting each other can
succeed. This film by Mauricio Walerstein, prior than other
feature films such as La ley del deseo and Doña
Herlinda y su hijo, has been ignored in the history of
Latin-American gay films.
6:15
Fourth Symposium Politics of Representation:
Armando Reverón
Presented by Edward J
Sullivan (Dean for Humanities, NYU)
Master
Conference by Luis Enrique
Pérez-Oramas
(MoMA)
Discussant: Gerard
Aching (Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
NYU)
This symposium will focus on the MoMA’s recently exhibited
Venezuelan artist, Armando Reverón. The master
conference will be proudly given by The Estrellita Brodsky
Curator of Latin American Art, MoMA Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas with comments
by Professor Gerard Aching (Chair,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and
Literatures, New York University).
8:15
Amaneció de golpe / Coup at Daybreak (Carlos
Azpúrua, 1998) 90’
The film takes place
during the military coup that sought to overthrow the
Venezuelan government in 1992. A number of Caracas' wealthiest
citizens attempt to figure out their status when soldiers
march into town and they are unable to trust reports from
radio and television. The film follows-up on how a variety of
these people, coming from different social classes, dealt with
the new reality they face.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 27
2:00
Río negro / Black River (Atahualpa Lichy, 1992) 121’
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In 1912, the Rio Negro in the northern
part of the Amazon was one of the places where ambitious men
went to try and get rich quick in the rubber trade and other
jungle-related businesses. In this story, the local population
endures the excesses of strong men who vie with one another
for power.
4:15
Una casa con vista al mar / A House with a View of the
Sea (Alberto Arvelo, 2003) 95’
In the
foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his
son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of
neighbors, until a desperate act of violence tears them apart.
It takes the brave intervention of a stranger to reunite them
once again in the place of their dreams.
6:15
Francisco de Miranda (Diego Rísquez, 2006)
105’
The story of a revolutionary
Venezuelan who lived in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. Francisco de Miranda was one of the
first revolutionaries in the country. The film includes the
performance of actresses Beatriz Valdez (Manuela
Sáenz), Mimi Lazo, Ruddy Rodriguez, among others:
starring Luis Fernández in the roll of Miranda.
8:15
Secuestro Express (Jonathan Jakubowicz, 2005)
86’
This last screening will be introduced
by Laura Turégano (Executive
Director, KJCC).
In a night pregnant with a strange mix of tension and dizzy
abandon, lovers Carla and Martin prowl clubs before drunkenly
wandering back to his car. While he comes across as crass
nouveau riche, she appears more liberal. Their conspicuous
affluence, however, makes them ideal targets for kidnappers,
who demand $20,000 to be delivered within two hours. The
conception of Jonathan Jakubowicz’s film was seen undoubtedly
marked by the political polarization that the country was
living at that moment. The film was shot during the strike
that Venezuela faced in 2002, which meant great difficulty for
its production. It was an independent film that did not seek
any state funding and was ultimately acquired by Miramax for
global release.
 This edition will also award the Audience
Choice Award. Spectators will cast their vote for the
best film exhibited in this festival. All films are
eligible. Results will be announced on Monday, April 28,
2008.
The Festival will be honored with the presence of
Venezuelan Artist Miguel Amat (Artist/Designer for this
Edition).
* No English Subtitles.
-- Reception is graciously
catered and sponsored by internationally renowned Venezuelan
pastry makers, Tisserie. For more information please
visit www.tisserie.com
Laura Turégano, Javier
Guerrero
Producers
Javier
Guerrero
Artistic Director/
Curator
Pablo
Abraham
Assistant,
Venezuela
Graciela Báez, Carlos
Gutiérrez
Promotion, NYC
Lorena
Pino
Promotion,
Venezuela
Miguel
Amat
Invited Artist
Our deepest thanks to:
Jim Fernández, Sylvia Molloy, Catherine
Stimpson, Jane Tylus, Israel Rodríguez, Asya Berger, José
Reyes, Rafael Sánchez, Tom Abercrombie, Maritza Colón, Gerard
Aching
Jo Labanyi, Luisa Osorio, Leslie Rivera Keating,
Bernardo Rotundo, Douglas Palumbo
Fernando Rodríguez,
Gabriela Basterra, Dale Retjmar, Nathalie Bouzaglo, Ronald
Harrar
And to all the Filmmakers and Producers who kindly provided
their films for this edition.
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With the generous support of New York University’s
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and
Literatures, The Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities,
The Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies, The
Humanities Initiative, Graduate School of Arts and Science,
GSAS Student Council, Tisserie, Cinema
Tropical, and Gran Cine. |
Thursday, April 17, 2008,
1-3pm |
The History Department, the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York
University
invite you to a book
presentation:
The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Ned Sublette
Thursday, April 17 (originally scheduled for April 3)
Praise for The World that Made New Orleans:
"With staggering erudition and dazzling style, Sublette weaves things you always wanted to know together in a harmonious whole." Madison Smartt Bell, author, Toussaint Louverture and All Souls' Rising
"A compelling portrait of the city as a capital of the Caribbean, an irrepressible source of artistic and political creativity." Laurent Dubois, author, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
"Before Katrina, this book would have been merely excellent. Now it is essential." Ted Widmer, author, Martin Van Buren and editor, the Library of America's American Speeches
“It's a different kind of music book, focusing on movements and eras rather than cataloging artists, unfolding with a remarkable number of details that you never knew you wanted to know. And like the living cultural stew of its subject, it's an energetic and fascinating read, never a dusty history lesson. Sublette, who drew raves for "Cuba and Its Music," has produced another important resource - and the best argument yet for why we need to save New Orleans.” – Boston Globe
Ned Sublette is a musician, songwriter, and historian. He is the cofounder of the Cuban music label Qbadisc and former coproducer of public radio's Afropop Worldwide. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers. He is the author of Cuba and its Music.
For more information, please
contact CLACS at 212-998-8686 or clacs.info@nyu.edu |
| Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53
Washington Square South, Room 607 |
Hosted by The Center
for Latin American & Caribbean Studies,the Deparment of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department
of History, NYU
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Voces
Dominicanas Conference
April 11, 2008
Faculty House,
Columbia University
Registration link: voces.dominicanas@gmail.com |
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8:00 AM Registration and a light breakfast
9:00 AM Greetings:
Dr. Pedro Ruiz, Coordinator, NYS OBE
OFLS
Dr. Thomas Trebat, Director of ILAS, Columbia
University
9:15 AM NYC Commissioner of
Immigrant Affairs
Honorable
Guillermo Linares
9:40 AM Honorable Cónsul de la
República Dominicana,
Arquitecto Eduardo Selman
10:05 AM Mary Ely Peña-Gratereaux, Book
Publisher and Editor,
Voces de la
inmigración: historias y testimonios de mujeres inmigrantes
dominicanas
10:30 AM Break
10:40 AM Presentation and
Q&A: Mario
Núñez
Leer, escribir, narrar e
imaginar: estrategias y pretextos
11:15 AM Presentation and Q&A:
Jocelyn Santana
Dominican Dream, American Reality
12 NOON Lunch
1:00 PM Presentation and Q&A:
Zenaida Méndez
"Lo
personal es político", Voces de la inmigración: historias
y testimonios de mujeres inmigrantes dominicanas
1:45 PM Presentation and Q&A:
Dinorah
Coronado
Rebeca al Bate
2:30 PM Presentation and Q&A:
Julio C.
Malone
Sammy Sosa in 9 Innings
3:15 PM Closing Remarks
Book Signing |
Other conferences coming up!
Voces de
Mexico
Thursday June 5
NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center,
53 Washington Square South
Dominican Independence
Week/Bella Quisqueya Week
February 25 - February 28,
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SHADES OF
POLITICS
Monday, February 25,
2008
FILM SCREENING: THE PRICE OF
SUGAR
Tuesday, February, 26, 2008
AFRO-DOMINICAN ROOTS
GALA
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
EL CARNAVAL Y SUS
MASCARAS
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Thursday, March 13, 2008,
6-8pm |
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The History Department and
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York
University
and Verso Books invite you to a book
presentation:
Revolutionary
Horizons:
Past and Present in Bolivian
Politics
by
Forrest Hylton and Sinclair
Thomson
The political transformations in
Bolivia since 2000 have stirred international attention.
Revolutionary Horizons (Verso 2007) places the current cycle
of indigenous-popular insurgencies and rise of the MAS
government of Evo Morales within a long-term history of
revolution that reaches back to the anti-colonial Indian
struggles of the eighteenth century.
With the authors and the
participation of:
Adolfo
Gilly (Author of The Mexican Revolution and
other studies of Latin American history and revolution;
journalist for La Jornada, Mexico; and professor of the
Autonomous University of Mexico)
Joaquín
Chávez (Protagonist in El Salvador’s revolution and
peace process in the 1980s-1990s; scholar of the Salvadoran
revolution; History Dept., NYU)
Sujatha
Fernandes (Scholar of revolutionary culture
in Cuba and Venezuela; author of Cuba Represent!: Cuban
Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary
Cultures; Sociology Dept., CUNY)
Brooke
Larson (Leading historian of Bolivia; author of
Trials of Nation-Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity
in the Andes; History Dept., SUNY-Stony Brook)
Copies of the book will be
available for sale
For more information, please
contact CLACS at 212-998-8686 or clacs.info@nyu.edu |
| Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53
Washington Square South, Auditorium (1st floor) |
Hosted by The Center
for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Department
of History, NYU
and Verso
Books |
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Voices
of Latin American Leaders |
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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. Voices of Latin American Leaders
is a series of in-depth discussions with prominent
Latin Americans on issue facing the
Americas and
the world. Moderated since its
inception by Jorge Castañeda, Global Distinguished
Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
at NYU and the former Foreign Minister of
Mexico, the
series will probe economic, social, historical and political
dimensions of Latin America’s relations with
the U.S. and
the world community.
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:
- Monday, October 8, 2007: Vicente Fox Quesada, Former President
of Mexico (Please
click here
for information about this event)
- Tuesday, November 6, 2007:
EX MEX: FROM MIGRANTS TO IMMIGRANTS,
Discussion between Jorge
Castañeda, Christopher Mitchell and Joel Magallán
(Please click here
for more information about this event)
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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 |
| Monday, September 10,
2007 |
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The Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Native People's Forum, the
History Department, the Anthropology Department, and the
Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Department at
New York University, and NACLA Report on the Americas invite
you to:
" Bolivia Today: Struggles over
Decolonization and Collective Resources "
Monday, September 10, 2007
9:00am – 1:00pm
King Juan Carlos I of Spain
Center
53 Washington Square South,
Auditorium (1st floor)
Bolivia has undergone profound
changes from the time of the Water War of 2000 in Cochabamba
through the overthrow of the neoliberal regime of President
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in 2003 to the election of President
Evo Morales in 2005. Indigenous, trade-union, and grassroots
social movements have spearheaded this process and set the
agenda for national transformation. At the center of debate
are the issues of ending "internal colonialism" and
establishing collective popular sovereignty over resources
such as energy, water, coca, and territory.
8:45 Coffee
9:00 Introduction to conference
9:00-10:45 Panel I:
Pablo Mamani
(Universidad Pública de El Alto)
Sinclair Thomson (NYU,
History)
Comments: Mary Louise Pratt (NYU, Social and
Cultural Analysis), Tom Abercrombie (NYU, CLACS and
Anthropology), Mario Murillo (Hofstra University and WBAI)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:45 Panel II:
Silvia Rivera
Cusicanqui (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés)
Oscar Olivera
(Sindicato de Fabriles and Coordinadora de Agua)
Comments: Forrest Hylton (NYU, History), Lina
Britto (NYU, History), Gerardo Rénique (CUNY, History)
12:45-1:00 Announcements and Conclusion
For more
information, please contact the Center at:
212-998-8686. |
| 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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