Past Events - Fall 2011
Contemporary Racisms in the Americas
Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico
Mónica Moreno Figueroa is a Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University, UK in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. Her research is concerned with the contemporary practices of racism in relation to discourses of mixed-race identities, feminist theory and emotions, with a specific focus on Mexico.
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Special Series/Events
Quechua Conversation Night
Quechua Conversation Night is a monthly gathering focused on the exploration and celebration of Quechua languages and cultures of South America. Our goal is to provide a space for communication between Quechua language learners and Quechua speakers. Native Quechua speakers are encouraged to attend and share in the experience of developing a community of Quechua speakers in the New York City area.
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Location:
Room 701 of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
Contemporary Racisms in the Americas
Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Paradox of Radical Refusal
Charles R. Hale is Professor in the departments of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Book launch of "Creole Religions of the Caribbean"
This book launch event celebrates the publication of the second edition of this important study of creole religions.
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Location:
Great Room of 19 University Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003 (map)
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Second Peruvian Contemporary Film Showcase
Welcome to the Second Peruvian Contemporary Film Showcase in New York City, celebrating the exhilarating journey of fifty years of modern Peruvian cinema. NYU Quechua Instructor Odi Gonzales and Peruvian photographer Ana de Orbegoso will present Quechua-language classic Kukuli among other films on this night.
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Location:
Instituto Cervantes of New York, 211 East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017 (map)
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Special Series/Events
Presentation of "Mañana Forever, Mexico and the Mexicans," and "The North American Idea, A Vision of a Continental Future"
Drs. Jorge Castañeda and Robert Pastor present their recent books Mañana Forever, Mexico and the Mexicans, and The North American Idea, A Vision of a Continental Future, respectively. This event will be moderated by Eduardo Porter of the New York Times.
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Location:
NYU Bookstore, New York University, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 (map)
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Reconstructing National Identities: Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America
Join leading scholars and practitioners in this in-depth discussion of intercultural bilingual education in Latin America.
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Location:
Grace Dodge Hall 179, Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027 (map)
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Contemporary Racisms in the Americas
Why Color is a Better Measure of Inequality in Latin America than Ethnoracial Identity
Edward Telles is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University since 2008, after spending most of his career at UCLA. He has published widely in the area of immigration, race and ethnic relations, social demography and urban sociology.
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Environmental History and Latin America
Reinaldo Funes Monzote is an environmental historian and Coordinator of the Programa de Investigación Geohistórica at the Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre of Cuba. He is author of From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History Since 1492.
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Room 701 of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW)
The Informational Structure of the Chilean State. The Bureaucratic Foundation (1860-1895)
Andrés Estefane is a PhD candidate in History, focusing on colonial and modern Latin America, bureaucracy, systems of knowledge production, and local power at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Location:
Room 8400 of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (map)
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Special Series/Events
Quechua Conversation Night
Please join us for this special collaboration between CLACS and Pachamama Peruvian Arts! Quechua language learners and Quechua speakers will meet in Jackson Heights to learn about and celebrate Quechua languages and cultures. Native Kichwa and Quechua speakers are encouraged to attend and share in the experience of developing a community of Quechua speakers in the New York City area.
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Location:
PS 212, 34-25 82nd Street, Queens, NY 11372 (map)
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Indocumentales / Undocumentaries
Subterráneos: Música Norteña en Nueva York; Crónicas de Manhatitlán; The Manhatitlán Codex; and Los Que Se Quedan
Screenings of: Subterraneans: Norteña Music in New York / Subterráneos: Música Norteña en Nueva York; The Manhatitlán Chronicles / Crónicas de Manhatitlán; The Manhatitlán Codex; and Los Que Se Quedan / Those Who Remain
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Location:
The Newark Public Library, Main Library, Auditorium, Fourth Floor, 5 Washington St., Newark, NJ 07102 (map)
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Other Series/Events
Uruguay Film Fest: El Círculo; Las Manos en la Tierra
Two films will kick off the opening night of a weeklong Uruguayan Film Festival. A discussion with Director Virginia Martínez will conclude the event.
6:30pm - screening of El Círculo / The Circle
8:00pm - screening of Las Manos en la Tierra / Hands in the Earth
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6:30pm - screening of El Círculo / The Circle
8:00pm - screening of Las Manos en la Tierra / Hands in the Earth
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Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Mesoamerican Biodiversity, Green Imperialism, and Indigenous Women's Leadership in Defense of Territory
A wide range of scholars and activists convene to participate in three panel discussions: When Environmentalism Kills, Appropriate Knowledge and Gender Conservation, and Indigenous Territorial Rights Revisited.
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Location:
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4th floor of 20 Cooper Square, New York University, New York, NY 10003 (map)
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Uruguay Film Fest: Hogar Dulce Hogar; Jamás Leí a Onetti
6:30pm - screening of Hogar Dulce Hogar / Home Sweet Home
8:00pm - screening of Jamás Leí a Onetti / I've Never Read Onetti
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8:00pm - screening of Jamás Leí a Onetti / I've Never Read Onetti
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Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Other Series/Events
Uruguay Film Fest: Matrioshka; El Destello
7:00pm - screening of short film Matrioshka
Immediately following will be a screening of El Destello / The Flicker
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Immediately following will be a screening of El Destello / The Flicker
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Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Fixing Documents, Disguising the Self: Notes on the Peruvian Migration Industry
Ulla Berg is Assistant Professor in the department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and in the department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
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Room 404W of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
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Uruguay Film Fest: El Hombre Muerto; Reus
7:00pm - screening of short film El Hombre Muerto / The Dead Man
Immediately following will be a screening of Reus
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Immediately following will be a screening of Reus
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Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Uruguay Film Fest: La Tabaré / Hit
6:30pm - screening of La Tabaré: Rocanrol y después / La Tabaré: Rock & Roll and Beyond
8:00pm - screening of Hit:Historias de Canciones Que Hicieron Historia / Hit: Stories of Songs that Made History
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8:00pm - screening of Hit:Historias de Canciones Que Hicieron Historia / Hit: Stories of Songs that Made History
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Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Uruguay Film Fest: A selection of animated and short films
Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Uruguay Film Fest: Mundialito
7:00pm - screening of Mundialito
After the screening, there will be a discussion with the producer of the film.
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After the screening, there will be a discussion with the producer of the film.
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Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Student Presentations on Summer Research
Please join us for presentations by PhD and MA students on recent summer research from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Contemporary Racisms in the Americas
The Transformation of Racism in Ecuador
Carlos de la Torre is professor of Sociology and Director of International Studies at the University of Kentucky Lexington. Currently he is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Student Presentations on Summer Research
Please join us for presentations by PhD and MA students on recent summer research from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Location:
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Minimal Workers’ Housing in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Claudia C. Zamorano is Visiting Scholar at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York. She comes from the Center for Research and Advance Studies in Social Anthropology in Mexico City.
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Perlongher Pasea Por El Parque Lezama
Rubén Ríos Ávila is Chair of Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Puerto Rico.
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Location:
Great Room of 19 University Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003 (map)
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Students/Alumni Meet-up
Are you an alum of CLACS? Come catch up with other alumni and meet our current students!
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Location:
Room 701 of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
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Student Presentations on Summer Research
Please join us for presentations by PhD and MA students on recent summer research from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Location:
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Memory Delayed: Wrestling with the Difficult Past in Buenos Aires and Berlin
Max Page is the Graduate Program Director and Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he teaches urban, architectural, and public history. He is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians, for the best book on architecture and urbanism.
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Location:
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4th floor of 20 Cooper Square, New York University, New York, NY 10003 (map)
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Working Group on Racisms in Comparative Perspective
In the Road of Life: Racisms in the Southern Andes
Margarita Huayhua is an anthropologist who is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She works on the Quechua speakers of the Peruvian highlands, on the patterns of racial discrimination that have persisted despite public discourses of shared citizenship and legal equality. She is interested in the ways face-to-face behavior creates and maintains social hierarchy. She has also published on bilingual education and the place of Quechua speakers in Peru.
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Unfinished Pasts: Law, Transitional Justice and Mourning in Postwar Peru
Isaias Rojas-Perez is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University.
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Contemporary Racisms in the Americas
Reading the Postracial Contemporary
David Theo Goldberg is a Professor in Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society and an Affiliate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine. He has written extensively on digital media’s impact on higher education, on race and racism, law and society, and on critical theory.
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Contemporary Cuban Art at the Eleventh Havana Biennial
Jorge Fernandez has been the director of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam (Wilfredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art) since 2009. He studied art history and worked as a curator for numerous exhibitions on contemporary art inside and outside of Cuba. The event will be a discussion about Cuban contemporary art and the Eleventh Havana Biennial and will be moderated by Professor Jill Lane.
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Room 404W of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
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Chains of Violence at the Urban Margins
Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Professor in Latin American Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Location:
4th Floor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, 20 Cooper Square, New York NY 10003 (map)
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An n’ Pale|Café Conversations: featuring author Évelyne Trouillot
Évelyne Trouillot lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and teaches in the French department at the State University. Her latest novel, La Mémoire Aux Abois, published in France by Éditions Hoëbeke in May 2010, presents a compelling view of the dictatorship in Haiti and received the prestigious award Le prix Carbet de la Caraibe et du Tout-Monde in December 2010.
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Location:
NYU Bookstore, New York University, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 (map)
New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW)
Exiles within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
James N. Green works on the political, social and, and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Brazil.
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Location:
Room 9204 of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (map)
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Special Series/Events
Quechua Conversation Night
Please join us for this special collaboration between CLACS and Pachamama Peruvian Arts! Quechua language learners and Quechua speakers will meet in Jackson Heights to learn about and celebrate Quechua languages and cultures. Native Kichwa and Quechua speakers are encouraged to attend and share in the experience of developing a community of Quechua speakers in the New York City area.
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Location:
PS 212, 34-25 82nd Street, Queens, NY 11372 (map)
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Caribbean History and Anthropology in the Archives
Join us for the Keynote Lecture of this exciting symposium, featuring esteemed anthropologist Sidney Mintz.
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Location:
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Fales Library and Special Collection, 3rd floor, New York University, 70 Washington Sq. S., New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Caribbean History and Anthropology in the Archives
The second day of this symposium will include three panels: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad. Join us for presentations from top scholars discussing "Mid-Century Anthropology in the Archives."
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Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (map)
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Book presentation of "Avenida Sol/Greenwich Village"
This event celebrates the publication of NYU Quechua instructor Odi Gonzales' book "Avenida Sol/Greenwich Village."
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Great Room of 19 University Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003 (map)
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Indocumentales/Undocumentaries
Screening of "Farmingville" - Educator Workshop
CLACS will be hosting two film screenings and discussions as part of the Indocumentales/Undocumentaries: US-Mexico Itinerant Film Series in December 2011. The workshop will begin with an exploration of the resources available to educators about US-Mexico topics collected by CLACS, and followed by a film screening of Farmingville. Following the screening, educators will discuss the issues addressed in the film with other educator colleagues and facilitators from what moves you? This unique workshop will open a space for educators to discuss pertinent current events and ways that film can contribute to classroom teaching of Mexico-US relations.
This event is free, but registration is required. RSVP by emailing Jen Lewis at jal15 [at] nyu [dot] edu
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This event is free, but registration is required. RSVP by emailing Jen Lewis at jal15 [at] nyu [dot] edu
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Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
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Working Group on Racisms in Comparative Perspective
Transnational Context of Liberian Colonization: Intertwined Processes of African and North American Colonial Ventures in the U.S. and British Empires
Ikoku Asaka is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia. Her book manuscript centers on free and freed African Americans in Canada and the U.S. and seeks to show how the location of black freedom became a point of contention in both the British and U.S. empires beginning in the late eighteenth century.
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Room 701 of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW)
Spaniards in the Nahua City of Xochimilco: Colonial Society and Cultural Exchange in Central Mexico, 1600-1725
Richard Conway is a specialist in rural, agricultural and poverty issues in colonial and post-colonial Mexican history.
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Room 8400 of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (map)
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Contemporary Racisms in the Americas
Designing Communication Infrastructure for Antiracism in Education
Mica Pollock, an anthropologist of education, is Director of UCSD's Center for Research on Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE). Her work explores communications that support student success in diverse schools and communities.
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Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4th Floor of 20 Cooper Square, New York University, New York, NY 10003 (map)
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Special Series/Events
Quechua Conversation Night
Join us for the last Quechua Night of the semester, during which attendees will participate in an artistic activity about quipu (kipu, khipu, quipo). Quechua Conversation Night is a monthly gathering focused on the exploration and celebration of Quechua languages and cultures of South America. We hope to see you here!
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Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
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Indocumentales/Undocumentaries
Screening of "Which Way Home" - Educator Workshop
CLACS will be hosting two film screenings and discussions as part of the Indocumentales/Undocumentaries: US-Mexico Itinerant Film Series in December 2011. The workshop will begin with an exploration of the resources available to educators about US-Mexico topics collected by CLACS, and followed by a film screening of Which Way Home. Following the screening, educators will discuss the issues addressed in the film with other educator colleagues and facilitators from what moves you? This unique workshop will open a space for educators to discuss pertinent current events and ways that film can contribute to classroom teaching of Mexico-US relations.
This event is free, but registration is required. RSVP by emailing Jen Lewis at jal15 [at] nyu [dot] edu
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This event is free, but registration is required. RSVP by emailing Jen Lewis at jal15 [at] nyu [dot] edu
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Location:
Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square South, New York University, New York NY 10012 (map)
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CANCELLED: Político Medioambiental y Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonia Boliviana
This event has been cancelled; stay tuned next semester for rescheduling.
Fernando Vargas Mosua and Sergio Paita Siles speak about “Great Indigenous March for the Defense of the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and Dignity of Indigenous People in Amazonia, Chaco and the Eastern Lowlands.”
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Fernando Vargas Mosua and Sergio Paita Siles speak about “Great Indigenous March for the Defense of the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and Dignity of Indigenous People in Amazonia, Chaco and the Eastern Lowlands.”
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Location:
Room 802 of the International Affairs Building, Columbia University, 420 West 118th St, New York NY 10027 (map)
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Indocumentales / Undocumentaries
Screening of "Elvira"
Join us for the New York premiere and screening of ELVIRA (2009), a film by Javier Solórzano Casarín. Following the screening, a discussion with the filmmakers and special guests will be moderated by Shamina de Gonzaga.
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Location:
Americas Society, 680 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065 (map)














