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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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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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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This book launch event celebrates the publication of the second edition of this important study of creole religions.
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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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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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Join leading scholars and practitioners in this in-depth discussion of intercultural bilingual education in Latin America.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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7:00pm - screening of short film Matrioshka
Immediately following will be a screening of El Destello / The Flicker
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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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7:00pm - screening of short film El Hombre Muerto / The Dead Man
Immediately following will be a screening of Reus
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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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7:00pm - screening of Mundialito
After the screening, there will be a discussion with the producer of the film.
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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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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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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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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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Rubén Ríos Ávila is Chair of Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Puerto Rico.
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Are you an alum of CLACS? Come catch up with other alumni and meet our current students!
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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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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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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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Isaias Rojas-Perez is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University.
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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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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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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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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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James N. Green works on the political, social and, and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Brazil.
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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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Join us for the Keynote Lecture of this exciting symposium, featuring esteemed anthropologist Sidney Mintz.
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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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This event celebrates the publication of NYU Quechua instructor Odi Gonzales' book "Avenida Sol/Greenwich Village."
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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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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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Richard Conway is a specialist in rural, agricultural and poverty issues in colonial and post-colonial Mexican history.
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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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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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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 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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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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