Event Archive
November 19, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Teatro Latino Series presents 2 one-person plays
UNC's Teatro Latino Series presents two one-person plays by Chicana/o playwright/performers as part of the Solo Takes On festival.
November 19-20, 8 PM., UNC, Swain Hall, Studio 6
Border Stories is a solo performance piece comprised of a series of monologues inspired by interviews conducted with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who live on the U.S.- Mexico border. Written and performed by theatre artist, Gregory Ramos, who plays 21 different characters, the play lays bare what it means to form a sense of self against the background of traditional, cultural, familial, and religious obstacles.
November 15, 3 PM; Nov. 21, 5 PM; Nov. 22, 3 PM, Swain Hall
Doin Time: Through the Visiting Glass examines the impact of incarceration on families. Ashley Lucas, the child of an incarcerated father, conducted interviews in California, Texas, and New York with prisoners’ family members, former prisoners, and people who do work connected to prisons. She also corresponded with over 400 prisoners from across the U.S. Weaving together these interviews and letters with her personal experience as a prisoner’s child and creative writing, Lucas wrote a one-person show which she performs herself.
Tickets for Border Stories and Doin' Time are $10 for the public. A "Solo Pass" for all five shows in the Solo Takes On festival is $25 for the public. These tickets are available through the Communication Studies department at (919) 962-2311 or at the door.
November 19, 2009 - Different Shades of Other Discussion Today
Thursday, November 19, 7:00 PM
Mary Lou Williams Center, Duke West Campus
Discussion on inter-ethnic relations at Duke. Come join the Omega Phi Beta sisters tonight!
November 20, 2009 - LAC Working Group presents Beth Ebblethwaite (University of Florida), "Vodoo Songs and Texts in Haitian Creole and English: The Source Text Approach to the Study of Religion and Culture"
4 PM, Location TBA
Followed by discussion with Laurent DuBois (Duke University). During his visit, Prof. Hebblethwaite will also be providing a workshop on creole language pedagogy.
November 17, 2009 - NC Latin American Film Festival: Showing at Duke
Tuesday, November 17. 7pm. Griffith Film Theater. Bryan Center.
SLEEP DEALER. Alex Rivera (Mexico-USA, 2008) 90 min. A science fiction set in a world, not too unlike our own, in which a global, high speed network ties distant people and places together: a migrant, a soldier, and a writer. “Virtual Immigration” is implied, exploitation without physical presence. Alex Rivera is a Peruvian-American. Alex will be present after the film for a discussion.
For more information, visit http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/2009films
November 16, 2009 - Hernan Vega, IBM, comes to Duke
7 PM, Von Canon inside the Bryan Center
Hernan Vega, Vice President of Worldwide Client Care, IBM, will be coming to Duke for an informal talk. There will be plenty of opportunity for you to ask him questions during and after this discussion, as there will be a reception afterward with FREE FOOD from El Cuscatleco Restaurant! Don't miss this opportunity to engage in a conversation with Hernan on climbing the corporate ladder and learn about his road to success.
Vega joined IBM in 1984 with a BSEE from the University of Puerto Rico, and an MBA and MSIE from the University of Miami.
This special event is brought to you by SHPE (The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) in association with Mi Gente. Contact valerie.tornini@duke.edu for more information.
November 16, 2009 - at UNC-CH: The Latino/a Cultures Speaker Series presents Dr. Nancy Mirabal
6:00 PM, University Room at the Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall, UNC (click link for map)
Dr. Mirabal (San Francisco State University) will be presenting her work in a lecture entitled, "'Echando Pleito': El Club Cubano Inter-Americano and the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Politics and Identity in New York City, 1945 - 1995.”
Free and open to the public. Book signing to follow lecture.
Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.
November 12, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Carolina Latino Collaborative Housewarming
¡Bienvenidos! Featuring the art of Mario Marzan
7:00 pm Thursday, November 12, UNC, Craige North, Room 144
For directions and parking visit: http://clc.unc.edu
Join us for an informal housewarming event for the Carolina Latina/o
Collaborative. Come meet the staff and get to know more about what
goes on! Mario Marzan, featured artist at the CLC this semester, will
briefly speak about his artwork.
6:45 pm Friday, November 13, Kenan Rehearsal Room, Kenan Music Building
on Columbia Street between Franklin and Cameron Ave, Chapel
Hill.
Select campus and community leaders will briefly discuss their efforts
and achievements in the community in order to highlight great work
going on at UNC and in the Triangle. The event will include food,
beverages and live Cuban and salsa music by the Music Department's
Charanga Carolina directed by David García. Doors will open at
6:45pm, the program will start at 7:00, and Charanga Carolina will
perform at 7:30.
November 11, 2009 - NC Latin American Film Festival: Showing at Duke
Saturday, November 14. 7pm. Richard White Auditorium.
Works of Andres Tapia-Urzua include: SPANGLISH, UP, LOVERDOSIS, IRON JOE, MATADERO KARMA.
Andrés will be present to introduce and discuss the films, he is Chilean who was exiled during the Pinochet dictatorship.
For more information visit http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/2009films
November 09, 2009 - NCLAFF: Chevolution Showing at Duke
Monday, November 9, 7pm. Griffith Film Theater. Bryan Center.
NC Latin American Film Festival presents CHEVOLUTION. A cultural history of a photograph. A journey across social and political mobilizations at the light of an iconic image. There will be a discussion immediately following the film!
For more information about the film or the festival visit http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/2009films.
November 06, 2009 - The LoDi Project: November Art Exhibition Opening
Friday November 6, 2009 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm. The LoDi Gallery (Raleigh).
Opening of November exhibition: Architectural Spaces. Click here to read article describing the project.
For more information, visit www.thelodiproject.com.
November 02, 2009 - Celebrate Dia de Los Muertos with El Pueblo
November 2, 2009, 5:00-8:00 PM, outside of the International Foods Market in Raleigh, NC
The celebration will consist of altars created by each one of El
Pueblo's programs including: Public Safety, Health, Youth Leadership and
Advocacy. The organization is inviting everyone to contribute to a
*community altar*, which will be created, by community members who will
bring items or foods to be placed in the altar. Refreshments, including
the traditional "Pan de Muertos" or 'Bread of the Dead" and hot
beverages will be offered to participants. As a family celebration, this
event will also offer activities for children and folkloric dances as well as a program explaining the history and importance of the Day of the Dead and information about the work of the different programs at El Pueblo which promote the importance of preventing premature or unjust
deaths.
Contact El Pueblo or margarita.mcavoy@elpueblo.org for more information.
October 30, 2009 - Marta Gomez in Durham to benefit Safe Passage
Come join in the 2009 Celebration of 10 Years of SAFE PASSAGE, an organization in Guatemala that works with children whose families make a living working in the Guatemala City Garbage Dump.
If you missed Marta Gomez in July at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club, you have got to catch her show in Durham!
6:00 Reception and Wine, 7:30 Concert
Capture two wonderful experiences in one evening – marvelous music for an important cause. If you will not be able to attend, but would like to support the cause, consider buying raffle tickets for the possibility to win a trip for two to Guatemala or a weekend at the Celo Inn in the mountains of NC. Raffle tickets are only $10, cheaper if you buy more. contact Rachel at rachel.mikala.cohn@gmail.com for more information.
October 30, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Visiting Artist Eduardo "Choco" Roca
CHOCO, a specialist in collagraph printmaking, will be working all month at the Department of Art's John Henry Print Studio, producing several collagraph prints. The public is invited to drop in and observe his work in progress during the afternoons from 2-4:30. An exhibition of his work will be in the John and June Allcott Undergraduate Gallery from October 8-19. A special 2-day workshop on collagraph printmaking is scheduled for Friday, October 16 (for plate-making) and Friday, October 30 (for printing) from 9-noon. Participation is limited to 12. Please contact Beth Grabowski (beth.grabowski@unc.edu) to sign up. Questions? Contact Lou Perez (perez@email.unc.edu) or Beatriz Riefkohl (riefkohl@email.unc.edu) or Beth Grabowski (beth.grabowski@unc.edu)
October 28, 2009 - Opening Meeting of the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Working Group
4:00-5:30 PM, Weds. October 28, 225 Friedl, Duke East Campus
Opening Meeting of the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies working group. Group Networking and a Presentation by Deborah Jenson: "Caribbean Studies in an Era of Globalization"
October 21, 2009 - CNN's Soledad O'Brian Presents Latinos in America Report
Wednesday and Thursday, October 21-22, 9:00 PM
"By 2050, the U.S. Latino population is expected to nearly triple. This October, CNN's Soledad O'Brien explores how Latinos are reshaping our communities and culture and forcing a nation of immigrants to rediscover what it means to be an American."
Join Soledad O'Brian as she explores Latinos in American on CNN.
October 17, 2009 - Un Mundo Benefit @ Broad Street Cafe
Promoting dignity, community, and self-sufficiency, Un Mundo facilitates access to health care, education, and livable wages in marginalized Honduran communities.
Join Un Mundo for a night of education, music, art, dance, raffles and fun to support our cause!
DATE: Saturday, October 17, 2009
TIME: 7:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight
LOCATION: Broad Street Cafe, 1116 Broad St, Durham, NC
ENTERTAINMENT: DJ Nogui Aramburo & Performances by Flamenco Carolina! Salsa lessons starting at 7:30!
Tickets are $15 at the door! Sponsorships starting at $150 automatically grant you two tickets to the event and enter you into the raffle for the trip to Bald Head Island, the two Duke basketball tickets and the gift certificate to Watts Grocery. Additionally, your generous contribution will also be recognized at the event.
For more information, to pre-purchase tickets, enter raffles, or be a sponsor go to www.unmundo.org/benefit-at-broad-street.
October 16, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Los Pleneros de la 21 Concert
The Sonya Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History is hosting Los Pleneros de la 21, one of New York's most prominent Afro-Puerto Rican bomba and plena groups, for a free concert.
Friday, October 16, 7:00 PM at Memorial Hall, UNC
Free and open to the public, with a 4 person ticket limit.
For more information please contact the Stone Center at 919-962-9001 or email Ursula Littlejohn at ulittlej@email.unc.edu
October 15, 2009 - El Futuro opens new mental health clinic in Durham
El Futuro hosts an open house to showcase their new clinic facilities on Chapel Hill St in Durham. Come join the staff for a tour of the new clinic and to receive information about outreach and volunteer work!
Click here for directions. Contact Dulce Ramirez (919-688-7101) for more information.
October 15, 2009 - Hispanic Heritage Closing Event with Mi Gente
HHM Closing Dinner, 8 PM, Armadillo Grill
on West Campus
Come and celebrate the end of Hispanic Heritage Month! Thanks for a great few weeks!
October 15, 2009 - De-colonizing Aethesis: A workshop
6:00-9:00 PM, 225 Friedl Building, Duke East Campus.
With the participation of Kency Cornejo (Art History), Camila Maroja (Art History), and Brantley Nicholson (Romance Studies). Light dinner will be served. Contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu for more information.
October 15, 2009 - Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, Heraldo Munoz Reading
5:00-6:30 PM, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke West Campus.
Ambassador Munoz, who was imprisoned and exiled by the Pinochet regime because of his political views, will read from his poignant and wide-ranging memoir, reounding how Chileans brought the former dictator to account for some of his crimes right until his death in 2006.
The event is sponsored by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Archive for Human Rights at Duke University Libraries, the Duke Human Rights Center, and the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
For more information, contact rights@duke.edu
October 09, 2009 - UNC-CH: Globalization, Family, and the State Symposium
9:00 AM-4:30 PM, UNC Ramshead Center
The North Carolina Annual Law Review is holding its annual symposium, entitled Globalization, Famiily, and the State. Students, faculty, and the public are invited to attend. Key note speakers include: Lourdes Beneria, Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University and Kerry Rittich, Associate Professor of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
More information about the symposium as well as registration information can be found by clicking here or contact Jeremy Tart (jtarr@email.unc.edu) or Nora Warren (nowa@email.unc.edu. )
October 08, 2009 - October 11, 2009: Capoeira Workshop and Batizado
Thursday, October 8, 7:00 PM, Common Room of Basset, East Campus
Friday, October 9, 11:40-12:55 PM, Master Class, Ark Dance Studio East Campus; 7:00 PM, Dinner at Sushi/Thai
Saturday, October 10, 1:00-4:00 PM, Workshop at Raleigh Aikikai; Batizado at Wing Chun, 6:00-8:00 PM
Sunday, October 11, 12:00 PM Lunch at Carolina BBQ
For more information contact Fabiano Cunha at fabiano@ralieghcapoeira.com.
October 05, 2009 - 2009 NC Latin American Film Festival Dates Announced
The 2009 NC Latin American Film Festival will be held November 1-22, 2009 in venues across the Triangle area. This fall, themes of selected works revolve around Revolution, with a special focus on Che Guevara and Cuba.
The NC Latin American Film Festival was started 22 years ago to celebrate the power and artistry of Latin America's film and audiovisual production. Its mission is to provide a space in North Carolina for Latin American images, sounds, and stories to reach a wider audience. The Festival provides filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work in a stimulating and community friendly context. The Festival is sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University and is sponsored in part by the Program for Latino/a Studies at Duke. For a sample program and for further information, please see the website.
Questions? Contact Miguel Rojas at rojaszotelo@gmail.com.
October 02, 2009 - October 03, 2009: Latin American Labor History Conference
2009 Latin American Labor History Conference
In First Person: Biography and History in Latin America
229 Carr Building, East Campus
October 2 (4:30-7:00 PM) and October 3 (9:00 AM-6:30 PM)
Sponsored by Dean's Office of Roanoke College, Duke History Department, Duke Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, Duke Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Committee.
For further information, email Vanessa Freije (vanessa.freije@duke.edu).
October 01, 2009 - Cuban Dinner Night on Thursday!
Come to a Cuban Dinner Night this Thursday Oct. 1st at 7 pm in the Mary Lou Williams center (West Union building, next to the Loop; right above the Duke Card Office), sponsored by the Cuban-American Student Association (CASA). LECHON ASADO and PICADILLO are the highlights on the menu (salivating yet?). This dinner will be fun, informal, casual, and relaxed. Come for good food and good company. There is no agenda. Just food. Come meet other Cuban-Americans (and honorary Cuban-Americans) on campus. Bring friends! Need not be Cuban, just generally awesome. RSVP to Alex at acv5@duke.edu so that we know to expect you. Sponsored in part by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
October 01, 2009 - UNC-CH: "Our Latino/a Stories" Panel
4:00-6:00 PM, 101 Greenlaw, UNC
Panel discussion featuring members of the Latino/a student, graduate, and professor community.
Our Latina/o Stories will explore the diversity of Latina/o communities by allowing a panel of Latino/a students, faculty, and staff to share their thoughts and experiences. John Ribo, graduate assistant for the Carolina Latino/a Collaborative, will open the discussion by reflecting on the intersections of Latinidades that have marked his personal and professional life.
For more information contact John Ribo at jribo@email.unc.edu.
September 30, 2009 - Mi Gente General Body Meeting Tonight!
7:00 PM, Coffeehouse, Free food!
Come out to discuss Hispanic Heritage Month! Wear your country's colors (even if your country isn't Hispanic!) and come hang out, eat dinner, and listen to awesome music!
September 30, 2009 - First Duke Students for Humane Borders Meeting Tonight!
8:00 PM Wednesday, September 30, Von der Hayden
Come out tonight to discuss ideas for this year!
September 28, 2009 - Spanish Conversation Hour
6:30-7:30 PM, Duke International House
Are you interested in
speaking the second-most spoken and studied language in the
September 23, 2009 - Hispanic Heritage Month: A Tale of Two Countries, Bolivia and Mexico by Professor Guillermo Trejo
6:00 PM, GG Commons, Few, Duke West Campus
Free food and ice cream
Come celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by attending a lecture given by our own Professor Guillermo Trejo, Department of Political Science, about Latin America's Racial Gap.
September 20, 2009 - Mallarme Chamber Players: Never Too Tango!
Sunday, September 20, 2009, Nelson Music Room, Duke East Campus
Come enjoy a jam session of Argentinian tango with the Mallarme players.
Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 at the door, Students $5
Purchase online or call 919-560-2788 for more information.
September 18, 2009 - Welcome Back Luncheon and Intro to our Postdoc: 12 noon
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University invites all faculty, students, staff, and community members to join us for lunch to meet our faculty, learn more about our certificate program and class offerings, and meet our new Postdoctoral Associate, Dr. Monika Gosin.
Details: Friday, September 18th at 12:00 noon in Friedl 225 (Old Art Museum, East Campus).
Gosin be at Duke all year, and will be teaching an undergraduate course on Latino Hip Hop in the spring semester. She completed her PhD (2009) at the University of California, San Diego in Ethnic Studies, with a dissertation titled, "(Re) Framing the Nation: the Afro-Cuban Challenge to Black and Latino Struggles for American Identity." See this link for more info on Gosin.
Please plan to join us on the 18th! We will begin with introductions, and information sharing around 12:20, and Gosin will give a brief talk about her work following, but the format will be informal. Iif your class schedule overlaps, feel free to come late or leave early as needed.
Contact jennysw@duke.edu for further info or questions.
September 16, 2009 - Omni Zona Franca: marginal/radical art in contemporary Cuba
Wednesday, September 16th,
2009
4 PM, Room 108.
Lucrezia Cippitelli, PhD Universita La Sapienza (Roma) and V
This lecture will address the origins and activities of Omni Zona Franca,
focusing on their use of public spaces and the heritage of the underground
culture of Alamar. For more information, click here.
Presented by: Center for Latin American and
For more information:
September 16, 2009 - Closing Event for Premeditated with Montoya, Hunt, and McKissick
Please join us as we close this show by award winning Chicano artist Malaquias Montoya. In addition to the artist and his agent/spouse, we will host two special guests - Darryl Hunt (exonerated after 19 years in NC correctional facilities) and State Rep. Floyd McKissick (Senate sponsor of the NC Racial Justice Act).
5:00 PM, Fredric Jameson Gallery, 115 Friedl Building, East Campus. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.
More info on Hunt and McKissick: Hunt is a Winston-Salem native who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of newspaper employee Deborah Sykes. He served over 19 years in prison before being exonerated due to DNA evidence.After his release, Hunt started the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice, devoted to "educating the public about flaws in the criminal justice system, advocating for those wrongfully incarcerated as a result of those flaws, and providing resources and support for those trying to rebuild their lives." Rep. Floyd McKissick, Jr., an attorney, was selected in 2007 to serve out the term of the late Jeanne Hopkins Lucas in the North Carolina Senate. The son of the late civil rights activist Floyd McKissick, the senator is a cosponsor of the Racial Justice Act, signed into law by Gov. Beverly Purdue in August 2009. The RJA makes it possible for individuals sentenced to death to introduce statistical evidence establishing racial bias as part of their defense and appeals.
The event is sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center, the NC Coalition for a Moratorium, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, The Innocence Project at Duke Law School, the Duke Chapter of Amnesty International.
For more information on this event, contact rights@duke.edu. For more information on the exhibit and artist, see the full listing under News and/or contact jennysw@duke.edu.
September 15, 2009 - Roundtable Discussion with The Sea is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros
Roundtable discussion organized in conjunction with
The Sea Is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:00 PM
(reception to follow at 5:30 PM), Perkins Library Biddle Rare Books Room, Duke West Campus.
The roundtable will feature Professor Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico, and Cheryl Little, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.
The Sea of History exhibit will stay open in the Perkins Gallery until October 4, 2009. The exhibit is cosponsered by Duke Atlantic Studies, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, Departments of African and Africa-American Studies, Romance Studies, Women's Studies, Duke in the Andes, Office of the Vice-Provost of International Affairs, Program of Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
September 12, 2009 - Caminata por los derechos humanos/Walk for Human Rights
3-6 PM, Saturday, September 12
The walk starts at the Carroboro Farmer' Market, and will wend its way through downtown Carrboro. Nonprofits and signs for nonprofits are welcome, and all the friends of nonprofits are all welcome. This is sponsored by the
Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill & Carrboro (Abbey Court, Carrboro). Please see website for more details: www.humanrightscities.org
For more information, contact Judith Blau at judith_blau@unc.edu.
September 09, 2009 - UNC-CH, Professor Jaqueline Hagan will present Myths and Realities about Migration: Perspectives from Below
September 9th, 6:00 PM
Global Education Center, Room 4003
Professor Hagan joined the Department of Sociology in 2005 after 15 years on the faculty in Sociology and co-directing the Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, she moved to Houston and focused her research on the implications of international migration from Latin America. She has done fieldwork in migrant receiving communities in the United States and their sending counterparts in Mexico and Central America. She is author of Deciding to
be Legal (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994) and Migration Miracle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). She has been an on-going collaborator in a study of deaths of undocumented migrants during their journey to the United States. She has written extensively on the effects of recent U.S. immigration reform initiatives on the rights and opportunities of immigrants and their families in the United States. Hagan regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international migration with a focus on the implications of Latin American migration to the United States. She is currently launching a bi-national study on migration between Mexico and North Carolina. Hagan has edited several volumes on migration and immigrant incorporation in the United States and Europe. Some of her most recent publications include "Border Blunders: The Unanticipated Human and Economic Costs of the U.S. Approach to Immigration Control, 1986-2007,"Criminology and Public Policy (2008); "U. S. Deportation Policy, Family Separation, and Circular Migration," International Migration Review (2008); "Negotiating
Social Membership in the Contemporary World," Social Forces (2006); and "Making Theological Sense of the Migration Journey from Latin America: Catholic, Protestant and Interfaith Perspectives," American Behavioral Scientist (2006).
September 01, 2009 - Personal Effects from the Border: Exhibit at UNC-CH
Longing: Personal Effects from the Border with Susan Harbage Page (UNC Department of Art). 3:30 p.m. | Dey Hall | Toy Lounge
Susan Harbage Page will talk about her photographic exploration of the
possessions left behind by individuals trying to crossover into the
Southland along the Texas border. Often immigrants are stopped by the police or border guards and are asked to empty their pockets of
everything non-essential. This causes them to leave behind toothbrushes,
photographs, extra clothing, combs and other personal items. These are
symbols not only of culture, but also of home, that are left behind as
they pass into the American South. Page spent weeks walking, bicycling,
canoeing and photographing the Texas border with the majority of time
spent near Brownsville in Cameron and Hildalgo Counties, two of the
poorest counties in the United States.
Presented by the Diversity Education Team, with assistance from the
Carolina Women’s Center. For more information contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at (919) 962-6962 or email newsom@email.unc.edu
August 30, 2009 - September 3, 2009: International Workers Tour, Duke and UNC
You are invited to attend the International Workers Tour, with three events from August 30-September 3, 2009 at Duke and UNC.
STITCH Womens' Tour, August 30, 2009, 4-6 PM, UNC, Student Union Room 3205
Fair Food Across Borders Fall Tour, September 2, 2009, 6-8 PM, UNC, Global Ed Center Room 4003 AND September 3, 2009 7-8:30 PM,Duke, Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Sponsors: Archive for Human Rights at Duke University Libraries, The Center for Documentary Studies @ Duke University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies @ Duke, Duke Human Rights Center, Duke Latin@ Studies, Student Action with Farmworkers.
August 29, 2009 - and Aug 30: La Fiesta del Pueblo - 16th year celebration in Raleigh
Hosted by El Pueblo Inc for the 16th year running, La Fiesta del Pueblo 2009 celebrates Family, Culture and Community this August 29-30 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, NC.
La Fiesta celebrates and showcases not only popular music and artists, but also cultural art exhibits, traditional dance performances; folk musicians; it also provides crafts people with an opportunity to exhibit their work and talent. children’s patio activities, including crafts, balloons, face-painting, inflatable rides, clowns and puppets. Foods from Central and South America as well as the Caribbean can be sampled at the Food Court, it offers cuisines as diverse as pupusas, paletas, churros, tortillas, tacos al carbón, empanadas and much more.
La Fiesta del Pueblo, celebrates its 16th anniversary a remarkable milestone for a humble Latino festival that began in the athletic fields of a local high school as an answer to the community calling for a space in which one could share information and Latino culture among the Latin American community and its supporters. The small festival has become much more, integrating every aspect of El Pueblo’s work into the two days, including a health fair which offers free vaccines, dental and vision screenings, blood pressure and glucose tests; a public safety fair; information and educational resources from the more than 230 organizations that offer their materials to participants. Information and resources are shared by non profit organizations that use the event as a way to kick-off initiatives and/or unveil new programs and information on a variety of community services. Voter registration has also become a staple of the event.
This environment provides not only non-Latinos the chance to learn about the varied cultural heritage of Latinos in the United States, but also Latinos themselves have the opportunity to appreciate and celebrate their own achievements as a burgeoning community in North Carolina.
For more information, please call 919-835-1518 or visit our web-site at: www.elpueblo.org
Through August 28: The Sea is History Exhibit at Franklin Center
An Exhibition on Human Dispersion & the Caribbean Sea
Curated by Holly Ackerman, PhD, Librarian for Latin America & Iberia and 2008-09 Library Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar, Alternative Political Imaginaries
John Hope Franklin Center for International & Interdisciplinary Studies, First Floor Gallery
April 16 (symposium and opening reception) through August 28. 2009
August 22, 2009 - Durham Latino Festival
Organized by the City of Durham and Durham Parks and Recreation, the Latino Festival will be held Saturday
August 22, 2009
3PM to 8PM
701 Stadium Drive, Durham Rock Quarry Park
Come enjoy music, children's activities, food, arts and crafts, health information, and a multicultural booth.
For more info, contact Rosalie Bocelli or Alberto Carrasquillo at 919-560-4355.
April 25, 2009 - Celebration of the music of Brazilian composer and Mellon Visiting Artist in Residence, Sergio Roberto de Oliveira.
7:00 pm in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Duke East Campus
Celebration of the music of Brazilian composer and Mellon Visiting Artist in Residence, Sergio Roberto de Oliveira.
Featuring performances by: Ciompi Quartet, Jane Hawkins, Susan Fancher, Tom Moore. Including pieces commissioned by these musicians and composed by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira while in residence at Duke. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Contact las@duke.edu for more info.
April 22, 2009 - Filin y Rabia: Outsized Feelings and Yearnings without End
The UNC Latina/o Culture(s) Speakers Series presents: "Filin y Rabia: Outsized Feelings and Yearnings without End" by Oliver Mayer
6:00 pm at Gerrard Hall - located on East Cameron Avenue between Memorial Hall and South Building, near the Old Well and the Campus Y. Oliver Mayer is the author of over twenty plays, including the recent smash hit Dias y Flores, Laws of Sympathy, Conjunto, Young Valiant, Joe Luis Blues, and Blade to the Heat. The Hurt Business: a Critical Portfolio of the Early Works of Oliver Mayer, Plus is published by Hyperbole Books. Oliver Mayer: Collected Plays is published by NoPassport Press. Mayer wrote the libretto for the opera America Tropical composed by David Conte. He is currently writing films about Latina/o icons Adan Sanchez and Carlos Gardel. Mayer is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Writing at the USC School of Theatre.
Sponsored by the Teatro Latino Series, the Carolina Performing Arts New Play Development Series, and the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies.
For more information, please contact Ashley Lucas at lucasa@email.unc.edu.
April 22, 2009 - Triangle Labor and Civil Rights Working Group (LCRWG) Final Meeting
*"Crossing Boundaries: Latino/a Workers from the Border to Local Politics"* will take place on Wednesday, April 22, at 6:30pm at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (The Love House, 410 E. Franklin Street).
The program includes the following:
~*Susan Harbage Page* will speak briefly on her work, which explores the complex topic of border through photography. In 2007 and 2008 she walked the border near Brownsville, TX, photographing and collecting personal effects abandoned by illegal immigrants crossing the US-Mexican border.
~Then we will watch *"Los Trabajadores / The Workers"* (48 minutes), winner of the International Documentary Association's David L. Wolper Student Achievement Award. Through the stories of two men, Ramon and Juan, and through the controversy surrounding the relocation of a day labor site from downtown to a residential neighborhood, the film by Heather Courtney examines the misperceptions and contradictions inherent in America's paradoxical history of both dependence on and abuse of immigrant labor.
Please RSVP for the talk and film screening by emailing mk63@duke.edu .
Currently concluding its third year, the LCRWG seeks to foster greater dialogue between activists and scholars on issues related to civil rightsand labor in the Triangle and beyond. Past events have included film screenings, discussions of pre-circulated papers, multimedia presentations, and performances on topics as diverse as prison labor in North Carolina, the legacy of school desegregation, environmental racism, and labor organizing.
*Save the date for a special presentation on the just-concluded, successful strike at Moncure Plywood on Wednesday, April 29, at 6:30PM, at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.
April 16, 2009 - Sympsium and Opening Reception: The Sea is History
Symposium: 2:00 - 5:30, followed by Opening Reception: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
An Exhibition on Human Dispersion & the Caribbean Sea
Curated by Holly Ackerman, PhD, Librarian for Latin America & Iberia and 2008-09 Library Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar, Alternative Political Imaginaries John Hope Franklin Center for International & Interdisciplinary Studies
First Floor Gallery. Contact las@duke.edu for full information, and the symposium schedule.
Exhbitit runs April 16 through August 28. 2009
April 15, 2009 - The Other Network: The Havana Biennale & the Global South (1984-2009)
12:00 - 1:00 pm in Room 240 Franklin Center
Presentation by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo PhD, Visiting Scholar at CLACS.
Part of the Wednesdays at the Center Series, lunch will be provided.
Since 1984, the Havana Biennale has been known as "the Tri-continental art event," presenting artists from America (Latin, Latino/a, and Caribbean), Africa, and Asia. The presentation proposes that at the heart of the Biennal has been an alternative cosmopolitan modernism (that we might call "contemporary" or "post-colonial") that was envisaged by a group of local cultural agents, critics, philosophers, art historians, and also supported by a network of peers around the world. Using the Havana Biennale as a case study, this work goes to disentangle and reveal the socio-political and intellectual debates taking place in the conformation of what is called today global art. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Contact las@duke.edu for more info.
April 14, 2009 - April 17, 2009 Monuments and Memories: Race and History
All events are free and open to the public. Free parking (Science Dr. lot (across from Fuqua) on Thursday and Friday) RSVP: rnrei@duke.edu The theme of the conference will center on memorializations and the construction of historical memory with respect to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the practice of slavery across the Americas, emancipation, Reconstruction, the Lost Cause and other white supremacy movements in the Jim Crow period, the Civil Rights and the Black Power movements, and the momentum towards a new era of "transracial" politics.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 7:30pm Author Sofia Quintero on readings from her novel "Burn" at the Mary Lou Williams Center, Duke University
Please note: Traces of the Trade canceled for Wednesday April 15, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:15 - 5:30 pm Conference Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Rhodes Conference Room, Duke University 7:30pm Film "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property" with discussant Peter Wood
Friday, April 17, 2008 Conference 9:30 - 5:00 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Rhodes Conference Room, Duke University 7:30pm An Evening with Author: John Edgar Wideman; Respondent Jay Garcia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (RNREI) is a program of Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. The conference will be conducted with collaborative support from the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke and the Institute for Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
April 13, 2009 - TOWARD THE COMMUNAL: A WORKSHOP WITH YAMILA GUTIERREZ
Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Working Group, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American Studies invite you to a workshop with Yamila Gutierrez Callisaya, Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qullasuyu (CONAMAQ), La Paz, Bolivia on TOWARD THE COMMUNAL (THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BOLIVIAN STATE AND A THE DECOLONIAL RE-CONSTITUTION OF THE AYLLUS)
The workshop will be conducted in Spanish and coordinated by Marcelo Fernández-Osco (Department of Romance Studies, co-founder of THOA, Taller Historia Oral Andina)
Monday, April 13, 2009; 5:45-8:00 pm
Friedl Building 225A (East Campus, right by the bus stop; parking available at the entrance on Buchanan and Trinity)
Light dinner will be served. Noam Chomsky describes Bolivia as the most democratic country on earth at this point. Yamila Gutierrez will describe the crucial role that the re-constitution of the Ayllus is playing in this process and the role of the Ayllus in redoing political theory and political economy (e.g., the re-conceptualization of “the communal”), working toward de-colonial democratic futures. We are allowing ample time for debate and exchange of ideas. For more information about CONAMAQ see http://www.conamaq.org.bo/
April 10, 2009 - Sabrosura Dance Group's Quantum of Salsa 2009
Sabrosura's Showcase is finally here! Sabrosura is Duke University's Premier Latin Dance Group. Sabrosura would like to invite you to a fun night of salsa, cha cha, merengue, flamenco and bachata, with a James Bond flair! The show is Friday, April 10th at 7:00pm in Page Auditorium. Tickets are free! Come get yours at the plaza, during the week of April 6-10th, from 11am-3pm. If you don't get a chance to pick one up, we will have tickets at the door too! Don't miss the after party at Siren's Lounge, 1803 W Markham Ave, 11pm-2am, $2 at the door.
April 10, 2009 - Sabrosura: Quantum of Salsa!
Sabrosura, Duke's Latin Dance Group, is proud to announce our annual showcase - "Sabrosura: Quantum of Salsa!". Now in it's sixth year, our show will be covering an array of dance styles from salsa to merengue, flamenco to samba, bachata to polka and much more!
Friday, April 10, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00pm; Page Auditorium
Pick up your FREE tickets on the plaza all week! See guest performances by the Pitchforks, Stop Motion, and other groups!! To fulfill your need to latin dance after the show, join us at the AFTERPARTY at Siren's behind East campus! Join us for a night of hot latin dancing, salsa, merengue and bachata! There will be a reduced $3 cover and awesome drink specials; beer, shots, mojitos and other latin cocktails! Facebook Event
April 07, 2009 - Elizabeth Boone to speak on Aztec Pictography
Duke Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies presents
The Afterlife of Aztec Pictography: The European Genres, a talk by Elizabeth Boone
Professor of Art History, Tulane University
April 7, 2009 5:00 pm
108 East Duke Building
East Campus, Duke University
April 07, 2009 - "Colonial Afterlives: Science, Reproduction and Sex in Puerto Rico" A lecture by Lazaro Lima
Tuesday April 7, 5:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lazaro Lima, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latina/o Studies and Head of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Bryn Mawr College specializes in Latina/o literary and visual studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, critical race theory, and African American and Latina/o relations. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory (New York University Press, 2007) and co-editor, with Violet Quill co-founder Felice Picano, of a forthcoming anthology of LGBTQ Latina/o narrative. His current book project, Boricua Insurgencies: Puerto Rico, Colonial Nationalism, and Counterhegemony, studies the clandestine contraceptive pill trials conducted in Puerto Rico during the 1950s and its relation to the discourse of U.S. empire building in the Americas and first-world feminisms.
April 06, 2009 - The Invisible Population
Main West Quad, Duke University Monday, April 6, 2009 2pm-7pm An art installation presented by Duke Students for Humane Borders in conjunction with Farmworker Awareness Week. The Invisible Population display seeks to promote dialogue among the Duke Community on issues of undocumented labor in the United States. For hundreds of years the United States has depended on the work of migrant Latinos but it was not until the 1940’s through the Bracero Program that this relationship was fully recognized. Today, legal guestworkers as well as undocumented migrants serve as the chief source of unskilled labor in the United States. Our economy depends on cheap labor to keep prices low in manufacturing, hospitality, agricultural, construction, and meatpacking industries. Millions of Americans owe their daily comforts to the labor of the undocumented worker, often unknowingly. It is time for United States citizens to recognize the significance of this seemingly invisible population. For more information about National Farmworker Awareness Week, visit www.farmworkerawareness.org
April 06, 2009 - "Why Democracy?" series documentary double-feature (including "Looking for the Revolution" from Bolivia)
(Kim Finn, 2007, 60 min,
Richard White auditorium on East Campus at 9:00 PM
Che Guevara died in Southern Bolivia while trying to ignite the sparks of revolution throughout South America . His death at the hands of Bolivian Rangers trained and financed by the US Government, marked the beginning of the cocaine era in Bolivia . Forty years later and under pressure from the masses who gave him a clear mandate, the first indigenous President Evo Morales (an ex-coca leaf farmer) is promising to continue the revolution. He has nationalised the oil industry and passed laws on Agrarian reform. Despite the revolutionary-sounding election speeches and campaign iconography that accompanied his landslide victory, on closer inspection it emerges that the old system is pretty much alive inside the new one. Corruption, nepotism and old-fashioned populism are at the core of this movement. The more Morales does to create employment, the more the landowners conspire against him and paralyse Bolivia 's economy. As a result, no jobs are created and the pressure from the poor increases. The cycle of tension threatens to crush both the country and the indigenous revolution.Looking for the Revolution is about the dynamics of that tension as witnessed by the characters of the film - the struggle for power between landowners and the indigenous movement, and the continuation of a revolution Morales-style, started so long ago. Sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program and the Duke University Libraries' Lilly Library.
April 05, 2009 - The Virgin Appears in La Maldita Vecindad at CHICLE (Ch-Hill)
CHICLE: This Sunday, April 5 from 5 to 6:30 pm. Documentary Film and Discussion: The Virgin Appears in La Maldita Vecindad: A Film by Elva E. Bishop, Altha J. Cravey, and Javier Garcia Mendez
Our documentary brings together several distinct celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe in
CHICLE --
April 03, 2009 - 2009 AAAS Conversation: Locating Global Health
Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE and Michael H. Merson, Director, Global Health Institute and Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Duke University. Moderated by Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law.
NOTE TIME IS AT 6:30PM, White Lecture Hall
Sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS).
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs. Latin American and Caribbean Studies and with support from the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
March 30, 2009 - Discussion on Minority Recruitment Weekends
On Monday, March 30th from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm in the Gothic Reading Room (near Perkins library, above Special Collections and the Rare Book Room), The Center for Race Relations is hosting a discussion on the pros and cons of minority recruitment weekends at Duke. We seek to have a meaningful exchange of
ideas about whether or not minority recruitment weekends should be
changed in order to better portray Duke to prospective freshmen. More
importantly, how can Duke best present itself to prospective freshmen,
specifically prospective minority freshmen?
Ideally, the discussion will represent all views and
perspectives. The purpose of this dialogue is to create a safe space
in which all members of the Duke community can come together to
discuss these issues.
You can find more information on the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=60159574014&ref=mf
If you have any questions about how this
dialogue will be formatted/moderated or any other concerns that should be
addressed, please feel welcome to email (jessica.t.so@gmail.com).
March 30, 2009 - Race & Ethnicity Workshop: with Prof Mary Romero
Hello Faculty & Students, The next Race and Ethnicity Workshop is Monday, March 30 and is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Graduate Student Association. We are delighted and very fortunate to have Dr. Mary Romero from Arizona State University join us. Professor Romero will be presenting a talk entitled "Go After the Women": Mothers Against Illegal Aliens' (MAIA) Campaign Against Mexican Immigrant Women and their Children. You can view her CV here: http://www.public.asu.edu/~romerom/pdf/vita.pdf . As always, the workshop meets Monday from 1-2:30pm in Soc/Psych 331 (Duke University West Campus). We hope to see you there! Please direct any inquiries to rose.buckelew@duke.edu .
March 29, 2009 - CAREER PANEL FOR CURRENT DUKE STUDENTS
On Sunday, March 29th at 11:00 am, the Duke University Latino Alumni Assoication will host a career panel in the Multicultural Center. For more information, contact Alicia at mao1@duke.edu
March 28, 2009 - MEZCLA!
The name says
it all! Enjoy the wonderful 'mixture' of some of our brightest performing
arts and cultural groups on campus in this annual showcase hosted by Mi Gente. The event will be held from 8:00 pm -10:00 pm in Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus. Afterward join the 11:00 pm - 2:00 am. MEZCLA After-Party. Devil's Den on Central Campus. See links for maps. In order to get to Devil's Den, take a campus bus to Central Campus and get off at the Alexander bus stop.
March 27, 2009 - LSRW: Faculty Student Interaction
Prospective Students, Faculty/Staff, and current Duke Undergrads are invited on Friday, March 27th from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm to a Faculty/Student Interaction Reception. The reception will be held in Scharf Hall. In order to get to Scharf Hall, the building perpendicular to Cameron, just walk in front of Cameron and Mi Gente council members will direct you to the location. If you have any questions, pleas contact Deshira Wallace at ddw10@duke.edu. The event is co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
March 27, 2009 - Latino Alumni Association (DULAA) Reception
Duke University Latino Alumni Association (DULAA) will hold an evening reception for alumni on Friday, March 27, from 6-7:30pm in the Fredric Jameson Gallery (115 Friedl, East Campus).
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
Please contact Alicia mao1@duke.edu for more info.
March 27, 2009 - Noche Dorada with LUL La Unidad Latina Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc,
LUL, La Unidad Latina Lambda, Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc, hosts its 11th Annual Rho Chapter Noche Dorada on Friday, March 27th at 7pm. As an integral part of a successful annual Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. is throwing its annual Noche Dorada. The night will consist of dinner, dancing, and an influential keynote speaker to address the guests on Latino issues.
Noche Dorada is a nationally recognized event for La Unidad Latina that celebrates the founding principles of the organization to promote education among Latino students both in higher education and in the community at large. This cornerstone event represents La Unidad Latina and Duke University's celebration of the success of Latinos and other minority groups enrolled in institutions of higher education. Limited tickets available: see more at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=65361024837.
March 27, 2009 - Duke Univ Latino Alumni Association Lunch Panel
Friday, March 27th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, come listen to members of the Duke University Latino Alumni
Association share about their experiences at Duke University and how Duke
helped shape their personal and career goals. The panel will be held at Schiciano Auditorium,
Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine, and Applied
Sciences and will be followed by
lunch. For ugrad students to network with these incredible alumni now!
March 25, 2009 - Immigrants Raising Citizens: The second generation's first years of life, featuring Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Please join us for the Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture featuring Hirokazu Yoshikawa on March 25. Seating is limited, so please RSVP by March 18. The event will be held in the Rhodes Conference Room at the Terry Sanford Institute, 201 Science Drive, Duke University West Campus. Yoshikawa is a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This event is free and open to the public.
March 24, 2009 - Beyond Dreaming in Cuban: A Reading with Cristina Garcia (UNC-CH)
The UNC Latina/o Culture Speakers Series presents :
"Beyond Dreaming in Cuban: A Reading with Cristina Garcia"
followed by a Q&A and book-signing on
Tuesday, March 24th at 6pm
at the Stone Center Theater on UNC-CH. The event is free and open to the public.
Cristina Garcia (Havana, Cuba, 1958) is the author of four novels: Dreaming in Cuban (1992, finalist for the National Book Award), The Aguero Sisters (1997), Monkey Hunting (2003), and A Handbook to Luck (2007). A book of poetry, The Lesser Tragedy of Death, is forthcoming in 2010. Garcia has also authored books for young readers and edited anthologies. She is currently the artistic director for the Centrum Writers Exchange in Port Townsend, Washington, and teaches at Mills College. She will be reading selections from A Handbook to Luck and her new novel, The Lady Matador's Hotel (forthcoming 2010).
For campus directions click here. This event is Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, the Carolina Women's Center and the Program in Creative Writing.
March 22, 2009 - Talk and display - HIS ART by local artist Cornelio Campos
Sunday, March 22, 2009, 5:00-6:30 at CHICLE,
Talk and display - HIS ART by local artist Cornelio Campos About the Artist: Cornelio Campos has worked and lived in his native Mexico, in California, and now lives in Durham, NC. He is an electrician by trade and the founder of Los Viejitos, a dance group from his native Mexico. His paintings include expressive narratives of his beloved home town of Cheran, in the state of Michoacan in Central Mexico, and of his immigrant experiences in the US. He has drawn since he was a young child, and began to paint at the age of 10. He attended art classes in Cheran, taught by Panfilo Macias, and CREA Summer School in Guadalajara,Jalisco. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has recently purchased one of his paintings and it may be seen at the Campus YMCA.
Artist's Statement: "My paintings are inspired by the nostalgia I have for my home town of Cheran, Mexico, my family, and the customs I grew up with. I also see my paintings as a tool for sharing my indigenous background, and for offering a teaching lesson to people here in the United States. I currently do two types of art; one which is folkloric, and the other would be considered political. In these pieces I address the issues faced by people from Central and South America - the lingering cultural significance of Spanish colonization, and the experience of creating a life in a new country. I would describe this work as narrative - a free expression of what I think about - a way to respond to what is happening in society in general, and the status of immigrants in the US." - Cornelio Campos
Please call us at (919) 933-0398 if you want more information. You can also e-mail us, chicle@chi-cle.com
March 20, 2009 - March 21, 2009 - STILL TWO NATIONS? The Resilience of the Color Line
A conference honoring John Hope Franklin, March 20 - 21, 2009 in the Goodson Chapel, Duke University, Durham North Carolina REGISTER NOW! http://events.duke.edu/twonations Forty years after the Kerner Report , America still remains in many important ways "two societies, one black, one white separate and unequal." But many things have changed. Today, for example, Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States and their proportion of the population is likely to increase even more in the near future. Also, our current immigration debate seems remarkably similar to that many other Western countries have had in recent years. We believe it is time to asses where we are at in terms of our "race problem" in the United States and globally. It is also time to examine the changes that have transpired in the United States and elsewhere and forecast what our racial future might be. This conference honors the work of Dr. John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, whose labor as a historian, commentator, and astute observer of racial matters has inspired many to follow closely the strange career and transformations of the color line. In sessions on topics such as race and health, the new race politics, and racial prejudice in the modern world, conference panelists will address the theme Still Two Nations? The Resilience of the Color Line. Panelists include Lawrence Bobo, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, William "Sandy" Darity, Vincent Hutchings, Michael Jones-Correa, Melissa Nobles, Thomas Pettigrew, John Solomos, and Bonnie Thorton-Dill. [more]
March 17, 2009 - Guarda and Sibila "Interpreters and Parrots: What Do Doctors and Latina/o Patients Want in Healthcare Settings?" at UNC-CH
The UNC Latina/o Studies Working Group presents a free talk, open to the public: Interpreters and Parrots: What Do Doctors and Latina/o Patients Want in Healthcare Settings?Sonia Guarda and Claudia Sibila Tuesday, March 17th 5:30 University Room, Hyde Hall Institute for the Arts & Humanities
Sonia Guarda was an interpreter at UNC Hospitals for five years. The majority of her work has been with mothers and their newborn infants as approximately one-third of the births at UNC Hospitals are born to Spanish speaking women. Currently she is working as a research associate at the Frank Porter Graham Center for Child Development Institute at UNC, investigating the feasibility of using a newly developed screening tool for Fragile X Syndrome. Sonia was born in Santiago, Chile and came to the United States when she received a scholarship to attend the University of Washington. Claudia Sibila has interpreted at UNC Hospitals for the past 8 years. Currently, she is one of the Lead Interpreters. Among her responsibilities is the selection and training of new staff interpreters. She has helped to design the current standards for interpreters at the Hospital and has taken the Interpreter Training offered by the North Carolina Office of Minority Health. Claudia is trained in law and is a native of Venezuela.
Sponsored by The UNC-CH Program in Latina/o Studies Further readings below and in the attachments: "Impact of Interpreters' Approach on Latinas' Use of Amniocentesis" For more information about The Program in Latina/o Studies at UNC Chapel Hill please visit our websites: Carolina Hub for Latina/o Studies and Resources, Latina/o Culture(s) Speakers Series, Latina/o Studies Film Database, Latina/o Studies Working Group
March 16, 2009 - Somos Latinos/as: a discussion session for exploring Latina/o experience on Duke's campus
Duke CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services) recognize that there are some unique strengths and challenges facing the Latino and Latina students at Duke. They want to hear from you on the various issues that inform the Latina/o experience on campus. On March 16, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm in 217 Page Building, CAPS would like to hear from you. Refreshments will be served.
March 13, 2009 - March 14, 2009- 14th Annual Latino Issues Forum
El Pueblo, Inc., in collaboration with the Latin American Coalition, will host the 14th Latino Issues Forum in Charlotte, NC entitled "Where do we go from here?" North Carolina is home to more than 600,000 Latinos and they are a significant and growing presence in our school systems and the workforce at-large participating in the broader fabric of North Carolina's economic and social life. The objectives of this conference include strengthen Latino leadership capacity, identifying individuals who can make a change for Latinos in North Carolina, connecting community leaders with the best national, state and local resources available, increasing civic participation across the state, share up-to-date information on issues relevant to Latino residents, and enlightening the citizenry on positive contributions Latinos are making in North Carolina. Workshops will be held on Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Health Program & Policy Updates, Organizational Development, and Public Saftey. For more information about El Pueblo, the Latino Issues Forum, and to register, please contact El Pueblo staff at 919-835-1525 or visit El Pueblo's website at www.elpueblo.org.
March 04, 2009 - Montoya's, "PreMeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment"
(Please see full list of co-sponsors below.)
The opening reception will begin at 5:00pm, with a gallery talk by the artist, Malaquias Montoya, at 6:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Parking will be available on the East Campus Quad. See map at http://latino.aas.duke.edu/about/contact.php.
The exhibit will be on display from the reception through April 17th and from mid-May through Mid-September. Hours from March 5 through April 17th are 10am - 5pm. Summer and fall hours to be determined - please check back on our website after April for those hours.
Montoya is a leading figure in the West Coast political Chicano graphic arts movement, a political and socially conscious movement that expresses itself primarily through the mass production of silk-screened posters. Montoya's works include acrylic paintings, murals, washes, and drawings, but he is primarily known for his silkscreen prints, which have been exhibited nationally as well as internationally. This exhibition features silkscreen images and paintings, and related text panels dealing with the death penalty and penal institutions-- inspired by the escalation of deaths at the hands of the State of
Since 1989 Montoya has been a professor at the
This exhibit is presented by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University and is co-sponsored by: the UNC Chapel Hill Program in Latina/o Studies and the following Duke University units: Duke Human Rights Center; the Spanish Service Learning Program; the Program in Literature; the Departments of Cultural Anthropology, African & African American Studies, and History; the Archive for Human Rights and Duke University Libraries; the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Institute for Critical US Studies; and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Contact jennysw@duke.edu for more information.
March 04, 2009 - Wednesdays at the Center Series
The John Hope Franklin Center and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute present in a "The Life of the Undead: Biopower, Latino Anxiety, and the Epidemiological Paradox" by Antonio Viego Associate Professor of Literature and Director of Latino/a Studies as part of their Wednesdays at the Center Series. The event will be held from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, in Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center. This talk is based on a chapter from Viego's second book project, The Wages of Latino Mental and Physcial Health: Living and Dying on One's Own Time. The book studies the dense interconnections between capitalism, biopower, psychoanalysis, psychology, and theories of Latino/a health and disease in the context of the ubiquitous claim heard nowadays regarding the inevitable Latinization of the United States.The series is free and open to the public and a light lunch will be served. This event is presented with the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
March 03, 2009 - Reclaiming the Commons: Alternatives to Education at the Grassroots
The Duke Multicultural Center presents a lunchtime talk by Gustavo Esteva, "Reclaiming the Commons: Alternatives to Education at the Grassroots" at noon (12pm) in the Multicultural Center (Bryan Center, Lower level). Esteva is a prominent Mexican writer and social activist, author of 30 books and numerous articles. A strong voice for indigenous people, campesinos, and urban migrants, the core of Esteva’s thought is a challenge to the validity of social systems that subordinate traditional community values and institutions to the priorities of the global marketplace. In this talk, Gustavo aims to answer questions such as: What are the aims of education in the context of the neoliberal global economy? To what extent does multicultural education succeed or go awry in promoting a plurality of cultures and supporting community life? Where do the concepts of place, commons, and community fit in education? What role does education play in “development?”
This event is sponsored in part by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
March 03, 2009 - Ana Celia Zentella talk: "Transfronterizo Talk: Policentric Identities and Conflicting Constructions of Bilingualism along the Tijuana-San Diego Border" (UNC-CH)
Ana Celia Zentella, anthro-political linguist and Professor Emerita in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will give a presentation, free and open to everyone, entitled "Transfronterizo Talk: Policentric Identities and Conflicting Constructions of Bilingualism along the Tijuana-San Diego Border." The talk will start at 6 PM in the University Room of Hyde Hall (click for map), Institute for the Arts & Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill campus. A Q & A and a book-signing will follow the presentation. For more information see the link to a map, the biography and poster below or contact Dr. DeGuzman at deguzman@email.unc.edu or Ashley Lucas at lucasa@email.unc.edu.
February 27, 2009 - February 28, 2009- States of Captivity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Incarceration, Rendition, and Detention
The Duke University Cultural Anthropology Department and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology have collaborated in planning this conference, which invites participants to reflect on the overlaps among the prison, military, and immigration industries in North Carolina and elsewhere. It is becoming harder to ignore the social crises caused by logics and practices of containment. Incarceration rates in the U.S. have grown since the 1980s, while prisons have become increasingly industrialized and central to economies at every scale. The intensification and militarization of border security is accompanied by a proliferation of government, contracted, and vigilante police forces that seek to capture, detain, and deport undocumented people. Finally, the outsourcing of detention centers to far-flung corners of the globe and the uncharted itineraries of "ghost planes" that carry out extraordinary rendition have made raising awareness of detainee abuse and torture exceedingly difficult. This conference seeks engagement with perspectives from scholarship and praxis, in order to contest and connect practices of incarceration, rendition, and detention today.
See http://statesofcaptivity.wordpress.com/ for full information. Co-sponsored in part by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
February 27, 2009 - Duke History Dept presents Beyond Borders: Mapping Shifting Terrains
The Duke History department is pleased to invite you to a graduate student/faculty workshop, Beyond Borders: Mapping Shifting Terrains. This panel will take place on Friday, February 27th from 4pm to 6pm at 229 Carr Building. The following panelists will be speaking:
Jocelyn Olcott, "They Wouldn't Give Me a Name: Identification and Representation at the 1975 UN International Women's Year Conference, Mexico City."
Philip Stern, "Companies, Corporations, and Commonwealths, or Just Who Does the Business of Empire in the Early Modern World Anyway?"
Abby Goldman, "Toward the Free Movement of People: Emanuel Celler, Humanitarianism, and the Origins of the Immigration Act of 1965"
Daniel Bessner, "You Never Know What You Can Get Away With until You Try': Defining the Shifting Boundaries of the American Civil-Military Gap"
A wine and cheese reception will follow. All are welcome. We hope that you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating conversation. Contact erin.parish@duke.edu for more info.
February 23, 2009 - "A Town was torn apart: How Punitive should the US Immigration Policy be?" Immigration talk by Professor Altha Cravey
Immigration policy talk by UNC Professor Altha Cravey
entitled "A Town was torn apart: How Punitive should the US Immigration Policy be?"
Monday, February 23, 8pm to 9 pm
in the Marketplace Upper East Side, East Campus, Duke University. In May 2008, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted its
biggest raid in Postville, Iowa. Approximately 400 out of 2000 people in the
town were arrested while many others fled. The town was torn apart.
Professor Altha Cravey of UNC's Geography department will lead a discussion
on the current US Immigration policy following a video presentation on
Postville. She is both professionally and personally involved in immigration
issues in North Carolina and in Mexico. Please contact Nathalie Pimentel for more information.
February 19, 2009 - Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously (UNC-CH)
Tamara Underiner, Director, Ph.D. Program in Theatre of the Americas at Arizona State University will be presenting "Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously" on Thursday, February 19, 2009 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. The event will be held on the 4th Floor of the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This event is sponsored by: Curriculum in International and Area Studies, UNC Program in Latina/Latino Studies, Latino Migration Project at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, Department of Romance Languages and the Department of Dramatic Art.
February 18, 2009 - Pulitzer Pize winning author, Junot Díaz, reading, reception and book signing
Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity
and
the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South
present
a reading, reception, and book signing with Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Junot Diaz.
Wednesday, Feb 18th at 6PM in Richard White Auditorium (East Campus).
Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009. For more info on Diaz, see http://www.junotdiaz.com/index.html.
This event is co-sponsored by the University Fund; Spanish Service Learning; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Departments of African & African American Studies, English, and Romance Studies; the Program in Literature; Student Affairs; and the Office of the Dean & Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.
Books will be available for purchase on-site.
Please note: parking and seating are limited. Contact Jenny Snead Williams at jennysw@duke.edu for more information.
February 16, 2009 - Talk today by Christine Beaule "Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries with students"
Monday, February 16 5:30 - 6:30 pm Fitzpatrick Center, Schiciano Auditorium, Side A Pratt School of Engineering Science Drive, Duke Campus Dr. Christine Beaule (formerly with Duke's Writing Program and currently at the University of Hawaii) will speak on "Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries with students: An archaeologist's musings on engineers building a bridge in Bolivia" As an archaeologist doing research in the altiplano of Bolivia, Dr. Christine Beaule initially spoke about the need for a bridge in that region to her Writing 20 class at Duke. From that passing example, a student-led engineering project was born. She traveled with Engineers Without Borders - Duke to Bolivia in May 2008 to assess possible bridge locations, designs, and the social and economic impact the bridge might have on local Quechua communities. The team plans to return to Bolivia to build the bridge this summer. Her talk will describe her experiences with the project as well as the particular challenges she and the project face in the future. Dr Beaule will describe some of the anticipated and unforeseen issues the team experienced as an archaeologist guides engineering students in a world far removed from the classroom. Sponsored by Engineers Without Borders - Duke All interested individuals are invited to attend. [more]
February 16, 2009 - Que Bola? Rap, Race and a Politics of New Black Subject Making in Cuba
Duke University Cultural Anthropology Department present Que Bola? Rap, Race and a Politics of New Black Subject Making in Cuba a talk by Marc D. Perry, Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The event will take place on Monday, February 16, at 1:30 p.m. in 225 Friedl Building. Perry's research specializes in race and racialization in the African Diaspora with an emphasis on Latin America.
February 13, 2009 - 6th Annual Carolina and Duke Consortium Conference- The Idea of the Americas: Representation and Reality
The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
is pleased to present its annual conference
The Idea of the Americas: Representation and Reality
February 13-14, 2009
Featuring 15 panels, keynote presentations by Joanne Hershfield and Susan Harbage Page,
a reception on Friday, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday! All Friday events will be held in the Franklin Center on the Duke campus in Durham, NC and
all Saturday events will be held in the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus
in Chapel Hill, NC.
The complete schedule of events can be found on the Consortium's Web site.
All attendees (including all panel presenters) are required to register by Wednesday, February 4.
There is no registration fee, but we need to get an accurate count for all catered meals.
To register, go to http://isa.unc.edu/conference/2009.asp
All conference events are free and open to the public. Please join us!
For more information, contact njh@duke.edu or riefkohl@email.unc.edu
February 12, 2009 - Colombia: The Presence of the Impossible
The Colombia series continues until this Thursday February 12, 2009 with a presentation by Diana Gomez from the National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). It takes places at 7:00 p.m. in Room 240 at the Franklin Center. The Franklin Center is located at 2204 Erwin Road on Duke University Campus in Durham, NC (click link to see map).
February 05, 2009 - TODAY - Job Talk: Latina/o American Performance: Transcultural/Transnational Acts
Alicia Arrizon, Dramatic Literature Candidate, presents a talk that "will challenge the assumed boundaries of identity markers while reinvigorating the concept of 'transcultural/transnational performance' as a model of new research and theoretical insight in theater and Latina/o American Studies." The talk takes place TODAY, Feb. 5 at 4:30 pm in 209 East Duke. Arrizon is a professor and chair of the Department of Women's Studies at the UC-Riverside. This job talk is put on by Theater Studies. For more information contact Miriam Sauls, 919-660-3346, or visit, mmsauls@duke.edu .
January 31, 2009 - Y Ahora Que? Coping with Immigration Stress in Latinos: A Latino Mental Health and Substance Abuse Conference
El Futuro, Inc. presents this conference on Latino Mental Health and Substance Abuse to take place at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work (Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building) from 8:30AM- 4:00PM. Registration cost: $75; $40 for students. Duke research associate Gabriela Livas-Stein (Psychology and Neuroscience) to present a session on "Culture Bound Syndromes in Latino Mental Health". For more information on registration and schedule details, please visit the website of El Futuro, Inc.
January 15, 2009 - In Print: Publications by Faculty
The Program in Women's Studies is delighted to invite you to In Print, our
celebration of recent Publications by Duke faculty on gender-related
topics. The participants will share their work through selected readings
followed by a reception. Authors are: Jennifer Brody, Peter Burian, Tina
Campt, Katherine Ewing, Esther Gabara, Negar Mottahedeh, Martha Reeves,
Rebecca Stein.
Please RSVP to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu. Signed books will be available
for sale by the Gothic.
Thursday, January 15 5:00pm East Duke Parlors. Click link for map.
Duke University, 210 East Duke Building, Durham, NC 27708.
January 14, 2009 - Colombia the Presence of the Impossible: Film and Discussion Series
Films to be shown:
"El Baile Rojo: El exterminio de la UP" / The Red Dance: the annihilation of the UP" by Yezid Campos (
It is the first film that explores the annihilation of the Union Patriotica, a leftist political party that emerged as part of the peace process in mid 1980s (it was the political arm of the FARC in their intent to return to civilian life). The title comes from the name of the operation that eradicated three thousand members of the party from 1987 to 1991. The film presents dozens of interviews with survivors of the killings and some of the former leaders in exile. Only ten out of thousands of cases have been solved by the justice system
"Hijos e Hijas: Todos somos
Sponsored by the
Contact las@duke.edu for more info.
Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos/ Our Stories, Our Dreams Exhibit
Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos/
Our Stories, Our Dreams
An Exhibition from the Center for Documentary Studies and Student Action with Farmworkers runs November 13, 2008 through January 4, 2009 at Kreps Gallery in the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Through the collaborative project Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos/Our Stories, Our Dreams, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Student Action with Farmworkers collected stories about the experiences of Latino immigrants, illuminating their reasons for coming to this country and the obstacles they face once they arrive. In particular the project focuses on farmworker families in the Carolinas and their dreams for the future; on their traditions, their educational aspirations, and their challenges as they try to pursue higher education. In photographs and audio recordings, the exhibit uses the documentary arts to amplify the voices of Latino migrant youth and their families so that their stories can be heard.
For more information see the Center for Documentary Studies page for the event.
Student Action with Farmworkers offers workshops on subjects related to this project; for information, contact Tony Macias at 919-660-3652 or tmacias@duke.edu.
November 20, 2008 - Panel and Reception for Black Mirror/ Espejo Negro
6:00-7:30 pm Scholars and artists will discuss their work in relation to Black Mirror/ Espejo Negro. 7:30-8:30pm Reception and guided tour of the exhibition. Panelists include: Walter Mignolo (author of The Darker Side of the Renaissance and The Idea of Latin America), Jennifer Gonzalez (author of Subject to Display: Restaging Race in Contemporary Art), Marie Junaluska (Cherokee storyteller, N.C. Arts Council board member), George E. Stuart (Archeologist & President, Boundary End Archaeology Research Center), Arnaud Maillet (author of The Claude Glass), Peter Sigal (author of From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire), Pedro Lasch (artist and author of Black Mirror/ Espejo Negro). Co-sponsored by Duke Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Latino/a Studies, The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, The Center for French and Francophone Studies, and The Visual Studies Initiative. Free and open to all. For more information contact the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University at 919-684-5135.
November 19, 2008 - Border Deaths Exhibit on West Campus
On Wednesday, November 19 from 8:00am-5:00pm a display of 183 crosses will be present on the West Union Quad on West Campus. These crosses symbolize the deaths of undocumented immigrants on the US Mexico border in Arizona in 2007-08. Duke Students for Humane Borders would like to remind the Duke community that it has a lot to be thankful for this upcoming holiday season. In particular, we owe many of our holiday comforts to undocumented workers who have supplied us items such as pumpkins, turkeys, and Christmas trees. What most of us do not know however, are the tragedies and physical risk these undocumented peoples undergo while crossing over. If you are on West Campus, take a few minutes to visit the display, give thanks and remember those lost in the struggle. Please also take time to visit the Border Stories photo exhibit located on East Campus at the Center for Documentary Studies. The exhibit will be up till January 4, 2009
A sign will be presented with the crosses:
Each of these 183 crosses represents one human body recovered on the US-Mexico border in the state of Arizona alone, during the 2007-08 No More Deaths fiscal year. Since the mid 90s, over 4,000 undocumented immigrants have died attempting to cross our nation's southern border. Thousands of men, women, and even children begin the journey each year in an effort to escape extreme poverty in Mexico and Central America. These undocumented workers risk their lives to fill low-wage jobs in the US (agriculture, meatpacking, landscape and construction, service industry) that few US citizens have been willing to do for the pay offered. Meanwhile, our broken immigration policy, which does not permit proper papers for the number of jobs we have open, relegates these immigrants to a life of fear, and dwelling in the shadows of our society, without protections.
This display by Duke Students for Humane Borders and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
To find out more about border policy and immigration issues, contact plz@duke.edu
www.nomoredeaths.org: Oct 1, 2007 - Sept 30, 2008
November 18, 2008 - Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder
Francisco Goldman, "The Art of Political Murder" Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 pm, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke University. Free and open to the public, a reception will follow the reading.
Novelist Francisco Goldman is the winner of the first Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)- Duke University Book Award, meant to honor the best non-fiction work on Latin America published the previous year that deals with human rights and social justice. In part, the award recognizes a new partnership between WOLA and Duke, which houses the group's institutional archives. Goldman's book, published by Grove Press, recounts the 1998 killing of Bishop Juan Gerardi, four days after he and a group of lawyers presented a devastating report on human rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan military against civilians, and the trial of several military officers for the assassination. The judges were unanimous in their praise for Goldman's book as not only well-written but researched with a rigor that will inform both Guatemala experts and general scholars of Latin American Studies. The event is sponsored by the Archives for Human Rights and the Duke Human Rights Center and co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The Regulator Book store will have copies of Goldman's book available for sale and signing after his reading. For more information contact Robin Kirk, director of the Duke Human Rights Center at (919)668-6511 or email at rights@duke.edu
For a map see Duke Map
November 17, 2008 - The Appearance of Progress: Connecting Public Health and Race at the Mexican Border, 1890-1903
John McKiernan Gonzalez will give a talk entitled "The Appearance of Progress: Connecting Public Health and Race at the Mexican Border, 1890-1903" on November 17, 2008 at 12:00 pm in 225 Friedl Building on Duke University's East Campus. Dr. McKiernan Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mckiernan-Gonzalez studies the intersection of public health, civil rights and transnational social movements.
Sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the History Department.
For directions, see this map.
November 13, 2008 - Nuestras Historias/Nuestros Suenos Exhibit Grand Opening!
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, November 13, 2008 from 6pm to9pm, free to the public.
Through the collaborative project Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos / Our Stories, Our Dreams: Latino Immigrants in North Carolina, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) collected stories about the experiences of Latino farmworkers and their families, illuminating their reasons for immigrating and the obstacles they face once they arrive in the United States. In particular, this project focuses on immigrant farmworkers' dreams for their children, especially their educational aspirations, and on some of the barriers migrant youth encounter as they try to pursue higher education. Click here for a map.
November 13, 2008 - "Writing Who You Are (And Who You're Not)" at UNC- Chapel Hill
On Thursday, November 13, at 6:00 pm, The UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series presents a talk by Cristina Henriquez, with Q&A and a book signing following in The University Room at The
Institute for the Arts & Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill. Henriquez is the author of Come
Together, Fall Apart, a collection of eight
stories and a novella. Her stories have
appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic,
Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and she was
featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of
"Fiction's New Luminaries." She is a graduate
of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the
recipient of an Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral
Foundation Award founded by Sandra
Cisneros. Cristina's first novel, The World in
Half, will be published in 2009 by Riverhead
Books. She lives in Chicago. For questions please contact John Ribo at
for more information and for directions click here.
November 10, 2008 - Danny James: "Quemando el parquet": 'Cabecitas negras', urban legends and the construction of regional identity in an Argentine working class community
Monday, November 10, 2008 at
2:15 pm
in 201 Flowers
The Romance Studies Department presents Daniel James giving a talk entitled "Quemando el parquet": 'Cabecitas negras', urban legends and the construction of regional identity in an Argentine working class community. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Daniel James was educated at Oxford University and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University and from 1979 to 1982 taught sociology at the University of Brasilia. Since coming to the United States he has taught Latin American history at Yale University and Duke University until coming to Indiana in 1999 to take up the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History.
His primary research interests have been in Argentina. Since first going to Argentina in 1972 he has spent frequent prolonged periods in Argentina. His principle interest has been in modern Argentine labor, social and cultural history. Much of the focus of his work has been on Peronism. His first book, Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class 1943 - 1976, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. Since the late 1980s he has been engaged in a long-term collaborative project with Professor Mirta Zaida Lobato of the University of Buenos Aires focused on the history of the meatpacking community of Berisso. A central part of this project has involved the collection of oral testimonies in the community.
For more information please contact Cathy Knoop at 919-660-3102 or cknoop@duke.edu
November 05, 2008 - Talk by Rey Andujar: "Candela: cronica de una llama" (UNC-CH)
The UNC Latina/o Studies Working Group presents:
Rey Andujar "Candela: cronicas de una llama"
5:30 PM, Wednesday, November 5th
at Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC-CH Campus. Rey Andujar (Santo Domingo, 1977) is the author of El Hombre Triangulo (2005), El factor carne (2005) and a collection of short stories called Amoricidio (FIL National Short Story Award, 2007). He has received numerous awards including The Central Bank Award, the Theater House International Short Story Award and the Cibaena Alliance Short Story Prize. His story "The Blood of Philippe" appeared in Pequenas Resistencias 4: Antologia del nuevo cuento norteamericano y caribeno published in Spain and Narradores dominicanos del Siglo XX published in Guatemala. Rey Andujar lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico where he is working on a Doctorate in Caribbean Literature. Click here for directions. Sponsored by the UNC Chapel Hill Program in Latina/o Studies, the UNC Chapel Hill Latina/o Studies Working Group and the UNC Department of Romance Languages.
October 31, 2008 - Global Displacements: Geographies of Work and Garment
A lunch-time talk by Marion Traub-Werner
PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota will Friday, October 31, 2008, 12:00 - 1:00 pm in Room 130-132 at the John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke Campus. Lunch will be served. Talk abstract:
"Academic research on transnational production networks has generally followed industrial shifts to “new” regions. Feminist analyses of these shifts have illuminated their dependence on the production of gendered subjects. The feminist literature has highlighted both the contingent position of women workers in export factories and the centrality of gender in global capitalist accumulation. Nevertheless, neither the mainstream nor the feminist literatures adequately consider the space-times of these networks themselves, and in particular, those locations and workers displaced through shifts in production. To address this gap, I develop the concept of "global displacements" -- drawing on feminist and post-colonial theory -- to undertake two inter-related challenges: first, to deconstruct the implicit developmentalism in the critical literature on transnational industries in the global South, and, second, to rethink the space-times of global production."
This event is organized on behalf of members of the Afro-Latin American Perspectives working group. For more information, please contact Professor Michaeline Crichlow (AAAS, Duke, crichlow@duke.edu) or Professor Tanya Shields (Women's Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, tshields@unc.edu).
October 29, 2008 - Hispaniola: From Yelida to Movimiento de Mujeres DominicoHaitianas
A Lecture by Dr. Dawn Duke on Wednesday, October 29th, 3:30pm at Toy Lounge Dey Hall at UNC-CH. Dawn Duke is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She specializes in Afro-Hispanic Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies. Particularly interested in nineteenth-century, twentieth-century, and contemporary writings, her research places emphasis on race and gender, and their effects on literary production. Her first book, Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Towards a Legacy of AfroCuban and AfroBrazilian Women Writers (Bucknell University Press, forthcoming 2008) proposes a tradition of Afro- Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian women's writings initiated primarily during the nineteenth-century and continuing with ever-increasing success towards the twentyfirst century. She has published various articles on race, gender, and writing in Cuba, Brazil, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. This event is sponsored by Romance Languages and Literatures, The James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, and The Center for Global Initiatives. If you have any Questions contact: Emilio del Valle Escalante
October 29, 2008 - Undergraduate Research Funding Workshop: Plan it, Write it, Win it
October 29, at 3:00 pm in the 225 Friedl Building (formerly Art Museum), we will be conducting a workshop for undergraduates on how to obtain funding for research (primarily summer funding, some for school-year).
The event is sponsored by Latino/a Studies, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University Center for International Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Undergraduate Research Support Office and more.
For further general information see the Undergraduate Research Suppport Office. For information on the Latino/a Studies Summer Research Awards, see this link.
October 28, 2008 - Duke Engage Info Session: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement
The Duke Engage Info Session for "Encuentros de la Frontera: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement" will be held from 6:30 pm -7:00 pm at the McClendon Commons (NOT McCLENDON TOWERS), 2138 Campus Drive (just behind Admissions).
This Duke Engage summer program will be based in Tucson, Arizona with time also spent in Nogales, Mexico.
Program Co-Directors are: Charlie Thompson & Jenny Snead Williams.
This info session is part of a larger 2-week series of information sessions offered by DukeEngage. For more info, see http://dukeengage.duke.edu/.
October 27, 2008 - Latino Outreach Event Hosted by LUL
A Q&A for Senator Obama's campaign
representative with La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc (LUL) acting as sort of devil's advocate in order to
ensure that it's not a one sided event. (Note that the McCain representative was unable to attend, notifying the group at the last minute.)The event is at 8pm tonight (10/27) in
Social Psychology building room 130. Food and refreshments will be provided.
October 27, 2008 - Queer Latino Historical Debris: Archiving the Erotic Immigrant Body
Come listen to Horacio Roque Ramirez give a talk on "Queer Latino Historical Debris: Archiving the Erotic Immigrant Body" at 12:00, Monday, October 27th in 229
Carr Building.
Dr. Ramirez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa
Barbara and specializes in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the History Department. For more information please contact Carla Rusnak: carla.rusnak@duke.edu or call 919-684-2343.
October 23, 2008 - Looking for a major or interesting Spring courses??
Come eat pizza and join other students in learning more about the following majors and programs: African and African American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Latino/a Studies, and the Literature Program
Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:00-6:30 pm
Friedl Building (old Science Building), Room 225
For more information, please contact Maria Maschauer at (919)684-5255 or go to http://literature.aas.duke.edu
October 23, 2008 - "Immigration: From the US-Mexico Border to North Carolina"
Thurs, October 23 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free Dinner!
Mary Lou Williams Center, West Campus, Duke University
Presented by Duke Engage: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement, the Center for Documentary Studies, and Latino/a Studies
October 23, 2008 - Talk by Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez (UNC-CH)
The UNC Latina/o Studies Working Group is proud to present a talk by Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez
October 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM
at Saunders 220, UNC-CH. Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez is a writer, painter, academic, and
unrepentant border crosser who has published stories in international
literary journals and newspapers (Tinta, Los universitarios, El Pais,
The Barcelona Review, Paralelo Sur) as well as in major anthologies on
contemporary literature in the Americas (1998, Lineas aereas; 2000,
Se habla espanol, voces latinas en USA; 2005, Pequenas resistencias 4;
2008, En la frontera. I migliori racconti della narrativa chicana). He
has been invited to give readings from his work
at universities and conferences in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and the
United States. An Assistant Professor of Latino/a and Latin American
studies, and Creative Writing in the Department of Spanish, and
Portuguese at the University of Iowa, Vaquera-Vasquez is currently
editing his first novel, Esperando en el Lost and Found, and
completing a collection of short stories.
For directions, please see the map. For more information please contact John Ribo at jdribo@email.unc.edu. This talk is sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the UNC Latina/o
Studies Working Group and the Department of Romance Language.
October 23, 2008 - Domesticating the Pachuca
Come listen to Catherine Ramirez give a talk on "Domesticating the Pachuca" at 12:00 Thursday, October 23rd in 229 Carr Building. Dr. Ramirez is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her studies focus on Chicana and U.S. Latino literature and ethnic studies. This talk is co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the History Department. For more information please contact Carla Rusnak: carla.rusnak@duke.edu or call 919-684-2343.
October 23, 2008 - The Annual Weiss Lecture in Women's Studies at UNC-CH
Dr. Carol Hardy-Fanta
will speak on Oct. 23, 2008, 7:00 - 8:00 pm, followed by a reception at Tate Turner Kuralt Auditorium. Dr. Carol Hardy-Fanta, Director of the Center for Women in
Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston's John W. McCormack
Graduate School of Policy Studies will deliver an address entitled "Eleccion
Latina: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and the Roles of Latina Women in the
2008 Presidential Campaign.
Dr. Hardy-Fanta is author of two books: Latina Politics, Latino
Politics: Gender, Culture, and Political Participation in Boston
(Temple University Press, 1993) and Latino Politics in Massachusetts:
Struggles, Strategies and Prospects (Routledge Press, 2002). She is a
nationally recognized scholar on Latina/o politics.
For directions see: http://ssw.unc.edu/about/directions.
This event is sponsored by the UNC Program in Women's Studies, the
Carolina Women's Center and the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series.
November 29, 2008 - The International 3,800 Mile "Run of Unity" to Stop in Durham
Durham, N.C. - Immaculate Conception Catholic Church will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana. Stay posted for time and location information. The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana Mexico- New York is a 3,800-mile relay run from Mexico to New York carrying the Guadalupe Torch. It brings together two nations and thousands of families divided by the border. The torch leaves the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to arrive at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. For Mexicans, Our Lady of Guadalupe is a national symbol of great importance. The Basilica in Mexico City where the International Run begins is the most sacred religious place in Mexico. Along the way, the Latino immigrant community, its supporters, and the local Catholic churches will offer hospitality and participate in the relay race. The local community will run with the torch in December along the 150-mile stretch from Durham, N.C. to Richmond, VA. The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana, organized by the Tepeyac Association and the Archdiocese of New York, began in 2001. The event has an audience of more than 22 million people and the participation of over 7,000 runners who take turns carrying the torch according to the ancient Mexican indigenous tradition that has been sustained into the present. The welcoming of the Guadalupe torch and the participation in this run has the following objectives: To bring together thousands of families from both Mexico and the United States, grassroots organizations, international prize winning athletes, popular bands, clergy, politicians and leaders of business community. To promote friendship and solidarity among community groups. To call attention to the painful reality of the immigrant families and communities separated by the border and the dire economic situation in their countries of origin. To highlight the significant contributions of the Latinos to the economy and cultural vibrancy of our state and our country. A large crowd of the Durham Latino immigrant community, with their local community, religious and business leaders, will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana at the Immaculate Conception Church in Durham on this day. Watch for more details.
November 02, 2008 - November 21, 2008 - 22nd annual Latin American Film Festival
The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke
is proud to present
The 22nd Annual Latin American Film Festival
with a focus on
"Afro and Youth Cultures in the Americas"
November 2 - 21, 2008. There will be different screenings on different campuses each night with
7 films introduced and discussed by their film directors
for a total of 28 films to be screened, including feature-length films,
documentaries, and short documentaries and art videos.
For more details and the complete Festival schedule, visit the
Festival web site.
This event is made possible through funds provided by the US Department of Education
and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Film Festival Committee would also like to
thank the following sponsors for their cooperation, contributions, and enthusiasm:
the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-CH; the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, the Program in Film and Video and Screen/Society, the Center for
Documentary Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Department
of Romance Studies and Perkins Library, all at Duke; the Witherspoon Student Center,
the Department of Foreign Languages, and the Spanish Club at NC State; the Department
of Foreign Languages at NC Central; the Department of Spanish at Durham Tech,
Foreign Languages and International Studies at Guilford College; the Spanish
Department at UNC-Greensboro; and the City of Durham Parks and Recreation.
October 20, 2008 - Racial/Ethnic Politics in the U.S.: Research (in progress) on Black-Latino Relations
Latino/a Studies and the Political Science Department are bringing Professor Rodney Hero to campus on Monday, Oct 20th to give a talk at 11:45am in the Breedlove Room of Perkins Library.
Professor Hero is the Packey J. Dee III Professor of American Democracy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three celebrated texts in the field of racial diversity (with a focus on US Latinos/as) and American democracy: Latinos and the U.S. Political System appeared in 1992, and received the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association; Faces of Inequality (1998) won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award; and Racial Diversity and Social Capital was published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press. Since the publication of his first book, Professor Hero has been one of the leading figures, worldwide, on US Latinos and U.S. Politics, policy and racial diversity. He has extensive administrative experience, having served as chair of the University of Notre Dame's Political Science department (2002-2007). Professor Hero has also served as President of the Midwest Political Science Association (2007-08), President of the Western Political Science Association (1999-2000), and Vice-President of the American Political Science Association (2003-04).
October 02, 2008 - Jacob Lawrence, Experiences in Migration Event 10.2
Thursday, October 2, 2008,
6:30 pm
Join us for a powerful discussion, "Epics of Black and Brown: A Public Panel on the Representation, Culture and Experience of African American and Latino/a Migrations," led by esteemed scholars and members of the community. The panel will feature Harry Harrison, director of YMI Cultural Center in Asheville; Pedro Lasch, visual artist & Duke art professor; and Claudia Milian, cultural theorist & Duke Spanish professor.
Enjoy wine and cheese while you view the Jacob Lawrence show and mingle with our panelists. This event will be located at
Building 2, Floor 3, 807
East Main Building 2
Downtown Durham, NC 27701
For more information, please visit the website.
October 02, 2008 - "The Hopes and Worries of a Vulnerable Observer"
Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.
A Public Lecture by Ruth Behar
Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, Duke University
McArthur Prize-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar will discuss a range of issues regarding the relationship between the observer and the observed focusing on her most recent encounters with Jewish Cubans living on the island and in the diaspora. Years ago I declared myself to be a vulnerable observer. I had only hopes at first--hopes of writing about the human condition with greater compassion and poetry; hopes of being able to express how observation transforms the observer as well as the observed. But the practice of being a vulnerable observer eventually led me to worries of various sorts-worries about blurring the boundary between fiction and non-fiction; worries about writing in a way that is "too personal" or even "self-indulgent"; worries about exposing my subjects to a gaze that erases distance and is intimate and revealing. I plan to discuss these issues drawing from a range of fieldwork experiences, including my most recent encounters with Jewish Cubans living on the island and in the diaspora.
The event is free and open to everyone. For more information, call (919) 660-3680 or contact Alex Harris alex.harris@duke.edu, Charlie Thompson cdtomps@duke.edu, Melynn Glusman melynn.glusman@duke.edu, at the Center for Documentary studies.
Click HERE for directions.
Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies with additional support from the Department of Cultural Anthropology, the Cuban American Student Association (CASA), the Hart Leadership Program, Jewish Life at Duke, Latino/a Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), all at
Black Mirror/Espejo Negro: Museum Installation by Pedro Lasch
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents:
Black Mirror/Espejo Negro: A Museum Installation by Pedro Lasch
Although the opening event has already taken place (June), you can still visit this installation through the fall semester.
This large-scale installation incorporates 16 works from the Nasher Museum's permanent collection. For more info, see Nasher Musuem website faculty page http://www.nasher.duke.edu/duke_faculty.php and/or contact plasch@duke.edu.
Supported by the NC Arts Council with funding from the state of NC and the National Endowment for rthe Arts.
Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, both at Duke University, and by Diamante, Inc.
- Oct. 27, 2008- The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Reengagement Conference
Sonja Haynes Stone Center
150 South Road, Chapel Hill
The conference is conceived around the imperative of advocacy, to advance the logic of a new national debate leading ultimately to the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba. Planned on the eve of national elections in the United States and the fiftieth anniversary of the triumph of the revolution in Cuba, the conference is designed to provide a venue in which to examine the wisdom and contemplate the strategies leading to an improvement of relations between Washington and Havana. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, will deliver the keynote address, On Day One, on September 26, 2008 at 7:00pm in the auditorium of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Attendance to all conference events is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit the website.
September 26, 2008 - September 27, 2008- The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Reengagement Conference
Sonja Haynes Stone Center
150 South Road, Chapel Hill
The conference is conceived around the imperative of advocacy, to
advance the logic of a new national debate leading ultimately to the
normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba. Planned
on the eve of national elections in the United States and the fiftieth
anniversary of the triumph of the revolution in Cuba, the conference is
designed to provide a venue in which to examine the wisdom and
contemplate the strategies leading to an improvement of relations
between Washington and Havana.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin
Powell, will deliver the keynote address, On Day One, on September 26,
2008 at 7:00pm in the auditorium of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.
Attendance to all conference events is free and open to the public. For more information, contacts, and directions, please visit the website.
September 25, 2008 - Latin@ Graduate Student Association
The Latin@ Graduate Student Association (LGSA) will be holding its first organizational meeting of the Fall 2008 semester on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 6.00 PM at the Multicultural Center, Bryan Center, West Campus. The meeting seeks to discuss and generate the focus and agenda for LGSA during this Fall semester, particularly in light of the fact that LGSA has just
been reactivated (as of Spring 2008). Hence, another purpose of this first
meeting is to re-evaluate what we managed to do (and how we did it) in the Spring, and to propose new ideas in order to generate a greater participation in and presence of LGSA. Those of you who have participated in LGSA's events before, as well as
those interested in being part of the agenda of LGSA for this Fall semester are welcome. LGSA is an association for and of graduate and professional students who, regardless of whether or not they identify themselves as "latin@s", are interested in issues related to Latin@ communities in the U.S., and, more specifically, in Duke and Durham. We seek to generate an environment in which we can come together to meet and support each other, as well as to engage in productive conversations and debates about, for instance, our positions in the university, our and others' academic work, and the latter's relationship with our social and political concerns.
September 24, 2008 - Leonel Rivero Rodriguez, Mexican Human Rights Lawyer to Speak (UNC-CH)
Law
School (Van Hecke Hall, Ridge Rd.) Rm. 505
Wed. Sept. 24 6:00 pm
Mr. Rivero will address the connection
between the trends of the U.S. labor market, that draw Mexican
workers to the U.S., and the spiraling black market of human
trafficking. He will also speak about his work on the
assassination of Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer with FLOC,
the N.C. farm labor union, who was beaten to death in the union’s
Mexico office in Monterrey in 2007 shortly after the union won a
lawsuit restricting excess fees charged by H2A recruiting networks in
Mexico. Leonel’s visit to the U.S. was
arranged by FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez, who will
accompany Leonel at the event.
Mr. Rivero's past work has included: Providing
defense for ATENCO (People’s Legal Defense for Defense of their
Land) movement, prosecuted for impeding construction of Mexico City
Airport on indigenous land · Serving on Delegacion
Cuauhtemoc, investigating corruption of high level government
officials in Mexico City · Providing defense to students
prosecuted for participation in the student strike at the Autonomous
University of Mexico · Associate of assassinated human
rights lawyer Digna Ochoa. Co-sponsored by: the
Immigration Law Association; the National Lawyer’s Guild;
Student Action with Workers; Latino Studies at UNC; and ALIANZA
For
more information: floc_triangle_organizer@yahoo.com
For campus map click here or here.
September 23, 2008 - LATINO/A STUDIES FALL SEMESTER LUNCH MEETING
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008, 11:30-1:00PM
Students (grads and undergrads), faculty, and staff- COME HEAR AND SHARE IDEAS FOR LATINO/A STUDIES DIRECTION IN THE UPCOMING YEAR(S). Please rsvp to jennysw@duke.edu for this lunch meeting.
This event is located at 225 FRIEDL BUILDING (2nd FLOOR, OLD ART MUSEUM/SCIENCE BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS) Link to campus map
September 19, 2008 - Latino/a Studies Welcome Back Reception
Please join us on Friday, September 19th from 5:00 - 6:30pm as we celebrate the beginning of Latino/a-Hispanic Heritage Month with a Welcome Back Reception. Come enjoy good food/drinks and company on the 2nd floor of the Friedl Building (Old Art Museum, East Campus).
September 17, 2008 - "Tolerance Wears Thin"- Panel Discussion on Johnston County at UNC- CH
Tolerance Wears Thin
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 5:00PM-7:00PM
Room: 4085, UNC School of Law, Van Hecke-Wettach Hall
Understanding the Tension in Johnston County
The University of North Carolina School of Law's Hispanic Latino Law Student Association is hosting an open discussion with academics, community leaders, and politicians @@ to address:
- How immigration has changed the demographics in North Carolina An overview of North Carolina's response to changing immigration demographics The underlying issues behind the tension in Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell's comments* and anti-immigration rhetoric
- Where North Carolina is headed in respect to these issues
- How you can take action
Panel to Include:
University of North Carolina's Center for Civil Rights
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina
North Carolina Justice Center
UNC School of Law: Immigration/Human Right's Clinic
El Pueblo, Inc.
*As published in the News & Observer on Sunday September 7th, 2008
Link to campus map
Please contact Deborah M. Weissman for more information at
(919) 962-3564 email: weissman@email.unc.edu
September 15, 2008 - STRANGERS IN OUR MIDST (UNC-CH)
PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES FOR THE PUBLIC
Do you support the idea that public universities and community colleges should be open to all members of the community? Would you like to learn more about the exclusion of aliens in NC community colleges? Why has hatred and fear of foreigners been a powerful force in the United States? How is this impacting the next generation? Is there something you could do? Come to a talk and discussion of these issues next Monday.
Director of UNC's Latina/o Studies, Dr. María DeGuzmán will introduce: Student Body President JJ Raynor and Ron Bilbao will talk about how to get involved and about a new state-wide coalition working to ensure access for all. This will be followed by a public talk and discussion.
Who: Emeritus Professor (UNC School of Law) Daniel H. Pollitt
When: 5 pm, Monday, September 15th
Where: Pleasants Room, Wilson Library, UNC campus
The event is sponsored by Latina/o Studies, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, CHispA, La Unidad Latina, and Institute for the Study of the Americas. Contact John Ribó at jdribo@email.unc.edu with any questions.
August 09, 2008 - Learning Story: SAF Presents Farmworker Narratives
Saturday, August 9, 2008, 1 - 5 pm Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium, Durham
SAF interns and fellows gather to share the personal narratives and educational stories of Farmworkers living on the East Coast. Every summer SAF and the Center for Documentary Studies train and equip students to do in-depth and personal documentary projects with farmworkers they meet in the course of their site-work. You won't want to miss our students when they give their final presentations! Presented in Spanish and English, interpreting provided. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to Tony Macias tmacias@duke.edu before August 7th Please Contact: Tony Macias 919-660-3652 tmacias@duke.edu for more information.
June 6-15: The Line in the Sand: Stories from US/Mexico Border
Presented by "the justice theater project," Raliegh NC
The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexico Border
The Line in the Sand was written by a group of actors and writers from Catholic Relief Services (a national organization based in Baltimore, MD), who visited areas on both sides of the border between Mexico and Arizona in 2005 and interviewed citizens of both countries, immigrants and non-immigrants.
The Line in the Sand presents the dire situation that those people find themselves in. Not only is the story line compelling and moving, but it is told in the voices of real people and shows the various ways that many people, again not just immigrants, are affected by the lack of practical and humane immigration legislation.
Performance schedule and post-show discussions and events details online at: http://thejusticetheaterproject.org/index.php/jtproject/production/32/
June 14, 2008 - Latino Festival in Durham
Latino Festival
Sat, June 14, 2008
Forest hills Park 3-8pm
1639 University Dr, Durham
Music, Info Booths, Arts and Crafts, Food, and Children's Activities. For more info contact: Rosalie Bocellior Ray Gravis: 919-560-4355.
May 04, 2008 - In the Durham Community: Sister Communities of San Ramon Celebration
Sister Communities of San Ramon, Nicaragua is celebrating our 15th anniversary with wine, cheese (thanks Sage and Swift!) and fine music this Sunday, May 4, 5-7 pm at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Road, Durham. Cesar Davila, retired Sandinista Army captain and charismatic community activist will speak about CAFTA, impact of US foreign policy, and how citizen activism is the key to a better world. We are launching a drive to raise $16,500 to build a rural school and school kitchen where children will receive a free meal very school day. PLEASE HELP US GIVE A JOYOUS WELCOME TO THE DELEGATION FROM SAN RAMON! Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Contact: Lonna Harkrader, 489-1656 for more info.
May 03, 2008 - Waterboarding, Ghost Plans, Guantanamo
Tomorrow, Saturday, May 3 (10am-3pm, 240 Franklin Center), our colleages at the Duke Human Rights Center and NC Stop Torture Now will cohost Waterboarding, Ghost Planes, Guantanamo: Inside America's Secret War. The conference will feature former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg (via videoconference), former FBI officer Brad Garrett, leading human rights lawyer Tina Monshipour Foster, and others. More information can be found at the DHRC website: http://www.duke.edu/web/rightsatduke/
April 27, 2008 - Community Series on Immigration - at UNC-CH
TOPIC: Politics and Immigration
Location: The FedEx Global Education Center, Corner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, The University of North Carolina.
This series is sponsored by CHICLE (/The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Studies/) and ISA (/Institute for the Study of the Americas - UNC-CH/).
Free and open to the public. Free Parking Available under the GEC
Politics and Immigration
*4:00 pm - 6:00 pm* Discussion and actions
The following Tuesday will be the NC primary election. How have the national candidates addressed the immigration issues that this series has discussed? What can we expect from our state legislature and new governor? Are there some actions and activities that participants can agree to work on in NC? Local political scientists, politicians, and representatives from community organizations will be available for discussion.
* Readings on related issues will be available.
Funding Provided by: The UNC Center for Global Initiatives
With Support from: ACLU-NC, CALDO, Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA, El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, Institute for Southern Studies, NC Council of Churches, NC Justice Center, Pa’lante, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), The UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic.
April 24, 2008 - Jornada Medica en las Montanas de Honduras
"Jornada Medica en las Montanas de Honduras"
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4:30 - 6:00 pm Room 028 Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road (corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive), Duke campus
Join us for the third in the Spring 2008 series of "tertulias" sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The "tertulias" provide a forum for Duke faculty and students to discuss their work related to Latin America and the Caribbean in an informal setting. The speakers are Dr. Dennis Clements (Duke Children's Primary Care and Duke Global Health Institute) and students in the "Exploring Medicine in Foreign Cultures" class. Refreshments will be served. After 4:00 pm parking is available free of charge behind the Marshall Pickens Health Clinic at the corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive, across the street from the Franklin Center.
Please Contact: Natalie Hartman njh@duke.edu for more information.
Please Contact: Natalie Hartman njh@duke.edu for more information.
April 24, 2008 - At UNC-CH: The Limits of La Raza Cosmica
The Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Working Group presents:
The Limits of La Raza Cosmica: The Refiguration of Chicano Nationalist Politics in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature with Timothy Libretti
Thursday, April 24 2008 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm Room 3033 (Global Education Center, UNC-CH)
This talk will explore ways in which the contemporary post-movimiento Chicana/o literary productions of Alejandro Morales, Rolando Hinojosa, Graciela Limon, Helena María Viramontes, and Cherrie Moraga conceptualize nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism to comprehend the complex dialectical mediations between race, class, sexuality, and gender within the racial-patriarchal capitalist world system. Specifically, it will argue that one of the objectives of post-movement Chicana/o literature, in grappling with the internationalization of Latino identity, is precisely to foster a national consciousness that can properly comprehend and resist the international conditions of neo-imperialism euphemistically referred to as "globalization."
Tim Libretti is Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Latino and Latin American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. He has published several articles on issues of class, race and ethnicity on the topic of Third World literatures in the United States. He is the author The Making of U.S. Working-Class Literature and Consciousness: The Nations, Genders, and Sexualities of U.S. Proletarian Literature from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming from SUNY Press).
April 20, 2008 - Community Series on Immigration - at UNC-CH
TOPIC: Education, Health Care, Social Services and Immigration
Location: The FedEx Global Education Center, Corner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, The University of North Carolina.
This series is sponsored by CHICLE (/The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Studies/) and ISA (/Institute for the Study of the Americas - UNC-CH/).
Free and open to the public. Free Parking Available under the GEC
Irene Godinez, Advocacy Director of El Pueblo, will lead a discussion on the impact of immigration on our schools, looking at issues such as low test scores, high dropout rates and gangs in the schools and the community. The discussion will also cover the impact of immigration on our health facilities, emergency rooms, healthcare costs and other health-related issues, including possible implications for future immigration.
*4:45 pm – 6:00 pm* Film: */La Vida no es Facil
Through an interview process, this documentary focuses on various issues affecting Latinos in North Carolina. Topics covered include in-state tuition and education, misconceptions of the Latino community, permanent residency, and the impact of Latinos on the economy. The video maker's son, Torin Martinez, will present this film. After the film students from Pa’lante will talk about their personal experiences with US education.
Readings on related issues will be available.
Funding Provided by: The UNC Center for Global Initiatives
With Support from: ACLU-NC, CALDO, Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA, El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, Institute for Southern Studies, NC Council of Churches, NC Justice Center, Pa’lante, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), The UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic.
April 18, 2008 - A Korea-US Symposium on Race, Culture, and Policy
A Korea-US Symposium on Race, Culture and Policy
Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies at
for Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) at
4-6pm, followed by reception
225 Friedl/Science (
Opening Remarks by symposium moderator, Myoung Ah Shin (Professor of English and Director of American Studies, CAPS,
4:00 pm - 4: 40 pm Session I -Korean Studies
Dong-Ho Pak (Korean Language, Director of Korean Studies, CAPS,
Commentator: Hae-Young Kim, Asian & African Languages & Literature,
Jae Sung Kwak (Professor of Graduate School of Pan-Pacific International Studies and Director of Latin American Studies, CAPS, Kyung Hee University, and Visiting Scholar, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
"Assessing Ten Years of Experiment of Area Studies in
"The Transnational Origins of Chicano/a Studies and
Contact Myoung Ah Shin for more info: ms241@duke.edu
April 17, 2008 - La Unidad Latina presents: State of Latinos Forum
Dear Administrators, Faculty, and Students,
On April 17th, 2008 the hermanos of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Incorporated will be hosting its 3rd annual State of Latinos forum.
This forum has brought Latino issues to the forefront of changes in campus resources for students. With a growing Latino population in our own backyard, the growing importance of nationwide Latino issues is a topic of importance for the entire student body. This year we will be co-sponsoring this event with cultural groups on campus and discuss how changes in Latino life affect and relate to other minorities an overall student life. We will discuss overall plans for socioeconomic and campus culture change that will help to increase Latino presence as well as providing useful tools applicable to overall diversity at Duke.
Your attendance would be greatly appreciated as we look to reach a broad base of administrators, faculty, and students in hopes of creating a more diverse representation of Latino life and provide an outlook for further overall diversity at Duke.
What: State of Latinos 2008: Connecting the Struggle
When: Thursday, April 17th 2008
Where: Soc/Pysch 130
Time: 7 PM
Thank you, Brian Ovalle (Trinity '08) (ba09@duke.edu for further info)
April 17, 2008 - Sports and Cuban Nationalism
"Kid Chocolate, the Golden Age of Boxing and the Origins of the close link
between Sports and Cuban Nationalism"
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 4:30 - 6:00 pm Room 028 Franklin Center, 2204
Erwin Road (corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive), Duke campus
Join us for the second in the
Spring 2008 series of "tertulias" organized by the Duke Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies. The "tertulias" provide a forum for Duke faculty
and students to discuss their work related to Latin America and the Caribbean in
an informal setting. The speaker is Enver Casimir, PhD Candidate in the UNC
Department of History and the Fall 2007 instructor for the Duke "Intro to Latin
American Studies" course. Refreshments will be served. Parking is available free
of charge after 4:00 pm in the lot behind the Marshall Pickens Health Clinic at
the corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive, across the street from the Franklin
Center.
Please Contact: Natalie Hartman njh@duke.edu for more information.
Join us for the second in the Spring 2008 series of "tertulias" organized by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The "tertulias" provide a forum for Duke faculty and students to discuss their work related to Latin America and the Caribbean in an informal setting. The speaker is Enver Casimir, PhD Candidate in the UNC Department of History and the Fall 2007 instructor for the Duke "Intro to Latin American Studies" course. Refreshments will be served. Parking is available free of charge after 4:00 pm in the lot behind the Marshall Pickens Health Clinic at the corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive, across the street from the Franklin Center.
Please Contact: Natalie Hartman njh@duke.edu for more information.
April 16, 2008 - RECYCLE: 3 artists in conversation
Wednesday, April 16 from 2:00 - 6:30 PM at Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center (2204 Erwin Road), Duke University
Recycle, the 2007-08 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar, considers why and how used objects, ideas, places, images, practices are profitably or problematically reappropriated and put to different purposes. Through the empirical and theoretical consideration of specific historical salvage – texts, works, products, sites, methods, practices – either in the past or in the present, the seminar has met throughout the year to investigate the cultural and economic life of things and ideas. What do these instruments give up and what do they retain, what do they receive and what do they impose? Are there patterns or cycles of reuse and how do knowing agents join and modify them? How do changes in the work that objects perform document shifts in their political and economic circumstances? In this year-end event, the seminar fellows will explore these questions and more with guest artists working across a range of media (installations, performance, design, film and video, digital media).
Alex Rivera, whose work addresses concerns of the Latino community, is one of three main artists in the conversation.
Latino/a Studies Community Liaison, Pedro Lasch, will be moderating one panel.
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April 15, 2008 - and April 17: Ugrad Presentations- Framing the Immigration Debate
***** Immigration Event *****
On Tuesday, April 15th and Thursday, April 17th, first-year students from my Writing 20 class, "Framing the Immigration Debate,"
will be delivering presentations on their final research projects. All presentations will be held in Art Bldg, Room 116 (East Campus).
Everyone is welcome to attend! Liz Drogin
Note: Please email Prof Liz Drogin (drogin@duke.edu) for a full schedule of presentation titles and student names.
April 14, 2008 - On the Border of Order: Contemporary U.S. Immigration Principles and Policies
The Kenan Institute for Ethics is pleased to present its Annual Public Ethics Spring Symposium for 2008:
On the Border of Order: Contemporary U.S. Immigration Principles and Policies
Monday, April 14, 12:00-5:00 pm
Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Disaffection with the deadlock in U.S. immigration policy is widespread. These concerns are rooted in competing claims about human rights and the rule of law, social order and national identity, and the economic and civic dimensions of citizenship. The symposium gathers scholars, policymakers, and community leaders to assess the principles at stake in national policy debates, the meaning of citizenship at the state and local level, and the implications for social cohesion of large-scale demographic change.
Contact kie@duke.edu for full program info.
The symposium is made possible by support from the Matt and Susan Mackowski Fund.
The Kenan Institute for Ethics is grateful to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens for the use of the Doris Duke Center. The symposium is cosponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Center for Documentary Studies, Latino/a Studies, the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, the Wildacres Leadership Initiative, and the Department of Political Science.
This event is free and open to the public. Participants may attend all or any portion of the symposium. Free parking is available at the Doris Duke Center. Boxed lunches will be available starting at 11:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please call 919-660-3033 or email kie@duke.edu for additional information.
April 13, 2008 - Community Series on Immigration - at UNC-CH TOPIC: Economics and Immigration
Location: The FedEx Global Education Center, Corner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, The University of North Carolina.
This series is sponsored by CHICLE (/The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Studies/) and ISA (/Institute for the Study of the Americas - UNC-CH/).
Free and open to the public. Free Parking Available under the GEC
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm *Film: *Morristown: In the Air and Sun *
Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, TT. /Morristown: In the air and sun TT is rooted in the authentic expression of workers who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hopes. These conversations are combined with scenes in factories, fields, union halls, Mexican stores, city parks, and employment agencies.
After the film there will be a discussion led by Dani Martínez-Moore and Ajamu Dillahunt from the NC Justice Center. They will address such issues as why immigrants travel to America, whether or not they are depressing wages and if they are taking jobs from non-immigrant North Carolinians.
Readings on related issues will be available.
Funding Provided by: The UNC Center for Global Initiatives
With Support from: ACLU-NC, CALDO, Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA, El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, Institute for Southern Studies, NC Council of Churches, NC Justice Center, Pa’lante, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), The UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic.
April 10, 2008 - Inter(Cambio): Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Duke Cuba Conference
APRIL 10-APRIL 13
Hosted by Raices de Esperanza and the Duke University Cuban American Student Association
From April 10-13, join us at the campus of Duke University for Raices de Esperanza's 5th anniversary youth Cuba conference, hosted by the Cuban American Student Association at Duke. This three-day event will unite prominent figures that are active in the study of Cuban and Cuban-American affairs, young professionals, and students from universities and high schools across the nation. Visit www.dukecubaconference.com
About Raices: Founded in 2003, Raices de Esperanza is an international network of more than 1,000 students and young professionals passionate about Cuba and its future. With students at more than 44 universities and young professionals in New York, Washington D.C., and Miami, we seek to educate ourselves about Cuba's complex realities and proactively support our young counterparts on the island. Raíces members are united by their shared hope of seeing a free, democratic Cuba in the future, but do not all agree on the best way to get there. We welcome debate, diversity, and a humanistic portrayal of the dilemmas that divide the Florida straits, hoping that our conduct can serve as an example for others. For more information, contact Alicia Castilla Zelek at alicia.zelek@duke.edu
April 07, 2008 - Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza reading and book signing at UNC-CH
Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza
"The General Insane Asylum La Castañeda from the Future:
History and Literature in the Early 20th and Early 21st Centuries in Mexico"
The lecture will conclude with a reading in Spanish from her latest novel, La muerte me da (2007). Book signing after her lecture!!!!
When: Monday, April 7th at 5:00 p.m.
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
Novelist, poet and short-story writer, Cristina Rivera Garza received her B.A in Sociology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and her Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of Houston-Texas. Her work, written in English and Spanish, has received the most important literary awards in Mexico. Her most prestigious novel, Nadie me verá llorar (No one will see me cry, 1999), won the Premio Nacional de Novela José Rubén Romero, the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Premio IMPAC-CONARTE-ITESM, and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Prize. She is currently a Felice Massie Distinguished Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sponsored by: UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages; UNC-Duke Consortium Working Group: "Nation Building, Popular Culture, and Marginalities"; UNC-CH Curriculum in International and Area Studies; UNC-CH Latina/o Studies Minor and Program.
April 06, 2008 - At UNC-CH: Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration
Community Conference: Examining the Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration, April 6, 2008
Free and open to the public
The Institute for the Study of the Americas, the Chapel Hill Institute for Culture and Language Education (CHICLE), the UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic and The Center for Global Initiatives, present the Community Conference, "Examining the Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration."
The Community Conference will take place in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium of the Global Education Center, UNC Chapel Hill, (301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill) from 12:30pm to 6pm on April 6.
Participants from UNC Chapel Hill, the UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic, Elon University, the NC American Civil Liberties Union and the NC Justice Center will examine the following questions: In the wake of failed federal immigration reform, how are law enforcement agencies, state, and local policy makers in North Carolina responding to undocumented immigration? How is deportation being used as a solution to undocumented immigration in North Carolina counties, and what is its impact in communities in Alamance and Mecklenburg County? Presentations will be followed by a film screening of Al Otro Lado, a 2005 documentary about immigration and drug trafficking through the lens of Mexico's 200-year-old tradition of corrido music. (see http://isa.unc.edu/ for program details).
The community conference will kick-off a four part series of Sunday afternoon discussions and films in April entitled "Immigration: Asking the Hard Questions." (see http://chi-cle.com/sundayevents/sundayeventimmigration.html)
Additional event supporters include El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, The NC-ACLU, the NC Justice Center, CITCA, CALDO, The Institute for Southern Studies, and the NC Council of Churches.
Directions located at http://isa.unc.edu/about/directions.asp. Free parking available.
April 06, 2008 - A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
A PROMISE TO THE DEAD: THE EXILE JOURNEY OF ARIEL DORFMAN premieres in North Carolina at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The film was directed by acclaimed filmmaker Peter Raymont (Emmy Award for SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL) and based on Ariel Dorfman's memoir "Heading South, Looking North." The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festivals and has been shown at many
film festivals around the world. It was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and selected as one of the 10 best Canadian films for 2007.
When Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende in an extraordinarily violent coup on September 11, 1973, cultural advisor Ariel Dorfman was among the very few in Allende's administration to survive. More than thirty years later, the renowned novelist and playwright returns to Chile with filmmaker Peter Raymont for a probing meditation on memory,exile, and democracy as he searches for a way to remember the dead. Together the two men revisit the scenes of Dorfman's past, such as the balcony of the presidential palace where Allende made his last farewell, as Pinochet lies dying nearby under house arrest. Weaving previously unseen archival footage with affecting contemporary scenes and Dorfman's vivid reminiscences, Raymont offers us an unforgettable story of repression and resistance.
2007. Canada. 92 mins. Directed by Peter Raymont. Produced by Peter Raymont
Sunday, April 6, 7 p.m.
Durham Civic Center
http://www.fullframefest.org/festival/grid/date/2008-04-06
April 05, 2008 - Open Panel Discussion with Lourdes Portillo - at Full Frame
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (www.fullframefest.org) has announced that the curated series for the 2008 festival will focus on the theme of migration. Full Frame selected Lourdes Portillo, an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker whose films focus on the search for Latino identity, to curate the series. On Sat, April 5, 11 am, he will conduct an open panel discussion with this year's filmmakers. See http://www.fullframefest.org/festival/grid/date/2008-04-05
April 05, 2008 - Calavera Highway to premiere April 5 at Durham Civic Center
Premiere at the Full Frame Film Festival
Durham Civic Center Theater
Saturday, April 5, 7pm
Filmmakers will be present
Tickets: http://fullframefest.org/ or call 1-800-514-3849.
* Winner, Best Documentary Feature, San Diego Latino Film Festival
* National broadcast on PBS's “P.O.V.' series, fall 2008.
THE STORY
When ARMANDO and CARLOS PENA set off to carry their mother's ashes back to South Texas and reunite their far-flung brothers, the road reveals more than they bargained for. Calavera Highway traces the odyssey of two brothers as they decipher a complex story. Why their mother was an outcast, and what happened to their father who disappeared during "Operation Wetback," the 1954 U.S. government program that deported over a million Mexican and Mexican Americans. Calavera Highway is a sweeping story of seven brothers grappling with the meaning of masculinity and fatherhood, and the nature of family ties.
A co-presentation of Latino Public Broadcasting. Funded in part by the Center for Asian American Media with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Calavera Highway will be aired nationally on the PBS series, P.O.V., in the fall of 2008.
Contact: Renee at 323-376-3799, tajimapena@aol.com
April 03, 2008 - April 3-6: Latino Student Recruitment Weekend
Watch for details on a number of events to take place between April 3 - 6, when prospective Latino/a undergraduate students visit campus.
March 30, 2008 - April 6: Mon- Sun: Visit the Border Wall in Perkins Library
Experiencing LA FRONTERA
Border Stories: On the Wall
Monday, March 31through Sun, April 6
Join Duke's "Farmworkers in NC" class and Latino/a Studies as we share with you the Border Wall, a creation stemming from our study of migration, security, and human rights at the US/Mexico Border. We'll share images, objects, and stories that we encountered during our spring break trip.
March 28, 2008 - LGSA: Dinner Conversation on Caribbeanness and Mestizaje
The Latin@ Graduate Student Association would like you to join us for a dinner conversation with Professor Claudia Milian and Professor Hernandez-Adrian. They will address the categories of "Caribbeanness" and "Mestizaje, followed by a collective dialogue and delicious food. All are welcomed.
WHEN: Friday, March 28 2008
WHERE: Lounge Area @ Multicultural Center (Bryan Center, West Campus)
TIME: 5.00pm - 6.00pm
Food will be provided.
Please RSVP to: kency.cornejo@duke.edu asap.
March 26, 2008 - April 5: Farmworker Awareness Week - lots of great events
From March 26-April 5th, Students, Advocates, Farmworkers, and Community Members are organizing events around the Triangle in honor of Farmworkers-
Show your support for those who harvest our food by coming to one of these great local events:
1. "Slavery Still Exists: A Conversation with the CIW" | March 26th
2. Protest at Burger King! | March 26th
3. Fair Food Dinner & Border Stories Presentation | March 31st
4. Panel Discussion on Religion & Farmworkers | April 1st
5. Helena Maria Viramontes Talk | April 1st
6. Screening of Invisible Chapel | April 2nd
7. Border Stories Documentary Presentation| April 2nd
8. Screening of De Nadie | April 3rd
9. Farmworker Awareness Week Table at Springternational | April 4th
10. Farm Labor Camp Delegation | April 5th
For more info, see http://cds.aas.duke.edu/saf/involved/faw.htm or contact Tony Macias, tmacias@duke.edu.
April 04, 2008 - Angelica's Dreams with Q & A to follow
Angelica's Dreams/ Los Suenos de Angelica, a film by Duke alum, Rodrigo Dorfman, which premiered this past fall to great reviews at the Carolina Theater in Durham, will be screened at the Terry SANFORD INSTITUTE for Public Policy, Room 104 on Friday, April 4th from 11:30-1:30pm, with FREE LUNCH from CHIPOTLE for the first 50 to arrive and a Q & A to follow with director/producer, Rodrigo Dorfman and the CEO of Latino Community Credit Union, also a Duke alum, Luis Pastor.
Angelica's Dreams is the first Latino feature to come out of NC, the moving story of an immigrant copule torn between staying in the US or returning back to their native country. Shot entirely on location in Durham NC.
Location: Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Sponsored by: Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Spanish Service Learning, Latino/a Studies, and the Multicultural Center.
April 04, 2008 - The African Presence and Persistence in Mexico: Memory and Modernity
"The African Presence and Persistence in Mexico: Memory and Modernity"
A discussion with Padre Glyn Jemmott of El Ciruelo, Oaxaca.
Friday, April 4, 2008
4:00pm
Friedl Building, Room 225
East Campus (Formerly Old Art Museum)
Padre Glyn Jemmott Nelson is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and has worked in the Costa Chica region of Southwestern Mexico for nearly a quarter of a century helping his parishioners recover their African memory and identity. In 1997, he was involved in launching the First Meeting of Afrodescendant Communities (Encuentro de Pueblos Negros) of the coastal region of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico, and in recognizing March as Mexico?s Black History Month. Padre Glyn has worked with other regional residents, to open and maintain a library and a secondary school. He is also a founding member of the grassroots organization México Negro A.C.
For more information, contact Talia Weltman tw10@duke.edu
Sponsored by:
Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Latino/a Studies at Duke University; Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs; Duke Center for Global Studies and the Humanities; La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc.
April 01, 2008 - Helena Maria Viramontes presentation and book signing (at UNC-CH)
On Tues, April 1 at 6pm, Helena Maria Virramontes presents:
"Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten: How Geography Shaped One Writer's Inspiration"
Q & A and book signing to follow talk
Location: Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & History
In the 1980s, Viramontes became co-coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association and literary editor of XhistmeArte Magazine. Later in the decade, Viramontes helped found Southern California Latino Writers and Filmmakers. In collaboration with feminist scholar Maria Herrera Sobek, Viramontes organized three major conferences at UC-Irvine, resulting in two anthologies: Chicana Creativity and Criticism-Charting New Frontiers in American Literature (1988) and Chicana Writes: On Word and Film (1993).
Viramontes' work has been included in nearly every anthology of American literature published in the last ten years, including, most recently, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Named a USA Ford Fellow in Literature for 2007 by United States Artists, she has also received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a Sundance Institute Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Luis Leal Award. A teacher and mentor to countless young writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University.
March 31, 2008 - Border Stories: live performance and local, healthy dinner
Border Stories: Experiencing La Frontera
Join Duke's "Farmworkers in NC" class as we share stories from our trip to the US/Mexico Border in a live performance.
Monday March 31, 2008 from 6-8:00 pm
At The Refectory in the
Live Music and a Cash Bar
Delicious, Healthy, Local Dinner (all you can eat!)
A Unique Performance of Stories from the Borderlands
Tickets can be purchased at the Refectory for $15
For more information contact: fiona.osullivan@duke.edu
March 29, 2008 - Sonidero Expo-Pachanga-NC/Carrboro- P.Lasch presenta
Tianguis Transnacional Pedro Lasch presenta / presents... PACHANGA+EXPOSICION=PARTY+EXHIBITION GRAN MARATON SONIDERO 2008
Saturday March 29 from 6pm - 2am
Arts Center, Carrboro, NC (300 G Main Street, in front of KFC)
Sonideros, djs, and groups all over Mexico and the US making history in the Carolinas!
6-8pm Public conversation about sonidero/dj phenomenon*
8-9pm Public reception, sonidero workshop, and interviews
9pm-2am Gran Baile
Sonidero Sonidos and Dance Groups: Sibarey, Ilusion, Son Poquitos, Los Reyes de la Presalsa, Alucinaci
This exhibition and its related events present collaborations by Pedro Lasch and various North Carolina artists for his ongoing transnational projects. Belonging to his Naturalizations Series, and created with Carrboro Arts Center's bilingual arts collective.
For more info on the Sonidero Expo-Party, contact Prof Pedro Lasch at plasch@duke.edu
March 27, 2008 - March 30, 2008- Festival on the Hill: Latin American and Latino Music in NC and the U.S. at UNC-CH
The Music Department at UNC-CH will host a festival recognizing and celebrating the contributions of Latin American music and culture to the United States. For more information on the festival please visit: http://music.unc.edu/festivalonthehill2008/
Please contact: David Garcia at daga@email.unc.edu for more information.
March 18, 2008 - Film, dinner, and discussion
6:30pm in 225 Friedl (Science, Old Art Museum on East Campus)
Screening of La Boda - The Wedding
You are invited to the wedding of Elizabeth and Artemio in Nuevo León, Mexico. The video introduces a young couple whose lives and community have roots in Mexico while they encounter the challenges of migrant life in the United States.
The film will run about an hour, followed by dinner and discussion, including the summer DukeEngage opportunity on the US-Mexico Border.
Co-sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Mi Gente.
March 08, 2008 - Spring Break
Spring Break: Classes break on March 7 at 7pm and resume on Monday, March 17 at 8am.
February 29, 2008 - Latin Chic at the Library: Mi Gente, DU Libraries, DU Union
Mi Gente, Duke's Hispanic Student's Association, is working with Duke University Libraries in collaboration with the Duke University Union (DUU) to bring you a never-before-seen interpretation of elegance on the evening of Friday, February 29, 2008.
The central theme, "Latin Chic," is a style based on fundamental pan-Latin elements crafted together with beauty and taste. The mood of this formal event will convey the unique liveliness of Latin-American culture.
Performances by: -Bio Ritmo Salsa Band -Stella by Starlight -Smooch -Latin Jazz Band -Holy Samba Drums, a Brazilian Samba troupe -Sabrosura -Plus an eclectic mix of international beats playing throughout the night.
Be ready to be transfixed by: -The smooth vibes of a vintage Caribbean Jazz Club -A scintillating splash of color in the tropical VIP lounge -Elegance inspired by a popular South Beach Hotel
Each niche of the library will serve a different purpose: dancing, mingling, listening, lounging, eating.
Special Features: Mojitos for seniors at 9 pm -VIP/Senior lounge - Tapas by Triangle Catering -Cash bars featuring Spanish, Chilean, and Argentine wines, sangria, mojitos, and more....
Students, alumni, faculty, and staff are invited to come celebrate Mi Gente's 15th birthday in style!
(With support from Latino/a Studies and various other units across campus.)
February 29, 2008 - Book Reception: Dead Subjects by Antonio Viego
Latino/a Studies will host a wine and cheese reception for colleagues, students, friends and fans of Professor Antonio Viego (Literature and Romance Studies) to celebrate the recent publication of his book, Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (Duke University Press, 2007). See DUP link.
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: 225 Science Building (Old Art Museum) on East Campus
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
February 26, 2008 - Political Outlook:Immigration -presentation by Baldemar Velasquez, President of FLOC
Baldemar Velasquez, President of Farm Labor Organizing Committee, will give a public talk on Tuesday, February 26th at 6pm in Social Psychology 130 (West Campus). See location map. This event is co-organized by: Latino/a Studies and Mi Gente. With additional support from Institute for Critical US Studies, Spanish Service Learning, the Archive for Human Rights (RBMSCL), Student Action with Farmworkers, and the Multicultural Center. Read more about FLOC here: http://www.floc.com/ and see the Wikipedia entry on Mr. Velasquez here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldemar_Velasquez.
February 21, 2008 - February 22, 2008- Reflections on the De-colonial Option & the Humanities: An International Dialogue
Where: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Presented By: The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities (Duke
University) in collaboration with The Institute for Transcultural and
Postcolonial Studies (Inputs, University of Bremen, Germany) and The
Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee,
Amsterdam, Holland).
Thursday, February 21, 2008; Noon-5:00 pm
Panelists: Gregson Davis (Duke University) Sabine Broeck (INPUTS, University of Bremen, Germany) Guo-Juin Hong (Duke University) Commentators and discussion leaders: Esther Gabara (Duke University) Jessica Eaglin (Duke University) Arnold Ho (Duke University)
Friday, February 22, 2008; 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Panelists: Kwame Nimako (the National Institute for the Study for Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) Madina Tlostanova (People's Friendship University of Russia) Claudia Milian (Duke University) Nelson Maldonado-Torres (The University of California at Berkeley) Commentators and discussion leaders: Joseph Tucker Edmonds (Duke University) Beatriz Llenin-Figueroa (Duke University) Jose Venegas (UNC - Chapel Hill)
February 21, 2008 - Hispanic Faculty, Graduate and Professional Student, and Friends Luncheon
The Office of Graduate Student Affairs is hosting the Hispanic Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, and Friends Luncheon and panel discussion on Thursday, February 21 from 12:00 -1:30 pm in the Von Canon room of the Bryan Center.
The panel discussion will provide Duke's Hispanic graduate students, faculty, staff and friends with information on 1) the current status of Latino issues in Durham and in NC, 2) what various organizations are doing to address these issues, and 3) how we, as scholars, leaders, and volunteers, can contribute. Susan Denman (Assistant Professor of Nursing and Latino health advocate) will introduce the topic and speakers. Rebecca Reyes (Program Coordinator for the Latino Health Project) will give a brief history of the Latino community in Durham and NC to give the group some background before the panel begins. Panelists include: Emilio A. Parrado (Associate Professor of Sociology), Joan Clifford (Director Spanish Language Program), Liliana Paredes (Assistant Professor of Romance Studies), Pilar Rocha (researcher, Duke dietition, Latino advocate), and Andy Caamano (North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals).
This event is supported by Latino/a Studies.
Please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/38mvfc by Friday, February 15. If you have questions, contact Tomalei Vess at tomalei.vess@duke.edu.
February 20, 2008 - Nelson Maldonado Torres: Coloniality and Latiniwhat?
The UNC-CH/Duke Working Group, "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" and Latino/a Studies at Duke University present:
COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD Discussion Series with Guest Speaker
NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES
Wed, Feb 20 from 6 - 8:30pm
John Hope Franklin Center, 240 (brick building, corner of Erwin & Trent)
Dinner will be provided
Dr. Maldonado-Torres will present "Coloniality and Latiniwhat?: Decolonization in Multiple Voices" This is a short introduction to four different projects (local, national, and international) in which questions of identity, liberation, and decolonization are central: 1) Rethinking U.S. Ethnic Studies in its Fortieth Birthday, 2) the Latino/a Academy of Arts and Sciences, 3) Reparation, Affirmative Action, and the Decolonization of Knowledge in Brazil, and 4) the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
For readings and supplemental material visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html
In addition to the readings, please view: Quilombo Vivo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9vqBPMvBrI.
February 18, 2008 - Celebration of New Home: George Lipsitz Lecture, followed by program and reception
President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange invite you to a lecture and reception in celebration of the opening of the new home of the Departments of African & African American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, the Programs in Literature and Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, and the Duke Human Rights Center.
Monday, February 18, 2008 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Lecture in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building followed by a brief program and reception in the Science Building (formerly the Duke Art Museum) and tours of the building.
Alternative Knowledges, Social Spaces, and Historical Times: Mind Work as Exercise of Citizenship
George Lipsitz, PhD Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California at Santa Barbara
With a response from Duke faculty members Michael Hardt, Program in Literature, and Wahneema Lubiano, African & African American Studies
Universities can be places where evidence and argument matter more than influence, where original and generative thinking matters more than entertainment. Yet the public, which the university is supposed to serve, becomes constructed as a series of market interests. Countering that understanding requires interrupting current and recycled attempts to distract our attention away from the consequences of various domestic and foreign policies by fixing on the university as the problem needing management. However, the mind work possible in the university, necessarily difficult, offers not simply critique of existing conditions but demonstrations also of the transformative power of educational ideas and civic activism. And such work expresses itself not just in complicated epistemological practices but in activism as well, born out of the seemingly ordinary processes of everyday life. Mind work as citizenship is a way of thinking both about the university and about activism. Widely known as one of the preeminent scholars in the field of American popular culture studies and described as one of the world's finest scholars of working-class culture, social movements, and urban history and culture, George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of eight books, including his most recent monograph, Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music, along with The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, American Studies in a Moment of Danger, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s, and Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Professor Lipsitz serves as editor of the Critical American Studies series at the University of Minnesota Press and as co-editor of the American Crossroads Series at the University of California Press. Active in struggles for fair housing and educational equity, Professor Lipsitz's work in political and civic activism goes back to the early 1970s when he worked in union organizing.
February 15, 2008 - LGSA conversation/reflection about "Latinidad" with Profs. Saldivar & Mignolo
Latino/a Graduate Student Association conversation and reflection on "Latinidad" with Professor Jose David Saldivar and Professor Walter Mignolo
When: Friday from 5:00-6:00 pm @ the Lounge Area in the Multicultural Center (Bryan Center, West Campus)
Please RSVP to cbl5@duke.edu by *tuesday, 12 february* if you are planning to attend, so that we can order food accordingly. thanks!
*Organized and sponsored by the Latino/a Graduate Student Association and by Latino/a Studies*
February 14, 2008 - Chocolatl-Kakaw: The New World Origins of Chocolate
When: 7:00 pm @ Nelson Mandela Auditorium & Atrium, UNC Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro Street - click to view map
Celebrate Valentine's Day with a discussion and reception on chocolate! Public Lecture followed by Chocolate Reception
Dr. Dorie Reents Budet, an expert on Mayan ceramics and curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will give the 2008 Robert Howren Lecture in Mayan Studies sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas. This talk explores the origins of chocolate and the social and ritual uses of this wonder-filled food. After the lecture, enjoy a delicious chocolate reception with treats including Mexican cafe de ollo, tacos de Mole, Mayan chocolate cake, Aztec chocolate bark and much more!
Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Global Cup Café with support from Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Foster's Market of Chapel Hill, Harris Teeter, A Southern Season, Chocolaterie Stam and Daniel's Catering.
February 13, 2008 - La Bracereada: Institutional Actors and the Creation of Internal and International Labor Migration Streams During the Bracero Era
When: Wednesday, February 13 from Noon-1:00 pm @ 271 Hamilton Hall, UNC-CH Campus - click to view map
Presented by: Dr. Sergio Chavez, UNC-CH postdoctoral fellow in Sociology
ABSTRACT:
This paper traces the journeys of male migrants to Empalme, Sonora, Mexico to uncover the development of the often overlooked domestic bracero program that operated in conjunction with its well-known international equivalent. Drawing on interviews and observations with ex-braceros who met at a park near the Mexico-U.S. border, I examine their experiences and participation in Mexico?s domestic bracero program, an unintended and unexplored consequence of its internationa counterpart. The study shows how regulation and control were constantly reinvented at every step of the selection process by state actors and their affiliates in Mexico. The paper reveals how the oversupply of migrant labor resulted in the development of a migration industry where local municipal leaders, coyotes, the state, and Mexican agribusiness capitalized from men?s displacement. The migration industry during the bracero selection process controlled who gained access to the U.S. labor market by capturing migrant labor en route to the U.S. in the process fueling a thriving cotton industry in the otherwise stagnant Empalme, Sonora economy. The study concludes by taking the lessons of the domestic bracero program to understand
the link between internal and international labor markets.
February 12, 2008 - Political Outlook 2008: The Latino/Hispanic Vote in the Presidential Election
Where: Rare Book Room @ 7:00 pm, Free Dinner!
With Visiting Professor of Political Science: Jason Casellas
An evening talk
on Latino/a political participation in the coming elections. Featuring
Professor Jason Casellas, visiting from The University of Texas at
Sponsored by: Mi Gente and Latino/a Studies
With support from Institute for Critical US Studies, Duke Democrats,
Duke Political Science Student Association, and Bench and Bar.
February 12, 2008 - Save the Date: Latino Political Participation with Prof Jason Casellas
Latino/a Studies and Mi Gente: Latino Student Association will co-sponsor an evening talk by Professor Jason Casellas, visiting Duke this year from teh Univeristy of Texas at Autstin Department of Government. Prof Casellas will speak about political participation in the coming elections. Watch for more details.
February 09, 2008 - 5th Annual UNC-Duke Consortium Spring Conference
When: All day; Saturday, February 9
"The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean" in FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-CH. All conference activities are free and open to the public. To view the program please visit:
http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/index.html
Please contact: Beatriz Riefkohl 919-966-1484 riefkohl@email.unc.edu for more information. Directions to FedEx Global Education Center: http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html
February 08, 2008 - 5th Annual UNC-Duke Consortium Spring Conference
"The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
All conference activities are free and open to the public. To view the program please visit: http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/index.html
Please Contact: Natalie Hartman 919-681-3983 njh@duke.edu for more information.
February 05, 2008 - Faculty Bookwatch: Rereading the Blacklegend: The Discourses of Racial and Religious Difference in the Renaissance Empires
When: 6:30 PM; Tuesday February 5, 2008
Where: Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Book Sale + Reception to Follow
The phrase "The Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish
journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other
Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and
religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black
mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this
stereotype, REREADING THE BLACK LEGEND contextualizes Spain's uniquely
tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations
whose interests were served by propagating the "Black Legend." A
distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern
imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese
in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize
the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous
peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and
linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable
resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious
belief in the European Renaissance.
Panelists include:
Lewis Gordon, Temple University <http://www.temple.edu/philosophy/Gordon/index.htm>
Margaret R. Greer, Duke University <http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Romance/faculty/mgreer>
Leslie Peirce, New York University <http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/lesliepeirce>
With:
Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University <http://waltermignolo.com/>
Maureen Quilligan, Duke University
<http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/mquillig>
Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke UniversityLibraries, Faculty Bookwatch is a series intended to celebrate and to encourage scholarly conversations on important recent books by Duke humanities faculty. For more information, please visit: http://jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/bookwatch/index.php.
Questions? e-mail fhi@duke.edu
February 05, 2008 - Latina/o and Black Relations Under White Supremacy at UNC-CH
Please join us for Dr. Laura Pulido's upcoming public talk on February 5th at 3:30 PM in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC-CH. http://www.lib.unc.edu/stone/location.html
Biography:
Professor Pulido researches race, political activism, ethnic studies, and Los Angeles. Currently, she is working on two related projects. First, she is exploring Latino (especially ethnic Mexicans') racial identity. In particular, she is examining how the racial identity and position of Latinos has varied over space and time. Second, she has been researching the relationships between African Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles. The two studies are intimately related because it is impossible to understand the racial position of Latinos outside of their relationship to African Americans.
Abstract:
The subject of Latino and Black relations is growing rapidly in significance across the country. Dr. Laura Pulido is particularly interested in Latinas/os and African Americans attitudes towards each other and what it suggests about the larger racial formation.
Books:
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
For further information, please contact: jdribo@email.unc.edu.
January 31, 2008 - Latino Graduate Student Association (LGSA) Meeting
WHEN: 6-8 PM; Thursday, 31 January 2008
WHERE: Resource Room, Multicultural Center Bryan Center (west campus)
Dinner from Torero's will be served (compliments of Latino/a Studies)!
The Latino Graduate Student Association (LGSA) at Duke is being reestablished. Please join us for our FIRST meeting to discuss current issues, needs and/or concerns of Latino graduate and professional students as well as of those who are interested in issues related to Latino communities within and without Duke. Meet other Latino grad students, and be a vocal and active part of the planning of LGSA's upcoming agenda.
Please direct questions to: Kency Cornejo kc67@duke.edu or Beatriz Llenin-Figueroa cbl55@duke.edu
January 31, 2008 - UNC-CH: Andrew Fuligni speaks on Youth from Immigrant Families
Family Identity, Obligation, and Support among Youth from Immigrant Families
The FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-CH will offer a free public lecture by psychologist Andrew Fuligni at 5:00pm on Thursday, January 31 in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium as part of a series sponsored by the Latino Issues Workgroup and the Center for Global Initiatives. Fuligni will discuss the experiences of immigrant children in the U.S. and the cultural traditions that support their development and prosperity.
DAY: Thursday, January 31st
TIME: 5pm
PLACE: FedEx Global Education Center (corner of Pittsboro & McCauley Streets), Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Many immigrant families carry with them cultural traditions that emphasize the role of children in supporting, assisting, and respecting the authority of the family. These traditions take on practical significance as immigrant families attempt to adapt to American society.
In this talk, Fuligni will discuss a program of research that has investigated the extent to which youth from different immigrant and ethnic backgrounds identify with and provide support and assistance to their families of origin. Using findings obtained from questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and daily diary techniques, the presentation will focus on how immigrant status, ethnic background, and economic resources shape adolescents' psychological sense of obligation to the family as well as the different ways in which that obligation gets fulfilled on a daily basis. The implications of family obligation and assistance for aspects of youth' mental health, adjustment, and development will be highlighted.
*Andrew J. Fuligni* is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and is Co-Director of the NIMH Family Research Consortium IV. He has received extensive recognition for his teaching and research including the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Award, FIRST Award from the NICHD, Distinguished Teaching Award from the Department of Psychology at New York University, and the APA's Boyd McCandless Award for Early Career Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Fuligni's work is also well supported through private foundations and the National Institutes of Health including grants from the William T. Grant Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health Development. His research focuses on family relationships and adolescent development among culturally and ethnically diverse populations. Much of his work has examined the adaptation of immigrant families to American society, and how that adaptation process ultimately influences the development and adjustment of adolescents in those families. Fuligni is currently following these youths as they make the transition into young adulthood, and is employing both quantitative and qualitative methods in order to understand how the youths' sense of duty and obligation to the family shapes their psychological well-being and decision-making about education, employment, and family formation.
Note: pls direct inquiries to: perreira@email.unc.edu
January 28, 2008 - "An Evening with Veronica Cruz Sanchez"
You are invited to a public talk by Mexican activist and 2006 International Human Rights Watch winner Veronica Cruz Sanchez
"Gender, Rape, & Abortion: Working for Reproductive Rights and Dignity for Women in Mexico"
When: 6:00-7:30, Monday, January 28th, 2008
Location: White Lecture Hall, Duke's East Campus
Veronica Cruz Sanchez is the founder and head of Las Libres, the only organization to tackle the issue of access to abortion after rape in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato, where unsafe abortion is one of the highest causes of death among women of reproductive age. In Guanajuato, abortion has been legal in cases of rape for over thirty years. However, due to official negligence, obstruction, and a wealth of administrative hurdles, few if any rape victims in Guanajuato have ever obtained a state-provided abortion. Veronica leads the fight against this injustice by connecting rape victims with medical and legal aid, training youth to hold health workshops for peers, and challenging policy makers to ensure real access to abortion as allowed under the law.
Event co-sponsors: The Duke in Madrid Program; UNC School of Law; Duke Program in Women's Studies; the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Baldwin Scholars; Duke Women's Center; Duke Department of Romance Studies; Duke Program in Latino/a Studies; Duke Department of History; Duke Spanish Service-Learning Program; UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas; Duke Institute for Critical U.S. Studies
For directions and further information about this event, see http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/program//veronicacruzdirections.php??/A> or contact Caroline Light clight@duke.edu
January 23, 2008 - Modernity/Coloniality/Latinity Working Group Meeting
From: venegas@email.unc.edu [mailto:venegas@email.unc.edu]
Dear friends,
I am pleased to announce our next Modernity/Coloniality/Latinity meeting. Our main focus will be to prepare for Nelson Maldonado Torres's visit in February. We will discuss the readings that Nelson kindly forwarded and come up with issues/concerns/problems that we would like to address during his visit. His talk in February is titled: "Coloniality and Latiniwhat?: Decolonization in Multiple Voices." and involves a short introduction to four different projects (local, national, and international) in which questions of identity, liberation, and decolonization are central. See details under separate listing.
This dinner and discussion meeting will take place at Room 3009 (Global Education Center, UNC-CH) on Wed., January 23 from 6 to 8. Dinner will be served. Best, Jose Luis Venegas
Note: Please email Jose for the readings
January 23, 2008 - Mi Gente and DUU present comedian, Pablo Francisco
Mi Gente and DUU have teamed to bring you PABLO FRANSISCO, the hilarious comedian who has been featured on his own Comedy Central special and is a regular voice on The Family Guy, will be at Duke on January 23rd in Page Auditorium. Tickets are $15 for students, and will go on sale TOMORROW January 14th. This is an event you won't want to miss.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7pm
Page Auditorium
$15 Duke Students
$20 General Public
For more information about buying tickets go to:
www.tickets.duke.edu
Check out You Tube clips of Pablo Francisco on the facebook event page at:
http://duke.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6970158255&ref=share
January 17, 2008 - DukeEngage: US/Mexico Border Program
Encuentros de la Frontera: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement - Summer 2008 Faculty and staff organizers of the DukeEngage project on the US/Mexico border will be presenting information on this opportunity on Thurs, Jan 17th at 7pm in Social Science 139. Program updates and information can be found at the Center for Civic Engagement and DukeEngage website: http://dukeengage.duke.edu//.
January 17, 2008 - Latino Student Recruitment Weekend -Dinner Meeting
The Undergraduate Admissions Office is calling all undergraduates, alumni, faculty, and staff affiliated with the Duke Latino community to share their input over a free dinner Thurs!
WHAT: El Concilio Focus Group for Latino Student Recruitment Weekend 2008
WHEN: Thursday, January 17, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
WHERE: McClendon Commons, Behind Admissions Office on Campus Drive
WITH: Free dinner! (provided by Latino/a Studies at Duke)
RSVP TO: Kim Reyes, Senior Admissions Officer (kimberly.reyes@duke.edu) Or on Facebook (Search Events: LSRW 2008)
Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (April 3 -6, 2008) is quickly approaching and the Undergraduate Admissions Office is calling all undergraduates, alumni, faculty, and staff affiliated with the Duke Latino community to share their input for this year’s events. Whether you have new ideas, comments from past LSRWs, or suggestions for how you or your organization can help – PLEASE COME! Kim Reyes ('03), Coordinator of Latino Student Recruitment, is creating a planning committee for this year’s LSRW with broad representation from ALL Latino student groups on campus. Come find out how you can be a part of this planning committee which will have a fun way for everyone to participate in recruiting the best and brightest Latino students for the Class of 2012.
January 16, 2008 - Saldivar presents: Transnationalism Contested: Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Caramelo
Transnationalism Contested: Sandra Cisneros' The House on
a Wednesdays at the Center Program with
Jose David Saldivar
Professor of English and Literature, Director of Latino/a Studies
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
12:00 - 1:00 PM with free lunch
Room 240,
Wednesdays at the Center is presented by the
Lunch from Chipotle is provided by event co-sponsor: Latino/a Studies at Duke University (see http://latino.aas.duke.edu//??/FONT> for more info).
Free parking at the
Details: Professor Saldivar's presentation will focus on some of the transnational stories (historias) and novels written by Sandra Cisneros. It begins by considering how Cisneros thematizes the plight of Greater Mexico's beleaguered multiculture in The House On Mango Street and Caramelo and then defends it against the charges of failure. The presentation ends by turning toward the issues of figural language and border identities in Cisneros' fiction.
Questions? E-mail jennysw@duke.edu
About the Speaker: see http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/latino/staff/jose.saldivar
December 06, 2007 - Los Chapeljilenos: Latin Vocals of John and Carmen Chasteen
7 pm at the Global Education Center Auditorium, UNC-CH
Los Chapeljilenos: Latin Vocals of John and Carmen Chasteen
There's no simple way to describe the music of John and Carmen Chasteen—an eclectic mix of North and South American folk styles, rhythmically up-beat with strong vocal harmonies and lyrics in both English and Spanish. Some songs are old standards from Carmen's native Colombia, some sound like down-home North Carolina, and some speak to current political issues, such as immigration. Direction to the GEC available at http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html
December 03, 2007 - Public lecture on Latina Literature at UNC-CH: "Clamped Tongues"
Dr. Laura Halperin, Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, presents: "Clamped Tongues: Linguistic Terrorism in Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera and Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" on December 3rd, 3:00 Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall UNC-CH
Dear Colleagues, Please join us for Dr. Laura Halperin's upcoming public lecture on December 3rd at 3:00 PM in Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall.
Dr. Halperin will be previewing exciting research from her book manuscript Narratives of Transgression:Deviance and Defiance in Late Twentieth Century Latina Literature.
Please see the abstract and biography below for further information or contact: jdribo@email.unc.edu.
Abstract: Laura Halperin's lecture begins by providing an overview of her work on the gendered, raced, and ethnicized pathologization of Latinas in late twentieth century Latina literature. The remainder of the talk draws from the last chapter of Halperin's book project, focusing on the relationship between Latina artistry and deviance in Chicana writer Gloria Anzald?Borderlands/La Frontera and Dominican American?novelist Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. These texts reveal how mainstream society interprets linguistic dexterity, bilingualism, multilingualism and Spanish monolingualism as impediments to mental health and raced, ethnicized, and gendered determinants of mental illness. In "Clamped Tongues," Halperin pays particular attention to the pathologization of Alvarez's Yolanda. Halperin draws from Gloria Anzald theories of linguistic terrorism to argue that the representation of Yolanda as mentally unstable is connected to her vocation as a writer and her bilingual word play. Given the intersectionality of language, race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the medicalization of language depicted in these texts disguises the racism, xenophobia, classism, and sexism that underlie diagnoses of Latina writers as mentally imbalanced. These individual ascriptions of Latina deviance cannot be separated from collective histories of oppression.
Bio: Laura Halperin received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the gendered, raced, and ethnicized pathologization of Latinas in Latina literature. Last year, she taught an undergraduate Latina/o Studies course, joined the Latina/o Studies board, presented her work in several venues, and received a UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence. This year, she is a postdoctoral advisor for the Office of Postdoctoral Services and a facilitator in a Duke and UNC co-sponsored working group on Modernity/Coloniality/Latinidad. She is also working on her book manuscript, Narratives of Transgression: Deviance and Defiance in Late Twentieth Century Latina Literature, and has an article about Dreaming in Cuban forthcoming in Volume 6 of Latino Studies.
November 30, 2007 - The International 3,800 Mile "Run of Unity" Stops in Durham this Friday, Nov 30 at 5pm
Durham, N.C. - Immaculate Conception Catholic Church will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana. The event will take place at 810 West Chapel Hill St. on November 30, 2007 beginning with the public welcoming of the Antorcha at 5pm, followed by a press conference at 6 pm.
The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana Mexico- New York is a 3,800-mile relay run from Mexico to New York carrying the Guadalupe Torch. It brings together two nations and thousands of families divided by the border. The torch left the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on October 7 and will arrive at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in NYC on December 12. See also http://www.tepeyac.org/antorcha/07/index.htm
For Mexicans, Our Lady of Guadalupe is a national symbol of great importance. The Basilica in Mexico City where the International Run begins is the most sacred religious place in Mexico. Along the way, the Latino immigrant community, its supporters, and the local Catholic churches will offer hospitality and participate in the relay race. The local community will run with the torch on Saturday, December 1, along the 150-mile stretch from Durham, N.C. to Richmond, VA.
The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana, organized by the Tepeyac Association and the Archdiocese of New York, began in 2001. The event has an audience of more than 22 million people and the participation of over 7,000 runners who take turns carrying the torch according to the ancient Mexican indigenous tradition that has been sustained into the present. The welcoming of the Guadalupe torch and the participation in this run has the following objectives:
To bring together thousands of families from both Mexico and the United States, grassroots organizations, international prize winning athletes, popular bands, clergy, politicians and leaders of business community.
To promote friendship and solidarity among community groups.
To call attention to the painful reality of the immigrant families and communities separated by the border and the dire economic situation in their countries of origin.
To highlight the significant contributions of the Latinos to the economy and cultural vibrancy of our state and our country.
A large crowd of the Durham Latino immigrant community, with their local community, religious and business leaders, will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupanaat the Immaculate Conception Church in Durham on this day. For more information on the local organization, please contact Javier Garcia at (919) 225-3395/ immigranthousing@earthlink.net or Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, ofm at (919) 682-3449 ex. 258/ jacekofm2002@yahoo.com. For any press or media information, contact Pedro Lasch (919) 684 3308/ plasch@duke.edu
November 29, 2007 - Farmworkers Feed Us All: Dotter and Watson at UNC-CH
Thursday, November 29, 7 p.m. EARL DOTTER / TENNESSEE WATSON: "Farmworkers Feed Us All: The Work and Health of Migrants in Maine" Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
DIRECTIONS: http://www.unc.edu/iaar/ISC/isc2005directions.htm Part of ENGAGING DOCUMENTARY: Community Values and Artistic Visions A Series Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University with support from the Robertson Scholars Program http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html
Additional UNC-Chapel Hill support for this event is provided by the School of Public Health, the Department of Anthropology, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Center for Integration of Research and Action, the Social Movements Working Group, the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Kellogg Health Scholars Program, the Center for Public Service, the Carolina Community Network, and the Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes Program.
Earl Dotter, widely known for his photographs documenting the lives of workers, and Tennessee Watson, an audio producer from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, will present new work from a project in Maine, where an estimated 10,000-15,000 migrant farmworkers are employed. Dotter and Watson photographed and interviewed Guatemalan, Honduran, Jamaican, and Mexican migrants, Native Americans, and Mainers at work and in camps from Aroostook County next to the Canadian border to the coastal region of Washington County to Western Maine. They also documented access to health-care services provided by the Maine Migrant Health Program, which reaches out to farmworkers involved in the state's harvests via mobile health clinics.
An exhibit of this work will premiere in January 2008 during the opening of Maine's Legislative Session at the Capitol in Augusta. In the spring the exhibit will travel to the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and then throughout Maine's agricultural areas.
The project and exhibition were sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health (NIOSH Education and Research Center and NIEHS Center for Environmental Health), the Maine Migrant Health Program, the Maine Occupational Research Agenda, and the Maine State Department of Labor, and the Maine Health Access Foundation.
For more information on presenters, see http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html.
November 16, 2007 - The Idea of Cuba: Alex Harris with Lillian Guerra
Friday, November 16, 6:30 p.m. (Reception, 5:30 p.m.) THE IDEA OF CUBA / Alex Harris with Lillian Guerra Talk and Book Signing Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
DIRECTIONS: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/visitus_directions.php
Additional support provided by the Nasher Museum of Art; the Cuban American Student Association; the Center for International Studies; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library; and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, all at Duke University; and Ann Stewart Fine Art and Fundación Amistad. To mark the publication of a new book of photographs and writing, Alex Harris, a professor of the practice of public policy and documentary studies at Duke University and a founder of the Center for Documentary Studies, will discuss his remarkable journey into contemporary Cuba and how his perspectives have shifted over thirty-five years as a documentary photographer. He will be joined by Yale historian Lillian Guerra, an American daughter of Cuban exiles who has visited the island repeatedly to conduct research and to try to understand what it means to be Cuban. Copies of The Idea of Cuba, published in Fall 2007 by the University of New Mexico Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, will be available for purchase at the event. An exhibition of The Idea of Cuba organized by the Southeast Museum of Photography will travel from 2008 to 2010.
November 14, 2007 - Maria Lugones - Colonialidad/Latinidad Discussion
Wednesday, November 14: part II, COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES with Maria
Lugones
COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES
A joint initiative of the Working Group on "Globalization,
Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge"
(a working group of The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
PRESENTS:
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
speaker Maria Lugones
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
The John Hope
Cosponsored by: The Working Group of The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies (UNC/Duke); Latino/a Studies (
This special edition will run through the scholarly year 2007 - 2008. For additional information contact tracy.carhart@duke.edu
November 13, 2007 - Charlie King Performs on Campus 8:00pm
Charlie king and colleen kattau in concert Tuesday November 13 8:00 pm at the Mary Lou Williams center, west campus, Duke University
Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Peggy Seeger, Chad Mitchell and Judy Small. Charlie has released a dozen solo albums since 1976, three albums with Bright Morning Star, and numerous compilation albums with other artists. Folk legend Peggy Seeger says, "If we had more Charlie Kings in the world I'd be less worried."
Co-sponsored by Romance studies, AAAS, the Ethno musicology working group, Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, International Studies, and cultural anthropology, Contact Professor Diane Nelson (dmnelson@duke.edu) for more info on the performance at Duke.
November 13, 2007 - Pollitical Art for Dark Days: Colleen Kattau
Artist/activist colleen kattau will present a "for use now" workshop on combining artistry, creativity, and effective political action on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 4:30 in social psychology 126, on the west campus of duke university.
On her way to the annual "close the school of the Americas" protest in fort benning, Georgia, musician and activist colleen kattau will discuss the soa, its role in latin America and latin America's role as a proving ground for current US counterinsurgency projects. more importantly, she'll share ideas and strategies for making sure our voices are heard on the pressing task of ending torture and war and building a more sustainable planet.
Co-sponsored by Romance studies, AAAS, the Ethno musicology working group, Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, International Studies, and cultural anthropology. contact Professor Diane Nelson (dmnelson@duke.edu) for more info.
November 13, 2007 - Malaquias Montoya, professor and artist, at UNC-CH
Tuesday November 13, 2007, Malaquias Montoya, professor and artist at the
Through an art of protest embodied in the images of his silkscreened posters, Professor Malaquias Montoya raises counterpoints to images of disempowerment, hopelessness and criminalization all too common in the mass media. Montoya writes in his artist statement, "In my images I pay tribute to those who struggle on a daily basis. I pay homage to the workers and I aggrandize their efforts. I celebrate small and large victories of the human spirit. I depict people in control of their lives working together to change and transform their reality." Yet the transformational spirit of community in Montoya's work "reaches beyond the barrio" embracing the international in the broadest sense of the term. Rather than being confined to the
This free, public event in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room of the
November 09, 2007 - Nov 9 & 10 in Pittsboro: Pulitzer Prize Winners Hector Tobar and Jose Galvez
Featuring: Pulitzer Prize winners Hector Tobar, journalist and author of Translation Nation, and documentary photographer Jose Galvez will give two presentations in Pittsboro, NC on Nov 9 and 10.
Community Dialog Across Borders will combine visual and literary arts to generate a dialog about Latino immigration in our community. The moderator will be Dr. Maria DeGuzman, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature, and Director of Latina/o Studies Minor & Program at UNC Chapel Hill.
Jose Galvez's pictures will be on display at the event. The artists' respective books and other select reading materials will be available for purchase and autographs. Please click on the following link to see the full information: [more]
November 02, 2007 - Photographic Exploration of Rural Afro-Mexican Life
The Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives PRESENTS "Pieces of the Indies: From Ebony to Cinnamon Skin / Piezas de Indias: de ebano a piel canela"
Please join us in this photographic exploration of rural Afro-Mexican life and cultural expression.
5:30-7:30pm at Duke – Center for Documentary Studies – Auditorium Contact dlt9@duke.edu for more info.
November 01, 2007 - Nov 1-14 Latin American & Caribbean Studies Film Festival
The 21st annual Latin American & Caribbean film festival is coming to UNC-CH, Duke, NCCU, Guilford, and Durham Tech November 1-14, 2007.
Presented by The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. See http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/. [more]
November 01, 2007 - Nov 1-14: Latin American & Caribbean Studies Film Festival
The 21st annual Latin American & Caribbean film festival is coming to UNC-CH, Duke, NCCU, Guilford, and Durham Tech November 1-14, 2007
http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/.
Presented by: The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University [more]
November 01, 2007 - Days of the Dead at UNC-CH and kick-off Film Festival
Nov 1 at 6PM, continue celebrating Days of the Dead and also kick-off the Latin American Film Festival at UNC-CH
Thursday, the Atrium of the new
Join, ISA, the new Institute for the
Study of the
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Opening Reception - Tamales, Day of the Dead Bread and Ponche Thursday, November
1, 2007 6:00pm Atrium of the Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., UNC
Campus
October 31, 2007 - Memoria Abierta - with Patricia de Valdez
12-1:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center Room 240 Patricia de Valdez is the director of the Argentina-based "Memoria Abierta," a physical and digital memorial to the dirty war. She will be talking about her work as part of the Wednesday at the Center series. "Memoria Abierta," or Open Memory, is a ground-breaking effort to not only collect and display objects from Argentina's period of state terrorism, but also to use memory-gathering activities as a way to strengthen a social conscience that values active memory and influences Argentine political culture and the construction of identity and the strengthening of democracy. "Memoria Abierta" is a founding member of the "Sites of Conscience" association of museums, which include New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Cape Town’s District Six Museum. Hosted by the Archive for Human Rights and the Duke Human Rights Center. Cosponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Carolina and Duke Consortium for Latin American and Caribbean Studies John Hope Franklin Center 240 12:00-1:30 pm Lunch is provided Parking is free with a voucher (in the medical center lot). Free and open to the public Free and lunch provided Please Contact: Robin Kirk 919-323-4868 rights@duke.edu for more information.
October 30, 2007 - through Nov 4: Days of the Dead/ Dias de los Muertos at Duke
Display Opens October 30 at 4pm in the Perkins Library, with a small reception. In honor of Mexico's Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) several organizers at Duke University and in the Durham community are designing ofrendas (altars) to be displayed in the open entryway to Perkins Library, with a traditional altar and unique art on view in the Rare Book Room. Eight ofrendas will be on display from Tuesday Oct 30 - Sunday Nov 4th for public viewing, with one altar set aside as an Open Altar for everyone's involvement. Classes participating in the Dia de Los Muertos project cover a broad range of topics including human rights in Latin America, contemporary humanitarian challenges, and educational and labor issues facing latino immigrants in
October 30, 2007 - Diversity without Domination: lecture by Prof Hardt
At the Multicultural Center (lower level of the Bryan Center), West Campus, at 5:30pm. "Diversity without Domination," a lecture by Professor Michael Hardt.
Capital and white supremacy perhaps increasingly thrive on certain forms of diversity and even some kinds of hybrid identities. How can a politics of liberation practice diversity in a context where the forms of domination it confronts also rest fundamentally on diversity? Hardt will explore this question and highlight movements in Bolivia that simultaneously address race and class differences.
About Michael Hardt: Michael Hardt received his MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, 1990. Michael Hardt's recent writings deal primarily with the political, legal, economic, and social aspects of globalization. In his books with Antonio Negri he has analyzed the functioning of the current global power structure (Empire, 2000) and the possible democratic alternatives to that structure (Multitude, 2004).
Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP to vcw@duke.edu.
October 30, 2007 - 2pm Procession to Open Altar: Days of the Dead
TUES at 2PM - Join the Procession to the Open Altar - Participate in Remembering
Home
All people - no matter
their circumstances of life here in the
October 26, 2007 - Visualization Friday Forum featuring Pedro Lasch
Pedro Lasch, Latino/a Studies Community Liaison, and Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Visual Arts, will be presenting his mirror-mask work this Friday at noon in the Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) at Duke.
(Directions to the LSRC at http://vis.duke.edu/contact-new.html.) ***Please direct inquiries to _rbrady@duke.edu_***
Friday, October 26th noon-1pm in D106 LSRC, lunch will be served.
Pedro Lasch, Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Social Systems, Spatialization & Cognitive Masking/Demasking This workshop will focus on my 'Naturalizations Series,' an ongoing interdisciplinary experiment based on the use of a set of mirror-masks designed in 2002. The initial perception created by these masks is one of spatial and psychological confusion. Subjects are reversed if only one person is wearing the mask. If several people wear them, their faces disappear and transform into an endless set of reflections of other mirrors, other faces, environments, and objects. Landscape and subject are one and many. Subjects are inseparable from each other, their bodies dismembered by rectangular planes departing and arriving through reflected gazes. Light breaks and travels on these masks with unpredictable speed and variety. Space and movement become counter-intuitive. We will together enter this perceptual, psychological, and social labyrinth to reconsider the value of such low-tech cognitive tools -- formerly called philosophical toys, as useful complements to the expensive technology and encoded language most prevalent in (scientific) visualization. Network theory, systems theory, and current ideas around spatialization in art and science will also be discussed before and after our experience with the masks. The Visualization seminar series is a forum for faculty, staff and students from across the university to share their research involving the development and/or application of visualization methodologies. Our goal is to build an interdisciplinary community of visualization experts whose combined knowledge can facilitate research and promote innovation. See the full Friday Forum Fall 2007 Schedule. [more]
October 25, 2007 - Photography of Jose Galvez at UNC-CH
"Images of Self - Then and Now" at UNC-CH
The photography of Jose Galvez
Freedom Forum Center, Room 305
Thursday, October 25, 4-5 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jose Galvez will present his work Oct. 25 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Galvez's talk will cover his more than 35 years documenting the lives of Latinos in the United States. Galvez has used black and white photography to document Mexican American culture, and capture Latino lifestyles in the United States for more than three decades, portraying his heritage in a realistic and positive fashion. His career includes work at the Los Angeles Times, where he led a photo staff that, along with a team of reporters and won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on the Latino experience in Southern California. The Smithsonian is among the countless museums and galleries that have exhibited his work, and he served as senior photo editor and contributed to Americanos, a multi-media exhibition documenting Latino life in the United States. Now living in Durham, Galvez travels the country discovering the new Chicano communities that now flourish in the South and Midwest. His talk will cover his work documenting Latinos in the United States.
For more information, contact Lucila Vargas, (919) 962-2366, lcvargas@email.unc.edu.
The free, public event in Carroll Hall's Freedom Forum Conference Center (Room 305) is presented by the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, and the UNC Latina/o Studies Gift Fund.
October 24, 2007 - Modernity/Latinity meeting at UNC-CH
Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the next meeting of the "Modernity/Latinity" working group of the UNC/Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This year the working group will concentrate on the connections between the constructions of Latinity in the US (and beyond) and the global transformations of the modern/colonial world.
The meeting will take place at room 3033 in Center for Global Initiatives (UNC-CH) on October 24 at 6pm. See http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html for directions. Dinner will be served. We will focus primarily on the intersections of gender and coloniality in preparation for our meeting with Maria Lugones in November. I have attached an article by Lugones herself as well as an older (though still relevant) piece by Mohanty. In addition, Joe wanted to discuss one of his writings, a paper that addresses the connections between modernity/coloniality and Latinidad.
Please contact me, Jose Luis Venegas, venegas@email.unc.edu for the readings and for more information.
October 24, 2007 - Support the DREAM Act: place a call from the Plaza Wednesday
Wednesday, Oct 24 8:30-5:30 0n the Plaza
Plese stop by the DREAM ACT table to place a call to our senators to support the DREAM Act
The "DREAM Act" and "American Dream Act" provide an opportunity for U.S.-raised students to earn U.S. citizenship. The DREAM Act would allow certain immigrant students to adjust their status to that of a legal permanent resident on a conditional basis for six years based on the following requirements:
1.) Age. Immigrant students must have entered the U.S. before age 16.
2.) Academic requirement. Students must have been accepted for admission into a two or four-year institution of higher education or have earned a high school diploma or a general educational development (GED) certificate at the time of application for relief. or served in the U.S. armed forces for at least 2 years.
3.) Long-term U.S. residence. Students must reside in the U.S. when the law is enacted. In addition, those eligible must have lived in the U.S. for at least five years preceding the date of enactment of the Act.
4.) Good moral character. Immigrant students must demonstrate good moral character, a defined term in immigration law. In general, students must have no criminal record.
Contact sab39@duke.edu or bao9@duke.edu for more info.
October 23, 2007 - Durham Mayoral Forum
Page Auditorium 6:30-7:30pm
Want to learn more about Durham politics?
The Duke College Republicans and Duke Democrats are collaborating to put together Duke's first-ever campus mayoral forum between incumbent Mayor Bill Bell and challenger City Councilman Thomas Stith. The candidates will be discussing their approaches to targeting crime and Duke-Durham relations, among other issues.
Political Science Department Chair Michael Munger will moderate the forum, which will have ample opportunities for Duke students, faculty, and community members to pose their own questions to the candidates.
For anyone registered to vote in Durham, this forum will be an invaluable opportunity to gauge the difference between the candidates.
There will be an OPEN Q&A with an opportunity for students to talk to the candidates individually at the end.
Email for more info: vikram.srinivasan@duke.edu
October 21, 2007 - PREMIERE Screening: Los Suenos de Angelica/ Angelica's Dreams
Los Suenos de Angelica/ Angelica's Dreams portrays the drama of an immigrant couple from Latin America, Angelica and Roberto, who are discussing whether to return to their home country or stay in the United States. A sudden event motivates the couple to stay in the United States and try to buy a home. In addition to the educational and entertainment value of this film, viewers will also find opportunities to examine issues about our changing local community, the influence of immigrant cultures, the economic impact of immigrants, political representation and community engagement, interaction between Duke and the Hispanic community in Durham, public policy, community service and public education, the changing roles of immigrant women, and the breaking of stereotypes.
Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU) produced this film with a grant from the CDFI Fund. Boldly mixing documentary and fiction, telenovela and comedy, director/producer Rodrigo Dorfman shot the film entirely on location in Durham, North Carolina, plunging his main characters deep into the daily life of one of the most vibrant new Latino communities in the United States. View a 3-minute trailer.
The premiere screening will bring together the Duke and Durham communities at the Carolina Theater in downtown Durham. Tickets may be obtained from any of the Duke sponsors and/or by contacting jennysw@duke.edu. FREE Transportation will be provided: get on "Angelica’s Dreams" bus at West Campus bus stop at 3:15pm. Panel discussions related to themes addressed in the film are currently being scheduled for the Duke campus.
Film presented by Latino Community Credit Union. Screening co-sponsored by: the City of Durham Department of Community Development and the following Duke University units: Latino/a Studies, The Multicultural Center, Community Affairs, the Institute for Critical US Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish Service Learning, Duke Women's Studies Program, Center for Documentary Studies, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Community Service Center, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and Campus Life Unit of Student Affairs.
October 19, 2007 - Conflict, Illicit Crops, and Environmental Degradation in Colombia
The Working Group on the Environment in Latin America would like to invite you to attend "Conflict, Illicit Crops, and Environmental Degradation in Colombia", a talk by Dr. Manuel Rodríguez . How have narco-trafficking activities and armed conflict in Colombia effected the environment? What impacts have narco-trafficking activities had on the Colombian tropical forests and the communities that inhabit them? Can conservation and sustainable use of forests ecosystems become assets to attain social stability and peace?
4:30pm (Reception will follow) at Duke University, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Lecture Hall 04
Sponsored by: WGELA, Duke Council on Latin American Studies, UNC-Duke Consortium on Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Manuel Rodríguez-Becerra is currently Professor on Environmental Policy and Public Policy in the School of Management of Universidad de Los Andes. From 1976 to 1990, he was General Secretary, Dean of the School of Management, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-president of this University. For more info on the speaker and for any questions please contact Angela Gillingham (ang6@duke.edu) or Ian Varley ( iav3@duke.edu).
October 18, 2007 - NORMA CANTU: "Celebrating Identity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas"
7 p.m. at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
NORMA CANTU: "Celebrating Identity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas"
As the first presentation of the "ENGAGING DOCUMENTARY: Community Values and Artistic Visions" Series, presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Norma Cantú will focus on three fiestas: the quinceanera, a coming-of-age celebration; the matachines folk dance drama tradition; and the secular George Washington birthday celebration in her hometown, Laredo, Texas. She will examine resistance to the hegemonic powers of Mexico and the United States and the hybrid nature of the confluence of cultures. Each fiesta can be read as a hybrid text that reveals what Gloria Anzladua claims is "the wound that will not heal": the U.S.-Mexico border. Even in celebratory expressions, there are hints of the ways that this community has had to battle for its own cultural survival.
Norma E. Cantu is a professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of the award-winning Canicula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change and Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, she is working on a novel titled Champu, or Hair Matters, and an ethnographic work, Soldiers of the Cross: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz. Her scholarly and creative work focuses on life along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
With additional support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of English, and Latino/a Studies, all at Duke University
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October 18, 2007 - Far from the Island (Lejos de la Isla) - a screening and discussion with Director
CASA (Cuban-American Student Association) would like to invite you to a special screening on Thursday Oct. 18th at 7:45pm: Far from the Island (Lejos de la Isla) in English and Spanish (subtitlted).
Where: Duke University - Duke West Campus, Social Science Building Room 139
Cuba is in a transitional period. Now more than ever, a Dialogue needs to be open for an audience that has not and might not understand what has happened and continues to happen on the island of Cuba. Lejos de la Isla (Far from the Island), is an examination of the waves of emigration from Cuba to the United States over the past 48 years told by the exiles who lived through them. Issues such as differences of opinion, the Cuban Revolution and its flaws, the destruction of the family unit and foreign policy. Join CASA as we screen this independent documentary, that has been making waves in the academe adding various schools, colleges and universities such as The University of Missouri - Columbia, The College of New Jersey, Boston College, The University of Virginia, Cornell University, Marquette University, Seton Hall University, Yale University and Harvard University. Independent filmmaker L.E.
Salas will be present to introduce the film and present a question and answer forum immediately following the screening. Contact yisel.valdes@duke.edu for more info.
October 12, 2007 - A RADICAL RAINBOW COALTION: Event with Former Black Panther and Young Lords Member
October 12, 5:30PM at the WHITE LECTURE HALL, EAST CAMPUS
Denise Oliver-Velez is a former member of The Young Lords Party (YLP), a Puerto Rican/Latino organization, serving as their Minister of Economic Development and was the first woman on the YLP Central Committee. She is also a former member of The Black Panther Party. Denise will be giving a lecture as part of the Multicultural Center’s "Identities in Movement" series, which aims to offer insights into the interrelation of race, class, gender, sexuality in the context of social change. Denise will assist us in understanding "identity" within the context of community struggles for justice, democracy, and dignity. She will describe the community-based projects that both organizations fought to create, and the cross-racial alliances that were built. She will share the history of people of color organizations that had a powerful role in changing our society for the better, revolutionizing our social relations. And she will show how struggles against exploitation along lines of gender, sexuality, and race, are not mutually-exclusive, nor one more primary than the other. Click here for more information or email: vivian.wang@duke.edu.
Organized by the Center for Multicultural Affairs. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Center; Sexual Assault Support Services, Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Latino/a Studies, the Black Student Alliance, the Black Graduate and Professional Students Association, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology.
October 12, 2007 - Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception and Open House
The Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception and Open House will take place on Friday October 12th, 4:00 -5:30pm. We welcome all our affiliated students, faculty, staff and administrators, and community members to join with us in celebration of our +rebirth+ under new leadership (Professor Jose David Saldivar) and in our new space (Science Building). The reception will take place in the central upstairs wing of the Science Building (Old Art Museum) on East Campus.
You may find directions under the "About" link.
October 10, 2007 - Uneven Transitions: How Indigenous Peoples Contributed to Mexico's Democratization and Why They Got Little in Return"
A talk by Professor Guillermo Trejo of Duke's Department of Political Science. Part of the "Wednesday's at the Center" lunch-time series of talks at the John
October 04, 2007 - Jose Galvez: Documenting Latino Life on Film
Thursday, October 4
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Jose Galvez has been documenting Latino life on film for over thirty years. As a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, he won a Pulitzer Prize in Community Service for his work on Latinos in Southern California. His work has been shown in galleries across the United States. Galvez now makes his home in Durham, NC where he continues to document Latino life on film. He will be speaking at Duke as a part of a course on "Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham, and Beyond" offered through the Spanish Service-Learning Program and co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies. For more info, contact bonniemc@duke.edu.
October 03, 2007 - Wake Forest Conference on Immigration: Oct 3-5
Wake Forest University will address one of the United States' most hotly debated issues-immigration-at a three-day conference Oct 3-5. Titled "Immigration: Recasting the Debate," the conference will feature keynote addresses by major public figures giving both Democratic and Republican perspectives, including Ray Marshall, a former member of both the Clinton and Carter administrations, and Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida. The event will also include forums with leading immigration policy experts from organizations including the Cato Institute, the Economic Policy Institute, The Heritage Foundation and the World Policy Institute, and top-rated scholars from institutions such as Princeton University and the University of Southern California. The first day of the conference will include a film screening of the award-winning documentary "Crossing Arizona" followed by a keynote address from a Democratic perspective by Ray Marshall. The remainder of the conference will feature six forums on various aspects of immigration from migration effects on social, political and economic life to policy choices and their consequences; another screening of "Crossing Arizona" with a question-and-answer session with director Dan Devivo; and a keynote address from a Republican perspective by Martinez. Throughout the conference, public question-and-answer sessions will also be offered. The conference is free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. For complete event information, including a conference schedule and biographical information on the participants, visit www.wfu.edu/voices. Voices of Our Time is an annual guest speaker series that exposes students, the Wake Forest community and the general public to some of the world's leading thinkers for discussions on the important national and international issues of our time. It was established in 2006 by Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch. Please Contact: Todd Drake 336-253-2328 todd@tdrake.com for more information.
October 03, 2007 - The Guestworker: A film by Charles Thompson and Cynthia Hill
The Guestworker, a flim produced by Duke faculty members Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson, will be shown Wednesday October 3rd, 6-8pm at the Broad St. Cafe, 1116 Broad St., in Durham. The film focuses on 66-year-old Mexican farmer, Candelario Moreno Gonzales, who works on the tobacco, cucumber and pepper fields of the Wester Farms in North Carolina.
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has teamed up with SURGE (Students United for a Responsible Global Environment) to host an evening of film, food, and conversation this coming Wednesday- don't miss it! For more information about this event, please contact SAF at 919-660-3652 or tmacias@duke.edu [more]
October 01, 2007 - CANCELLED: Jorge Huerta at UNC-CH: Dangerous Comedy
CANCELLED: Oct 1, 6:00pm at Hitchcock Multipurpose , Sonja Haynes Stone Center
Jorge Huerta, Associate Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officers of UC, San Diego will be giving a talk entitled DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: COMEDY IN CHICANO THEATRE.
Q &A and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, the UNC Latina/o Studies Gift Fund, and the Sonya Haynes Center. Contact Prof Maria Deguzman for more info: deguzman@email.unc.edu.
September 30, 2007 - Sept 30, Launch Party at Museum of Life and Science for Mariposa Stories
You are invited to the
The Mariposa Stories Project is a collaboration of Duke undergraduates and staff, community members, and local authors who have come together create bilingual story books for pre-school children in
Location: Museum of
The Mariposa Stories Project is funded by the Community Affairs Office, DukeEngage, and the Spanish Service-Learning Program at
September 24, 2007 - Juan for All: Implicit Attitudes and the Group-Specific Nature of Anti-Immigrant Opinion
The Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences presents: Monday Seminar Series
Efren Perez, Duke "Juan for All: Implicit Attitudes and the Group-Specific Nature of Anti-Immigrant Opinion"
Sept 24, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Erwin Mill Building, A103
In this talk, I present the findings of a survey-experiment on anti-immigrant opinion. Using an explicit-implicit attitudes framework, I examine the degree to which public evaluations of immigration policy are swayed by negative attitudes toward Latino immigrants. The analysis reveals that implicit anti-Latino attitudes shape support for immigration policy even if Latino immigrants are not directly referenced by these proposals, and in spite of one's disavowal of dislike for this group. The influence of these attitudes, moreover, is felt even as individuals register their opposition to immigration through ostensibly non-racial concerns (e.g., crime). The Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS) hosts a regular Monday evening speaker series presenting innovative social science research during the academic year.
All are welcome to attend; the seminar begins at 6:00 p.m. and meets in Erwin Mill; a light supper is served. Contact courtney.orning@duke.edu for more information.
September 21, 2007 - Cimarron Noche Latina Dance Night - Friday
Cimarron Noche Latina Dance Night at Club 9!
Come out for a night of Latin dancing this Friday, September 21st at Club 9 (we've changed locations from Cinelli's). Begin the night at 10:00pm with a FREE salsa lesson followed by latin dancing to the best salsa, merengue, reggaeton, and bachata. If you'd like to be added to our Guest List, RSVP to clubcimarron@gmail.com with your name ($5 cover for those on the guest list; $10 if not).
Proceeds go toward supporting free community programs at El Kilombo nonprofit, including ESL classes, children's literacy, computer classes, and more.
September 20, 2007 - First El Concilio Meeting of the Academic Year
Sept 20, 12:30pm - Latino/a Studies offices, Science Building, East Campus
Latino/a Studies hosts the first El Concilio meeting of the academic year, with introductions and information sharing over lunch. Formed in 1997, El Concilio currently operates as an umbrella network, with representation from the various Latino/a student groups as well as from the Multicultural Center, Latino/a Studies, Admissions, the Latino Alumni Association, and interested faculty. Contact Jenny Snead Williams (jennysw@duke.edu) to inquire further.
September 19, 2007 - Coloniality and Latinidad: A Conversation with José Saldívar
Sept 19, 6-8:30pm - John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road
Coloniality and Latinidad: A Conversation with José Saldívar
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Consortium UNC/Duke & the Working Group on "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" invite you to the first dinner meeting of 2007 - 2008. For more information on this meeting and to download the readings prior to the event, see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html. Supported by Latino/a Studies at Duke University.
September 18, 2007 - Race, Racism, and Methodology Discussion
Sept 18, 12-1:30pm - Science Building (old Art Museum,East Campus), Room 225
The Institute for Critical US Studies hosts a lunch discussion entitled "Race, Racism, and Methodology: How to Study Racial Matters in Contemporary America. The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to take part in the first in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," which will engage scholars from different disciplines in discussions of how different methodologies address like-minded projects on the United States. Our first Conversation will engage Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, African and African American Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Bob Korstad, Professor of History and Public Policy. Please contact Caroline Light at clight@duke.edu or 668-1945 for more information.
Events from Academic Year 2006-07
PDF of events to be attached.
Farmworker Awareness Week March 26 - April 5
From March 26-April 5th, Students, Advocates,
Farmworkers, and Community Members are organizing events around the Triangle in
honor of Farmworkers
Show your support for those who harvest our food by
coming to one of these great local
events:
1. "Slavery Still Exists: A Conversation with the CIW"
| March
26th
2. Protest at Burger King!
|
March
26th
3. Fair Food Dinner & Border Stories Presentation
|
March
31st
4. Panel Discussion on Religion &
Farmworkers
|
April 1st
5. Helena Maria Viramontes
Talk
|
April 1st
6. Screening of Invisible
Chapel
|
April
2nd
7.
Border Stories Documentary
Presentation|
April
2nd
8.
Screening of De
Nadie
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April
3rd
9.
Farmworker Awareness Week Table at
Springternational |
April
4th
10. Farm
Labor Camp
Delegation |
April
5th
For full information on all events, see http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/saf/involved/faw.htm and/or contact Tony Macias, tmacias@duke.edu.
February 29, 2008 - Save the Date: Book Reception: Dead Subjects by Antonio Viego
Latino/a Studies will host an afternoon wine and cheese reception for colleagues, students, friends and fans of Professor Antonio Viego (Literature and Romance Studies) to celebrate the recent publication his book, "Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies" (Duke University Press, 2007). See DUP link.
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 204 Science (Old Art Museum) on East Campus
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