Event Archive
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 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 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 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.