1-CLAS and Other Events at SDSU
Brazilian Coffee Hour
Take a journey to explore the lively and vibrant culture of BRAZIL!
Capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian art that combines martial arts, music, and dance) will be performed by Capoeira Brasil of San Diego! For more information on these performers, see: http://www.capoeirabrasil.org/
Also on the menu: Samba, live Brazilian music and great food! Do not miss this one!
This Coffee Hour is co-sponsored by the SDSU Center for Latin American Studies and the SDSU Department of Portuguese.
Friday, October 8 at the International Student Center. 12 noon.
LASSO Meeting
LASSO will be holding their first meeting of the semester Monday, October 11 in the AL 379 at 3pm. The meeting will be to gather and orient all new and existing LASSO members.
LASSO Happy Hour
Come join the Latin American Studies Student Organization (LASSO) at La Puerta downtown (560 4th Avenue) on Thursday, October 21 at 5:30pm.
Tijuaneados Anonimos
A documentary film presented by the Center for Latin American Studies, Chicana/o Studies Department, and the Foundation for Change
The border city of Tijuana, Mexico is experiencing a crisis of unprecedented violence and ungovernability, this situation affects the daily lives of its inhabitants. Every week, a group of people get together in Tijuaneados Anonymous to share experiences and discuss solutions to the erosive phenomenon that affects the tijuaneado.
Join us for a post-screening discussion with the film’s directors Jose Luis Figueroa and Ana Paola Rodriguez. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
7:00 pm at SDSU’s Little Theatre
For more information, please email: classtdy@mail.sdsu.edu
Film Screening of «El Muro» and a Post-Screening Commentary with Film Maker Graig Rainoff
Thursday, October 28, 2010
7:00 PM at SDSU’s Little Theatre
El Muro shows the human and environmental consequences of the border fence between Playas and San Ysidro, along the way it visits the reasons for the fence and local perspectives on its effectiveness. Presented by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Chicina/o Studies Department, and The Foundation for Change
How Do We Narrate Nature as a Technological Machine in Contrast to a Mythological Device?
A Presentation by Gabriel Weisz Carrington, Ph.D.
Dr Weisz is a professor at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico where he has tought for thirty years. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Grant and has lectured in several countries including England, France, Holland, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, and the United States.
Presented by the Spanish Department and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Wednesday, October 27 2010 2:00 pm Location TBA
Brown Bag Bate Papo (BBBP)
Join a group of «Brazilphiles» to learn, improve, and practice your Portuguese!
Mondays from 12:30 to 1:30pm Scripps Cottage Area
Portuguese instructor extraordinaire, Nadjla Sahyoun Bowie, is leading this group!
A gente se ve lá! ~ See you there
Zapotec Language Course
Our very own Zapotec language course was recently featured on KPBS news. To read the article, please visit the KPBS website.
2 – Events Outside SDSU
Gilded Lace
October is festival month in Oaxaca. Oaxaca is also celebrated for its wealth of superb colonial altarpieces. One such treasure is the ornate retablo of San Andrés Huayapan, once eloquently described as Gilded Lace.
Please go to our home page and follow the links at: http://www.colonial-mexico.com
Urgent Humanitarian Aid Needed for Mudslide Victims in Tlahuitoltepec Oaxaca
The Bi-national Indigenous Front is seeking economic assistance for those affected by the September, 28th mudslides.
Donations may be transferred to Bank of America: 27807-21960. Donations must include the specification «Ayuda a Oaxaca»
Also, a group of chefs from various restaurants will participate in «a Taste of Mexico,» a special dinner to collect donations. The event will be held October 8th at 7:30 at the Restaurant Guelaguetza at 3014 W. Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles.
For more information, please call (213) 251-8481 or (323) 630-1016
Cinema en tu Idioma
Cinema en tu Idioma continues with two award winners from the 2010 San Diego Latino Film Festival, EL ESTUDIANTE (Audience Award) and CUESTION DE PRINCIPIOS (Best Film Award), opening Friday, October 8
EL ESTUDIANTE and QUESTION DE PRINCIPIOS will screen for one-week only exclusively at UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center (off the 163 Freeway and Friars Rd.) Screening times are: 11:30 am, 1:45 pm, 4:00 pm, 6:15 pm, 8:30 pm, 10:45 pm.
Film will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles
For more information call 619-230-1938 x 102
Email lfranek@mediaartscenter.org or visit on-line to view trailers, purchase series passes, and read more about the films at: www.sdlatinofilm.com
Border Justice Conference
Come to an open discussion and dialogue about how to better meet the needs of our community in a time of increased border militarization and enforcement!
Saturday, October 9th, 2010 – 11AM – 4PM
Location: Unitarian Universalists of the South Bay 970 Broadway Ave., Suites 103 and 104, Chula Vista, CA
For more information, please contact: Mar Cárdenas (619) 947-4612 – amikema@aol.com
Disenchantment with Market Economics: Socialism as a Spectacle
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte through the Departamento de Estudios Sociales y El Colegio Franco-Mexicano en Ciencias Sociales present: Disenchantment with market economics: Socialism as a Spectacle, Monday, October 11 at 11:00 am, in the Raul Rangel lecture hall (Colef, Tijuana)
The event will be held in Spanish
For more information, please visit http://www.colef.mx/gaceta/gacetaporcorreo.asp email medios@colef.mx or call + 52 (664) 631-6300 ext. 1155
Author Talk featuring Paul J. Vanderwood and Satan’s Playground
Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town «Satan’s Playground,» unintentionally increasing its licentious allure.
Monday, October 11, 6:30 pm, Central Library Wangenheim Room (third floor), 820 E St, San Diego
FREE
www.sandiegolibrary.org
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3-Conferences and Calls for Papers
X Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica
Se realizará en Punta Cana, Rública Dominicana, entre el 2 y 5 de marzo de 2011. Por favor, notar que este año las propuestas deben ser enviadas antes del 19 de noviembre de 2010.
Para mas información, favor de visitar http://www.lhup.edu/CILH
RMCLAS 2011 Annual Conference
The 58th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wednesday, April 6 through Saturday, April 9, 2011.
The RMCLAS Program Committee is now accepting panel and paper proposals on general topics in Latin American Studies.
Please provide us with your name, affiliation, electronic address, the paper title, and a short abstract (not to exceed one page). The deadline for panel and paper proposals is December 15, 2010.
Please send proposals to rmclas@austin.utexas.edu
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4-Study Abroad and Summer Programs
Haitian Creole Language Instruction Opportunity
Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) at Florida International University is currently accepting applications for its 13th Annual Haitian Summer Institute in Miami, Florida. The Institute features intensive language training in Haitian Creole at both the Beginning/Intermediate and Intermediate/Advanced levels, as well as a Haitian Studies Seminar Series and a FLAC Lecture Series.
The program is FLAS-approved.
Eligible non-FIU students who are interested in enrolling in the Institute are invited to apply for FIU FLAS Fellowships in Haitian Creole by contacting Joanne Virgille, Coordinator, LACC Academic Programs at jvirg001@fiu.edu Students are encouraged to apply ASAP.
5-Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities
Ford Foundation Fellowships
The Ford Foundation Fellowships are designed to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
For more information, please visit: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_048001
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6-Internships, Volunteer, and Job Opportunities
Opportunities at the Trans-Border Institute
The Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies is pleased to announce three new opportunities for students and volunteers in the 2010-11 academic year:
volunteers to help with our conference on Proposition 19 on 10/14;
a research project to help monitor the effects of drug violence in Mexico (an initiative of the Justice in Mexico Project);
a research project to help examine the phenomenon of «spillover» violence (in collaboration with the Congressional Research Service and the National Defense Intelligence College).
If you are interested in learning more about either of these opportunities, please contact transborder@sandiego.edu
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7-Articles, Publications, Books
Indigenous farm workers in California
Here is the link to an excellent web page with comprehensive data on indigenous farm workers in California. It includes data on various regions of California and on the communities in Mexico from whence the workers come. A significant proportion of these workers are from Oaxaca.
The website is one result of a 2 ½ year study of indigenous farm workers in California. The site is in English and Spanish.