CLAS E-Bulletin: March 10, 2011
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1-CLAS and Other Events at SDSU
10th Annual San Diego Latin Film Festival
March 10-20th 2011
CLAS has partnered with the SD Latino Film Festival and has a limited number of DISCOUNT Tickets available at the Center for Latin American Studies, Arts and Letters 377
Tickets for sale on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10am to 2pm Do not miss this opportunity to see great films from Latin America!
LASSO AND CLAS Movie and a Happy Hour
Ultrastar Mission Valley Cinemas, Hazard Center
Friday, March 18
4:00 pmJoin the LASSO and the Center for Latin American Studies at the Latino Film Festival for a movie and a happy hour!
«El Atentado» tells the story of Arnulfo Anaya, a young man who in 1897 attempts to assassinate Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz during a parade.
Please RSVP for this screening by emailing
Elizabeth at esaenz@mail.sdsu.edu
or
Tristin at clasgrad@mail.sdsu.eduDISCOUNT TICKETS FOR THIS AND OTHER FILMS AT THE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (ARTS AND LETTERS 377)
Discount prices: $8 general admission; $6 students
Happy Hour will follow the screening… location to be determined….
Summer Intensive Mixtec Language Program in Oaxaca
Where: Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico
When: June 20-July 29, 2011
Application deadline: April 4, 2011Mixtec Program: Language instruction is provided by native Mixtec speakers and linguists, Juan Julian Caballero of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) and Marcos Cruz Bautista from Mexico’s Universidad Pedagógica Nacional from the campus at Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca (UPN). The program is coordinated by Dr. Ramona Pérez, Director of the Center for LAS and a scholar in Oaxacan Studies from the Department of Anthropology at SDSU. The course is taught in Spanish and offers 140 hours of instruction plus local weekend fieldtrips over a six-week period.
Summer Intensive Zapotec Language Program in Oaxaca
Where: Juchitán, and Valley of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
When: June 20-July 29, 2011
Application deadline: April 4, 2011Zapotec Program, Juchitan: This intensive program is taught by native Isthmus Zapotec speaker and linguist Tomás Villalobos Aquino through the Casa de la Cultura in Juchitán. Professor Villalobos Aquino coordinates the program with Dr. Pérez. The course is taught in Spanish, and offers 140 hours of class instruction plus local weekend fieldtrips over a six-week period. Participants will be fully immersed in the culture and language through homestays with Zapotec speaking families.
Zapotec Program, Oaxaca: Like Isthmus Zapotec, the program is immersion based and taught by native speaker Gabriel Martinez. Taught in Spanish and offering 140 hours of class instruction, the course includes fieldtrips to several different Zapotec communities over the six-week period.
Anthropology Speaker Series «Producing Collaborative Knowledge with Cocopah People in Baja California»
Arts & Letters, Room 105
March 11, 2011
3:30 – 5:00 pmDr. Alejandra Navarro Smith, Centro de Investigaciones Culturales-Museo, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Dr. Navarro-Smith, obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology using visual media at the University of Manchester, UK. In 2006 she moved to Mexicali as a full time researcher at the UABC. She has been working with Cocopah people since then. Her first interest was to document environmental, political and economic changes that accompany Cocopah people’s processes of cultural transformation. Using collaborative methodologies, her research aims to produce knowledge that documents Cocopah people’s struggles to remain in their territory and to exploit their natural resources. In her talk, she will discuss how to understand collaboration while doing research and producing knowledge, and the ways in which the researcher is located within social relations and power structures.
Student Fulbright Workshops
March 16 12:00 – 1:30 pm AH 3110
March 23 4:00 – 5:30 pm SS 2500April 6 12:00 – 1:30 pm AH 3110
April 13 3:30 – 5:00 pm EBA 408
April 14 12:00 – 1:30 pm PSFA 200
April 20 3:30 – 5:00 pm EBA 408
April 21 4:00 – 5:30 pm SS 2500
April 26 3:00 – 4:30 pm PSFA 200
April 27 3:30 – 5:00 pm AL 110May 2 12:00 – 1:30 pm AH 3110
May 9 4:00 – 5:30 pm PSFA 200U.S. State Department Student Fulbright Grants send nearly 1,500 students to more than 150 countries for a year of study, research, to teach English, or to study International Business. Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree by August 2011, and be U.S. citizens. Graduate students at any stage and recent alumni may also apply.
Reserve a space at: http://oip.sdsu.edu/
Water Drive for the Border Angels
Wednesday March 16
3:00-5:00 pm
Aztec Center Presidential Sweet (downstairs)Help save migrants’ lives with this water drive for the Border Angels!
For more information, contact Cory Burgamy: cburgamy13@gmail.com or visit: www.borderangels.org
Venezuela’s Foreign Policy
March 17, 12 noon
Arts and Letters 379Since 2000, Venezuela has been important for the United States, as the country swiftly and dramatically altered its foreign and domestic policies. This deviation made Venezuela unreliable, unfriendly, and even confrontational. The presentation aims at exploring and describing these movements as possible explanations for the changing perceptions in the United States.
Marleny Bustamente is a Professor at the Center for Borders and Regional Integration Studies at the University of the Andes in Venezuela. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in Political Science and Latin American Studies. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias (IRSC) at San Diego State University (SDSU) as part of the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program.
Film Maker Needs Your Help!
The film Chunky and Los Alacranes project was recently awarded a Challenge Grant of $25,000 from the Leichtag Family Foundation in Carlsbad, California. However, in order to receive the grant monies, Mark Day and Professor Paul Espinosa have to raise a matching $25,000.
Any contribution to the project is tax-deductible and will be matched 1:1 – doubling the impact of the donation. Contributions can be made to «Media Arts Center, San Diego» or «MACSD» and mailed to:
Espinosa Productions
P.O. Box 1925
Scottsdale, AZ 85252Dr. Espinosa would be happy to send you additional information about the project as well as a short trailer which includes engaging footage from the film itself.
Chunky and Los Alacranes is an hour-long documentary and educational project on the life of Ramon «Chunky» Sanchez and the musical group he formed in San Diego. Chunky is a charismatic musician who has dedicated his life to using art to promote cultural understanding and tolerance. His life has been a microcosm of the Mexican American experience in the 20th century.
The film explores Sanchez’s life from his rural, farm worker origins to the formation of his community based musical group, from his educational role in the Chicano movement to his influence on the folk music scene in California and beyond.
Beyond the film itself, the project involves educational curriculum plans, outreach materials, and a robust website, all designed to encourage maximum use of the film in classrooms and community centers around the country.
The fiscal agent for the project is the Media Arts Center, San Diego, the annual producer of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. MACSD is a non-profit 501c3 media arts organization promoting media literacy and artistic expression in film, video, audio, and computer-based multi-media.
New Border Angels Chapter at SDSU!
Founded by Enrique Morones in 1986, Border Angels is a non-profit organization supporting humanity. The organization consists of extraordinary volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary deaths has been results of extreme heat and cold weather conditions, in addition some have sadly been the results of racial-discrimination crimes.
If you would like to join or help in the upcoming water drive, please contact Corinne (Cory) Burgamy: cburgamy13@gmail.com
For more information on the Border Angels, please visit: http://www.borderangels.org/
Thesis Deadlines
April 4th: final day to submit thesis without risk
April 5th-May 24th: thesis accepted on at-risk basis.
2 – Events Outside SDSU
Symposium: Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century
Free Admission!
Museum Lecture Hall, The Getty Center
Friday, March 11, 2011
9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.Saturday, March 12, 2011
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (MOLAA)
9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.Sunday, March 13, 2011
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (MOLAA)
9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.An international group of scholars, curators, museum directors, and artists discuss new approaches to the study and presentation of Latin American art in the 21st century.
The symposium focuses on three key areas: the role of the museum in the collection, contextualization, and representation of Latin American art; the production of revisionist art histories through innovative research methodologies, new interpretative frameworks, and archive-based scholarship; and experimental curatorial models ranging from historic to contemporary case studies for the interpretation and presentation of art from Latin America.
This symposium is organized by the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach (MOLAA) in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute, and is funded with support from the Getty Foundation.
Reservations required for each day. For more information or to register for the symposium contact symposium@molaa.org. Note, late arrivals cannot be guaranteed seating.
Book Presentation: Satan’s Playground with Paul Vanderwood
Institute for Peace & Justice, Room H (USD)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Free AdmissionJoin the Trans-Border Institute for a book presentation of Mexico historian Paul Vanderwood’s «Satan’s Playground» which 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. The Tijuana area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and «true detective» magazines, Vanderwood presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Books will be for sale at a discounted price.
Please confirm your attendance at transborder@sandiego.edu or (619) 260-4090
Celebrating Purépecha Women of Mexico
March 23, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD
Refreshments will be served
Free entrance, Registration requiredDuring this Art & Culture event, you will meet and converse with Guadalupe Hernández Dimas (Nana Lu) and Herlinda Morales Jerónimo, two extraordinary Purépechas from Michoacán Mexico; view a teaser/trailer of the upcomming featured length documentary, Tierra Brillante (Brilliant Soil), about their way of life, plus admire and purchase beautiful hand-made works: traditional huanengos, embroidered linens, and pottery. Their compelling life stories cover from poverty alleviation to women’s empowerment to migration. Herlinda’s story is one of separation (brothers live in the U.S.), perceived loss of culture, and a strong desire to rejoin her family and embrace her cultural heritage.
Guadalupe Hernández founded Uarhi (woman in purépecha) in Michoacán, a group of approximately 300 women from 23 communities that have come together to create a viable way to sustain themselves and their children. She has published books in Spanish and her language including: «La otra cara de la migración,» «Una mirada desde la pobreza» and «Mujeres purépechas». Herlinda Morales is part of Uarhi and a success story. She has determined to not use lead, notwithstanding adverse marked forces in her native country.
Border Film Week 2011 at the Trans-Border Institute
Joan B. Kroc building, Room H (USD)
March 28 – 31, 2011
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Free and open to the public28-Mar-11, «Tijuaneados Anonimos», Warren Auditorium, SOLES, University of San Diego Followed by discussion with Producer Omar Foglio
29-Mar-11, «Tijuana Jews», UC Forums A/B, University of San Diego Followed by discussion with Director Isaac Artenstein
30-Mar-11, «La Mama», Warren Auditorium, SOLES, University of San Diego Followed by discussion with Filmmaker Jody Hammond
31-Mar-11, «On the Edge», Warren Auditorium, SOLES, University of San Diego Followed by discussion with Filmmaker Steev Hise
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3-Conferences and Calls for Papers
Call For Papers: Another American Century? Latin America in the 21st Century.
Student Research Symposium
April 16 2010
San Diego State UniversityAbstracts due March 15
To submit an abstract, please visit: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~latamweb/student_symposium.php
Ten years into the 21st century, Latin America is on the global stage as never before. The region is now overwhelmingly democratic after being dominated by dictators in the 1980s. It features several female heads of state; its economies have been lauded for growth and stability; its historically marginalized groups are gaining recognition in their nations and worldwide; and it has an influential music, arts and literary scene that is recognized in global cultural centers. This student research symposium invites students from all disciplines to present their research to foster a greater understanding of contemporary Latin America as it enters the second decade of the 21st century.
More information: lassosdsu@gmail.com
Fourth Annual Empire and Solidarity in the Americas Conference: Latin American Visions of Solidarity
University of New Orleans
October 15-16, 2011Abstracts due April 1, 2011
Conference Organizers: Aviva Chomsky and Steve Striffler
Call for Papers
International solidarity between the United States and Latin America has sought to create partnerships between actors with vastly unequal access to power and resources. Solidarity activism has worked to change U.S. policy towards Latin America, to provide material aid to Latin Americans, and to educate the U.S. public about Latin American realities and the impacts of U.S. foreign policy. Most studies of U.S.-Latin America solidarity have focused on U.S.-based organizations and their activities.
This conference seeks to explore Latin American visions of solidarity from two perspectives: First, how have Latin Americans seen, understood, and engaged with U.S. solidarity movements? Second, how have Latin Americans conceptualized and created their own visions of solidarity? In both cases, we also look to understand the ways in which Latin American actions and visions been received and understood in U.S. solidarity circles.
Paper proposals should include a 100-200 word abstract and a 1-page cv, and be submitted to striffler@hotmail.com and achomsky@salemstate.edu
The Empire and Solidarity in the Americas Conference is a working conference. Attendees are expected to read all conference papers (about 8) and participate in intensive discussion of each paper. If your paper is chosen, you will be an invited guest with conference expenses paid by the University of New Orleans.
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4-Study Abroad and Summer Programs
Summer Intensive Mixtec Language Program in Oaxaca
Where: Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico
When: June 20-July 29, 2011
Application deadline: April 4, 2011Mixtec Program: Language instruction is provided by native Mixtec speakers and linguists, Juan Julian Caballero of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) and Marcos Cruz Bautista from Mexico’s Universidad Pedagógica Nacional from the campus at Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca (UPN). The program is coordinated by Dr. Ramona Pérez, Director of the Center for LAS and a scholar in Oaxacan Studies from the Department of Anthropology at SDSU. The course is taught in Spanish and offers 140 hours of instruction plus local weekend fieldtrips over a six-week period.
Summer Intensive Zapotec Language Program in Oaxaca
Where: Juchitán, and Valley of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
When: June 20-July 29, 2011
Application deadline: April 4, 2011Zapotec Program, Juchitan: This intensive program is taught by native Isthmus Zapotec speaker and linguist Tomás Villalobos Aquino through the Casa de la Cultura in Juchitán. Professor Villalobos Aquino coordinates the program with Dr. Pérez. The course is taught in Spanish, and offers 140 hours of class instruction plus local weekend fieldtrips over a six-week period. Participants will be fully immersed in the culture and language through homestays with Zapotec speaking families.
Zapotec Program, Oaxaca: Like Isthmus Zapotec, the program is immersion based and taught by native speaker Gabriel Martinez. Taught in Spanish and offering 140 hours of class instruction, the course includes fieldtrips to several different Zapotec communities over the six-week period.
The Dominican Republic Experience: Sustainability, Human Needs, and Basic Rights
Summer 2011
4-Week International Service-Learning Project and Course
GEN S 400, 3 UnitsGet hands-on working experience in the areas of Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Tourism Gain international experience while working on the first United Nations Sustainable Cities and Millennium Development Goals assessment project in the Caribbean – add this to your resume!
To sign-up or for more information, contact the Course Director: Dr. Vinod Sasidharan Advisor, Sustainable Tourism Management Email: vsasidha@mail.sdsu.edu Phone: 619-757-5873
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5-Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities
Sally Casanova Pre-doctoral Program
The Sally Casanova California Pre-Doctoral Program is designed to increase the diversity of the pool of potential university faculty by supporting the doctoral aspirations of individuals who are: Current upper division or graduate students in the CSU, Economically and educationally disadvantaged, U.S. citizens or permanent residents, Leaders of tomorrow
For more information and an application, please visit: http://www.calstate.edu/PreDoc/index.shtml
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
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
Internships COHA is now accepting applications for summer internships in the field of U.S.-Latin American and Canadian relations. Every summer, COHA awards some 30 internships to applicants from a pool of roughly 300 candidates. COHA accepts applications on a rolling basis, but openings tend to be filled quickly. COHA is always looking for original, exacting scholars who possess an uncluttered writing style. We are looking for resourceful, sharp and motivated applicants who are seeking an opportunity to receive practical experience in the fields of policymaking and communicating with the media, and have a desire to advance progressive development on political, economic, and trade matters throughout Latin America and Canada. As the jockeying for internships can, at times, be rather competitive, in applying for such positions we ask potential applicants to send us the following documents to ensure we are recruiting the most qualified candidates: cover letter, résumé, writing sample, transcripts, 2 letters of recommendation, and a completed COHA internship application form. We look forward to receiving your application, which will be diligently scrutinized.
For application forms and more information, please visit: http://www.coha.org/about-internships/
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7-Articles, Publications, Books
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