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Latino Communities Conference: Moving Foward Through Tides of Change
8:15 AM - 7:00 PM
March 22, 2012
Sykes Student Union / West Chester University / 110 W. Rosedale Avenue West Chester, PA.

4th Annual WCU Social Issue Conference for Latino Communities        Title for the keynote Speaker: "Immigration Enforcement Policies, the Economic Recession and the Size of the Local Mexican Immigrant Population"
Poesia Cubana despues del 1989
3:00 PM
March 23, 2012
543 Williams Hall/Cherpack Seminar Room

Co-sponsored by The Spanish and Portuguese Department
30th Festival Latino
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
March 25, 2012
Bodek Lounge

International poet, lyricist and educator, whose works explores multi-culturalism and the inbetweeness that exists in us all.
Dance, Art, Soccer, and Capoeira: Afro-Brazilian Performance Fundamentasl
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
March 27, 2012
209 College Hall-History Lounge
Cuban Revolutionary Cinema
7:00 PM
March 29, 2012
Ibrahim Theater @ IHouse of Philadelphia

Cecilia             Humberto Solas, 1983
Artist and Models in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Slave Society
4:00 PM
April 4, 2012
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 331A

Daryle Williams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His recent research examines nineteenth-century Brazilian slave society. This research includes a book-length project on the Free Africas of Brazil and the experience of freedom in the Luso-Altantic world at the end of the slave trade.
Hispanic Studies/LALS Graduate Student Mixer
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
April 6, 2012
Cafe 58 in Irving Hall

A mixer with drinks and delicious Mexican food for graduate students from across the university with research interests in Latino Studies and/or Latin American Studies
Samba Sessao: Afro-Brazilian Art and Film
(All day)
April 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012
University of Pennsylvania-Arthur Ross Gallery

The Exhibition continues through July 29, 2012
Symposium:"Polo S: Reorienting the Visual Culture of The Early Americas"
(All day)
April 13, 2012 - April 14, 2012
McNeil Center for Early American Studies

The international and interdisciplinary conference takes as its mission an exploration of the theoretical, regional, methodological, and subjective problems encountered by scholars who are currently working on the visual and material culture of the southern United States, the Caribbea, and South America.  For more information, please visti: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/events/2012-4-13/polo-s-reorienting-....
Mexican Policy Challenges and Perspectives on Migration
12:00 PM
April 16, 2012
103 McNeil

Co-sponsored by The Population Studies
Center and Population Aging Research Center and the Latin American and
Latino Studies Program
Rene Zenteno, Sociology and Demography, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF)Dr.
Rene Zenteno is the former Under Secretary of Population, Migration and
Religious Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior in Mexico, and
currently serves as professor of sociology and demography at El Colegio
de la Frontera Norte (COLEF). He has been a member of the Mexican

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