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Cuban Revolutionary Cinema
7:00 PM
April 19, 2012
Ibrahim Theater @ IHouse of Philadelphia

Suite Habana        Fernando Perez, 2003
Latino Heritage Month Opening Reception: El Viaje de los Niños Exhibition
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
September 10, 2012
Cohen Hall, Fox Art Gallery

El Viaje de los Niños (The Journey of the Children) exhibition project, tell the stories of Mexican immigrant children who have crossed the border to come to Philadelphia.
La Casa Latina Open House
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
September 13, 2012
Houston Hall, Class of 49

Latin Food and Entertainment. Resources tables representing Latino/a groups at Penn will be available.
1st Annual Dolores Huerta Lecture: Tequila, Industry under Siege
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
September 17, 2012
Irving Auditorium, Cafe 58

Philadelphia Businessman, historian and Philantropist. Founder of the Siembra Azul Foundation a non-profit organization that empowers Hispanics in the U.S. He will discuss political, economic, labor, cultural and traditional issues critacally impacting the Tequila Industry in Mexico.
Closing Reception for the Exhibition: El Viaje de los Niños
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
September 19, 2012
Cohen Hall, Fox Art Gallery

Local artist, Nora Hiriart Litz led the El Viaje de los Niños exhibition project that tells the stories of Mexican immigrant children who have crossed the border to come to Philadelphia.
Annual LAGAPSA and La Casa Latina Welcome Reception for Latin@ Graduate & Professional Students
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
September 21, 2012
Graduate Center, 3615 Locust Walk

Reception with Latino food, desserts & refreshments. (Penn ID required).
LALS Information Session
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
October 2, 2012
Houston Hall-Ben Franklin Room

All Penn undergraduate students who are interested in learning more about the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Penn are cordially invited to attend an Information Session. LALS faculty, Advisors, and current Majors will be available to answer any questions you may have about the LALS Major or Minor.
The Penn Sociology Colloquium presents: "The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity"
12:00 PM
October 3, 2012
103 McNeil Building

Professor Mora’s current research provides a socio-historical
account of the emergence and diffusion of a “Hispanic/Latino”
panethnic category in the United States. She is currently developing
this project into a book manuscript, and plans to use some of the
insight gleaned on racial/ethnic classification to shed new light on
the production of medical and scientific knowledge. In addition,
Professor Mora’s research on culture focuses on immigrant religion,
as well as on the diffusion of Pentecostalism in Latin America. Her
Gender/Sexuality Studies Reading Group
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
October 4, 2012
Fisher Bennett Hall 224

The format will be a pre-circulated paper with a discussion. The paper will concern Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing about the journals of her student Gary Fisher, an African American man who died of AIDS. Munoz's paper addresses the relation between queer studies and queer of color critique, as well as questions of ethics and pedagogy. Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program
"The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession"
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
October 5, 2012
169 McNeil Building

The Fall 2012 Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop presents:

"The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession"

Dr. Claudio E. Benzecry, University of Connecticut

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of
disappearing from the world’s stage. So why do audiences continue to
flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine
that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But while a desire

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