Latino Heritage Month Events 2004
Mayan Procession- July 10th-September 26th Location: Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Tango Performance- September 15th Location: Wynn Commons Time: 5:00pm
Sin Puertas Visibles- September 16th Location: TBA Time: TBA
Ricardo Bracho- September 20th Location:Carriage House Time: 6-8pm
Afro Latino Art Exhibit & Reception-Sept. 20th- Oct. 31 Location: Fox Art Gallery
Martin Espada- October 7th Location: Arch Crest Time: 6:30pm
Reading and Book Signing
Sergio Troncoso- October 14th Location: Hillel, Steinhardt Hall Time: TBA
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Spring 2004
"The Puerto Rican Syndrome: Hysteria in the Barrio"
Patricia Emilia Gherovici
Founder and Director of the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar, Author of Hysteria in the Barrio, Freud, Lacan and the Puerto Rican Syndrome.
In the 1950's, army medical officers designated symptoms that resembled hysteria among Puerto Rican soldiers reacting to stress as the "Puerto Rican Syndrome." Gherovici examines this syndrome, and its implications for the growing Hispanic population of the US, as a social, cultural, and political as well as psychiatric phenomenon.
March 31, 2004
12:00pm
History Lounge
2nd floor - College Hall, 209
April 15, 2004
"Literatura indigena Zapoteca, (Sur de Mexico), siglos XVI al XVIII"
Dra. Maria de los Angeles Romero Frizzi
4:00pm
History Lounge
2nd floor - College Hall
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Women
in Action:
Social
Transformation in Latin America
February 26-27,
2004
Swarthmore College & the University of Pennsylvania
Women activists and scholars from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the United States will meet to discuss the role of women as agents of social change in Latin America and in Latino communities in the United States.
The Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium brings together women activists and scholars to discuss issues affecting Latin American and Latina women and their communities, including the unsolved serial murders of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico; workers' rights on the US/Mexico border; the demilitarization of Vieques; Haitian / Dominican relations; women in democratic movements; Afro-Colombian political representation; and family health and reproductive rights throughout Latin America.
Keynote
address: Marysa Navarro, President of the Latin American Studies
Association and Professor of History at Dartmouth College,
Scheuer Room, Swarthmore College
Thursday, February 26, at 7:30 pm.
A reception will follow.
Panels
will be held on Friday, February 27, 2004
Terrace Room, Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania
9:30am-12:30pm and 2-5pm.
A reception will follow.
Gender, Ethnicity, and Community:
·
Wanda Colón, Director, Caribbean Project for Justice and Peace, Puerto Rico
· Rosemary Cubas, Director, Community Leadership Institute, North Philadelphia
· Rosario Espinal, Professor of Sociology at Temple University
Zulia Mena, Afro-Colombian activist, former member of the Colombian House of
Representatives
Human Rights:
·
Laura Laski, M.D., Senior Technical Officer at the United Nations Population
Fund
· Debbie Rogow, independent consultant, international family health and
reproductive rights
·
Julia Monárrez, Professor of Sociology at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte,
Mexico
· Marta Ojeda, Executive Director, Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras,
Mexico
All events are free and open to the public.
Co-Sponsors:
The Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium / The
University of Pennsylvania Latin American & Latino Studies Program ·
Department of Romance Languages · Women's Studies Program / Alice Paul Center
for Research on Gender & Women Swarthmore College Latin
American Studies Program · Office of the Provost / The University of
Delaware Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures · Department of
Sociology · Office of Women's Affairs · Women's Studies Program · Office of
Multicultural Affairs/Campus Diversity · Latin American Studies Program
January 26, 2004
"The Intimacies of Four Continents"
Lisa Lowe, Professor of Literature, U. C. San Diego
5:00pm
Rosenwald Gallery
Van Pelt Library-6th floor
Announcing a public roundtable on the Brazilian Presidency:
"Lula's First Year"
November 6, 2003
Political Scientists, Historians, Anthropologists, and Development Professionals--from Brazil and the United States--will share their assessments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose election in October of 2002 was unprecedented in Brazilian History. Lula's childhood poverty, his unlettered plain-speaking style, and his political roots as a national leader of the Brazilian trade union movement are all "firsts" in Brazilian politics. Other "firsts" from his initial months in office include the appointment of two black cabinet ministers and a promise to end hunger in Brazil, where 50 million of the nation's 174 million live below the locally-defined poverty line. Now that a year has passed, what do analysts expect from Lula? What do the changes Lula is bringing to Brazil mean for the Americas as a whole? Come find out!
Free and Open to the Public, with all events taking place on Penn's campus, 17 Logan Hall.
Co-sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies, The Political Science Department, The Center for Africana Studies and The Lauder Program at the University of Pennsylvania, this is a two-part roundtable:
First Discussion (4:00pm - 5:30pm):
What has Changed in Brazil? Political, Historical, Social Perspectives
· Wendy Hunter, Professor of Political Science, University of Texas
· Barbara Weinstein, Professor of History, University of Maryland
Second Discussion (5:30pm - 7:00pm):
Anti-racism and Brazilian Politics: an Evaluation
· João Costa Vargas, Assistant Professor, University of Texas
· Ivanir dos Santos, President, CEAP (Centro de Articulacão de Populacões
Marginalizadas)
This event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Please contact LALS at 215-898-9919 or at
lals@sas.upenn.edu for more information.
Thursday, November 13th, 2003
Fernando Coronil, Department of History, University of Michigan
Colonial or Imperial Studies? Rethinking Imperialism from the Americas
History Department Lounge, 209 College Hall
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Wednesday, November 19th, 2003
Dr. Jose Munoz, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of Arts. Dr. Munoz will speak on queer theory, critical race theory, global mass cultures, performance art, and film and video.
Arch Building
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
La
Casa Latina and the Latin American & Latino Studies Program present
Latino Heritage Month Events
September 3-October 29, 2003
Our central theme this year is "Uniting Latino and Latina Identities"
Pre-screening of Director Robert
Rodriguez's film, "Once Upon a Time in Mexico,"
starring Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe
When: 7:30PM
Where: The Bridge, 40th and Walnut St.
Please sign up for free tickets at La Casa Latina, in the Arch Building.
Wednesday, September 10th:
The Battle of Chile, Part One:
"The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie"
When: 7:00PM-9:00PM
Where: Class of '55 Conference Room, 2nd floor Van Pelt Library, Penn ID required.
Friday, September 12th:
Ballet Folklórico de México to perform at the University of Pennsylvania.
When: 12:30PM to 2:00PM
Where: Irvine Auditorium, 34th & Spruce St.
Sunday, September 14th:
Mexican
Independence Day Celebration at Penn's Landing
(http://www.pennslandingcorp.com/events.asp)
Wednesday, September 17th:
The Battle of Chile, Part Two: "The Coup D'Etat"
When: 7-9PM
Where: Class of '55 Conference Room, 2nd floor Van Pelt Library, Penn ID
required.
Wednesday, September 24th:
The Battle of Chile, Part Three:
"The Power of the People"
When: 7-9 PM
Where: Class of '55 Conference Room, 2nd floor Van Pelt Library, Penn ID required.
Sunday, September 28th:
Philadelphia Puerto Rican Day Parade, JFK Pkwy. to Center City
(http://elconcilio.net/Festival/festival_schedule.htm)
Dr. Robert Aponte, Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Indiana University speaks on Latino/a population growth in the US and the exploration of Latino/a communities in the US in his lecture "Latinos: the Largest and Most Oppressed Minority."
Dr. Aponte received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1996 he moved to Indiana University where he worked with the Julian Samora Research Institute, during which he wrote "Latinos in the Heartland: The Browning of the Midwest". His areas of specialization are Latino immigration, contemporary Cuba, and race/ethnic relations.
When: 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Where: Bodek Lounge, in Houston Hall
Thursday, October 2nd
Civic
House, the Fox Leadership
Program, and Penn Law School
present...
Justice in Guatemala
Iduvina Hernández, Guatemalan Journalist and the Director of SEDEM (Association for the Study and Promotion of Security
in a Democracy). Hernández, a threatened female human rights advocate, will speak about the reality of post-war
Guatemala, civil society, and the role of the international community.
Questions to be addressed include how do you build democracy in a post-conflict country?
How do you incorporate respect for human rights into the justice system?
When:
Thursday, October 2nd, 5:30 pm
Penn Law School, Silverman 245
This
event is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies
Program, Latin American and Latino
Studies Program, and La Casa Latina.
Wednesday, October 8th:
Dr. Juana María Rodríguez. Assistant Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College speaks on global feminism, Queer theory and Latino/a identity in her lecture "Sodomy and Sovereignty: Puerto
Rican Politics and Queer Activist Interventions." This talk will examine attempts to repeal the sodomy laws in Puerto Rico, examining how colonial dynamics, queer transnational tourism, and local politics inform activist struggles. Dr. Rodríguez is the author of "Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices and Discursive Spaces".
When: 12:00PM to 1:30PM
Where: Penniman Library, 2nd floor Bennett Hall, 34th and Walnut
Friday, October 10th:
"Resurrection: Belkis Ayon, Collographs from Cuba." Works by this well-regarded, prematurely deceased printmaker (age 32), exemplify the vitality and influence of contemporary Afro Cuban art.
The artist makes use of Christian icons; she also (mysteriously) had associations with the creation myth of an all-male secret society in Cuba. Her works are the first visual representation of the central female figure of the Afro Cuban religion, Abakua. In collaboration with the Brandywine Workshop.
Opens October 10 at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery.
Tuesday, October 14th:
Dr. Ilan Stavans, Professor of Spanish at
Amherst College, signs his new book "Spanglish: the Making of a New
American Language" and speaks on religion, dual identities,
Jewish-Latinos/Latinas and Chicanismo in his lecture "Jews and Latinos:
Unlikely Partners." Ilan Stavans has also written "The Hispanic
Condition," "The Riddle of Cantinflas, "The One-Handed
Pianist and Other Stories," "Art and Anger." He has, in
addition, received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Latino Literature Prize.
When: 6:00 to 8:00PM
Where: Hillel at Steinhardt Hall
Wednesday, October 15th:
Dr. Ilan Stavans conducts his master class, "Spanglish: Past, Present and Future."
When: 11:00 to 12:30 pm
Where: The Arch, 36th & Locust
Wednesday, October 29th:
Dr. José Muñoz, Associate Professor of
Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of Arts, received his Ph.D. from Duke
University in 1994. He has received honors such as the Penn State
University Minority Fellow and the Duke Endowment Fellowship. Dr. Muñoz will
speak on queer theory, critical race theory, global mass cultures, performance
art, and film and video.
When: 4:00 to 6:00PM
Where: LGBT Center, 3907 Spruce St.
Orian Jimenez Meneses, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
"Poblamiento Negro, Blanco e Indio en el Litoral Pacifico Colombiano (Siglos XVII, XVIII, y XIX)
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
College Hall, Room209
12:00 PM
Light lunch will be served
**Talk will be held in Spanish**
2003 Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium
The "African Americas" Symposium
Mercedes
Rubio
"Obesity in Mexican Americans: Effects of Socioeconomic
Status and Cultural Factors."
Monday January 27
4:30 PM
McNeil 167-68
Yolanda Padilla "Reading the Folk: Revolution and Genre in Josephina Niggli's Mexican Village"
Thursday, February 6th, 2003 4:00 PM
Steven Topik
"XIX Century Liberalism/Brasil-Mexico"
Monday, February 17, 2003
3:00pm
McNeil Building 4th Floor Room 410
Part of the Seminar-Colloquia "Structural Adjustments
and Social Responses in Urban Latin America"
David Guss
Associate Professor, Tufts University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
"The Good, The Bad, and The Uppity: The Performance of Race of the Streets of La Paz"
Thursday, November 7, 2002
4:00pm
Bennett Hall 205
Reception to Follow
Co-sponsored by the Anthropology
Department
Fall 2002: Latino Heritage Month
September 25th, 2002
Que Rico Guarapo
5:00-8:30pm
Film (Before Night Falls), Music (Elio Villafranca), Gallery Talk, Food tasting, and a Chef's Special!
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Ben Franklin Parkway and 26th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
215-763-8100
Penn students free admission with PennID!
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program Fall Social!
Faculty members and graduate students are invited to join us for food, beverages, and music by the Cuban-influenced band, Crisol.
Family and significant others are welcome!
Thursday, October 3rd, 2002
4:00-6:00pm
The Arch Building
3601 Locust Walk
Fireside Room