Panel Discussion--Humanities Center Colloquium Series - Malungaje: Toward a Poetics of Diaspora - a discussion featuring Jerome Branche

(Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures)
Participants in Humanities departments should be able to access colloquium papers two weeks before the event by logging in to my.pitt.edu, clicking on the tab My Communities, clicking on Humanities Center, and then clicking on Colloquium Series where there is a link to the pdf file. Participants may also request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu.
http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/events/announcements.php
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies, Humanities Center
For more information, contact humctr@pitt.edu

Lecture--Letras prohibidas y escritores estigmatizados en el mundo letrado by Mercedes Nino-Murcia

(University of Iowa)

Mercedes Nino-Murcia, who chairs the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa is a sociolinguist specializing in language contact and vernacular literacy in Spanish America, especially in the Andean countries. She has authored numerous articles in the field of Hispanic linguistics. Co-editor of Escritura y Sociedad: Nuevas perspectivas teoricas y etnograficas (Lima 2005) and of Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the Crossroads with Other Languages (Amsterdam 2008), she is the co-author of the forthcoming book The Lettered Mountain (Duke University Press, 2010).

This lecture is in Spanish
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies, The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Linguistics and the Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh
For more information, contact humctr@pitt.edu

Lecture--Where Neoplatonism meets Ethnology: Garcilaso and the Gods of Huarochiri by Frank Salomon

(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Frank Salomon is one of the leading figures in Andean anthropology, and holds an endowed chair, the John V. Murra Professorship of Anthropology, at the University of Wisconsin. His prize-winning and influential book, Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village (Duke University Press, 2004), uses evidence from history, archeology and cultural anthropology to understand khipus, the knotted cords of the central Andes. His other works include a multilingual edition of the Huarochiri manuscript (University of Texas Press, 1991) and his co-edited volume of the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is the co-author of the forthcoming book The Lettered Mountain (Duke University Press, 2010).
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies, The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Linguistics and the Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh
For more information, contact humctr@pitt.edu

Film--Princesas

(Dir. Fernando Leon de Aranoa - Spain, 2005)
In Princesas, Caye comes from a middle-class family unaware of her life as a prostitute. Zuleman is a beautiful woman from the Dominican Republic who works the streets to support a son back home. Both wolme pin their dreams on money or idealized relationships. Caye and Zule share in discovery of self-determination. While it sontains director Fernando Leon de Aranoas signature concern with the forces that constrain working-class people, Princesas is social realism infused with a wonderful figurative touch.
http://www.amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.blogspot.com/
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies
For more information, contact amigoscinelatinoamericano@gmail.com

Conference--2010 Student Conference on Latin American Social and Public Policy

The purpose of this conference is to provide an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to present papers, works-in-progress (including term papers, dissertations, and conference papers, etc.), and other academic work with relevance to Latin American social and public policy.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/laspp/lasspform.html
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies

Panel Discussion--The Lettered Mountain with Frank Salomon and Mercedes Nino-Murcia

Chapters of forthcoming book will be circulated in advance; please send a message to humcenter@pitt.edu
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies, The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Linguistics and the Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh
For more information, contact humctr@pitt.edu

Conference--2010 Student Conference on Latin American Social and Public Policy

The purpose of this conference is to provide an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to present papers, works-in-progress (including term papers, dissertations, and conference papers, etc.), and other academic work with relevance to Latin American social and public policy.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/laspp/lasspform.html
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies

Film--Novia que te vea

(Guita Schyfer - Mexico, 1994)

Based on the novel by Rosa Nissan, this 1994 Mexican film presents a warm and touching tale set within the Mexican Jewish community, starting with a prologue in the 1920s and spanning all the way to the present. The film focuses on two young women: the sensitive, wide-eyed Oshi Mataraso and the rebellious and idealistic Rifke, and their coming-of-age in a time ripe with alienation, self-discovery, revolution, destruction, and rebirth. Besides exploring gender expression at the intersection of tradition and modernity in the Mexican Jewish community, the movie also discusses Jewish-Catholic relations in Mexico as well as Mexican Jews feelings toward the State of Israel, thus constituting a broader interrogation of the meaning of Mexicanness.
http://www.amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.blogspot.com/
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies
For more information, contact amigoscinelatinoamericano@gmail.com

Lecture--Talking with Fidel: The Secret History of US-Cuba Relations by Dr. Peter Kornbluh

(National Security Archives)

A year after Barack Obama became president with a promise for civil dialogue with Cuba, U.S.-Cuban relations remain mired in hostility and punitive policies. What are the lessons of dialogue with the Castros that Washington has failed to heed? Peter Kornbluh will discuss the untold history of secret U.S. talks with Cuba, and the historical precedents for normalizing relations.

Peter Kornbluh, is a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive since 1986. He currently directs the Archives Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-contra documentation project and director of the Archives project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. He is the author/editor/co-editor of a number of Archive books; among them, the Archive's first two documents readers: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 and The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History (both by The New Press), and Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (The New Press, 1998). On the 30th anniversary of the Chilean military coup in September 2003 he published The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which the Los Angeles Times selected as a best book of the year. His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many other journals and newspapers. He has also appeared on national television and radio broadcasts.
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies, The Department of History (University of Pittsburgh, main campus) & The History Department (University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg campus)
For more information, contact Steven Hirsh - sjh3@pitt.edu