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Genesis: An Exhibition of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous Art
February 28-March 4
With special evening of performances to honor International Women's Day on March 3 from 7:00-10:00pm
Global Hub- 1st Floor Posvar
Join us for an evening of special performances featuring women artists in honor of International Women's Day from 7-10PM at the Global Hub. Refreshments will be provided. These performances are an accompaniment to "Genesis: An Exhibition of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous Art," on display at the Global Hub from February 28-March 4.
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To register, click "HERE"
To read Nadiyah's article, click "HERE"
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March 18, 2022
9:30 am to 3:00 pm
Virtual Event via ZOOM
We invite you to participate in a new initiative led by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University: an annual seminar on the books published by the Afro-Latin America Series at Cambridge University Press. This annual seminar brings people together to discuss the volumes published in the series in the previous year. Due to the pandemic, we will celebrate the eight books published until 2021.
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March 22, 2022
4:30-5:30 P.M.In-person event: Global Hub- 1st Floor Posvar or Zoom
Presenters
Keila Grinberg, Karl Grossner, Ruth Mostern, and Daryle Williams
This session will be an introduction to place names and their significance as a part of a community's identity, touching upon themes of colonialism, enslavement, migration, and more.
To register, click "HERE"
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Digital and Spatial Approaches to the History of Slavery
March 23, 2022
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
In-Person event
Presenter
Keila Grinberg, Karl Grossner, Ruth Mostern, and Daryle Williams
The World History Center and the Center for Latin American Studies will host a roundtable panel about digital and spatial methods for depicting the history and memory of slavery at scales that range from the transregional to the local. This event will be a conversation featuring Keila Grinberg (University of Pittsburgh), Karl Grossner (WHC Affiliate), Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh), and Daryle Williams (UC Riverside). Panelists will also focus on three digital projects, Enslaved: Peoples of Historic Slave Trade, Passados Presentes, and World Historical Gazetteer.
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THE SPECTERS OF LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
AN UNCANNY ARCHIVE
March 31, 2022
3:30pm to 5:30pm
Full Event Flyer.
MERITXELL HERNANDO MARSAL is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Language and Literature at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. She specializes in 20th and 21st century Latin American narratives, with emphasis in the literary and political avant-garde movements, feminisms, heterogeneity and cultural translation, coloniality and inequality in Latin America. As an Andeanist, she has produced groundbreaking work on Gamaliel Churata, creating a dialogue between the Puno avant-garde and its Brazilian counterpart, Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagy.
Sponsors: Hispanic Language and Literatures and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
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Film of the Month
Nothing but the Sun
Paraguay, 2020 | Documentary
March 31 at 6:00pm
Frick 125 (Auditorium)
To register, click "HERE"
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Apply now to the Summer Institution for Global Educators!
To learn more, click "HERE"
To apply, click "HERE"
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