CLAS@Pitt Weekly Newsletter -- February 6, 2019

The first people to e-mail ket82@pitt.edu the correct answer will win a CLAS mug and water bottle. Please note: to collect your prize you will need to visit us at 4200 Posvar Hall.

The answer to this question will be featured in next week's newsletter.
To see the answer to last week's question, click here.

Save the date!

Saturday, April 13, 2019

The 39th Latin American and Caribbean Festival

PITTSBURGH—The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for International Studies will be hosting the 39th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival from noon to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, 2019 in the Galleria, and Patio of Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213.

Beginning at noon, the festival will feature Latin American and Caribbean food, arts, crafts, and information on local and regional organizations. Latin American vendors also will offer handmade and authentic Latin American products. Music and dance performances from Latin America and the Caribbean will take place throughout the day.

VENDORS and PERFORMERS APPLY HERE

For more information, contact: clasfestival@pitt.edu, 412-648-7394

Learn more and join our community: https://www.facebook.com/events/2237162249898508/

Emerging Latino Communities Reading and Publishing Group

1154 Public Health (130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261)
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

February 8  |  March 8  |  April 12

The Center for Health Equity, with the support of the Center for Latin American Studies, invites you to explore 1) the problems Latinos in small yet rapidly growing populations face, and 2) how to solve those problems. We will read articles and offer feedback to those who are writing manuscripts. We hope to get new writing and research collaborations going!

Open to all interested: students, faculty, staff, and practitioners from Pitt and beyond. We will meet over coffee and light snacks in a relaxed atmosphere. If you want to get extra network time, we will be there 30 before and after the meeting time.

For more information, visit healthequity.pitt.edu or e-mail Chantel Durrant cjd13@pitt.edu

To view the minutes from last week's meeting, click here

February 8, 2019

Panoramas Roundtable: Social, Environmental, and Health Impacts of Climate Change in the Caribbean

4217 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
1:00 PM

Pizza provided! Free & open to the public!

Panoramas provides a web-based venue for thoughtful dialogue of Latin American and Caribbean issues. By enabling a voice for scholars, students, policy makers and others to engage in constructive commentary on relevant current and historical topics, the forum also serves as an academic resource to worldwide educational audiences. Housed at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and maintained by CLAS faculty, students and alumni, Panoramas strives to be at the forefront of scholarly analysis of affairs in the Latin American region.

For more information and to join the conversation, visit: https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/

For more information on the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/

Nicole Marroquin, “Redeveloping a Peoples’ Movement: Power and Public Participation in Chicago”

Wilkinsburg Community Forge, 1256 Franklin Ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15221
7:30 - 8:30 PM

Free & open to the public!

In this talk Nicole Marroquin will discuss how graffiti informs the peoples’ movement for power and public participation in Chicago. An artist-educator, Marroquin uses art and archives to explore histories and futures for activism. There will be time for questions and answers and a reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public. The event is part of a series of events created by Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project

Nicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and teacher educator whose current research looks at Chicago school uprisings between 1967-74. She has recently been in-residence at the Chicago Cultural Center, with the Propeller Fund at Mana Contemporary, at Watershed, Ragdale, ACRE and Oxbow. Recently, she has presented projects at the International Sculpture Conference in Philadelphia, at New School in New York, at the Midwestern Archivist Conference in Chicago, at the Newberry Library, Harold Washington Public Library, DePaul Museum of Art, Glass Curtain Gallery, Hull House Museum, Northwestern University and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

For more information on the Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: hcuap.pgh@gmail.com    •    hcuap.com

23rd Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes faculty and students to the 23rd Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference. At the conference, researchers can present their scholarly work related to social and public policy in Latin America.

Friday, March 29th, 2019

11:00 a.m., Location TBA

The Seventeenth Carmelo Mesa-Lago Distinguished Latin American Social and Public Policy Keynote Speaker for this year is: Dr. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Editor-in-Chief, Latin American Research Review; and Co-editor, Kellogg Series in Democracy and Development)

Saturday, March 30th, 2019

12:30 p.m., Location TBA

Special Roundtable: The Challenges of the Policy Cycle in Brazilian Politics

For more information, visit: 
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/laspp/

April 11-13, 2019

Representations of Afrolatinidad in Global Perspective 

University of Pittsburgh

Conference Convened by the Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Initiative

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, Brown University

Dr. Nancy Mirabal, Associate Professor, American Studies, Director of the US Latina/o Studies Program, University of Maryland-College Park

The intersections of race, ethnicity, and representation have shaped historical and contemporary articulations of Afrolatinidad. As an expression of multivalent identity, both shared and unique, Afrolatinidad informs the experiences of over 150 million Afro-Latin Americans and millions more within diasporic communities in the United States, Canada, Europe, and beyond. The conference seeks to foster an international dialogue that addresses regional, national, and transnational links among the ways Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Latinxs create, sustain, and transform meanings surrounding blackness in political, social, and cultural contexts.

This two-day symposium aims to engage multiple depictions of Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Latinxs – whether self-fashioned or imposed. The varied portrayals in the past and present reflect the ongoing global realities, struggles, vibrancy, and resiliency of Afro-Latin diasporas throughout the Americas and elsewhere. The symposium will feature keynote addresses by Dr. Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science at Brown University, and Dr. Nancy Mirabal, Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland-College Park. Their work on Afro-descendant politics in Latin America and Afro-Latinx discourses of race, gender, and territoriality, respectively, will spark broader exchanges around Afrolatinidad and representation among presenters and attendees.

If you have questions, please contact Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez at mbr31@pitt.edu and include “Afrolatinidad Conference” in the subject line. 

For more information, visit:  
www.africanastudies.pitt.edu/Call%20for%20Papers%3A%20Representations%20of%20Afrolatinidad

Cosponsors: University of Pittsburgh Office of the Chancellor, Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Initiative, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Year of Pitt Global, Humanities Center, Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Africana Studies

Global Studies, the ULS, and others are partnering to bring the traveling Exhibit Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame to the ULS for the month of February (Black History Month).  Ferguson Voices tells the story of the people of Ferguson, Missouri, before, during, and after Michael Brown, a young black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer in August 2014. The physical exhibit will be located in the alcove just to the right of the First Floor entrance of Hillman for the month of February; there is also a website and a podcast.  See below for a full schedule of events related to the exhibit.

Third Annual Distinguished Departmental Lecture: Racial Reconciliation, Institutional Morality, and the Social Life of DNA

DR. ALONDRA NELSON
President, Social Science Research Council
Professor, Columbia University

University Club
Reception: 5-6 p.m.; Lecture; 6-8 p.m.

*
Friday, March 22

Maroon Queen, Mother of the Nation, & ‘Science Woman’: Using the Physical, Social, and Metaphysical Sciences to Interrogate the History of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons

DR. HARCOURT FULLER
Associate Professor, Georgia State University

4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
2–4 p.m.

*
Saturday, April 27

Community-based Workshop on DNA and African-American History co-sponsored by African American Program, Senator John Heinz History Center and The Pittsburgh Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS)

Location and time to be determined.

For more information, click here.

The number one priority of the Center for Latin American Studies is its students. CLAS seeks to expand and enrich resources on the Latin American and Caribbean region at the University of Pittsburgh in order to offer its students multidisciplinary academic training programs of the highest quality that complement a degree in a discipline or profession.

Undergraduate Programs: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/ugrad_programs   
Graduate Programs: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/grad_certificates

To set-up an advising meeting with the CLAS Advisor go to: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/advising    

Welcome to Brazil Nuts!

Brazil Nuts is an active student organization at the University of Pittsburgh. Since its creation in 1998, the group's primary goal has been to expose students to Brazilian culture and the Portuguese language, creating environments for the students to practice their Portuguese outside of the classroom and to interact within the Brazilian community.

The club's activities provide students with unique opportunities to learn more about Brazil and its people. Weekly dance classes are offered where participants can enjoy themselves while learning about axé, samba and other forms of Brazilian dance, while movie nights provide viewers with a chance to witness the art of Brazilian cinema. The club also offers Bate-Papo, a weekly conversation table where students of all levels can practice Portuguese with peers and native Portuguese speakers.

Membership is open to anyone who is interested in the Portuguese language and learning about the cultures where Portuguese is spoken. Take a look at our site, learn about some of our activities and find out about other events occuring in the Pittsburgh area!

Visit the Brazil Nuts Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/brazilnutsatPitt/
 

Pitt Caribbean and Latin American Student Association (CLASA)

For more information: 
pittclasa@gmail.com or https://www.instagram.com/pitt_clasa/

Our purpose at Pitt Spanish Club is to immerse students in the culture and language  of Spanish-speaking countries. We collaborate with the University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and other organizations to host many events. 

Visit our website: https://pittspanishclub.weebly.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PittSpanishClub/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnSOj7iHbRt/?taken-by=pittspanishclub

Free lessons on Tuesdays

Posvar Hall, First floor lobby by escalators

6:30 p.m. -- Beginner Tango
7:45 -- Experimental Tango & Practice

Beginners welcome! No partners needed.

Grant Opportunities: https://www.nalac.org/programs/grants

Operation Walk Pittsburgh

Spanish Translators Needed! 

Operation Walk Pittsburgh is a private, not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization which provides free surgical care for patients that have no access to life-improving care for arthritis or other debilitating bone and joint conditions in Latin American countries. Operation Walk also educates in-country orthopedic surgeons, nurses, physical therapists and other healthcare professionals on the most advanced treatments and surgical techniques for diseases of the hip and knee joints. This is done in conjunction with surgeries to help create a lasting contribution to patient care in developing countries. 

The Operation Walk Pittsburgh chapter was started by Dr. Tony DiGioia, Medical Director of the Bone and Joint Center at Magee-Womens Hospital, in 2009 as an initiative of the AMD3 Foundation. To date, Operation Walk Pittsburgh has completed nine successful, international missions to Guatemala, Panama, Honduras and Cuba and given the gift of mobility back to nearly 500 patients in need. The team will return to Antigua, Guatemala in October of 2019 to mark its 10th mission and 10th anniversary. Each year, a team of surgeons, nurses, physical therapists, other healthcare professionals, translators and general volunteers is recruited for Operation Walk’s volunteer travel team. 

We are currently accepting applications for our 2019 mission and are in need of Spanish translators. Spanish bilingual speakers are prefered but applicants processing advanced Spanish will also be considered. Professional experience in healthcare is also a plus, but not required. Applicants must be available to travel September 28 - October 5th, 2019 and must agree to a modest fundraising commitment. If you’d like to learn more or are interested in applying to our travel team, please visit www.operationwalkpgh.org. You can also email Nick nick@amd3.org with general questions.
 

Interested in healthcare, international mission work, and non-profit management? Operation Walk Pittsburgh is currently accepting applications from qualified graduate students for its Program Coordinator and Marketing Internship. The successful applicant could begin working with Operation Walk Pittsburgh as soon as May, 2019. This will be a paid internship. For more information, please see the attached job description. 

Microsoft awards tuition and conference scholarships each year to encourage students to further their learnings in Computer Science and related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines. Recipients for the scholarship will be awarded in recognition of their demonstrated passion for technology, academic excellence, and leadership while working to push the software industry forward.

We strongly encourage underrepresented groups to pursue STEM fields of study as we greatly value a broad range of perspectives and contributions. We are especially committed to offering scholarships to those individuals from backgrounds that may have historically been underrepresented in the technical field. We prioritize scholarship applications that demonstrate exceptional leadership work in the promotion of diversity in STEM disciplines at their university.

Diversity Conference Scholarship

• Recipients receive paid registration to one of the following diversity conferences:
  
  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
  • National Society of Black Engineers Conference
  • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference
  • Tapia Conference
• Travel, hotel, and meal stipend of $1,200 USD.
• These funds are not transferable to other individuals.

If you have any questions, contact us at scholars@microsoft.com. 

The Conference Scholarship application period is from 1st February 2019 to 29th March 2019. Please check back for more info in February.

For more information, visit: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/usscholarshipprogram
 

Call for Nominations & Applications

We offer a variety of seminars on topics in political thought and public policy – including on classical liberal thinkers and on democratic capitalism. 

For faculty: nominating students is easy. Simply share the candidate’s name and email Cheryl (contact information below), along with a brief description of the student’s abilities and interest in politics and public policy. 

All fellowships come with housing and stipends to offset living and travel costs. Our final deadline is February 11, 2019.

For more information and to nominate a student contact:
Cheryl Miller
Hertog Foundation
(202) 853-9440
cherylm@hertogfoundation.org
HertogFoundation.org

For this academic year, we'll be offering Winter, Spring and Summer Programs in 9 locations: London, Paris, New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston & San Francisco.

All of our Programs feature a series of career-readiness classes, workshops and events centered around an internship placement at a leading company in an industry of interest to a student. 

Our programs are open to students from any year and with any major, and they may choose a placement in one of 9 career fields: Banking & Financial services; Consulting & Professional services; Law & Politics; Technology & Engineering; Marketing, Advertising & PR; Media, Entertainment & Journalism; Art, Fashion & Design; Start-ups & Entrepreneurship; Charities, NFPs & NGOs.

Students may be directed to apply now at: https://city-internships.com/apply
Programs and Offerings Prospectus: City Internships 2018/19 Prospectus.
 

Global Wordsmiths, a start-up language interpretation and translation company located in East Liberty, aims to serve immigrants and refugees in Pittsburgh by eliminating language access barriers through the Language Access Project. It does so by recruiting, training, and pairing bilingual university students with small, local nonprofits. 

They are seeking near-native or very advanced bilingual, highly motivated interns to assist in translating and interpretation services.

For more information, contact Meredith Bapir at mbapir@globalwordsmiths.com
 

The Cuban Research Institute (CRI), the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC), and the Florida International University Libraries are pleased to request applications from scholars and graduate students for the Diaz-Ayala Library Travel Grants for spring and early summer 2019. These awards are offered in honor of Cristobal Diaz-Ayala, the prominent music collector and independent scholar who donated his Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection to FIU in 2001.

These grants provide scholars and graduate students the opportunity to conduct research in the special collections and archives related to Cuba and Cuban Americans at the FIU Green Library, thereby expanding access to its unique holdings and enhancing their value as national resources. CRI, LACC, and the FIU Libraries are offering three research travel grants of up to $2,000 each to offset the costs of a minimum one-week stay (five working days) to use the collections.

Scholars and graduate students in the humanities and the social sciences whose work will be enhanced by using the resources of the collection are encouraged to apply. Two of the awards will be given to U.S.-based scholars or graduate students, ina ccordance with the requirements of LACC's U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant. Those residing in other countries are encouraged to apply for the remaining grant. 

To download the grant guidelines, application form, and budget estimate form, please visit the CRI website at https://cri.fiu.edu/programs/library-travel-grants/. For more information, please call 305-348-1991 or write cri@fiu.edu

Deadline: March 15, 2019

The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida is offering library access grants for spring and summer 2019 for scholars from qualified U.S. colleges and universities to use the extensive resources of the Latin American and Caribbean Collection. The grants are funded by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Recipients are awarded an average of $1,000 to support travel expenses such as airfare, ground transportation, lodging, and meals.

The UF Libraries’ Latin American and Caribbean Collection (LACC) is one of the leading research collections of its kind. It consists of over ‌500,000 volumes, and includes all disciplines, although literature, the humanities, and the social sciences are best represented.   sampling of the primary sources available in Special Collections can be found listed here.

Application Deadline:  February 24, 2019
All travel must be completed by July 31, 2019

Please see the full announcement, including application instructions, at http://www.latam.ufl.edu/outreach/library-travel-grants/

UF Center for Latin American Studies' 68th Annual Conference:

Jews and the Americas

University of Florida

February 24-26, 2019

The conference is jointly sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida.

Funding is also provided by the U.S. Department of Education and the Bacardi Family Endowment.

Register for the conference Here.

• $0 - UF students, faculty and staff
• $50 - Non-UF Florida residents
• $100 - Non-UF out-of-state residents

Please note, registration fees will increase by $50 for non-UF Florida and out of state attendees beginning February 11th. 

For more information, visit: http://www.latam.ufl.edu/annual-conference/
 

Post-anthropocentrism and the Global Crisis of Sovereignty that Challenges the Cultures of the Anthropocene

(A Trans-Andean Inquiry)

International Workshop

March 26, 2019 (location TBA)

The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce an International Workshop on Post-Anthropocentrism tailored to advance ways of understanding the relationship between post-anthropocentric reflections and the metaphor of the Anthropocene within the context of Trans-Andean cultural traditions, in which all forms of life, including non-human entities are perceived as “subject of rights” and enjoy a cognitive status. If postcolonial studies have transformed critical thinking in the humanities and social sciences, post-anthropocentric reflections deepen and problematize the gesture and remap the field of cultural theory at large.

ONLINE REGISTRATION will be available to faculty, graduate and undergraduate students

Contact person: Elizabeth Monasterios, elm15@pitt.edu

For more information, click here

Colombia Internacional: Open Theme Call for Papers

 
Colombia Internacional, published by the School of Social Sciences at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá – Colombia), will receive open theme articles from February 1 to 28, 2019. We invite those interested in participating in the call to send us unpublished papers presenting research results and theoretical innovations on debates in the fields of Political Science and International Relations. Papers can be sent in in Spanish, English or Portuguese  

Original articles must be submitted for consideration through our Scholar One platform in Word for Windows and formatted according to the journal's editorial guidelines. These can be found at: https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/forauthors/colombiaint/editorial-policy

All articles will be subject to the following evaluation process: First, the editorial team will check whether the article complies by the journal's basic requirements, and whether it is pertinent to the publication. Following this, it will be submitted for evaluation by two academic peers and by the Editorial Committee. The author(s) will be informed of the result of this process in less than six months following the date of closure for the call.  

Articles sent to Colombia Internacional cannot be submitted to other publications for evaluation.  

Reviews should be sent to: colombiainternacional@uniandes.edu.co
 

Editors: Lindsay Mayka (Colby College) and Amy Erica Smith (Iowa State University)

After a decade of leftist governments, the Latin American right is resurgent. While rightist and center-rightist politicians and parties have come to power in a number of countries, the shift is most significant at the grassroots. This special edition will be dedicated to understanding the “grassroots right”: the diverse citizens, civil society associations, and religious groups supporting right-wing issues, politicians, and identities. Their causes range from restricting abortion, affirmative action, and LGBT rights, to expanding gun rights and violently repressing crime. We know too little about these groups. Recent work on civil society in Latin America has mostly focused on left-leaning groups mobilizing for social and economic rights. Meanwhile, the right has been seen as an elite-level phenomenon organized within party organizations. This special issue turns the lens to the grassroots right in both public opinion and civil society. It will analyze the public-opinion foundations, ideological schema, and diverse mobilizational strategies undergirding Latin America’s right turn.

The editors of this special issue request proposals for articles on these topics. By March 15, 2019, authors should submit a 500-word overview of their paper to LRMayka@colby.edu. These proposals should review the paper’s questions, methodological approach, empirical analysis, and relationship to the issue’s core themes. The editors will notify all authors by March 31, 2019 whether a full paper is requested for consideration. All papers will undergo LAPS’s normal process of blind peer review; being selected by the editors offers no guarantee of acceptance to LAPS. For more information and updates, see www.amyericasmith.org/grassrootsright

Click here for the full Call for Proposals

2019 John G. Bowman Faculty Grants for Research Abroad

Grants of $2,000 each are funded by an endowment in memory of Dr. John G. Bowman, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh between 1921 and 1945. Bowman conceived, planned, and funded the construction of the Cathedral of Learning. He also established the Nationality Rooms Program in 1926 under the leadership of Ruth Crawford Mitchell.

Eligibility
This year four grants are offered to Pitt full-time faculty members who have been teaching for at least one year and one grant to a part-time faculty who has been teaching a minimum of three years at the University to enhance the quality of their teaching or develop new courses.
 

Application forms may be downloaded from: 
http://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/content/bowman-faculty-grant-research

The deadline for submission is March 15, 2019

For additional information, call the Nationality Rooms Program at 412.624.6150, or email Cristina Lagnese at mcl38@pitt.edu

2019 Summer Institute for Pennsylvania Teachers

Join the University of Pittsburgh for the 2019 Summer Institute for Pennsylvania Teachers, June 17-21. Pitt's College in High School Program and the University Center for International Studies invite applications from secondary educators interested in teaching globally focused courses that offer transferable college credit to students at their high schools. 
 

• Participate in a FREE and STIPENDED summer residential program at a leading institution in international education
• Get certified to TEACH world language or social studies COURSES FOR COLLEGE CREDIT at your high school
• Exchange ideas with Pitt faculty and teachers on how to enrich content and pedagogy in the classroom
• Discuss trends and challenges in GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
• Learn about the rich professional development opportunities and resources offered for FREE by Pitt's University Center for International Studies
• Join MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS offered for teacher-leaders 
• Earn Pennsylvania ACT 48 professional development CREDITS

 
Why Pitt? The University of Pittsburgh is one of four institutions nationwide to receive NAFSA's 2017 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization. This is the highest honor bestowed by NAFSA: Association of International Educators to U.S. colleges and universities that use "innovative and creative approaches" to advancing international education. This important accomplishment is due in no small part to the University Center for International Studies. UCIS has been a national leader in international education since its founding in 1968. It currently houses several U.S. Department of Education-funded Title VI National Resource Centers as well as a number of affiliated programs, internationally recognized institutes and consortia. By virtue of its university, federal and other institutional mandates, UCIS prioritizes internationalization of teacher training and K-12 education in its core mission.
 
Contact
Zsuzsanna Magdo
University Center for International Studies 
zsuzsannamagdo@pitt.edu
(412) 648 7423    

Great schools need great teachers.  Whether you’re thinking about a career in education, returning to the workforce, or just looking to give back, SmartSTART has employment opportunities for you at South Fayette Township School District.   Become a substitute teacher today and enjoy the benefits that can last a lifetime.  For detailed information please click HERE.    To apply, on SmartSTART please visit  https://smartstart.aiu3.net.  If you have any questions, please contact Alice Gillenberger at 412-394-5860 or alice.gillenberger@aiu3.net.

The South Fayette School District Pays:

$90.00 for 1 – 30 days

$100.00 for 31 + days

*Please note – A substitute training session is planned for September 20, 2019, however, depending on the amount of sign-ups, earlier training sessions are being planned.  Please reach out to alice.gillenberger@aiu3.net for future training dates not yet advertised.

Alfredo Rodriguez & Pedrito Martinez Duo + Edmar Castaneda & Gregoire Maret: Harp vs. Harp

6:00 & 8:30 p.m.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PITTSBURGH! DON'T MISS THIS EVENT!  This evening of international duos includes the juxtaposition of pianist Alfredo Rodriguez’ education from Havana’s rigorous, classical conservatories with percussionist Pedrito Martinez’ exacting training from the streets of the Cayo Hueso neighborhood in Old Havana. Along with Rodriguez and Martinez is the electric paring of Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda and exceptional, Swiss chromatic harmonica player Grégoire Maret as Harp vs Harp. Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez are releasing their next album: Duolouge
 
Grammy® Award-nominated artists Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez first worked together on Alfredo’s 2012 release The Invasion Parade. Since that initial recording session, they have had the rare occasion to perform together as a duo, leaving audiences completely mesmerized by their fearless and virtuosic playing.
 
Each artist brings a different approach to the collaboration. A protégé of Quincy Jones, who took him under his wing when he defected to the US in 2009, Rodriguez was schooled in the rigorous classical conservatories of Havana. His riveting artistry is informed as much by Bach and Stravinsky as it is by his Afro Cuban and jazz roots. Martinez’ musical training came directly from the streets of the Cayo Hueso neighborhood of Old Havana in which he was raised and he has subsequently performed with artists such as Sting, Paul Simon, and Wynton Marsalis. Together, these two master musicians take listeners on a unique and exciting journey on Duologue.

To purchase tickets, visit: http://prod3.agileticketing.net/WebSales/Pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=361844~78f0c928-a599-4914-9d7c-5082dddf9ec0&epguid=a5a24974-e01d-4001-adff-40aa12a9b12b&

*Sunday March 3rd  --  1:30-4:30 p.m. Opening
*Saturday March 9th  --   3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception w/Live Music
*Friday March 15th  --  6:30-9:00 p.m. Presentation/Discussion
Cuba, Photography & Framing a Story

Ketchup City Creative
612 Main St. Sharpsburg PA 15215
 
The narrative of Cuba is entangled. Portraiture of Cuba peeks behind a curtain that’s been in place for over 60 years with an inspiring perspective of the strength of the human spirit. Using casual, candid, environmental & street photography this showing explores the spirit & personality of our neighbors. Over 2 dozen prints capture people in their daily lives. Curiosity about the chaotic relationship between the US & Cuba motivated an independent photo essay. This gallery showing documents the diversity of emotions & character expressed in the faces of resilient people. It portrays a small part of a much larger real life drama.

For more information…
Jay Kuntz j.vid@verizon.net
https://jphotoblogblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/humans-of-cuba/
CV or Artist Statement on request
https://ketchupcity.com

Capoeira Association of Pittsburgh

Capoeira Class & Roda

Kids (ages 6-10): Thursday, 6 - 6:50 p.m. 
Adults: Mondays and Thursdays, 7 - 9 p.m.
$10/session

Hill Dance Academy Theatre (HDAT), Old St. Benedict Moor School
2900 Bedford Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

With Instructor Akinlana "Preguiça" Lowman

For more information, contact nikelola04@gmail.com

For more information about event sponsored by the PMAHCC please CLICK HERE

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh hosts various clubs, classes, and conversation groups related to Spanish. These including "Spanish for Beginners," "Spanish Conversation," and "Spanish II."

To browse events related to Spanish offered by the library, click here: 
https://www.carnegielibrary.org/events/?tribe-bar-category=217&tribe-bar-location=All+Locations&tribe-bar-age-group=All+Ages&tribe-bar-date=&tribe-bar-date-day=&tribe-bar-date-to=&tribe-bar-search=spanish&submit-bar=Find+Events
 
These classes are for adult learners and are FREE.
You do not have to register for the classes or bring anything.
New participants are welcome at any time.

Let's Speak English

If English is not your first language and you would like a place to practice, come to the Library! Join other non-native English speakers for friendly, low-stress conversation.

Mondays  |  6:30 p.m.
CLP - East Liberty

Tuesdays  |  6:45 p.m.
CLP - Brookline

Tuesdays  |  6 p.m.
CLP - Squirrel Hill

Tuesdays  |  6:45 p.m.
CLP - West End

Wednesdays  |  5 p.m.
CLP - Main (Oakland)

Thursdays  |  5:30 p.m.
CLP- Carrick

Fridays  |  1 p.m.
CLP - Downtown & Business

Want to know more? carnegielibrary.org

Casa San Jose 

Extended Office Hours

Mondays and Wednesdays
9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Casa San Jose esta extendiendo sus horas de oficina en nuestro segundo local en East Liberty.

Si quiere hacer cita o comunicarse con esa oficina por favor llame al (502) 682-4540.

For more information on Casa San Jose, visit: casasanjose.org

Clínicas Pediátricas y de Vacunación Gratuitas
Segundo Sábado de Cada Mes
8:30 AM to 12 PM*
Lugar: Salvation Army (Centro de Donaciones) 54 S. 9th Street South Side Pittsburgh, PA 15203
865 Cabot Way, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
No se necesita cita o seguro de salud

Clínicas Pediátricas Gratuitas
Cuarto Martes de Cada Mes
2 PM to 3:40 PM
Lugar: Salvation Army (Centro de Donaciones) Calles Carson y 9 South Side
(Carson Street and 9th Street) Pittsburgh, PA
54 S. 9th Street South Side Pittsburgh, PA 15203
865 Cabot Way, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
No se necesita cita o seguro de salud

Para hacer cita y para confirmar que la clínica no ha sido cambiada de fecha
llamar al 412-692-6000 opción 8

Mayor información: 412-692-6000, opción 8
http://www.chp.edu/saludparaninos
 
Más información: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/245884769436f3da161023045/files/896de567-dab2-44ef-9bf4-2648307d678f/SALUD_PARA_NIÑOS_flyer_2019.doc

Director of Global Partnerships & Partner Engagement: https://www.pittsource.com/postings/168980

Associate Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS): https://www.pittsource.com/postings/169113

Engagement Coordinator:
 https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_staff_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=18000557&tz=GMT-05%3A00
 

Director - https://jobs.nonprofittalent.com/job/building-new-hope-pittsburgh-pa-38-director/?fbclid=IwAR23MZp5x33kWL2EX7AyDTman50PyWXawq1hrKmyKpiVGAon2Xerou6KMYw
 

The Stone Center for Latin American Studies seeks applications for the position of Program Manager for Special Programs.  The Program Manager for Special Programs manages and coordinates special programs including academic travel programs, conferences, visiting scholars, exchange programs, and academic international summer programs sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies (SCLAS) and the Cuban & Caribbean Studies Institute (CCSI), and other entities part of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
 

How to Apply: All applications must be submitted through Tulane’s Office of Human Resources. For the job listing and link to apply, click here.

This position will close on 02/08/2019

Is the premier forum dedicated to education, debate, and dialogue in the Americas. Its mission is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social, and economic issues confronting Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, and to increase public awareness and appreciation of the diverse cultural heritage of the Americas and the importance of the inter-American relationship.   http://www.as-coa.org/
 

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States and the first global think tank. For updates and information about events and topics visit: http://carnegieendowment.org/programs/
 

For more information about tickets and events visit: http://www.music.pitt.edu/ or http://www.music.pitt.edu/events
 

Founded in 1975, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt independent research and information organization, was established to promote the common interests of the hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America. In 1982, COHA’s board of trustees voted to expand its mandate to include monitoring Canadian/Latin American relations.

Since its inception, COHA has been one of the most active and broadest-based U.S. private bodies dealing with the entire spectrum of political, economic and diplomatic issues, as well as responding to the economic and political challenges confronting the nations of this hemisphere. From its beginnings, COHA’s board consisted of the leadership of some of this country’s most important trade unions, professional organizations and religious groups, as well as distinguished civic and academic figures, who joined together to advance their common belief in support of representative government and pluralistic institutions throughout the hemisphere.
For more information contact: http://www.coha.org/
 

Global Links is a medical relief and development organization dedicated to promoting environmental stewardship and improving health in resource-poor communities, primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our two-fold mission provides hospitals with a socially and environmentally beneficial alternative to sending hundreds of tons of still-useful surplus materials to landfills.

Hospitals and clinics in under-served communities often lack the supplies and equipment necessary to provide even basic care to their patients, resulting in needless suffering and deaths. At the same time, the US healthcare industry generates a staggering amount of medical surplus which, without intervention, is destined to pile up in our landfills.

Global Links' innovative model of recovery and reuse connects these two social problems in a way that helps to solve both, creating a "virtuous circle" that converts an environmental burden to a life-saving purpose. For information about events and programs visit: http://www.globallinks.org/
 

The Latin American Council of Social Science (CLACSO is a non-govermental international organization with UNESCO associate status, established in 1967. We currently bring together 394 research centers and graduate school in the field of social sciences and humanities n 26 Latin American countries, North America and Europe.
http://www.clacso.org.ar/
 

Latin American Perspectives is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years, it has published timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. http://latinamericanperspectives.com/
 

The fall 2018 issue of the LASA Forum is now available for viewing online at: https://forum.lasaweb.org/

This issue features timely articles on the current situation in Nicaragua, collected by Juliet Hooker, and an update from Wayne Cornelius on the US administration’s actions to restrict entry of migrants fleeing violence in Central America.

From the 2018 LASA Congress in Barcelona, we offer presentations given at the presidential session “Revisiting 1968 in Latin America: 50 Years Later,” as well as an account of the pre-Congress program of the Otros Saberes Section by Adriana Pou Hernández.
 

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle has more than 70 writers, editors, and international correspondents. http://chronicle.com/section/Home/5
 

The Latin American Research Review (LARR) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
 
The Latin American Research Review now has a blog, hosted by the information platform Panoramas at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, highlighting recent and forthcoming articles: see the LARR blog.
 
LARR was founded in 1965 by a consortium of U.S. universities. When the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) was established the following year, LARR and LASA merged, with the journal becoming the association's official scholarly journal.

Starting at University of Texas at Austin in 1965, the editorship moved to the University of North Carolina in 1974, and then to the University of New Mexico in 1982 before returning to the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.Dr. Philip Oxhorn at McGill University was editor in chief from 2006 to 2016. The new editor in chief, starting in 2017, is Professor Aníbal Pérez-Liñán at the University of Pittsburgh.
 
Beginning in 2017, LARR is open access and online-only at larrlasa.org. No subscription is needed to access new content. 

The Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programas Fall (NRIEP) Fall 2018 Newsletter is now available:  https://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/documents/NRIEP%20Newsletter%20Fall%20%202018_v2.pdf

OLA (Observatory in Latin America—Observatorio Latino Americano)
The broad objectives of OLA are to: Improve academic and public understanding by observing and studying the processes of political and economic change underway in Latin America; Foster a public dialogue between and within the United States and Latin America about the challenges of building social democracy in a globalized world, including creating opportunities for Latin American leaders to directly express their views to audiences in the United States, and; Collaborate with Latin American institutions to further these objectives within countries across the Hemisphere by linking and mobilizing ideas and institutions.

For events visit: http://observatorylatinamerica.org/

The Economic Commission for Latin America CEPAL (news)

The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) -the Spanish acronym is CEPAL- was established by Economic and Social Council resolution 106(VI) of 25 February 1948 and began to function that same year. The scope of the Commission's work was later broadened to include the countries of the Caribbean, and by resolution 1984/67 of 27 July 1984, the Economic Council decided to change its name to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); the Spanish acronym, CEPAL, remains unchanged.
 
ECLAC, which is headquartered in Santiago, Chile, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded with the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic ties among countries and with other nations of the world. The promotion of the region's social development was later included among its primary objectives.
 
In June 1951, the Commission established the ECLAC subregional headquarters in Mexico City, which serves the needs of the Central American subregion, and in December 1966, the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean was founded in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, ECLAC maintains country offices in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo and Bogotá, as well as a liaison office in Washington, D.C. https://www.cepal.org/en 

The World History Center, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

The World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh emphasizes research, teaching, and international collaboration on the global past, with attention to policies for the global future. The Center, directed by Patrick Manning, is located in the Department of History and is affiliated with the Global Studies Center and the University Center for International Studies.
http://www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/index.php

World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

The World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting a deeper understanding of key contemporary international issues throughout Western Pennsylvania. Established in 1931, the Council is committed to informing opinion leaders and decision-makers about developments around the world as they unfold, and to educating them about the relevance of such developments to the region.

The Council also has a special focus on secondary schools throughout the region, and works to give students and teachers a more nuanced understanding of the global issues of our time. https://www.worldpittsburgh.org/

The Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh

The Humanities Center has been running for seven years.  Its vitality derives from the energy of Pitt’s faculty and students in the humanities and associated departments. Thanks to all the hundreds whose scholarly and intellectual passions generate the proposals and fuel the participation that together make a flourishing center. For more information: http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/

Revista Hallazgos

We invite you all to read our latest issue / Lo invitamos a todos a leer nuestro último número: 
http://revistas.usantotomas.edu.co/index.php/hallazgos/issue/view/453

Image Source: Brasil Online

Students dissatisfied with the political climate in Sao Paolo in 1958 printed paper ballots endorsing Cacareco, a black rhino, for city council. Cacareco won approximately 100,000 votes, more than any other party, in the elections. As a result of the election, "voto cacareco" came to mean protest vote. Click here to learn more (in Portuguese) 

Congrats to the winners: Erika Abarca Millan & Malgorzata Markoff

Click here to view this week's question.