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CLAS Events (Back to top)
 SERIES Frick Fine Arts Auditorium 6:30 p.m.--Pizza 7:00 p.m. Film For more information on each film, visit: https://clascinema.weebly.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/313925426017250/ MARK YOUR CALENDARS! September 11 ... The Future Perfect October 2 ... On the Roof October 23 ... Eyes of the Journey November 6 ... Spider Thieves November 27 ... The Candidate December 4 ... The Queen of Spain
If you would like to add a CLAS sponsored event to your personal (OUTLOOK or GOOGLE) calendars, visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/list then look for specific film.
September 13, 2018  Round Table Discussion: Nicaragua: The April 19th Crisis 4:30 p.m. 4217 Wesley W. Posvar Hall For more information, visit: https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/
September 24, 2018 Lecture: On the Ground Perspectives of Cuba Speakers include: Osborne Hart, Michele Reid-Vazquez and Community Members 5:00 p.m. 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/list
In 1968, the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) was created as the University of Pittsburgh’s encompassing framework for all its multidisciplinary international programs. To commemorate our 50th anniversary, we will be holding a celebration open to both the University and larger Pittsburgh community.
Join us for an afternoon of international performances, sweet treats from around the globe, children’s activities, and more! For more information, visit: https://www.internationalweek.pitt.edu/ucis-50years
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September 13, 2018 For more information, visit: https://www.library.pitt.edu/facultybooktalks  (Back to top takes you back to the menu)
Lecture Series as part of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15 to October 15) Lecture by: Patricia Documet, Associate Professor, Public Health September 14, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m. Latin American Lecture Room, 1st Floor--Hillman Library For more information, email: cjd13@pitt.edu
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Lecture Series as part of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15 to October 15) Lecture by: Gina Garcia, Assistant Professor, School of Education September 21, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m. Foster Conference Room, 1149 Public Health Building For more information, email: cjd13@pitt.edu
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Student Events, News & Opportunities (Back to top)
 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! https://www.facebook.com/brazilnutsatPitt/
 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: https://pittspanishclub.weebly.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/groups/PittSpanishClub/
Also, follow our new instagram account for even more updates on club events: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnSOj7iHbRt/?taken-by=pittspanishclub
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Eduardo Lozano Latin American Collection News (Back to top)
 For questions, comments or suggestions, please contact: Martha E. Mantilla, Librarian, Latin American Studies and Eduardo Lozano Collection E-mail: martham@pitt.edu 171 Hillman Library - University of Pittsburgh Voice: (412) 648-7734 Fax: (412) 648-7713 https://www.library.pitt.edu/eduardo-lozano-latin-american-collection
The University Library System recently acquired this recent manuscript: “Cuaderno Avon” by Jorge Luis Borges The University Library System recently acquired a manuscript notebook by Jorge Luis Borges called the “Cuaderno Avon,” dated 1950. The acquisition of this rare notebook penned in Borges’s hand from a private collection was facilitated by Daniel Balderston, Mellon Professor of Modern Languages and director of the Borges Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The addition of this exceptionally valuable item to the University of Pittsburgh’s Archives and Special Collections will contribute to the enrichment of the Eduardo Lozano Latin American Collection. Guide to the Cuaderno Avon, Borges Notebook, 1950-1951 https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:US-PPiU-LATINAMER201801/viewer For more information: http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/library-insider-7
The University Library System recently acquired these two journals: ATABAQUE. El llamado de los afroumbandistas (después del No. 85: El Llamado del los afroamerindio). Después No.20: Periódico Oficial de la Religión en el Uruguay. Directores: Julio Kronberg, Susana Andrade Año I – No.1 (Noviembre de 1997) – Año XI ; No.122 (Noviembre 2007) Total 122 números. colección completa. Only one other Library in the US has this journal. Bahia - Hulan - Yack : comunidad internacional. Sociedad de Amigos de Africa y Protectora de los Derechos Humanos. 1900s-? Spanish: Serial Publication: Periodical v.: ill.; 29 x 40 cm. Montevideo, Uruguay: Sociedad de Amigos de Africa y Protectora de los Derechos Humanos One Library in the US has two issues of this journal.
The Guide to the Florencio Asenjo Collection, 1945-2013 is now online: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:US-PPiU-ua201418/viewer This collection was processed by Juan Fernando Velasquez Ospina and Jim Cassaro. The collection documents the musical career of Florencio Asenjo, and contains manuscript sketches and first and final versions of all of the composer’s musical output, mostly for orchestra or chamber ensemble. In addition, correspondence, audio recordings, and clippings from the musical press are included. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1926, Asenjo was a mathematician who came from Argentina to the United States in 1958. He was professor on the faculty at several American universities, including Georgetown, Southern Illinois, and the University of Pittsburgh, where he was associate professor of mathematics from 1963 to 2010. Asenjo also had intellectual interests in other areas such as philosophy—especially phenomenology—art history, aesthetics, and especially music.
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National Association of Latino and Arts and Cultural Grant Opportunities: https://www.nalac.org/programs/nalac-grants
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Research & Study Opportunities
The following list of research and study opportunities is organized by deadline date and is updated as information becomes available. To view more information on a particular entry, click on its title.
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(Back to top) NOTE: All announcements and events are listed in chronological order.
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NOTE: These are organizations are based locally, nationally, and internationally. As such, we recommend that you visit individual websites for information about events and opportunities!
Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) Americas Society (AS) 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/
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 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/
Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh For more information about tickets and events visit: http://www.music.pitt.edu/ or http://www.music.pitt.edu/events
Council Hemispheric Affairs 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 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/
Latin American Council of Social Science 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/
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Forum: The fall 2017 issue of the LASA Forum is now available for viewing online. This brief issue includes two timely essays on the crisis in Venezuela. Members can also view the new LASA membership dues and an explanation of the new dues structure. Also, the LASA2018 program co-chair shares updates on the upcoming LASA Congress in Barcelona.
Latin American Research Review (LARR) 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.
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. •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 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/
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/
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