January 31, 2019

Música y Poesía del Conflicto Colombiano
Music and Poetry from the Colombian Conflict

Alphabet City  - 40 W North Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
7:00 p.m.

Three chamber music and multimedia works inspired by different aspects of the 50-year long armed and social conflict, and a special appearance by Colombian poet Piedad Bonnet. 

Federico Garcia-De Castro: Memoria
Nicolás Aguía: La Bonanza del Olvido
Johan Hasler / Piedad Bonnet: La Cicatriz en el Espejo
with Gizelxanath Rodriguez, soprano

Free & open to the public!
Event conducted in Spanish with English translations

For more on Alia Musica: aliamusicapittsburgh.org
For more on City of Asylum: cityofasylum.org
For more on Colombia En Pittsburgh: colombiaenpittsburgh.org
For more on the Center for Latin American Studies: ucis.pitt.edu/clas

The Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh present:

Ernesto Cardenal: utopía crítica, indigenismo y bienes culturales en la experiencia de Solentiname

Leonel Delgado Aburto
Universidad de Chile
ldelgadoa@u.uchile.cl

A partir de una lectura de Las ínsulas extrañas, segundo tomo de las memorias de Ernesto Cardenal, este ponencia destaca la importancia de la producción cultural, sobre todo la pintura naíf, en la experiencia de Solentiname, comunidad contemplativa dirigida por Cardenal en Nicaragua durante los años 1960´s-1970s. Un planteamiento básico es que Solentiname se constituye como contrainstitución, es decir, que opera desplazando una idea tradicional de comunidad mística. Además, destaco que la circulación de bienes culturales al ser tan fundamental para la existencia de la comunidad, adelanta un concepción de cultura como recurso que influyó en el proyecto cultural de la revolución sandinista. Subrayo también la importancia que tuvo para la constitución de la comunidad el indigenismo, que ofrece la idealización de una comunidad, sujeto y espiritualidad alternativos. Propongo, por último, que la pintura naíf es un producto transcultural que indica una alianza de clases y en torno al cual se elaboran nuevos posiciones de sujeto.

Más información: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/list

Emerging Latino Communities Reading and Publishing Group

1154 Public Health
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

Emerging Latino Communities Reading and Publishing Group

1154 Public Health
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

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

23rd Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference
March 29 - 30, 2019

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.
Our team is focused on assuring a high-quality and open environment for the exchange of ideas and the improvement of works in progress. Following the multidisciplinary tradition of CLAS, we are interested in facilitating dialogue across disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and methodologies. In that spirit, we encourage the organization of panels around problems, rather than disciplines, and welcome submissions from the social sciences, arts, humanities, and cultural studies.

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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)

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Saturday, March 30th, 2019
12:30 p.m., Location TBA
Special Roundtable: The Challenges of the Policy Cycle in Brazilian Politics
Carlos Pereira: Full Professor at the Brazilian Public and Business Administration School, Getulio Vargas Foundation
Barry Ames: Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Pittsburgh
B. Guy Peters: Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh

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Relevant dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: January 18, 2019 - click here to submit abstracts
Deadline for full paper submission: March 1, 2019
Conference: March 29 and 30, 2019

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

Emerging Latino Communities Reading and Publishing Group

1154 Public Health
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

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