Panel Discussion

La sexta conferencia de Charlemos tendrá lugar el lunes, 19 de octubre a las 17:00 EDT. Esta charla está copatrocinado por el Departamento de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de los Andes. Raul Sánchez-Urribarri (Universidad de La Trobe, Melbourne, Australia) moderará una discusión entre Angelika Rettberg (Universidad de Los Andes), Sandra Botero (Universidad del Rosario), y Laura Gamboa (Universidad de Utah) acerca del tema "Amenazas hacia la democracia en Colombia".

Join the Nationality Rooms Program and Mid-Atlantic Mother's Milk Bank for a series of panel discussions on the health and cultural aspects of Human Milk. Also sponsored by CLAS, African Studies, the School of Health and Rehab Sciences, UPMC, the Latino Community Center, and the Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh.

Register Here: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsce-rqzorE9OPkpUk_yHggc1-TbCK5zGN

The eleventh Charlemos event will take place on Monday, February 22, 2021 at 3 pm. The topic of discussion will be Feminist Movements and Reproductive Rights in the Southern Cone. Cora Fernández Anderson (Mount Holyoke College) will talk about her new book, Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America: Social Movements, State Allies, and Institutions and Mariela Daby (Reed College) and Mason Moseley (West Virginia University) will discuss their new article, "Feminist Mobilization and the Abortion Debate in Latin America: Lessons from Argentina," published in Politics & Gender.

The fifth Charlemos will take place on Monday, September 21, 2020 at 1:30 pm EDT. Fabrice Lehoucq (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) will moderate a discussion with Sandra Ley (CIDE) and Guillermo Trejo (University of Notre Dame) on "Votes, Drugs, and Violence: Mexico and Beyond". They will discuss their book "Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico" (Cambridge University Press, August 2020). See below for the book description from Cambridge University Press:

Strange Days podcast host & legendary public opinion researcher, Fernand Amandi takes center stage to discuss the changing dynamics of American politics. The event will be co-moderated by Pitt's Lara Putnam, Department of History UCIS Research Professor, and Ariel Armony, Vice Provost for Global Affairs.

For more information, email: clas@pitt.edu

Registration is required for this event. Please click this link to register - https://tinyurl.com/y2rs5wbv

Panoramas Round Table led by Marilu Nuñez Palomino

Via Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92359840293

In this round table, we will discuss potential domestic and international economic policies that affect Latin American and Caribbean countries to respond efficiently to a pandemic like Covid-19.

This webinar will be centered around the topic of family reunification, covering the background and challenges undocumented immigrants face when arriving and settling in the US, the strengths they bring and actions that can be taken to better support them.

Speakers:

Ligia Diaz, M.Ed, University of Pittsburgh,
Susan J Terrio, Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Georgetown University
Anna Clark, MSW. Service Coordinator at Casa San Jose through the Immigrant Services and Connections (ISAC) program.

The next Charlemos will take place on Monday, November 9, 2020 at 2 pm EST. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University) will moderate a discussion between Kurt Weyland (University of Texas at Austin) and Steven Levitsky (Harvard University) on the topic of "Populism in the Americas". They will delve into comparisons between Trumpism and Populism in Latin America, as well as the consequences of the November 3rd U.S. Elections for Latin America.

Registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/y39xf337

Join us for the third and final installment of the webinar series – Transnational Dialogues in Afrolatinidad – that seeks to expand transnational, transregional, and interdisciplinary exchange on contemporary and historical issues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies. This webinar focuses on education and anti-blackness, particularly involving experiences in Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

For Year 3 of our faculty development workshops for community colleges and minority-serving institutions, we are offering a series of monthly webinars focused on technology. The third of the webinars will examine Technology and Cybersecurity specifically addressing the challenges of protecting data against international threats.

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