Event Calendar

Latin American Studies (September 30 through November 30)

Tuesday, October 2

• 3:30 PM Afro-Colombian speaker Nidiria Ruiz
• Reclaiming the City: The Black Struggle in Colombia, With Activist Miyela Riascos

Wednesday, October 3

• 5:30 PM Venezuela Today, Challenges from Within and Abroad

Friday, October 5

• 6:00 PM With a Cuban Song in the Heart | Con Una Canción Cubana en El Corazón

Wednesday, October 10

• 5:00 PM CLAS Presents Enough With Catcalling
• Film Screening: Enough with Catcalling (Brazil, 2018, 73 minutes)

Friday, October 12

• 4:00 PM Film Screening & Director Talk “O Processo”

Wednesday, October 17

• 6:00 PM Literature, Ethics & Social Justice

Friday, October 19

• 1:00 PM Mexico’s Drug Violence During the Peña Nieto Presidency

Thursday, October 25

• 4:00 PM Seeking A Holy Death: The Meteoric Rise of Mexican Folk Saint, Santa Muerte

Friday, October 26

• All Day Mexican Literature, Culture, and Film across Borders: Translation, Migration, and Frontiers
• 5:00 PM A Reading & Conversation with Mexican Poet Natalia Toledo

Saturday, October 27

• 4:00 PM Film Screening & Director Talk: Lupe under the Sun (Mexico, United States, 2016, 79 minutes)

Monday, October 29

• 5:30 PM Why Nations Fail: Venezuela with Dr. Angel Fernandez (Ph.D)

Thursday, November 1

• 11:00 AM A Conversation with Darla Anderson, Producer of the Academy Award Winning Pixar Animation Film CoCo

Friday, November 2

• 6:30 PM A Screening of: GURUMBE AFROANDALUSIAN MEMORIES

Monday, November 5

• 12:30 PM Jorge Luis Borges: On Borrowed Bodies and Literary Theologies

Friday, November 9

• All Day Urban Inequalities Workshop

Wednesday, November 14

• 6:00 PM Professor Perspectives: US Intervention in Latin America

Monday, November 26

• 12:15 PM The Politics of Drug Violence in Mexico and Central America