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latin american and latino studies
events, 2007-2008
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As Fordham's clearinghouse for information on all topics pertaining to Latin American and Latino Studies, LALSI hosts, co-sponsors and collaborates on several events throughout the academic year. These include academic talks, film screenings, performances and student sponsored activities. All faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are invited. A reception follows each LALSI sponsored event.
Current Events
"Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line"
Dr. Adrian Burgos
Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, 27 March - 7:30pm
Walsh Library - Rose Hill Campus
Sponsored by the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and the Bronx Historical Society. For more information, please see the flyer attached here.
As part of her course on Latino Journalism, Professor Luisita López Torregrosa will host distinguished New York Times journalist David González
David González
Tuesday, 8 April
6:00 pm
Leon Lowenstein 520
Lincoln Center Campus
David González, a reporter for The New York Times, writes the "Citywide" feature, exploring the social and cultural and economic changes in the city's neighborhoods. He has been a bureau chief for the Times in Miami, covering the Caribbean and Central America. He joined the Times in 1990 as its Bronx Bureau chief and Metro Religion reporter. Before joining the Times, he worked for Newsweek, serving as a correspondent in New York, Detroit and Miami. He has received numerous awards throughout his career including Columbia University's Mike Berger Awardfor his coverage of New York City and its neighborhoods. A native of the Bronx, Mr. González has from degrees at Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Join Academia Hispana for their conversation hour, Café con Leche
Need to brush up on your Spanish? Are you currently taking a Spanish course, but still need real world pratice with your conversation skills? Join Fordham faculty and students for some café con leche and some stimulating conversation. All levels of Spanish knowledge are welcome.
For more information, please contact Academia Hispana, ahispana@fordham.edu
Past Events
Lecture Series: Latino Journalism
Julia Preston
Tuesday, 11 March
6:30pm
Leon Lowenstein 520
Lincoln Center Campus
Julia Preston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for The New York Times. Ms. Preston covers immigration for the Times and has been a New York Times correspondent in Mexico. She is the co-author of "Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), which recounts Mexico's transformation over three decades from an authoritarian state into a democracy. Ms. Preston has also worked as an editor at the Times and as the United Nations bureau chief.
Before joinging the Times, she was based in Rio de Janeiro where she worked as a Latin American correspondent for The Washington Post. She has also covered Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Cuba and Haiti. Ms. Preston received a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Yale University and speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese.
"Global Reporting: A Journalist's Experience from Abroad"
Wednesday, 5 March
8:00 pm
Keating Hall, Third Floor Auditorium
Rose Hill Campus
Join Fordham's Global Outreach in hosting award-winning author Luisita López Torregrosa as she speaks on her experiences living in and reporting from various regions around the world, including South America and Asia. Ms. Torregrosa is currently an adjunct Professor of Communication and Latin American and Latino Studies at Fordham College - Lincoln Center.
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and the American Studies Program. Fore more information, please contact Tim Ebner at tebner@fordham.edu.
BEYOND THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS:
Further Reflections on Power and Morality
This past November, a group of students traveled to Fort Benning, GA attend an annual Ignatian Family Teach-In and School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation Rally. A follow-up to that journey, this panel discussion will provide the audience with a range of perspectives though which we can better understand American foreign military and economic policy.
Tuesday, 4 March 2008 | 6:00 p.m.
UNIVERSITY COMMONS | DUANE LIBRARY | ROSE HILL
SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:
Roy Bourgeois, M.M., Founder of SOA Watch
Anna J. Brown, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, St. Peter's College
Michael E. Lee, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, Fordham University
Sponsors: Office of Mission and Ministry, Office of Campus Ministry, Community Service Program, and the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture
FIlm Screening: Our Brand is Crisis
Friday, 29 February 2008
5:30 pm (run time 87 min.)
McGinley Center - Music Room
Rose Hill Campus
Please join Academia Hispana this Friday for the inauguration of their annual film festival.
Their first film will be Our Brand is Crisis, a political thriller about how US campaigning styles have influenced countries worldwide, in this case, Bolivia.
Link to movie trailer
http://www.kochlorberfilms.com/ViewTrailer.aspx?type=tr&id=16
Les Antilles entre négritudeet transnational: Aimé Césaire et Frantz Fanon
Pierre Bouvier, University of Paris X, Nanterre
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Leon Lowenstein 515
Lincoln Center Campus
Pierre Bouvier, currently a visiting professor in French Studies at NYU, is the author of Le lien social (2005), La socio-anthropologie (2000), Socio-anthropologie du contemporain (1995), Le travail (1994), andFrantz Fanon (1971) among other books. Professor Bouvier is also editor of the journal Socio-Anthropologie. You can find a review of his latest book, Le lien social, here.
Co-Sponsored by the Literary Studies Program and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. For more information, please contact Dr. F. Parmeggiani, parmeggiani@fordham.edu
Alejo Carpentier y la radio: hacia una teoría de la oralidad mediatizada
Anke Birkenmaier, Columbia University
Monday, 11 February 2008
Leon Lowenstein 406
Lincoln Center Campus
Book Reception
The Latin American and Latino Studies Institute of Fordham University invites you to a book party and reception honoring our faculty who have published books in 2006 and 2007:
Hugo Benavides, Drugs, Thugs andDivas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America, UTexas 2007.
Susan Berger, Guatemaltecas: The Women's Movement, UTexas, 2007.
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Queer Latino Testimonio, Ketih Haring, Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Javier-Jiménez Belmonte, Las obras en verso del Principe de Esquilache: amateurismo, y conciencia literaria, Tamesis, 2007.
Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, ed. Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton and the Politics of Historical Memory, UNew Mexico Press, 2007.
Gioconda Marún, La narrativa de Roberto Ampuero en la globalización cultural, Editorial Mare Nostrum, 2006.
Clara Rodríguez, The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st century, Stanford Business Books, 2007.
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and Natural Histories in the Nineteenth Century, UPittsburgh Press, 2006.
Come help us celebrate the achievements of our faculty and the launching of our Master's degree in Latin American and Latino Studies
Thursday 8 November 2007
5:00-7:00pm
The South Lounge
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
Books will be available for purchase and autograph
For more information please contact Dr. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Associate Director of LALSI at cruzmalave@fordham.edu
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The Atlantic World in the Era of British Slave Trade Abolition
Friday, 19 October 2007
9:30-4:00pm
Fordham University School of Law
Room 203
Organizers:
Irma Watkins-Owens , African & African American Studies, Fordham University
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara , History, Fordham University
Sponsored by the Dean of the College at Lincoln Center, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Dean of Faculty, the Latin American & Latino Studies Institute and African & African American Studies
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