The Latin American and Latino Studies Institute hosts, co-sponsors and collaborates on many events throughout the academic year. These include lectures, film screenings, performances and student-sponsored activities. All faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are invited. A reception follows each LALSI sponsored event.
Upcoming Events
The Latin American Film Series
The Latin American and Latino Studies Institute is excited to announce the inaugural semester of its Latin American film series. The aim of the series is to highlight the diversity and richness of Latin American cinema by showing some of the most recent critically acclaimed films from the region. Each semester, LALSI will show three critically acclaimed films from Latin America in Spanish/Portuguese (with English subtitles).
Free refreshments will accompany each screening.
Below, please find information on the showings for this semester's series:
Central do Brasil (Central Station)
Tuesday, November 17
7:00pm
Keating Basement Lounge
Rose Hill campus
Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens)
To view the trailer, please click here
Tuesday, September 29
7:00pm
Keating Basement Lounge
Rose Hill campus
El baño del Papa (The Pope's Toilet)
To view the trailer, please click here
Tuesday, November 3
7:00pm
South Lounge
Lincoln Center campus
Sleep Dealer
A film screening with award winning filmmaker Alex Rivera
Filmmaker Alex Rivera presents and discusses his latest film Sleep Dealer a 2008 winner at the Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Amnesty International Award at the Berlin Film festival.
The film follows a young man's odyssey into the world of technocytes, where sleep dealers plug him into the global economy. It explores the themes of immigration, globalization and information technology, privatization of water and drones and corporate security.
Tuesday, November 10
3:00-6:00 pm
Flom Auditorium | Walsh Library
Rose Hill Campus
Please click here to view the trailer. For more information on the event contact Ms. Ariella Astion.
Cosponsored by the Department of Communication and Media Studies, the Film and Television Production Organization and the Master's Program in Humanities and Sciences.
"The Social and Economic Outcomes of Latino Males"
Dr. Edward Fergus, Director of Research and Evaluation at the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education of NYU will discuss the challenges faced by black and Latino males in the areas of health, education, employment and criminal justice.
Wednesday, November 18
1:00-2:15pm
Leon Lowenstein Hall | Room 514
Lincoln Center Campus
For more information, please contact Dr. Clara Rodríguez
Cosponsored by the Women's Studies program and the American Studies program.
Diana T. Sanchez, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation
Dr. Diana T. Sanchez (Psychology, Rutgers University) will speak on her study of how specific ethnic markers influence ethnic minorities' self-perceptions and the perception of others in contexts for which minority status is an advantage of disadvantage. She will also discuss patterns for both men and women.
Monday, November 30
1:00-2:15pm
Leon Lowenstein Hall | Room 514
Lincoln Center Campus
For more information, please contact Dr. Clara Rodríguez
Select Past Events
2009
"The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang"
JUSTICE IN BRAZIL
For almost 40 years, Sr. Dorothy Stang worked in solidarity with poor farmers in Brazil.
In February of 2005, whie working to protect the rights of family farmers threatened by illegal loggers, Dorothy Stang was assassinated in Anapú, Pará.
Author and activist Binka Le Breton will discuss her recent book on Sr. Stang that weaves personal narratives from Stang's family and close friends.
Wednesday, 4 November
4:30pm
University Commons| 3rd Floor
Duane Library
Rose Hill Campus
Author Binka Le Breton is the co-founder and director of the Iracambi Research Centerin the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil, which works on biodiversity, conservation, sustainability and human rights.
Cosponsored by the Department of Theology
"Global Latin America: Writers in Conversation"
Join us in welcoming to Fordham three young Latin American novelists who will speak about their work: Mayra Santos-Febres, Fernando Iwasaki and Cristina Rivera Garza
Selected readings will be circulated beforehand. Please e-mail lalsi@fordham.edu for PDF copies. Event in Spanish.
Friday, October 30
10:00 am
Duane Commons | Duane Library
Rose Hill Campus
Refreshments will be served
Cosponsored by the Literary Studies program and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures with support from the Dean of Arts and Sciences Faculty and the Fordham College Rose Hill Dean's Office
"White Gypsies: Racing for Modernity in SpanishPopular Musical Film"
Eva Wood Peiró, Ph.D (Vassar College)
Wednesday, October 28
1:00pm
Faculty Lounge | McGinley Center
Rose Hill Campus
Refreshments will be served
Cosponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Literary Studies program
abUSed: The Postville Raid
A film screening with award winning filmmaker Luis Argueta
Critically acclaimed director Luis Argueta (The Silence of Neto)
presents his work-in-progress abUSed: The Postville Raid, a documentary on the most brutal, most expensive and one of the largest Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the history of the U.S. By weaving together the personal stories of the individuals, the families, and the town directly affected, the film presents the human face of immigration, the socioeconomic forces which fuel migration, and serves as a cautionary tale against abuses of constitutional and human rights.
Wednesday, October 21
6:30 pm
Flom Auditorium | Walsh Library
Rose Hill Campus
For more information and to view an 8 minute trailer of abUSed: The Postville Raid, please click here.
Cosponsored by the graduate program in Humanities and Sciences
Spanish-language mass in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
Sunday, 4 October 2009
5:00pm
University Church | Rose Hill Campus
Sponsored by Academia Hispana, El Grito de Lares and Campus Ministry
"On Life, Love and the Academy,
or the two things we are the most passionate about . . ."
Arancha García del Soto, Ph.D and Hugo Benavides, Ph.D
Moderated by Luke Nephew, FCRH '05
Thursday, 1 October 2009
6:00pm
Lincoln Center Campus
Sponsored by the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University
"Latin American Immigration to Spain"
Dr. Tomás Calvo Buezas
Professor of Social Anthropology
Departments of Political Science and Sociology
Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Reception for 2009 Graduates
Friday, 1 May 2009
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Rose Hill Campus
Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Díaz Reads at Fordham
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
5:00pm
Fordham University, Rose Hill
Keating 1st
2009 Cervantes Lecture
"Global Quixote: Rewriting the Contemporary Brazilian Social Narrative"
Rogelio Miñana, Department of Spanish, Mount Holyoke College
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
1:00pm
Rose Hill Campus
"Tacit Subjects: Dominican Transnational Identities and Male Homosexuality in New York City"
Professor Carlos Decena
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellow
With Respondents:
Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, Department of Sociology, Fordham University
Monica Rivera-Mindt, Department of Psychology, Fordham University
Friday, 27 March 2009
4:00 pm
Fordham University, Rose Hill
Juan Flores, Casa de las Américas Award-winner discusses his latest book, The Diaspora Strikes Back, with the faculty of LALS and American Studies (funded by a Mellon Faculty Grant from the Rose Hill Dean’s Office)
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
3:00 pm
Lincoln Center Campus
2008
Dr. Lloyd Rogler, Fordham University’s Albert Schweitzer Professorin the Humanities Emeritus, will be honored on the publication of his latest book, Barrio Professors: Tales of Naturalistic Research.
Dr. Rogler is the former director of the Hispanic Research Center and a sociologist of international renown.
Friday, 5 December 2008
4:00 pm
Rose Hill Campus
“Manhatitlan”
Artist Felipe Galindo (Feggo) discusses his project "Manhatitlan” about the intertwining of the Mexican and American cultures in the New York area.
Galindo reinterprets cultural symbols from Mexico
and Manhattan. "Manhatitlan" is a name Galindo coined merging the words Manhattan and Tenochtitlan (the Aztec name for Mexico City). The artist will present his animations "Manhatitlan Chronicles" and "Manhatitlan Codex".
23 October 2008
Rose Hill Campus
Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
“The Social Acceptance of Windpower: Windpower
Environmental Initiatives in Vieques, Puerto Rico”
Drs.Marla Pérez Lugo and Cecilio Ortiz García, Department of Social Sciences, Universityof Puerto Rico,Mayagüez
Co-sponsored by the Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, American Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1 October 2008
Lincoln Center Campus
New York Times journalist David González
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
6:00 pm
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.
New York Times Journalist JuliaPreston
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
6:30 pm
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.
"Global Reporting: A Journalist's Experience from Abroad"
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
8:00 pm
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.
Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and the American Studies Program.
2007
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 and Divas: 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.
Thursday, 8 November 2007
5:00 pm -7:00 pm
Lincoln Center Campus
The Atlantic World in the Era of British Slave Trade Abolition
Friday, 19 October 2007
9:30 pm -4:00 pm
Fordham University School of Law
Morning Session: Antislavery Movements
Ed Bristow, Fordham University
Christopher Brown, Columbia University
Sylviane Diouf, Schomburg Center, New York Public Library
Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh
Afternoon Session: Race and Emancipation
Yvette Christiansë, Fordham University
Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University
Pamela Scully, Emory University
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
The Cassamarca Lecture Series:
Debating Immigration in the US
This semester, LALSI and the American Studies Program
(along with other cosponsors) will host the second part of a
yearlong series to explore the hotly debated topic of
immigration. Each lecture will be followed by a reception.
Our featured speakers:
- Douglas Gurak and Mary Kritz, Cornell University, Polson Institute for Global Development
Department of Development Psychology
“Endless Journeys: The Dispersion of Foreign-
Born Migrants to New Destinations”
Thursday, 1 March 2007
- Mae Ngai, Columbia University
Professor of History and Author of Impossible
Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern
America
“Origins of the Illegal Immigration Crisis”
Thursday, 29 March 2007
- Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration
“U.S. Immigration: Challenges for the 21st
Century”
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Many thanks to our consponsors: The Cassamarca
Foundation; the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology; and the Francis and Ann Curran
Center for American Catholic Studies
2006
"Mexico's 2006 Presidential Race: The Election, the
Aftermath and the Political Implications"
On September 14, 2006 the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (NYAAPOR) will host a distinguished panel of experts for a discussion of the disputed Mexican election:
- Jorge Castañeda, Former Foreign Minister of México and
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at NYU;
- Ulises Beltrán Ugarte, Former Technical Adviser to Presidents Salinas and Zedillo and Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); and
- Costas Panagopoulos, Director of the Elections and Campaign Management Program at Fordham University.
Co-sponsored by LALSI and the Master’s program in Elections and Campaign Management.
“Exploring the Immigrant Experience in New York Today”
This year, LALSI and the American Studies Program celebrates
Hispanic Heritage Month by welcoming to Fordham three
speakers to present and discuss documentary work on the
place of faith, community and family in the lives of New York
immigrants.
Part of a yearlong series organized by LALSI and the American
Studies Program, these talks begin an exploration into the hotly
debated topic of immigration. Each lecture willbe followed by a reception. Our featured speakers:
- Alyshia Gálvez, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), New York University
Monday, 2 October 2006
“’Re-mapping the Bronx’: How Mexican Immigrants are
transforming the Neighborhoods in Which They Live with
Their Culture, Faith and Social Organizations.”
Alyshia Gálvez discusses her research on the history of Mexican
immigrants in the Bronx.
- Ulla Berg, New York University, Anthropologist and Documentary Filmmaker
Monday, 16 October 2006
Ulla Berg will screen her film Waiting for Miracles on the
Brotherhood of the Lord of Miracles in New York City and
discuss her research on how Peruvian immigrants create
new communities in the US as they remain connected with
their families back in Perú.
- Nina Siulc, New York University and Director of Research, Center on Immigration and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice, New York
Thursday, 26 October 2006
“Unwelcome Citizens: Criminal Deportees and Civic Life in
the Dominican Republic.” Nina Siulc will screen her award-winning documentary Deportado and discuss her research on the deportation of Dominican citizens following criminal convictions and incarceration
For more information on these and other past events, please see past issues of our newsletter Boletín.
