Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-12T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-15T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-16T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
LACS Online Event. Learning from Our Neighbors: Cuba’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic (June 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74909 74909-19073293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Since the Covid-19 outbreak, Cuba’s highly acclaimed health system has shown an impressive ability to control the spread of the disease. Cuba has also developed promising treatments and has sent medical brigades to 20 countries to help fight the pandemic. What can we learn from a health care system that prioritizes people over profits? How can the U.S. government turn from a punishing blockade to mutually beneficial cooperation with our island neighbor?

Join us for a virtual presentation and discussion with three expert commentators.

Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. (an investigative journalism and research organization founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy), where he is the director of Cuba and Chile documentation projects. His most recent book is *Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana* (UNC Press, 2014), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year. He recently wrote an article in The Nation entitled, “Covid-19: Cuba Deserves Relief from U.S. Sanctions” -
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-cuba-sanctions-aid/

Dayan Monier has a college degree in Education with English specialization and postgraduate studies in translation and interpretation. For over 15 years, he has worked as a translator, interpreter and a professor of English for several Cuban government agencies and private companies. He was the interpreter for Danny Glover in his last visit to Cuba, and for former US representative from New Jersey Donald Payne, Jr., among others. He is also an active preacher at the International Christian Community in Cuba. He was born in a majority poor black people community in Havana and still lives there with his wife and two children.

Peter Rosset is a professor of Agriculture, Society, and Environment at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has held teaching and research positions at the Agrarian University in Havana, Cuba, as well as universities in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Spain, Brazil, and the United States. His books include *The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba’s Experiment with Organic Agriculture *and he has written extensively on agroecology and agrarian social movements.

This event is hosted by the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice Latin America Caucus.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:36:10 -0400 2020-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual event_flier
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-17T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-18T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 19, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 19, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-19T00:00:00-04:00 2020-06-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A (June 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74980 74980-19120399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases

Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

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Film Screening Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:32 -0400 2020-06-19T19:00:00-04:00 2020-06-19T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gala/Michigan Sustainability Cases Film Screening Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
LACS Virtual Event. Honduras: Militarism, Repression, and Resistance (July 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75105 75105-19228307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free event; registration required to participate: https://bit.ly/2VAzu3I

Repression has skyrocketed in the Central American country of Honduras since the 2009 military coup that overthrew the reformist government of “Mel” Zelaya. In October 2019, a New York jury convicted the President’s brother, Tony Hernández, of drug trafficking; and prosecutors named the President, Juan Orlando Hernández, as a co-conspirator. Today 62% of Hondurans live in poverty, and the country has one of the world’s highest homicide rates. Join us for a discussion with two specialists on Honduras about the roots of Honduran migration, government complicity in drug trafficking, and the role of U.S. policy in contributing to social injustice and repression.

Amelia Frank-Vitale is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan. She has researched transit migration from Central America. Her dissertation research (supported by Fulbright and the Social Science Research Council, among others) is on Central American migration and violence, based on two years of ethnographic work in and around San Pedro Sula, Honduras. She is a collaborator with Dr. Jason De León's Undocumented Migration Project, currently housed at UCLA.

Mary Anne Perrone is a longtime activist who has worked with School of the Americas Watch to oppose militarization in the Americas, and has participated in numerous delegations to Honduras and El Salvador. She is active in Latin America solidarity and immigrant rights work with the Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (ICPJ), Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR), and Washtenaw Congregational Sanctuary (WCS).

Co-sponsored by Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice Latin America Caucus

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:29:04 -0400 2020-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual event_image
LACS and Latina/o Studies Virtual Panel Discussion. Monumental Injustice in the Americas (October 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77720 77720-19907803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration required: http://myumi.ch/2DVXB

As a joint effort between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) and the Latina/o Studies Program, this panel brings together scholars whose work helps us think about past and present efforts to topple physical monuments to historical figures across the Americas. As the United States recognizes "Hispanic Heritage Month," we push for thinking that cuts across borders. We highlight the hemisphere's interconnected histories of racism, colonialism, conquest and slavery that are at the center of both efforts to memorialize certain figures and stories, and efforts to upend these commemorative structures and the narratives they support. Public discussions around contested symbols of injustice are themselves opportunities to remake historical narratives, and we anticipate this panel will add a rich and important discussion.

Speaker Biographies:

ERIN L. THOMPSON is America’s only full-time professor of art crime (John Jay College, CUNY). She studies a variety of relations between art and crime, including the looting of antiquities, museum theft, art made by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and the legalities and ethics of digital reproductions of cultural heritage. She has discussed these topics for the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the Freakonomics podcast, among many others. She is currently writing Smashing Statues: On the Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments (Norton 2021). She has written and spoken about the science of public art, the history of protests, the legal barriers to removal of controversial art, and examples of innovative approaches to the problem in venues including Art in America, Hyperallergic, the LARB Blog, and the New York Times.

ANA LUCIA ARAUJO is a full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Her single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), Shadows of the Slave Past: Heritage, Memory, and Slavery (Routledge, 2014), and Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic (Cambria Press, 2010). She also edited or coedited five books and published dozens of refereed articles in journals and chapters in edited books on topics related to the history and memory of slavery. In 2017, Araujo joined the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. She also serves on the board of editors of the American Historical Review (the journal of the American Historical Association) and the editorial board of the British journal Slavery and Abolition. She is a member of the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD), the editorial review board of the African Studies Review, and the board of the blog Black Perspectives maintained by the African American Intellectual History Society. Currently, Araujo is working on two book projects: Human in Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in the Americas (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) and The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (under contract with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora series). She just finished Museums and Atlantic Slavery, a short-format book to be published in 2021 by Routledge in the series Routledge Museums in Focus.

ANDREA QUEELEY is a native of Berkeley, California and holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has a joint appointment in Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and the African & African Diaspora Studies Program. Her research interests include black and diasporic subjectivity, race and representation, intra-Caribbean migration, and the African Diaspora in Latin America. She has published several journal articles on these themes in addition to her book ”Rescuing Our Roots: The Anglo-Caribbean African Diaspora in
Contemporary Cuba” (University Press of Florida 2015).

OLIVIA CHILCOTE (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University and a Critical Mission Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Riverside. Dr. Chilcote's research and teaching focus on the areas of interdisciplinary Native American Studies, federal Indian law and policy, Native American identity, and Native California. Dr. Chilcote grew up in the center of her tribe’s traditional territory in the North County of San Diego, and she is active in tribal politics and other community efforts.

VANESSA FONSECA-CHÁVEZ is an Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. She received her MA in Hispanic Southwest Studies from the University of New Mexico and her PhD in Spanish Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. She is the co-editor of Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (University of New Mexico Press, 2020). Her monograph, Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Looking through the Kaleidoscope is out with the University of Arizona Press.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:55:22 -0400 2020-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Monumental_Injustice-image
LACS Brazil Initiative Webinar. Fake News Brazil: How a Misinformation Campaign Has Aroused Hatred of Minorities and Negatively Impacted Democracy in Brazil (November 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79233 79233-20233428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Zoom webinar registration link: http://myumi.ch/gjVmP

Jean Wyllys was the first LGBTQ activist to serve in Brazil’s federal congress. His platform focused on human rights and the rights of minorities, and policies for social and political inclusion. A vocal opponent of current President Jair Bolsonaro, since 2018, Wyllys has been in exile. He continues to work as a journalist, writer, and human rights activist.

The event will be moderated by Victoria Langland, Director, UM Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center. Interpretation provided by Lucas Koutsoukos Chalhoub, Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in History.

This public lecture is sponsored by the Brazil Initiative, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:43:12 -0500 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
LACS Virtual Event. The Covid-19 Crisis: Effects on Criminal Violence and Public Security in Latin America (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78805 78805-20129170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free event; please register at http://myumi.ch/ZQbrP

Latin America is the region with the highest incidence of homicides per-capita in the globe. Whereas the region accounts for only 13 percent of the world's population, it reports around 40 percent of total homicides. In many areas, criminal groups contend the state for dominance as they cash in billions of dollars from the drug trade. The COVID health crisis has disrupted the drug market and the balance of power within criminal organizations. At the same time, countries across Latin America are struggling with weakening economies, massive unemployment, abusive police behavior, and the shadow of militarization and populism.

This panel brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to analyze the different channels in which the pandemic might accentuate criminal violence and other public security pre-existing challenges in the region. Examples will be drawn from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Presenter Biographies:

Edgar Franco-Vivanco is a MIDAS and NCID postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Edgar’s research agenda explores how colonial era institutions and contemporary criminal violence shape economic under-performance, particularly within Latin America. His dissertation-related book project studies the role Indigenous groups have played in the state-building process of the region since colonial times. Using extensive archival data of colonial Mexican courts, combined with automated text analysis, he examines the complex interactions between Indigenous communities and the colonial state. Edgar’s research on contemporary challenges to development focuses on criminal violence and policing. He is co-authoring a book that draws on extensive fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study the differentiated effects of state interventions against organized criminal groups.

Beatriz Magaloni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also director of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab. Most of her current work focuses on state repression, police, human rights, and violence. In 2010 she founded the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab (POVGOV) within FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Her work has appeared in the *American Political Science Review*, *American Journal of Political Science*, *World Development, Comparative Political Studies*, *Annual Review of Political Science*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Journal of Theoretical Politics* and other journals. Her first book, *Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2006), won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association and the 2007 Leon Epstein Award for the Best Book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. Her second book, *The Political Logic of Poverty Relief* (co-authored with Alberto Diaz Cayeros and Federico Estévez), also published by Cambridge University Press, studies the politics of poverty relief.

Eduardo Moncada is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. His research agenda focuses on the political economy of crime and violence as well as comparative urban politics in Latin America. Moncada is the author of *Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America* (Stanford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of *Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics* (Cambridge University Press, 2019). In his forthcoming book, *Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals and Police in Latin America* (Cambridge University Press), he analyzes the different ways in which victims mobilize to negotiate, end or prevent extortion at the hands of armed criminal groups. He has published articles in *Perspectives on Politics*, *Latin American Research Review*, *Comparative Politics*, *Studies in Comparative International Development*, and *Global Crime*, among others. Moncada's research has received support from the Fulbright-Hays program, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation / National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rebecca Hanson is Assistant Professor of Crime, Law & Governance at the University of Florida, with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies. She has published research on Venezuela in the *Journal of Latin American Studies*; *The Sociological Quarterly*; *Crime*, *Law*, and *Social Change*; and *REVISTA M. Estudos sobre a Morte*, *os Mortos e o Morrer*. She has also published extensively in outlets such as *The Christian Science Monitor*, *NACLA*, *The Conversation*, and *Insight Crime*. Her book *Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Fieldwork*, co-authored with Patricia Richards (University of Georgia) was published last year with University of California Press.

Sandra Ley is Assistant Professor at the Political Studies Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE). Prior to her arrival at CIDE, she was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Sandra studies criminal violence and political behavior. Her research focuses on the political consequences of criminal activity. Her most recent work examines how violence affects the activation of civil society, political participation and accountability. Sandra’s work includes several sources of information. She conducted extensive fieldwork in the north and south of Mexico; she designed an original post-election survey and built a unique database on protests against crime and insecurity in Mexico. Together with Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, she is the coauthor of the book Votes, *Drugs, and Violence. The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico* (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her work has been published in *British Journal of Political Science*, *Comparative Political Studies*, *Journal of Conflict Resolution*, *Latin American Politics and Society*, *Latin American Research Review*, among other international academic journals. Sandra received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2014.

This event funded in part by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education.


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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:26:41 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual event_image
LACS Colombia Film Series. A Conversation about *La Sirga* (2012) (February 11, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81573 81573-20927561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Join us for our first event of LACS' Spring 2021 Colombian Film Series. This will be a virtual Zoom panel to discuss the film, *La Sirga*, with the film director William Vega, Juliana Martinez (American University), and Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (University of Michigan). The film is available to University of Michigan affiliates via the library. Please watch independently before the Zoom discussion.

Registration for the panel discussion:
https://myumi.ch/PlXlj
Registered attendees will receive links to a Canvas course site with a link to the film, as well as a link to the Zoom meeting on February 11.

*La Sirga* (2012)
A Colombian refugee tries to rebuild her life at a guest house located on the shores of a great lake in the Andes. Winner of eight international film festival awards.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191612/

Please register on the Google form to receive the link to the Zoom meeting. Please note this is a conversation, not a film screening. Please watch the film before the event on February 11. University of Michigan affiliates will find the movie available to watch online through the university library. Registered attendees will receive an email with further instructions, including a link to a Canvas site for the Colombia Film Series and a link to the Zoom meeting on February 11.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:17:41 -0500 2021-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion La Sirga poster
LACS Event. Prison-Industrial Complexity: On Carceral Material Worlds & Ethical Aporias in Ecuador (February 18, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81771 81771-20953363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Virtual Event. Register at http://myumi.ch/R5D0Q

Chris Garces is Research Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and a Visiting Invited Professor in the Law School at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. His ethnographic interests range from the study of politics and religion—or contemporary political theologies–to the Western outgrowth of penal state politics, and counter-histories of Catholic ethics in Latin America. His co-edited volume, *Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century *(Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penality), will be published in February 2021.

Everywhere it seems, democracy has been freighted with the psychic weight of punitive infrastructure. Symptomatically, for most citizens, a world without prisons is impossible even to imagine. But consider the flip side of this most curious problem: uncomfortable or intrusive memories—that in the name of enforcing justice and democratic order, living human beings are being held in cages—publicly forgotten almost as soon as they are remembered. The prison is a machine for disappearing humans and remaking worlds. Carcerality as such boxes the prisoner into what might be called ethical aporias, unrelenting state-imposed sacrifice and civil disregard, or an experimental process of human disposal which nevertheless demands increasingly accelerated flows of exchange between free citizens and dehumanized offenders. In this talk, I explore how even the most modest of prison technologies participate in penal infrastructure’s human unmaking and world-remaking processes. Taking into account Ecuador’s 20th century material history of a humble water spigot in a municipal prison, I demonstrate the perverse tenacity of carceral relations and how penality itself—the state-sponsored ritual reproduction of punishment across the prison-neighborhood nexus—involves continuous, albeit disavowed human experimentation on diverse citizen-subjects.

Lecture presented in conjunction with HIST197: Journeys & Stories

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Co-sponsors: Department of History, Prison Creative Arts Project, and The Quito Project
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:52:19 -0500 2021-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Prison-Industrial Complexity poster
LACS Colombia Film Series. A Conversation about* Señorita Maria, la falda de la montaña* (2017) (February 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81574 81574-20927562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Please join us for the next event in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Spring 2021 Colombia Film Series. Join us on February 25 for a conversation about the film *Señorita Maria, la falda de la montaña* (2017) with the director Rubén Mendoza and Dr. Felipe Gómez (Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies, Carnegie Mellon University). Moderated and organized by by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies, University of Michigan).

Registration for the panel discussion:
https://myumi.ch/BoQol
Registered attendees will receive links to a Canvas course site with a link to the film, as well as a link to the Zoom meeting on February 25.

*Señorita Maria, la falda de la montaña* (2017)
Maria Luisa lives in Boavita, one of the most conservative Catholic villages in Colombia. She is 45 years old and though she was born male, she identifies herself as a woman and dresses like one. Standing tall and proud, there is nothing powerful enough to wipe her smile away. A documentary about trans identities in rural Latin America.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7197576/

Please register on the Google form to receive the link to the Zoom meeting. Please note this is a conversation, not a film screening. Please watch the film before the event on February 25. University of Michigan affiliates will find the movie available to watch online through the university library. Registered attendees will receive an email with further instructions, including a link to a Canvas site for the Colombia Film Series and a link to the Zoom meeting on February 25.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:19:23 -0500 2021-02-25T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Senorila Maria poster
Info Session: LACS Tinker Field Research Grant (February 26, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82512 82512-21114064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Virtual Event. Registration Required: http://myumi.ch/1pVVZ

Applications due March 1, 2021.

The LACS Tinker Field Research Grants are funded by the Tinker Foundation, the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, LACS, the LACS-Brazil Initiative, and the International Institute to support master’s, doctoral, and professional school students conducting preliminary or pre-dissertation fieldwork in Latin America.

Research projects must be conducted in the Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries of Latin America and trips must last a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of four months. Awards, up to $2,500, are made based on the quality of the proposal and academic progress of the applicant. Funds cover international airfare, in-country transportation, and some field-related expenses.

*COVID-19 Adjustments for 2021 Application Cycle*
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and related travel restrictions, we understand that some students may not be able to complete their projects as expected. On a case by case basis, and in consultation with The Tinker Foundation, LACS may approve some hybrid (in-country and remote) or virtual (fully remote) projects.

More info: https://ii.umich.edu/lacs/students/funding/field-research-grant.html

Info Session accessible with umich.edu email addresses only.

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Meeting Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:07:43 -0500 2021-02-26T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Meeting
LACS Indigenous Languages Program Event. Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82092 82092-21034704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at https://myumi.ch/3q00K

Lecture presented by Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University

Discussant: Laura Pensa, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures, U-M

In the early 1970s, sociologist Orlando Fals Borda combined sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements in collaboration with the National Association of Peasant Users on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. The presentation examines the development of participatory action research, highlighting Fals Borda's rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists and preparing accessible materials for a campesino readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. The fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.

Joanne Rappaport is a professor of Latin American cultural studies and anthropology at Georgetown University. An anthropologist pursuing dual lines of research in ethnographic history and collaborative ethnography, she previously looked at the role of literacy and historical memory in indigenous activism in Colombia and at the emergence of indigenous intellectuals in Latin America. Her recent work centers on collaborative ethnography that draws equally on academic and nonacademic agendas, theories, and methods. She is the author of *The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada*, *Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, and Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia*, and *Cowards Don′t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research* all also published by Duke University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:05:16 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia poster
LACS Colombia Film Series. A Conversation about *Como el cielo después de llover* (2020) (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81576 81576-20927565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Please join us for the next event in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Spring 2021 Colombia Film Series. Join us on March 25 for a conversation about the film *Como el cielo después de llover* (2020) with the Mercedes Gaviria (Director) and Dr. Juana Suárez (Associate Arts Professor, New York University). Moderated and organized by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies, University of Michigan).

Registration for the panel discussion: https://myumi.ch/yKBKM
Registered attendees will receive links to a Canvas course site with a link to the film, as well as a link to the Zoom meeting on March 25.

*Como el cielo después de llover* (2020)
After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the place of women in the film world, which is still strongly ingrained with a patriarchal mindset. A documentary about gender, identity, and the arts.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12209212/

Please register on the Google form to receive the link to the Zoom meeting. Please note this is a conversation, not a film screening. Please watch the film before the event on March 25. University of Michigan affiliates will find the movie available to watch online through the university library. Registered attendees will receive an email with further instructions, including a link to a Canvas site for the Colombia Film Series and a link to the Zoom meeting on March 25.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:20:43 -0500 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Como el cielo poster
The Quito Project Annual Event. One Year In: Lessons in Virtual Teaching | Conversations with Student and Community Educators (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83268 83268-21328378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

To join: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92081280992

In light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, The Quito Project's annual event has been rethemed to create a collaborative panel and conversation space for student educators to discuss lessons learned from a year of teaching virtually.

The panel features speakers from PALMA, En Nuestra Lengua, and the School of Education. Conversation will focus on resources/strategies for engaging students in a virtual format, addressing access disparities, and what things teachers hope to bring over from online teaching as they transition back into in-person learning.

This workshop is open to educators in all disciplines, especially those who are still university students themselves. We will offer a space for students to hear from their peers and share their own experiences from a challenging year.

For more information, contact: averysan@umich.edu


Co-sponsors: The Quito Project, School of Education, Romance Languages & Literatures, PALMA (Proyecto Avance, Latino Mentoring Association)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:50:02 -0400 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion The Quito Project Annual Event image
LACS Colombia Film Series. A Conversation about "La tierra y la sombra" (2015) (April 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83526 83526-21399327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/wlelk

Please join us for the next event in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2021 Colombia Film Series. Join us on April 5 for a conversation about the film "La tierra y la sombra" (2015) with the director, César Augusto Acevedo García, and Dr. María Ospina (Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University). Moderated by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies, University of Michigan).

Please plan to watch the film before the conversation on April 5. University of Michigan affiliates will find the film available to watch online through a Canvas course site created for the film series. Registered attendees will be added to the course site and will receive further instructions, including a link to the Zoom meeting on April 5.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:28:23 -0400 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion poster image
LACS & CSAS Conversation: Madam Vice President: Navigating South Asia and the Caribbean | A virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83434 83434-21377669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration is required: http://myumi.ch/4pE97

Moderator:
Dr. Supriya Nair, Professor of English, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Ambassador Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor from Practice, Law School, University of Michigan

Dr. Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

Dr. Rupert Lewis, Emeritus Professor in Political Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica

The Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies present a virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean.

Kamala Harris inhabits multiple identities that are often seen as separate or non-legible within the same frame (South Asian/South Asian American, Black, Caribbean). What does her Vice Presidency mean vis-a-vis these identity categories? How does Kamala Harris help bridge South Asia and the Caribbean, making visible connections that evade our commonplace understandings of people and places? This event seeks to discuss these themes as well as how we understand Kamala Harris as an international and domestic figure and how international and domestic politics and concerns are deeply intertwined.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:23:57 -0400 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion LACS/CSAS Event
Food Literacy for All Session #2 (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83143 83143-21280851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Please join us for a virtual Food Literacy for All series with returning speakers! Themed around the Politics on our Plate, speakers will discuss the vision for our food system, the role of grassroots organizing, the impact of policy, and the responsibility of the media. In this second session in the series we will be joined by Mónica Ramírez and Navina Khanna who will discuss how we can "Organize" for a more equitable, sustainable food system.

Food Literacy for All is FREE, but registration is required.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is co-led by Andy Jones (UM School of Public Health), Devita Davison (FoodLab Detroit), and Lilly Fink Shapiro (UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). Future sessions to be announced on this page and our newsletter, which you can sign up for on our homepage or in your registration.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is supported by the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:10:57 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Livestream / Virtual flyer
GPASS Event. The Bioarchaeology of the Lower Rio Verde, Oaxaca, Mexico (April 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83795 83795-21532311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Link to the event: https://wccnet-edu.zoom.us/s/89151954844
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Arion T. Mayes is a professor of biological anthropology at San Diego State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2001. She is a Research Associate with the New York African Burial Ground and the San Diego Museum of Man. Her work entails both national and international fieldwork in Oklahoma, California, and Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the revitalization of unstudied museum collections. Her research in bioarchaeology and dental anthropology focuses on the effect of subsistence strategies on population health with an emphasis on transitional dietary regimes, and population variation as evidenced through morphological change, occupational stress, and disease processes. As one of the earliest regions of independent domestication of plants in the world, Oaxaca allows for temporally extensive studies of biocultural adaptations and the biological history of a region. She has authored several articles and one book chapter regarding the early people of the lower Rio Verde of Oaxaca, as well several articles on population and dental variation in New World populations. Dr. Mayes has received and participated in research grants and awards including the National Geographic Society, SDSU University Grants Program, NSF, and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

The Global Project in Applied Social Sciences (GPASS) is a collaboration between area studies centers at the International Institute and Washtenaw Community College with the goal of developing new curriculum related to applied social sciences through global studies content. Participating area studies centers are: the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This project is funded in part by three Title VI National Resource Center Grants from the US Department of Education.

Co-sponsors:
Washtenaw Community College
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:26:05 -0400 2021-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual Event image
Andean Circle Event. New Perspectives on the Cuzco Region (May 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84108 84108-21620295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at: https://myumi.ch/pdP3y

Presentations:

*State Expansion in Middle Horizon Peru: Re-Examining Wari Impact on the Local Communities of the Cusco Region*, by Veronique Belisle

In the Andes, the Middle Horizon (600-1000 CE) has traditionally been interpreted as a period during which a strong Wari imperial state conquered several provinces and tightly controlled local populations. In the Cusco region of southern Peru, research conducted at large Wari installations has long guided reconstructions of Wari power, leading scholars to argue that Wari presence resulted in the loss of local autonomy and the reorganization of economic activities. In this talk, I use regional surveys and excavation data from the local center of Ak’awillay to test this model and evaluate Wari military, economic, and religious impact in Cusco. Results do not support the hypothesis of a military conquest of the region and suggest strong continuity in agricultural production, exchange networks, and ritual activities. I conclude that Wari impact in Cusco was not as strong as originally proposed and that similar to other early states worldwide, Wari influence did not penetrate very deeply into local life.

*Colonial Legends and the Anthropological Reconstruction of Inca Origins*, by R. Alan Covey

Spaniards collected myths of Inca origins as part of political and religious discourse on colonization. Certain versions of the story eventually became part of Peruvian national history, a legend that John Rowe challenged in the 1940s with his own historical paradigm. Rowe's historicist approach influenced the work of lo andino scholarship in archaeology and ethnohistory as research proliferated from the late 1960s onward. In recent decades, a new body of archaeological data has demonstrated the need for a new anthropological paradigm for Inca origins. The completion of horizontal excavations and regional surveys, and the introduction of new analytical techniques (radiocarbon dates, bioarchaeology, geochemical analysis) have generated multiple lines of evidence for independently reconstructing important aspects of Inca state formation and early territorial expansion. Recent and emerging research encourages new approaches to the ethnohistoric record and better engagement with data from Inca provincial regions. This talk will review the intellectual history of the discourse on Inca origins, summarize current evidence, and identify areas for future interpretation, including issues that are difficult to resolve with archaeological evidence.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 25 May 2021 11:40:17 -0400 2021-05-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium