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| Thursday, September 13, Friday, September 14, Saturday September 16 |
Visiting Scholar- Dr. Marcelo Cavarozzi, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina
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| Tuesday, September 18 |
Vida y espacio en La Habana contemporañea: Cuban Documentary Presentation
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| Wednesday, September 19 |
Café Break Series: Legacies of the Southern History: Power, Politics, and Latinas/os in Arkansas by Dr. Perla M. Guerrero, Assistant Professor, UMCP
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| Wednesday, September 19 |
LASC Welcome Back Reception
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| Thursday, September 25 |
Latino Heritage Month Lecture: "The History and Politics of Latino Heritage Month" by Dr. Eduardo Diaz and Dr. Stella Rouse
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| Tuesday, October 9 |
Latino Heritage Month Lecture: "Stumping and Eating: 'Latino' Voters and 2012 Race to the White House" by Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie, Professor of History and Foodways, Babson College
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| Thursday, October 11 - Saturday, October 13 |
Colonial Latin American Conference: "Colonial
Intersections: Reconsidering the Historical, the Literary, and the Visual Archives" with Dr. Eyda M. Merediz, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, UMCP and Dr. Alejandro Caneque, Associate Professor of History, UMCP
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| Wednesday, October 17 |
Café Break Series: "Behind the Protests: Secondary Education and the Job Market in Chile" by Dr. Sergio Urzua, Assistant Professor, UMCP
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| Wednesday, October 24 |
Lecture-Nancy Morejon
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| Thursday, October 25 |
Adolfo Lecture
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| Wednesday, November 5 |
"The Remains of the Name: The Discourse of Egyptology in the Genesis of the Harlem by Robert A. Hill, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Los Angeles" by Bobby Hill
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| Wednesday, November 7 |
Café Break Series: "In Knots: Thinking with and about the Andean String and Knot Recording Device Called the Khipu" by Dr. Katie King, Professor, Women's Studies, UMCP
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| Tuesday, November 13 |
LASC Report Back
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| Wednesday, February 8 |
Café Break Series: Mexican activism and the Internet: The case of Movimiento 5 de Junio? by Paola Ricaurte-Quijano |
| Friday, February 17 |
"Latin American Democracy in 2012" by Prof. Marcelo Cavarozzi,
Universidad Nacional de General San Martin (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Tuesday, February 22 |
Lecture Title: Can the Story Be Told? History, Memory, and Fiction in the Representation of Extreme Violence by Carlos Ortega
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Friday, February 24 and Saturday February 25
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Seminar Title: History and Memory of Recent Traumatic Pasts (Chile, Argentina, Spain) by Carlos Pab?n-Ortega
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| Monday, March 5 |
Josefina Ludmer (co-sponsored with Spanish Dept.)
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| Wednesday, March 14 |
Café Break Series: "Applied Linguistics in the Spanish-Speaking World: Mapping Out the World |
| Wednesday, March 28 |
Career and Internship Workshop. Guests: Kate Juhl, Program Director, University Career Center; Leslie Brice (Coordinator National Scholarship Office)
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Wednesday, April 4 |
Lecture Title: "Ethnoexodus: Strategic Forgetfulnesses and Flashbacks" by Juan Castillo Cocom |
Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7 |
Workshop: "Ethnoexodus: Maya Yucatec Topographic Ruptures" by Juan Castilla Cocom
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Thursday, April 12 |
Slaves on the Move: African Biographies in 19th Century Brazil
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Wednesday, April 18 |
Café Break Series: "The Face of the City: Pan-Americanism, Border Politics, and Racial Identity in San Diego's Civic Center Sculpture" by Breanne Robertson
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Wednesday, April 25 |
Florenica Mallon, A Novel Reading
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| Wednesday, September 21 |
Café Break Series: “International Networks, Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation in Latin America”, Isabella Alcañiz, Dept Government and Politics |
| Wednesday, September 21 |
LASC Faculty and Graduate Students Welcome Reception |
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| Tuesday, October 4 |
Hispanic Heritage Month: Forum on the DREAM Act and Education
Panelists: State Senator Victor Ramirez; Gustavo Andrade, Senior Manager of Organizing, Casa de Maryland; Roberto Juarez, Member, Maryland Dream Youth Committee, and other distinguished guest speakers |
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Undergraduate Open House |
Friday, October 14 |
Conference: Washington Area Symposium on the History of Latin America (WASHLA) |
| Wednesday, October 19 |
Café Break Series: "Searching for a Cure for Diseases of the Rubber Tree: Adventures in the Amazon", Priscila Chaverri, Dept. of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture
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| Monday, October 31 |
“The founding of the Inter-American Commission of Women: Havana, February 1928” Marysa Navarro, Charles Collis Professor of History Emeritus, Darmouth College and Ana Lau Jaiven, Research Professor, Dept. of Politics and Culture, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, Mexico. |
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Thursday, November 3 and Friday, November 4 |
Graduate Student Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean: Imagining Culture, Past and Present |
Wednesday, November 9 |
"Indigenous or Mestizo?: A Comparison of the Trajectories and Local Meanings of Two Andean Musical Genres in Bolivia and Peru." Fernando Rios, Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology
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Wednesday, November 16 |
“Contested Inclusion: Status, Movements, and Transformations of Nationalism" Matthias vom Hau, Assistant Professor, Institut Barcelona D'Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Wednesday, February 9 |
Cafe Break Series: "Political Networks, Redistribution, and Elections in Argentina and Chile
by Ernesto Calvo, Department of Government and Politics |
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| Wednesday, March 2 |
Cafe Break Series: "Pelez in Paris: The Transatlantic Experience, 1927-40? by Abigail McEwen |
| Friday, March 11 |
Retreat for LASC Certificate Students |
| Tuesday, March 15 |
LASC Internship/Career Workshop |
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Monday, April 4 |
"The AFL-CIO's Cold War in Honduras, 1954-1979: The Conquests, Challenges, and Limits of Imperial Solidarity" by Dana Frank |
| Wednesday, April 13, Thursday, April 14 and Friday, April 15 |
Conference: "The Aesthetic of Revolt: Latin America in the 1960s?
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Wednesday, May 4 |
Cafe Break Series:
"Torture, Love, and the Everyday" by Dr. Clara Han |
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Thursday, 9 |
Policies, citizenship and LGBT movement in Brazil by Dr. Fernando Texeira Filho |
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NOVEMBER |
Wed, 3 |
Undergraduate Reception/Open House |
Tue, 9 |
"Affirmative Action and Raciel Inequalities in the Lula Era" by Dr. Livio Sansone, Professor of Anthropology and Director of International Program at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil |
Sat, 13 |
"Knowledge and Interculturality" by: Guests speakers/discussants |
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Friday, 15 |
"Graduate Student Summer Grant Recipients Conference" by GS Grant Recipients
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Wednesday- Friday, 20-22 |
Reception/Open House
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Friday-Saturday, 29-30 |
Nahua Workshop #2: Recent Developments in Nahua Studies by Jim Mafee
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Thursday 16 |
Film Screening Title: "Silvestre Pantaleon and Sangre Africanan" by: Joanathan D. Amith and Roberto Olivares
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Thursday - Saturday, 23-25 |
Conference Title: “Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in the US” by: Sponsored by NMAH, Smithsonian Institution, LASC-UMD, Mexican Cultural Institute, GWU) |
Wednesday, 29 |
Café-Break Series Title: "The Gender of Resistance and the Struggle for Memory: [in the period of military dictatorships of the] Southern Cone, 1964-1989]" by: Cristina Wolff
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Thursday, 30 |
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FEBRUARY |
| Thursday, 11 |
Mirrors not Mirages: Media in Indigenous Communities by Roberto Olivares |
| Tuesday, 16 |
Writing at the Crossroads: Alberto Gerchunoff and the Creation of a Jewish-Latin-American Lettered Tradition by Monica Szurmuk (Co-sponsored with the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies) |
| Tuesday, 16 |
"Queer Latino Testimonio: Writing the Self and Community” by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé (Co-sponsored with LGBT) |
| Friday, 26 |
Field trip to the Anacostia Musum to the exhibit "The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present" Transportation provided by LASC. RSVP lgoulias@umd.edu |
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MARCH |
| Thursday, 4 |
"Racial Animacies" by Mel Chen (Co-sponsored with LGBT) |
| Thursday, 4 |
LASC Career Workshop; Come and meet speakers from Dept. of Employment Services, Fulbrights, Public Defenders Office and more. |
| Tuesday, 10 |
"Mano Súper-dura" e infoentretenimiento: el periodismo como agente de exclusión social” by Marco Lara (this presentation will be in Spanish) |
| Thursday, 11 |
Camouflaging the State: The Army and the Making of Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1930-1955 by Thomas Rath |
| Wednesday, 24 |
Violence in the News in Mexico and its Effect on Organized Crime by Ana Avila |
| Thursday and Friday 25 & 26 |
Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean |
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| Thursday, 1 |
"The Arts of Christian Coversion: Image, Sound and Sound Indigenous Agency in the formation of Guarani Jesuit Missions" Guillermo Wilde |
| Monday, 5 |
"The Aftermath of Financial Crises: Global Lessons"
LASC Economy and Society Lecture Series; Dr. Carmen Reinhart |
| Wednesday, 7 |
"‘In the Life' in Black Diaspora: Desire, Autonomy, Community" by Jafari Allen (Co-sponsored with LGBT) |
| Thursday, 15 |
“After the Declaration: New Challenges for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”
Rodolfo Stavenhagen |
| Friday, 16 |
“Archaeology, National Identity and the Coup in Honduras: the Role of the Ancient Maya” by Dario A. Euraque |
| Tuesday 20 |
The Social and Visual Histories of Street Vendors in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1930
by Patricia Acerbi |
| Friday, 23 |
"Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries" by Karen Tongson (Co-sponsored with LGBT)
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| Friday and Saturday 30 & May 1 |
LASC 20th Anniversary Conference: Reconfiguring Latin America: Conversations for the 21st Century
Presentations by prominent speakers from USA, Latin America, and the Caribbean |
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NOVEMBER |
| Tuesday 3 |
"The Day that Changed My Life Forever:” a Guatemalan torture survivor speaks our on violence, impunity and immigration reform. |
| Wednesday 4 |
Surviving Gang Land |
| Monday 9 |
Inter-American Grassroots Development Fellowship Information Session |
| Thursday 19 |
Café Break Seminar: Popular Royalists and Revolution in Colombia, 1808-1820 |
| Monday 30 |
Film: Poto Mitan |
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OCTOBER |
| Tuesday 6 |
Café Break Seminar: Building the Nation, Forging the Myths: Antinomies in the Historical Cinema in Argentina and Brazil, 1966-1978
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Wednesday 7 |
Welcome Reception/Open House for Undergraduate Students |
| Wednesday 7 |
Film: Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness |
| Thursday 8 |
Latino/as and Media
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| Friday 16 |
Interpreting 500 Years of Panamanian History |
| Wednesday 28 |
Café Break Seminar: Whose National Anthem? Clotilde Arias’ Translation of the Star Spangled Banner |
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SEPTEMBER |
| Wednesday 23 |
Welcome Reception for Faculty and Graduate Students |
| Wednesday 30 |
Cafe Break Seminar Series: "A Wise Latina Avant a Lettre: The Story of Graciela Nemes" |
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Fri 1 &
Sat 2 |
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APRIL |
Thu, 2 |
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Fri, 3 |
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Tue, 21 |
“Jesuit Art in Seventeenth-Century Quito: Weaving Sacred and Local Narratives.” by Dr. Carmen Fernandez-Salvador |
Wed, 22 |
Brownbag Lecture
Identity, Ideology, and Social change in Colonial and Contemporary Indigenous Mexico: Thoughts from a book in progress |
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Wed, 4 |
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Mon, 2 |
Brownbag Lecture
Housing Development: Housing Policy, Slums, and Squatter Settlements in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1948-1973
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Fri 27&
Sat 28
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FEBRUARY |
Thu, 19 |
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DECEMBER |
Wed, 10 |
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NOVEMBER |
Fri, 21 |
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Thu, 13 |
Borges and the Kabbalah: Seeking Access
Saúl Sosnowski in conversation with Mirta Kupeferminc |
Wed, 12 |
Sandra Cypess, NEW 'STAGES' FOR MOTHERS IN ARGENTINA - From Politics to Theatrics |
Tue, 11 |
Film: Nueve Reinas/Nine Queens |
Tue, 11 |
Judith Freidenberg, Immigration and National Identity in Argentina; Memoirs of Villa Clara. |
Mon, 10 |
Ines Pousadela, Mutations of Political Representation in Contemporary Argentina |
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OCTOBER |
Thu, 30 to Fri, 31 |
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Fri, 10 |
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Wed, 8 |
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SEPTEMBER |
Mon, 22 to Fri, 26 |
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MAY |
Mon, 19 |
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APRIL |
Mon, 24 |
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Thu, 24 |
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Thu, 17 |
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MARCH |
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Tue, 4 |
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FEBRUARY |
Thu, 21 |
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Wed, 20 |
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Thu, 14 |
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NOVEMBER |
Tue, 13 |
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OCTOBER |
Wed, 24 to Thu, 25 |
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Mon, 17 |
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SEPTEMBER |
Mon, 17 |
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Thu, 6 |
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MAY |
Fri,17 |
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Thu, 24 |
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APRIL |
Mon, 30 |
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Tue, 24 |
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MARCH |
Mon, 12 |
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Thu, 8 |
"Women in Latin America"
by Dr. Egleé Zent |
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FEBRUARY |
Fri, 9
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"Experimenting with Conflict Resolution in a Polarized Venezuela"
by Dr. Edy Kaufman |
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DECEMBER |
Fri,15 |
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NOVEMBER |
Tue, 28 to Wed, 29
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Tue, 28 |
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Mon, 13 |
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Mon, 13 |
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Tue, 07 |
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OCTOBER |
Tue, 05 |
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Tue, 28 |
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SEPTEMBER |
Thu, 14 |
Fiction Reading by Pia Barros |
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AUGUST |
Fri, 25 |
Play: Anansespeak by Carivision theatre group |
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MAY |
Mon, 22 |
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Publication: "Latin American Studies Center News" Volume XIV, Issue 2 - Spring 2006 |
Thu, 4 to Fri, 5 |
"Second Latin American and the Caribbean Graduate Conference" by the Latin American Studies Center |
Thu, 4 |
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APRIL |
Thu, 13, Thu, 20, & Thu, 27 |
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Wed, 19 |
Poetry: Poesía con "Diana Bellessi" |
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MARCH |
Thu, 9 |
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FEBRUARY |
Thu, 23 |
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DECEMBER |
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NOVEMBER |
Wed, 30 |
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Tue, 15 |
"Poetry of the Southern Cone, Chile in this case. “Gonzalo Rojas mira a Roberto Matta” by Dr. Soledad Bianchi |
Mon, 7 |
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OCTOBER |
Wed, 19 |
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Mon, 5 |
Lecture: "La parte por todo el mundo: Metonimias del cuerpo en la diáspora. El caso colombiano," by Prof. Carmen Millán de Benavides. |
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SEPTEMBER |
Wed, 28 |
Lecture: "De sentimentalidades y peruanidad en la poesía de Blanca Varela" by Prof. Silvia Bermúdez. |
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AUGUST |
Tue, 9 |
Lecture: "Is the Crisis in Colombia Manageable" by Cynthia Arnson. |
