CLALS Events
9/25/2008 Thursday - Our History is Still Being Written: Booksigning and Presentation with author and editor Mary Alice Waters and Panelists
6:30 PM at the Auburn Avenue Research Library, Authors' & Writers' Lounge, 3rd Floor
101 Auburn Avenue, NE ? Atlanta, GA 30303-2503
A panel of researchers will discuss the Chinese-Cuban participants in the revolution: Mary-Alice Waters, Editor of Our History is Still Being Written
and President of Pathfinder Press, Michele Reid, Research Fellow, Emory University; Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University, Xavier Kim, Student Activist, University of Georgia Eleanor Hunter, Librarian, Reference and Research Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library Sponsors: Asian Studies Center, Georgia State University andFriends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library
9/16/2008 Tuesday - Celebrate Brazilian Independence
12:30 PM in 305 General Classroom Building South. (Officially, the date of independence is September 7th.)
Enjoy food and film with the screening of Quilombo - a historical film about the last battle to defend the marooned slaves of the Quilombo Palmares during the 18th century from invading Portuguese colonists. Organized by Julia Simões, Leslie Marsh and Viviane Niehoff of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.
9/5/2008 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
1:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
4/25-26/2008- Brazilian American Symposium- Brazilian-Americans in Georgia and Beyond: a Multi-Disciplinary Symposium
Friday,April 25,2008-
9am-6pm (University of Georgia - Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Room Q)
Saturday,April 26,2008 -
12-5pm (Georgia State University – University Center, Room 460/465)
4/2-3/2008- 2008 Spring Symposium "Atlantic Crossings: The Movement of People, Labor & Commodity Between Spain, Africa and the Americas"
Wednesday 4/2
6:30 p.m.- Reception, Troy Moore Library
7:15 p.m.-Film Screening, Poniente (Spain, 2002), Troy Moore Library
Thursday, 4/3
8:30 a.m.- Bagels and Coffee, Troy Moore Library
1st Panel- 9:15-10:45 Troy Moore Library
2nd Panel- 11-12:30 Troy Moore Library
3rd Panel- 1:30-3:00 Troy Moore Library
3/21/2008 Friday- Lecture by Maryse Condé
10:00-11:00 a.m. " Africa in Antillean Writing" 939 GCB ( Troy Moore Library)
2/28/2008 Thursday- Lecture and Q & A by Ivan Monzon, Director, INTRAPAZ, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala.
1:00-2:30 p.m. " Intercultural Conflict in Guatemala: Challenges That Must Be Faced". 1020 One Park Pl ace...
3:00-4:30 p.m. The title of his lecture will be "Obstáculos y desafíos en Guatemala para la construcción del Estado Plural y una democracia intercultural". Sparks 308...( NOTE: This lecture will be in Spanish)
2/25/2008 Monday- Film Screening on the Venezuelan Revolution
3:30-5:30 p.m.Film Screening of ¿Puedo Hablar?, a 2006 documentary on Hugo Chavez. Film is in Spanish with English subtitles .Digital Arts Entertainment Lab , First floor, One Park Pl ace...
2/14/2008 Thursday- Two events with poet & filmmaker Juan Carlos Galeano
11:00-2:00pm Bilingual poetry reading
1:30-3:30pm Documentary screening & discussion for " The Trees Have a Mother." Both events will take place in 804 GCB. Admission is free.
11/19/2007 Monday- Capoeira Angola Mestre Cobra Mansa A History of Capoiera Angola
7:30 p.m. Alumni Hall ( Vetrans Memorial)...
10/25/2007 Thursday - Donna Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder, "Guns, Gangs, and Global Actors: How Brazil Lost the Gun Ban Referendum."
5:00 p.m. in Troy Moore Library, 9th Floor, General Classroom Building. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology & the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies...
10/18/2007 Thursday - On Aspects of Brazillian Culture: Three Insights About Brazil
2:00-4:00 p.m. in Troy Moore Library, 9th Floor, General Classroom Building. A colloquium with scholars of the Fundacao Casa de Rui Barbosa (FCRB) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
10/03/2007- 10/07/2007- A delegation from UNIVA ( Universidad del Valle de Atemajac/University of the Atemajac Valley) will be visiting Georgia State University. Events include:
Thursday 10/4
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Informal Roundtable meeting- an opportunity for interested faculty and students to meets our guests...
Friday 10/5
Southeastern Eco-Community Conference (Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27, American Psychological Association), hosted by GSU Psychology at the Urban Life Building.
4/13/2007 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
1:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
3/21/2007 & 3/22/2007- 2007 Spring Symposium "Reflections on Empire: Latin American Depictions of Colonization Through History, Literature and Cinema"
Wednesday 3/21
7:00PM: Film screenings, Salinas Grandes and Nailed!. Digital Arts and Entertainment Lab, One Park Place, First Floor.
Thurdsay 3/22
9:00AM - 4:15 PM: Research panels Digital Arts & Entertainment Lab, One Park Place, First Floor. Ten international scholars and three filmmakers from the U.S. and Latin America will convene to present their work.
4:30 PM: 2007 World History Lecture, Troy Moore Hall, General Classroom 939.
The event is also associated with the 2007 World History Lecture where eminent scholar Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra will give the keynote speech of the Symposium.
8:00PM: Film screening, A Fronteira . Digital Arts and Entertainment Lab, One Park Place, First Floor.
3/2/2007 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
1:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
2/27/2007 Tuesday - Using Democracy to Fight Neoliberalism in Latin America
3:00PM 101 Classroom South. Ignacio Medina will discuss the results of economic...
2/20/2007 Tuesday - Women Constructing Automony: Zapatismo, the Other Campaign and Alternative Economy.
4:00-5:00PM One Park Place room 1020
1/26/2007 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
10:00 AM in 804 General Classroom Building
11/6/2006 Monday - Amnesty Program for Colombian Child Soldiers Victims of War
12:00-1:00PM Burrus Auditorium Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA....
10/27/2006 Friday - Bob Nugent Artist Talk
11:00 AM Welch School of Art and Design. Bob Nugent, artist, curator and Fulbright Fellow discusses his artwork and ...
10/26/2006 Thursday - Bob Nugent and Daniel Senise: Presentation - Contemporary Art in Brazil
4:00 PM 257 Arts and Humanities Building. Reception to follow presentation...
10/18/2006 Wednesday - Poverty and The Future of Democracy in Latin America
3:00PM Troy Moore Library, 939 GCB. Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) speaks on his experience leading Peru after the fall of Fujimori...
10/13/2006 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
12:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
09/14/2006 Thursday -
Challenging Abortion Law in Colombia
2:30 PM Troy Moore Library. A lecture by Mónica Roa, director of Gender Justice at Women's Link Worldwide (Colombia).
09/14/2006 Thursday - EcoCulture: Art and Enviromental Panel
4:00 PM Student Center Speaker's Auditorium. Artists Jacqueline Bishop and Bog Nugent, ethnobotanist William Balée and atmospheric scientist Athanasios Nenes discuss...
05/05/2006 Friday - Amores Perros or The Agonistics of Racialized Masculinities in Contemporary Mexico
12:00 PM in 1020 One Park Place. Héctor Amayo will present his research...
05/02/2006 Tuesday - Failing Haiti: film screening with director Rod Paul of Primary Pictures
10:00 AM in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Room 749. Admission is Free and open to the public
04/04/2006 Tuesday - Lessons from Central America in The 1980s: How the Contra War Laid The Groundwork for The "War on Terror"
4:00 PM place TBA. Admission is free. Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a Native American feminist/indigenous rights activist, who has worked in both the US and Central America...
03/20/2006 Monday - Music, Race, and Nation in Colombia: From Música Tropical to Rap
3:00 PM in the Troy Moore Library, 939 GCB. Admission is free. This talk will explore changing constructions of "Africa" and "blackness" in Colombian popular music...
03/03/2006 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
12:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
02/17/2006 Friday - Literatura y sociedad en la América Latina de 2006
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Troy Moore Library, 939 GCB Argentenian author Mempo Giardinelli will speak about...
02/16/2006 Thursday - Northern Ladies: The Difficulties of Overcoming Machismo
3:00 PM at the Troy Moore Library, 939 GCB A reading, talk and Q&A with Silvana Paternostro...
02/14/2006 Tuesday - GSU Latin American & Latino Symposium : The Caribbean and Globalization
9:30 AM 7th Floor Conference Room, Andrew Young Policy Studies Building, Georgia State University. Admission is Free.Various Speakers will discuss...
01/27/2006 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
12:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
01/26/2006 Thursday - The Pacific Rim in The Atlantic World: Imagining Brazil's "Japanese"
10: 00 AM 344 Sparks Hall Following Coffee and Refreshments...
12/16/2005 Friday - Preview screening of "Nailed!"
8:00 PM EYEDRUM ART CENTER 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite #8 Atlanta, Georgia Price: $4 Come see Sheldon Schiffer's latest short fiction film...
12/2/2005 Friday - Meeting for Center Members
12:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
11/16/2005 Wednesday - The Origins and Cultural Significance of Latin American Popular Dance
4:00 - 5:30 PM at Troy Moore Library, 939 GCB. A lecture by John Chasteen Professor of History North Carolina, Chapel Hill Admission is free and open to the public...
10/27/2005 Thursday - A Colloquium on Violence and Literature
3:00 PM at Troy Moore Library, 939 GCB Admission is free and open to the public...
10/17/2005 Monday - The Place of Memories in Historical Processes: Contemporary Experiences in South America
3:00 - 4:15 PM in Capital Suite (Room 220) Second Floor – New Student Center...
10/06-11/11/2005 Thursday - Fictions and Other Realities
Liliana Porter y Ana Tiscornia Art exibit M - F / 10 - 5 pm + Sat / noon - 4pm ...
10/03/2005 Monday - Meet Author Carmen Agra Deedy
3:00 PM at Troy Moore Library, 939 GCB Admission is free and open to the public.
09/30/2005 Friday - Meeting for center members
12:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building
09/15/2005 Thursday - Dissecting The Cultural Politics of Memín Pinguín
7:00 PM in the Stern Room, 14th Floor, Commerce Club Building, 34 Broad Street NW Atlanta. Free and open to the public...
09/08/2005 Thursday - The Mirror Project: Relocating Ethnography Theory and Practice
10:00 AM in 344 Sparks Hall, Second Floor Seminar Room. As part of the Anthropology and Geography Department Speaker's Forum, Colombian-born documentary maker and media educator, Roberto Arévalo, will present...
08/26/2005 Friday - Meeting for center members
12:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building, first meeting of the 2005-2006 academic year
04/29/2005 Friday - Meeting for center members
12:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building, last meeting of the 2004-2005 academic year
04/21/2005 Thursday - P.O.V. / American Documentary
2:30 PM at the DAEL Theatre, One Park Place South. Cynthia Lopez, Latina Public Media Advocate and Vice President of P.O.V./American Documentary, will present and discuss three film clips including...
04/20/2005 Wednesday - Neoliberalism, Brazil, and The United States in The 21st Century
4:00 PM in 804 General Classroom Building. Professor Marcos Antônio Guedes, from the Federal University of Pernambuco, will lecture on...
04/05/2005 Tuesday - Redrawing The Nation: Latin American Comics and The Graphic Construction of National Identity
Annual CLALS Symposium at 3:00 PM at Georgia State University's Troy Moore Library. Admission is free...
03/30/2005 Wednesday - Celebrating World Music & Dance: Argentine Tango & Cuban Rumba
7:30 PM Free and Open to the Public. Presented by Georgia State University's School of Music and the Office of Student Life and Leadership/Intercultural Relations...
03/28-4/1/2005 Monday - Monday - Intercultural Week
Keep your eyes open for a schedule of activities celebrating Intercultural Week at Georgia State University.
03/24/2005 Thursday - NSHMBA Conference and Career/Job Expo
11:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Georgia State University's Student Center Ballroom
03/22/2005 Tuesday - Fiesta in the Plaza
12:15 AM at Georgia State University's Library Plaza. Join us for music, dancing, food, and more!
02/25/2005 Friday - Walking in Two Worlds: A Presentation by Cuban Musician Pablo Menéndez
12:00 PM in 215 General Classroom Building. Admission is free and open to the public. Cuban musician Pablo Menéndez brings great video footage emphasizing areas of Cuban music...
02/21/2005 Monday - Surviving State Terror in Argentina: A Conversation with A Former Desaparecido
A discussion in Spanish with Mario Villani, who was abducted in Argentina's "Dirty War" and is among the few survivors of the ESMA (Navy Mechanics School) concentration camp. 5:00 PM at Troy Moore Library 9th floor GCB. Admission is free...
02/19/2005 Saturday - Paco Peña Flamenco Guitar and Dance
8:00 PM at the Rialto Center for The Performing Arts...
02/07/2005 Monday - Venezuelan Politics and Relations with The U.S.
1:30 PM A lecture by María Pilar Hernández, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America for the Venezuelan government. Takes place in 215 GCB. Ms. Hernández was formerly the president of Venevisión, Venezuela's main broadcasting company and part of the Cisneros Group...
02/01/2005 Tuesday - Lunch and Learn
12:15 PM Scholarships / Internship Workshop Admission is free...
01/22/2005 Saturday - Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
8:00 PM at the Rialto Center for The Performing Arts, featuring Arturo O'Farrill...
12/8/2004 Wednesday - New National Cinemas in a Transnational Age: Amores Perros and El Chacotero Sentimental
A lecture by Prof. Juan Poblete, from the University of California, Santa Cruz at 3:00 PM in the Troy Moore Library 9th floor GCB. Admission is free...
11/11-14/2004 Thursday - Sunday - La casa de Rigoberta mira al sur
World Premiere written and directed by Aristides Vargas. Thurs. – Sat. 8pm and Sunday 5pm at the 7 Stages Theatre. Spanish language play with English supertitles. $5 discount on all regular performances to students, seniors, and educators...
11/11/2004 Thursday - The Mirror Project: A New Approach to Social Documentary
This is a 7:00 pm event at the Georgia State University's Student Center Auditorium, featuring a panel discussion with director Roberto Arévalo. Admission is free...
11/08/2004 Monday - Latin American Culture in The United States: Autonomy and Pluralism
Prof. Ignacio Medina Núñez, from ITESO Guadalajara, will lecture at the Foro Latino at 6:00 pm at the Student Center's Speaker Auditorium. Admission is free...
10/29/04 Friday - Latinas: Women of Latin America
8:00 pm at the Rialto Center for The Peforming Arts, featuring Totó La Momposina (Colombia), Belô Velloso (Brazil), and Mariana Montalvo (Chile)...
10/26/2004 Tuesday - Violence as A Public Health Issue: The Viva Rio Story
A lecture by Dr. Maria Helena Moreira, Director of International Programs, Viva Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at 2:30 pm in Room 170, Urban Life Building...
10/15/2004 Friday - Balé Folclórico da Bahia
8:00 pm at the Rialto Center for The Performing Arts...
5/5/2004 - 5/7/2004 - Symposium on Mexican Immigration to the US Southeast
As part of our annual symposium series (CLALS Symposium 2004), scholars from Mexico and the United States will have the opportunity to share their studies, experience and opinions on the trends that characterize Mexican Immigration to the Southeast...
3/29/2004 Monday - Flores de Septiembre ("Flowers of September")
Documentary in Spanish with English subtitles. Personal commentary by Alejandra Naftal (a survivor of the "Vesubio" concentration camp in Argentina...
3/26/2004 Friday - Representing Dignity's Rebellion: How Indigenous Documentaries Subvert The Master Narrative, A Lecture by Glen Kuecker
This multi-media presentation compares American and indigenous documentaries about the Zapatista rebellion in Southern Mexico. It juxtaposes documentaries made by...
3/1/2004 Monday - La desazón suprema, a documentary by Luis Ospina
La desazón suprema is a biographic documentary on controversial Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo, author of Our Lady of the Assassins...
12/3/2003 Wednesday - Lecture by Jamil Mahuad: Ousting Latin American Presidents, The Case of Ecuador
Jamil Mahuad is former president of Ecuador and currently a visiting fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Public...
11/17/2003 Monday - Presenting Dr. Holly Barnet-Sanchez: "Chicano Art: Re-Defining American Art"
Professor Barnet-Sanchez is a nationally recognized authority on Chicano art and art criticism...
10/16/2003 Thursday - Presenting Dr. María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba: "On The Feminicide at Ciudad Juárez"
A lecture by Dr. María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba, to be held October 16, 2003 at 5:00 PM at the...
10/14/2003 Tuesday - Presenting Lalo Alcaraz: "A Cartoonista in the USA"
Lalo Alcaraz, creator of the nationally syndicated comic strip La Cucaracha, will be lecturing on his experience as "A Cartoonista in the USA"...
4/16/2003 Wednesday - Sponsored Lecturer: Ana María Shua
On Globalization in Latin America and Its Side Effects: An Argentine Writer's Perspective. Argentine novelist Ana María Shua will discuss the...
4/10/2003 Thursday - CLALS Symposium 2003: War & Peace in Colombia
The annual CLALS Symposium presents a discussion by international scholars, diplomats, and political activists on a topical...
4/3/2002 Wednesday - CLALS Symposium 2002: Brazilian Popular Culture
A full afternoon of lecture and discussion dedicated to the study and appreciation of Brazilian popular culture...
10/27/2001 Saturday - Planning for Cuba Trip
Four members of CLALS travel to Cuba to plan for the Cuba May-mester trip and the spring...
4/19/2001 Thursday - CLALS Symposium 2001: Cuba Today
As part of our annual symposium series, Cuban government figures, critics, and scholars, as well as American scholars, meet to discuss...
3/22/2000 Wednesday - CLALS Colloquium 2000: Media, Culture, and Identity in Contemporary Latin America
Wednesday March 22, 2000 - 2:00-7:00 PM Troy Moore Library, 9th Floor, General Classroom Building (corner of Decatur...