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News & EventsApril 29 and April 30, 2008 French Play 3rd Annual French Players Fundraising Dinner April 23, 2008 "Interdisciplinarity and Anxiety" by Louis Menand (Harvard University) The lecture is organized by the Junior Faculty Forum and sponsored by the Humanities Institute. For questions, contact Eduardo Urios-Aparisi or Sebastian Wogenstein. April 16, 2008 "Transnational Sexual Cultures and Rights" a discussion group led by La Fountain Stokes for faculty and graduates students interested in discussing research and curricular implications in studying race, class, and gender in globalization. La Fountain's visit is part of a symposia series, Engendering Race and Class in a Globalizing World: Transnational Perspectives, supported by a generous grant from the Office of International and Multicultural and International Affairs. Speaker: Lawrence La Fountain Stokes April 15, 2008 A public lecture sponsored by the Office of International and Multicultural and International Affairs.
April 10, 2008 The Department of Modern & Classical Languages, the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute, the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies are proud to announce the Luis B. Eyzaguirre Memorial Lecture 2008: Invisible Traces: Race in Puerto Rican Literary Discourses
Speaker: Mayra Santos-Febres April 9, 2008 The Department of Modern & Classical Languages, the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute, the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies are proud to announce a reading in Spanish from Nuestra Seņora de la Noche by Author Mayra Santos-Febres.
Time: 2:00 pm. - 3:30 pm. April 5, 2008 17th Annual Light the Lodge Powwow Host Drum Mystic River w/Rez Dogs & Kicking Wapiti Northern Singers.
Free and open to the public. Native American dancing, singing, and food. Vendors will be on site offering crafts and other items. April 3-6, 2008 Reel Ireland Film Festival & Film Symposium, April 3-6, 2008
Schedule [PDF] In collaboration with the Irish Film Institute and Culture Ireland, the University of Connecticut will host a four day festival featuring the best of Irish cinema. The festival will kick off with the 2008 Gerson speaker, James Ryan, on Thursday, April 3 and continue with a keynote speaker on April 4. On Saturday, April 5, there will be a day-long symposium focused on transnational cinemas and the role of film in the creation of identity within the global context. For more information, contact Nicole McClure.
March 28, 2008 International Film Series The UCONN Humanities Institute and Emeriti Humanities Scholars are pleased to invite you to a viewing of the first film in an international series, The Battle of Algiers. Time: 3:30-6:30 p.m. The Pentagon's Office of of Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict screened The Battle of Algiers in August 2003, introducing it with a flier, "How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas.” The Battle of Algiers (1966) was directed by a prominent Italian director, Gillo Pontecorvo, in a co-production with Saadi Yacef, the FLN commander who had led the insurgents and who took on his own role in the film. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It could not be shown in France for many years; when a few theaters ventured to screen it, they were bombed. March 26, 2008 Public Lecture sponsored by the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life & the Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies section of the Department of Modern & Classical Languages Time: 5:30 p.m. More info [PDF] March 26, 2008 French Lecture Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. Q & A and reception to follow lecture Spring 2008 Film Series The Department of Modern & Classical Languages, the Spanish Resource Center and the Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center invites you to a Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Film Series. For additional information, please contact Alfonso Varona. The Trinity College Latin American & Iberian Film Series devotes Spring 2008 to exploring urban cinema with movies from Spain, the U.S.A., Brazil, Angola/Portugal, Haiti, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the UK... February 21, 2008 OMIA Collaborative Symposia Series : "Engendering Race & Class in a Globalizing World: Transnational Perspectives", Dr. Lisa Lowe, American Studies, Yale University.
More info February 18, 2008 Application Deadline: UCONN Summer in Namibia: African-German Connections (a faculty-led program) May 12-June 15, 2008
More info [PDF] February 14, 2008
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies invites all students
to attend a lecture entitled, "Mandar Obedeciendo: Following the Other
Campaign in Mexico" presented by fellow student Joseph Foran.
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