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2019 Brazilian Film Series
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The Center for Latin American Studies is excited to announce our 2019 Brazilian Film Series! Over the course of 5 weeks, we will be showing a Brazilian film every
Monday at 2:30 PM in 180 Hagerty Hall
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April 1: The Second Mother
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly
appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
April 8: From the Land to Your Table
From the Land to Your Table shows the perspectives of seven Ibero-American
filmmakers as they capture the conditions and cultural diversity of popular
produce markets in their individual countries.
April 15: The Empty Classroom
Travel to seven different countries and explore the underlying reasons why
nearly one out of every two students never makes it to graduation day.
April 22: Eternal Amazon
At a time when the world is discussing the impact of human actions on the
environment, Amazônia Eterna presents a critical analysis of how the world's
largest tropical rainforest is understood and appreciated.
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Future Directions of Research in the Amazon: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Perspectives
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When:
April 1, 2019 (1pm)
Where:
Smith Lab 4012
Prof. Hilton Pereira
(Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil) will be visiting the Department of Anthropology in the first days of April. As part of his visit, he will give the talk "Future directions of research in the Amazon: Interdisciplinary challenges and perspectives".
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HISTORY 3106: History of Mexico
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2019 CLAS K12 Needs Assessment Survey
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The Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University invites K12 educators to participate in a K12 Needs Assessment survey. The mission of CLAS is to serve, facilitate, and stimulate the teaching, research, and intellectual interests of faculty, students, and the public in all matters dealing with Latin America. One way that the Center accomplishes this mission is by carrying out meaningful outreach programs with K12 educators. Survey results will be utilized to inform and enhance our K12 Outreach Strategy and program offerings over the next three years.
Thank you in advance for completing this survey, we appreciate your time and value your feedback.
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Job Posting: Elementary Spanish Teacher
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Bexley City Schools is seeking an elementary Spanish teacher for Cassingham and Montrose Elementary Schools. For more information and how to apply, please click here.
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Marcela Echeverri Lecture
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When:
April 5th, 2019 (3-4:30 pm)
Where:
Dulles Hall, Room 168
Marcela Echeverri Munoz is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University. She received her PhD in Latin American and Caribbean History from New York University and has written about anthropology, gender, and nationalism in mid-twentieth century Colombia; slavery, Afro-Latinos and Indigeneity in the Spanish empire, and state formation in South America. Her book,
Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780-1825, was awarded the 2017 Latin American Studies Association Jimenez Prize. Echeverri
has won fellowships from the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Fundación Mapfre (Madrid, Spain), and other prestigious venues. This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies.
For information on the 2017-2019 CHR program, You Say You Want a Revolution? Revolutions in Historical Perspective, visit
http://chr.osu.edu/
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Center for Historical Research, Center for Latin American Studies
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Summer 2019 Global Teacher Seminar
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When:
June 3-7, 2019 (9am-5pm)
Where:
OSU campus
Global Environmental Issues: The Problems, Solutions and Potential Outcomes. This week-long institute aims to inform K-12 teachers on environmental issues related to the natural resources of various countries, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The seminar will deepen teachers' understanding of the different environmental issues and challenges facing society now and in the future, and through pedagogical training enable the incorporation of this new content into their curricula. Teachers will receive a certificate of completion with contact hours, and a $100 stipend for attending the seminar and completing a lesson plan by August 1. The registration deadline is
May 1, 2019.
Registration and event details can be found on the
CLAS website.
The seminar is organized by the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) in partnership with the Center for African Studies (CAS), Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES), and Middle East Studies Center (MESC) with support from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grants.
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When:
April 12th, 2019 (3-4:30 pm)
Where:
Dulles Hall, Room 168
Dr. Gilbert Joseph will be presenting his lecture, "Border Crossings and the Remaking of Latin American Cold War Studies: Transnational approaches to Revolution and Counterrevolution". Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University and recently served as President of the Latin American Studies Association. Professor Joseph has published seventeen books on Latin American revolutions and social movements and U.S.-Latin American relations, including
Revolution from Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1982) and
Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century (Duke, 2013). This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies.
For information on the 2017-2019 CHR program, You Say You Want a Revolution? Revolutions in Historical Perspective, visit
http://chr.osu.edu/
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Center for Historical Research, Center for Latin American Studies
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New AU19 Course: Seminar in Modern Latin American Literatures and Cultures
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Next semester, Professor Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar (zevallos-aguilar.1@osu.edu) will be teaching SPAN 8570: Seminar in Modern Latin American Literatures and Cultures: Memories in Comics, Graphic Novels and Photography (1900-2018).
Course Description:
Latin American comics, graphic novels and photos have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This course presents new perspectives on how comics, graphic novels, and photos on and from Latin America both view and express identity and memory formation on major historical events and processes. The readings explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence. It offers a background history of comics, graphic novels, and photos in the region, and survey a range of countries and artists. They also highlight the unique ability of these arts to succinctly render memory. In sum, this seminar provides an in-depth analysis of understudied practices, in Latin American memory studies.
During the semester we will study the works of H. Oesterheld (Argentina), M. Chambi (Peru), S. Salgado (Brazil), G. Iturbide (Mexico), J. Padrón (Cuba), R. Ríos (Chile), J. Salvador Lavado (Argentina) among other artists. Class will meet T/Th from 9:35-10:55am in Hagerty Hall 071.
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