Latin American Courses for Spring 2023
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It's not too early to start thinking about Spring 2023 courses, and there are many exciting options to choose from!
Consider LING 3601: Language, Race, & Ethnicity in the US. This course touches on Latin America from multiple angles: Latino dialects such as Chicano English or New York Dominican varieties, Afro-Latino identity, Mock Spanish, codeswitching in Miami, and more. No linguistics pre-requisites. Fulfills new GE requirements.
Or perhaps ANTHROP 3027: Disasters & Health or ANTHROP 5701: Health & Healing in Latin America and the Caribbean, both taught by Assistant Professor Anaís Roque Antonetty, a new CLAS faculty affiliate in Anthropology.
Find a more complete listing of Spring 2023 courses on Latin America here.
Instructors: if you teach a course with at least 25% Latin American content that does not appear on the list, please let us know! This gives our FLAS fellows more diverse choices to fulfill their area studies requirement each semester.
CLAS is also happy to help promote any Latin American courses as needed!
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Linguistweets
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The Brazilian Linguistics Association (Associação Brasileira de Linguística or Abralin) proudly presents the Third International Twitter Conference on Linguistics: Linguistweets.
Linguistweets will feature research presentations delivered via a series of no more than 6 tweets, presented during a 15 min time slot, under the hashtag #linguistweets.
Besides removing the hassle of travelling, Twitter conferences promote open science-- everyone can follow the presentations, ask questions, and take part in the discussions.
Please consider submitting an abstract to the Linguistweets Conference, and spread the word among colleagues and students!
For more information, visit the conference's website. Submit your abstract here. The deadline for abstract submission is October 5, 2022.
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Day of the Dead Columbus 2022
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Join OSU and the non-profit Latino Arts for Humanity to celebrate Day of the Dead and remember our loved ones who are no longer with us. This family and community festival will be held at Greenlawn Cemetery on October 8th, 10 AM - 6 PM.
There will be art exhibits, living altar performances, ofrendas, arts and crafts vendors, activities for kids (including free face painting!), calavera poetry workshops, Aztec dance, opportunities to learn about Day of the Dead, and much more!
The event is FREE and open to the public. Free transportation will be available throughout the day from the Ohio Union (12th Ave loop) to Greenlawn Cemetery. The first bus leaves the Union at 9:30am, with the last bus leaving Greenlawn at 6pm.
RSVP via Facebook here. For questions, contact Leila Vieira (vieira.31@osu.edu).
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Convocatoria: Certamen de mini oratoria
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El Departamento de Español y Portugués te invita a que participes en la mini oratoria: Ni soy de aquí ni soy de allá: Validando mi identidad transcultural, a celebrarse el 5 de octubre en Hagerty Hall 180 desde las 4 PM. Esta es una actividad de motivación, inspiración y celebración para estudiantes subgraduados. Demuestra lo orgulloso que te sientes en ser parte de dos culturas ¡Ven y celebra con nosotros tu herencia!
Aprende más y regístrate aquí. Hay premios para primer, segundo y tercer lugar.
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Fúria, with the Wexner
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The Wexner Center for the Arts and the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts present Fúria, a dance theater work by internationally acclaimed Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues.
Oct. 21-22, 8 PM, in the Davidson Theatre at the Riffe Center.
In Fúria ("fury" and "force" in Portuguese) Rodrigues travels beyond the contradictions of the ego as nine dancers bond with their primitive energies to reinvent social constructs. Exploring themes of otherness and group dynamics, she crafts a fictional universe that constantly evolves as the dancers progress from conflict and isolating individualism to jubilation and collective transcendence. The result is an invigorating experience that offers respite from numbing pandemic fatigue and the social anxiety of our time.
A driving force behind Centro de Artes da Maré, an arts center in one of Rio's largest favelas, or shantytowns, Rodrigues makes no distinction between her dance practice and the diverse community to which she is deeply committed.
Learn more and purchase tickets here.
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Origins: The Fall of Tenochtitlán
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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective has published new content, written by Diego Javier Luis, on the fall of Tenochtitlan and the ongoing debates in Mexico over the meanings of 1521.
These new resources describe and contextualize the events of 1521, while emphasizing the ongoing nature of conquest:
"Ultimately, the issues of history and narration in the fall of Tenochtitlan underlie every 500-year retrospective on the topic. How does commemoration create grand narratives that resonate over time? How do we, in the twenty-first century, bolster or challenge these narratives with our actions and conversations?
[...] Processes of dispossession, environmental destruction, linguistic erasure, religious syncretism, and violent trauma persist in the Valley of Mexico. At the same time, many Indigenous communities maintain a certain autonomy, communal identity, shared history, and ancestral connection to the traumas of 1521.
Conquest was never complete, and it also never ended, merely shape shifted."
Text, audio, and video are all available here.
Follow Origins on Twitter (@HistoryTalkPod, @ProloguedPod, and @OriginsOSU) or on Facebook (@OriginsOSU).
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Global Education Info Session: The Brazilian Experience
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OSU Global Education is offering an information session for its Brazilian Experience program. The session will be held on Thurs., Oct. 6 from 8 - 9 PM at Timashev Commons.
The Brazilian Experience program is designed to offer a distinctive cultural experience for undergraduate students who desire a unique global diversity component to their education. This program will introduce students to the music, culture, and educational systems of Brazil.
After one week of study on the OSU campus in May, the class will travel to Salvador, Bahia - the musical heart of Brazil. Following the stay in Salvador, the group will travel to Rio de Janeiro to experience its rich culture. While in Brazil, students will engage in master classes, interactive music performances, and observation of schools, in addition to several cultural experiences.
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