Spring Film Series
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SPPO Graduate Student John Hurtado has organized a film series on subjectivities in environments of conflict in Latin America. The series will consist of six films, which span various Latin American countries, communities, and languages, all with English subtitles.
All films will be shown in Hagerty Hall 180 and are free and open to the public.
- April 23, 6-9 PM: Monos (2019, Colombia)
- March 30, 6-9 PM: Yvy maraey, Land without evil (2013, Bolivia)
- April 6, 6:30-9 PM: Secrets from Putumayo (2020, Brazil)
- April 13, 6-9 PM: Mute Fire (2020, Colombia)
- April 20, 6-9 PM: Ixcanul, Volcano (2015, Guatemala)
- April 25, 6-9 PM: Andor (2022, Brazil)
This series was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain, as well as support from CLAS and other campus partners.
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CLASP Teaching Award for Junior Faculty
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The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) calls for nominations for its 11th annual CLASP Teaching Award for Junior Faculty. The award recognizes excellence in teaching Latin American Studies designated courses. Tenured faculty are not eligible, but nominees in tenure-track positions and visiting or adjunct professors and instructors are eligible.
Nominations should come from senior or supervising faculty or administrators; however, self-nominations will be accepted with the contact information of three references. The nominator must provide clear evidence of the following in a letter of max. 700 words:
- Outstanding teaching effectiveness, including pedagogical style and student success stories.
- Contributions to the Latin American Studies program and/or the Department.
- Involvement in the larger community, including professional associations and participation in service activities.
- Incorporation of own academic research and field experiences into the classroom.
Nominees will be asked to provide a Statement of Teaching Philosophy and CV.
The CLASP Teaching Committee and former winners will evaluate the nominations and recommend three finalists to the CLASP Executive Committee. The finalists may then be asked to provide the contact information of two current or former students.
Nominations will be accepted through March 3, 2023.
Email nomination letters to: vgawrons@bsc.edu
The winner will be presented with an engraved trophy and a monetary award of $500 at the 2023 Latin American Studies Association International Congress (May 24-27).
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Tinker Field Research Highlight
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Harold "Butch" Wright, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, recently conducted field research in Brazil, supported in part by a 2020 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant awarded by CLAS.
Butch's project is entitled "Food Security and Social Networking among Urban Indigenous in the Brazilian Amazon" and involved six months of fieldwork among the indigenous residents of Parque das Tribos, an informal neighborhood near Manaus. Butch's fieldwork consisted of participant observation, suveys of local horticultural plots, interviews, and more. In total, he worked with 209 participants belonging to 28 different ethnic groups, and his data collection methods used both Portuguese and Nheengatu.
Butch worked with focus groups to evaluate and improve the clarity and appropriateness of food insecurity surveys. He also conducted a series of interviews, home visits, and other methods to gather data about residents' food consumption and satisfaction, food sharing and financial help, and other social interactions, both pre- and post-pandemic. Butch's work has already borne important insights about the relationship between social networks and food insecurity, as well as raised pressing questions about land access, resource sharing, and the role of ethnic and regional identity in the community.
Please join us in congratulating Butch on his excellent work and wishing him luck with the remaining stages of his dissertation.
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Affordability & Racial Justice Projects
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Congratulations to Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese faculty members Catalina Iannone and Stephanie Aubry, who have each received both Racial Justice and Syllabus Review grants from the Affordable Learning Exchange. These grants help instructors to reduce course material costs for students and infuse courses with racial justice components.
Iannone will continue to develop a syllabus that infuses racial justice across the semester, allowing students to examine a broad variety of films that engage with the topic of race.
Aubry will revise the reading list for her course and include new texts and creative work that incorporate the perspectives and histories of undocumented migrants and those involved in Latino activism.
Both Iannone and Aubry will also work with University Libraries to reduce the cost of course materials by 25%.
Learn more here about other grantee projects and their impressive impacts for students.
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Mershon Center Grant Opportunities
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The Mershon Center for International Security Studies announces the opening of its funding cycle for 2023-2024! The first competitions, closing on March 1st, are for graduate and individual faculty research projects, along with a new category of support for recently tenured Associate Professors.
Scholars from any discipline are encouraged to consider how their research might shed light on the human, social, institutional, and other dimensions of international, national, and human security.
See Mershon's main funding page for full details about their newly redesigned granting structure.
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