Calendar
Events for May 2012
Bicho de Sete Cabeças ("Brainstorm") (2001)
A 2001 Brazilian drama film directed by Laís Bodanzky
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
María en tierra de nadie (Maria in No Man's Land)
A documentary regarding the parallel immigration stories of three Salvadoran women on a journey through Mexico
Thursday, May 03, 2012
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Bunche 10367
Militarization, human rights and threats to justice in Guatemala
Iduvina Hernández, journalist and activist
Friday, May 04, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library
Book talk and discussion of "Los Migrantes Que No Importan: En el Camino con los Centroamericanos Indocumentados en México"
Book by Oscar Martínez, Salvadoran journalist and coordinator of the project En el Camino
Discussants: Ruben Hernandez-Leon (Sociology, UCLA) & Leisy Abrego (Chicano and Chicano Studies, UCLA)
Friday, May 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
The Restructuring of the Steel Industry in Mexico: The Impact on Workers
A lecture by Dr. Eleocadio Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Panel Voces de Migración I
Recuperación de la memoria de la migración Mexicana a Estados Unidos
Saturday, May 12, 2012
4:00 PM
Salón Alfonso Reyes
Panel Voces de Migración II
El registro de la memoria; Entrevista con José Huizar
Sunday, May 13, 2012
11:00 AM
Salón Alfonso Reyes
Panel Voces de Migración III
Memoria de la migración, voces de Temaca
Sunday, May 13, 2012
12:00 PM
Salón Alfonso Reyes
Market Insights and Political Perspectives of Latin American Leaders
2012 Latin American Business Conference
Monday, May 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Anderson School of Management
Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas
Book talk with author Allison Hedge Coke
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Conference Room
The Journey Home: A Freed Mulatto Brazilian Priest and his Mission to Dahomey
Junia Ferreira Furtado
Professor in Early Modern History
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
Freedom of the Press in Latin America
A symposium that will bring together media professionals from Latin America and the United States who cover organized crime, corruption, and drug trafficking in Latin America to share and discuss their experiences.
Monday, May 21, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
California Room
Globalization and Brazilian Visual Culture
A colloquium with Telmo Estevinho (PUC-SP/UFMT), Maria Helena Costa (UFRN), and Sonia Marques (UFPB).
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
After the Earthquake: Popular Memory as History in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Watson Denis, Université d'Etat d'Haiti;
Teresa Barnet, UCLA;
Robin Derby, UCLA
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
12:00 PM
History Conference Room
2011-2012 Faucett Family Research Fellowship Student Panel
The purpose of the Faucett Graduate Student Research Panel is to present research findings and promote the exchange of ideas among students and participants working in various disciplines.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche 10383
The End of Plantation? Coffee and Land Inequality in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo
Renato Perim Colistete, Professor of Economics, FEA-USP
Thursday, May 24, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche 10383
Transnational Incest: Mexican Families, Sexual Violence, and Migration
A lecture by Gloria González-López, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, May 25, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 144
Within the Shadowz of Belize: A Green Day Arises
A poetry reading and film screening by Belizean artist Clyde Gillett
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
1:00 PM
Presentation Room
It Takes Two To Tango: The Question of the Malvinas Islands and the Situation in the South Atlantic
A presentation by Jorge Martín Arturo Argüello, Ambassador of Argentina to the United States
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Hacienda Room