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5211 Social Sciences and Humanities, Davis, CA 95616
Charles Walker (Director)
Christina Siracusa (Program Coordinator)
casiracusa@ucdavis.edu

(530) 752-3046 phone
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Fall 2007 Archive

1a Reunion Latinoamericana

Sat, Dec 8, 3:30-6:30, I-House

Over 50 people from Latin American background came to the 1st Reunion Latinoamericana sponsored by HIA.
The Latin American countries represented were Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Peru.
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Math Professor Jesús De Loera talking about the need of multidisciplinary
unity among Latin Americans in academia.

Representative from the Davis Colombian dance group Colombia Viva
Danza
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HIA director (Chuck Walker)
HIA Program Coordinator (Christina Siracusa)

ChileCAD Representative sharing
vision of community among
Latin Americans in Davis and Sacramento


Club HIA

Fri, Dec 7, 3-4pm SSH 5214


The Price of Sugar (documentary)

Thu, Nov 29, 4pm-5:30pm, 7pm-8:30pm, 53A OLSON
Fri, Nov 30, noon-1:30pm,
SSH 5214
Trailer (imdb)
Trailer (youtube)


Finnish Tango and Beyond

WED, NOV 28th, noon, SSH 5214
Pablo Ortiz, Department of Music


CLUB HIA

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FRIDAY, NOV 16th, NOON-1:30, Social Science 5211
FREE PIZZA AND DRINKS -
SOLO PARA UNDERGRADS


LATIN AMERICAN FILM SERIES - FALL 2007

VIOLA CHILENSIS: Un documental de amor y de lucha

(Luis Vera, director)
FRIDAY, NOV 16th, 7pm, 1322 STORER
Viola chilensis Trailer

CHE: Rise and Fall (documentary)

Fri, Nov 30, 7pm, 1322 STORER
(Eduardo Montes-Bradley, director)

Trailer (youtube)
Trailer 2 (youtube)


ELENA PONIATOWSKA - view flyer

TUE & WED, NOV 13-14
Video (External link)

TUE Nov 13th: 6pm (Kleiber Hall, Rm 3)
"Witness to Mexico: The Literature that Rises from the Streets" (Lecture in English)
WED, Nov 14th: 3:30pm (Wyatt)
Testimonio de vida, política y cultura: Una conversación con Elena Poniatowska Interview in Spanish by UCD Spanish Professor Linda Egan


Yu’çta Musse

TUE, NOV 6th 3:30-5, Andrews Conference SSH 2203
Leader and Interlocutor for the Nasa indigenous community of Colombia
Plan Colombia, Oil and the War on “Narcoterror”:
Local Perspectives and Alternative Visions from Putumayo, Colombia view flyer
MON, Nov 5th, noon, 126 Voorhies Hall


BOOK PRESENTATIONS

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Collaborative Round Table on New Works in Social Science and Humanities on the Americas

Robert Irwin — Spanish Department
Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints:
Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands
(Cultural Studies of the Americas)
U. of Minnesota Press

Angie Chabram — Chicano Studies
The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader
Routledge

Andrés Reséndez — History Department
A Land So Strange:
The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwreked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century
(Cabeza de Vaca)
Basic Books