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Fall 2008 Events

_{^{click for more details}}Fridays at 7pm
1322 Storer
English subtitles

Oct. 10, 10:00 -12:30am and 1:30 - 3 pm
HIA Summer Fellows Fieldwork Presentations
Schedule
SSH 5214

Oct. 15, noon
JIM GERBER (Economics, San Diego State Univ.)
“Fifty Years of change on the US-Mexico Border”

^{_{Co-sponsorsed by the Center for the Evolution
of the Global Economy (CEGE) and Chicana/o Studies}}
SSH 5214

Oct. 17, 2-4pm
GEORGE YUDICE (University of Miami, Modern Languages and Literatures)
"Salvadoran Cultural Policy: Redefining the 'We'
as Export and Managing Cultural Remittances"
Olson 53A

^{_{sponsored by
Latin@american Cultural Studies research cluster, HIA, DHI,
DE in Critical Theory, Spanish, Comparative Literature}}

Oct. 21, 7:30 pm
The Popular Movement in Oaxaca - Book tour of Teaching Rebellion
2016 Haring Hall

Oct. 22, noon
STEPHEN ZUNES (International Relations, University of San Francisco)
"How the Grenada Invasion Paved the Way to Iraq:
On the 25th Anniversary"
Andrews Conference room, SS&H 2203 (Please note change of venue)

^{_{Co-sponsored by Middle East/South Asia Studies}}

Oct 27, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CLASSROOM: An interdisciplinary conversation on research and teaching
Andrews Conference room, SSH 2203

_{Sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, UC Davis Humanities Institute, Religious Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas}

Oct 29, noon
KEN VEROSUB (Geology, UC Davis)
"The 1600 Huaynaputina Volcano and its Global Consequences"
SSJ 5214

Oct. 30, 3 pm
DANE JOHNSON (Comparative Literature, San Fransisco State University)
"Monstrous Mappings: Comparative Literature and the Latin American Imaginary"
Olson 53A

_{Co-sponsored by the Spanish Department and Comparative Literature}

Nov 4, noon
THAD DUNNING (Political Science, Yale University)
"Civic Participation in Chávez's Venezuela"
SSH 5214

Nov. 5, noon
EMILIO BEJEL (Spanish, UC Davis)
"Censorship, Utopia and Post-Utopia in Cuban Cinema"
Andrews room, SSH 2203.

All films are free and open to the public.

Oct 10
Manda Bala (Brazil, 2007)

mandabala

Trailer

Oct 17
The Devil's Miner (Bolivia, 2005)

thedevilsminer

Trailer

Oct 24
La Sierra (Colombia, 2004)

Nov. 7
El Comité (Ecuador, 2005)

Documentary film followed by Q & A with producer Jorge Nuñez Vega.

This documentary narrates the takeover of a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It puts the takeover in context, introducing the viewer to the inmates and everyday life in the prison. No one seems to be responsible and there are no clear solutions, but the system is nevertheless destroying human beings.

NOVEMBER 17-21

MEXICAN FILM FESTIVAL

(Brought to us with the sponsorship of the
Mexican consulate in Sacramento)

Nov. 17
Matando Cabos (Alejandro Lozano, 2004)

Nov. 18
Nazarín (Luis Buñuel, 1958)

Nov. 19
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1992)

Nov. 20
Vamonos con Pancho Villa (Fernando Flores, 1935)

Nov. 21
El Brassier de Emma (Marisa Sistach, 2007)

Nov. 18, 2-5pm
PENELOPE HARVEY (University of Manchester)
LYNN STEPHEN (University of Oregon) and
MARISOL DE LA CADENA (UC Davis),
“Anthropology in Latin America:
Ethnography, Theory, Politics”
Andrews Conference Room

_{Co-sponsored by Science and Technology Studies}
Dec 3, noon
Brown Bag Series
MICHAEL LAZZARA (Spanish, UC Davis)
"Collaboration and Dictatorship:
A forum to celebrate the publication of Luz Arce: despues del infierno”
Andrews Conference Room

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