OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Center for Latin American Studies


  • School Visit Program (9/1/2007 - 4/15/2008)
  • LASA Presentation: Evaluating Outreach Programs (9/7/2007)
  • Art Exhibit: "Remakes" by Cuban Artist Elio Rodriguez (9/24/2007 - 10/24/2007)
  • 28th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival (9/29/2007)
  • Teacher Training Workshop and Concert: Latin American Music with Sol y Canto (10/5/2007)
  • Teacher Training Workshop: Steps to Success for English Language Learners (10/8/2007)
  • Teacher Training for teachers of gifted students (10/29/2007)
  • Lecture Series: "Geopoliticas de la Novela Hispanoamericana contemporanea" by Dr. Anadeli Bencomo (11/1/2007)
  • Lecture Series: "Corporate Governance Valuation and Performance: Evidence from a Voluntary Market Reform in Brazil" by Dr. Kuldeep Shastri (11/7/2007)
  • Lecture Series: "The Ruins of Nature" by Dr. Gabriela Nouzeilles (11/7/2007)
  • Model United Nations Simulation (11/7/2007)
  • Lecture Series "Power, Wealth, and Prestige: Inequality and the Beginnings of Large-Scale Societies" by Dr. Robert Drennan (11/8/2007)
  • Lecture Series: "Un Viaje Biografico, Cargando las Maletas de la Politica y el Arte" by Dr. Ricardo Forster (11/9/2007)
  • Lecture Series: "Former Colonies: Local or Universal?" by Dr. Roberto Schwartz (12/4/2007)
  • Lecture Series: "A Mayan Elder Talk to the Pittsburgh Community" (12/13/2007)
  • Film Series: "New Millenium" (films of Latin America and the Caribbean) (1/1/2008 - 4/15/2008)
  • Lecture Series: "Profanations of Cuban Identity in Jose Lezama Lima" by Dr. Juan Duchesne-Winter (2/6/2008)
  • Conference: Annual Latin American Social and Public Policy Graduate Student Conference (2/14/2008 - 2/15/2008)
  • Faculty Development/Teacher Training: Materials Development for the Less/Least-Commonly-Taught Languages (2/21/2008)
  • Lecture Series: "Deseos fuera de lugar: una aproximacion afectiva a Dom Casmurro de Machado de Assis" by Dr. Ruben (2/26/2008)
  • Teacher Training: Cultural Identity and Conflict (3/3/2008 - 3/4/2008)
  • Teacher Training: From Revolution to Globalization -- A half-Century Rendezvous between Beijing and Havana (3/11/2008)
  • Teacher Training: Globalization and Immigration (3/31/2008 - 4/1/2008)
  • Teacher Training: Cooking in the Classroom: Food of Argentina and other Latin American Countries (4/11/2008)
  • International Connections: A Program for African American High School Studetns (4/19/2008)
  • Concert: Tangeros de Ley (5/4/2008)
  • Faculty Development/Teacher Training: Corporate Ethics and Human Rights (5/21/2008)
  • School Visit Program (9/1/2008 - 4/1/2009)
  • Latin American Film Series -- Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano. (9/9/2008 - 4/15/2009)
  • Lecture Series Artes visuales y poesia modernista by visiting scholar Gwen Kirkpatrick (10/6/2008)
  • Lecture Series Borges, Bioy y el Lenguaje Exquisito by visiting scholar Cristina Parodi (10/10/2008)
  • Lecture Series Making a Healthy Connection Between Guanajuato, Mexico, and Pittsburgh Reflections on Migration and Health by Juan Munoz visiting scholar Andrea Fox, Alfonso Barquera, and Ken Thompson Pitt faculty (10/15/2008)
  • Lecture Series The Colombia Free Trade Agreement Not Free, Not Treade, Not an Agreement by visiting scholar Freddy Caicado (10/16/2008)
  • Lecture Series The Transnational Diffusion of Anti-Communism Conservative Women in Brazil and Chile in the 2960s and 1970s by visiting scholar Margaret Power (10/17/2008)
  • Lecture Series Brazilian Media and International News Global Citizenship or Spectatorship? - Sao Paulo Residents and Journalists Talk about the 2006 Lebanon Conflict by visiting scholar Heloisa Pait (10/21/2008)
  • Lecture Series Poetry Recital by Chilean Poet Pedro Lastra (10/24/2008)
  • Lecture Series: "Family Enterprise and the Global Glass Ceiling: A Look at Brazil" by Dr. Audrey J. Murrell (10/30/2008)
  • Lecture Series Nacionalismo, Conflicto y Hegemonia en Colombia 2002-2008 Entre la comunicacion y la ficcion noticiosa by visiting scholar Fabio Lopez de la Roche (10/31/2008)
  • Based on the Best Exploring African and Latin American society, culture, and art through award winning childrens literature (11/5/2008)
  • Pitt Model United Nations Simulation (11/10/2008)
  • Lecture Series Respondent Driven Sampling for HIV surveillance in men who have sex with men in Fortaleza Brazil... by visiting scholar Dr.Carl Kendal (11/11/2008)
  • Lecture Series Subject Construction, Linguistic traps, and religious elements in Fernando Vallejos Our Lady of the Assassins La virgin de los sicarios by Pitts Dr. Hermann Herlinghous (11/14/2008)
  • Lecture Series Social Change in Pre-Colombian San Ramon de Alajuela, Costa Rica, and Its Relation with Adjacent Regions by graduate student Mauricio Murillo Herrera (1/9/2009)
  • Lecture Series El Salvador Next Presidential Elections and New Challenges by Horacio Castellanos Moya (1/14/2009)
  • Lecture Series Una obra en borradores Principios y origenes en Saer by visiting scholar Julio Premat (2/5/2009)
  • Lecture Series Del capitalismo al apocalipsis La sexualidad improductiva en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de Jose Ma.Arguedas by visiting scholar Hannah Burdette (2/27/2009)
  • Lecture Series Signs of Sedition The Mysterious Arabic Documents of Bahia, 1835 by visiting scholar Lynn Casmier-Paz (2/27/2009)
  • International Connections A program for African American High School Students (3/17/2009)
  • Vejigante Puerto Rican Carnival Masks An Exploration of Caribbean Culture with Puerto Rican playwright/artist/professor Lowell Fiet (4/1/2009 - 4/2/2009)
  • Art and Society Brazil/U.S. Educational Partnership (6/1/2009 - 8/30/2009)
  • Film Series 20 films on Latin America screened during Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 semesters Spanish w/English subtitles (8/1/2009 - 4/1/2010)
  • Curriculum Development Art and Society in Brazil (9/1/2009 - 10/30/2009)
  • Language and Culture Workshop Portuguese (9/1/2009 - 12/12/2009)
  • School Visit Program Fall 2009 Spring 2010 (9/1/2009 - 4/30/2010)
  • 29th Latin American and Caribbean Festival (9/27/2009)
  • Lecture American Exeptionalist Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of Am. Diplomacy. (10/1/2009)
  • Lecture The History of Globalization and the Political Regimes during the Short Twentieth Century (10/1/2009)
  • Media Coverage of Art and Society in Brazil Project. Article appeared in the Carnegie Magazine. (10/1/2009)
  • Program Presentation for the City of Pittsburgh (10/1/2009)
  • Lecture Narraciones de la Militancia guerrillera en Argentin Giro de sujecto (10/2/2009)
  • Lecture Why We Migrate ories of Mexicos Displaced (10/9/2009)
  • Pittsburgh 250 Pittsburgh and the World circa 1758 (10/13/2009)
  • Concert The Many Faces of Brazilian Jazz featuring Lilly Abreu (10/19/2009)
  • Teacher Training Carnival (10/23/2009)
  • Lecture Cuba apuntes para la historia de un escenario actual (11/1/2009)
  • Lecture The Rise of Latin Americanism Colonialism, Managerial Discourse and the Uses of Literature (11/6/2009)
  • Model United Nations Simulation (11/9/2009)
  • Lecture El luto humano Arte y politica de la melancolia en Jose Revueltas (11/11/2009)
  • Lecture Series An Exploration of the Potential Impacts that Poverty, Gender Inequalities, and Stigma have on HIV Transmission and Disease Outcome in Danli, Honduras by visiting scholar Rolland Bell (11/11/2009)
  • Lecture The Feminine Life of Masculine Power Patriarchal Domination and Feminine Struggle in 19th Century Ecuadorian Culture (11/12/2009)
  • Lecture Colombia Its Music and People (11/17/2009)
  • Concert The Americas in Concert Tango 21st Century featuring the Octavio Brunetti Quintete. (11/21/2009)
  • Lecture The Poetics of Representation in Viceregal Peru A Walk Round the Cloister of San Augustine in Lima (12/3/2009)
  • Lecture Keys to Success? The Potentials of Perennial Agriculture in Andean Complex Societies (1/8/2010)
  • Lecture The Politics of a Fortified Landscape Perus Lake Titicaca Basin in Late Prehistory (1/15/2010)
  • Presentation Why Latin American Studies (1/16/2010)
  • Lecture Subversive Vermin Marcoss Zapatismo, Anti-Neoliberal Discourse, nd Cold War Anxiety (2/1/2010)
  • Lecture Global Health Haitis Road to Recovery (2/2/2010)
  • Lecture Talking with Fidel The Secret History of US-Cuban Relations (3/3/2010)
  • Lecture Space Age Topics Aluminum Dreams and Divergent Modernities in the Caribbean (3/24/2010)
  • 30th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival (3/27/2010)
  • Teacher Training Spanish Immersion (3/27/2010)
  • Teacher Training Science Environmental Issues Across World Areas (4/1/2010 - 5/20/2010)
  • Teacher Training Portuguese Language and culture for K-12 Teachers (6/1/2010 - 8/15/2010)
  • VOLCANICALLY INDUCED LOSS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, MONTSERRAT, WEST INDIES (9/1/2010)
  • CLAS School Visit Program provided student presenters on Latin American topics to over 21 different schools, and 51 different K-12 classrooms. Student interns provided lessons on the Galapagos Islands Latin American fiestas Pele and soccer in Brazil the history and practice of tango, merengue and salsa dance and the work of Ecuadorean painter Oswaldo Guayasamn. (9/5/2010 - 5/30/2011)
  • Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano film series (9/15/2010 - 3/15/2011)
  • BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2010Paul Sotero lecture (9/15/2010)
  • TRENDS AND TARGETS FOR ACTIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH A HUMAN RIGHTS LAW-BASED APPROACH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS TECHNICAL COLLABORATION (9/16/2010)
  • Violent Armed Groups A Global Challenge (9/16/2010 - 9/17/2010)
  • DEBATES ON RACE AND HISTORY IN CONTEMPORARY CUBA (9/17/2010)
  • SOBRE EL PROYECTO DEL LABORATORIO DE DESCLASIFACIN COMPARADA DERROTEROS, CONTRIBUCIONES, DECLINACIONES (9/26/2010)
  • MEXICOS NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES VIOLENCE AND ORGANIZED CRIME (9/27/2010)
  • SPOTLIGHT ON LATINO HEALTH (9/27/2010)
  • Professional development/teacher training activities for K-12 educators on Cuban life and art. (10/1/2010 - 10/30/2010)
  • I, A TOUCAN FROM THE HEADWATERS AMAZONIAN QUICHUA RELATIONSHIPS TO NATURE (10/5/2010)
  • ECONOMIC HIT MAN DETAILS HIS EXPERIENCES EXPLOITING LATIN AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST (10/14/2010)
  • QUELOIDES RACE AND RACISM IN CUBAN CONTEMPORARY ART A CONVERSATION WITH CUBAN ARTISTS (10/14/2010)
  • Borges Symposium (10/15/2010 - 10/16/2010)
  • Queloides Scars Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art. A number of related CLAS-sponsored activities accompanied this exhibit, including a roundtable discussion, public lectures, a Cuban film series, a four-part teacher development workshop and the collaborative performance of local Hip-Hop artists and Cuban freestyle rapper Soandry. (10/15/2010 - 2/27/2011)
  • RACIAL SILENCE AND URBAN POLICY IN 20TH CENTURY BRAZIL (10/20/2010)
  • STITCHING CURTAINS, GRINDING PLASTIC THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORKERS AND THINGS IN BUENOS AIRES (10/22/2010)
  • THE MAKING OF THE FILM HavanYork AFRICAN DIASPORA, COLONIALISM AND THE BIRTH OF THE HIP-HOP MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK AND HAVANA IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (10/26/2010)
  • IMPLICATIONS OF THE ELECTION OF JUAN MANUEL SANTOS FOR COLOMBIA, THE ANDEAN REGION, AND SOUTH AMERICA (11/3/2010)
  • Model United Nations meeting in which high school students deliberated controversial issues facing the worldwide community within the formal context of a United Nations simulation (11/8/2010)
  • BRAZIL ECONOMIC AND FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS POST LULA (11/16/2010)
  • A READING FROM THE NOVEL LISBOALeopoldo Brizuela (11/17/2010)
  • EMPIRE A Retrospective-the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh held its Second Biannual Faculty and Graduate Students Colloquium on EMPIRE A Retrospective. (11/18/2010 - 11/19/2010)
  • November 19, 2010POLTICAS DE LA AMBIGEDAD Y EL SECRETO EN FANTASMAS EN EL PARQUE, AUTOBIOGRAFA DE MARA ELENA WALSH 2008 Y MARA ELENA WALSH, RETRATO DE UNA ARTISTA LIBRE (11/19/2010)
  • The Impact of Toms Gutierrez Alea on the Work and Lives of Latin Americanist Scholars An Intimate Dialogue (11/19/2010)
  • 3rd Annual Americas-in-Concert Jazz Featuring The Eric Mintel Quartet Eric Mintel Piano, Nelson Hill Flute, Alto and Soprano Sax, Dave Antonow Electric Bass, and Dave Mohn Drums (11/20/2010)
  • PREJUDICE AND TABOO NEW APPROACHES TO BRAZILIAN NATIONAL IDENTITYGislene dos Santos Associate Professor, Escola de Artes, Universidade de So Paulo, Brazil (1/22/2011)
  • USAID PARTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (2/2/2011)
  • FILIACIN OSCURA HERENCIA Y TRADICIN CONVERSACIN CON UNA POETA VENEZOLANA Poetry ReadingBeverly Prez Rego Poet and Translator, Venezuela (2/3/2011)
  • SUSTAINABLE BUILDING IN BRAZIL REVIEW AND UPDATEVanessa Gomes Professor, University of Campinas, Brazil (2/3/2011)
  • THE EDGE OF THE ROAD IS LISTENING THE ART AND THE ORIGIN OF AN AFRO-CUBAN GODRobert Farris Thompson Colonel John Trumbull Professor of Art History, Yale University (2/3/2011)
  • International Connections conference for underrepresented minority students that included four presentations by successful international professionals with breakout sessions focusing on how international and language studies enhance career opportunities and life options. (2/10/2011)
  • 16th Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference (2/18/2011 - 2/19/2011)
  • OTRA AMADA Y OTRO PAISAJE PARA LAS LECTORAS DEL SIGLO XIX. SOLEDAD ACOSTA DE SAMPER SOBRE EL ROMANTICISMOCarolina Alzate Cadavid Universidad de los Andes, Bogot, Colombia (2/22/2011)
  • Bolivian Studies Journal Conference Bolivia hoy rupturas, inercias y desafos (2/25/2011 - 2/26/2011)
  • BILINGUALISM AND TRANSLATIONby Silvia Molloy Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University (3/1/2011 - 3/16/2011)
  • LIVING BILINGUAL A REFLECTION ON CULTURAL ENCOUNTERSby Silvia Molloy Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University (3/15/2011)
  • Many Voices Multicultural day at Pitt School of Aducation (3/16/2011)
  • The American Experience Distinguished Lecture Series MIDNIGHT IN MEXICO DESCENT INTO DARKNESS (3/16/2011)
  • March 17, 2011PROPERTY RIGHTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE OWNERSHIP OF LIFEa colloquium with Silvia Molloy (3/17/2011)
  • 2011 Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies MACLAS Annual Conference Globalization and Well Being in Latin America (3/18/2011 - 4/19/2011)
  • SOY AFROARGENTINO RACE AND THE NATIONAL CENSUS OF 2010by Miriam V. Gomes Coordinator of the National Campaign for Awareness of the Afro-Descendant Variable for the 2010 National Census in Argentina and President of the Organization of the African Diaspora of Argentina (3/24/2011)
  • 31st Latin American and Caribbean Festival (3/26/2011)
  • Genetic Criticism and Latin American Texts- The conference focused on the theory of genetic criticism and its applications to the study of Latin American manuscripts. (3/28/2011 - 3/29/2011)
  • MEXICO to MADISON UNIONS UNDER ATTACK AND FIGHTING BACK!by Pipino Cuevas Velzquez National Leader, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas SME (4/4/2011)
  • Asian and Latin American Studies ALAS Symposium and Workshop-The inaugural symposium of the Asian and Latin American Womens Studies Working GroupPostcolonial Feminisms and the Ethic of Care South-to-South Dialogues. (4/8/2011 - 4/9/2011)
  • Quantum Theatre Event Maria de Buenos Aires (4/12/2011)
  • Study Abroad in Latin America Photography Competition (4/21/2011)
  • Carnegie Librarys Summer Reading Extravaganza (6/12/2011)
  • Global Islam Teachers Workshop (6/13/2011)
  • Portuguese I Class (6/20/2011 - 7/14/2011)
  • Scott Township Library Summer Reading Event (6/21/2011)

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