CANCELLED: Hope
*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Hope is a dramatic film by French writer/director Boris Lojkine. In this film, Léonard makes a clandestine journey from Cameroon to […]
*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Hope is a dramatic film by French writer/director Boris Lojkine. In this film, Léonard makes a clandestine journey from Cameroon to […]
As a keynote lecture for the 2020 Spanish and Portuguese Academic Research Conference (SPARC), Maria M. Carreira will present this talk. She is Professor of Spanish at California State University, […]
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As a keynote lecture for the 2020 Spanish and Portuguese Academic Research Conference (SPARC), Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro will present this talk. She is an award-winning Puerto Rican novelist, short story […]
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*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* The Lost Café is an uplifting story about a girl’s decision to rise above her dark family secrets, heartbreak and culture […]
*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Lagos Landing is a romantic thriller, a love story inspired by true events. It was created in Nigeria. This screening is […]
Scholars studying the Classic Maya have long been fascinated by the role of the environment in understanding the rise, fall, and fluorescence of Maya society. First perceived as a limiting […]
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This conference will analyze the historical patterns of dehumanizing Latina populations as the foreign other and as antagonistic to what is considered the dominant culture of the United States. Conference […]
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In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations […]
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Dr. Rosana Resende (UF Center for Latin American Studies) will examine a history of racial oppression within Latin America and the Latinx diaspora and how it persists to this day. […]
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The Center for Latin American Studies presents this lecture by Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza, an eminent Mexican writer based at the University of Houston. Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza is Distinguished […]
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