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UPCOMING EVENTS:

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Barbie Tootle Room
Ohio Union, Third Floor
1739 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43210
2:30PM-4:00PM
“We will not be disappeared”: La Vía Campesina and the Power of Imagination
In less than twenty years La Vía Campesina has become one of the world’s most significant international agrarian movements. It is active at the local, national, regional and international levels struggling for the rights of millions of peasants, small-scale farmers, rural women, farm workers and indigenous agrarian communities. La Vía Campesina coalesced in the North and South around common goals: an explicit rejection of the neoliberal model of rural development, an outright refusal to be excluded from agricultural policy development, and a firm determination to work to build a peasant-based, socially just and ecologically sustainable model of agriculture based on food sovereignty. This presentation by Dr. Annette Desmarais of the University of Regina will explore the main strategies and collective actions of La Vía Campesina in their efforts to build alternatives to the powerful forces of neo-liberal economic globalization. At the heart of this resistance is a powerful imagination.
See HERE for the flyer
Sponsored by CLAS Poverty & Inequality Working Group and the School of Environment and Natural Resources

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
100 Mendenhall Labs
125 S. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
7:30PM
Latin American Film Series: Machuca
Set in Santiago, Chile, during the Marxist government of President Salvador Allende, Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in his classmate Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become friends, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when General Pinochet's coup ousts Allende and supporters like McEnroe. (Chile, Andrés Wood, 2004, 121 min.) Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr2G7TiaWLw
**Please note, this film will be shown in Mendenhall Labs, Room 100**

Thursday, May 17, 2012
156 University Hall
230 N Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
3:30pm-5:00pm
Cuba and Cuban Women Today
Today, the world is changing and Cuba is changing along with it. This creates new challenges, but also leads to accomplishments for women in today's Cuba. Prof. Norma Vasallo will introduce you to Cuba and Cuban women today, including a discussion of such issues as gender, race, class, and sex work or prostitution. She will suggest how women's rights and gender equity in Cuba might be advanced in the future and following her lecture, she will open the floor for questions.
See HERE for the flyer
This event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Office of International Affairs Outreach, and the U.S. Women and Cuba Collaboration

Friday, May 18, 2012
Science and Engineering Library (SEL), Room 90
175 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
2:30PM-3:30PM
Department of Spanish and Portuguese: Latin American and Iberian Colloquium
Welcomes Professor Jorge Flores (European University Institute), “Cartography, Iconography, and Ethnography in Early Modern Portuguese Asia,” presented by the Ohio State Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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