Center for Latin American Studies

AUTUMN 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Full AU 09 Calendar

HAMUY RUNA SIMITA YACHAKUY
Quechua, the language of the Inca peoples of the Andes, will be offered for the first time at OSU in WI 10!
Spanish 694: Beginning Quechua I
Call Number: 27708
MW 3:30–5.18 & R 3:30–4:18 or F 1:30-2:18
Professor Félix Julca-Guerrero
For more information click here.

ONGOING:

Latin American Film Series - São Paulo on the Big Screen: 2006-2008 - http://clas.osu.edu/filmSeries.php
Office of International Affairs - http://oia.osu.edu/events.html
Multicultural Center - http://multiculturalcenter.osu.edu/
Tango OSU - http://tango.osu.edu/ ; http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6268313310

UPCOMING:

Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8, 2009
Veterans Memorial
300 W. Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Sunday: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Columbus International Festival
200 booths representing nearly 75 cultures offer arts, crafts, entertainment and food. Two performance stages offer continuous entertainment throughout the festival, and a children's area offers international arts, crafts and demonstrations for youths of all ages.
Admission: Adults: $7.00; seniors and students: $5.00; Children 6-12:$ 2.00
Sponsor: Columbus Chapter of the United Nations Association USA.

Sunday, November 8, 2009
Huntington Hall, Capital University
2:00 PM
Cantilena Concert featuring Brasil Guitar Duo (http://www.myspace.com/brasilguitarduo)
$10 discounted tickets to OSU Latin Americanist faculty, staff, and students.
Contact Eileen Davis at davis.6@osu.edu or call: 614-268-2779

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Lincoln Theatre
769 E Long St
Columbus, OH 43203
8 PM
Yasmin Levy
In her deep, spiritual, and moving style of singing, Yasmin Levy preserves and revives the most beautiful songs from her Ladino/Judeo-Spanish heritage. With her distinctive and emotive style, Yasmin has incorporated the more "modern" sounds of Andalusian Flamenco and Turkey into medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish songs, as well as combined instruments such as the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano.
Presented by CAPA with funding from the Morris and Fannie Skilken Family Foundation, Congregation Tifereth Israel, the Lenore Schottenstein Endowment of the Columbus Jewish Foundation, and the Melton Center of Jewish Studies of The Ohio State University.
For more information and to purchase tickets click here.

Friday, November 13, 2009
255 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
OSU Columbus Campus
3:30 PM
Nanotechnology: Social Implications and Risks
Noela Invernizzi (Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil)
Guillermo Foladori (Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico)
Nanotechnology constitutes the basis of an industrial revolution. Benefits are announced by corporations, researchers and the media, such as cure for cancer; intelligent multifunctional products for everyday life; devices to reverse ecological damage, and even the possibility of increasing human intellectual and physical capabilities. However, such a disruptive technological revolution will have strong social, economic and ethical implications, as well as potential unknown risks. This presentation will provide a landscape of the current development of nanotechnology, the innovations that are already available and the trends for the near future. We will address some relevant social implications and risks of nanotechnology, with particular attention to developing countries.
Noela Invernizzi is an Anthropologist, with a PhD in Science and Technology Policy. She works at the Education Department of the Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil.
Guillermo Foladori is an Anthropologist, with a PhD in Economics. He is a professor at the Development Studies Program of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Both coordinate the Latin American Nanotechnology and Society Network.
Sponsored by CLAS.

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
Coretta Scott King Center
Antioch College
Livermore St. at East Center College St.
Yellow Springs, OH / Contact: 937-286-8703
2 - 4 PM
Symposium: The Daily Struggles of Immigrant Workers
The increasingly acrimonious national debate about U.S. immigration policy has created a tenuous situation for many immigrant workers. While many industries in the U.S. have historically benefited from the labor of both legal and undocumented workers, our nation has at times welcomed, and at other times rejected, migrant populations. Currently fear engendered by potential terrorist attacks has led to a national situation fraught with antiimmigrant hostility, including federal and local raids, arrests, detentions, deportations, and family separations.

Monday, November 16, 2009
Fulbright-Hays Application Deadline
Applications are due for both the Doctoral Dissertation Research Awards and the Faculty Research Grants.
For more information click here.

Monday, November 16, 2009
George Wells Knight House
104 E. 15th Avenue
2:30 PM
The Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group presents
Of Immigrants and Migrants: Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration in Comparative Perspective, 1942-1964
Lilia Fernández (OSU, History)
Beginning with World War II and throughout the 1940s and 1950s both Mexicans and Puerto Ricans became subjects of state-sponsored mass labor importation programs in the United States. Mexicans earned “legal” entry into the country as foreign nationals through the Emergency Farm Labor or Bracero/ Program (1942-1964), while Puerto Ricans became labor migrants under the auspices of the Puerto Rico Department of Labor Migration Division, as part of the island’s modernization and population control effort--Operation Bootstrap//Manos a la Obra. While scholars have explored each of these migrations separately, the similarities and parallels between them have gone largely unnoticed. This paper explores these simultaneous population movements and suggests that labor migration re-produced distinct politico-juridical (citizenship) statuses for Mexicans and Puerto Ricans but also brought into relief their shared racial subordination and assigned them a mutual class location.
The Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group is funded by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities.

Monday-Friday, November 16-20, 2009
International Education Week
For OIA Calendar of Events click here.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Thompson Library, Room 165
1858 Neil Avenue
OSU Columbus Campus
7-8:30 PM
A Mayan Classic: OSU Libraries and the Digitizing of Popol Wuj
Edward A. Riedinger

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
180 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
OSU Columbus Campus
7:30 PM
Latin Amerian Film Series - São Paulo on the Big Screen: 2006-2008
Não por acaso / Not by Chance
Two control-obsessed characters, Ênio, a traffic control worker, and Pedro, a pool player, find fulfillment in a mathematical mindset that leads them toward the feeling of control they long for. But all is thrown to the winds when both Ênio's ex-wife and Pedro's wife die in a car accident. Pedro meets Lúcia and tries to re-live the same exact moments he once lived with his wife; Ênio is forced to confront his loss through the appearance of his unknown daughter. Eventually however, the two men must decide between their obsessions and the new opportunities life has given them. Philippe Barcinski , 2007, 90’. Subtitled in English.
For more information about the film series click here.

Tuesday – Sunday, November 24-29, 2009
Ohio Theatre
55 E State Street
Downtown Columbus
CAPA Columbus presents In the Heights, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including best musical, is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community - a place where the coffee is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. Groups of 15 or more save 10%-20% on selected showings.
Call JoLane at 614-719-6900 or email jcampbell@capa.com for further information or to book your group. Website: http://www.capa.com/columbus/events/event.php?e=759

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