Center for Latin American Studies

SPRING 2010 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES COURSES

Quechua II
M/W 3:30-5:18 PM (See Master Schedule for Recitations)
0668 Biological Science Bldg.
Call #: 27569
Prof. Felix Julca-Guerrero
Course description TBA.

Women's Studies 624: Women and Social Change in Latin America
M/W 5:30-7:18 PM
147 University Hall
Call #: 25761
Prof. Cathy Rakowski (292-6447, rakowski.1@osu.edu)
This course focuses on Latin American and Caribbean women's experiences and reality as perceived by those who study women and by women themselves. In particular, we will analyze women’s organizing and participation in revolutions and social movements. When students complete this course they should have a basic understanding of women's experiences in the family, workplace, community, larger society; the diversity of women's experiences by class, age, race and ethnicity, religion, place of residence, and sexuality; how and why women organize for social change (i.e., against violence and racism) and how this has changed the nature of politics and social movements.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
165 Thompson Library
1858 Neil Ave Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
6:30 PM
Ted Riedinger (Professor and Head, LAT) and Lucia Costigan (Associate Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese)
An Evening of Fado Music
Traditional Portuguese music with its modern variations in jazz and dance. Program of interest to those who love Latin music,
Portugal, Brazil, and the Portuguese language. Refreshment: Brazilian guaraná drink.
Sponsored by Latin American, Hispanic, Spanish, and Portuguese Library Collection (LAT), OSU Libraries Outreach Program, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Center for Latin American Studies.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
180 Hagerty
1775 College Rd,
Columbus, OH 43210
7:30 PM
Latin American Film Series – ¿Quién Mató a la Llamita Blanca? / Who Killed the White Llama?
Jacinto and Domitila are two happily married indigenous Bolivians and the most notorious criminals in the country. When they are paid to transport 50 grams of cocaine to the Brazilian border, they embark on riotous adventure through the jungles, mountains, deserts, and cities of Bolivia while their friendship is tested and they question their future as criminals. With two of the country’s top anti-narcotics officers on their trail, what should have been a simple arrest soon becomes a hilarious game of cat-and-mouse, exposing all the irony and corruption that comes with Bolivian life. Rodrigo Bellot, 2006, 112’

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
165 Thompson Library
1858 Neil Ave Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
4-5 PM
Frederick Aldama
Your Brain on Latino Comics
Sponsored by LASER (Latino and Latin American Studies Space for Enrichment and Research)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
240 Scott Hall (West Campus)
1090 Carmack Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
7 PM
Bryan Mark (Geography) and Lonnie Thompson (Earth Sciences)
Update on Impact of Climate Change on Peruvian Glaciers
Drs. Lonnie Thompson and Bryan Mark will discuss their research in the region of the Cordillera Blanca of Peru. They extend a cordial invitation to OSU faculty, staff, and students native to or interested in changes in South America to participate in this event. Both will offer a short presentation of their work and invite questions after each presentation.
RSVP requested to http://bprc.osu.edu/education/peru_research/. Sponsored by the Byrd Polar Research Center.

Sunday, February 21, 2010
Upper Arlington Main Library
2800 Tremont Road
Upper Arlington, Ohio 43221
2:00-4:30 PM
Latin American Film Series - Machuca
Machuca is the story of two young Chilean boys from opposite extremes of society who form an unlikely friendship in Chile during the last days of President Allende and the first days of Pinochet. The film looks back 35 years to offer a balanced picture of social and political conflict. 2004, 115’
Steven Hunt, Cinema and film instructor from OSU will present and lead the discussion for this film.
For more information: http://evanced.info/uapl/evanced/eventcalendar.asp?lib=ALL

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
180 Hagerty
1775 College Rd,
Columbus, OH 43210
7:30 PM
Latin American Film Series – Los Andes no Creen en Dios / The Andes Don’t Believe in God
A historical movie about a young writer brought up in France named Alfonso, who arrives at an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau. Here he meets the beautiful Claudina, a sensual, strong willed chola, la "Misqui simi" ("The one with the sweet lips"). Uyuni radiates a strange magnetism; it is charged with a collective euphoria during the first part of the twentieth century produced by the bewitching mineral, in which the lives of the characters enter a whirl of passion, ambition and frustration as they struggle to define both ethical and commercial boundaries. Antonio Eguino, 2007, 105’

Thursday, February 25, 2010
2174 Smith Labs
174 W 18th Ave
Columbus, OH 43210

Noon-1:00 PM
Larry La Fountain-Stokes
Lunch and Meet the Author

3:30-5 PM
Larry La Fountain-Stokes will read from and discuss his his new collection of stories, Uñas Pintadas de Azul

LASER will gift his book to the first 15 students who RSVP for the lunch: L.A.S.E.R.OSU@gmail.com

ONGOING EVENTS:

Latin American Film Series - Re-visioning Bolivia - 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

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