Announcements from CLACS

Spanish and Portuguese Song Festival April 10th, 2015 - 6 pm
Neal Marshall Black Cultural Center
This year 8 undergrad students studying Spanish and Portuguese in the Spanish and Portuguese department will be competing for a top prize. Participanting students will perform songs from Colombian, Mexican, Spanish, Brazilian artists among some other ones. Special guests include Emmanuel Padilla (harpist), Venus Hernandez (soprano vocalist), Valeria De Castro (Bossa Nova, Samba, Jazz) and Birimbi (afro-Colombian and other Latin American rhythms) from the Latin American Music Center, the Jacobs School of Music and Bloomington will also perform during the festival.

Lecture: “The Emotional Ecosystem of the ‘African Atlantic’: On Vulnerability and Resilience” 
April 16th, 2015 - 12:30 PM
Eigenmann Hall Conference Room 301 
This talk will be presented by Christabelle Peters, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. Please RSVP if interested in attending to ias@indiana.edu 

 

Community Events

Paso a Paso: A Cultural Dance Workshop
April 18th, 2015 - 12 - 3 PM
Neal Marshall Black Cultural Center 
Do you like to dance? Do you want to learn more about Latino culture? Why not do both! Paso a Paso: A Cultural Dance Workshop is hosting its first event on April 18th from 12-3pm in the Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center. Paso a Paso is a program designed to introduce, reconnect, and reinforce Latino culture to the community here at IU. We take pride in educating our culture through a series of presentations and dance instruction over different groups from Latin America. Come join us! Learn, dance, and have fun with Paso a Paso. Snacks will be provided.
 

Attention Bloomington soccer players!
WDR Football Club is looking for players for weekly organized pickup games. The games are competitive (some experience necessary), co-ed, and for players of mixed ability  (no beginners please). Visit https://sites.google.com/site/wdrfootballclub/
and/or email wdr.football.club@gmail.com for more details and information.

Help Flood Victims in Chile 
Donate Here: http://www.youcaring.com/emergency-fundraiser/help-flood-victims-in-chile/329456
Recent torrential rains and heavy flooding in Chile’s northern region have left 12 dead and 20 disappeared. Atacama, Antofagasta, and Coquimbo are the most affected regions, where thousands of homes have been destroyed, roads made impassible, and potable water has become obsolete. According to the mayor of Copiapó, 80% of the city has been buried under the mud and rain. The northern catastrophe hit Chile on the heels of massive fires that burned 93,000 hectares of land in the southern region in these last two years. Although urgent help is necessary, efforts to reconstruct homes and rebuild towns and cities will take months. Our timeline is to raise as many funds as possible (meeting and even surpassing our goal) within 3-4 weeks. Thanks for your donation and for sharing the link!

Language Learning / Study Abroad Opportunities

Cafezinho! 
Portuguese language hour will take place every Friday from 4 - 6 PM in the IMU Starbucks. Come out and practice your Portuguese with speakers of all levels!

Café Hispano
Spanish language hour will take place every Tuesday from 4:30 - 6:30 PM in the IMU Starbucks. Come out and practice your Spanish with speakers of all levels!


Study Abroad in Cuba at George Mason University 
This summer George Mason University's  Center for Global Education is offering a four-week-long trip to Cuba! We have extended the deadline for the program so there is still time to apply.
This is a great opportunity for students to travel and earn 6 undergraduate credits. On this month-long excursion, students will be immersed in the Cuban culture by visiting famous landmarks by Ernest Hemingway and visit various sites in Havana. This is a great time for students to utilize this opportunity to study abroad in Cuba due to the recent 'normalization' announcement between the two countries. For more information, check out the website here.


Intern in Panama
11 week entrepreneurial internships in Panama are currently being offered via Kaluyala Internships. These programs focus on sustainability, and focus particularly on outdoor recreation, biology, community outreach & education, agriculture, farm-to-table culinary arts, business and health & wellness. For more information, check out their website. 

English Opens Doors Program in Chile 
Application Deadlines:  April 27th (semester program)
The English Opens Doors program is a fee-free volunteer initiative which invites native and near native speakers to volunteer-teach English in Chilean public school classrooms. A part of the Ministry of Education in Chile and supported by the UN Development program, the English Opens Doors program invites you to apply to help teach. For more information, check out their website here.

Global Health Work Opportunity with AYUDA
AYUDA is a non-profit organization that offers four different diabetes education programs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic throughout the year for students who are committed to rigorous training and field work.  Students earn up to 385 contact and preparation hours and work closely with our local partner organizations during their time in-country. For more information on our 2015 Programs, please see our website.

CETLALIC Language and Culture for Educators Program 
For present and future bilingual educators, the most progressive Spanish immersion school in Mexico invites you during one of our special social justice programs. For more information, check out their website here. 

Huaylas Quechua
June 1st - July 10th 
The Center for Social Well Being offers a six week Intensive Quechua Language course in the north central Peruvian Andes. The program is designed for students who require class instruction and Quechua immersion contexts to develop language proficiency. For more information, check out their website here. 

Andean Action Research for Social Change 
An internship seminar offered in Peru this summer called the June Solstice seminar is currently accepting applications. This program allows students to work and pursue their own research objectives in health, education, agriculture, and social development. For more information, check out their website here. 

Politics and Presidentes

Please join the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies next Friday February 20^th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at the Maurer School of Law in Room 122 for our event titled: Politics and Presidentes.

 

Between March 2014 and March 2015, eight newly elected or re-elected Latin American presidents will have taken office, with Argentina's elections scheduled for later this year. Our panel of guest and local faculty will feature speakers whose research focuses on some of these countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Uruguay) and whose research speaks directly to the major political issues these countries face today in the broader Latin American context. Local IU faculty will be joined by guest lecturers José Antonio Lucero from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Lucero will be joined by IU faculty members Eduardo Brondizio from the department of Anthropology, Christiana Ochoa from the Maurer School of Law, and Alfio Saitta from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 

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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University
A Title VI National Resource Center
1125 E. Atwater Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47401

Tel: 812-855-9097
Email: clacs@indiana.edu
Web: http://www.indiana.edu/~clacs/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/iuclacs

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Announcements from CLACS

This summer, CLACS will be offering several courses to study abroad for credit. We invite you to check out our summer courses for more information! 
This week we'd like to feature our course in Jamaica: Roots, Fruits and Resiliency: Cultural Ecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Eco-Heritage Tourism in Jamaica. 

Cafezinho! 
Portuguese language hour will take place every Friday from 4 - 6 PM in the IMU Starbucks. Come out and practice your Portuguese with speakers of all levels!

Boren Award Fellowships and Scholarships
Boren Awards are offered for both undergraduate and graduate students by the federal government seeking to broaden their horizons by studying abroad. Programs are often tailored by the student and are available for both semester and yearlong programs, though yearlong programs are preferential. For more details, please visit http://www.borenawards.org

Anthropology Field Program in Mexico (With IU Overseas Study) 
May 24th - June 16th 
Information Session: January 15th, 7-8 PM, SB 150
Application Due: January 30th, 2015
This program, worth 3 credits for A406, will introduce students to the research process in anthropology on topics of heritage and cultural patrimony, archaeology, linguistic change, cultural diversity, revitalization and indigenous rights in historic Oaxaca, Mexico. For more information, visit the information session as listed above, or check out the website.

SPEA in Cuba 
March 13 - 21, 2014
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~spea/spea_abroad/Spring_Break_Abroad_Programs/Cuba/index.shtml
SPEA is pleased to be offering a one-of-a-kind Spring Break course (V482) in Havana, Cuba, as part of the spring semester honors section of National and International Policy (S160) taught by Professor Dan Preston. Havana is the capital, largest city and economic heart of Cuba. It is the location of the Cuban Government, several cultural sites and historically significant locales, as well as many important businesses and institutions. The city provides a broad spectrum of learning opportunities. Furthermore, visiting Cuba is a unique experience and especially relevant for comparative policy studies given its proximity to the U.S. and dramatically different government structure. For more information, check out their website.

Geography G306: "Issues in Latin America, the Caribbean and Contemporary Cuba" 
This interdisciplinary summer course is a partnership between the Indiana University Office of Overseas Studies, the Department of Geography and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), El Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), the Central University of Villa Clara, Cuba and the Bloomington sister city program, Cubamistad.  The course includes two weeks of field studies in Cuba and will count for social science credit for most majors. For more information, check out their website here. 

Intern in Panama
11 week entrepreneurial internships in Panama are currently being offered via Kaluyala Internships. These programs focus on sustainability, and focus particularly on outdoor recreation, biology, community outreach & education, agriculture, farm-to-table culinary arts, business and health & wellness. For more information, check out their website. 

L.I.V.E Olympic Project
August 2nd - 17th, 2016 
August 6th - 16th, 2015
Website: http://www.communitycollaborations.org/olympics

Applications are now available for the  L.I.V.E. Olympic Project  which will give student leaders hands on experience planning and implementing a major volunteer event during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

CC International is currently recruiting 12 students leaders who have an interest in volunteerism, Brazilian culture, Portuguese language, and  the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero to participate in this unique international leadership training opportunity.

Global Health Work Opportunity with AYUDA
AYUDA is a non-profit organization that offers four different diabetes education programs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic throughout the year for students who are committed to rigorous training and field work.  Students earn up to 385 contact and preparation hours and work closely with our local partner organizations during their time in-country. For more information on our 2015 Programs, please see our website.

Huaylas Quechua
June 1st - July 10th 
The Center for Social Well Being offers a six week Intensive Quechua Language course in the north central Peruvian Andes. The program is designed for students who require class instruction and Quechua immersion contexts to develop language proficiency. For more information, check out their website here. 

Globalization Symposium

Globalization of the United States: 1789 - 1861
October 10, 2014, 9:30 - 5 pm 
Lilly Library 
Registration: http://globalization1789-1861.indiana.edu/symposium/register.html
This symposium highlights a historical reality of stubborn limits to global knowledge, global ambition and global reach to the United States, and how the nation recalibrated its relationship with the wider world after removing itself from the swaddle of the British empire. Co sponsored by CLACS. 

2nd 8 Week course in LTAM

CLACS Photo Contest

Master of Arts in Latino/Latin American Studies

Application Deadline (with financial aid) is February 15, 2014, for the Fall 2014 semester
University of Connecticut, El Instituto: Institute for Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Key information for the M.A. program: funding opportunities for both domestic and international students; small classes and individual guidance; thesis or project options, with grant opportunities; for more information, please contact us at elinstituto@uconn.edu or visit our webpage at www.elin.uconn.edu

Call for Participants: César E. Chávez Undergraduate Research Symposium

March 6-7, 2014, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2014
The Latino Studies Program invites IU Undergrads to participate in our undergraduate research symposium. For more information and to apply, visit:
www.indiana.edu/~latino

Roots and Routes Contemporary Caribbean Film Festival

Monday, February 24, 7:00 pm
Le Bonheur d’Elza, 2011 Directed by Mariette Monpierre
Monday. March 10, 7:00 pm
La Hija Natural, 2011 Directed by Leticia Tonos
http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/?post_type=series&p=6269

Latin American Research Forum Features Deborah Cohn Friday!

Associate Professor Deborah Cohn (IU Spanish & Portuguese) will be presenting Friday in Student Building 150 at 2pm as part of the Latin American Research Forum.

The politics of translation

This session will focus on the politics of translating and publishing Latin American novels in the U.S. in the years following the Cuban Revolution, when the so-called literary Boom, represented by authors such as Cortázar, Donoso, Fuentes, García Márquez, and Vargas Llosa, rose to international acclaim. In particular, I will examine the politics motivating philanthropic organizations such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, whose political interests were often aligned with those of the Cold War State, as they funded translation subsidy programs, which, in turn, paradoxically supported the publication of works by writers whose politics were often antithetical to those of the foundations.

 

Elizabeth Roberts (U of Mich.) to Speak Friday at the Latin American Research Forum!

Today: Indians, Coyotes, and Human Rights on the Mexican Border

Who: Dr. Victor Clark-Alfaro, Director of Bi-national Center for Human Rights in Tijuana, Mexico

Lecturer at San Diego State University

       
When: Tuesday, November 05, 12:00pm-1:30pm

Where: IMU Georgian Room

http://iub.edu/~mlcp/

 

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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University
A Title VI National Resource Center
1125 E. Atwater Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47401

Tel: 812-855-9097
Email: clacs@indiana.edu
Web: http://www.indiana.edu/~clacs/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/iuclacs

Latin American Research Forum Features Eduardo Brondizio Friday!

TBC: "The land above, within, and below": institutional complexity and forms of attachment to land in the Amazon

The last two decades has witnessed a myriad of new types of property systems and institutional arrangements related to common pool resources including indigenous and conservation territories, carbon storage contracts such as REDD+, and concessions of land and resource use to expanding agropastoral and mining industries. Using examples from the Brazilian Amazon, we show how these processes are leading to a complex social-territorial matrix whereas land and common pool resources represent at the same time symbols of local cultural identity and territorial rights, global agendas of conservation and climate change mitigation, and the economic frontier of global resource chains.

We hope to see you Friday!

 

CLACS Graduate Student Round Table

What: A discussion on:
 "After Rubber in the Bolivian Amazon" 
                     &

"Indigenas in the Nation: Imaginings and Constructions of Identity in Guatemala"

Who: Graduate Students, Sarah Foss and Kathryn Lehman

When: Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:30am-1:00pm

Where: Neal-Marshal Black Cultural Center, Bridge Waters Lounge, 275 N. Jordon Ave

CLACS Undergrad Open House

Latin America and Africa: A Musical Journey

Latin America and Africa:  A Musical Journey

Over the last four centuries, Africa has deeply influenced most cultures in the Americas. Latin American musical traditions are the result of an amazing blending of elements originated from Native, African and European cultures. From Brazil to Cuba, African musical traits can be found everywhere. The intense circulation within the Black Atlantic gave birth to new musical styles in the Americas and changed the shape of music in the whole world.

Under the perspective of ethnomusicology, Dr. Xavier Vatin will transport the audience through a musical journey between Africa and Latin America.

Author and co-author of several books, articles, CDs and films on Afro-Brazilian music and religion, Dr. Vatin is a Professor of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at the Federal University of Recôncavo (Brazil), an Associate Researcher at Lyon 2 University (France) and currently a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Please join Dr. Vatin and his musical journey on Wednesday, October 9th, 7:00 p.m., at the Indiana Memorial Union—Georgian Room. The event is in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month and co-sponsored by the Office of International Services and the Latino Cultural Center (La Casa).

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University
A Title VI National Resource Center
1125 E. Atwater Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47401

Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango
November 8 10:30am
location tba
Beatriz Dujovne (author of In Strangers’ Arms: The Magic of Tango, Psychologist, and Tanguera), Alfredo Minetti (scholar, musician, and co-director of This is Tango Now), and Joni Chan (concert pianist with a doctorate in piano from IU) will lead the morning class in a demonstration, debate and involvement of the audience in the magic of tango.  The Tango Piano Duo, Beatriz Dujovne, and Dr. Anya Royce will explore the idea of strangers coming together, the concept of the embrace, and the cultural perception and performance of time. Audience involvement aims at people’s understanding of some of the main characteristics of tango, using their own bodies as the platform for reaching understanding. Guests welcome.

 

Argentine tango—demonstration and milonga, 

November 9   7-10 PM 
Frangipani Room, IMU,
Free and open to the public.

"The K-16 Educational Pipeline for Latino/a students"

Sylvia Martinez, Assistant Professor, IU School of Education- "The K-16 Educational Pipeline for Latino/a students"

Friday, October 11, 2pm
Student Building 150
This forum will focus on the K-16 Educational Pipeline for Latino/a students in the United States. By highlighting the structural barriers that Latino/a students encounter in the educational system we begin to understand their continued underrepresentation in higher education. Dr. Martinez will also present some of her newest research on the college information seeking patterns of Latino/a youth.