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Event Archive 2017

Apr 13, 2017

Fractal Caribbean - Modern Hispanic Caribbean Narratives

Talk with Prof. Mayra Santos-Febres, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. This talk will focus on the structural developments of storytelling and worldview in the Contemporary Caribbean. Using the  concept of "reticular configuration" proposed by Edouard Glissant in his essay "Poetiques de relation" and connecting with Chuco's Quintero's argument about body, mulatto music and Afro-Caribbean world view in his essay "Cuerpo y Cultura", I'll be discussing how there is a new proposal in the structuring of the narrative in the novels "Dicen que los dormidos"  (Sergio Guierrez), "La mucama de Omicunlé" (Rita indiana) and in my novels "Fe en disfraz y La amante de Gardel".

5:30pm   Music Room, 84 Prospect Street, Rochambeau House

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Apr 10, 2017

Celebrating Diversity with Ibero-American Cinema: 3 Beauties (3 bellezas)

Carlos Caridad Montero/ Venezuela/ 2014/ 97 min. From the country that boasts over 600 beauty pageants each year comes 3 Beauties, a scathing satire of Venezuela’s fixation with beauty and its relation to social status. Perla is the single mother of two competitive daughters, products of her own unfulfilled childhood obsession to become a beauty queen, and a son who she completely ignores. As the years pass, Perla’s unlimited efforts to achieve her dream through her “two princesses” transforms everyone’s lives into a nightmare. Toddlers & Tiaras meets Pedro Almodóvar in this frantic, devious comedy.

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.   Juokowsky Forum

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Apr 7, 2017

Symposium – The U.S. Immigration Regime and the Politics of Belonging

On April 7, 2017, CSREA will present a symposium entitled, The U.S. Immigration Regime and the Politics of Belonging. How have immigration laws developed over the past century and how do these policies continue to affect the country today? For example, what are the legacies of IRCA and IRRIRA and how are these policies being amended and applied today?

Further, and in light of the Trump administration’s current positions on immigration, recent executive orders as well as public demonstrations and protests, what will define the future of immigration in the U.S.? This symposium will feature a keynote lecture followed by a panel of speakers and a discussion among speakers and the audience. Together, the speaker and panelists will offer a rich, informed and interdisciplinary take on the past, present and possible futures of the U.S. immigration regime, race, ethnicity and the politics of belonging.

3pm – 6:30pm   IBES 130 (Carmichael Auditorium), 85 Waterman Street

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Apr 4, 2017

Celebrating Diversity with Ibero-American Cinema: Ixcanul, Volcano (Ixcanul, Volcán)

Jayro Bustamante/ Guatemala, France/ 2015/ 62 min. Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala. An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny. Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.” But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price?

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.   Juokowsky Forum

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Apr 3, 2017

The Fundamentals of Storytelling

Valerie Tutson of the Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) will lead a workshop on best practices and the art of storytelling.  This event is Part III of a series of community events — pláticas — designed to empower Latinos on how to tell their story to a live audience. You will learn the difference between cultural storytelling and personal story sharing. Both can be powerful, but they are different art forms.

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.   Southside Cultural Center, 393 Broad St., Providence, RI

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Mar 22, 2017

Celebrating Diversity with Ibero-American Cinema: The Facilitator (El facilitador)

Víctor Arregui/ Chile, Ecuador, USA/ 2014/ 83 min. A political thriller about human rights, The Facilitator is one of the most successful films to come out of Ecuador in the last few years. When Miguel, a successful businessman, learns he is ill, he asks his estranged daughter Elena to come back to Ecuador. She agrees, but maintains a cold and distant relationship with him, opting to spend most of her time with friends using drugs and alcohol. After a close call with the law, Miguel sends her to spend some time with her grandfather at the family’s estate. In this nostalgic house that bring up so many memories and nightmares, Elena meets her childhood friend Galo, who now promotes water access rights for the indigenous community. Elena is compelled by their way of life and gets involved with the political organization of the community. When her nightmares intensify, Elena starts digging behind the reports of the car accident that supposedly killed her mother. Elena will gradually understand that among family secrets, crimes, corruption, and dark perversions, commitment and beauty can emerge.

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.   Juokowsky Forum

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Mar 22, 2017

Amada Irma Pérez Talk

Please join us for an author presentation by bilingual children’s author Amada Irma Pérez. Amada Irma Pérez will discuss how she incorporates her own life into her books and will answer questions from the audience. Some of her books will be available for purchase.

4pm – 5pm   International Charter School Community Room, 334 Pleasant Street, Pawtucket

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Mar 16, 2017

Introductory Workshop on Best Practices of Oral History

Marta V. Martínez, Director of Nuestras Raíces: Latino Oral Histories of Rhode Island, will lead a workshop on best practices and the fundamentals of oral history interviews.  This event is Part II of a series of community events — pláticas — designed to empower Latinos on how to tell their story to a live audience. You will learn the difference between traditional oral histories and collecting personal stories. Both can be powerful, but they are different art forms. Mandatory for participants in all five workshops

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.   Southside Cultural Center, 393 Broad St., Providence, RI

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Mar 16, 2017

Churros y chocolate

Come and meet and chat with members of the Hispanic Studies faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, teaching assistants, and staff at this casual event. Best of all there will be snacks and warm beverages!

2pm – 3pm   Rochambeau Music Room, 84 Prospect St. 

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Mar 15, 2017

Voicing Cuba's Transnational Turn

Join the Music Department for "Voicing Cuba's Transnational Turn", an Ethnomusicology colloquium featuring guest speaker Susan Thomas, Associate Professor of Musicology & Women's Studies at the University of Georgia! Susan Thomas is Associate Professor of Musicology and Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia.   A researcher of Cuban and Latin American music, her interests include musical manifestations of and reactions to transnationalism, migration, and diaspora; and embodiment and performativity. Her book,Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage (University of Illinois Press, 2009), was awarded the Robert M. Stevenson Prize from the American Musicological Society and the Pauline Alderman Book Award from the International Association of Women in Music.  She has been the recipient of a number of grants and fellowship including year-long residencies in the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.  She is currently completing her second book, The Musical Mangrove: The Transnationalization of Cuban Alternative Music, for Oxford University Press.

6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.   Orwig Music Building, Room 109

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Mar 15, 2017

Visiting Artist Lecture: Tania Bruguera

Artist and social activist Tania Bruguera will deliver a Visiting Artist Lecture hosted by the Department of Visual Art. Through her work, Bruguera spotlights repressive governments and societal systems, most recently touching on the Cuban Revolution and immigrant rights. Her work has been praised, but also reprimanded by governments. As early as 2014, Bruguera was arrested by the Cuban government for attempting to organize a performance that invited people to express their visions for Cuba in Havana’s Revolution Square. 

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.   List Art Building, Room 120, 64 College St.

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Mar 15, 2017

Presentation by bilingual children's author Amada Irma Pérez

Amada Irma Pérez will discuss how she incorporates her own life into her books and will answer questions from the audience. Some of her books will be available for purchase. Currently living in Ventura, California, Amada Irma Pérez was a kindergarten through university teacher for 25 years before she wrote her first autobiographical fiction bilingual picture book My Very Own Room/Mi Proprio Cuartito in 2000. She has since published From Her to There/Mi Diario de Aqui Hasta Allá and Nana’s Big Surprise/Nana, ¡Que Sorpresa! She has won numerous awards and is an advocate for encouraging multicultural understanding through universal themes. 

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.   International Charter School Community Room, 334 Pleasant Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860

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