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2st LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND PUBLIC POLICY CONFERENCE
March 16-18



THURSDAY 16 @ 5PM- ROOM 4130 POSVAR HALL
TELECONFERENCE: "THE FUTURE OF COLOMBIA'S PEACE AGREEMENT"

Speakers:
Laura Wills Otero, (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota)
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Raga (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota)
Miguel Garcia Sanchez (universidad de los Andes, Bogota)


FRIDAY, MARCH 17 @ 5PM TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB- 4201 Bigelow Boulevard

Keynote Speaker: ALISHA HOLLAND, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"FORBEARANCE AS REDISTRIBUTION." THE POLITICS OF INFORMAL WELFARE IN LATIN AMERICA


FRIDAY AND SATURDAY-ALL DAY TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB- 4201 Bigelow Boulevard
Panels of students on culture, music, politics.

All the program: http://www.lasppconference.com

FREE AND LUNCH PROVIDED
EVENT POSTPONED FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 11

THE TRAVEL AGENT (Cuba), 2015
Trailer: https://pragda.com/film/the-travel-agent/

TUESDAY, March 21
7pm
Public Health G23
130 De Soto - Corner of Fifth Ave and De Soto St.

Q&A session and conversation with Tania Perez-Cano, HLL

Film Subtitled and free pizza!

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HEMISPHERIC CONVERSATIONS URBAN ART PROJECT SERIES 
 
Speaker: Jessica N. Pabón, SUNY New Paltz
 
Friday March 24th, 2017 3pm-5pm,
208A Cathedral of Learning
 
 “’At One Point We All Rebelled’: Hip Hop Graffiti Grrlz and the Performance of Feminist Masculinity”


 Hip Hop masculinity has been theorized almost exclusively in relation to cisgendered men and shaped by the question: what does the performance of mainstream Hip Hop masculinity do to girls and women? Frequently focused on toxic hypermasculinities, the question predetermines the answer: girls and women in Hip Hop experience low self-esteem, low social status, and exploitation (in terms of sex and labor). In short, they are always already victims. Instead of asking what Hip Hop masculinity does to them, Dr. Jessica Pabón asks what graffiti grrlz do with masculine gender performance. In this talk, Pabón offers a critical re-imagining of gender performance in Hip Hop culture by examining the aesthetics, politics, and embodiment of graffiti grrlz from the USA, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. Analyzing masculinity with graffiti grrlz at the center reveals a gender performance that empowers rather than subjugates, one that allows for and values a complex enactment of gender within Hip Hop culture; this is what Pabón calls a “feminist masculinity.” Feminist masculinity attends to graffiti grrlz’ everyday experiences as cisgendered women who came into adulthood as part of the Hip Hop generation, an era increasingly marked by the neoliberal promise of “girl power” fueled by postfeminism. Rather than reproducing oppressive masculinity, hegemonic feminism, or a politically sterilized postfeminism, graffiti grrlz rebel—they take risks, deviate from norms, and play with the bold, brash, and brazen traits of masculinity to demand their visibility and belonging.
 
 
The Interdisciplinary Latino Research Initiative (ILRI) of the Center for Health Equity invites you (faculty member, student, staff of any Pitt department or other universities) to join us in networking and light refreshments on Friday, March 24, 2017, 2-3 pm in Room A521 (Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Oakland; please enter the building through Fifth Avenue).  Dr. Robin Mejia, from CMU, who manages the Statistics and Human Rights Program and the Center for Human Rights Science at CMU will talk about El Salvador's missing children: assessing the scope of child abductions during the country's civil war.
 
The Center for Health Equity invites you to a Symposium on Health Equity Through action on the Social Determinants of Health scheduled for Friday, March 17, 2017, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, in the G23 Auditorium, at the Graduate School of Public Health.  According to the WHO, the social determinants of health (SDH) include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems.” Four local practitioners will talk about education, housing, just income, transportation and racism.
 
 


 Faculty Opportunities 
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Center for Latin American Studies at Pitt- Faculty Travel Grants

CLAS at Pitt offers faculty travel grants for attending professional meetings. More information and application forms: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/tpm-faculty
Any questions contact, Angelina Cotler, Associate Director (a-cotler@pitt.edu)
 

 Student Opportunities    (Back to top)


David B. Houston Human Rights and Social Justice in Latin America Award

David Houston was an economics professor and political activist at the University of Pittsburgh for more than 40 years. To honor a teacher who directed his scholarly attention to issues of social justice throughout his career, former students and colleagues of Dr. Houston, who died in 2008, have created a fund to make awards to students whose academic interests and career plans focus on human rights and social justice, particularly in Latin America. The Center for Latin American Studies invites students, especially at the graduate level, to apply for this scholarship award. The guidelines for consideration are students whose work:
  1. Demonstrates a clear professional commitment to social issues in Latin America.
  2. Draws upon a field of academic training focused on social change—such as law, economics, political science, social work, medicine or sociology.
  3. Seeks to produce distinctive outcomes in the form of research, teaching, educational programming, legislation and public policy or direct service.
Candidates will be evaluated based on a career path that promises to empower the student as an agent of change and service among impoverished people who are almost always members of the lowest social strata.

Amount of Award: $1,000
Funding for one award is available for 2017.

Application: To apply, please send a two-page statement (as an e-mail attachment) specifically describing how your research and career goals correspond to the theme of the award and how you would use the award in advancing your career in social justice to Angelina Cotler (anc197@pitt.edu).

Deadline: April 3, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
 

Panoramas Internship

Panoramas is a space to foster academic discussion about Latin America. This innovative project is a perfect place for students to develop their technical skills and publish their work in an academic forum. The Panoramas project is hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). 

Responsibilities
The Panoramas Interns will assist Luis Bravo, webmaster for CLAS and Panoramas, with recording events, helping in the administration of CLAS social media, and other web and social media related activities.  Interns will also be asked to write articles for Panoramas and work on special projects. Work hours will vary depending on the university schedule (work load will be about 10 hours a week).  Note that interns may be asked to work on an occasional Saturday.

Requirements:
  • ability to work independently
  • strong writing skills
  • ability to work with computers and Photographic /AV equipment
  • familiarity with social media (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, You Tube, etc)
 Benefits:
  •  ½ (50%) tuition (maximum 15 credits) for the fall term and spring terms;
  • a position of importance and respect, helping promote the web presence of one of 25 Latin American National Resource Centers in the country;
  • participating in an academically stimulating initiative;
  • learn a variety of skills that may help build your resume.
To apply send:
  • A resume or a list of your skills that you think would be valuable for the internship;
  • Unofficial Pitt transcript;
  • One page essay explaining why you would be a good fit for the project.
If interested in this position, submit the information using the form below by noon on Monday, March 21, 2016.

To apply go to: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/panoramas_internships
 



Smithsonian Latino Center-Summer Internship

The application for our summer fellowship, the Latino Museum Studies Program, is available and I hope you can share it with your students. Deadline to apply is March 15, 2017.
 
The application and more information is on our website - http://latino.si.edu/Education/LMSP

 For further information please contact the LMSP Program Director, Diana C. Bossa Bastidas at BossaD@si.edu
 

Internship Opportunity with the Latin American Cultural Union 

College-level internship with the Latin American Cultural Union (LACU), a volunteer-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization active in the Pittsburgh area to promote Latin American and Caribbean cultures and increase the visibility of the Latino Community in the region.
Pittsburgh’s Latino Community is growing and the role of LACU is expanding. We are seeking a college-level intern who is interested in learning about and promoting Latino culture not only within the Latino Community, but beyond to the larger community as well. This is a great opportunity for a college-student interested in marketing and non-profit operation. 
 
The intern will work closely with members of a dynamic team and will play a crucial role in the accomplishment of our goals. We will provide hands-on instruction and training in our office, located at 1660 Broadway Avenue, Pittsburgh (Beechview), which is easily accessible by public transportation.
The intern will have an opportunity to meet and work with LACU board members & leaders in the Latino Community and other Latino organizations. The incumbent will gain experience in event management, social networking, cross cultural integration, and administrative organizations skills primarily.  Improvement of bilingual skills (if applicable).

REQUIREMENTS:
 Marketing major preferred
· Experience with social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, etc.)
· Creativity and self-motivation
· Experience creating well designed posts
· Ability to speak and/or write Spanish is preferred, but not required

RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Create interactive blogs, writing content, research, and reports
· Support and/or organize/coordinate meetings & cultural events
· Interact with Latino organizations in the area to promote their efforts
· Assist with strategic marketing social media campaigns, tweets, hashtags
· Develop & implement digital marketing activity to increase followers across social media platforms
· Engage with fans of Latino culture & followers to build a brand image, awareness, and community
· Administrative daily operations support

LACU’s office is located at 1660 Broadway Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15216 in the Pittsburgh neighborhood known as Beechview. Access to the office is easily available by taking public transit:  The T (Red Line Castle Shannon) and getting off at the Hampshire stop which is one block from the office.   
 
TERM OF INTERNSHIP: Winter-Spring 2017
 
TIME REQUIRED: Approximately 20 hours per week.
 
No monetary compensation, but the internship may qualify for college credit. LACU will provide students letter of recommendation indicating project achievements and skills learned.
 Intern will report to Guillermo Velazquez, President, Board of Directors, LACU.
 The internship is available immediately. Please send your résumé to: intern@lacunet.org
 






Pittsburgh Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Scholarships 

The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation is proud to offer students who are Hispanic/Latino or of Hispanic/Latino descent scholarships for the 2017-2018 scholastic year.
 
To be eligible to apply to the program, the student must:
  • Be attending or accepted in an accredited post-high school educational institution including 2 or 4 year college or university or vocational, technical or trade school in the United States or its territories
  • Reside in one of the following counties: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Westmoreland or Washington County
  • Demonstrate unmet financial need of at least $1,000 after the financial aid award package has been determined,
  • Have at least one parent of Hispanic ancestry (at least one of applicant’s grandparents must be Hispanic);
  • Have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0, and
  • Enroll as a full-time student.
  • Community involvement is preferred.
  • In addition, students must write an essay not more than 300 words discussing your ideal professional goals and how achieving those will impact the Hispanic community; or how your education has contributed to who you are today or who you will be in the future.
 
Attached is a copy of the application both in Word & PDF files.
Please note we have made some changes.
Application deadline is APRIL 30, 2017.
 
For more information, e-mail us at:
E-Mail: scholarships@pmahcc.org
Webpage: http://pmahcc.org

 


 UCIS- International Studies Fund for Students 

The University Center for International Studies is proudly accepting submissions for this year’s International Studies Fund. The International Studies Fund (ISF) is intended to help students at the University of Pittsburgh conduct research on international issues or in international settings and/or with international collaborators. “International” is defined as relating to another country or culture, comparative analysis covering more than one country or culture, studies of international relations or of transnational activities, or studies which examine topics related to global issues or collaborative projects with partners around the world.
 
Please note: the application requires a faculty recommendation. The online application system will only prompt your selected faculty to submit the required recommendation upon your submission of the application. You should, therefore, aim to submit your application with ample time for faculty to submit the recommendation by the March 15th deadline.
 For further details, please visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/isf

 Community Events    (Back to top)


Join us for a Q&A session and conversation

Jose Luis Incio, Pitt Ph.D. student in Political Science and Angelina Cotler,  CLAS Associate Director 

Friday, March 31, 7pm
CMOA Theater, Carnegie Museum of Art



 





 

 
 

 Call for Papers    (Back to top)

SCMLA Call for Papers: Portuguese Section


The LUSO-AFRO-BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Panel of the South-Central Modern Languages Association (SCMLA) is accepting abstracts for the 74th Annual SCMLA Conference to be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 5 - 8, 2017.
We welcome abstracts on any topic relating to Lusophone literature and culture; papers relating to the conference theme "Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" are especially encouraged.
Please email your abstract and a brief CV to eidelgadoso@ualr.edu by March 31, 2017Panelists will be notified of their acceptance by Friday, April 19. In order to be included in the program, panelists must become members of the SCMLA by April 30, 2017 .
Graduate Students at the doctoral level, Faculty, and Independent Scholars may apply for a $500 Travel Grant to support their conference travel. The grant application is due April 30, 2017.
 



We are pleased to invite the international Hispanism, and all interested scholars and researchers to submit paper proposals or panels (3 panelists) on any of the writers, journalists, artists, & filmmakers from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain that have lived in New York and whose work expresses or assumes such experience.
​This conference seeks to recover, document and evaluate the interactive work of writers, artists, cultural agents, journalists, founders of Hispanism and the Caribbean in New York. 
Submission of Proposals: Proposals should consist of a title and an abstract of 250-300 words, and a brief biography (100-150 words). Proposals must be sent through the conference website http:// www.nytransatlantico.com

Papers may be in Spanish or English.
Submission deadline: March 15, 2017.
 

MLA Annual Convention in New York City, 4-7 January, 2018

Lusophone Orientalisms
This panel revisits the long history of Lusophone and Asian cultural exchanges. Papers can explore, reinterpret, or redefine the relationship between Portugal, Brazil, or Lusophone Africa and Asia from the early modern period to the present. The papers may address Lusophone uses of the orientalist tradition as well as alternative forms of conceptualizing orientalism that confront exoticization and essentialism. They can study the ways these relations serve as examples of South-South cultural dynamics or question artificial boundaries between peripheries and centers. Scholars can reevaluate the historical experiences, artistic interactions, and/or intellectual dialogues and collaborations between Portuguese-speaking writers, historians, artists, etc. and Asian artists and intellectuals. They may also revisit the historical or cultural presence of Asia in Portuguese-speaking countries or explore contemporary cultural and media exchanges. 200-word abstracts + short bio by March 15 to Estela Vieira, Indiana University,evieira@indiana.edu
 

 
Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century

This panel explores work by Portuguese, Brazilian, or Luso-African women writers from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Papers may focus on one specific writer or multiple authors and be comparative in nature. Building upon the renewed critical interest in both Portugal and Brazil on women writing before the onset of literary modernism in Portugal and Brazil, this session seeks to undo the overall neglect of women writers from this period by bringing together papers that analyze and contextualize the literary production of female writers. The session explores ways different women writers contributed to nineteenth-century literature and intellectual debates. Papers can integrate women’s writing into canonical traditions, focus on elucidating their work with close, interpretative, or theoretical readings, or analyze transnational networks of writing and publishing involving women. Papers can reevaluate the historical experiences, artistic interactions, and/or intellectual dialogues and collaborations between and among Portuguese-speaking women writers and artists from this period. Papers can explain how this literary production participated in and contributed to a literary mainstream or explore how their writing coincides with the expansion of women’s emancipation and education. 200-word abstracts + short bio by March 15 to César Braga-Pinto, Northwestern University, c-braga-pinto@northwestern.edu
 
 
Black Resistance and Negotiation in Latin America:
Runaway Slave Communities. Colloquium and Special Issue
Afro-Hispanic Review Special Issue Call for Papers:

This special interdisciplinary issue of the Afro-Hispanic Review examines maroon communities in Latin America to reassess the concept of “maroonage,” escaping slavery, negotiation with slave-based and racist systems, and resistance against oppression from colonial times to the context of our globalized world. Taking as point of departure recent literary, cultural, linguistic, historical, archeological, and anthropological studies, this issue will problematize the ideas of resistance and negotiation within Afro-diasporic studies at large, thus including material culture, social movements, and postcolonial studies. The issue celebrates UNESCO’s designation of 2015-2024 as the Decade of the Afrodescendant, bringing together representatives and works from various regions of Latin America. Editor William Luis and Guest Editors John Maddox and Graciela Maglia invite submissions of articles (20-30 pages, 2016 MLA Style [8th ed.]) by 1 August 2017. Submissions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese will be considered. Editors will also consider relevant creative writing, interviews, book reviews, and unpublished materials. Please submit articles in Microsoft Word as attachments sent to editor@afrohispanicreview.com. Please contact the guest editors directly at jtmaddox@uab.edu or gracielamaglia@gmail.com with any inquiries regarding this special issue on runaway slave communities.
 

III Congreso Internacional Vallejo Siempre 2018

Salamanca, 25-28 Junio 2018

El año 2014 fue una fecha clave para los estudios sobre la obra de César Vallejo, ya que, después de algunas décadas, la ciudad de Lima recibió a los más destacados especialistas en la obra del poeta de Santiago de Chuco. En dicho encuentro se acordó convocar a los investigadores vallejianos, con periodicidad bienal y en distintos lugares, para seguir estudiando y repensando su obra, que constituye un legado mundial. Así, buena parte de esos especialistas se reunió en Montevideo (Uruguay) en 2016, debatiendo sobre temas y cuestiones que enriquecieron la comprensión de la obra del vatesantiaguino. El 2018, la Fundación Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua, la Academia Peruana de la Lengua y el Instituto de Estudios Vallejianos, filial Lima, convocan a la comunidad académica al III Congreso Internacional Vallejo Siempre 2018. Para este Congreso se proponen, como temas específicos, el estudio de la vida y obra de César Vallejo en España y Francia.

Fecha de entrega de titulo de ponencia y abstract: 30 abril 2017
informes y suscripciones: congresovallejosiempre2018@gmail.com
congresovallejo@ilcyl.com

 

 Job Opportunities    (Back to top)

 
Post-Doctoral Position-Latin American History- DePaw University
Sub-specialty and period open and may include Brazil as well as Spanish-speaking regions
Apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/40940
Deadline: March 15, 2017

Lecturer in Spanish-Birghamton University
This is a full-time position of three years with possible renewal. The teaching load is four courses per semester with the option to teach on campus or online during winter and summer recess.
Apply: https://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=EE871687527E0CD5862AA57C53FC7FA3?JOBID=81542
Deadline: April 2, 2017

Non-Tenure Track Faculty (Romance Languages)- Villanova University
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Villanova University invites applications for a renewable, full-time, non-tenure track faculty position in Spanish or Latin American literature, culture, or Spanish linguistics beginning August, 2017. Applicants should submit the materials online at https://jobs.villanova.edu
Open Until Filled

 


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