CORRE LA VOZ
The weekly bulletin of LAS - the Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies Program
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
January 15, 2009
To contact Corre la Voz, or to submit items for the newsletter, please email Megan Kuykendoll at [log in to unmask]
or Thomas Klak, LAS Director [log in to unmask]
In This Issue:
1. Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development: Student Engagement in Latin America, Weds Jan 21 4:30pm, opens Exciting 2009 “Passionate about Latin America” Series! (see attachment) –
2. Cuba Film Series – Tuesdays 5pm (see attachment)
3. “Translating Cultures”: A Latina/o and Latin American Writers Festival – April 1-3
4. Growing Season: The Life of A Migrant Community until Feb 28
5. Latin Dance Lessons – Jan 22
6. News Item on Immigration Policy
7. Two fantastic summer courses in the Bahamas and Belize
EVENTS THIS WEEK:
1. The “Passionate about Latin America” Series
Spring 2009 series will be launched Wednesday, January 21, 4:30-5:30pm, 163 Upham
Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development: Student Engagement in Latin America
Susan Paulson, Anthropology and LAS
Thomas Klak, Geography and LAS
Students: Keri Agriesti, Zach Hausrath, Emma Mullaney, and Sean Regan
Two LAS faculty, two grad students and two undergraduates will reflect on work with locals in Brazil and the Eastern Caribbean toward environmental justice and sustainability. Discussion will include audience members, and will highlight ways that other students can become involved in environmental and sustainability movements in Latin America and the Caribbean.
please see the attachment for a list of the entire series for Spring 2009.
2. Cuba Film Series (attached please find the entire list of films for Spring Semester 2009; all are shown on Tuesday at 5pm in 120 Irvin)
All Films have English subtitles.
The first films will be shown Tuesday, January 20th
5:00pm in Room 120 Irvin
Por Primera Vez (“For the First Time”)
Dir. Octavio Cortázar (B & W 9 min.). A team of traveling projectionists bring the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times (1936) to a secluded mountain village that has never seen a motion picture before. Before the showing villagers are asked what they imagine film to be like. The fact that the film was not propaganda in any obvious way was also a surprise to many viewers outsie of Cuba.
Muerte de un burócrata (“Death of a Bureaucrat”) (1966)
Dir. Tomás Gutierrez Alea ( B & W 85 min.). A mocking look at socialist bureaucracy gone crazy, this comedy follows the chain of disasters resulting from a sentimental impulse. The nephew of a recently dead bureaucrat decides to bury his uncle's union card along with the body. The subsequent need for “proper documentation” to prove the existence even of the dead leads to bizarre consequences.
Email Professor Peter Rose for more info: [log in to unmask]
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3. “Translating Cultures”: A Latina/o and Latin American Writers Festival
April 1-3, 2009
for more info please email Professor Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez [log in to unmask]
All readings below, except Junot Diaz, will be held in the Leonard Theater in Peabody Hall. Junot Diaz’s event is in Hall Auditorium.
What follows is a preliminary schedule and list of the writers who will be participating
Wednesday, April 1, will be devoted to poetry, and issues of translation.
Here is a list of the poets who will be joining us. Six of these poets will be flying in from Mexico City for the Conference.
Claudia Posadas From Puebla. Mexican
Victor Manuel From Mexico City. Mexican
Elsa Cross From Mexico City Mexican
Myriam Moscona: From Mexico City Mexican
Jorge Fernandez Granados From Mexico City Mexican
Pedro Serrano From Washington D.C. Mexican
Armando Romero From U of Cincinnati Colombian
Arturo Gutierrez Plaza From University of Cincinnati Venezuelan
Thursday, April 2nd. Primarily devoted to Fiction.
Alex Espinoza Mexican-American, author of Still Water Saints
Angie Cruz Domincan-American, author of Let It Rain Coffee and Soledad
Junot Diaz Dominican-American, author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
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4. Growing Season: The Life of A Migrant Community - Photo exhibit
MacMillan Hall Lobby
The exhibit will be available for viewing from now until February 28th.
A great opportunity for students, faculty, staff and the whole community!
More details/sources regarding this exhibit at www.growingseason.net<http://www.growingseason.net>
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"Growing Season: The Life of A Migrant Community"
Photo Exhibition
This photo exhibit part of the Fifth Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Program, has been extended until February, 28th. 2009.
This exhibition is part of a larger project that celebrates the Mexican-American and Mexican migrant families that live and work on the K.W. Zellers and Son family farm in Hartville, Ohio. Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community, by authors Gary Harwood and David Hassler, has received three book honors since its release in September of 2006. It was awarded a 2007 Carter G. Woodson Honor Award from the National Council for the Social Studies. The Ohioana Library Association selected Growing Season as one of seven winners of the Ohio! ana Book Award for 2007. The Great Lakes Booksellers Association also selected Growing Season as a finalist for the 2007 Great Lakes Book Award. Growing Season was also the winner of the 2005 James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award from the Ohio News Photographers Association and was awarded a 2005 Artist and Communities Grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
The project was featured in News Photographer, the monthly magazine of the National Press Photographers Association, Sun Magazine and Double Take/Points of Entry. Growing Season was also the selected book for the Stark County, Ohio, One Book One Community reading program through the Mayor’ss Literacy Program for 2006.
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5. Latin Dance Lessons at Hamilton Downtown!!
Thursday, January 22, at the Hamilton Downtown center
Starts at 7:00pm and goes until 10:00pm
Crank up the heat and learn some spicy dance moves, led by Downtown favorites Mert Santos and Guillermina Camacho. Bring a partner or show up solo for a fun-filled, energetic evening. Light refresh-ments provided.
Come prepared to have a fabulous time, practice your Spanish, and take a spin at Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia, Bachata, etc. Please make sure to bring a friend or two and be willing to shake it!
Miami Hamilton Downtown
221 High St.
Robinson-Schwenn Bldg.
Hamilton, Ohio 45011
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6. News Item on Immigration Policy
From NYT 1/2/2009 regarding US immigration policy:
Push on Immigration Crimes Is Said to Shift Focus
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/us/12prosecute.html?_r=1&hp
Friday, April 3rd. Primarily devoted to Playwriting and Perfomance.
Carlos Morton – Professor of Theater at UC Santa Barbara, playwriting credits include the San Francisco Mime Troupe, New York Shakespeare Festival, La Compania Nacional de Mexico, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and many others. His most recent book is Children of the Sun: Scenes and Monologues for Latino Youth
Carlos Manuel – Director of the Theatre Program at Bellarmine University in Lousville. He has traveled throughout the U.S. Canada and Mexico performing his one person play, La Vida Loca.
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7. Summer courses in the Bahamas and Belize
GLG 413/513: Tropical Marine Ecology of the Bahamas and Florida Keys
May 18-May 31, 2009
Instructors: Dr. Hays Cummins & Dr. Donna McCollum
FOCUS: Tropical Marine Ecology is being offered to introduce students to the marine environments of the Bahamas and Florida Keys. We will spend five days in the Florida Keys and Everglades and 9 days on San Salvador, Bahamas. Topics will be covered from an interdisciplinary perspective. Quite simply, we will learn by doing! We will look, discuss, ask questions, reflect, and look again! It is possible you will learn more in this field course than you will in a semester back at Miami!
REQUIRED: An Attitude of Discovery! Snorkeling required! SCUBA optional
WE WILL EXPLORE:
--Coral Reefs and Associated Marine Communities
--Mangroves, Seagrass Beds & Tropical Lagoons
--Land Use & the Everglades
--Fossil Reefs
--Intertidal Zones
CLASS MIX: Our goal is to have a mix of students that are eager to contribute and learn about these ecosystems. Maximum enrollment: 20
COSTS: Tuition (Five hours credit) Plus $795 (includes room, board, and airfare to-and-from the Bahamas)
For more information, contact Hays Cummins [9-1338, e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 222 Boyd Hall] or Donna McCollum [9-9386, e-mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 102 Boyd Hall].
COURSE SYLLABUS:
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/html/TropEcolSyl.html
COURSE PHOTOS:
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/html/TropEcoImages.html
COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT:
http://streaming.wcp.muohio.edu/fieldcourses/marine-ecology-2009.pdf
COMMON COURSE QUESTIONS:
http://streaming.wcp.muohio.edu/fieldcourses/marineecology-questions-2009.pdf
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IES 499/599: CONNECTIONS: BELIZE ECOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY
June 10-June 24, 2009
Instructors: Dr. Donna McCollum & Dr. Hays Cummins
General Information:
Belize, A British colony called British Honduras until 1981, is tucked under the "thumb" of Mexico, just south of the Yucatan Peninsula. It is bordered on the north by Mexico, the west and south by Guatemala, and the east by the Caribbean Sea. It is home to the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, second in the world only to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. It also has the most forested area remaining of any Central American country (61% of its original rainforest). Because of these large natural areas, Belize is very diverse: 550 bird species, 65 bat species, hundreds of fishes, and thousands of insects (yes, including mosquitoes and bot flies . . .). The cultural diversity of Belize is also striking, including Mayan, Creole, Carib, Garifuna and Mennonite cultures, each with their own ethnic practices and cultures.
The primary goal of this course is to explore "connections" among the people, organisms, and environments of Belize. These connections include biological symbioses (some of the most fascinating interwoven lives in the world!), human uses of rainforest plants (medicinal and otherwise), and cultural connections between modern and historical native peoples and their environs. We will have the opportunity to talk about and listen to guest lectures on the ecology and natural history of the area, and to explore these subjects by land and by sea (including rivers!). We will visit Mayan archeological sites and modern-day Mayan, Creole, and Garifuna villages. All of these activities will be "connected" by faculty and student presentations that will help to synthesize what we are learning.
ITINERARY:
Segment 1 – Northern Belize, La Milpa Field Station - tropical hardwood and palm forest ecology, birding, night hikes and spotlighting for wildlife, a Mayan archeological site, and presentations by PFB researchers.
Segment 2 – Midwestern Belize, Spanish Lookout Mennonite Colony - stay with individual families to learn all that we can about the social and family life of these modern-day agricultural pioneers
Segment 3 - Midwestern Belize, The Trek Stop – day trips into the Maya Mountains to Mountain Pine Ridge, ancient Mayan sites (with great wildlife & forests), caves, riverine systems, Mestizo culture
Segment 4 –Wee Wee Caye Field Station –the whole island to ourselves, snorkeling twice a day and tropical breezes at night!
COST: Includes normal registration fees for a 5-credit-hour summer course plus $795 (covers room, board and in-country transportation) airfare extra
For more information, contact Hays Cummins [9-1338, e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 222 Boyd Hall] or Donna McCollum [9-9386, e-mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 102 Boyd Hall].
Note: Professor Cummins is also offering a course during the Summer 2009 in the Netherlands Antilles on coral reef ecology. Email him for more info: [log in to unmask]
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Latin American News/Resources
OLAnet – Ohio Latino Affairs Network
http://ochla.ohio.gov/news/index.aspx
http://news.yahoo.com
Click on “World” and then on “Latin America”
La Jornada Latina News
http://lajornadalatina.com
Click on “Cincinnati N. Kentucky Dayton” at top for local info.
LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens
http://www.lulacohio.org
Midwest Latino
http://midwestlatino.com
END CORRE LA VOZ – January 15, 2008
For information and upcomming events please visit www.muohio.edu/alas
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