Fall and Winter 2007-08 Events
October 18, 2007
Open Graduate Seminar with Brazilian-American Filmmaker, Producer and Curator Tania Cypriano (AC601/SAC622) on Brazilian Transnational Documentary Screening and Q&A with Tania Cypriano -
VIVA EU! (1989, 20 min) Chronicles the last days of life of visual artist Wilton Braga, the first Brazilian to be openly diagnosed with AIDS, in Barcelona. Best Documentary Film Award, Festival Latino, New York; Best 16mm film and Best Editing, Brazilian Cinema Festival, Gramado, Brazil.
Grandma Has A Video Camera (2007, 58 min); MICHIGAN PREMIERE - A collaboration between director Cypriano and her grandmother, who, for over 20 years, used a home video camera to record first-hand how a family of Brazilian immigrants in the United States used their home video camera to record first-hand how they saw their new world and struggled to establish themselves.
October 19, 2007
Portuguese Bate Papo: Brazilians in the United Statues: Somos Latinos ou Lationamericanos? with Tania Cypriano.
October 22, 2007
Teddy Cruz is principal architect in the design firm, Estudio Teddy Cruz in San Diego, CA. Learning from emerging immigrant neighborhoods across the country, Cruz looks for neighborhood models where informality and resourcefulness lead to sustainable, affordable communities. Cruz argues that these models can strengthen all American neighborhoods. This lecture is part of a series in 2007-8 that aims to encourage greater discussion and awareness of diversity issues in the Taubman College.
October 25, 2007
American Culture Workshop on Immigration Today: Challenges for Community-Based Action, with:
Minsu Longiara, Esq., UM Law School Poverty Law Outreach Program and School of Social Work, author of ¡Entérate! Guia de recursos y servicios para familias en el Sureste de Michigan.
Silvia Pedraza, Professor of Sociology, author of Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Caroline Vang of the Hmong community of Detroit, Michigan.
The US government is taking aggressive measures to deport upstanding members of our communities. Learn more about why this is happening and what immigration rights advocates are doing in response.
October 31, 2007
Lunch and open office hours with visiting poet Cecilia Vicuña
November 1, 2007
"Living Threads" - poetry performance by Cecilia Vicuña
Special Reception featuring art work by students in the School of Art & Design, the Latina/o Studies Altar, and short documentary film, La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, dir. Lourdes Portillo, 1988
November 5, 2007
Film viewing - El Super (dir. Leon Ichaso, 1979, 90 min) A humorous and poignant look at the life of a working-class Cuban-American family in New York City. Spanish with English subtitles.
November 7, 2007
Prohibido Pensar/Thinking Prohibited
A mixed media art exhibit and performance by Dominican artists Claudio Mir, Eduard Severino, and Mexican-American artist John Gallagher.
November 19, 2007
Film Viewing - Nueba Yol (dir. Angel Muniz, 1995, 102 min.) A humorous portrayal of the adventures of Balbuena, a Dominican man who comes to New York chasing his dreams. Spanish with English subtitles.
Fall and Winter 2006-07 Events
September 14, 2006
Performance by Marga Gómez, Michigan Theatre
October 5-20, 2006
"Cristo Rey: A Dominican Barrio in Photographs" Photo exhibit by John Paul Gallagher Exhibit Opening October 5, 2006 4 p.m. G634 Haven Hall, followed by a reception. Featuring a talk by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Program in American Culture/Department of History.
October 26, 2006
Photographs of Pablo Delan/Caribbean Workshop 3512 Haven Hall 3:00-6:00pm
Week of October 30th
"Lessons for Immigration Policy: The Bracero Guest Worker Program" with and ex-bracero from Asamblea Nacional de Braceros of Ohio and Michigan.
December 7, 2006
Guest Lecture by digital artist Ricardo Dominguez.
February 9, 2007
Elena Herrada lecture: ?Reflections from Warriors in the Asymmetric Wars: Endangered Minorities in Academia.? Herrada is the Director of the Worker's Center (Centro Obrero)in Detroit, and she co-founded the Committee for the Political Resurrection of Detroit. In addition, Herrada is a member of the Detroit Oral History Project Committee and co-produced a video documentary focusing on the forced repatriation of Mexican immigrants during the Great Depression. Parker Room in the Michigan Union.
February 9, 2007
Susana Cook, Performance Artist: The Values Horror Show (Written and directed by Susana Cook, original score by Julian Mesri) deftly combines political satire and dark humor to expose the horrors unleashed under the discourse of morality. In this biting social commentary, Cook conjures up the troubled historical ghosts of her native Argentina and compares the rhetoric used by the repressive military regime of Rafael Videla in the mid-1970s with U.S. politicians? current discourse. At the Work Gallery, 306 S. State Street 7:00-10:30 pm
February 15, 2007
Film Screening: MILAGROS: MADE IN MEXICO. "Milagros" is a 60-minute documentary shot primarily in Mexico. The documentary covers the impact of transnational migrations on the women of the Bajío region in Guanajuato, Mexico. The film shows how micro-enterprising endeavors are being implemented to end generational poverty, and the major cultural changes taking place as the role of women in Mexico drastically shifts. Ultimately, the documentary offers a unique understanding of migration to the US by allowing the viewer to experience the Mexican perspective. Filmmaker and Michigan native Martina Guzman will be on hand for a Q&A session following the film. Natural Science Auditorium, 5:30 pm
March 23, 2007
Dr. Ginetta E.B. Candelairo, Associate Professor in Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies and a member of the Program for the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College: "When the time comes, we will align ourselves actively": Feminist Maternalism and Anti-Haitianism in the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo Era.
March 24, 2007
Chillin' with the Roland Vasquez Quartet in the American Culture Gallery, G634 Haven Hall. A unique opportunity to meet with members of the Roland Vasquez jazz band which will be performing in Detroit (DIA Friday March 23, 6:30 & 8:00 pm) and Ann Arbor (Kerrytown Concert House, Sunday March 25, 8:00 pm). Formerly on the faculty of the U-M School of Music, Vasquez is an award-winning composer and musician who has created a unique blend of Afro-diasporic and Latino based sounds in his jazz performances and recordings. Come and talk, jam and partake of the free reception
March 30, 2007
Latino Culture Show, Floreciendo de Nuestras Raices: Blossoming from Our Roots, Power Center for the Performing Arts
April 9, 2007
Alex Rivera, Latino Cyberartist and Filmmaker. Theme: Using genre, digital imaging, and the vocabulary of science fiction to describe the experience of immigration. Works screened: Día de la Independencia (2 mins), Why Cybraceros? (5 mins), Cybracero.com (5 mins), LowDrone.com (5 mins), Border Trilogy (10 mins). Alex Rivera is a filmmaker and media artist whose work incorporates a broad array of techniques to tell new, urgent, Latino stories. Over the past 12 years his work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art,the Guggenheim Museum, on the national PBS documentary showcase P.O.V., and in film festivals around the world. His work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, ITVS, Creative Capital, and the Sundance Institution, among others. His latest project, Sleep Dealer, a science fiction feature film, is currently in post-production.
