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.
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