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FALL 2008 EVENTS

SPRING 2009 EVENTS 

Teaching International Student Research Competition Winners

The first and second place winners received a USB drive. The first place winners will additionally be featured in next year's issue of ABSENCE.
 
Powerpoint Video category
1st place – Amber Cicchitto
2nd place – James Davis
 
Poster category
1st place – Larry Nelson
2nd place – Emily Blake, Richard Whitney, & Brandon Smith.

 

SPRING 2009
 
APRIL
 
Lecture
Poverty, Natural Disasters and Malnutrition. A Message of Hope from Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti  : Poverty, Natural Disasters and Malnutrition. A Message of Hope from Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti   by Ian G. Rawson, Ph.D., chairman of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) Haiti. The hospital is a model for health care organizations in developing countries, and provides health care and community health and development for more than 300,000 people in Haiti’s central Artibonite Valley.
Date: April 29, 2009
Time: 6PM
Location: Frable Conference Center, Room 117
Followed by a Reception for the Haitian Art Exhibit from the Friends of HAS Haiti Collection in the Student Community Center at 7PM.
 
 
Theatre Production (Theatre 208/Theatre 282)
The Dream Tree.  The subject of this play is Shamanism in the upper Amazon rain forest. The story is adapted from a retelling by Lawrence Yep in a collection of stories from many cultures called The Tree of Dreams, and expanded with references to the work of ethnobiologist Mark J. Plotkin and the documentaries of Dean Jeffries.
Dates: April 23-25, 2009
Time:  April 23, Common Period
April 24 and April 25 at 7:30 PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
Lecture
Food and Social Change in India: Drawing Links to Latin America
by Jennifer Parker Talwar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Dr. Talwar is the author of Fast Food Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream (Westview Press, 2002), among other scholarly publications.
Date: April 21, 2009
Time: Common Period
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
Student Conference
Date: April 16, 2009
Time: Common Period
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
Film
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Adapted by The Pianist's Ronald Harwood, Love in the Time of Cholera is an epic vision of true love [in] …this lush realization of the Gabriel García Márquez novel, Newell begins with a death before backtracking 50 year to the late-1800s --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Date: April 8, 2009
Time: 6PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
Colloquium
Remembering the Future: The Legacies of Radical Politics in the Caribbean, occasioned by the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the 30th anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan revolutions. Colloquium sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Department of English, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Cultural Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, Department of French and Italian, Department of Political Science.
Date: April 3-4, 2009
Time: TBA
Location: University of Pittsburgh
 
Deadline for submissions to ABSENCE, Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Literary & Art Magazine is February 9, 2009. Open to all PSUGA (full- & part-time) students, staff, faculty & alumni.
 
Deadline for submissions to the Student Conference is April 9th.
 
 
MARCH
 
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil, 2006) 
When his parents' political leanings force them to flee Brazil in haste, 12-year-old Mauro (Michel Joelsas) is left behind to live with his grandfather on the outskirts of São Paulo in the city's Jewish community. But what his parents didn't realize is that Mauro's grandfather has recently died, and the only person left to care for the boy is his grandfather's next-door neighbor, Shlomo (Germano Haiut).—Netflix
Date: March 15, 2009
Time: 6PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
Lecture
World Poverty and Human Rights: What are Our Responsibilities?
 
A lecture by Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor, Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
Date: March 17, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
FEBRUARY
 
Musical Performance
Brazilian Music
Lilly Abreu is a Brazilian artist with numerous appearances as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras and chamber ensembles in France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, the United States and Brazil. Lilly Abreu is on the roster of the Pittsburgh Opera. She is also an accomplished popular music artist, performing regularly some of the greatest tunes of the Brazilian repertoire, as well as Broadway and Jazz standards. She teaches voice at Carnegie Mellon University and Chatham University, and Portuguese at University of Pittsburgh.
Date: February 12, 2009
Time: 6PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
Film
The Official Story (Argentina, 1985, Academy Award Winner for Best “Foreign Picture”)
This is one of those rare political films that transcend politics with a stirring emotional story. Argentinean first-time director Luis Puenzo tells the story of a strong-willed teacher who tries to learn the true identity of her adopted daughter's father, coming to suspect that he was a political prisoner. Tautly directed by Puenzo, The Official Story was a 1985 Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Film, with a riveting performance by Norma Aleandro. --Bill Desowitz
Date: February 18, 2009
Time: 6PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
Lecture
The New Afro-Cuban Movement and the Debate on Race in Contemporary Cuba
by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) and A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2001), among other scholarly publications.
Date: February 19, 2009
Time: Common Period
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
JANUARY
 
Film
Cocalero (2007, Bolivia, Argentina; 94 min.) Born out of the U.S. war on drugs, an Aymara Indian named Evo Morales - backed by a troop of coca leaf farmers - travels through the Andes and Amazon in jeans and sneakers, leading a historic bid to become Bolivia's first Indigenous president. A story of geopolitics, people's movements, indigenous culture, and one man's impressive determination, Cocalero is a “luminous portrait of working people in a rare triumph against U.S. imperialism.” (Prairie Miller, WBAI Radio.)
Date: January 21, 2009
Time: 6PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC
 
 

FALL 2008

 DECEMBER


FILM SERIES: Nine Queens (2001, Argentina; 115 min.)
Date: December 2, 2008
Time: 6 PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC


SPEAKER: Greg Adams – Banjo’s Caribbean Roots
Date: December 11, 2008
Time: Common Period
Location: SCC

NOVEMBER
FILM SERIES: XXY (2007; Argentina) (tentative)
Date: November 6, 2008
Time: 6 PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC


FIELD TRIP: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Date: TBA


SPEAKER: Julieta Ugartemendia and the group TANGUEROS DE LEY
(History of tango; workshop; show with five musicians and two dancers)
Date: November 11, 2008
Time: 6PM
Location: Dining Hall, SCC


STUDENT CONFERENCE (Coordinated by Dr. Kathy Brown, Dr. Irene
Wolf and Dr. Peggy Signorella)
Date: November 18
Time: Common period
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC


OCTOBER


FILM SERIES (Double Feature): Isle of Flowers (Brazil, 1989; 13 min);
Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1993; 105 min.)
Date: October 7, 2008
Time: 6 PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC


LECTURE: Haitian Author Edwidge Danticat
Date: October 6, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Carnegie Music Hall
Edwidge Danticat, born in Haiti, came to the United States at age 12. Her debut novel
Breath, Eyes, Memory, written when she was 25, earned her praise as one of America’s
most graceful and vibrant young writers. Two books of fiction followed, including the
National Book Award-nominated story collection, Krik? Krak!. Her latest, Brother, I’m
Dying, won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award. It is a powerfully moving
memoir of family and country, love and sorrow. Interviewer: Ian Rawson.
http://www.pittsburghlectures.org/interior.php?pageID=176


CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES:

October 16 - World Food Day
Universities Fighting World Hunger
http://www.universitiesfightingworldhunger.org/
Date: October 16, 2008
Time: Noon- 3 pm
Location: TBA


 

SEPTEMBER

REGGAE MUSIC PARTY (Coordinated by Dr. Cliff Manlove)
Date: September 2
Time: Common period (12:15-1:30 PM)
Location: outdoors (or at the stage in the dining room if it rains)


FILM SERIES: The Harder They Come (Jamaica, 1972)
Date: September 2
Time: 6 PM
Location: Ostermayer Room, SCC


HAITIAN ART EXHIBIT. The exhibit is possible thanks to the generous
support of the Friends of Friends of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Haiti.
Date: 2008-2009 Academic Year


LIBRARY RESOURCES EXHIBIT - As in the past, the Library will
organize an exhibit related to the international theme at the beginning of the
semester.
Date: September 16
Time: Common period (12:15-1:30 PM)
Location: Library Instruction Room


FIELD TRIP: Latin American Festival, organized by the Center for Latin
American Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Date: September 27, 2008
Time: 12 Noon to 12 Midnight
SPEAKER: Dr. Kathleen de Walt, Professor of Anthropology and Director
of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
"Global Food Prices and Food Security Latin America: Who Wins and Who
Loses"
Date: September 30, 2008
Time: Common period
Location: SCC
Location: William Pitt Union (3959 5th Ave)


 

 NOTE: Attendance to films is limited to students and faculty in courses participating in the Teaching International program.

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