Events Archive
Events Archive
The Trenton Project: Inside Stories from a Changing City Historías Íntimas de una Ciudad Cambiante
Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 6:00 pm
Screening and Discussion: Theatre of War
Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 7:00 pm
“La Música Como Libertad: Gustavo Dudamel en Princeton”
Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 6:00 pm
Apply to Princeton in Argentina
Mon, Jan 7, 2019 (All day) to Thu, Feb 14, 2019 (All day)
"A Geopolitical Perspective on the Mexico-Guatemala Border: Migration, National Security, and Resistances"
Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 4:30 pm
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Ingrid Brioso Rieumont & Benjamin Murphy
Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 12:00 pm
Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 12:15 pm
Eduardo Moncada: "The Politics of Resistance to Criminal Victimization"
Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective
Fri, Dec 7, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Dec 8, 2018 (All day)
Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico: "Globalization in the Times of Political and Academic Populism"
“País Portátil II: Venezuela's Migration Crisis”
Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Jean Segata: "Tropical Unconscious: An Anthropology of the Mosquito in Latin America"
Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“It wasn’t me!”: Enslaved Women, The Police, The Public, and the Press in Late-Nineteenth Century Brazil"
Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 4:30 pm
Conference on the future of Brazilian studies to be held at Yale
Fri, Nov 30, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Dec 1, 2018 (All day)
FAKE FRIENDS: A Symposium on Art History and Comparison
Thu, Nov 29, 2018 (All day) to Fri, Nov 30, 2018 (All day)
Reading Matters Conference
Thu, Nov 29, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Dec 1, 2018 (All day)
Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 12:15 pm
Mellon Forum: Gender, Justice, Urbanism with Aiala Levy and Marília Librandi-Rocha
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 12:00 pm
Jesse Lerner & Luciano Piazza: “Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America”
Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Ana Maria Ibañez: “The Effects of War-Time Institutions on Households Ability to Cope with Shocks: Evidence for Migration in Colombia”
3rd Rencontres: Fanon, Decoloniality, & the Spirit of Bandung
Sat, Nov 17, 2018 (All day) to Sun, Nov 18, 2018 (All day)
Puerto Rico: A Conversation on the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rican Sovereignty
Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 4:30 pm
Brazil LAB: "Now What? Brazil under Bolsonaro"
Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:00 pm
In(ter)dependence Days? A Conversation On Democracy, (Post) Nationalism And The Spanish State
Fri, Nov 16, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Nov 17, 2018 (All day)
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Ivan L. Munuera & Thomas Matusiak
Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 12:00 pm
Brazil LAB: "Religion and Violence in Brazilian Politics"
Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 4:30 pm
Mario Gandelsonas: "Fluvial Metropolies"
Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Ryan Edwards: "Natural Histories, Analogous Geographies: Creating Tierra del Fuego National Park in Southern Argentina”
Brazil LAB Book Forum: "Brazil: A Biography" by Lilia M. Schwarcz
Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Author Talk with Rosina Lozano “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States”
Wed, Nov 7, 2018, 7:00 pm
Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Nov 7, 2018, 12:15 pm
Ryan Edwards: "A Penitentiary in Patagonia: Constructing a Carceral Ecology at the End of the World (1902-1947)"
Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Conference, “Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation”
Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Conference, “Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation”
Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 8:30 am to 6:30 pm
Fiona Ngô: The Perfectible Refugee and the Welfare Queen: the Reordering of Race and Disability
Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:30 pm
The Hole: An Ethnographic Descent into Mexico City's 'Anexos'
Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:30 pm
"The Aísthetic Sense of Liberatory and Decolonial Thought (Through a South-South Dialogue)"
Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 4:30 pm
Rosina Lozano: "An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States"
Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Brazil LAB Film Series: "The Trial", A Film by Maria Augusta Ramos
Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 4:30 pm
Rafael Rojas - Presentation of La polis literaria (2018)
Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 12:30 pm
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Martín Cobas Sosa & Miguel Dominguez
Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Rossana Reguillo: "Ensayos y Escenas Desde el Abismo: Sobre el Horror Contemporáneo”
Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 12:15 pm
Brazil LAB Colloquium: "Amazon at the Crossroads: Emerging Threats and Opportunities for Conservation"
Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 4:30 pm
Jessica Mack: "Inside Ciudad Universitaria: Academic Reform and Student Life on a New Campus, 1954-1970"
Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Colloquium: "The Ends of Nature?"
Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
"The Ends of Nature?" Film Screening: Amazonia, Inc.
Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Brazil LAB Colloquium: "Mapping Altered Biomes..."
Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 4:30 pm
Rafael Sánchez: "Humpty-Dumpty Populism in Venezuela (and Elsewhere)"
Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Festival Cultural Latino: Mercado on the Plaza
Sun, Oct 7, 2018, 2:00 pm
Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 12:15 pm
Dorothy Kronick presents "Take No Prisoners: Unintended Consequences of Criminal Justice Reform in Venezuela"
Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Film Screening of "Abuela's Luck" a Short Film by Rick Rosario
Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 12:20 pm to 1:20 pm
Paula Vedoveli presents "Calculating Credibility: Crisis and Recovery in Argentina 1890-1902"
Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Naomi Klein & Yarimar Bonilla in Conversation — The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
Roundtable on "Narrating Colombia’s (Post)Conflict"
Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Brazil LAB Colloquium on "The Future of Brazil: Economy and Society on the Eve of the 2018 Presidential Election"
Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 12:15 pm
Open Studio: Nibia Pastrana Santiago, PLAS VISAPUR Fellow
Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Improvisational Piano Recital with Alfonso Fuentes
Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
"In the Nation’s Service – How Princetonians Are Strengthening Our Relationship to Puerto Rico"
Thu, May 31, 2018, 4:30 pm
Film Screening of "Inin Niwe: The Plant Healer"
Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Hilda Sabato Book Presentation: “Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America”
Timo Schaefer on “The Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”
Wed, May 2, 2018, 12:00 pm
Estéticas Forenses: Notas Sobre Fotografía Y Violencia
Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 4:30 pm
The Origins and Future of The Venezuelan Crisis
Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 4:30 pm
Daniel Balderston on "Borges's 'El inmortal': Learning from the Manuscript"
Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 12:00 pm
Poetics and Politics of Indigenous Women
Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 2:00 pm
Luiz Feldman on “Brazil in the United Nations”
Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 12:00 pm
McCarter Presents Jazz of Cuba: Roberto Fonseca Quintet
Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 8:30 pm
PLAS 50th Anniversary Symposium "PLAS in Perspective"
Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
Gallery Talk: Material Alchemy
SENSING THE WORLD THROUGH THE SPIDERWEB: ART AS EXTENDED CONDITION
Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 5:00 pm
Feminist Struggles in Latin America: Past/Present
Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 4:30 pm
Princeton’s Brazil LAB presents KBELA A film by Yasmin Thayná
Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 4:30 pm
Program in Latin American Studies & Program in Latino Studies Open House
Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Mexico 2018 Elections: Institutional Safeguards and Challenges
Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
Visualizing Migration Intersections of Photography, Art & Social Science
Fri, Apr 13, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Apr 14, 2018 (All day)
McCarter Presents Jazz of Cuba: Chucho Valdés
Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 8:30 pm
2018 Latinx Theater Commons María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium
Thu, Apr 12, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Apr 14, 2018 (All day)
Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno presents “Murder, Denial, and Hope in Today’s Colombia”
Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 12:00 pm
Cecilia Vicuña Artist Performance & Conversation
Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 5:30 pm
The Incorruptible Body
Tue, Apr 10, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Apr 14, 2018 (All day)
Program in Latin American Studies & Program in Latino Studies Open House
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Liquid La Habana Exhibition
Mon, Apr 9, 2018 (All day) to Fri, May 11, 2018 (All day)
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50th Anniversary Event
“Vaya de Fiesta” Concert
PLAS Conference and Early Music Princeton Concert "De Canciones y Cancioneros: Music and Literary Sources of the Luso-Hispanic Song Tradition"
Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 8:00 am to Sun, Apr 8, 2018, 12:30 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
1521-1815 Spanish Transpacific between East and West
Fri, Apr 6, 2018, 9:00 am to 5:15 pm
Lamento Borincano: Puerto Rican Sites of the Catastrophic, 1968/2018
Thu, Apr 5, 2018, 4:30 pm
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on "Athens and Sparta of the New World: The Classical Passions of Santo Domingo"
Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 12:00 pm
Latin America: Recent Developments & Economic Outlook
Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 12:15 pm
Gabrielle Girard on "Letters Against Amnesty: Searching for Juan Gelman’s Grandchild in Argentina and Uruguay"
LAPES 2018 Symposium: Schooling in Latin America: Reproduction, Resistance, and Revolution
Fri, Mar 30, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Mar 31, 2018 (All day)
Conference: Lina Bo Bardi - Material Ideologies
Fri, Mar 30, 2018 (All day)
Princeton’s Brazil LAB presents "Amazonia Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation and Development"
Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 12:00 pm
João Biehl, Arcadio Diaz-Quinones & Adriana Petryna in Conversation Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming
Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 6:00 pm
Alisha Holland on "Creative Construction: The Rise and Corruption of Infrastructure Projects in Latin America"
Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 12:00 pm
Graduate Works-in-Progress: Charlie Hankin and Brandon Hunter
Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 12:00 pm
Nora Benedict on "Armar Páginas, Corregir Pruebas: Borges as Author, Editor, and Publisher"
Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 12:00 pm
Robert Karl on "Colombia’s First Kidnapping Crisis and the Urban Origins of Paramilitarism"
Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 4:30 pm
"The Future of the Puerto Rican Body" - PART II of Bankruptcy and Citizenship: Puerto Rico, A 21st Century Colony?
Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
A Critique of Violence in the Immigration Regime: VAWA, DACA, History, and Labor
Thu, Mar 8, 2018, 12:00 pm
Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
Wed, Mar 7, 2018 (All day) to Sun, Jun 3, 2018 (All day)
Ronaldo Lemos presents "The Empire Strikes Back: Technology Policy Challenges in Brazil"
Thu, Mar 1, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Cecilia Fajardo on "The Political body in Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985"
Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 12:00 pm
Latin Jazz Concert Featuring: Danilo Pérez
Jazz Migrations and Social Change: A Conversation with Danilo Pérez
Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 2:00 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
Andrés Di Tella presents "By the Light of Forgetfulness"
Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 12:00 pm
New Rules for Migrants and Refugees: A Model International Mobility Convention
Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 5:30 pm
María Inclán presents "Young Radicals or Active Citizens: Political Attitudes of Protest Participants and Non-Participants in Mexico City"
GSS Work-in-Progress Series with Justin Perez
Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 12:00 pm
The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development
Thu, Feb 15, 2018, 12:15 pm to 1:20 pm
Puerto Rican Graphic Arts Exhibition
Thu, Feb 15, 2018 (All day) to Fri, Jun 15, 2018 (All day)
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50th Anniversary Event
"In The Intense Now" A Documentary by João Moreira Salles
Wed, Feb 14, 2018, 4:30 pm
Bandoneon & Guitar Tango Performance and Discussion by Matilde Vitullo & Pino Enriquez
Mon, Feb 12, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
Maria Micaela Sviatschi presents “Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths”
Wed, Feb 7, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Migration and Material Alchemy
Mon, Feb 5, 2018 (All day) to Tue, Jun 5, 2018 (All day)
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50th Anniversary Event
“Poisonous Flowers: Radical Women in Latin America” Featuring Licia Fiol-Matta
Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
“Poisonous Flowers: Radical Women in Latin America” Featuring Sayak Valencia
Wed, Dec 13, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
The Last Lecture Before Kingdom Come: A Brief Genealogy of Sunset Studies, on the Occasion of Our Final Sunset
Community Meeting on Puerto Rico
Wed, Dec 13, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
The Last Lecture Before Kingdom Come: A Brief Genealogy of Sunset Studies, on the Occasion of Our Final Sunset
Brazil LAB presents “A discussion of Pedro Meira Monteiro’s new book The Other Roots”
Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
The Last Lecture Before Kingdom Come: A Brief Genealogy of Sunset Studies, on the Occasion of Our Final Sunset
PLAS Graduate Work-in-Progress: "Repression and Opposition Strategies in Electoral Autocracies: Lessons from Venezuela"
Thu, Dec 7, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
"Venezuela in Crisis" a Conversation with Opposition Leaders Carlos Vecchio and David Smolansky
Wed, Dec 6, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Bryan Just presents “Reflections on Course Travel to Chiapas to Explore Art and Politics of the Maya West”
Wed, Dec 6, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Dzi Croquettes” Then and Now: A Conversation with Ciro Barcelos
Mon, Dec 4, 2017, 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg presents “The Dynamic Effects of Trade Liberalization: The Case of Latin America”
Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Brazil LAB presents U.S. premiere of Daniela Thomas' “VAZANTE”
Mon, Nov 20, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress Presentations
Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Broken Mirrors: Liminal Identity and the Latinx Immigration Law Enforcement Agent
Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 4:30 pm
Marcia Ochoa presents “Los Huecos Negros: Cannibalism, Sodomy and the Failure of Modernity in Tierra Firme“
Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Las Siamesas (Siamese Twins) Written by Griselda Gambaro
Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 8:00 pm
Laura Mulvey presents "Time at a Crossroads: Thinking About Temporal Imaginaries Through the Compilation Film"
Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 1:30 pm to 2:50 pm
Las Siamesas (Siamese Twins) Written by Griselda Gambaro
Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 8:00 pm
Andre Gaudreault presents "The "Belinographisation" of Videocinema: For an Archeology of the Digital"
Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 1:30 pm to 2:50 pm
Mario Camara presents “Restos épicos: la literatura y el arte en el cambio de época”
Wed, Nov 8, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Social Change in Latin America, from 1970 to the Present: What We are Learning Together”
Tue, Nov 7, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias joins Princeton in Latin America (PiLA)
Thu, Nov 2, 2017, 6:30 pm
Pedro Luengo presents “Geography of Iberian Identities in the Americas through the Early Modern Arts”
Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
The Migrant Passage: Survival Plays and Clandestine Journeys from Central America
Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 4:30 pm
"País Portátil: A Panel on Venezuelan Politics, Culture and Economy"
Wed, Oct 25, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Arto Lindsay presents “Unpair: Dismantling and Reassembling Music and Lyrics”
Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
McCarter Presents Jazz of Cuba: Alfredo Rodriguez
Sat, Oct 21, 2017, 8:00 pm
Bankruptcy and Citizenship: Puerto Rico, a 21st Century Colony?
Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
McCarter Presents Contemporary Dance from Cuba: Malpaso Dance Company
Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 7:30 pm
The Enduring Allure of Seashells: Conchology and Art
Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 5:30 pm
Unnatural Disasters: Houston, Puerto Rico and Other Sites of Climate Crisis
Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 5:00 pm
McCarter Presents Contemporary Dance from Cuba: Malpaso Dance Company
Wed, Oct 18, 2017, 7:30 pm
João Biehl presents “The False Saints: Remains of the Fratricidal Mucker War that Shattered Brazil’s German Colonies in the 19th Century”
Wed, Oct 18, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Aisha Beliso-De Jesús presents “The Iyanifa Debate: Cuban, African, and American Diasporic Heteronationalisms”
Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Dialogue About Mental Health and Wellness Among Latinx Students
Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 5:30 pm
PLAS Live Art Sessions featuring "The Whisperers: Homage to Ricardo Piglia"
Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
PLAS Live Art Sessions
Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 12:00 pm to Sat, Oct 14, 2017, 5:45 pm
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50th Anniversary Event
“La novela de la poesía”, una conversación con Tamara Kamenszain
Mon, Oct 9, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Luisa Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status (Havana, 1817)
Mon, Oct 9, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Nuestro Futuro, a Conversation with Jorge Ramos”
Fri, Oct 6, 2017, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Marcelo Medeiros and Debora Diniz present "Brazil Today: Inequalities & Rights"
Fri, Oct 6, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Jorge Arrate presents “Chile: 25 Years of Democracy”
Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Seminar on Chile with Marcelo Mena
Fri, Sep 22, 2017, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
REVOLUTIONIZING REVOLUTION A Tender Guerrilla On Cis-Architecture
Fri, Sep 22, 2017, 10:30 am
PLAS presents Laura Chinchilla, Former President of Costa Rica
Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Nestor Siré presents “Informal Media Cultures and Contemporary Art in Cuba”
Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Latino Graduate Student Association presents Latin American Film Festival
Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 6:00 pm to Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 9:00 pm
Robert Karl presents “The FARC’s First March and the Making of Contemporary Colombia”
Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Luis Pérez Oramas presents “El legado de Aby Warburg en sus campos extendidos: Modernidad, Cinetismo y Humanismo: Pathosformel, forma intermediaria y sobrevivencia antitética”
Latinx Heritage Month
Sun, Sep 10, 2017 (All day) to Wed, Oct 18, 2017 (All day)
Penguin Cafe / Cole Porter, "Within The Quota"
Thu, May 4, 2017, 7:30 pm
Joaquín Medina Warmburg to present “Shaping Atmospheres: Early Environmental Approaches in Latin American Architecture”
Wed, May 3, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Opening Celebration of “Creativity in Cuban Thin Shell Structures”
Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 6:00 pm
Lena Burgos-Lafuente to present “A La Escucha de la Guerra Fría: El Ojo Acústico de Lorenzo Homar”
Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress
Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Programmed New World: Environmental Design and Cybernetics in Latin America”
Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 4:30 pm
Eduardo Neves to present "Was There Ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics?: A Discussion from the Amazon"
Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Latin America Workshop featuring Felice Physioc
Fri, Apr 14, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
The Challenges for Democracy in Brazil featuring Dilma Rousseff
Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 12:00 pm
Princeton Dream Team Presents: Poetry with Yosimar Reyes
Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 7:00 pm
Rosina Lozano presents “Governing Bilingually: A History of Spanish in the US”
Wed, Apr 12, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Ana María Ochoa presents “The Aural, the Oral, Silence”
Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Lunch Lecture: “La incidencia de las culturas en el proceso de transformación que vive el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Presents: “Populismos”
Fri, Apr 7, 2017, 1:30 pm
Susana Draper to present "Constellations of 1968 Mexico. Experiments on Freedom and Democracy"
Wed, Apr 5, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Manuel Barcia presents “White Cannibalism in the Slave Trade: The Curious Case of the Schooner 'Arrogante'”
Tue, Apr 4, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
“A-Fest: Encuentro de escritoras en Nueva York”
Wed, Mar 29, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Jessica Delgado to present “Sacramental Learning: Confession, Communion, and Laywomen in Colonial Mexico"
Wed, Mar 29, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Latin America Workshop featuring Teresa Davis
Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
“New Directions in Colombian Cinema”
Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 1:30 pm to 8:00 pm
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress
Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez presents “Woke Brown Girl: Surviving WSI”
Wed, Mar 8, 2017, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Eduardo Luis Rodriguez to present on "Tropical Modernity: Neutra, Burle-Marx and Cuba - De Schulthess House"
Wed, Mar 8, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Latin America Workshop featuring Martín Marimón
Fri, Mar 3, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Race and Religion in the Americas and the Atlantic World
Fri, Mar 3, 2017, 1:40 pm
Department of Religion presents “Race and Religion in the Americas and the Atlantic World: A Conference in Honor of María Elena Martinez”
Fri, Mar 3, 2017, 1:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Rubén Gallo to present "Havana in Transition"
Wed, Mar 1, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
The Spanish Theater Group presents "Eva Perón"
Fri, Feb 24, 2017, 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Junot Díaz conversation on "Activism & Academia"
Fri, Feb 24, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress
Thu, Feb 23, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Serge Gruzinski & Jeremy Adelman to discuss “Latin America and Global History"
Tue, Feb 21, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Latin America Workshop featuring Paula Vedoveli
Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Sergio Chejfec to present "Documento, Alias Relato"
Wed, Feb 15, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Film Screening of: “Beyond Borders”
Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS New Trends in Latin American Studies Series: “Translating Latin American Keywords”
Wed, Dec 7, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture “Militias and the Politics of War in 19th Century Brazil”
Wed, Dec 7, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: “Erotismo e Pornografia”
Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Diasporic Body Grammar: An encounter of movements and words”
Fri, Dec 2, 2016, 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: “Visualizing social and political processes in Argentina: Reading Princeton’s ephemera materials..."
Thu, Dec 1, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Princeton Lecture Series: "Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro"
Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: “La lucha, a Cuban Form of Life”
Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
"Flávio de Carvalho: Body, Architecture, and Performance"
Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: "What Defines an Intellectual? Afro-Brazilian Trajectories Among Knowledges"
Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS New Trends in Latin American Studies Series: "Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism"
Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: “O Brasil pós-impeachment: uma conversa com Jean Wyllys”
Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
PLAS and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Present: “Adventures in Muralism..."
Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: ""El Archivo Biográfico: Notas en torno a la escritura de Coronel Lágrimas"
Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: “New Cuban Literature and Criticism: A Panel Discussion with Three Visiting Writers”
Wed, Nov 9, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Wilson Lecture Series: Musical Performance by Gaby Moreno (Best New Artist Winner of 2013 Latin Grammys)
Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
PLAS New Trends in Latin American Studies Series: "Forests Lost and Found: Agrarian, Urban and Forests transitions in Latin America"
Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: "House of Cards: Explaining Brazil's Unfolding Political Crisis"
Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS New Trends in Latin American Studies Series: “Museo del Consumo: Archivos de la Cultura de Masas en Argentina”
Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: “The Colombian Peace Agreement: A Lost Opportunity for Social Transformation?”
Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Fellows Series: “Enrique Vila-Matas in conversation with Antonio José Ponte, moderated by Rubén Gallo”
Thu, Oct 6, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS Lunch Lecture: "Why Border Enforcement Backfired"
Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Wilson Lecture Series: “Border Cantos”
Tue, Sep 27, 2016, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
"The Poet Laureate of the United States: A conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera"
Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
PLAS Fellows Series: “A Panel Discussion with Enrique Vila-Matas and Antonio José Ponte, moderated by Rubén Gallo”
Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
“The Cuban Image in an Era of Transition”
Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Literatura e Cobertura Política na América Latina”
Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
"Pablo de Tarso y los poetas: la teología política de Rubén Darío"
Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“The Idea of Constitutional Exceptions during the Rise of the Christian-Corporatist State in South America”
Tue, Apr 5, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“U.S./Cuba Relations—Past, Present, and Future”
Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island”
Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
The return as mission: the conversion journey to Dahome of the Luso-Brazilian Catholic priests, the mulattos Cipriano Pires Sardinha and Vicente Ferre
Wed, Mar 9, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis: Economic Collapse in America’s Biggest Colony And What Can be Done About It”
Thu, Mar 3, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
"Global change in the Brazilian Cerrado: The role of fire, biodiversity, and humans"
Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Ricardo Torres on “Logics of economic transition in Cuba”
Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Antonio José Ponte on "Jama y carcomilla: gastronomía y revolución en Cuba"
Wed, Dec 2, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Mario Vargas Llosa on “The Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attacks: Freedom of Speech in the Age of Radicalism.”
Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Paulo Tavares on "Over the Ruins of Amazonia"
Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Abel Sierra Madero on "El trabajo os hará hombres"
Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
William LeoGrande on "Contemporary U.S.-Cuba relations"
Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Wendy Guerra on "Cuba después del 17 de diciembre Perspectivas de una escritora"
Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Arturo Infante on "Realidad y Utopía en la Cuba de Hoy"
Wed, Oct 7, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Barbara Weinstein on "Is White the Color of Modernity? Race, Region, and Nation in Twentieth-Century Brazil"
Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Juan Villoro on "La función de la literatura en la consolidación del sentimentalismo mexicano"
Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
SALALM LX Conference “Brazil in the World, the World in Brazil: Research Trends and Library Resources”
Sat, Jun 13, 2015, 8:00 am to Wed, Jun 17, 2015, 6:00 pm
OIKOS: Affects, Economies, and Politics of House-ing
Thu, May 14, 2015, 11:45 am to Sat, May 16, 2015, 1:30 pm
Graduate Conference: "Early Modern Print Culture: Practices, Relationships and Circulation"
Fri, May 1, 2015, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
“Rethinking Intersectionality in a Latin American Perspective”
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Malcolm McNee on "'Amerindian Perspectivism' and other Turns to the Native in Contemporary Brazilian Poetry"
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Eugenia Palieraki on “Looking at the Colonels’ Greece in the Chilean Mirror: A Transnational Approach to the Greek Anti-Dictatorial Movement.”
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
PLAS & the Race and Citizenship in the Americas Network Workshop: “La deuda y la cultura/ A dívida e a cultura”
Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Ronaldo Lemos on “Feet on the Ground: Politics, Internet Policy and Cultural Challenges in Brazil”
Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
The Race and Citizenship in the Americas Network Conference "Poetry, War, and Citizenship: The 70th Anniversary of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s..."
Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:00 pm to Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 6:00 pm
Robin Blackburn on "The 'Second Slavery:' a New Approach to an Old Institution"
Wed, Apr 15, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Miguel Díaz-Barriga & Margaret Dorsey on “Border Walls, Sovereignty, and Militarization in the 21st Century”
Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Screening of "The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim" by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Wed, Apr 8, 2015, 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Henrique Espada Rodrigues Lima Filho on "The invention of free labor in Brazil: slavery, contract, and law"
Tue, Apr 7, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Conference: "Learning from/in Latin America." Part Two: Symposium
Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
"Learning from Latin America"
Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 8:00 am to Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 5:00 pm
Conference: "Learning from/in Latin America." Part One: Roundtable at MoMA
Thu, Apr 2, 2015, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Frank Graziano on “Miracles, Miraculous Images, and Votive Offerings in Mexico”
Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Stanley Katz & Rachel Price on “Prospects for Change in Cuba”
Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Mauricio Lissovsky on "The Brazilian Dictatorship's 50th anniversary: a battle of images"
Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Lunch Workshop: "Donald Pierson e os estudos sobre raça no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos (1930-1950)" Featuring: Gustavo Rossi
Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Round Table: "Debate on the Current Crises in Argentina and Brazil"
Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Alberto Manguel on "The Secret Sharer: Borges and Conrad"
Tue, Mar 10, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS & the Race and Citizenship in the Americas Network Event "Listening and Seeing: An Homage to Eduardo Coutinho"
Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 1:30 pm to 7:00 pm
"Mathematics Meets the Humanities: A Conversation with Fernando Codá moderated by João Moreira Salles and Pedro Meira Monteiro”
Thu, Mar 5, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Lucia Serrano Pereira on "O estranho – o tema da criação e a instauração da vertigem"
Tue, Mar 3, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Diálogo com Rachel Bertol e André Bittencourt “A nova geração de autores indígenas no Brasil”
Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Pablo Landa on “Mario Pani, Architecture in Process”
Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
The City Lost & Found Film Series: Contemporary Brazil "Neighboring Sounds"
Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Álvaro Fernandez-Bravo on “El autor como traductor: representaciones asiáticas en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea”
Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Urban Studies Research Seminar: “History and Memory”
Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Rachel Price on "Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain"
Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Andrew J. Hamilton on "“The Dumbarton Oaks Tunic: A Sartorial Statement of Inca Imperial Power”
Tue, Dec 9, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Book launch for " Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America by the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America"
Fri, Dec 5, 2014, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
A Conversation with Ricardo Lísias on "The Limits of Fiction"
Fri, Dec 5, 2014, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Graciela Mochkofsky on "The Rise of a New Judaism in Latin America"
Wed, Dec 3, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Marcelo Ridenti on “Protests in Brazil, 2013”
Tue, Dec 2, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Eduardo Kohn on "How Forests Think"
Tue, Nov 18, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Juan Villoro on "Un puñado de sal: La construcción de un modelo intelectual en la relación padre-hijo"
Tue, Nov 18, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
PLAS-SPO Event: "Teaching Spanish and Portuguese Today: Global perspectives."
Fri, Nov 14, 2014, 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Lilia Schwarcz on "Mestizo Histories: Mixing Art and Politics in Brazil"
Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Brodwyn Fischer on "Unequal Ties: Gilberto Freyre’s Recife and the Challenges of Urban History in the Global South"
Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Martin Murphy & Christopher Schmidt-Nowara on “The Blanco White Brothers, the Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy, and Spanish-American Independence”
Thu, Nov 6, 2014, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Sylvia Molloy on “Una torpe estatuilla de barro” Figuración de Alejandra Pizarnik
Tue, Nov 4, 2014, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Yumi Park Huntington on “Engraved Head Motifs on Cupisnique Ceramics: Emblems of Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in Early Andean Art”
Tue, Nov 4, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Erin Fitz Henry on "Now the Country Belongs to All of Us!: Toward a 'Post-Neoliberal' Ecuador"
Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Henrique Espada Lima on "Wages of Intimacy: Domestic Workers’ Disputes over Compensation in the Higher Courts in Nineteenth-Century Brazil"
Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Lunch Discussion: Choosing a President, Round Two
Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Dylon Robbins on “Regarding the Political Economy of the Obscene”
Tue, Oct 14, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Jose Ricardo Ayres on “Public Health Challenges in an Ever-Changing Brazil”
Tue, Oct 7, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Stanley Stein on "How Colonialism Works: Mexico, A Case Study"
Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Daniel Schavelzon on “El manejo de recursos culturales en una sociedad que no protege el patrimonio: la arqueología de Buenos Aires”
Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Edward Telles on “New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America”
Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
A Conversation with Graciela Iturbide and Fabienne Bradú
Tue, Apr 29, 2014, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Kevin Casas-Zamora on "The OAS and the diplomatic architecture hemisphere"
Mon, Apr 21, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
RACA Conference: Photography and Race in the Americas: Beyond Fixity
Fri, Apr 18, 2014, 12:00 pm
International Seminar Venezuela Today: Beyond Polarization
Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cailo Tavares presents: “O dia que durou 21 anos”
Tue, Apr 15, 2014, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Mon, Apr 14, 2014, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Alan Stahl on "What Can We Learn From Medals and Orders?"
Mon, Apr 14, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Coloquio: Islas y Diásporas del Caribe Hispano en el Siglo XXI
Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 4:30 pm to Fri, Apr 11, 2014, 7:00 pm
Aperture Cuba: Bringing the Reality of Cuban Daily Life Into Focus Beyond the Hyphen: Approaching a Postgeographic Cuba
Wed, Apr 9, 2014, 10:00 am to Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 4:00 pm
Luis Felipe Fabre on "Sor Juana y otros monstruos"
Tue, Apr 1, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Penser Sade Aujourd’hui: une conversation avec Annie LeBrun
Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Tanya Hernandez on "Racial Equality Across the Americas Co-sponsored with Program in Law and Public Affairs"
Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm
Helena Ribe on ""Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean: "The Evolution of Policies to Reduce Poverty and Improve Equity"
Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Tanya Hernandez on “Thinking about Race on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act: Looking Backwards, Forwards, and at the Present”
Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm
Serge Gruzinski on "The Eagle and the Dragon"
Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Film and Terrorism” featuring filmmaker Olivier Assayas
Tue, Mar 4, 2014, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Álvaro Enrigue presents "Muerte súbita"
Tue, Mar 4, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Olivier Assayas presents: "Carlos"
Mon, Mar 3, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Jorge Volpi on "The Spy Who Founded the IMF: a Novel About Harry Dexter White and the Crisis of Capitalism"
Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Rafael Rojas & Gustavo Pérez Firmat on "T. S. Eliot en La Habana. Poetas norteamericanos en las revistas literarias cubanas (1929-1959)"
Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Health and the City: Rights, Difference, Belonging
Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 12:00 pm to Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 12:00 pm
Author João Paulo Cuenca presents “Cultural Interchange between Latin America and ‘the Orient’ in Contemporary Brazilian Literature”
Tue, Feb 18, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Alfredo Corchado on ""Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
Mon, Dec 9, 2013, 12:20 pm to 1:30 pm
Susan Meiselas on "Reframing History: Nicaragua Revisited"
Mon, Dec 2, 2013, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio on "Mexican Portraits"
Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Andrés Jaque on "Modern Spanish-American Literature - Architecture and Literature: Perverse Spaces"
Tue, Nov 19, 2013, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Alonso Cueto on "La redención y la violencia como instrumentos de la ficción. La Hora Azul y la novela peruana "
Tue, Nov 19, 2013, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Enrique Krauze on "Will the New Administration Change the Future of Mexico: The struggles of a young democracy"
Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Gian Paolo Minelli on "La piel de las ciudades/The skin of the cities"
Mon, Nov 11, 2013, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
PLAS Conference "Revolution and Peace-building in Central America: Incomplete Transitions in Nicaragua and El Salvador"
Thu, Nov 7, 2013, 4:30 pm to Fri, Nov 8, 2013, 4:30 pm
The Task of the Novelist: Mario Vargas Llosa in Conversation with Efraín Kristal
Tue, Nov 5, 2013, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Gina Zabludovsky on "Patrimonialismo y burocracia: el rescate de Max Weber en América Latina"
Tue, Nov 5, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Rosângela Rennó on "Going Analog in the Digital Era"
Mon, Nov 4, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Kenneth Maxwell and Bruno Carvalho on "Franklin, Jefferson and the Minas Conspiracy: An Atlantic history of imagined nations (1778-1789)"
Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Horacio Castellanos-Moya on "Roque Dalton: la otra cara del poeta"
Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 12:20 pm to 1:20 pm
Beatriz Preciado on "Pornotopía: La arquitectura de Playboy"
Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Wendy Guerra on "Una vida contada en diarios"
Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 12:20 pm to 3:00 pm
Politics and Culture in Latin America: Mario Vargas Llosa in Conversation with Enrique Krauze
Tue, Oct 8, 2013, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Book Presentation "Democracy in Latin America: Between hope and despair"
Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Tatiana Bilbao on "Recent Works by the Tatiana Bilbao Studio"
Thu, Sep 12, 2013, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
The Itinerant Languages of Photography Exhibition
Sat, Sep 7, 2013, 1:00 am to Sun, Jan 19, 2014, 1:00 am
James Green on Exiles within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Memories of Development: Albert O. Hirschman in Latin America
Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
A conversation about Sexto Piso, a new publishing house in Latin America with Diego & Eduardo Rabasa (Editors)
Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Robert Karl on "Reading the Cuban Revolution from Bogotá"
Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Nuria Amat on "Ramón Mercader y la guerra civil"
Tue, Apr 2, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Irene Small on Passion of the Same: Cacique de Ramos and the Multitude
Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Serge Gruzinski on Writing History in XVIth Century New Spain or Universalizing European History in a global context
Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Bryan McCann on Favela Politics and Democratization in Rio de Janeiro
Tue, Mar 5, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Roundtable on "Historias de vida en tiempos de muerte - La construcción del testimonio en la guerra contra el narcotráfico en México"
Mon, Mar 4, 2013, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Guadalupe Nettel in Conversation with Jorge Volpi
Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Odile Cisneros and Marília Librandi-Rocha on Echo- and Eco-Criticism
Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Luis Felipe Fabre on La sodomía en la Nueva España
Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Mauricio Artinano on "El papel de los miembros electos en el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas"
Tue, Feb 5, 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Javier Guerrero on “All My Terrors: Reinaldo Arenas in Princeton"
Tue, Dec 4, 2012, 12:00 pm to Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 1:00 pm
Javier Guerrero on “All My Terrors”: Reinaldo Arenas in Princeton
Tue, Dec 4, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
The Latin american Photobook Symposium
Sat, Dec 1, 2012, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
Jorge Volpi on "Caudillos culturales de la transición mexicana: intelectuales y poder en México, 1999-2012"
Tue, Nov 20, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Marjorie Perloff on "Avant-Gardism in a Different Key: The Case of Karl Kraus’s Last Days of Mankind"
Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Laura Gandolfi on "El “Zócalo” de Tina Modotti: los tranvías y el anarcosindicalismo mexicano"
Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Giancarlo Mazzanti on "Architecture as a Means of Social Transformation"
Tue, Nov 6, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Enrique Krauze on "Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America"
Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Mariano Plotkin on "Las particularidades del liberalismo económico argentino"
Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Claudio Lomnitz on "The Criminalization of Mexican Political Society During the Porfiriato"
Wed, Oct 17, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Álvaro Enrigue on "The Art and the Court: Tennis, Art, and Literature in Early Modern Times" **Lecture in Spanish**
Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
**CANCELLED ** Cassio Luiselli on "Latin America Today: Integration or Fragmentation?"
Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Pablo Piccato on "Pistoleros as Authors: Some Reflections on History and Violence in Twentieth Century Mexico"
Tue, Oct 9, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Javier Sicilia and Juan Villoro on "Mexico and Violence"
Wed, Oct 3, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Isaac Campos on "Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs"
Tue, Oct 2, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
A Conversation between Alma Guillermoprieto and John Loomis
Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Timothy J. Smith on From Indifference to Passion: Elections, Violence, and the Dignity of Truth in Guatemala"
Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez (Librarian) presents the PLAS 2012 Reunions event: "Archiving the Intellectual History of Latin America"
Fri, Jun 1, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
“Moods of Thoughts II: Thinking Presence as Event”
Tue, May 1, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Carl Fischer (Spanish and Portuguese GS) on "La batalla de Chile: Masculinities Struggling for a Utopian Present"
Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Rafael Rojas (Princeton) on "Nombrando el huracán. Waldo Frank y su retrato de Cuba"
Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Nestor Braunstein (National University of Mexico) on "Las memorias del psicoanálisis"
Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Angelo Bucci (Architect) on SPBR Recent Projects
Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
René Zenteno on "Mexican Policy Challenges and New Perspectives on Migration"
Thu, Apr 12, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Valeria Luiselli (Columbia University) on "Afterlives of a novel: fragility and power of imagination"
Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Histories without Borders. Translating Cultures in the Renaissance."
Fri, Apr 6, 2012, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Lars Hedin (Director, Program in Environmental Studies) on "Pablo Neruda, Climate Change, and Latin American Forests"
Wed, Apr 4, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
PLAS conference: "Routes of Modernity: China-Iberia-Philippines"
Fri, Mar 30, 2012, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Mónica Gabriela Moreno Figueroa (PLAS Visiting Scholar) on "Displaced Looks: on being beautiful, ordinary, ugly or insignificant..."
Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
PLAS Film Screening: "Asaltar los cielos [Storm the Skies]" (1996)
Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Jason McMann (Politics GS) on "Information-Scarce Preference Formation: Explaining Individual Preferences for Economic Integration in Latin America"
Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Ruben Oliven on "The Imaginary of Brazilian Popular Music"
Thu, Mar 8, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Philippe Olle-Laprune on "Literature and Exile: The Case of Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl in Mexico City"
Wed, Mar 7, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
PLAS conference: Freud Otherwise
Fri, Mar 2, 2012, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Heriberto Yépez (Autonomous University of Baja California) on "Escribir (en más de) una frontera entre(s) Méx. y Co-Esta2 Uni2"
Wed, Feb 29, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Workshop: "Between Revolution and Democracy: José Aricó, Marxism, and Latin America"
Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Serge Gruzinski (PLAS Visiting Scholar and École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) on "El aguila y el dragón: México y China..."
Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Maria del Carmen de Lara on "Cine hecho por mujeres en México"
Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Carlos Eire (Yale University) "On Learning to Die in Miami"
Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Lilia Schwarcz (PLAS Visiting Scholar & Universidade de São Paulo) on "The Sun of Brazil: Nicolas Taunay and the Difficult Images of a Tropical..."
Wed, Feb 15, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Ambassador Ricardo Luna (PLAS Visiting Scholar) on "Tropical Delusions: The Origins, Essential Differences, and Fragile Links of a Shared Ideology..."
Jimena Canales (Harvard University) on "Other Histories: A Tenth of a Second"
Wed, Feb 8, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Martín Caparrós (Argentinean writer) on "Gigantium humeris? Un recorrido por la narrative latinoamericana tristemente actual"
Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Nadya Guimarães (Universidad de São Paulo) on "Care and Care work in Brazil, France, and Japan"
Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Antonio Sérgio Guimarães (Universidad de São Paulo) on "Race, Skin Color, and Color - U.S., European, and Brazilian Ways of Racial Classification"
Thu, Dec 8, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Felipe Cala Buendia (graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese) on "Cultural Goods Recycled: The Moral Economy of Eloísa Cartonera"
Tue, Dec 6, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Laura Gandolfi (graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese) on "Antigüedades mexicanas: William Bullock y Eugène Boban"
Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Antonio Jose Ponte (Cuban writer) on "José Lezama Lima en 1937: Madrid-La Habana-Moscú"
Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
**CANCELLED** Sarah Hirschman (Founder, People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos) on "Conversations Between Literary and Community Voices"
Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Conference: Did Modern Photography Begin in Mexico?
Fri, Nov 18, 2011, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Gustavo Pérez Firmat (Columbia University) on "The Havana Habit"
Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Kelly Baum (Art Museum) on "Toughs of the Tender Left: Militancy, Masculinity, and the Situationist International"
Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Ruth Behar '80 *83 (University of Michigan) on "The Freedom to Travel Anywhere in the World: Stories from Cuba"
Wed, Nov 9, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Roberto González Echevarría (Yale University) on "Alegoría e historia en De donde son los cantantes"
Roberto González Echevarría (Yale University) on "Alegoría e historia en De donde son los cantantes"
Tue, Nov 8, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Fabrizio Mejia Madrid (Mexican writer and journalist) on "Utopía, violencia y éxtasis. Owen, Bierce y Burroughs en México"
Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Iwa Nawrocki (grad student in History) on "Claiming the Pope: The Local, National, and Global Politics of Pope John Paul II’s 1980 Visit to Brazil"
Tue, Oct 25, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
PLAS film screening of "Pecados de mi padre"
Mon, Oct 24, 2011, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
John Hemming (explorer and scholar) on "Monuments of the Incas"
Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Rachel Price (Spanish and Portuguese) on "Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973) and the First Brazilian Digital Art"
Tue, Oct 18, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Jessica Delgado (Religion) on "Women as Witnesses: Gossip, confession, and the local impact of the Mexican Inquisition"
Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
PLAS film screening of "Los que se quedan" (2008)
Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
John Mraz (PLAS visiting fellow) on "Historicizing Photographs"
Tue, Oct 4, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Juan Villoro (PLAS visiting fellow) on "Letanías del polvo"
Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Edward E. Telles (Sociology) presents the PLAS 2011 Reunions Event: "Race in Latin America"
Fri, May 27, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Celi Regina Jardim Pinto (Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)) on "Brazil 'Taking Off' and the Challenges of a Female President"
Tue, May 3, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Fernando López-Alves (University of California, Santa Barbara) on "The Nation in Post-Neoliberal Urban Centers: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima"
Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
**Cancelled** PLAS Film Screening of "Suite Habana" (2003)
Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Christopher Dunn (Tulane University) on "Maluco Beleza: Counterculture and Authoritarian Modernization in Brazil, 1968-1974"
Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
PLAS Film Screening of "Profundi Carmesi" (Deep Crimson) (1996)
Tue, Apr 19, 2011, 1:30 pm to 4:20 pm
"A Gringa in Bogotá: Citizenship in Colombia"
Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Delicate Art: Art of Delicateness"
Fri, Apr 8, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm
"Thinking Global and the Birth of the Global Sphere in the Iberian Worlds"
Thu, Apr 7, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
"Escrituras privadas: las correspondencias de Onetti, Cortázar y Puig"
Tue, Apr 5, 2011, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
"El derecho de nacer. Legitimidad, historia y literatura en Cuba. 1952–1976."
Mon, Apr 4, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
"Ramón Mercader: el hombre que amaba a los perros"
Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Roundtable on Deportations and National Security
Mon, Mar 28, 2011, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
"King and Clown: Mimesis in Pre-Columbian Maya Art"
Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Nueva York 1613–1945, the Exhibit: A Conversation with Mike Wallace
Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm
PLAS Film Screening of "Abused: The Postville Raid" (2002)
Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
PLAS Film Screening of "Japan" (2002)
Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
"Afro-Latin@ History and Culture in the United States"
Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
‘Voz humana’, una novela sobre canto y tecnología
Tue, Mar 8, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
"If You Want to Truly Understand Something, Try Changing It"
Tue, Mar 1, 2011, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
"Native History for Natives: The colonial-era evolution of Mexican indigenous annals"
Tue, Mar 1, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Separate and Unequal: Immigrants in the Shadows"
Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Information meeting for prospective PLAS certificate students
Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
PLAS Lunch Seminar with Graduate Students
Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
"Mexico: Human Rights and Failed Law"
Wed, Feb 16, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Técnicas de conversación con los difuntos"
Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:50 pm
"When Politicians Become Artists"
Wed, Feb 9, 2011, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A Lecture by Tania Bruguera (Cuban Artist)
Wed, Feb 9, 2011, 4:30 pm to Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 5:30 pm
"Los Bostonians, Yucatán y los primeros pasos de la arqueología estadounidense 1875-1910"
Wed, Feb 9, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Voz humana’, una novela sobre canto y tecnología
Tue, Feb 8, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm