Events Archive

Events Archive

Dorobucci: Not Your Average Fairytale

Dorobucci: Not Your Average Fairytale
Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 9:00 pm

Alliance for Jewish Progressives: Grassroots Organizing 101

Princeton’s Inaugural Soccer Conference

Princeton’s Inaugural Soccer Conference
Sat, Dec 7, 2019 (All day) to Sun, Dec 8, 2019 (All day)

Dorobucci: Not Your Average Fairytale

Dorobucci: Not Your Average Fairytale
Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 9:00 pm

Dorobucci: Not Your Average Fairytale

Dorobucci: Not Your Average Fairytale
Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 9:00 pm

Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop Series

Brazil: From a Rooseveltian Dream to the Nightmare of Parliamentary Coup

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop

Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines

Latin America Today: Upheavals and Repression

Yarimar Bonilla & Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Aftershocks of Disaster: Book Discussion

Latin American Film Center: The Milk of Sorrow, Screening

The Whisperers by Vivi Tellas

The Whisperers by Vivi Tellas
Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 3:15 pm

Alliance for Jewish Progressives: Grassroots Organizing 101

Princeton Spanish Debate Tournament

Princeton Spanish Debate Tournament
Sat, Nov 23, 2019 (All day) to Sun, Nov 24, 2019 (All day)

Writing Truthfully, A Converstion with Alma Guillermoprieto

On Brazilian Authoritarianism: A Book Forum with Lilia Schwarcz

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop
Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 12:30 pm

Veinte Minutos de Conversación Entre Alejandro Moreno y Severo Sarduy

Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop Series

Frances Negrón-Muntaner & Sarabel Santos-Negrón: Art & Activism in Puerto Rico: Valor y Cambio

Liquid Landscapes: Screening Part II

Liquid Landscapes: Screening Part II
Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 5:00 pm

Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop Series

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Fernanda Sobrino & Galileu Kim

Noa Corcoran-Tadd: El Camino de Arriba y el Camino de Abajo: Life on the Road in the South-Central Andes

Liquid Landscapes: Screening Part I

Liquid Landscapes: Screening Part I
Mon, Nov 11, 2019, 6:30 pm

Tracing the Specter of Semilingualism in Bilingual Educational Policy

Alliance for Jewish Progressives: Grassroots Organizing 101

Amazonian Poetics | Poéticas Amazônicas - Workshop

Amazonian Poetics | Poéticas Amazônicas - Workshop
Fri, Nov 8, 2019 (All day) to Sat, Nov 9, 2019 (All day)

Jose Flores Workshop

Jose Flores Workshop
Thu, Nov 7, 2019, 6:30 pm

Princeton International Cinema Series: “Birds of Passage”

The Poetics of an Amazonian World: Flutes, Spells, Necklaces, and Manioc

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop

Arturo Alvarado: A Left Turn to Militarization? Mexico’s Security Challenges

Olga Pellicer: Mexico and the United States after One Year of President López Obrador

Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop Series

Marcelo Medeiros: Education is No Panacea: Inequality and Poverty in Brazil

Afro Latinx Community Dinner Collaboration

Afro Latinx Community Dinner Collaboration
Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 7:30 pm

Brazil LAB Presents: Amazonian Leapfrogging: Long-term Vision for Safeguarding the Amazon for Brazil and the Planet

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop
Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 12:30 pm

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero: Scientific Racism in the French Debate about General Liberty during the Haitian Revolution

Latinx Heritage Month: Butler/Wilson

Latinx Heritage Month: Butler/Wilson
Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 5:30 pm

Fall Gala

Fall Gala
Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 7:30 pm

Latinx Heritage Month: Forbes Community Dinner

Cielo Oscuro & Eve Xelestiál Moreno – Luz

Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop Series

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Andy Alfonso and Francisco Cabezon

Latinx Heritage Month: Rocky/Mathey Dining

Latinx Heritage Month: Rocky/Mathey Dining
Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 5:30 pm

Freya Schiwy: The Open Invitation. Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect.

Latinx Heritage Month: Whitman Dining

Latinx Heritage Month: Whitman Dining
Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 5:30 pm

Latinx Heritage Month: DACA Workshop

Latinx Heritage Month: DACA Workshop
Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 4:00 pm

Festival Cultural Latino

Festival Cultural Latino
Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 1:00 pm

Latinx Heritage Month: Movie Night

Latinx Heritage Month: Movie Night
Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 8:30 pm

Public Security and Democracy in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities

Rehearsals for a Reverse Anthropology

Rehearsals for a Reverse Anthropology
Thu, Oct 3, 2019 (All day) to Fri, Oct 4, 2019 (All day)

Michael Bazzett: The Power & Poetry of the Popol Vuh, the Creation Epic of the Maya

A Call to Action: Naomi Klein in Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

**CANCELLED** Patricia Espinosa: Política y Narrativa de Mujeres en Chile, Periodo 2000-2019

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop

Javier Ávila: The Trouble with My Name

Javier Ávila: The Trouble with My Name
Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 4:30 pm

Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop Series

Fernando Degiovanni: Performing Latin Americanism: Body, Technology, Discipline

The Sun on My Head: A Book Discussion with Geovani Martins

Radicalized Brazil | Now What?

Radicalized Brazil | Now What?
Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 4:30 pm

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop

Undergraduate Latin American Studies Workshop
Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 12:30 pm

Arturo Arias: Recovering Lost Footprints: The New Mayan Narrators

Margarita López Maya & Carlos de la Torre: On the Populist Reason, Ecuador-Venezuela

Ignacio Walker *89: Chile: 30 Years After the Election of President Aylwin (1989)

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples’ Conference

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples’ Conference
Thu, Sep 12, 2019 (All day) to Sat, Sep 14, 2019 (All day)

Understanding Puerto Rican Revolt: The Relevance of Black Feminism, Marronage, and Decolonial Thought

“Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps”

PLAS VISAPUR Presents: “Violencia de género y colonialidad del poder: Encuentro con Rita Segato y Rígel Lugo"

VISAPUR Lunch & Learn

VISAPUR Lunch & Learn
Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Santiago Craig: Writing in Constant Crisis. How to Make Fiction in the Periphery.

Law, Difference, and Healthcare: Making Sense of Structural Racism in Medico-Legal History

What They Carried: Stories from Recently Resettled Refugees

Presenting Author: Sandra Cisneros in a Conversation about Cultural Identity

PLAS Graduate Work-in-Progress with Daniela Barba-Sánchez

The Queer Amazon

The Queer Amazon
Sat, May 11, 2019 (All day)

Princeton Research Day 2019

Princeton Research Day 2019
Thu, May 9, 2019, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Latin American Publishing: Looking Ahead

Latin American Publishing: Looking Ahead
Wed, May 8, 2019, 2:00 pm

Dorobbuci Presents: Dun Talkin' Dance Show

Dorobbuci Presents: Dun Talkin' Dance Show
Thu, May 2, 2019, 9:00 pm to Sat, May 4, 2019, 10:00 pm

Victoria Furtado and María Noel Sosa: Momento de paro. Tiempo de rebelión. Notas sobre la lucha feminista en Uruguay hoy.

Pais Portátil III: Re-thinking the State: Criminal Organizations and Militarized Violence in Venezuela

Argentina under pressure again: What happened? What’s happening? What’s next?, Demian Reidel, Harvard Kennedy School

Princeton University Orchestra & Glee Club, Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor

Writing Insurgencies with José Rabasa

Writing Insurgencies with José Rabasa
Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Princeton University Orchestra & Glee Club, Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor

Writing Insurgencies with José Rabasa

Writing Insurgencies with José Rabasa
Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress with Yangyou Fang & Elisa Klüger

Photography and Chilean Street Life: A Public Conversation with Paz Errázuriz

Ensemble Berlin: featuring members of Berlin Philharmonic

CANCELLED: Undergraduate Latin American History Workshop

Latin America and the Caribbean Graduate Workshops

Presentation of El populismo por venir? (Guillermo Escolar, 2018) & panel on Populisms in Latin America, Spain, and Beyond

Andrea Giunta: Radical Women: An Instersectional-Without-Separability Perspective

"Technological Leapfrogging in the Global South: The Case of Brazil"

Negotiating Race in the US Census: The production of identity in Spanish-language interviews

Program in Latin American Studies Open House

Program in Latin American Studies Open House
Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Princeton Camerata presents Danza!

Princeton Camerata presents Danza!
Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 3:00 pm

Center for Digital Humanities: Building Bridges with Data

Center for Digital Humanities: Building Bridges with Data
Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

Drag Kings: An Archaeology of Spectacular Masculinities in Latino America

Drag Kings: An Archaeology of Spectacular Masculinities in Latino America
Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 4:00 pm to Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 7:00 pm

Jennifer Pedraza: Movimiento Estudiantil Universitario Colombiano

Leonardo Cardoso: State Acoustics in Brazil

Leonardo Cardoso: State Acoustics in Brazil
Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 12:00 pm

CANCELLED: Undergraduate Latin American History Workshop

Program in Latin American Studies Open House

Program in Latin American Studies Open House
Tue, Apr 9, 2019, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Discussion: "Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States"

Latin America and the Caribbean Graduate Workshops

Princeton Environmental Ideathon 2019: Green Metropolis

Princeton Environmental Ideathon 2019: Green Metropolis
Fri, Apr 5, 2019 (All day) to Sun, Apr 7, 2019 (All day)

Lecture: Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Indigenous/Settler Conference

Indigenous/Settler Conference
Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 4:45 pm to Sat, Apr 6, 2019, 7:00 pm

Book Talk: Send Them Back: The Legal Battle to Save Hatian Refugees

Pablo Piccato: Poetry in the Public Sphere in Republican Mexico: A Reading of Ignacio Ramírez

Faculty Panel: Mexican Votives across Time and Space

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress with Federico Huneeus & Jessica Mack

Book Presentation: The Zapatista Movement and Mexico’s Democratic Transition by María Inclán

"Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel"

"Brown Matter, Noisy Flesh"

"Brown Matter, Noisy Flesh"
Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 4:30 pm

CANCELLED: Undergraduate Latin American History Workshop

Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States
Sat, Mar 16, 2019 (All day) to Sun, Jul 7, 2019 (All day)

Brazil LAB Symposium: "Black Feminisms across the Americas: Intersecting Feminisims"

Brazil LAB Symposium: Black Feminisms across the Americas

Brazil LAB Symposium: Black Feminisms across the Americas
Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 1:45 pm to 7:00 pm

Colonial Americas Workshop - Compensating Whiteness: Slave Courts in Colonial Maryland

Book Presentation: Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America by Deborah Yashar

Lapidus Family Fund Lecture in American Jewish Studies: Rachel Rubinstein

Cristina Freire: Decolonize the Museum: Utopia?

CANCELLED: Undergraduate Latin American History Workshop

Latin America and the Caribbean Graduate Workshops

"Decolonizing Art: A Conversation with Brazilian Artist Adriana Varejão"

Reading by Frank Bidart and Yuri Herrera

Reading by Frank Bidart and Yuri Herrera
Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 7:30 pm

Colombia’s Peace Agreement: Issues, Progress and Challenges

Conversation with former Colombian Constitutional Court president Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa

Lisa Blackmore: Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison

Colonial Americas Workshop: Slavery, Emotions, and Gender

"Slavery, Emancipation, and Everyday Rhythms: Art Through Afro-Atlantic Histories"

CANCELLED: Undergraduate Latin American History Workshop

Latin America and the Caribbean Graduate Workshops

Book Workshop: “Superlative City: Experimental Urbanity in São Paulo”

Book Workshop: “Superlative City: Experimental Urbanity in São Paulo”
Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 3:30 pm to Sat, Feb 23, 2019, 4:00 pm

"How Can Brazil Avoid Tech Dystopia? On Election Hacking, Digital Identities, and Artificial Intelligence"

**CANCELLED** Cristina Rivera Garza: "Brief Domestic Archaeology of Deportation"

"Between Expulsion and Resistance: A Conversation with Óscar Martínez on the Crisis in Central America"

Rubí Carreño Bolívar: "Cucurrucucú Paloma: Pájaros y Flores en las Letras y Canciones Chilenas, Una Perspectiva de Género"

Colonial Americas Workshop: Mirages of a Past (Never) Gone: On Those Who Conquered and Those Who Settled

CANCELLED: Undergraduate Latin American History Workshop

"Activist Laboratory: People-Powered Action in Brazil’s Eroding Democracy"

Reading by Layli Long Soldier and Jacob Shores-Argüello

Ben Gerlofs: "Así No (Not Like This): Resisting Postpolitics on Mexico City's Avenida Chapultepec"

"Integral Engagements with Fragility: A Workshop and Screening with Lata Mani"

Daniel Balderston: "The Warring Brothers: Borges Reads Kafka and Flaubert"

The Trenton Project: Inside Stories from a Changing City Historías Íntimas de una Ciudad Cambiante

The Trenton Project: Inside Stories from a Changing City Historías Íntimas de una Ciudad Cambiante

Screening and Discussion: Theatre of War

Screening and Discussion: Theatre of War
Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 7:00 pm

“La Música Como Libertad: Gustavo Dudamel en Princeton”

Apply to Princeton in Argentina

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"

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Ingrid Brioso Rieumont & Benjamin Murphy

Latin American History Workshop Series

Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 12:15 pm

Author Conversation | Naomi Klein

Author Conversation | Naomi Klein
Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 5:30 pm

Eduardo Moncada: "The Politics of Resistance to Criminal Victimization"

Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

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”

“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"

Latin America Investment Outlook

Latin America Investment Outlook
Tue, Dec 4, 2018 (All day)

Aguinaldos: Gaitas y Parrandas

Aguinaldos: Gaitas y Parrandas
Sat, Dec 1, 2018, 9:00 pm

“It wasn’t me!”: Enslaved Women, The Police, The Public, and the Press in Late-Nineteenth Century Brazil"

Conference on the future of Brazilian studies to be held at Yale

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

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

Reading Matters Conference
Thu, Nov 29, 2018 (All day) to Sat, Dec 1, 2018 (All day)

Latin American History Workshop Series

Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 12:15 pm

Mellon Forum: Gender, Justice, Urbanism with Aiala Levy and Marília Librandi-Rocha

Jesse Lerner & Luciano Piazza: “Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America”

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

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

Brazil LAB: "Now What? Brazil under Bolsonaro"

In(ter)dependence Days? A Conversation On Democracy, (Post) Nationalism And The Spanish State

A Sense of Brazil: Festive Event

A Sense of Brazil: Festive Event
Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 5:00 pm

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Ivan L. Munuera & Thomas Matusiak

Brazil LAB: "Religion and Violence in Brazilian Politics"

Mario Gandelsonas: "Fluvial Metropolies"

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

Author Talk with Rosina Lozano “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States”

Latin American History Workshop Series

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)"

Conference, “Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation”

Conference, “Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation”

Fiona Ngô: The Perfectible Refugee and the Welfare Queen: the Reordering of Race and Disability

The Hole: An Ethnographic Descent into Mexico City's 'Anexos'

"The Aísthetic Sense of Liberatory and Decolonial Thought (Through a South-South Dialogue)"

Rosina Lozano: "An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States"

Brazil LAB Film Series: "The Trial", A Film by Maria Augusta Ramos

Rafael Rojas - Presentation of La polis literaria (2018)

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Martín Cobas Sosa & Miguel Dominguez

Rossana Reguillo: "Ensayos y Escenas Desde el Abismo: Sobre el Horror Contemporáneo”

Latin American History Workshop Series

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"

Jessica Mack: "Inside Ciudad Universitaria: Academic Reform and Student Life on a New Campus, 1954-1970"

Colloquium: "The Ends of Nature?"

Colloquium: "The Ends of Nature?"
Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

"The Ends of Nature?" Film Screening: Amazonia, Inc.

"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..."

Rafael Sánchez: "Humpty-Dumpty Populism in Venezuela (and Elsewhere)"

Festival Cultural Latino: Mercado on the Plaza

Latin American History Workshop Series

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"

Film Screening of "Abuela's Luck" a Short Film by Rick Rosario

Paula Vedoveli presents "Calculating Credibility: Crisis and Recovery in Argentina 1890-1902"

Naomi Klein & Yarimar Bonilla in Conversation — The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

Roundtable on "Narrating Colombia’s (Post)Conflict"

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"

Latin American History Workshop Series

Latin American History Workshop Series
Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 12:15 pm

Open Studio: Nibia Pastrana Santiago, PLAS VISAPUR Fellow

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

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"

Film Screening of "Inin Niwe: The Plant Healer"

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”

Festa Junina: Brazilian June Party

Festa Junina: Brazilian June Party
Sat, May 12, 2018, 4:00 pm

Eddie Palmieri Sextet

Eddie Palmieri Sextet
Sat, May 5, 2018, 8:00 pm

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress
Thu, May 3, 2018, 12:00 pm

Timo Schaefer on “The Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”

Estéticas Forenses: Notas Sobre Fotografía Y Violencia

The Origins and Future of The Venezuelan Crisis

Daniel Balderston on "Borges's 'El inmortal': Learning from the Manuscript"

Poetics and Politics of Indigenous Women

Poetics and Politics of Indigenous Women
Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 2:00 pm

Luiz Feldman on “Brazil in the United Nations”

McCarter Presents Jazz of Cuba: Roberto Fonseca Quintet

PLAS 50th Anniversary Symposium "PLAS in Perspective"

Gallery Talk: Material Alchemy

Gallery Talk: Material Alchemy
Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 12:30 pm
Tags: 50th Anniversary Event

SENSING THE WORLD THROUGH THE SPIDERWEB: ART AS EXTENDED CONDITION

Feminist Struggles in Latin America: Past/Present

Princeton’s Brazil LAB presents KBELA A film by Yasmin Thayná

Program in Latin American Studies & Program in Latino Studies Open House

Mexico 2018 Elections: Institutional Safeguards and Challenges

Visualizing Migration Intersections of Photography, Art & Social Science

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

2018 Latinx Theater Commons María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium

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”

Cecilia Vicuña Artist Performance & Conversation

The Incorruptible Body

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

Liquid La Habana Exhibition

Liquid La Habana Exhibition
Mon, Apr 9, 2018 (All day) to Fri, May 11, 2018 (All day)
Tags: 50th Anniversary Event

“Vaya de Fiesta” Concert

“Vaya de Fiesta” Concert
Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 8:30 pm
Tags: 50th Anniversary Event

PLAS Conference and Early Music Princeton Concert "De Canciones y Cancioneros: Music and Literary Sources of the Luso-Hispanic Song Tradition"

1521-1815 Spanish Transpacific between East and West

1521-1815 Spanish Transpacific between East and West
Fri, Apr 6, 2018, 9:00 am to 5:15 pm

Film: The Eyes of the Journey

Film: The Eyes of the Journey
Thu, Apr 5, 2018, 4:30 pm

Lamento Borincano: Puerto Rican Sites of the Catastrophic, 1968/2018

Dan-el Padilla Peralta on "Athens and Sparta of the New World: The Classical Passions of Santo Domingo"

Latin America: Recent Developments & Economic Outlook

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

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

Princeton’s Brazil LAB presents "Amazonia Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation and Development"

João Biehl, Arcadio Diaz-Quinones & Adriana Petryna in Conversation Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming

Alisha Holland on "Creative Construction: The Rise and Corruption of Infrastructure Projects in Latin America"

Immigration Panel

Immigration Panel
Mon, Mar 26, 2018, 6:30 pm

Graduate Works-in-Progress: Charlie Hankin and Brandon Hunter

Nora Benedict on "Armar Páginas, Corregir Pruebas: Borges as Author, Editor, and Publisher"

Robert Karl on "Colombia’s First Kidnapping Crisis and the Urban Origins of Paramilitarism"

Cuban Filmmaker Miguel Coyula

Cuban Filmmaker Miguel Coyula
Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 4:00 pm

"The Future of the Puerto Rican Body" - PART II of Bankruptcy and Citizenship: Puerto Rico, A 21st Century Colony?

A Critique of Violence in the Immigration Regime: VAWA, DACA, History, and Labor

Inventing Modern Art in Brazil

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"

Cecilia Fajardo on "The Political body in Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985"

Latin Jazz Concert Featuring: Danilo Pérez

Jazz Migrations and Social Change: A Conversation with Danilo Pérez

All Things Faux

All Things Faux
Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 6:00 pm

Andrés Di Tella presents "By the Light of Forgetfulness"

New Rules for Migrants and Refugees: A Model International Mobility Convention

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

GSS Work-in-Progress Series with Justin Perez
Wed, Feb 21, 2018, 12:00 pm

The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development

The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development
Thu, Feb 15, 2018, 12:15 pm to 1:20 pm

Puerto Rican Graphic Arts Exhibition

Puerto Rican Graphic Arts Exhibition
Thu, Feb 15, 2018 (All day) to Fri, Jun 15, 2018 (All day)
Tags: 50th Anniversary Event

"In The Intense Now" A Documentary by João Moreira Salles

Bandoneon & Guitar Tango Performance and Discussion by Matilde Vitullo & Pino Enriquez

Maria Micaela Sviatschi presents “Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths”

Migration and Material Alchemy

Migration and Material Alchemy
Mon, Feb 5, 2018 (All day) to Tue, Jun 5, 2018 (All day)
Tags: 50th Anniversary Event

“Poisonous Flowers: Radical Women in Latin America” Featuring Licia Fiol-Matta

“Poisonous Flowers: Radical Women in Latin America” Featuring Sayak Valencia

The Last Lecture Before Kingdom Come: A Brief Genealogy of Sunset Studies, on the Occasion of Our Final Sunset

Community Meeting on Puerto Rico

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”

Los Posadas

Los Posadas
Fri, Dec 8, 2017, 7:00 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"

"Venezuela in Crisis" a Conversation with Opposition Leaders Carlos Vecchio and David Smolansky

Bryan Just presents “Reflections on Course Travel to Chiapas to Explore Art and Politics of the Maya West”

“Dzi Croquettes” Then and Now: A Conversation with Ciro Barcelos

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg presents “The Dynamic Effects of Trade Liberalization: The Case of Latin America”

Brazil LAB presents U.S. premiere of Daniela Thomas' “VAZANTE”

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress Presentations

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

Marcia Ochoa presents “Los Huecos Negros: Cannibalism, Sodomy and the Failure of Modernity in Tierra Firme“

Las Siamesas (Siamese Twins) Written by Griselda Gambaro

Laura Mulvey presents "Time at a Crossroads: Thinking About Temporal Imaginaries Through the Compilation Film"

Las Siamesas (Siamese Twins) Written by Griselda Gambaro

Andre Gaudreault presents "The "Belinographisation" of Videocinema: For an Archeology of the Digital"

Mario Camara presents “Restos épicos: la literatura y el arte en el cambio de época”

“Social Change in Latin America, from 1970 to the Present: What We are Learning Together”

Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias joins Princeton in Latin America (PiLA)

Pedro Luengo presents “Geography of Iberian Identities in the Americas through the Early Modern Arts”

The Migrant Passage: Survival Plays and Clandestine Journeys from Central America

"País Portátil: A Panel on Venezuelan Politics, Culture and Economy"

Arto Lindsay presents “Unpair: Dismantling and Reassembling Music and Lyrics”

McCarter Presents Jazz of Cuba: Alfredo Rodriguez

Bankruptcy and Citizenship: Puerto Rico, a 21st Century Colony?

McCarter Presents Contemporary Dance from Cuba: Malpaso Dance Company

The Enduring Allure of Seashells: Conchology and Art

Unnatural Disasters: Houston, Puerto Rico and Other Sites of Climate Crisis

McCarter Presents Contemporary Dance from Cuba: Malpaso Dance Company

João Biehl presents “The False Saints: Remains of the Fratricidal Mucker War that Shattered Brazil’s German Colonies in the 19th Century”

Aisha Beliso-De Jesús presents “The Iyanifa Debate: Cuban, African, and American Diasporic Heteronationalisms”

Dialogue About Mental Health and Wellness Among Latinx Students

PLAS Live Art Sessions featuring "The Whisperers: Homage to Ricardo Piglia"

PLAS Live Art Sessions

PLAS Live Art Sessions
Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 12:00 pm to Sat, Oct 14, 2017, 5:45 pm
Tags: 50th Anniversary Event

“La novela de la poesía”, una conversación con Tamara Kamenszain

Luisa Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status (Havana, 1817)

“Nuestro Futuro, a Conversation with Jorge Ramos”

“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"

Marco Antonio Chávez-Aguayo

Marco Antonio Chávez-Aguayo
Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Jorge Arrate presents “Chile: 25 Years of Democracy”

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

REVOLUTIONIZING REVOLUTION A Tender Guerrilla On Cis-Architecture

PLAS presents Laura Chinchilla, Former President of Costa Rica

Nestor Siré presents “Informal Media Cultures and Contemporary Art in Cuba”

Latino Graduate Student Association presents Latin American Film Festival

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”

Club de Lectura

Club de Lectura
Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:00 pm to 7:00 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

Latinx Heritage Month
Sun, Sep 10, 2017 (All day) to Wed, Oct 18, 2017 (All day)

“The Sorcerer Intellectual”

“The Sorcerer Intellectual”
Fri, May 19, 2017, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Joaquín Medina Warmburg to present “Shaping Atmospheres: Early Environmental Approaches in Latin American Architecture”

Lena Burgos-Lafuente to present “A La Escucha de la Guerra Fría: El Ojo Acústico de Lorenzo Homar”

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress
Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Eduardo Neves to present "Was There Ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics?: A Discussion from the Amazon"

Latin America Workshop featuring Felice Physioc

Latin America Workshop featuring Felice Physioc
Fri, Apr 14, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Rosina Lozano presents “Governing Bilingually: A History of Spanish in the US”

Ana María Ochoa presents “The Aural, the Oral, Silence”

Ana María Ochoa presents “The Aural, the Oral, Silence”
Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Susana Draper to present "Constellations of 1968 Mexico. Experiments on Freedom and Democracy"

Manuel Barcia presents “White Cannibalism in the Slave Trade: The Curious Case of the Schooner 'Arrogante'”

“A-Fest: Encuentro de escritoras en Nueva York”

“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"

Latin America Workshop featuring Teresa Davis

Latin America Workshop featuring Teresa Davis
Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

“New Directions in Colombian Cinema”

“New Directions in Colombian Cinema”
Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 1:30 pm to 8:00 pm

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress

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”

Eduardo Luis Rodriguez to present on "Tropical Modernity: Neutra, Burle-Marx and Cuba - De Schulthess House"

Latin America Workshop featuring Martín Marimón

Latin America Workshop featuring Martín Marimón
Fri, Mar 3, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Department of Religion presents “Race and Religion in the Americas and the Atlantic World: A Conference in Honor of María Elena Martinez”

Rubén Gallo to present "Havana in Transition"

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"

The Spanish Theater Group presents "Eva Perón"
Fri, Feb 24, 2017, 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Junot Díaz conversation on "Activism & Academia"

Junot Díaz conversation on "Activism & Academia"
Fri, Feb 24, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress

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"

Latin America Workshop featuring Paula Vedoveli

Latin America Workshop featuring Paula Vedoveli
Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Sergio Chejfec to present "Documento, Alias Relato"

Sergio Chejfec to present "Documento, Alias Relato"
Wed, Feb 15, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

PLAS Film Screening of: “Beyond Borders”

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”

PLAS Lunch Lecture “Militias and the Politics of War in 19th Century Brazil”

PLAS Lunch Lecture: “Erotismo e Pornografia”

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”

PLAS Lunch Lecture: “Visualizing social and political processes in Argentina: Reading Princeton’s ephemera materials..."

Princeton Lecture Series: "Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro"

PLAS Lunch Lecture: “La lucha, a Cuban Form of Life”

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"

"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"

PLAS New Trends in Latin American Studies Series: "Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism"

PLAS Lunch Lecture: “O Brasil pós-impeachment: uma conversa com Jean Wyllys”

PLAS and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Present: “Adventures in Muralism..."

PLAS Lunch Lecture: ""El Archivo Biográfico: Notas en torno a la escritura de Coronel Lágrimas"

PLAS Lunch Lecture: “New Cuban Literature and Criticism: A Panel Discussion with Three Visiting Writers”

Wilson Lecture Series: Musical Performance by Gaby Moreno (Best New Artist Winner of 2013 Latin Grammys)

PLAS New Trends in Latin American Studies Series: "Forests Lost and Found: Agrarian, Urban and Forests transitions in Latin America"

PLAS Lunch Lecture: "House of Cards: Explaining Brazil's Unfolding Political Crisis"

PLAS New Trends in Latin American Studies Series: “Museo del Consumo: Archivos de la Cultura de Masas en Argentina”

PLAS Lunch Lecture: “The Colombian Peace Agreement: A Lost Opportunity for Social Transformation?”

PLAS Fellows Series: “Enrique Vila-Matas in conversation with Antonio José Ponte, moderated by Rubén Gallo”

PLAS Lunch Lecture: "Why Border Enforcement Backfired"

PLAS Lunch Lecture: "Why Border Enforcement Backfired"
Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Wilson Lecture Series: “Border Cantos”

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"

PLAS Fellows Series: “A Panel Discussion with Enrique Vila-Matas and Antonio José Ponte, moderated by Rubén Gallo”

“The Cuban Image in an Era of Transition”

“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”

“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"

"Borges Frente a Góngora"

"Borges Frente a Góngora"
Wed, Apr 6, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

“The Idea of Constitutional Exceptions during the Rise of the Christian-Corporatist State in South America”

“U.S./Cuba Relations—Past, Present, and Future”

“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”

“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

“Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis: Economic Collapse in America’s Biggest Colony And What Can be Done About It”

"Global change in the Brazilian Cerrado: The role of fire, biodiversity, and humans"

“Me encuentro en la ficción”

“Me encuentro en la ficción”
Tue, Feb 9, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Ricardo Torres on “Logics of economic transition in Cuba”

Ricardo Torres on “Logics of economic transition in Cuba”
Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

“Political Timing Specific”

“Political Timing Specific”
Thu, Dec 3, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Antonio José Ponte on "Jama y carcomilla: gastronomía y revolución en Cuba"

Mario Vargas Llosa on “The Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attacks: Freedom of Speech in the Age of Radicalism.”

Paulo Tavares on "Over the Ruins of Amazonia"

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"

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"

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"

Arturo Infante on "Realidad y Utopía en la Cuba de Hoy"

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"

Juan Villoro on "La función de la literatura en la consolidación del sentimentalismo mexicano"

SALALM LX Conference “Brazil in the World, the World in Brazil: Research Trends and Library Resources”

OIKOS: Affects, Economies, and Politics of House-ing

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"

“Rethinking Intersectionality in a Latin American Perspective”

Malcolm McNee on "'Amerindian Perspectivism' and other Turns to the Native in Contemporary Brazilian Poetry"

Eugenia Palieraki on “Looking at the Colonels’ Greece in the Chilean Mirror: A Transnational Approach to the Greek Anti-Dictatorial Movement.”

PLAS & the Race and Citizenship in the Americas Network Workshop: “La deuda y la cultura/ A dívida e a cultura”

Ronaldo Lemos on “Feet on the Ground: Politics, Internet Policy and Cultural Challenges in Brazil”

The Race and Citizenship in the Americas Network Conference "Poetry, War, and Citizenship: The 70th Anniversary of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s..."

Robin Blackburn on "The 'Second Slavery:' a New Approach to an Old Institution"

Miguel Díaz-Barriga & Margaret Dorsey on “Border Walls, Sovereignty, and Militarization in the 21st Century”

Screening of "The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim" by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Henrique Espada Rodrigues Lima Filho on "The invention of free labor in Brazil: slavery, contract, and law"

Conference: "Learning from/in Latin America." Part Two: Symposium

"Learning from Latin America"

"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

Architecture’s Empire

Architecture’s Empire
Thu, Apr 2, 2015, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Frank Graziano on “Miracles, Miraculous Images, and Votive Offerings in Mexico”

Fluvial Metropolis Workshop

Fluvial Metropolis Workshop
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 10:30 am to 6:00 pm

Stanley Katz & Rachel Price on “Prospects for Change in Cuba”

Mauricio Lissovsky on "The Brazilian Dictatorship's 50th anniversary: a battle of images"

PLAS Lunch Workshop: "Donald Pierson e os estudos sobre raça no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos (1930-1950)" Featuring: Gustavo Rossi

PLAS Round Table: "Debate on the Current Crises in Argentina and Brazil"

Alberto Manguel on "The Secret Sharer: Borges and Conrad"

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"

"Mathematics Meets the Humanities: A Conversation with Fernando Codá moderated by João Moreira Salles and Pedro Meira Monteiro”

Lucia Serrano Pereira on "O estranho – o tema da criação e a instauração da vertigem"

Diálogo com Rachel Bertol e André Bittencourt “A nova geração de autores indígenas no Brasil”

Pablo Landa on “Mario Pani, Architecture in Process”

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"

Álvaro Fernandez-Bravo on “El autor como traductor: representaciones asiáticas en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea”

Urban Studies Research Seminar: “History and Memory”

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"

Vivi Tellas on "Found Theatre

Vivi Tellas on "Found Theatre
Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Andrew J. Hamilton on "“The Dumbarton Oaks Tunic: A Sartorial Statement of Inca Imperial Power”

Book launch for " Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America by the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America"

A Conversation with Ricardo Lísias on "The Limits of Fiction"

PLAS Musical Event

PLAS Musical Event
Thu, Dec 4, 2014, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Graciela Mochkofsky on "The Rise of a New Judaism in Latin America"

Marcelo Ridenti on “Protests in Brazil, 2013”

Marcelo Ridenti on “Protests in Brazil, 2013”
Tue, Dec 2, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Eduardo Kohn on "How Forests Think"

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"

PLAS-SPO Event: "Teaching Spanish and Portuguese Today: Global perspectives."

Lilia Schwarcz on "Mestizo Histories: Mixing Art and Politics in Brazil"

Brodwyn Fischer on "Unequal Ties: Gilberto Freyre’s Recife and the Challenges of Urban History in the Global South"

Martin Murphy & Christopher Schmidt-Nowara on “The Blanco White Brothers, the Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy, and Spanish-American Independence”

Sylvia Molloy on “Una torpe estatuilla de barro” Figuración de Alejandra Pizarnik

Yumi Park Huntington on “Engraved Head Motifs on Cupisnique Ceramics: Emblems of Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in Early Andean Art”

Erin Fitz Henry on "Now the Country Belongs to All of Us!: Toward a 'Post-Neoliberal' Ecuador"

Henrique Espada Lima on "Wages of Intimacy: Domestic Workers’ Disputes over Compensation in the Higher Courts in Nineteenth-Century Brazil"

Lunch Discussion: Choosing a President, Round Two

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”

Jose Ricardo Ayres on “Public Health Challenges in an Ever-Changing Brazil”

Stanley Stein on "How Colonialism Works: Mexico, A Case Study"

Daniel Schavelzon on “El manejo de recursos culturales en una sociedad que no protege el patrimonio: la arqueología de Buenos Aires”

Edward Telles on “New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America”

A Conversation with Graciela Iturbide and Fabienne Bradú

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"

RACA Conference: Photography and Race in the Americas: Beyond Fixity

International Seminar Venezuela Today: Beyond Polarization

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”

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

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?"

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

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

Luis Felipe Fabre on "Sor Juana y otros monstruos"

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

Tanya Hernandez on "Racial Equality Across the Americas Co-sponsored with Program in Law and Public Affairs"

Helena Ribe on ""Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean: "The Evolution of Policies to Reduce Poverty and Improve Equity"

Tanya Hernandez on “Thinking about Race on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act: Looking Backwards, Forwards, and at the Present”

Serge Gruzinski on "The Eagle and the Dragon"

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

Álvaro Enrigue presents "Muerte súbita"

Álvaro Enrigue presents "Muerte súbita"
Tue, Mar 4, 2014, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Olivier Assayas presents: "Carlos"

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"

Rafael Rojas & Gustavo Pérez Firmat on "T. S. Eliot en La Habana. Poetas norteamericanos en las revistas literarias cubanas (1929-1959)"

Health and the City: Rights, Difference, Belonging

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”

Alfredo Corchado on ""Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness

Susan Meiselas on "Reframing History: Nicaragua Revisited"

Susan Meiselas on "Reframing History: Nicaragua Revisited"
Mon, Dec 2, 2013, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Pablo Ortiz Monasterio on "Mexican Portraits"

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"

Alonso Cueto on "La redención y la violencia como instrumentos de la ficción. La Hora Azul y la novela peruana "

Enrique Krauze on "Will the New Administration Change the Future of Mexico: The struggles of a young democracy"

Gian Paolo Minelli on "La piel de las ciudades/The skin of the cities"

PLAS Conference "Revolution and Peace-building in Central America: Incomplete Transitions in Nicaragua and El Salvador"

The Task of the Novelist: Mario Vargas Llosa in Conversation with Efraín Kristal

Gina Zabludovsky on "Patrimonialismo y burocracia: el rescate de Max Weber en América Latina"

Rosângela Rennó on "Going Analog in the Digital Era"

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)"

Horacio Castellanos-Moya on "Roque Dalton: la otra cara del poeta"

Beatriz Preciado on "Pornotopía: La arquitectura de Playboy"

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"

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

Book Presentation "Democracy in Latin America: Between hope and despair"

Tatiana Bilbao on "Recent Works by the Tatiana Bilbao Studio"

The Itinerant Languages of Photography Exhibition

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

Memories of Development: Albert O. Hirschman in Latin America

A conversation about Sexto Piso, a new publishing house in Latin America with Diego & Eduardo Rabasa (Editors)

Robert Karl on "Reading the Cuban Revolution from Bogotá"

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"

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

Serge Gruzinski on Writing History in XVIth Century New Spain or Universalizing European History in a global context

Bryan McCann on Favela Politics and Democratization in Rio de Janeiro

PLAS Roundtable on "Historias de vida en tiempos de muerte - La construcción del testimonio en la guerra contra el narcotráfico en México"

Guadalupe Nettel in Conversation with Jorge Volpi

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

Luis Felipe Fabre on La sodomía en la Nueva España

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"

Javier Guerrero on “All My Terrors: Reinaldo Arenas in Princeton"

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

The Latin american Photobook Symposium

The Latin american Photobook Symposium
Sat, Dec 1, 2012, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm

Alejandro Portes (Sociology)

Alejandro Portes (Sociology)
Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Jorge Volpi on "Caudillos culturales de la transición mexicana: intelectuales y poder en México, 1999-2012"

Marjorie Perloff on "Avant-Gardism in a Different Key: The Case of Karl Kraus’s Last Days of Mankind"

Laura Gandolfi on "El “Zócalo” de Tina Modotti: los tranvías y el anarcosindicalismo mexicano"

Giancarlo Mazzanti on "Architecture as a Means of Social Transformation"

Enrique Krauze on "Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America"

Mariano Plotkin on "Las particularidades del liberalismo económico argentino"

Claudio Lomnitz on "The Criminalization of Mexican Political Society During the Porfiriato"

Álvaro Enrigue on "The Art and the Court: Tennis, Art, and Literature in Early Modern Times" **Lecture in Spanish**

**CANCELLED ** Cassio Luiselli on "Latin America Today: Integration or Fragmentation?"

Pablo Piccato on "Pistoleros as Authors: Some Reflections on History and Violence in Twentieth Century Mexico"

Javier Sicilia and Juan Villoro on "Mexico and Violence"

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"

A Conversation between Alma Guillermoprieto and John Loomis

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"

Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez (Librarian) presents the PLAS 2012 Reunions event: "Archiving the Intellectual History of Latin America"

“Moods of Thoughts II: Thinking Presence as Event”

“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"

Rafael Rojas (Princeton) on "Nombrando el huracán. Waldo Frank y su retrato de Cuba"

Nestor Braunstein (National University of Mexico) on "Las memorias del psicoanálisis"

Angelo Bucci (Architect) on SPBR Recent Projects

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"

Valeria Luiselli (Columbia University) on "Afterlives of a novel: fragility and power of imagination"

"Histories without Borders. Translating Cultures in the Renaissance."

Lars Hedin (Director, Program in Environmental Studies) on "Pablo Neruda, Climate Change, and Latin American Forests"

PLAS Sophomore Open House

PLAS Sophomore Open House
Tue, Apr 3, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

PLAS conference: "Routes of Modernity: China-Iberia-Philippines"

Mónica Gabriela Moreno Figueroa (PLAS Visiting Scholar) on "Displaced Looks: on being beautiful, ordinary, ugly or insignificant..."

PLAS Film Screening: "Asaltar los cielos [Storm the Skies]" (1996)

Jason McMann (Politics GS) on "Information-Scarce Preference Formation: Explaining Individual Preferences for Economic Integration in Latin America"

Ruben Oliven on "The Imaginary of Brazilian Popular Music"

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"

PLAS conference: Freud Otherwise

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"

Workshop: "Between Revolution and Democracy: José Aricó, Marxism, and Latin America"

Serge Gruzinski (PLAS Visiting Scholar and École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) on "El aguila y el dragón: México y China..."

Maria del Carmen de Lara on "Cine hecho por mujeres en México"

Carlos Eire (Yale University) "On Learning to Die in Miami"

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..."

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"

Martín Caparrós (Argentinean writer) on "Gigantium humeris? Un recorrido por la narrative latinoamericana tristemente actual"

Nadya Guimarães (Universidad de São Paulo) on "Care and Care work in Brazil, France, and Japan"

Antonio Sérgio Guimarães (Universidad de São Paulo) on "Race, Skin Color, and Color - U.S., European, and Brazilian Ways of Racial Classification"

Felipe Cala Buendia (graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese) on "Cultural Goods Recycled: The Moral Economy of Eloísa Cartonera"

Laura Gandolfi (graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese) on "Antigüedades mexicanas: William Bullock y Eugène Boban"

Antonio Jose Ponte (Cuban writer) on "José Lezama Lima en 1937: Madrid-La Habana-Moscú"

**CANCELLED** Sarah Hirschman (Founder, People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos) on "Conversations Between Literary and Community Voices"

Conference: Did Modern Photography Begin in Mexico?

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"

Kelly Baum (Art Museum) on "Toughs of the Tender Left: Militancy, Masculinity, and the Situationist International"

Ruth Behar '80 *83 (University of Michigan) on "The Freedom to Travel Anywhere in the World: Stories from Cuba"

Roberto González Echevarría (Yale University) on "Alegoría e historia en De donde son los cantantes"

Fabrizio Mejia Madrid (Mexican writer and journalist) on "Utopía, violencia y éxtasis. Owen, Bierce y Burroughs en México"

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"

PLAS film screening of "Pecados de mi padre"

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"

Rachel Price (Spanish and Portuguese) on "Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973) and the First Brazilian Digital Art"

Jessica Delgado (Religion) on "Women as Witnesses: Gossip, confession, and the local impact of the Mexican Inquisition"

PLAS film screening of "Los que se quedan" (2008)

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"

Juan Villoro (PLAS visiting fellow) on "Letanías del polvo"

Juan Villoro (PLAS visiting fellow) on "Letanías del polvo"
Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

PLAS Freshmen Open House

PLAS Freshmen Open House
Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Edward E. Telles (Sociology) presents the PLAS 2011 Reunions Event: "Race in Latin America"

Celi Regina Jardim Pinto (Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)) on "Brazil 'Taking Off' and the Challenges of a Female President"

Fernando López-Alves (University of California, Santa Barbara) on "The Nation in Post-Neoliberal Urban Centers: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima"

**Cancelled** PLAS Film Screening of "Suite Habana" (2003)

**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"

PLAS Film Screening of "Profundi Carmesi" (Deep Crimson) (1996)

"A Gringa in Bogotá: Citizenship in Colombia"

"A Gringa in Bogotá: Citizenship in Colombia"
Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

"Friends in High Places"

"Friends in High Places"
Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

"Delicate Art: Art of Delicateness"

"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"

"Escrituras privadas: las correspondencias de Onetti, Cortázar y Puig"

"El derecho de nacer. Legitimidad, historia y literatura en Cuba. 1952–1976."

"Ramón Mercader: el hombre que amaba a los perros"

"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

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"

"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

PLAS Film Screening of "Abused: The Postville Raid" (2002)

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)

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"

"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

‘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"

"Native History for Natives: The colonial-era evolution of Mexican indigenous annals"

"Separate and Unequal: Immigrants in the Shadows"

"Separate and Unequal: Immigrants in the Shadows"
Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

PLAS Senior Thesis Workshop

PLAS Senior Thesis Workshop
Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Information meeting for prospective PLAS certificate students

Information meeting for prospective PLAS certificate students
Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

PLAS Lunch Seminar with Graduate Students

PLAS Lunch Seminar with Graduate Students
Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm

"Mexico: Human Rights and Failed Law"

"Mexico: Human Rights and Failed Law"
Wed, Feb 16, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

"Técnicas de conversación con los difuntos"

"Técnicas de conversación con los difuntos"
Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:50 pm

"When Politicians Become Artists"

"When Politicians Become Artists"
Wed, Feb 9, 2011, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

A Lecture by Tania Bruguera (Cuban Artist)

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"

'Voz humana’, una novela sobre canto y tecnología

'Voz humana’, una novela sobre canto y tecnología
Tue, Feb 8, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

"Artist's Talk"

"Artist's Talk"
Thu, Feb 3, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:50 pm