"Post-Crisis: Biopolitics
of Art in Argentina after 2001" a Latin American
Leventritt Lecture with Andrea
Giunta
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Wednesday, April 8th 6:00pm
Arthur M.
Sackler Museum - Harvard University
485
Broadway,
Cambridge
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Andrea
Giunta, professor of art history, University of
Texas at Austin
Andrea Giunta's research
focuses on the intersection of art and politics
in Latin America. This talk will explore the
impact of the economic and political crisis in
Argentina on artistic practice and on the
organization of culture after
2001. |
"The Welsh and the Muslims:
Contact, Coexistence and Conflict in Nine
Centuries of Literature"
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Wednesday, April 8th 5:30 - 6:30pm
Kates
Room, Warren
House
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The
Humanities Center at Harvard Event: Seminar on
Celtic Literature and Culture
Chairs:
Catherine McKenna, Tom Cathasaigh
Grahame
Davies (Welsh poet and author).
With
comments by William Granara (Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, Harvard
University) |
Fifteen Years After the
Zapatistas: Social and Political Change in
México and Chiapas since 1994
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Friday April 10th, 9:00am -
5:00pm
CGIS South, Belfer, S-020, 1730
Cambridge
Street
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The topics for this all-day conference will
include:
Zapatista Legacy in Context;
Land, Migration and Economy in the Mexican
South; and Sub-National Democratization,
Decentralization, and Liberalization in
México.
Speakers will
include:
Todd Eisenstadt, American
University; Marco Estrada Saavedra, El Colegio
de México; Jorge Hernandez Díaz, Universidad
Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca; Shannan
Mattiace, Allegheny college; and Aaron
Bobrow-Strain, Whitman College; among
others.
For a complete agenda please
contact:
Monica Tesoriero,
smtesor@fas.harvard.edu or view:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/conference_mexico-chiapas |
Marta Gomez CD
Release
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Friday, April 10th
7:30-9:30pm
Cambridge Multicultural Arts
Center, 41 Second Street, Cambridge, MA
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Celebrate
the realase of Marta's fifth album! An
accomplished performer in her home country of
Colombia, singer/song-writer Marta Gómez has
caught the attention of critics and audiences
across the United States. Marta's music mixes
the joy of the Caribbean with her nostalgia of
the Andes and takes the authenticity of South
American indigenous folk music into a hip new
realm.
For more
information:
http://www.cmacusa.org/HTML/performingarts.htm
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"David Huerta Bilingual
Poetry Reading"
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Saturday, April 11th
3:00-4:00pm
Jamaicaway Books, 676 Centre
Street, Jamaica Plain
and
Tuesday, April
14th 5:15pm - 6:15pm
Boston University, CAS,
Room 200, 725 Commonwealth
Ave
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Acclaimed
Mexican poet David Huerta will celebrate a new
bilingual anthology Before Saying Any of the
Great Words: Selected Poems of David
Huerta.
For more information contact:
Leonardo Valero, 617 983-3204
Find out
about Before Saying Any of the Great Words:
Selected Poems of David Huerta--and our upcoming
East Coast readings--at
http://www.beforesaying.com.
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UPCOMING EVENT: Habla
Summer Teacher Institute
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July 11th - 19th
Merida,
Mexico
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The
Habla Summer Institute is a professional
development experience in Mérida, Mexico for all
teachers interested in activating their own
creativity and finding new was to make the arts
part of the daily life of their
classrooms.
Work with leaders in the
field in the areas of arts integration and
literacy development at the ten-day Habla
teacher institute. Habla documents and shares
best practices for teaching literacy and
language using the arts from around the globe.
At this institute you will experience these best
practices, share your own, and learn ways to
fuse the arts with literacy in your educational
setting.
Who is the institute
for?
--Literacy, literature, and language
arts teachers (elementary through
secondary)
--Foreign language
teachers
--Arts teachers (all
disciplines)
--Teaching
artists
--Educational
administrators
--Program
Highlights
--Participate in professional
development workshops led at the Habla center by
international leaders in the fields of literacy,
the arts, and culture.
--Explore through
guided tours: Mayan ruins of Chichen Itzá,
colonial beauty of Izamal, and the complex
history of Mérida
--Share your work as an
educator with an international community of
teachers.
--Immerse yourself in the culture
of Mexico living with a host family and enjoying
traditional Yucatecan cuisine
--Celebrate
during opening and closing fiestas with
traditional food and music from the
Yucatan.
The Habla Teacher Institute 2009
will be led in English. No Spanish language
background is necessary.
For more
information and details, please visit:
http://www.habla.org/en/for-educators/teacher-institute/
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"Literature that
Changed My Life"
$500
Prize
in books from Harvard University Press
to the best essay
Perhaps a novel,
a poem, story, or a play has had a profound
effect on you. We invite students of Harvard
College to submit a short essay (600 word limit)
about the impact of a work of literature on your
life. By its nature, creativity is an
exploration beyond known forms. And
imaginative writing explores the unfamiliar, so
fiction is not a distraction as much as it is a
stretch of intelligence and sensibilities.
Tell us
how a book changed your life.
Deadline:
April 21, 2009
Awards reception:
Late April
Send submissions
to:
cultagen@fas.harvard.edu |
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