Migration and Gendered and Racialized Violence in El Salvador’s Carceral Peacemaking

Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada

Date: October 22, 2024
Time: 6 PM
Address: Global Education Center, Room 1005

Security-focused approaches to peacemaking in El Salvador emphasize incarceration, policing, and militarization. These approaches clash with the realities of gendered and racialized state violence in the country. Today, El Salvador touts near-zero daily homicides and the incarceration of nearly 76,000 alleged gang members – yet femicides persist. In her talk, Dr. Velásquez Estrada highlights the demands of women relatives of gang members for anti-carceral intersectional justice in peacemaking efforts.
The talk is free and open to the public. Dr. Velásquez Estrada is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is currently a National Humanities Center fellow working on her first book, Intersectional Justice: Violence and the Notion of Negative Peace in Post-Accords El Salvador.

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Root Causes and Manufactured Crises: On the Ongoing Dispossession and Displacement of Central Americans

Speaker: Leisy J. Abrego

Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 6 PM
Address: Global Education Center Room 1005

Leisy J. Abrego is Professor in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in sociology, she is a law & society scholar who studies the intimate consequences of U.S. foreign and immigration policies for Central American migrants and Latinx families in the United States. Her book, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press, 2014), examines the well-being of Salvadoran immigrants and their families—both in the United States and in El Salvador—as these are shaped by immigration policies and gendered expectations.

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The Power of Language

Speaker: Mr. Jaques Pierre, Ms. Manuela Tahay, Dr. Paul Meighan

Date: November 19, 2024
Time: 9:30AM – 11:00AM

This webinar will provide a framework for understanding how languages are used as both a form of oppression and a form of resistance and cultural preservation. Interpretation will be provided in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole and K’iche’ Maya. Coming soon: Haitian Creole and K’iche’ Maya flyers and registration links.

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FLAS Info Session

Date: January 17, 2025
Time: 12:00PM
Address: Room 3009, Global Education Center or Zoom

Information session for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Come learn about opportunities to study less-commonly-taught languages, such as Portuguese and the indigenous and creole languages of Latin America!

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FLAS Info Session

Date: January 10, 2025
Time: 12:00PM
Address: Room 3009, Global Education Center or Zoom

Information session for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Come learn about opportunities to study less-commonly-taught languages, such as Portuguese and the indigenous and creole languages of Latin America!

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FLAS Info Session

Date: December 5, 2024
Time: 10:00AM
Address: Room 3009, Global Education Center or Zoom

Information session for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Come learn about opportunities to study less-commonly-taught languages, such as Portuguese and the indigenous and creole languages of Latin America!

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FLAS Info Session

Date: November 19, 2024
Time: 3:00PM
Address: Room 3009, Global Education Center or Zoom

Information session for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Come learn about opportunities to study less-commonly-taught languages, such as Portuguese and the indigenous and creole languages of Latin America!

Join in person or online via this Zoom link.

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FLAS Info Session

Date: October 24, 2024
Time: 2:00pm
Address: Room 3009, Global Education Center or Zoom

Information session for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Come learn about opportunities to study less-commonly-taught languages, such as Portuguese and the indigenous and creole languages of Latin America!

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Cuba, My Soul with short film

Date: October 25, 2024
Time: 7:00PM
Address: Mandela Auditorium

Dir. by Craig Miller, Pedro Pulido. Cuba-USA. 2022. 61 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

Cuba, My Soul explores the heart and soul of Cuban music. Filmed over two eventful concerts in Havana, director Craig Miller invited many of Cuba’s finest musicians to share their passion on and off stage. The film examines the island’s musical heritage using archival material, interviews, and performances. The result is a meaningful and vibrant 61-minute journey with a stunning live soundtrack. What is the soul of Cuban music? And how will it be influenced by the outside world?

Shown with short film, La última danza / U Yóok´otil Kíimil. Dir. by Gabriela Badillo. México. 2013. 2:30 min. Maya (Yucatán) with English subtitles.

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Cambio, Cambio/ Money Ex-change with short film

Date: October 23, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Address: Mandela Auditorium

Dir. by Lautaro García Candela. Argentina. 2022. 89 min. Spanish with English subtitles. Pragda series.

An extended sequence of newsreel footage about Argentina’s spiraling inflation since 2019 sets the stage for Pablo, who works on Peatonal Florida, Buenos Aires’ economic and tourist epicenter, trying to survive in a precarious and exhausting working world. When he falls in love with Florencia, an architecture student who shows him the city in a different way, he gets involved in the illegal exchange business selling dollars on the black market to improve his standard of living. As an impending currency crisis looms, Pablo seizes the opportunity to strike a blow using the volatility of the dollar value to his advantage. Despite the risks of getting caught by his money-laundering boss, he comes up with an elaborate scheme that could earn them enough money to change his life. Ultimately, director Lautaro García Candela suggests a utopic world where workers start to investigate (and understand) their context and can act upon it, becoming masters of their own destiny.

Shown with short film:
La creación del mundo / E’itɨ tiuséijre cháanaka. Dir. by Gabriela Badillo. México. 2017. 1 min. Nayeeri (Jalisco, Nayarit, Durango ) with English subtitles.

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