For the 2022 application deadline, the area studies centers will hold four virtual information sessions, hosted by FLAS administrators. Any students or prospective students with questions about the program or the application process should attend one of these sessions:
Pickin’ For Progress: Baldemar Velásquez, How Music Makes a Movement
Speaker: Joe Troop, Emily Rhyne, and Rode Díaz
Date: September 29, 2021 Time: 6:00PM Address: Room 1005, Global Education Center
Join us for a Roundtable discussion with Joe Troop (founder of Grammy-nominated Che Apalache), Emily Rhyne (director of Witness for Peace Southeast), and director Rode Díaz, on their new media project, Pickin’ for Progress: Baldemar Velásquez, How Music Makes a Movement.
“Pickin’ for Progress” is a multi-episode series of videos that feature Joe rambling across the state of North Carolina illuminating important progressive issues, sharing songs, and having conversations with labor unionists, environmental activists, migrant workers, indigenous organizers, and religious leaders.
The newest installment focuses on the co-founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Baldemar Velásquez, reflecting on his decades of work in the labor movement and how he has, like his longtime friend and collaborator Pete Seeger, used his music to inspire farmworkers to organize for their rights in North Carolina and throughout the world.
Preludes to Change: Conflict and Transformation in Latin America – Nicaragua
Speaker: Tony Rossodivito
Date: September 29, 2021 Time: 6:00PM
What are the conditions that give rise to change in a nation? In this series of webinars, scholars from across North Carolina will explain the circumstances that led to transformations in Latin America during the 20th century. From radical populist revolutions in Cuba and Nicaragua to the subversive coup d’états in Chile and Guatemala, we will learn how militaries, guerrilla fighters, and foreign governments all use violence to enact change – with vastly different results in each country. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of the lasting impacts of these historical conflicts that still affect these countries today.
While this series focuses on NC Latin American Studies and NC World History high school standards, teachers of all subjects and grades are invited to attend. CEU’s are available! Email Corin Zaragoza at cmzarago@email.unc.edu for more details.
The Revolution of 1979 in Nicaragua Tony Rossodivito is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill, studying Modern Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on Cuba. He is originally from Florida and completed his undergraduate studies as well as an MA program at the University of North Florida majoring in History and minoring in International Studies. He is a member of the Institute for the Study of the Americas here at UNC and has been involved in their work with the Instituto de Historia de Cuba in helping foster relations between scholars in Cuba and the U.S. His areas of research and interest include guerrilla movements and insurgencies as well as popular social movements across the Global South. The main body of his work has focused on the Cuban Revolution and the struggle for Puerto Rican independence.
Preludes to Change: Conflict and Transformation in Latin America – Chile
Speaker: Dr. Denisa Jashari
Date: September 22, 2021 Time: 6:00PM
What are the conditions that give rise to change in a nation? In this series of webinars, scholars from across North Carolina will explain the circumstances that led to transformations in Latin America during the 20th century. From radical populist revolutions in Cuba and Nicaragua to the subversive coup d’états in Chile and Guatemala, we will learn how militaries, guerrilla fighters, and foreign governments all use violence to enact change – with vastly different results in each country. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of the lasting impacts of these historical conflicts that still affect these countries today.
While this series focuses on NC Latin American Studies and NC World History high school standards, teachers of all subjects and grades are invited to attend. CEU’s are available! Email Corin Zaragoza at cmzarago@email.unc.edu for more details.
The Coup D’État of 1973 in Chile Dr. Denisa Jashari from UNC Greensboro will be leading this webinar on the Coup d’état of 1973. Dr. Jashari is a historian of modern Latin America focusing on twentieth-century Chilean urban and social history. She is currently working on her book manuscript tentatively titled, Cartographies of Conflict: Political Culture and Urban Protest in Santiago, Chile, 1872-1994. Using a spatial lens, the book traces the contested physical, conceptual, and geographical place of the urban poor through periods of social reform, revolution, dictatorship, and neoliberal democracy. Dr. Jashari teaches courses on colonial and modern Latin America, urban history, revolutions and counterrevolutions, and the Cold War.
A Great Conspiracy of Witches: Religion, Race, and the Right to Wealth in Early Cartagena de Indias
Speaker: Assistant Professor Ana Silva
Date: September 20, 2021 Time: 6:00PM Address: Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Global Education Center
In March of 1634, the tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in the port city of Cartagena de Indias (in present-day Colombia) confiscated property from supposed heretics for the first time. On this occasion, the inquisitors confiscated houses and movable goods from a group of formerly enslaved women of African descent whom the tribunal had accused of witchcraft. The Inquisition transformed real estate ownership in the city by selling the formerly enslaved women’s property to men of European and Christian ancestry. This talk introduces the long-term process by which gender, race, and Catholicism gradually came to define who had the right to accumulate wealth and to establish lineages and a patrimony in Cartagena de Indias during the seventeenth century.
Our first ISA faculty lecture will be given by UNC History Assistant Professor Ana Silva who researches race, gender, religion, and the law in colonial Latin American cities.
This event will be following COVID-19 protocols and will have limited seating. First come, first serve.
Date: September 8, 2021 Time: 5:30PM Address: 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill NC
The Institute for the Study of the Americas wishes to invite all new and returning graduate students with an interest in Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latino/a communities in the US to join us at the ISA graduate student orientation and reception.
Students can meet ISA staff, catch up with colleagues, and learn about funding opportunities, events, working groups, and other initiatives sponsored by our organization.
This event will take place outside of the Global Education Center on the first-floor patio. Light refreshments will be provided and this event will follow COVID protocols.
Being and Belonging: Perspectives from NC Reception
Speaker: Various NC Artists
Date: October 5, 2021 Time: 5:30PM Address: 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill NC
Being and Belonging: Perspectives from North Carolina brings together 13 artists of Latin American heritage from across the state of North Carolina whose work evokes questions of identity, environment, and home. With over 25 works of art that range in theme, medium, and tone, Being and Belonging celebrates the diversity of experiences while also reflecting the realities of a complex, multicultural Southern United States.
Starting on August 18th, 2021 the Being and Belonging: Perspectives from North Carolina exhibition will be open until December 12th. There will be a free public reception celebrating the exhibition on October 5th at 5:30pm at the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
To learn more about the details of the exhibit including the fantastic artists that will be featured, read the UNC Global article here.
Looking for a fun and interactive summer activity? Join the UNC-Duke Area studies center for free, virtual global cooking sessions via Zoom! In each session, attendees will learn how to make a dish from a different region of the world while learning about the culture of the featured region. Experts from each region will be leading the cooking sessions and will provide registered participants with a list of ingredients to follow along!
All events will take place from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Tuesday, July 27: LATIN AMERICA with the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies & Carolina Navigators
Thursday, July 29: EUROPE with the UNC Center for European Studies
Tuesday, August 3: ASIA with Carolina Asia Center
Thursday, August 5: NORTH AFRICA with the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies & UNC African Studies Center
Register below!
** Once you have registered, you will receive the Zoom information via email prior to the event **
Participants will receive a certificate for 1 PD hour for each event attended.
Questions? Contact Corin Zaragoza, UNC-Duke Consortium for Latin American Studies.
Join us for a virtual book club to learn more about Cuba, the Dominican Republic, or Haiti! Selected North Carolina teachers will receive a complimentary copy of their club’s text. Rural and/or Title 1 educators highly encouraged to apply. Space is limited.
Application is due May 15th, 2021
If you have any questions, contact Corin Zaragoza at cmzarago@email.unc.edu
High school book club will read and discuss In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Álvarez
Join us for a virtual book club to learn more about Cuba, the Dominican Republic, or Haiti! Selected North Carolina teachers will receive a complimentary copy of their club’s text. Rural and/or Title 1 educators highly encouraged to apply. Space is limited.
Application is due May 15th, 20201
If you have any questions, contact Corin Zaragoza at cmzarago@email.unc.edu
Middle School Book Club will read and discuss Taste of Salt by Frances Temple
