Please Contact: David Garcia daga@email.unc.edu for more information. 
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 7pm Chapel Hill Public Library
Discuss the NC immigration crackdown
Immigration and immigrant rights are becoming burning
questions in NC this year.
The non-partisan Triangle Socialist Forum is
discussing what is going on, why, especially the
economic forces behind immigration and the reaction,
and some progressive responses. Free Please Contact: for more information. Friday, September 12, 2008, 7:30 pm. Hyde Hall University Room, UNC-CH
Perspectives on Coercive Interrogation: Nightwind
Ethics in the Professions Series Symposium, Perspectives on Coercive Interrogation: Nightwind. In the first day of the Symposium, "Perspectives on Coercive Interrogation," ImaginAction Creative Director, Hector Aristizábal, will perform a one-man dramatic reenactment of his torture experience at the hands of paramilitary officials in Columbia, 1982. Free and open to the public Please Contact: Lance Westerlund (919) 843-5641 lancew@unc.edu for more information. Saturday, September 13, 2008, 8:30 am Hyde Hall University Room, UNC-CH
Perspectives on Coercive Interrogation
Ethics in the Professions Series Symposium, Perspectives on Coercive Interrogation. In the second day of the Symposium, this day-long program will examine the ethical issues raised by the current methods of interrogation as practiced by the U.S. government. A distinguished roster of speakers will address this timely topic from perspectives and disciplines ranging from psychology, law, philosophy and government. Free and open to the public Please Contact: Lance Westerlund (919) 843-5641 lancew@unc.edu for more information. Sunday, September 14, 2008, 5:00 pm CHICLE
Talk with Paul Cuadros
Paul Cuadros, author of A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America, has coached and mentored Latino immigrant kids in Chatham County for the past seven years. Free Please Contact: http://www.chi-cle.com/ for more information. Monday, September 15, 2008, 7pm Franklin Center (media room 2003) - Duke University. 2204 Erwin Road
The systematic violation of Human Rights
“Silencing Justice.” By Julian Roberts, Trevor Martin, and Justin Saint Cyr (USA, 2007).- Colombia the Presence of the Impossible film and discussion sessions, fall 2008 Free and open to the public - free parking after 6 Please Contact: Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (919) 681 8338 rojaszotelo@gmail.com for more information. Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 5:00pm 305 Dey Hall, UNC-CH
SO MANY LIBRARIES ON THE HEAD OF A PIN, OR: CARLOS MONSIVÁIS AND THE DEEP ART OF APHORISM
Speaker Linda Egan specializes in twentieth-century fiction and nonfiction, as well as colonial studies, especially sorjuanine scholarship and the chronicle of the Indies. Her first book explores the seventeenth-century Mexican nun’s thought in Diosas, demonios y debate: las armas metafísicas de Sor Juana (Universidad Católica de Salta, Argentina, 1997). Her next book, Carlos Monsiváis: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2001; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004) is the first major critical study published on the non-fiction writing of Mexico’s foremost cultural critic and literary journalist. She is co-editor of the forthcoming critical anthology Mexico Reading the United States (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008) and has just finished another book manuscript on Monsiváis’s aphorisms.Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-CH and Duke University Please Contact: Oswaldo Estrada oestrada@email.unc.edu for more information. Friday, September 26, 2008, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, UNC-CH
The United States and Cuba - Rethinking Reengagement, Sep 26-27, 2008
The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from the Christopher Reynolds Foundation for the purpose of organizing and hosting a conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the theme, “The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Reengagement.” The conference seeks to advance the logic of a new national debate leading ultimately to the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba Please Contact: Beatriz Riefkohl Muñiz 919-962-2418 riefkohl@email.unc.edu for more information. Saturday, September 27, 2008, 12:00-5:00 pm HILLSIDE HIGH SCHOOL, 3727 FAYETTEVILLE STREET, DURHAM
NUESTRA FIESTA DE LA SALUD (OUR HEALTH FAIR)
More than 50 health related agencies from Durham and surrounding areas participate in EL CENTRO HISPANO annual Health Fair.(volunteers needed) Please Contact: El Centro Hispano 684-4635 cblue@elcentronc.org for more information. Sunday, September 28, 2008, 5:00-6:30 pm CHICLE
El Violin
Film, El Violin, Spanish with English subtitles, 93 minutes, 2005 Free Please Contact: for more information. Tuesday, September 30, 2008, Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room, Wilson Library, UNC-CH
Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America
Nearly 100 handmade books from Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina will be on exhibit at UNC's Wilson Library July 14 through Sept. 30. Free and open to the public Please Contact: 919-962-1143 rbcref@email.unc.edu for more information.October
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00-8:00pm Durham Academy High School
Fiesta Latina
Please Contact: David Garcia daga@email.unc.edu for more information. Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 7pm Franklin Center (media room 2003) - Duke University. 2204 Erwin Road
Peace Communities:the role of the Civil Society
Peace Communities:the role of the Civil Society
“Comunidades de Paz” (Peace Communities). By Massimiliano Carboni (Italy. 2005). Colombia the Presence of the Impossible
film and discussion sessions, fall 2008 Free and open to the public - free parking after 6 Please Contact: Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (919) 681 8338 rojaszotelo@gmail.com for more information. Sunday, October 12, 2008, Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room, Wilson Library, UNC-CH
Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America
Nearly 100 handmade books from Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina will be on exhibit at UNC's Wilson Library July 14 through October 12. Free and open to the public Please Contact: 919-962-1143 rbcref@email.unc.edu for more information. Wednesday, October 15, 2008, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-CH
Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum, October 15-17, 2008
The Fall 2008 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and managing post-secondary CLAC programs. A special focus this year will be on the implications of the May 2007 MLA Foreign Language Report on CLAC initiatives nationwide. Please Contact: http://www.unc.edu/clac/ for more information.November
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 6:00 Global Education Center - Auditorium , UNC-CH
Landscapes of Globalization: The Latin American Experience
Globalization and the State in Latin America, a talk by Kurt Weyland, Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Texas, Austin. Inaugural address of the Landscapes of Globalization: The Latin American Experience Distinguished Speaker Series. Free and open to the public Please Contact: 919-966-1484 for more information. Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7pm Franklin Center (media room 2003) - Duke University. 2204 Erwin Road
Memory, Conflict, and Disregard: The ruin of history
“El Baile Rojo: El exterminio de la UP.” By Yezid Campos (Colombia, 2004)
& “Hijos e Hijas: Todos somos Colombia.” By Hijos e Hijas (Colombia, 2006)
In partnership with Duke Human Rights Center. Colombia the Presence of the Impossible film and discussion sessions, fall 2008 Free and open to the public - free parking after 6 Please Contact: Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (919) 681 8338 rojaszotelo@gmail.com for more information.December
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 7pm Franklin Center (media room 2003) - Duke University. 2204 Erwin Road
Feminism and Violence: An Untold History (1970-1990) - Final Session
“Maria Cano” by Camila Loboguerrero (Colombia, 1990). Colombia the Presence of the Impossible
film and discussion sessions, fall 2008 Free and open to the public - free parking after 6 Please Contact: Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (919) 681 8338 rojaszotelo@gmail.com for more information.
