¡SOLAS Presents! Latin American Studies Students: Michael Graham and Nicholas Vandiver. Thursday, April 3, 3pm @ the LAII.
3/26/2014
Getting Up For The People: The Visual Revolution of ASAR-OaxacaMichael Graham
Michael, a M.A. student in Latin American Studies and recipient of a LAII and Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant will discuss the research he conducted in Oaxaca, Mexico, on the potential that art has in instigating social change.Michael's research focuses on the contemporary Mexican artist collective known as Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca (ASARO). His presentation will highlight how ASARO utilizes aesthetic production to diffuse knowledge and thus challenge dominant political paradigms embedded in Mexican society. As a result, the collective of Mexican youths seeks to open spaces in their community (and Oaxaca’s subculture) by providing a dissenting perspective vis-á-vis dominant state discourses. ASARO attempts to bring to the fore socio-political issues they deem important to the region, Mexico and the globe that the state tends to overlook. Specifically, the ASARO collective uses printing and graffiti techniques that are highly reproducible and places their work in highly visible public areas within Oaxaca. In his presentation, Michael will discuss how ASARO participants reconstruct meanings already established in Mexican society using visual and spoken language in order to resist and and create dialogue. He will situate and contextualize the resistant reconstructions of discourse in its visual form within the ways the art is produced and talked about by its creators.For more information about the Latin American & Iberian Institute's Field Research Grant, click here.
¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipient: Corey Ragsdale Wednesday, March 26, 3pm @ LAII
3/5/2014
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The Latin American & Iberian Institute and Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant recipient will present research conducted at the Templo Mayor of the ancient Aztec capital city Tenochtitlan (Mexico).
¡SOLAS Presents! Bill Bradley. Thursday, February 13, 3pm @ The LAII
2/4/2014
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"Learning From the Zapatistas About Democracy, Land, and Dignity"
¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipient: Daniel Cozart Wednesday, January 29, 3pm @ the LAII
1/22/2014
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The Latin American & Iberian Institute and Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant recipient will present research conducted in Lima and Piura, Peru.
¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipients: Andrew Bernard and Grant Florian Tuesday, November 5, 3pm @ the LAII
10/29/2013
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Latin American & Iberian Institute and Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant Recipients will present their respective research conducted in Argentina and Brazil.
Joseph Sorrentino "Los Chileros: The Chile Pickers" Thursday, October 24, 4pm @ the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII)
10/9/2013
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Ana Rivera: "Human Rights, Resistance and the Movement for Peoples Power in Honduras" Wednesday, September 25, 4pm @ the LAII
9/25/2013
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¡SOLAS PRESENTS! FLAS Fellows : Wednesday, September 25th, 2pm @ the LAII
9/18/2013
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¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipients Christos Galanis and Kathryn Peters Wednesday, August 28th, 2pm @ UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute
8/19/2013
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