¡SOLAS Presents! Graduate Student: Carson Morris Thursday, November 20th, 12:30 @ the LAII
11/3/2014
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Join SOLAS at the Latin American & Iberian Institute for a ¡SOLAS Presents! lecture series event with a presentation from UNM graduate student Carson Morris.
Carson Morris received her M.A. in Latin American Studies from UNM in 2006, and is currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) in History at UNM.Carson’s presentation will focus on striptease and other sexual performance. She contends that they are critical to both challenging and reinforcing gender and sexuality in state and society. Her findings suggest that the dearth of histories of sexual performance in Latin America clouds our understanding of sexuality in this region and serves to further normalize the heterosexual gender binary. Scholars have examined different types of sexual performance as masochistic phenomena of dictatorship in Argentina and Chile, explaining Chile’s booming sexual performance market as a result of Pinochet’s neoliberal opening of the market. Focusing on 1950-1990, Carson’s paper traces continuities and ruptures in Chile’s long history of sexual performance David Rodriquez. Violette Fresia Soto. Photograph. Photograph courtesy of Carson Morris. under democracy and dictatorship, exposing sexual performance’s emancipatory power as well as its heteronormative functions. Examining cabaret show books, photographs, business advertisements, nude magazines, press coverage, state and city level laws regulating such businesses, and testimonies of photographers, dancers, and artists, Carson shows that sexual performance in Chile transcends both state level politics and changes in political regimes, and that striptease was imbued with different degrees of respectability and shame at different historical moments. Specifically highlighting queer and transgender sexual performance throughout the period, Carson demonstrates the emancipatory power of performance, allowing space for expressions of bodies, genders and sexualities that challenged normative regulations.For a PDF of the event flyer, click here.
¡SOLAS Presents! Honduran musician and activist: Karla Lara Wednesday, October 29th, 7:00 @ ABQ Center for Peace and Justice
10/6/2014
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Join SOLAS at the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice for a very special ¡SOLAS Presents! lecture series and concert event with Karla Lara!
¡SOLAS Presents! UNM Graduate Students: Sam Johnson and Julia Youngs Wednesday, September 24th, 4:00 @ the LAII
9/15/2014
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Join SOLAS at the Latin American & Iberian Institute for a ¡SOLAS Presents! lecture series event with presentations from UNM graduate students Sam Johnson and Julia Youngs.
Oligarchy and Urban Anxieties: Fear and Isolation in O som ao redor Sam Johnson received his M.A. in Latin American Studies from UNM, and is currently a M.A. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UNM.Sam’s presentation will focus on the 2012 Brazilian film O som ao redor [Neighboring Sounds] directed by Kleber Mendoça Filho. Sam examines how Filho’s debut feature film portrays class-based anxieties concerning crime and violence of an upper-class community in the northeastern metropolis of Recife. Drawing on the work of cultural critic Susana Rotker and urban anthropologist Teresa Caldeira, Sam’s paper illustrates how the class-based discourses of security and crime portrayed in O som ao redor illustrate the contemporary crisis in sociability within the Brazilian elites and between the upper-class and other socioeconomic sectors.Filho’s adept selection of sound and cinematography draws viewers into the private homes of his upper-class protagonists and high-rises looming over the lower income sectors. An analysis of the class-based discourse of crime and urban development in O som ao redor is illustrative of the social ramifications of Brazil’s historical and contemporary pattern of unequal development. O som ao redor [Neighboring Sounds]. Dir. Kleber Mendoça Filho. 2012.
¡SOLAS Presents! UNM Graduate Students: Serda Yalkin and Ailesha Ringer Thursday, August 28th, 2:30 @ the LAII
8/20/2014
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¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipient: Elizabeth Halpin Wednesday, May 7, 3pm @ the LAII
4/22/2014
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Voces Alternativas: La Radio como un Micrófono Comunitario
¡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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