¡Cine Magnífico! Albuquerque's Latino Film Festival September 18 - 20
Join SOLAS in welcoming ¡Cine Magnífico! to the UNM campus on Friday, September 18th for two amazing films!
UNM College of Fine Arts, Room 2018
"American DREAMers" tells the story behind the Campaign for an American DREAM (CAD), a group of six undocumented youth and an ally who risk their freedom when they publicly come out as undocumented and walk 3,000 miles to the nation's capital to organize for immigrant rights. These are college students, young professionals, activists, and community leaders. Follow their journey as they come out of the shadows, share their stories, empower communities, and put everything on the line to fight in what they believe is their civil rights movement. They are undocumented and unafraid. And some are UndocuQueer, too.
Guatemala, el Espíritu de la Memoria
Guatemala, the Spirit of Memory is a story about justice, memory, and truth in Guatemala. Two members of the clergy, a Catholic and a Protestant, share their experience with indigenous communities attempting to prevent transnational companies from taking over their territories. They fight together to keep social movements from being threatened and criminalized.
FREEand open to the public. For more information on these films,check out the
flyer.¡Cine Magnífico! will be showing films from September 18-20 at both the National Hispanic Cultural Center and The Guild. For more information, a full schedule, and film prices, visit their
website.¡Cine Magnífico! is sponsored by Instituto Cervantes, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Bernalillo County, and the University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute.
9/4/2015
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¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipients: Sarah Leister and Corey Ragsdale Thursday, April 23rd, 12:00 @ the LAII
3/31/2015
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¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipients: Grant Florian and Matthew Schwartz Wednesday, March 18th, 12:00 @ the LAII
3/11/2015
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¡SOLAS Presents! UNM Graduate Student: Jennie Greb Tuesday, February 24th, 12:30 @ the LAII
2/9/2015
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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 Jennie Greb.
¡SOLAS Presents! FRG Recipients: Lean Sweeney and Holly Brause Wednesday, January 28th, 12:30 @ the LAII
1/15/2015
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¡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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