Past Events

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Willson Center Distinguished Artists: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa. “Forgotten Women: Giving Voice to the Voiceless”

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa,
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MLC 248
Djamila Ribeiro. Willson Center Distinguished Lecture - Flyer

Willson Center Distinguished Lecture with Brazilian Scholar Djamila Ribeiro.

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Brooks Hall - Room 145
Poster with picture of Ania TIzziani, time, date, and location

Gender, Labor, & Inequality in Contemporary Latin America: The National Maid Tournament in Argentina by Ania Tizziani

Ania Tizziani, (Universidad Nacional de Gral. Sarmiento & Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET))
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Gilbert Hall room 118
Poster with picture of Karina Vasquez, time, date, and location

Bridging Humanities, Professions and Communications: A lecture by Karina Vasquez

Karina Vasquez, Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, and Director of Community Based Learning. (University of Richmond)
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Gilbert Hall room 118
LACSI's 2024 International Coffee Hour - Flyer

LACSI's International Coffee Hour

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Memorial Hall Ballroom
WILA 13

WILA 15 Conference

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Dean Rusk Hall & MLC
Aristotle & Dante - Flyer

Movie Night: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Dir. Aitch Alberto. 2022)

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Tate Movie Theater
I Surrender - September 17, 2024 Flyer

Kathleen Osberger. I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975

Kathleen Osberger,
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Baldwin Hall 480 (Pinnacle Room)
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Oxford Faculty Book Launch

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Main Library 3rd floor, Graduate Reading Room 3rd floor
LACSI 2024 Open House Updated Flyer

Open House

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Casa Amarilla
Dancing with Devils - Flyer

Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions

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Yellow House (290 S. Hull St.) & Hendershot's (237 Prince Ave.)
Dancing with Devils - Flyer

Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions

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Yellow House (290 S. Hull St.) & Hendershot's (237 Prince Ave.)
Discovering our Roots - Flyer

Dr. John Alvarez-Turner. Discovering Our Roots: Over a Century of Hispanic Students at UGA

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MLC 101
2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Calendar

2024 Hispanic Heritage Month

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Athens, GA
Milonga Tropical Spring 2024. Flyer

Milonga Tropical Spring 2024

Hotel Indigo - Rialto Club - 500 College Avenue, Athens, GA
GLC @ Lunch: Dr. Cassia Roth. Flyer

GLC @ Lunch: Dr. Cassia Roth, "Black Nurse, White Milk: Slavery and the Politics of Breastfeeding in Nineteenth Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."

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Hybrid event (in person & via Zoom)
International Street Festival. April 6, 2024. LACSI flyer

International Street Festival

College Square (Downtown)
The Anthropocene and Global Extractive Industries: Perspectives from Latin America. Event Flyer

The Anthropocene and Global Extractive Industries: Perspectives from Latin America

Price Gilbert Library, Scholars Event Network (Room 1280) - Georgia Tech
Free screening of La Tara followed by Q&A at Ciné on March 22, 2024. Event Flyer

Free Screening of La Tara (2022) and Q&A w/ Director Amparo Aguilar

Amparo Aguilar,
Ciné Lab (234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA 30601)
Reading and Conversation: Éric Morales-Franceschini - Event Flyer

Reading and Conversation: Éric Morales-Franceschini

Ciné (234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA 30601)
Dr. Evelyn Saavedra Autry. Profile picture

IWS Friday Speaker Series: Dr. Evelyn Saavedra Autry

EVELYN SAAVEDRA AUTRY, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Rutgers University)
Miller Learning Center, Room 250
2024 African Studies Spring Lecture Flyer

2024 African Studies Spring Lecture

Frank Gunderson, PH.D. , College of Music (Florida State University)
UGA Chapel (109 Herty Dr., Athens, GA 30602)
LACSI Ecuador Event Feb 27, 2024 - Flyer

Ecuador: Reconfigurations under the shadow of insecurity

Casa Amarilla (290 South Hull Street) & via Zoom
27th CotA, 2024. Plenary session flyer

27th Annual Conference on the Americas: Plenary Session

Pilar Chamorro, Linguistics and Romance Languages (University of Georgia)
Zell B. Miller Learning Center, Room 248
Preliminary Program. Cover Page

27th Annual Conference on the Americas

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Miller Learning Center
Preliminary Program. Cover Page

27th Annual Conference on the Americas

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Miller Learning Center
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Rainy Brake - Teaching Cherokee Language

RAINY BRAKE, ( Western Carolina University)
101 LeConte Hall
Dr. Sara Snyder Hopkins' profile picture

Sara Snyder Hopkins - Community-based Cherokee Language Translation

Sara Snyder Hopkins, (Western Carolina University)
221 LeConte Hall
Profile picture of Dr. Amy Ross on a word-cloud UGA background

Reception to honor former LACSI Director, Dr. Amy Ross

Casa Amarilla (290 South Hull Street)
Flyer

Milonga Tropical - Spring 2023

Hotel Indigo Rialto Club, 500 College Avenue

Conference on the Americas

Miller Learning Center
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Native American Heritage Month Celebration

Reed Quad
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Talk & Workshop with Dr. Luis González

Gilbert Hall 113 and Gilbert Hall 320
Brothers

Villalobos Brothers

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall

Prosperity and Poison in the Pampas: Farming and Pesticides in Argentina

Harvard
LATINXFEST 2022

LATINXFEST 2022

DOWNTOWN ATHENS
Milonga

Milonga Tropical - Fall 2022

Hotel Indigo Rialto Club
Flyer

Legal Abortion: The Struggle in Argentina and Colombia

Zoom
Flyer

Proletarian Lives: Ideas, Routines, and Activism in a Poor People’s Movement

Miller Learning Center Room 213
Flyer

The Future of the Guaraní Language

Park Hall Room 145
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Investment Opportunities in Jamaica

Classroom E-252 UGA Law School
Javier

​Dr. Vasti Torres: Being Latinx at the University of Georgia

Event Location: 109 Herty Field, Athens GA (The Chapel) 
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Dept. of English Lunchtime Lecture Series

Park Hall Room 265
Flyer

In the Years before Roe: Abortion in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands

Virtual Event
International Coffee logo

International Coffee Hour - International Student Life

Memorial Hall Ballroom
LACSI house

LACSI CASA ABIERTA (OPEN HOUSE)

LACSI Building, 290 South Hull Street, Athens
vegtables

Workshop: Food, Philosophy and Art in the US and Mexico

Baldwin Hall, Room 307 (355 S Jackson Street, Athens, GA)
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Workshop: Food, Philosophy and Art in the US and Mexico

290 S Jackson Street, Athens, GA 30602
Cassia Roth

Panel Discussion: (English and Spanish): “Reproductive Rights in the Americas: An Historical Perspective”

On Zoom
Javier

Institutional Structure of the U.S. - Mexico Relations and Key Bilateral Issues: Mexico’s legal case against U.S. gun manufacturers

Hirsch Hall, Classroom G-358
poster

Calling Artists

Latinx Fest 2022
Event flyer

Latin American Works of Memory (April 28-30)

MLC 348
Fouders Garden

Reception for Latin American Memory Conference

Founders Garden
Flyer for event

A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil

Zoom
Event flyer

Milonga Tropical

Rialto Club below Hotel Indigo, Downtown Athens
Flyer for event

Militarizing the Police: Empire and the Global Color Line

Zoom - registration required
Event flyer

"The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade in the Golden Age"

Zoom
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"Conflicting sovereignties: Global conservation, protected areas and indigenous nations in the Peruvian Amazon" Guest Lecture

Zoom
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Brazilian Indigenous Literature Speaker Series

Zoom
Series flyer

Speaker Series: Establishing Sustainable Community-Based Partnerships

Online Event
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Study Abroad Costa Rica Admission Deadline

Info Sessions on Zoom
Flyer for event

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernandez

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall
Flyer for event

Indigenous Voices and U.S. Policy in Central America

Zoom
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The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal

Zoom

2021 Global Studies Symposium for Best Practices in International Education at Minority Serving Institutions and Community Colleges

Nashville, TN
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Health Journalism in Cuba Maymester

Maymester program
Flyer for the event

Book Launch!

Zoom - registration required
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“The Atlantic Metropolis: Ships and Seafarers in Lope de Vega’s El Arenal de Sevilla.”

Professor Carl Wise, Assistant at the Department of Hispanic Studies (College of Charleston)
Gilbert Hall Room 303
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“Business as Usual: Inequality and Health Litigation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil.”

Zoom

Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil

Dr. Adele Nelson, Assistant Professor of Art History and Associate Director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (The University of Texas)
Zoom - registration required
Sergio Gallegos headshot

Monstrosity as a Pedagogical Tool: Socrates, Montaigne, & Sor Juana"

Sergio Armando Gallegos Ordorica, Philosophy (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Peabody Hall, Room 115
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"The Insurrectionist Ethics of Ricardo Flores Magón in Tierra y Libertad." By Sergio Gallegos

Sergio Armando Gallegos Ordorica, Philosophy (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Sanford Hall, Room 212 and Zoom (Registration required for Zoom, link below)
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Milonga Tropical - Downtown Athens

Rialto Club, Hotel Indigo, 500 College Avenue, Athens, GA 30601
Flyer for Event

Women Leaders in Latin American Education Conference

Zoom
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Bichos Vivos playing Brazilian Forró music at Porchfest this Sunday!

Heirloom Cafe
Noche Latina Flyer

Noche Latina by the Hispanic Student Association

Tate Grand Hall
Wolf

The 7th Annual Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia (LCUGA7)

Virtual
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Book launch of the Spanish copy of the ethnography, Los wounaan y la construcción de su paisaje: Identidad, arte y gobernanza ambiental en la frontera Panamá-Colombia

Youtube/ICANHCO
LatinX Fest flyer

LatinX Fest

Jug Tavern Park
Join us on Zoom on September 30th with Dr. Carol Piva for an invigorating chat about "Rewriting knowledge in the works of Brazilian women artists from Goias, Brazil" from 5:30pm to 6:30pm!

Lecture with Dr. Carol Piva, "Rewriting knowledge in the works of Brazilian women artists from Goias, Brazil"

Zoom
Symposium flyer

In the Wake of Slavery and Dispossession: Emory, Racism, and the Journey Towards Restorative Justice (symposium)

In Person and Virtual

History of Latinx Immigration in the Southeastern United States

Virtual

Call for Publications: Voices From the Global South

Virtual
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Literature in everyday Life: Livro Livre Curió Community Library," a talk with Talles Azigon

Talles Azigon,
Virtual
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A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP ON INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO TEACHING ABOUT DIVERSITY IN THE CARIBBEAN BASIN

Virtual/Zoom:
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Retablo: A virtual Film Discussion

Drs. Josefina Navarro and Evelyn Autry, (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Rutgers University)
Virtual/Zoom:
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Against Death, Afro-Dominican Feminist Counterdiscourse in the Diaspora

Dr. Lorgia García-Peña, Latinx Studies (Harvard University)
Virtual/Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96623843835
flyer, English

Memorial Procession and Vigil, Ana Gabriela Cabrera López

Brumby Hall, UGA campus to LACSI Yellow House (290 S. Hull St)
event flyer

Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Paradise

Dr. Lina Britto, History (Northwestern University)
Virtual/Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91790084868
Headshot of Dr. Jerome Branche.

Jerome Branche: “On Sainthood, Savagery and the Afro-Spanish (National) Imaginary: El caso Chicaba.”

Dr. Jerome Branche, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (University of Pittsburgh)
Virtual Zoom Meeting
event flyer

11th Annual Latinx Fest, 2020

Virtual: https://www.facebook.com/events/882210058972653/
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Bichos Vivos, Brazilian Forró, at Athens Porch Fest

Virtual, live and pre-recorded
Exquisite Slaves book cover.

"Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima" with Dr. Tamara Walker

Tamara J. Walker, History (University of Toronto)
Zoom Virtual Meeting
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Nicholas Jones: “Staging Habla de Negros in Iberian Early Modernity.”

Dr. Nicholas Jones, Spanish and Africana Studies (Bucknell University)
Virtual Zoom Meeting
Event flier

[Book Talk] Blood on the River: The Untold Story of the Berbice Slave Rebellion

Dr. Marjoleine Kars, History (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Zoom Virtual Meeting
Event flyer.

Humanized Landscapes in Tropical Ecuador

Dr. Florencio Delgado, Director of Anthropology (Universidad San Francisco de Quito-Ecuador)
Virtual Zoom Meeting

Brazil Natural Resource Governance Initiative website launch (Disregard date)

Online
event flyer

Webinar, Prioritizing Diversity and Inclusion in Course Design

Drs. Carlos Pio and Eduardo Viana da Silva, (University of Pennsylvania and University of Washington, respectively)
Virtual

Virtual Screenings of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho's "Bacarau" at Ciné (Ongoing: disregard date)

Ciné website
event flyer

(Cancelled) Film Screening, "Nicaragua, Free Country to Live (A Documentary)," and talk by filmmaker and Professor of Literature, Dr. Daniel Rodríguez Moya

Dr. Daniel Rodríguez Moya,
Sanford Hall, Room 313
Tinker Award.

Deadline: 2020 Tinker Foundation-LACSI Graduate Field Research Award Competition

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute

(Cancelled) Cristina Iglesia lecture, "El pasado en el presente: el siglo XIX, un siglo trans"

Cristina Iglesias,
Gilbert Hall, 118
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The Wretched of the City: Geographies of Policing and Black Rage in the Urban Margins of Two Latin American Cities

Dr. Jaime Alvez, Department of Black Studies (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Park Hall, 145

Lecture: "Music, Black Feminism and the Transatlantic: Black Brazilian artists, affirmation, critique and experimentation in the 21st century"

Lesley Feracho (University of Georgia)
Miller Learning Center 150
Event flier.

Digi Colloquium: "Translating (Publishing) Networks from Print to Pixel"

Dr. Nora Benedict, Department of Romance Languages (University of Georgia)
Main Library, Room 300

Talk: Experience as Delegates to the COP25 Climate Summit

Dr. Amy Ross (University of Georgia)
Dr. Amy Ross (University of Georgia) Chris Cuomo, Department of Philosophy (University of Georgia)
Geography & Geology Building 200C

Lecture: "Women at the Forefront of Global Solutions: Plastic, Recycling, and Haiti"

Chris Cuomo & Jenna Jambeck, Women's Studies & Philosophy | Engineering (University of Georgia)
Miller Learning Center 150
Event flier.

23rd Annual Conference on the Americas: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Conference

Dr. George K. Danns & Dr. Donna E. Danns, Sociology & Economics (University of North Georgia)
Martha T. Nesbitt Building - 2571 Mathis Drive Oakwood, Georgia 30566
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Faculty Book Talk: Cassia Roth's "A Miscarriage of Justice"

LeConte Hall 221
Event flier.

Lecture: "She Persisted in Her Revolt": Slavery and Freedom in the French Caribbean

Jennifer Palmer (University of Georgia)
Miller Learning Center 150
Atlantic Ocean.

Conference: Transnationalism and the Red Atlantic

Friday (2/7) panels held at the South Psychology/Journalism Auditorium, S306. Saturday (2/8) panels will be at the Miller Learning Center, Rm 248
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2020 Integrative Conservation Conference

Special Collections Library, 300 S Hull St, Athens, GA 30605, multiple rooms
Event flier.

Generosity and the Public Effect: Performances of State Transparency in Contemporary Mexico

Diana Graizbord (University of Georgia)
Park Hall, Room 145
Speaker headshot.

Lecture: "La Utopía del Pasado en La Literatura Contemporánea"

Julio Premat, Université Paris 8 (Institute Universitaire de France)
Gilbert Hall 115
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Fractal Caribbean and the Notion of Self in Contemporary Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban Literature and Thought

Sanford Hall, Room 313
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NAHM: Dancing in the Fourth World: Photographs of Diné (Navajo) Ceremonial Dancers

MLC 2nd Floor
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A Poster Conference: Race and Slavery in the Americas

Russell Special Collections Library, Room 277
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NAHM: "Two Spirits" Film Screening

The Tate Intersection
Event flyer

Film Screening: "Tupinambá: The Return of the Land"

Peabody Hall, Room 220
Event flyer

A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil

Sanford Hall, Room 314
Event flyer

Student Professional Development Opportunity with SPIA Visiting Practitioner Dr. Valério Gomes

Dr. Valério Gomes, Amazonian Institute of Family Agricultures (Federal University of Pará)
Miller Learning Center Room 277 & Candler Hall Room 117
Event flier.

NAHM: Native American Looming Experience

The Tate Intersection
Event flier.

NAHM: Native American Festival Pow Wow

Stone Mountain
Event flyer

Cold War American Studies: Robert Spiller, The U.S. Information Agency, and the American Studies Certificate e

Deborah Cohn, (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
Miller Learning Center, Room 207
Event flyer

The House on Bitterness Street: Maternity, Slavery and a Fragile Freedom

Dr. Rebecca J. Scott, History and Law (University of Michigan)
Hirsch Hall, Room G
Día de los Muertos Lantern Parade

Día de Muertos Lantern Parade

Starting at Lyndon House Arts Center (211 Hoyt Street); Ending at ATHICA (675 Pulaski Street, Suite 1200)
Event flier.

Noche Latina

Tate Grand Hall - 45 Baxter St, Athens, GA 30602
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Bilingual Lecture: "I, Black Woman: Erasures in the Canon, Writings of Transgression, Affection and Healing"

Cristiane Sobral,
Gilbert Hall 118
Event flier.

Peace Deferred: Violence in the Aftermath of the Colombian Peace Accords

Dr. Anthony Dest, Sociology & Anthropology (Spelman College)
Sanford Hall, Room 309
Event Flier

The Visible and the Invisible: Documenting Latin American Moving Image Archives

Dr. Juana Suárez, (New York University)
Miller Learning Center 250
How did the Haitian slave revolt become a revolution?

Lunchtime Time Machine: How did the Haitian slave revolt become a revolution?

Dr. Jennifer Palmer, Department of History (University of Georgia)
LeConte Hall, Room 101
Rebecca Hanson

Book Discussion: Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research

Patricia Richards & Rebecca Hanson, Sociology (University of Georgia & University of Florida)
Miller Learning Center 213
Sponsored by UGA Tango Club

Milonga Tropical

Ciné, 234 West Hancock Avenue | Downtown Athens, GA
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Musical Machismo: The Singing Charro and National Masculinity in Cine Mexico (1936-1952)

Dr. Jacqueline Ávila, (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Miller Learning Center 214
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Enamorada (1946): A Mexican Film Classic Screening

Dr. Jacqueline Ávila, (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Ciné Athens - 234 W Hancock Ave
Event flier.

As Is É: Reading and Dialogue

Josefina Báez,
Memorial Hall Ballroom
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LACSI Annual Latinx Heritage Month Open House

LACSI Casa Amarilla, 290 S. Hull St, Athens
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Indigenous Languages Film Series at Ciné

Rodrigo Otero Heraud & Marina Zeising,
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Ciné Athens - 234 W Hancock Ave
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Indigenous Languages Film Series at Ciné

Rodrigo Otero Heraud & Marina Zeising,
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Ciné Athens - 234 W Hancock Ave
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Crusoe’s Absence: Sugar Economies and the Ingenuity of Realism

Barbara Fuchs, Spanish & Portuguese Department (University of California - Los Angeles)
Founders Memorial Garden, Main Ballroom
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Milonga Tropical

Ciné, 234 West Hancock Avenue | Downtown Athens, GA
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The Georgia Review Issue Celebration Featuring Authors Alberto Ríos and Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

Alberto Ríos & Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, (Arizona State University & University of Georgia)
Ciné Athens - 234 W Hancock Ave

How Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala Navigate the Political and Economic Crises of Globalization

MLC 213

Film Screening, "The U-Turn"

Luis Argueta,
MLC 213

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