A hybrid (in-person and online) discussion panel on the nature, impacts, and on-the-ground responses to the ongoing security crisis in urban, rural, and Indigenous Ecuador.

Featuring, Daniela Chacón Arias (Executive Director of Fundación TANDEM, and former Vice-Mayor of Quito), joining us via Zoom from Ecuador, and Louisiana Lightsey (PhD Candidate in Environmental Anthropology at UGA), who will present in person at Casa Amarilla (290 S. Hull St.).

You may register to participate via Zoom, here, or by using the flyer above QR Code.

Harvard DRCLAS will launch the Winter issue of ReVista, "Agriculture and the Rural Environment", in a hybrid event on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Sociology and LACSI joint-appointment Associate Professor Dr. Pablo Lapegna co-authored an article (with Johana Kunin) in the new issue and will be among the panelists.

More information about the event and how to register to attend via Zoom can be found in the invitation above.

LACSI's Mesa de Español is back!

Come if you need to practice or brush up your Spanish.

Sessions are on Mondays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., thru April 29 (except March 4).

For more information, please contact our facilitator, Mario Juárez (mj25877@uga.edu).

¡Nos vemos pronto!

A service provided by the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program in the Mary Frances Early College of Education.

Transatlantic Cinephilia sheds light on the oft-overlooked prehistory of New Latin America Cinema, which affirmed national identities against cultural colonialism and denounced urgent national and region-wide problems like poverty, widespread illiteracy, and government repression. Yet this leftist cinema was nurtured by alternative spaces of film culture (cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools) whose spirit could hardly have been more different, given that they were largely apolitical, firmly middle-class (bourgeois, even), and distinctly cosmopolitan. As the book shows, Latin America's postwar institutions of culture were deeply influenced by French models and often supported by the cultural diplomacy of French and France-based organizations, which sought to rebuild a national prestige tarnished by military defeat and occupation. Recovering these histories demonstrates the interconnectedness of film cultures we tend to view as radically different.

Dr. Rielle Navitski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia

During his time in Ecuador, Christopher has also organized the first round of the Ecuador's UCE and UGA Student Conversation Exchange, featured in our previous issues this year.

Congrats, Christopher!

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