Taller de Mam Gratuito - Primavera 2024!
7 de febrero al 11 de mayo
-Los miércoles, 4-6pm
-Los sábados, 10am-12pm
El mam es una lengua Maya hablada por alrededor de medio millón de personas en Guatemala y México. La diáspora Mam incluye a miles de hablantes en el área de la bahía de San Francisco. El curso de la lengua Mam será sin crédito, gratuito y en persona.
Organizado por miembros de la Comunidad Maya, el Centro Cultural Latinx del Laney Community College, y el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe de UC Berkeley.
Registro y más información: https://clacs.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/curso-de-mam-gratuito-primavera-2024
Editora de video: Frida Caro @curanderafrida
CineLatino: Eami
04/05 | 7 PM | Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Take a look at a sneak peak of the trailer for Eami, which will be screened next week as part of our Film Screening & Director's Talk! After the screening, Director Encina will be in conversation with Natalia Brizuela, CLAS Chair and Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley!
About the film: Eami means “forest” in Ayoreo. It also means “world.” The Indigenous Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people do not make a distinction: the trees, animals, and plants that have surrounded them for centuries are their world. This dreamy, magic-realist film is about a little girl called Eami. After her village is destroyed and her community disintegrates, Eami wanders the rainforest. This film is an indictment and an attempt to record something that may be lost. 93 minutes. Ayoreo, Guaraní, and Spanish with English subtitles.
CineLatino: Isabella
February 3rd, 5-7:15 p.m.
142 Dwinelle Hall
Here is the trailer for the film Matías Piñeiro—Argentinian screenwriter, director, and filmmaker—'s film Isabella!
Piñeiro is an associate professor at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute and coordinates the filmmaking department at the Elías Querejeta Film School in San Sebastián, Spain. Awards include Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University; screenings include Berlinale Film Festival (for which Argentine he received a Special Jury Mention for Isabella), Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and San Sebastian Film Festival.
Nicolás Pereda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies. He has presented his films in most major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, and Toronto, as well as in galleries and museums like the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York. In 2010 he was awarded the Premio Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival.
Join us today for their conversation following a screening of the film!
CLAS Graduate Affiliate C. Darius Gordon, studying the struggle to center blackness in education in Brazil, on the impact that support from CLAS has had on their research and progress toward a Ph.D.
Today is Big Give, where you can demonstrate your support for Latin American Studies at Berkeley by donating to CLAS during this day-long, campus-wide fundraising event for UC Berkeley units and departments until 9 pm Pacific Time tonight. CLAS has secured a 1:1 match from the Tinker Foundation for donations we receive during Big Give. Help CLAS make the match and support increasing diversity in graduate student field research #CLASBerkeley #CalBigGive
Donate here: https://give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0722000
CLAS Visiting Scholar Verena Baier, a Ph.D. student from Germany's University of Regensburg, on her first few weeks becoming a member of the CLAS community.
Today is Big Give, where you can demonstrate your support for Latin American Studies at Berkeley by donating to CLAS during this day-long, campus-wide fundraising event for UC Berkeley units and departments until 9 pm Pacific Time tonight. CLAS has secured a 1:1 match from the Tinker Foundation for donations we receive during Big Give. Help CLAS make the match and support increasing diversity in graduate student field research #CLASBerkeley #CalBigGive
Donate here: https://give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0722000
CLAS Fall 2021 Graduate Affiliate Michael Bakal, studying the dry corridor of Guatemala, on the networks and connections that CLAS has helped him develop.
Today is Big Give, where you can demonstrate your support for Latin American Studies at Berkeley by donating to CLAS during this day-long, campus-wide fundraising event for UC Berkeley units and departments until 9 pm Pacific Time tonight. CLAS has secured a 1:1 match from the Tinker Foundation for donations we receive during Big Give. Help CLAS make the match and support increasing diversity in graduate student field research #CLASBerkeley #CalBigGive
Donate here: https://give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0722000
CLAS Graduate Affiliate Yessica Porras, who studies colonial wall paintings in Colombia and Ecuador, on how CLAS supports her work #CalBigGive #CLASBerkeley
Big Give starts now! You can demonstrate your support for Latin American Studies at Berkeley by donating to CLAS during this day-long, campus-wide fundraising event for UC Berkeley units and departments until tomorrow, Thursday, March 10, 9 pm Pacific Time. CLAS has secured a 1:1 match from the Tinker Foundation for donations we receive during Big Give. Help CLAS make the match and support increasing diversity in graduate student field research.
Donate here: https://give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0722000
CLAS is participating in this year's Big Give, a day-long, campus-wide fundraising event for UC Berkeley units and departments that will take place next week, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Your donations help support our public events, student grants, language instruction, and more.
CLAS has secured a 1:1 match from the Tinker Foundation for donations we receive during Big Give. Help CLAS make the match and support increasing diversity in graduate student field research.
Thank you for your support, and see you on March 10!
#tbt #biggive #biggive2022 #calbiggive #clas
Migration, the U.S. - Mexico Border, and Covid-19
In a recent New York Times opinion piece titled “Trump Is Using the Pandemic to Flout Immigration Laws,” Lucas Guttentag and UC Berkeley's Stefano M. Bertozzi argued that, “refugees and unaccompanied children are the targets of summary border expulsions.” Professor Bertozzi was part of a panel of experts organized by CLAS to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic, recent draconian changes in U.S. immigration policies, and conditions in Mexico for migrants and asylum-seekers barred from entering or deported by the United States.
DISCUSSANTS
Stefano M. Bertozzi is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. He has worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mexican National Institute of Public Health, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank. He is the interim director of the University of California’s systemwide programs with Mexico.
Elizabeth Oglesby is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She specializes in globalization, labor issues, human rights, and Central America.
Katie Sharar is Director of Communications of The Kino Border Initiative in Nogales on the Arizona-Mexico border. She has lived and worked in the U.S./Mexico borderlands since 2003.
Adalberto Ramos is the Director of Centro de Atención al Migrante Exodus (Center for the Assistance of Migrants in Exodus, CAME), the only shelter for asylum-seeking migrants in Agua Prieta, which lies across the Mexico–U.S. border from Douglas, Arizona.
Moderator: Beatriz Manz is Professor Emerita of Geography and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She was the Chair of Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies from 1993-1998. She is an anthropologist who specializes in human rights, justice, and Guatemala, and has been involved with several international governmental and non-governmental institutions.
Latin American Studies: Online Research Resources During a Pandemic with Dr. Liladhar Pendse
The novel coronavirus presents a challenge for research. CLAS hosted Liladhar Pendse, the UC Berkeley librarian for the Latin American and the Caribbean collection, to speak about online sources available for research on the Americas. Join us tomorrow (Thursday, 7/16) at 4:00 pm (Pacific Time) to relive Liladhar Pendse's presentation and for some valuable Q&A time. Throughout the Watch Party, he will be answering questions you may have regarding your research, don't miss this superb opportunity!
Liladhar R. Pendse is the librarian for the Caribbean and Latin American Studies collections at UC Berkeley, where he selects and acquires resources about the region and its diaspora. Dr. Pendse has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from UCLA.
Nina Lakhani Who Killed Berta Cáceres? The Murder of an Indigenous Defender and the Race to Save the Planet With comments by Joseph Berra and Rosemary Joyce
The first time Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres met journalist Nina Lakhani, Cáceres said, “The army has an assassination list with my name at the top. I want to live, but in this country, there is total impunity. When they want to kill me, they will do it.”
Last Thursday (7/9), CLAS hosted Nina Lakhani to discuss her recently published book, “Who Killed Berta Cáceres? The Murder of an Indigenous Defender and the Race to Save the Planet.” Lakhani was the only foreign journalist to attend the 2018 trial of Cáceres’ killers. Professors Joseph Berra and Rosemary Joyce shared their insight and experience on the topic and commented on Lakhani’s presentation. Join us this Tuesday (7/14) at 4:00 pm (Pacific Time) to relive their conversation.
Nina Lakhani has reported from over a dozen countries, including six and a half years freelancing in Central America and Mexico, where she focused on forced migration, the consequences of the war on drugs, state-sponsored violence, corruption, and impunity, gender violence, environmental defenders and the battle for natural resources. She is currently the Environmental Justice correspondent for The Guardian US based in New York.
Joseph Berra is the Human Rights in the Americas Project Director with the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law. A former Jesuit, Berra spent many years living and working in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America before earning his law degree. He was one of the international observers at the Berta Cáceres trial.
Rosemary Joyce is the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Federal Cultural Property Advisory Committee. She participated in field research in northern Honduras from 1977 to 2009.
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