Contemporary Latin America Lecture Series

Guest lecturer: Eduardo Gutiérrez, Metro State University

Monday, November 3, Port O' Call, UWL

11 a.m. - 12 p.m., Contemporary Observance of Day of the Dead

1 p.m. - 2 p.m., Ofrenda para Quela

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Day of the Dead Exhibit, Nov. 3-4 Port O’ Call, UWL

Altar Exhibit, dedicated in memory of U.S. Hispanics.

Innocent Voices

Come Novemeber 5th at 7:00PM in 247 GMH and learn all about it!

If you would like to see the trailer go to http://www.alltrailers.net/voces-inocentes.html

Brief Summary: This story was inspired by the real childhood events of script writer, Oscar Torres. Also, the director, Luis Mandoki, tells the commermorative story of Carols Padilla, an 11 year old child trapped by the circumstances that he has to become the "man of the house" after his father abandoned his family at the height of the civil war. Carlos is one year away from be recruited by the government to be enlisted and fight the battle against the FMLN army. His life becomes a game of survival, not only from bullets, but also the devastation of daily violence. Some how, Carlos finds the courage to maintain an open heart and his spirit lives in his race against time.

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH 2008 Film Series

Monday, November 10th 7:00 p.m. CWH 102, UWL

A Massacre Foretold, 2007.Documentary about massacre of 50 indigenous women and children in a church in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico, accused of supporting an anti-government uprising.Spanish and English with English Subtitles.

Ramon Daubon: "Globalization and the Collapse of Washington Consensus"

Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m., Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, Viterbo

Latin American expert Ramon Daubon, Ph.D, a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow who is spending a week at Viterbo University, is an expert on global aid issues.

http://www.viterbo.edu/news.aspx?id=41348

Gender Mainstreaming and Development Priorities: Popular Participation and Gendered Work in Rural Bolivia"

Christine Hippert, UW-L, Sociology/Archaeology

November 13, 4 p.m., Cartwright Center 257

Dr. Hippert’s presentation examines community development and popular participation in rural Bolivia as a gendered process. In 1994, Bolivia passed a law requiring an increase in women’s participation in local government and community development. Around the world, human rights advocates and activists promote this type of gender equity as part and parcel of the goals of social development and cultural progress. The results of Dr. Hippert’s two-year ethnographic research in rural Bolivia found that women are extremely visible in development and political contexts, and on the surface it seems as if Bolivia’s goal of increasing women’s political participation is being met. However, her presentation will show that men and women often challenge and accommodate outsider’s perceptions of gender equity and gender roles in their development work. In order to foster inclusion, collaboration, and engagement in local popular participation, women attempt to both maintain conventional social relations at the same time that they struggle to transform them. Dr. Hippert’s presentation shows that without understanding cultural constructions of gender, gender equity, as envisioned by NGOs in the West, can over-burden women and misconstrue the power that men – particularly poor, indigenous men – have as stakeholders in rural communities.