More VIVA FRIDA Events!
The Weber State University (WSU) Hispanic Area Council (HAC) and WSU students invite you to attend the VIVA FRIDA reception (a free art, educational, and community event). Frida Kahlo, famous Mexican painter best known for her Surrealism, Realism and Symbolism, has achieved great international popularity. Frida Kahlo used vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences.
VIVA FRIDA Open House Reception
Kimball Arts building, Art GalleryFriday, May 4th, 2012
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Free and Open to the public
FREE Transportation for Ogden School District students and their families.
Hosted by: WSU Hispanic Area Council
Frida Kahlo's exhibition will run May 3rd through May 18th at the Kimball Arts Building Gallery at Weber State University (3850 Harrison, Ogden, UT).
The exhibition will feature: Frida Kahlo work, High School students from the Ogden School District, and local artists.
If you need more information regarding this event or transportation questions, please contact
Monica Rodriguez at (801) 626-7303 or (801) 866-9475.
WORLD CINEMA WEEK 2012
CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD
In collaboration with the Global Film Initiative, Film Front presents two Latin American Films
FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN (Gordo, Calvo Y Bajito)
FILM INFORMATION
Synopsis Lonesome, middle-aged virgin Antonio Farfán is picked on and ridiculed as a matter of course, whether by coworkers or his bullying mooch of a brother (who only calls when he needs money). 
An employee of a notary’s office, his status improves a bit when his new boss—and strangely affable doppelganger—takes an interest in him. But Farfán’s deep-seated shyness and insecurity are only partly assuaged. And when he joins a self-improvement group, he slowly confirms what the undulating lines of this sly, involving rotoscope story suggest: everything is in motion, and change is inevitable. The question becomes what use one makes of it.
About the Director Carlos Osuna was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1980. He received a Masters in Visual Arts from Javeriana University and shortly after graduation was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2004 for his short film, Analogue Loop. He was awarded a grant in 2009 from the Francisco Javier Fund for Social Projects for his documentary Giving Life to Life and in 2002, his short video, Watch TV, won the Pre-Columbian Gold Circle award from the Bogotá Film Festival. Fat, Bald, Short Man is his first feature film.
THE PRIZE (El Premio)
FILM INFORMATION
Synopsis Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. 
As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-year-old Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a kindly teacher. A childhood idyll, however, soon becomes contaminated by the general political crisis, as the teacher recruits the class for a patriotic essay contest sponsored by the army—the very people that may have already disappeared Cecilia’s father—in this superbly acted and engrossingly atmospheric drama about innocence in illicit times.
About the Director Paula Markovitch was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1968. She has taught screenwriting at the Center of Cinematographic Capacitation (CCC) and is writer and director of the short films Perriférico and Ambulance Music. She has also served as an adviser for the Fundación Toscano-Sundance Lab, the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) and the National Fund for the Arts and Culture (FONCA). The Prize is her first feature film.
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Event Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 4:00 PM MDT
Location: Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Room 109
Mario Pecheny, Ph.D. is currently a Professor of
Political Science and Sociology of Health at the University of Buenos Aires. He is also an Associate Researcher in Sociology and Demography at the National Council of Science and Technology (CONICET and the Institute Gino Germani, in Argentina.
Del Sotavento Son specializes in “son jarocho,” a traditional form of music from the Gulf Coast of Mexico with European Baroque, African, Cuban, and indigenous influences. The group comprises members from Cucalambé Son Jarocho and Los Vega, both of which are recognized as great interpreters and innovators of the form, and perform in concerts and festivals throughout Mexico. In recent years, “son jarocho” has gained widespread appeal in the US as communities across the country have adopted it into their own cultural practices.
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BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL
Celebrate it with us! Come to our samba class!
Where: @ the Language and Communication Building (LNCO 1945)
When: February 22nd (Wednesday)
What time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Prize for the best costume!
Refreshments will be provided!
Larry Rohter
New York Times Journalist and former Bureau Chief presents
"Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed"
Tuesday February 7, 2012 at 4pm
Eccles Auditorium
CTIHB (Carol Tanner Irish Humanities Building) Room 109
RMCLAS Conference
The 59th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies will be held at the Yarrow Hotel in Park City March 28-31, 2012.
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THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENT HOSTS TWO JOB TALKS:
"Social Protection and the Politicization of Class Cleavages During Latin America's Left Turn"
Samuel Handlin (Ph.D., Berkeley), currently a Post Doc at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame
Monday October 24, 10-11:30 am in the Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH 255)
"Environmental Litigation in China: Mixed Signals and Political Openings Under Authoritarianism"
Rachel E. Stern (Ph.D. Berkeley), currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows
Wednesday October 26, 10-11:30 in Room 143 (The Jewel Box) of the CTIHB.
THURS SEPT 29 Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium
HOW PAINTING SAVED FRIDA’S LIFE: THE ROLE OF ART IN HEALING
FILM, 5 p.m.: Frida: Naturaleza Viva (in Spanish with English subtitles)
Considered by many the best film on Frida Kahlo, this film tells of Frida’s life through music, art and movement. Filmed amidst original Kahlo paintings in the Blue House (before it was a museum). 1986. 108 minutes. Director Paul Leduc. Starring Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola. Not rated. Female nudity and sexuality.)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087297/
TALK, 7 p.m.: The Role of Art in Healing (in English)
Note: Frida’s graphic self-portraits of her suffering (including nudity), will be on display for this event. This talk will include graphic images not included in the Viva Frida! exhibit.
Come to VIVA FRIDA! Events
September 22 @ 6pm: Reception at the Library Plaza (200 E. 400 S)
September 22 @ 7 pm: Keynote address by Dr. Alfonso Alfaro, Ph.D.
THE POWER OF ART TO UNITE A DIVERSE NATION
Dr. Alfaro, visiting from Mexico, will discuss how art helped reunite Mexico following the tumultuous Mexican Revolution that took place during Frida Kahlo’s childhood. Post-Revolutionary Mexican art was, for decades, a decisive factor in cultural dynamics and social stability. Today, it stands as an example of how art can inspire a society in search of new ways of achieving harmony.
For more information visit the Viva Frida! homepage
News and Announcements
Scholarship Opportunity! | LAS and the Honors College will award 10 full tuition scholarships for the Spring Semester 2012. You don't need to be a LAS or Honors student to apply.
[read more] More information at Sep 9, 2011
New LAS Courses for Fall 2011 | LAS has added two new classes for the Fall 2011 semester: SOC 3310: Latino and Latina Sociology and History 4270 Empire and Exploration.
[read more] More information at Aug 22, 2011
LAS Faculty in the News | Political Science professor studies immigrant civic and political activism.
[read more] More information at Aug 8, 2011
Prof. Susie Porter to teach leadership seminar to Spanish-speaking residents of Salt Lake City | Prof. Susie Porter will lead a 9 week leadership seminar for Spanish-speaking residents of Salt Lake City during the Fall semester, 2011. The seminar is organized through the West Side Leadership Institute (WLI), a partnership between NeighborWorks, Salt Lake and the University of Utah.
[read more] More information at Aug 8, 2011
Four Glimpses of Democracy's Future: India, Brazil, Canada and the United States | John Gastil, Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University presents the keynote address at the 2012 Graduate Student Conference in Political Science
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Event Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 : 4:30 PM MST
Location: OSH 253
Sexual Rights, Human Rights: the Case of Latin America | Mario Pecheny, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, will deliver the 2012 Anne and Sandy Dolowitz Lecture in Human Rights
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Event Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 : 4:00 PM MDT
WORLD CINEMA WEEK 2012 |
CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD
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Event Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 : 7:00 PM MDT