LAIS Blog

Please refer to Prof. Omar Encarnación’s article about the election of Latin America’s first pope, posted by Foreign Affairs on March 19, 2013
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139066/omar-encarnacion/the-catholic-crisis-in-latin-america

Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs

January 30. Un chien andalou; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
February 6. (Avery @9:20) Belle de jour
February 13. Los olvidados
February 20. Nazarín; Viridiana
February 27. The Exterminating Angel; Tristana
March 6. That Obscure object of Desire; Welcome Mr. Marshall
March 13. The Hunt; Peppermint Frappé
March 20. Cría cuervos!; Deprisa, deprisa
April 3. Carmen; El Sur
April 10. What Have I Done to Deserve This?; Law of Desire
April 17. Women on a Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; All About My Mother
April 24. Talk to Her
May 1. Volver; The Skin I Live in
May 10.  My Life Without Me
All films will be screened in Preston Theater (110) at 7pm, unless noted otherwise.

A Documentary Film

YOU’RE INVITED to the  Bard SCREENING!
Followed by a Q&A via skype with the producer!

Monday, November 5th at 6:00 p.m.

In the Language Center Building: Rooms 203 and 206

http://www.searchforidentitydocumentary.com/

About the Project

Media professionals at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication in collaboration with history and cultural scholars, have produced a 60-minute film to bring awareness to the world about the repercussions from the Dirty War and its on-going cultural, social, political, ethical, human rights, and economic effects.

This project is grounded in the search for identity and the “moral of the story” is that the right to identity is a fundamental human right. It will focus on the development of a 60-minute documentary film about the educational movement headed by Las Abuelas. The film presents historical and cultural facts, and features interviews with Las Abuelas and the ‘found’ grandchildren. The main question we hope to answer: “is the right to identity a basic human right?”

About the Story

Some people know little about los desaparecidos of Argentina. As many as 30,000 dissidents of the military dictatorship were kidnapped, tortured and killed during The Dirty War, between 1976 and 1983. In Argentina today, there is a movement underway headed by a group called Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, or The Grandmothers of May Plaza.

These women are dedicated to finding their missing grandchildren, the babies who were taken from pregnant women during the Dirty War. The women were captured and murdered and their babies were given to supporters of the military regime. Now in their 20s and 30s, these “lost” grandchildren have no knowledge of their past or of their true identities. Las Abuelas is trying to change that. Through direct interviews with Las Abuelas, the found grandchildren, and other members of their families and communities, we seek to tell the story as it is still unfolding and bring the historical and cultural context that is needed to help people around the world understand the impact that such a crisis has for people from many different generations.

Written Arts Program and The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard

invite you to a conference April 17-18

Cuba Today and Tomorrow:

The Individual Caught Between Nations

Tuesday, April 17th

Film showing:

Adio Kerida, 5 pm, Hegeman 102

Film by Ruth Behar on Cuban Jewish (Sephardic) community and exile

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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

All events in Campus Center

MPR

1-1:15 Cuban Bard students talk of coming to Bard

1:20-1:40 Study Abroad Office/University of Burlington/Marist and Bard students who have studied in Cuba discuss experience, opportunities, show videos

2-3 pm History of Cuban music/salsa with live ensemble with singing led by conservatory musician Jose Agustin and samba leader Carlos Valdez

WEIS

3:30 pm Filmmaker Brin-Jonathan Butler discusses and shows clips from his film SPLIT DECISION, in conversation with Edie Meidav and S.L. Price.

Film details the American nightmare currently being lived by Afro-Cuban boxer and defector Guillermo Rigondeaux, considered greatest amateur in the sport’s history.

5:15 pm Reception and books available for sale outside Weis

5:30 pm Keynote address with Carlos Eire (Yale professor and author of WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA) and MacArthur Fellow and anthropologist Ruth Behar (University of Michigan, THE VULNERABLE OBSERVER)

6:30 pm Panel with S.L. Price, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Ruth Behar, Carlos Eire, and other guests, moderated by Edie Meidav

7:30 pm Reception and book-signing outside Weis

Sponsored by TLS, IILE, Dean’s Office, Human Rights Program, LAIS, La Voz, Anthropology Program, Jewish Studies, Written Arts and The Arendt Center

Special Screening of 35mm. print of

El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice, 1973, Spain, 97 minutes).

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Víctor Erice begins his examination of fact and fantasy with the screening of James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) in a small town in post-Civil War Spain.

This film is part of the series Robert Bresson and His Legacy, curated by Professor Richard Suchenski. This is screening for Representations of the Spanish Civil War (Span 236), and is free and open to the public.  

Date: Friday, April 13

Time: 7 pm

Location: Ottaway Theater, Avery Center for the Arts

Professor David Rodríguez-Solás’s class on Representations of the Spanish Civil War had the opportunity to visit the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at the Tamiment Library, NYU in March.

 Pepi, Luci , Bom

(Pedro Almodóvar, 1980)

In Spanish with English Subtitles

Almodóvar’s first feature film will be screening for the course span 221 “Literature, Film & Theater in Spain’s Transition to Democracy”.

Date: Monday, November 28

Time: 7 pm

Location: Olin 102

Contact: David Rodríguez-Solás, dsolas@bard.edu

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Kate Doyle, a Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America, currently directs the Mexico Project, which aims to obtain documents on U.S.-Mexican relations. She edited two of the Archive’s collections of declassified records – Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999 and El Salvador: War, Peace and Human Rights, 1980-1994 – and numerous Electronic Briefing Books on Guatemala and Mexico for the Archive’s Web site. Since 1992, Doyle has worked with Latin American human rights organizations and truth commissions – in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras – to obtain the declassification of U.S. government archives in support of their investigations. She co-authored the 1994 report of the Washington Task Force on Salvadoran Death Squads, produced for the U.N.-appointed “Grupo Conjunto,” which examined the resurgence of death squads in El Salvador after the signing of the peace accords. She published the Guatemalan death squad dossier in Harper’s Magazine, and led the group of human rights organizations who briefed the press on the dossier in May 1999. In September 2002, Doyle appeared

as an expert witness in the trial of senior military officers in Guatemala for the assassination of Myrna Mack. Doyle also works with citizens groups throughout the region on their campaigns for government transparency, accountability and freedom of information, and has written about the right to information in Latin America and the United States. She is a member of the advisory boards of the World Policy Journal, the Journal of the Right to Information, Libertad de Información-México and the Fund for Constitutional Government in Washington. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, World Policy Journal, Current History, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and other publications. She now lives in Mexico City, directing the Mexico Project for the Archive and serving as a Research Fellow at the Iberoamerican University. In 2002, Doyle was awarded the Iberoamerican University’s annual “Right to Information Prize.”

For more information on GRANITO, please see the following link: http://skylightpictures.com/films/granito

Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Olin, Room 102

LAIS Program Presents

Representing Spain’s Transition to Democracy

A festival of Spanish films as part of the course “Literature, Film & Theater in Spain’s Transition to Democracy”.

El Sur, directed by Víctor Erice

(In Spanish with no subtitles)

Date: Wednesday, September 28

Time: 7 pm

Location: Olin 202

Contact: David Rodríguez-Solás, dsolas@bard.edu, 845-758-7382