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Celebración de Nuestra América Series

SHIFTING BORDERS(co)organized by Latin American and Latino Studies and the Center for Latino Research

FALL QUARTER

PERFORMANCE: Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyano) November, 2011 | DePaul University | Lincoln Park Campus

Performer, comedian, and author of I, Carmelita Tropina: Performing between Cultures

(Beacon Press, 2000).

WINTER QUARTER

ART EXHIBIT: Memoria [Memory] by Bibiana Suárez December 11, 2011 - March 27, 2012 | Hyde Park Art Center | 5020 S. Cornell Ave.

Opening Reception: December 11, 2011 | Free

The exhibit includes 108 paintings, collages, and prints that depict the child’s card

game, Memoria [Memory], to discuss the “tropicalization” or “latinization” of US culture.

Memoria [Memory] is an installation where in Suárez discussed the impact that Latinos

have had in the cultural and political landscape of the U.S. since the inception of the

Bracero Program during World War II.

LECTURE: Jeffrey Lesser January 16, 2012 | DePaul University | Lincoln Park Campus

Militant Ethnics and Ethnic Militancy: Minorities and the Brazilian Dictatorship

Author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy,

1960-1980 (Duke University Press, 2007), Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities

and the Sturggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (Duke University Press, 1999) and Welcoming the

Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question (University of California Press, 1994).

LECTURE: Rafael Pérez-Torres January 26, 2012 | DePaul University | Lincoln Park Campus

Author of Mestizaje: Critial Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (University of Minnesota

Press, 2006) and Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins

(Cambridge University Press, 1995).

SPRING QUARTER

SYMPOSIUM: Mexican Presence in Chicago and the Midwest May 4-5, 2012 | DePaul University | Lincoln Park Campus

What is the state of studies on Mexicans in Chicago and the Midwest and in what

direction(s) is it heading? An interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars working on

Chicago and those who work on other parts of the Midwest.

LECTURE: Greg Sarris May 15, 2012 | 6:00pm | DePaul University | Lincoln Park Campus

Author of Watermelon Nights (Penguin Books, 1998) and Grand Avenue (Penguin

Books, 1994). Grand Avenue was made into an HBO miniseries.

PERFORMANCE: Janis Astor del Valle May, 2012 | DePaul University | Lincoln Park Campus

Plays written and performed: Becoming Joaquin (Directed by Carolyn Kirsch) and

Trans Plantations (Directed by Carolyn Krsch).

2011-2012 Calendar Details TBA

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