From art to trade, politics to religion, Vanderbilt events eye Latin America

Multiple departments take scholarly look southward

Religion series on immigrant experience

Scholars from across the country featured

Tonight at the Frist Center: Mexican prints in the context of politics and history

Vanderbilt University's Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies is in the middle of a busy semester of special events, continuing tonight with History professor Edward Wright-Rios speaking at the Frist Center's Off the Wall Lecture Series on the topic, "Making Art and Revolution: The Prints, Politics, and History in Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular, 1937-1960."

Vanderbilt's religion department has also turned its eye toward Latin America in the Relevant Religion series with a four-week program titled "Latino/a Immigration: Reasons, Faces, Expectations" to be held on March 12, 19 and 26 and April 2, at 7-8:30 p.m. at the Scarritt-Bennett Center. From Vanderbilt's program description: "This series, led by Fernando Segovia, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, seeks to address the experience, reality and expectations of recent Latino/a migration in the United States, focusing on various communities of origin and settlement and using documentaries as points of departure for information and discussion." The cost is $50 a person, with registration via phone at (615) 936-8453 or online here.

The CLAIS spring calendar is available here and is also reproduced below:

Thursday, February 15 6:30pm
Edward Wright-Rios, History, Vanderbilt
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Off the Wall Lecture Series
“Making Art and Revolution: The Prints, Politics, and History in Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular, 1937-1960”

Thursday, February 22 7:00pm
Wilson Hall 103
Film: Enamorada (1946, Emilio Fernández)

Thursday, March 8 6:30pm
Leonard Folgarait, Art History, Vanderbilt
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Off the Wall Lecture Series
“Giving Context to Modern Mexican Art and Printmaking”

Friday, March 23 3:00 pm
Peter Smith, Political Science, UC-San Diego
Buttrick 206
“Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’: A Threat to U.S. Interests?”

Friday, March 30 3:00 pm
Susan Stokes, Political Science, Yale University
Buttrick 206
“Globalization, the Welfare Gap, and Rise of the Left in Latin America”

Friday, April 6 3:00 pm
John Carey, Government, Dartmouth University
Buttrick 206
“The Primary Elections ‘Bonus’ in Latin America”

Monday, April 9 3:00pm
Robert Irwin, Spanish, UC-Davis
Buttrick 206
“Ramona and Lola Casanova: Borderlands Icons and Inter-Americas Studies”

Tuesday, April 10 4:00 pm
Mitch Seligson, Political Science, Vanderbilt
Renaissance Room, Vanderbilt Law School
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) Symposium

Thursday, April 12 6:30pm
Gary Gossen, Anthropology, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, State University of New York
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Off the Wall Lecture Series
"The Heroic Theme in Multi-ethnic Societies: What We Can Learn from Mexican Art"

Wednesday, April 18 4:00pm
Sam Quiñones, journalist for the Los Angeles Times and author of True Tales from Another Mexico.
Buttrick 101
“So Far from Mexico City, So Close to God: Stories of Mexican immigrants and of Mexico's Escape from History"

Thursday, April 19 7:00pm
Wilson Hall 103
Film: Los Trabajadores (2001, Heather Courtney)