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TitleDate & TimeLocationDescriptionSponsor
Lecture
''The Coyolxauhqui Journey: Immigration, Generational Detachment and Getting (Re)membered in Mexico''
September 9, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Santa Rita Room, Texas Union 3.502Angela Valenzuela, Division of Diversity and Community EngagementDivision of Diversity and Community Engagement, CMAS, COLA
Reading
''Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlands''
September 10, 2008
12:00 PM
LBJ Room, CMA 5.160Stephanie Elizondo Griest reads from her latest book, a memoir of her travels in Mexico and the United States in a search for identity. Book signing to follow. A light lunch will be served.

For more information, contact the Mexican Center at 512.232.2423.
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, LLILAS, Mexican Center
Film Screening
''Missing''
September 11, 2008
5:30 PM-8:30 PM

Auditorium, MEZ 1.306A screening and discussion with Joyce Horman and Peter Kornbluh to discuss the events surrounding the coup and the making of the film by Ed Horman. Free and open to the public.Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS
Panel Discussion
''Pinochet and the Pursuit of Justice: Chile 35 Years Later''
September 12, 2008
12:00 PM
Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room, Benson Latin American CollectionA discussion featuring Joyce Horman, Peter Kornbluh, and Elizabeth Kornfeld. Free and open to the public.Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS
Lecture
''LGBT Studies in Mexico: Some Feminist Reflections on LGBT Research and Activism in Mexican Society''
September 12, 2008
4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Chicano Culture Room, Texas Union 4.206Gloria Careaga, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de MexicoLLILAS, CWGS, Department of Sociology
Meeting
''Brazil Center and Mexican Center Happy Hour''
September 12, 2008
5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Scholtz Garden, Trinity and 16th StreetA celebration of Dia da Independencia do Brasil (September 7) and Dia de la Independencia de Mexico (September 16). Join us for light appetizers and a free prize raffle. LLILAS alumni and visiting scholars welcome.

For more info., call Gail Sanders at 512.232.2423.
Mexican Center, Brazil Center, LLILAS
Lecture
''The 'Invention' of Indigenous Music: A Critical History of Studies on Indigenous Music in Mexico''
September 18, 2008
11:00 AM-1:00 PM

MRH 3.134Marina Alonso Bolanos, National Museum of Anthropology and History

Presented as part of the LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor Program.


For more info., contact Paola Bueche at 512.232.2405.
LLILAS, School of Music
Lecture
''Diversity of Indigenous Musical Expression of Mexico: An Overview''
September 23, 2008
11:00 AM-1:00 PM

MRH 3.134Marina Alonso Bolanos, National Museum of Anthropology and History

Presented as part of the LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor Program.


For more info., contact Paola Bueche at 512.232.2405.
LLILAS, School of Music
Lecture
''Collective Remittances and the State: The 3x1 Program in Mexican Municipalities''
September 23, 2008
12:30 PM-2:30 PM

BAT 5.108Covadonga Meseguer, CIDE-Mexico

Presented as part of the LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor Program.


For more info., contact Paola Bueche at 512.232.2405.
LLILAS
Lecture
'''Sin musica no hay fiesta, no hay nada:' An Anthropology of Indigenous Music in Southern Mexico''
September 25, 2008
11:00 AM-1:00 PM

MRH 3.134Marina Alonso Bolanos, National Museum of Anthropology and History

Presented as part of the LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor Program.


For more info., contact Paola Bueche at 512.232.2405.
LLILAS, School of Music
Lecture
''Beyond the Civil Society Agenda: 'Civic Participation' and Practices of Governance, Governability, and Governmentality in Latin America''
September 29, 2008
3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Hackett Room, SRH 1.313Sonia Alvarez, University of Massachusetts, AmerherstLLILAS, Department of Sociology, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese


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