Posted 11:04 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4, 2015
UWL will mark the national celebration of Hispanic culture and history with a series of presentations, discussions, films and more.
UWL will mark the national celebration of Hispanic culture and history with a series of presentations, discussions, films and more on campus and at other locations in the community. This year's celebration honors Latina, Hispanic and Latin American women.
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A conversation with Hilda Lloréns, hosted by the Latin American Student Association and Mujeres Orgullosas.
Hilda Lloréns, University of Rhode Island, is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the Caribbean and on U.S. Latinas. She has conducted ethnographic research and published articles about race and blackness in Puerto Rican visual and cultural production. Her book, Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century (October 2014) synthesizes over a decade of research on this topic. Her work about race, racism, and blackness extends to the realms of education and social justice. Lloréns is co-author of Arrancando Mitos de Raíz, a book that aims to combat racism in Puerto Rico's school curriculum (2013). She has carried out fieldwork among Latinas in Los Angeles, Miami, New England and San Juan about plastic surgery, beauty ideals, and race. More recently, Lloréns has conducted cross-cultural research with Dominican and Puerto Rican girls in New England seeking to understand their cultural models of success and wellbeing, as well as beauty and body ideals.
“Tres vidas” A musical theater presentation honoring the legacy of Latin American women. Free and open to the UWL community. (UWL identification might be required)
Tres vidas is a chamber music theatre work for singing actress and trio (cello, piano and percussion) based on the lives of three legendary Latin American Women: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant activist Rufina Amaya and Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni. The show features a wide stylistic range of music, including popular and folk songs of Mexico, El Salvador and Argentina, vocal and instrumental tangos by Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla and new music written especially for Tres vidas.
4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, Cameron Hall of Nations, Centennial Hall
Inaugural Ceremony and “Latina Tapestry.” An open poetry reading of Latina, Chicana and Latin American women authors by UWL faculty and students. Presented by Mujeres Orgullosas and facilitated by Rose Brougham, Modern Languages. Come read your own work or your favorite author in English, Spanish and Spanglish. Free and open to the public.Noon Thursday, Sept. 17, Ward Room, Cartwright Center
“I Am Not a Racist! The Moral Economy of the Corner Store and Haitian-Dominican Relations in the Dominican Republic,” a research presentation by Christine Hippert, Anthropology. Hippert will share the result of her sabbatical research work in the Dominican Republic-Haiti border. Free and open to the public.5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, Brian and Lori Hesprich Auditorium, Graff Main Hall
“No más bebés” (2015) Dir. Renee Tajima-Peña. A film presented by the students of Mujeres Orgullosas. A discussion will follow facilitated by Nicholas Villanueva, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Julia McReynolds-Pérez, Sociology. Free and open to the public. “No más bebés” investigates the history of Mexican-American women who were sterilized at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and 1970s. This is the powerful story of immigrant mothers who sued county doctors, the state and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth. Alongside a courageous 26-year-old Chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing young doctor, the mothers stood up to powerful institutions in the name of justice.Noon Wednesday, Sept. 30, 337 Cartwright Center
[caption id="attachment_43300" align="alignright" width="300"] Hilda Lloréns, University of Rhode Island[/caption]
A conversation with Hilda Lloréns, hosted by the Latin American Student Association and Mujeres Orgullosas.
Hilda Lloréns, University of Rhode Island, is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the Caribbean and on U.S. Latinas. She has conducted ethnographic research and published articles about race and blackness in Puerto Rican visual and cultural production. Her book, Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century (October 2014) synthesizes over a decade of research on this topic. Her work about race, racism, and blackness extends to the realms of education and social justice. Lloréns is co-author of Arrancando Mitos de Raíz, a book that aims to combat racism in Puerto Rico's school curriculum (2013). She has carried out fieldwork among Latinas in Los Angeles, Miami, New England and San Juan about plastic surgery, beauty ideals, and race. More recently, Lloréns has conducted cross-cultural research with Dominican and Puerto Rican girls in New England seeking to understand their cultural models of success and wellbeing, as well as beauty and body ideals.
5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center
“Wellbeing, Success, and Cultural Identity among Latina Adolescents,” a research presentation and discussion by Hilda Lloréns, University of Rhode Island. Free and open to the public.7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, Viterbo University Fine Arts lobby
“Tres vidas” A musical theater presentation honoring the legacy of Latin American women. Free and open to the UWL community. (UWL identification might be required)
Tres vidas is a chamber music theatre work for singing actress and trio (cello, piano and percussion) based on the lives of three legendary Latin American Women: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant activist Rufina Amaya and Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni. The show features a wide stylistic range of music, including popular and folk songs of Mexico, El Salvador and Argentina, vocal and instrumental tangos by Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla and new music written especially for Tres vidas.