Events
Fall 2010 World Languages Film Series
October 14- Movie Night - El secreto de sus ojos - viewing and discussion. 6:00 p.m. Reinhart Center 130
October 28 - Movie Night - El laberinto del fauno - viewing and discussion. 6:00 p.m. Reinhart Center 130
November 18 - Movie Night - Nueve reinas - viewing and discussion. 6:00 p.m. Reinhart Center 130
Spring 2010 World Languages Film Series
February 18- Movie Night - Retorno a Hansala - viewing and discussion. 6:30 p.m. Reinhart Center 127
March 18 - Movie Night - Children of Men - viewing and discussion. 6:30 p.m. Reinhart Center 127
April 15 - Movie Night - Paraiso Travel - viewing and discussion. 6:30 p.m. Reinhart Center 127
Fall 2009
October 1- Movie Night - Habana Blues (2005) - viewing and discussion. 6:30 p.m. Reinhart Center 127
October 7 - Amnesty International- Focus on Juárez. Join Amnesty International representatives for an hour of discussion and letter writing. Murphy Center Room 378 from 7–8:30 p.m.
October 8- Reception Latin American Studies
October 15 Venezuelan writer FedosySantaella, Fine Arts Center 7:30 p.m.
FedosySantaella (fiction writer; Venezuela) has published a novel, four short story collections and three collections of children s stories. The novels - The Unpublished Eventful Journeys of Teofilus Jones, andMiguel Luna Against the Aliens- are forthcoming. His short story collection Postales sub sole won the 2006 Pocaterra Latin American Literature Biennial s Novel Prize, and the story collection Moon Rocks was recognized in the 2007 José Antonio Ramos Sucre Literary Biennial. He has written for HBO and Cinemax, and contributes to magazines and newspapers in Venezuela; he is the creative writing workshop coordinator at UNIMET in Caracas. He is cunrrenty participating in the International Writing program at The University of Iowa.
October 19 Sister Marie Des Jarláis Join Sister Marie on this conversation about the situation in Chiapas, Mexico. Murphy Center 432 at 5:10-6:10 p.m.
October 20 - Rosa Valle Centeno is the President of CRIPDES, the Association for the Development of El Salvador. Her talk, "Hope, Change and Human Rights: How a New Government Has Changed Community Organizing in El Salvador." Murphy Center Room 432 at 2 p.m.
October 21- Sister Marie Des Jarláis- Franciscan Sister Marie Des Jarláis has been working in México and have traveled extensively throughout Latin American countries. She brings us her experiences and perspective from the other side. More information coming later. Brophy Nursing Center 204 at 2:10-3 p.m.
October 26. Postville Immigration Case by Lawyer Rockne Cole. Fine Arts Center Room 219, 11 a.m.
October 30 Day of the Dead Professor Dora Walleser brings to Viterbo a taste of the beliefs and traditions behind the Day of the Dead in México. Do not miss it! Murphy Center Main entrance 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Nov. 5 Movie Night
Crossing Arizona This film was nominated Best Documentary at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It is the winner of the One Future Prize 2006 at the Munich Film Festival, the Best Documentary at the Arizona International Film Festival, and audience awards at Cine Las Americas and the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Reinhart Center Room 127 at 6:30 p.m.