Events Archive
FALL 2010
November 13th. Recital Hall, 7:30 pm. The Music of Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera. This event is sponsored by the Music Department
November 11th. RCE # 127, 7:00-8:00 pm Lecture: Venezuela 101--Democracy in the 21st Century by journalist Charles Chardy, author of Cowboy in Caracas. A North American Memoir of Venezuela Democratic Revolution (2007). This event is sponsored by the Department of World Languages and Cultures
October 7th. Peruvian Theater Company Yuyachkani will visit our campus to offer a Performance and Workshop in the Theater Department. Main Theater Lobby, 10:00 am- Noon.
The event will be open to all Viterbo students and faculty, and to the general public.
Title: Behind the Mask by Actress Debora Correa. On this piece, Correa tells us the story of each of the mask she wears as well as the process through which she builds that particular character. Along the way, we learn the history of the mask in different traditions from Europe, Asia and the Americas.
"Yuyachkani is a Quechua word that means "I am thinking, I am remembering." Using this name, and working to honor its meaning, the Peruvian theatre collective Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani (Yuyachkani Cultural Group) has been creating theatre since 1971. The group is comprised of seven actors (Augusto Casafranca, Amiel Cayo, Ana Correa, Debora Correa, Rebeca Ralli, Teresa Ralli, and Julian Vargas), a technical designer (Fidel Melquiades), and an artistic director (Miguel Rubio), who have made a commitment to collective creation as a mode of theatrical production and to group theatre as a life style. Yuyachkani members describe their collective as a "group that attempts to be united by dreams and utopias, by the adventure of creating -- why not? -- an alternative family that practices theatre as a way of life". The group's dreams, and its idea of utopia, are closely tied to Latin American and Peruvian political developments that privilege the popular classes and focus on meeting their economic, social, and cultural needs". (More available on Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics)
See Yuyachkani Video
Sept 20th, Room MC 432, Noon to 1 :00 pm. Round Table on Global Awareness Throuhg Experience (GATE) program with Sister Marie DesJarlais, Director of GATE.
SUMMER 2010
Fourteen students and two faculty members participated in the GATE-Mexico Summer program, which included talks, site visits, and meetings with social workers, academics, and human rights activists in Mexico City and Chiapas. The group had the opportunity of visiting among other projects and instituions, the Sergio Castro Chiapas Water Project and Etnography Museum in San Cristobal de Las Casas, the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, and the Frida Khalo's Casa Azul in Coyoacan. The picture was taken before climbing the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan.
SPRING 2010
Latin American Modernities: A Collaborative Workshop On Research, Service, and Teaching.
April 23 -24, 2010 La Crosse, Wisconsin
Organized by: Viterbo University and University of Wisconsin La Crosse
Keynote Speaker will be Diana Sorensen, James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Dean for the Humanities at Harvard University, author of A Turbulent Decade Remembered. Scenes from the Latin American Sixties. Stanford University Press, 2007.
Her Lecture will be titled: Latin America and the Geographic Imaginaries of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. April 23, RC 127, 7:30 pm
More info click here.
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
Fall 2009
October 1- Movie Night
Habana Blues (2005) - viewing and discussion. 6:30 pm. RC 127
October 7 - Amnesty International- Focus on Juárez. Join Amnesty International representatives for an hour of discussion and letter writing.
MC Room 378 from 7:00-8:30
October 8- Reception Latin American Studies
October 15 Venezuelan writer FedosySantaella, FAC 7:30
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. MC 432- 5:10-6:10.
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." MC 432 - 2:00
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.BNC 204 2:10-3:00
October 26. Postville Immigration Case by Lawyer Rockne Cole.FAC 219, 11:00 am.
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!MC Main entrance 10:00 am - 2:30 pm.
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. RC 127, 6:30pm
Spring 2009
April 20th and 21st
Domingo Tum Mejia, community organizer from Guatemala, will present "Historical Memory to Bring Justice from 36 years of Internal Strife". Mejia works at MemoriaHistorica, an organization dedicated to recuperate records from Guatemala communities that were affected by the civil war (1960-1996). On the 20th, he will speak at 11:00 am and 1:10 pm in MC 348, at 4:10 in MC 378. On the 21st, at 9:30 am in RC 130.
March 23rd - 27th
Visiting Scholar Luz María de la Torre Amaguaña
She obtained her BA in Applied Linguistics from the Catholic University of Ecuador (1997), and her Masters Degree in Political Sciences from the Latin American School of Social Sciences in Ecuador (2006); her main works deal with Indigenous Cosmologies, Quichua Language, Biligual (Spanish/Quichua) education, Women in the Andes, and Social Movements. She combines public service and cultural analysis on the life of Indigenous communities in her country, but also in the region and in the continent.
Luz María is a regular Visiting Scholar at universities in Ecuador and abroad. Among her contributions are being advisor to Dr. Nina Pacari Vega, the first Indigenous woman who became Minister of Foreign Relations in Ecuador, and to chair the Council of Indigenous Women of Ecuador. At this moment, she is Visiting Lecturer at UCLA where she is teaching Kichwa and Spanish Laguages, and doing research on Indigenous immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
At Viterbo University, Luz María de la Torre will be talking to classes and will offer a public Lecture titled Women Voices in the Andes, present and future. RC 127, Tuesday, March 24th, 12:30 pm.
This is an event sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, Woman Studies Program, Department of World Languages and Cultures, FSPA, Global Education Office and the Spanish Club.
Schedule (all presentactions are open to the public)
Monday, 23rd
Arrival at La Crosse Airport 5:40 pm.
6:30-8:30 pm: Reception sponsored by Woman Studies.
Location: Community Room at One River Place Dr., Downtown La Crosse, WI 54601.
Tuesday, 24th
8:30 am. Welcome by Viterbo President, AVP and SLS Dean.
9:30-10:50 am. Short Seminar to POSC 120 (Keith Kanutson) and Honors students (Emily Dykman)
12:30-1:50 pm. Lecture: Women in the Andes, present and future. RC 127.to SPAN 316, SOWR 328, ENGL 347, MGNT 375.
2:30 pm. Campus Tour with student Michael Krueger.
6:30 pm. Talk at Lugar de Reunión (LdR), Hispanic Resource Center in Sparta.
Wednesday, 25th
11:00 am. SPAN 306, MC 348. (Maribel Bird)
1:10-2:00 pm. MGNT 341, MC 436 (Stephanine Martin).
4:10-7:00 pm. SPAN 410, WMST 400, MC 346 (Jesús E. Jambrina and Apryl Denny)
7:00 pm. Chorus Concert at San Daminano Chapel.
Thursday, 26th
9:30 am-10:50. Presentation: Indigenous Cosmologies and Western Philosophy. PHLP 365, FAC 2048 (Jason Howard)
11:30 am. Lunch at Global Ed. office.
Evening: Farewell dinner.
January 29-31
Voices from Beyond the Dark (staged reading)
by Ariel Dorfman
La Croix Black Box Theatre
Director: Dana McConnell
Fall 2008
November 20
Fair Trade Project. Student Union from 11:00 to 2:00 pm. Items from Ecuador.
November 11
Lecture: Globalization, and the collapse of the Washington Consensus, by Ramon Daubon, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. Recital Hall, 7:00 pm. Open to the public.
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
October 23
Art Demonstration Class with HernanIllescas, 9:30 am -12:20 pm, FC 314. Sponsored by Global Education, Art and World Languages Departments.
October 22
Workshop with Ecuatorian painter HernanIllescas
.Outside of MC, 2:15 - 5:00 pm. If raining or too cold, we will move to the Student Union. Sponsored by Global Education, Art and World Languages Departments. Open to the public.
October 20
Guest Speaker. Dr. Jean Moore. Franciscan Missions in the Southwest". MC 471, 4:10 pm. Sponsored by World Languages Department.
October 1
International Writers Reading.Chilean poet Cristian Gomez Olivares. Recital Hall, 7:00 pm. Open to the public. Sponsored by Global Education, English Department, World Languages Department, and Viterbo President's International Initiave Fund.
September 15
Guest Speaker. S. Marie Des Jarlais, Director of Global Awareness Through Experience (GATE) will talk to students about XX Century US interventions in Latin America
MC 471, 4:10 pm. Sponsored by World Languages Department.
Spring 2008
April 15
Bright Star Season Shows: "Ballet Hispanico"
For information on the Bright Star Season
April 2
Reverend Leigh Waggoner, Board Chair of the Hispanic Resource Center in Sparta, Wisconsin. MC 378, 11:30 am.
March 28
"Radical Courage: Bartolomé de Las Casas and his defense of the American Indians" a presentation by Assistant Professor JesúsJambrina, Viterbo University, at the Ethics Institute Conference on Courage. RC 130, 3-4:15 pm
March 17
"Social and Cultural Aspects of Brazilian Carnival" by Brazilian choreographer and professorArmando Duarte from the University of Iowa.7-9 pm. RC 127.
February 14
Casey Sanchez, Journalist from the Southern Poverty Law Center will be giving a talk on the Intelligence Report, an investigation on the increase of hate organizations in this country during 2006, in particular against undocumented workers. 127 RC, 3:30 pm.
January 30
Bright Star Season Shows: "Tango Fire"
For information on the Bright Star Season
1:10 PM, MC 437. "El Salvador: Human Rights and The War on Terror" A lecture by Pedro Juan Hernandez. Hernandez is also a member of CRIPDES.
October 16
6:30 PM, RC201. How about High Culture: The Peoples of the Andes and Latin American Civilization. Lecture by Dr. Frank Salomon UW- Madison.
Learn More About Dr. Frank Salomon
8 PM, RC Lobby. Latin American Studies Reception
2:10 PM, MC414. Sister Marie Desjarlais will speak on social issues involving immigration in Latin America. MC 414.Learn More about Gate
November 13, 7 PM: Paradise Found and Lost: Columbus Rhetorics of Possesions
Lecture by Dr. Luis Rivera-Pagan. FAC Recital Hall.
Lear More About Dr. Luis Rivera-Pagan
May 3-6. Festival of Nations at the Rivercenter.
Festival of Nations Homepage
April 20-May 13. "Messy Utopia" Performance at the Mixed Blood Theatre.
Mixed Blood Theatre Homepage
April 21, 7:00 pm. Rob Gonzalez: Piano concert at La Crosse Center.
Listen to Rob Gonzalez
Learn More About Rob Gonzalez
March 28, 1:10 pm, MC 348 "Justice for Genocide" a Talk.
February 2, 7:00 pm. PaquitoD'Rivera: Latin Jazz Concert at Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa. http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/events/drivera.html
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FALL 2006
SEPTEMBER 20
- MURAL ON LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE. Students will have the opportunity to work with artist Pablo Perea (www.allisonypablo.com).
OUTSIDE MC 1:00 5:00
Sponsored by the Spanish Club, World Languages Department, and SGA.
OCTOBER 4
- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEETING WITH THE STUDENTS. Pizza party and discussion on Latin American Human Rights Issues. Student Development Center 7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Spanish Club, SOAHR, World Languages Department, and SGA.
OCTOBER 13
- GUEST SPEAKER. S. Marie Des Jarlais will talk to students and faculty about Immigration from three perspectives: México, Guatemala y El Salvador
MC 432 10:00 a.m.
Sponsored by the Spanish Club, SOAHR, World Languages Department, and SGA.
OCTOBER 16
- GUEST SPEAKER. LinaBoff from Brazil will give a lecture on Liberation Theology.
RC 127 7:30 p.m. Open to the public.
OCTOBER 24
- NOVEMBER 14
- Hispanic Community Project from Evansville High School. 201 RC, 2:00-3:20 pm.