From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Local Roots, Transnational Routes
presented by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University

From Música Negra to Música Urbana: Reggaeton, Race, and Commerce
presented by Wayne Marshall, Post-Doctoral Fellow, MIT

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Lecture by Raul Rodriguez Rodriguez, University of Havana, Center for Hemispheric and U.S. Studies (CEHSEU), Cuba.

Moderated by Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS), Harvard University.

This event is co-sponsored by the DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program and the Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Join the Cultural Survival Bazaar for a festival of indigenous arts, music, and culture from around the world.

By shopping at the Cultural Survival Bazaar, you are helping support Cultural Survival's work defending indigenous languages, lands, and cultures.

Free admission and free parking available at 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.

Where will you be this Summer? What about next year?

Come learn about summer opportunities, study abroad programs, grants, and our
Certificate on Latin American Studies.

Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University, presents:         "From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Local roots, transnational routes"

Wayne Marshall, Post-Doctoral Fellow, MIT, presents:                                                                  "From Música Negra to Música Urbana: Reggaeton, Race, and Commerce"                          

The Honduras Conference will bring together a panel of experts to discuss the crisis affecting the country today. The panel of speakers will include Rodolfo Pastor, Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, and Minister of Culture of Honduras; Sergio Ramírez, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, DRCLAS, and Former Vice-President of Nicaragua; Ambasador Jeffery Davidow, President of the Institute of the Americas; and Michael Shifter, Vice-president for Policy and Director of the Andean Program at the Inter American Dialogue; among others.

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Luigi Morelli has extensively researched American history, in parallel with legend and myth. He has gathered the results of these efforts in Hidden America: Spiritual Legacy of Founding Fathers and the Nation’s Native Ancestors and Spiritual Turning Points of North American History.

Sin  Nombre, Joji Fukanuga, 2008.

For more information go to: http://www.icaboston.org/programs/film/

New American Soldier
Directed by Emma Cott, Anna Belle Peevey

This film follows three immigrant soldiers through the ups and downs of training and deployment, as they take steps towards achieving US citizenship. Through the stories of soldiers from Mexico, Peru and Ghana, New American Soldier gives us a better understanding of the people who are fighting this war, and what it means to be American.

Border Stories
Rene Florian, United States

The Boston Latino International Film Festival November 19th through December 13th, 2009 (BLIFF) will be presenting the latest films produced by Latinos and the latest films pertaining to social issues of Latino communities in the US and Latin America.

The Opening Festival Reception will take place on Thursday, November 19th at 6:00pm at the
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

The following films will be presented after the reception: