International Studies Presents: Latin America Week! September 17th -21st, 2018 Throughout the year, the International Studies Major will be presenting students with programming based on the thematic or geographic concentrations of the major. Join us next week to learn about careers, programs, funding, and educational opportunities relevant to students in International Studies and the Latin America concentration. Events will include:
Los Códices: An Exhibit of Illustrated Books from Indigenous Mesoamerica ,September 19th-October 1st , 2018, Margaret I. King Library, Special Collections, 3:30pm-4:30pm
Presented by Department of Hispanic Studies, UK Libraries Special Collections, Research Center Department of Anthropology Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program. The exhibit will be open to the public during regular library hours from September 19th to October 26th(M-F, 8am to 4pm).
Cooking with Culture: Understanding Latin American Perspectives Through Food, October 1st, 2018, Food Connection, The 90, 440 Hilltop Avenue, 5:00pm
Raymond Jones is a graduate student in Hispanic Studies. His dissertation focuses on cookbooks and Latin American recipes, studying the kitchen as a "laboratory" for women and people of color in colonial Latin America. Come learn about the significance of food in Latin America and learn how to make your own Enchiladas Verdes. Event space is limited so registration is required.
Study Abroad in Latin America, October 2nd, 2018, The 90, 203, 5:00pm
Current and former students discuss their experiences researching and traveling abroad. Learn about study abroad, alternative spring break, and other education abroad opportuities. Snacks Provided.
International Late Night Film Series: Un Padre No Tan Padre, October 3rd, 2018, Bill Gatton Student Center, Worsham Cinema, 7:00pm
This quirky comedy follows 85-year old Don Servando Villegas (Héctor Bonilla,) an old-fashioned Mexican patriarch who gets kicked out of his retirement home for bad behavior. Un Padre No Tan Padre is a story about family: the one we're born into and the one we create along the way. Co-sponsored by the International Village LLP, the Year of Migration, and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Trumpism and the Future of Democracy: Lessons from Latin America, October 4th, 2018, Patterson Office Tower, 1645, 12:00pm
Join us for a brown bag lunch where Professor of Sociology, Dr.Carlos de la Torre will present his research on the Political Sociology of Latin America with emphasis on populism, democracy, racism, and citizenship.
Populist Authoritarianism in Comparative and Historical Perspective, October 5th, 2018, Young Library Auditorium 10:00am
The global rise of populism with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump brought populism from the margins and the global south to the global north. Populists are in power not only in unconsolidated and fragile democracies in Latin America, but in Hungary, Poland, Greece, and the U.S. As the world region where populists got to power since the 1940s, Latin America offers lessons to activists, scholars, and politicians of how populists undermined democracy from within. Promising to give power back to the people, populists in power followed a playbook of the concentration of power in the executive, the war against the media, regulation of civil society, and the transformation of democratic adversaries into enemies. Speakers include Kurt Weyland (UT Austin), Federico Finchelstein (New School), Silvia Pedraza (Michigan), Phillip Penix-Tadsen (Delaware). Sponsored by Hispanic Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology.
