LACLS Spring 2019 Film Series: Nostalgia de la luz

Screening of Patricio Guzmán’s documentary film Nostaligia de la luz (2010). The Chilean Atacama Desert is the home of two searches: one by astronomers exploring the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the loved ones disappeared during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

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Latin American Thought from a Bolivian Perspective: Some Marxist and Indigenous cases

B.B. Comer Hall 241 , United States

Lecture given by Dr. Josefa Salmón, Rev. Guy Lemieux Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Loyola University New Orleans While in many Latin American countries Indigenous peoples remain marginalized and oppressed by the governments in power, they have increasingly entered intellectual circles and impacted dialogue and discourse about their cultures and their…

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LACLS Spring 2019 Film Series: Coraje

Screening of Peruvian director Alberto Durant’s Coraje (1999). The real life story of María Elena Moyano, a woman fighting against terrorism by the infamous Shining Path terrorist group in Peru on behalf of an oppressed population. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

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LACLS Spring 2019 Film Series: Los Rubios

Screening of Argentine director Albertina Carri’s film Los rubios (2003). The film's director searches for her disappeared parents. Can she get to the truth or did all who lived the dictatorship create an imagined fiction? Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

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LACLS Spring 2019 Film Series: O ano em que meus pais sairam de ferias

Screening of Brazilian director Cao Hamburger’s film O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias (2006). In 1970, a boy is left alone in a Jewish neighbourhood of São Paolo, where both the dictatorship and World Cup are taking place. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. 

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