Cuba's Uphill Transition
When: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 4:00pm
Where:Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, IOA Complex

Rafael Hernandez, Cuban historian, author of a History of Havana, Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society, and many other books, editor of Revista Temas, is a Mellon Visiting Professor at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT Austin. Hernandez will speak on macro-economic and social issues in Cuba.

Daybel Panellas is a social psychologist at the University of Havana. Panellas will discuss the subjectivities of every-day-life during the transition

Field Research in Oaxaca: Trials and Tribulations
When: Wednesday, October 28, 5pm
Where:Weaver Complex, IOA Complex

USMEX director Alberto Díaz-Cayeros and graduate student researcher Alexander Ruiz Euler will present a series of insights, experiences and problesm derived from their field work in the valley of Oaxaca during the summer of 2009.

"Mica chueca" and "Crónicas chúntaras": Presentation by Pablo Jaime Sáinz
When: Wednesday, October 27, 5pm
Where:Weaver Complex, IOA Complex

Pablo Jaime Sáinz is a border journalist and fiction writer working in the San Diego -Tijuana area.

Colectiva Chicana presents: ¡Habla Mujer, Habla!
When: Every Monday at 4-5pm
Where: Cross-Cultural Center-Art Space Gallery

¡Habla Mujer, Habla! is a space established by mujeres for mujeres to come together and talk about, reflect on and acknowledge our struggles and experiences as students, activists, womyn of color, partners, AB-540 students, victims of domestic violence, and other pieces of our identities. Through dialogue and reflection, we hope to create unity among eachother and provide support that we may lack from our familias, friends, and the university. To create unity among strong and beautiful womyn through dialogues regarding our different roles, expectations and backgrounds.Through collective discourse we hope to reflect upon and strengthen our interactions between us and our families, us and our university, and us and our different comunidades. Explore and address our place within the institution, our homes, family and society. Reclaim our identities and paths as Latinas, Chicanas, womyn of color, and allies. Abolish the divisions between mujeres and womyn created by society and sadly ourselves. To continue in the struggle to create a better place for ourselves and our communities. For more info: colectivachicana@googlegroups.com