Past Events
Summer in the Amazon: Study Abroad Information Session
Tuesday January 26, 2010 - Tuesday January 26, 2010
7:30 P.M., Wake Forest Universty: Winston Hall, Rm. 125
Spend four weeks in Peru in a wide range of environments, including: the Amazon, Machu Picchu, Cusco, Paracas Dessert and many others while earning credit in a variety of studies.  [read more]
Luis Humberto Crosthwaite: Misa Fronteriza - A Reading of Mass Proportions
Tuesday October 27, 2009
4:30 P.M., Wake Forest University: Greene Hall, Rm. 145
Luis Humberto Crosthwaite is a renowned Mexican author who describes himself as "an errant writer from Northern Mexico, a die-hard cinephile, an unrepentant music fanatic, an unabashed student of myth, a sporadic dipsomaniac, and a border and beach writer." Come meet the author in person, hear his stories, and ask him questions.  [read more]
The Office of Multicultural Affairs Presents Latino in America
Wednesday October 21, 2009 - Thursday October 22, 2009
9:00 P.M., Wake Forest University: Carswell Hall, Annenberg Forum
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is sponsoring a live screening of CNN's special report, Latino in America.  [read more] [related information]
Latin American Family Day at the Museum of Antropolohy
Saturday October 10, 2009
1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M., Wake Forest University: Museum of Anthropology
A fun afternoon for the whole family featuring crafts, storytelling, music, and food related to the Days of the Dead, the Maya, and other Latin American cultures. Admission is free.  [read more] [related information]
Latin American Issues on the Agenda: An OLAS Event
Monday October 05, 2009
6:00 P.M., Wake Forest University: Greene 145
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Organization of Latin American Students is hosting a talk on Latin American issues by Professor Roniger and Professor Siavelis of Wake Forest University.  [read more]
“Archipelago of Dreams: Cuban Culture, History and the Business of Art”
Thursday September 24, 2009
1-5 PM in Scales Fine Arts Center’s Brendle Recital Hall
The screening of a 17-minute documentary showing the artists working in Cuba produced by students and Max Negin, lecturer in communication, will open the symposium. Emily Wakild, associate professor of history at Wake Forest, will discuss Cuban history since the Revolution.  

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A lecture on Palenque and the Classic Maya World
Thursday September 24, 2009
7:30 Museum of Anthropology
Maya archeologist George Stuart will talk on "The City on the Edge of Forever: Palenque and the Classic Maya World"
Cuban Artists Books and Prints: 1985-2008
Tuesday September 01, 2009 - Tuesday October 06, 2009
Wake Forest University: Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery
Featuring about 120 pieces, including handmade books and other objects created by 13 contemporary Cuban painters, sculptors, photographers and print makers.  [read more] [related information]
"Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal State in Chile: Political Ecology and Cultural History 'Written in the Margins'."
Monday March 02, 2009
Carswell 118, 4:00
For those interested in expanding their knowledge of Chile: At the next meeting of the Social Science Research Seminar, William Alexander from the Anthropology Department at UNC-Wilimington will discuss his work entitled "Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal State in Chile:  Political Ecology and Cultural History 'Written in the Margins'."  Copies of his paper can be found at http://www.wfu.edu/~caron/ssrs
Ariel Dorfman’s play “Death and the Maiden” at Wake Forest
Thursday February 05, 2009 - Saturday February 07, 2009
Ring Theatre of Scales Fine Arts Center, 7:30 PM
Wake Forest’s student theatre group the Anthony Aston Players will present Ariel Dorfman’s play “Death and the Maiden” in the Ring Theatre of Scales Fine Arts Center.  

“Death and the Maiden” is a dramatic thriller about Paulina, a woman who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the man who tortured and raped her many years before under a military dictatorship. The play is for mature audiences.

Screening and discussion of "Special Circumstances"
Wednesday February 04, 2009
Carswell Hall’s Annenberg Forum located in Room 111, 7 PM
A screening and discussion of the film by Marianne Teleki and Hector Salgado. "Special Circumstances" is Salgado’s documentary about his return to Chile after nearly 40 years of exile to confront his torturers under the Pinochet regime. Following the screening, Salgado will discuss the film.
Lecture on Popular Mexican Saints
Thursday November 20, 2008
7:30 at the Museum of Anthropology
“Unauthorized, Unsanctioned and Unorthodox: Origins and Contemporary Significance of Popular Mexican Saints”, a lecture presented by Christine Whittington, Director of the Greensboro College Library and graduate student in Wake Forest’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. She will discuss several saints who are venerated in Mexico and the United States, but not authorized by the Catholic Church. Ms. Whittington recently returned from a Richter-funded research trip to Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico where she visited and photographed chapels and altars dedicated to Santa Muerte, which translates as “Holy Death.”
Mexican novelist Cristina Rivera Garza on campus
Thursday November 13, 2008
5:00 PM Greene 162
Cristina Rivera Garza is one of Mexico's most important authors as well as a professor at San Diego State University. Cristina will offer a presentation in English on her novel "Nadie me verá llorar" (No one will see me cry). On Nov. 13 she will discuss the historical background of her novel, its development as a creative writing project, and possibly discuss her most recent publication, "La frontera más distante", a collection of short stories published this month. The lecture will conclude with a reading in English and Spanish from her work. There will be Q&A and book signing afterwards.  [read more]
Lecture by Jane Buikstra, Professor of Bioarchaeology, on the Tombs for the Ancestors
Thursday October 23, 2008
7:30 p.m. in the Museum of Anthropology
Through a series of four case studies, Jane Buikstra, Professor of Bioarchaeology and Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research at Arizona State University, explores the manner in which bioarchaeological research enhances our knowledge of ancient Americans.    [read more]
Carlos Pérez - classical guitarist
Thursday October 09, 2008 - Thursday October 16, 2008
Brendle Recital Hall, Oct. 9 7:30
Performance by classical guitarist and artist-in-residence Carlos Pérez, winner of top prizes in major international competitions. Program inclides works by Fernando Carulli, Julio Sagreras and Agustin Barrios. On Oct. 15 Pérez will conduct a master class on Chilean music - at 5PM in Room M208 Scale Fine Arts Center
Talk on Carlos Monsiváis and the Deep Art of Aphorism
Friday September 19, 2008
4:00-5:30 - Greene 162
Dr. Linda Egan specializes in 20th-century fiction and nonfiction, as well as colonial studies. Her first book explores the seventeenth century Mexican nun’s thought in Diosas, demonios y debate: las armas metafísicas de Sor Juana (Universidad Católica de Salta, Argentina, 1997). Her next book, Carlos Monsiváis: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2001; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004) is the first major critical study published on the non-fiction writing of Mexico’s foremost cultural critic and literary journalist. She is co-editor of the forthcoming critical anthology Mexico Reading the United States (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008) and has just finished another book manuscript on Monsiváis’s aphorisms.
Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead)
Tuesday September 16, 2008 - Wednesday December 17, 2008
MOA - Tuesdays through Saturdays 10:00-4:30PM
The Museum of Anthropology’s Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) exhibit will be on display this Fall.  The exhibit features a traditional Mexican ofrenda; a home altar with sugar skulls, colorful tissue paper cutouts, food and beverage offerings, marigolds, and photos of deceased relatives to honor the dead.  New features this year include a children’s ofrenda and a photo essay illustrating the celebration in the Mexican town of San Miguel Allende.  The exhibit also features bilingual text.  The Museum is open from 10:00am to 4:30pm Tuesday through Saturday, and admission is free.  
Pancho Villa: The Revolution Isn't Over - screening and Q&A
Tuesday April 22, 2008
5:30-7:30 - DeTamble Auditorium
Film Screening and Q&A to follow with film director Francesco Taboada Tabone
A talk on the Mexican Revolution with Francesco Taboada Tabone (in Spanish)
Monday April 21, 2008
4:00-5:30 - Greene 239
Para estudiantes: Tertulia, charla sobre la Revolución Mexicana
con el director mexicano de cine documental Francesco Taboada Tabone
Workshop on Political Exile in Latin America
Tuesday April 15, 2008 - Thursday April 17, 2008
AM meetings at the Johnson Room - Z. Smith Reynolds Library; PM meetings at Tribble A-302
Political exile has been a major political practice in all Latin American countries throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Participants in this workshop - from WFU and guests from Mexico, the US, Israel and Italy will bring together work being done in many places of the world on the politics, history, sociology, social psychology and culture of exile in Latin America. The full program can be seen in the link.  [read more]
Latin America: The Next US President's Agenda
Thursday April 10, 2008
7 pm in Room A102 Scales Fine Arts Center
Dr. Peter Siavelis of the Department of Political Science will discuss "Latin America: the Next U.S. President's Agenda" as part of the Great Decisions 2008 citizen's forum on current foreign policy issues. The Great Decisions Series is a national foreign policy education program sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, a nonprofit organization that strives to educate Americans about the significant international issues that influence their lives. For more information about the Great Decisions Series visit www.wfu.edu/greatdecisions.
Italian fascism and fascism in Latin America - Prof. Mario Sznajder
Thursday April 10, 2008
7PM - Greene Hall 145
A lecture by a leading scholar of fascism, sponsored by Italian Studies, LAS and Romance Languages.
Prof. Mario Sznajder holds the Leon Blum Chair in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on democracy, fascism and human rights. Among his works are the books The Birth of Fascist Ideology (with Zeev Sternhell and Maia Asheri, originally published in French as Naissance de l’ideologie fasciste by Fayard), which has been translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and Hebrew; El legado del autoritarismo (co-edited with Leonardo Senkman with the cooperation of Edy Kaufman, Grupo Editor Latinoamericano), Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres: Latin American Paths (Sussex Academic Press); The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (co-authored with Luis Roniger, Oxford University Press), published in updated versions in Portuguese and Spanish; and a book on  The Politics of Exile in Latin America (also with Luis Roniger) which is forthcoming next year with Cambridge University Press.
Lecture on the Spanish lexicon - History of the language
Thursday March 20, 2008
11AM in Greene 162
A lecture on the history of Spanish by Dr. Steven Dvorkin. Contact Dr. Sol Miguel Prendes in Romance Languages for more details
A night of Argentine Tango
Wednesday March 19, 2008
8 PM at the Brendle Recital Hall SFAC
Featuring Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Matthew Kendrick, bass, and guest performer Federico Pivetta, piano. Join these versatile artists in their exploration of both the traditional and avant-garde side of Argentine tango music. The concert will feature the passion of classic songs such as "La Cumparsita" as well as the jazz-tinged music of composer Astor Piazzolla.
Christina Chauvenet, LAS minor, wins SAA award
Friday February 29, 2008 - Monday March 31, 2008
Christina Chauvenet, a LAS minor and Political Science major, has won a distinguished award: The First Prize in the 2007 Peter Kong-ming Student Research Competition of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Christina won the Award for her paper "First Line of Defense: Health Care Agents and Childhood Cancer in Recife, Brazil." The Award will be presented on March 28th at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society in Memphis, Tennessee.
Motorcycle Diaries, the documentary film about Che Guevara
Thursday February 28, 2008
7PM in Benson 401-A
OLAS will screen the documentary film about Che, in conjunction with the Film Society, and have a short discussion following the movie.
A focus on Patagonia
Wednesday February 20, 2008
5PM in Greene 162
A triadic approach on this amazing region with Argentine writer Mempo Giardinelli, Dr. Fernando Opere of UVA and Dr. Luis Roniger. Mempo Giardinelli and Fernando Operé will discuss their journey to Patagonia from which Giardinelli's novel, Final de novela en Patagonia comes.Luis Roniger will address some of the political and historical aspects of the region. In Spanish.
Ana in the Tropics - cancelled
Sunday February 03, 2008
Ana in the Tropics has been cancelled
Art Song: History and development in the context of musical nationalism. A lecture by Patricia Caicedo
Wednesday November 14, 2007
4:30 PM Room M208
Patricia Caicedo, Colombian soprano and musicologist, is an international concert and recording artist and leading interpreter of Latin American and Spanish art song. Singing in Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua and Catalan, she delights listeners with a voice that is known for its “tonal beauty and communicative strength”.  [read more]
Latin Amrican Art Song Festival
Tuesday November 13, 2007
8 PM at Brendle Recital Hall
with Patricia Caicedo, soprano, Pau Casan, piano, and guest artists.  [read more]
West End Mambo
Tuesday November 06, 2007
The Green Room (Reynolda Hall) Time: 7:00 PM
A nine-piece Latin band based in Winston-Salem who performs Classic Salsa, Latin Jazz, and traditional styles including: Mambo, Bolero, Chachacha, Rumba, Son, Son Montuno, Guaracha
Website: http://westendmambo.com <http://westendmambo.com/>
An OLAS initiative
Talk by Sandra Guzmán
Thursday November 01, 2007
7 pm in Annenburg Forum, organized by OLAS
Associate Editor of "NY Post," Sandra Guzman is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and author of the critically acclaimed book, "The Latina's Bible: The Nueva Latina's Guide to Love, Spirituality and La Vida." With warmth, humor and I've-been-there wisdom, this book tackles the real world complications that many Latinas face today.
Guzmán will discuss her experiences as a Latina journalist and address contemporary issues facing Latinos in the U.S. today.
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Conference on 'Immigration in a Land of Immigrants'
Wednesday October 03, 2007 - Friday October 05, 2007
October 3-5
Attend as many panels as you can and inform yourself on this important set of issues at the center of the public agenda - you will find here the full list of panels and participants  [read more]
Fiesta 2007
Saturday September 29, 2007
Fourth and Spruce Streets, Downtown WS, Noon until 8 PM
Guest artists, arts and crafts, Latin food. Presented by the Hispanic League of the Piedmont Triad.
Days of the Dead
Tuesday September 18, 2007 - Friday December 14, 2007
Museum of Anthropology Tue-Sat 10-4:30
The Museum  of Anthropology’s annual Días de los Muertos/Days of the Dead exhibit is now open through December 14. Open Tuesdays-Saturdays 10:00-4:30. Free admission

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Talk on political exile
Monday September 17, 2007
Carswell 118
Social Science Seminar: Luis Roniger, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Political Science at Wake Forest, will discuss a new book manuscript, The Politics of Exile: Latin America, on September 17 at 4:00 in Carswell 118.  
A talk on Victor Jara
Friday April 20, 2007
Friday 4:00 in the lower auditorium of Wingate Hall
Prof. Pat Dixon will give a talk on Victor Jara and his work. A leading figure of the New Song in Chile, Jara was assassinated following the coup d'etat of 1973, becoming a symbol of the resistance to Pinochet's rule. Organized by the Theology and Art Forum.
Mexico 2006 - a talk by Dr. Luis Roniger
Thursday April 05, 2007
7 pm in Room A102 Scales Fine Arts Center
A discussion of the background and results of the contested 2006 presidential election in Mexico, and how the close vote may impact the new administration's policies and options.
Lecture by John Ross on the Zapatistas, Mexico and Electoral Process
Tuesday March 06, 2007
7:30 PM, Museum of Anthropology
John Ross is the author of the acclaimed memoir Murdered by Capitalism, which was praised by Thomas Pynchon and chosen as a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Based in Mexico City for the last two decades, Ross's reporting has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Nation, Texas Observer, and Counterpunch, to name a few. He is the winner of an Upton Sinclair Award and an American Book Award. His books include Rebellion from the Roots, The Annexation of Mexico and the novel Tonatiuh's People. In his third volume on the Zapatista uprising, ¡Zapatistas! Making Another World Possible: Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006, John Ross concludes a journey he began in The War Against Oblivion--Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000 with a frontline account of the past six years of the insurgency, and a brilliant eyewitness portrayal.
Lecture by Pat Dixon on the Songs of Victor Jara (Chile)
Monday March 05, 2007
Greene 320, at 3:00 PM
"The Songs of Victor Jara and the 'cantautores a lo pueta'. Pat Dixon of the Music Department will talk on Jara's songs within the context of the New Song in Chile. The lecture lasts about an hour and is complemented by handouts and music.
A panel discussion on Mel Gibson's portrayal of the Maya in "Apocalypto".
Thursday February 22, 2007
7:30 PM, at the Museum of Anthropology
A panel discussion on Mel Gibson's controversial portrayal of the Maya in "Apocalypto". The planned participants will be Patricio Balona, a Yukatek Maya who is a staff writer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, George Stuart, an archaeologist of Maya sites in Yucatan and former editor at National Geographic, Dr. Jeanne Simonelli, and Dr. Stephen Whittington.
Reception for current and prospective LAS minors
Wednesday February 14, 2007
4:30-5:30 PM in the Atrium of Green and in room 320
A reception for LAS current and prospective minors.
An opportunity to meet LAS Faculty and fellow students, and  learn about the Summer Program on bio-diversity in Peru, the Georgetown University cooperative MA degree program, and the new courses planned for next Fall.
Hispanic Film Festival: Spring 2007
Friday February 02, 2007 - Thursday April 26, 2007
Thursdays 6-8PM in Greene 239
Come and watch Latin American and Spanish films. This semester the following are scheduled:
Feb 8 Duck Season (Mexico, Fernando Eimbcke, 2004)
Feb 15 María llena de gracia (Colombia, Joshua Marston, 2004)
Feb 22 La pelota vasca (España, Julio Medem, 2004)
March 1 La ciénaga (Argentina, Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
March 22 El viaje de Carol (España, Imanol Uribe, 2004)
March 29 Central Station (Brazil, Walter Salles, 1998)
April 5 En las arenas negras (México, Marcel Sisniega, 2003)
April 12 Real Women Have Curves (USA, Patricia Cardoso, 2002)
-  Films will be introduced by a mini-lecture, to orient students to the themes, importance, or cultural significance of each
film.
Cuban movie
Thursday November 16, 2006
6PM - Greene 239
Lista de espera (Cuba, Juan Carlos Tabío, 2000), presented by Mary Friedman  -   An allegory about contemporary times.  Passengers wait for a bus that never arrives.
Hugo Chavez and Venezuelan Politics
Wednesday November 15, 2006
6PM - Greene 162
Prof. Luis Roniger will talk on Hugo Chavez and Venezuelan politics in a meeting organized by the Club Hispano
Chilean movie
Thursday November 09, 2006
El nominado (Chile, Nacho Agiró and Gabriel López, 2003), presented by Irma Alarcón - About a reality TV show run amok.
Performance by Carlos Pérez, Chilean guitar virtuoso
Friday October 20, 2006
8 PM at the Brendle Recital Hall SFAC
A concert by Carlos Pérez, recent First Prize winner of the Joaquín Rodrigo Competition
The Alturas Duo
Tuesday October 17, 2006 - Tuesday October 17, 2006
8:00 PM - Brendle Recital Hall SFAC
Carlos Boltess, viola and charango and Scott Hill, guitar. With Javier Farias, composer and guitarist.

"Marvelous virtuosity" (The Washington Post)
DrumJungle on Campus
Tuesday October 03, 2006 - Tuesday October 03, 2006
7-9 PM - Green Room in Reynolda
This dance and drum troupe out of NYC will be performing on campus as part of the Latino Heritage Month celebration. Check their website (www.drumjungle.com) and come to the Green Room in Reynolda, 7-9 PM. Organized by the Organization of Latin American Students, Iwith the support of the SAFE Fund, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Black Student Alliance, Unified Rhythms, Dirrrty Dancers and the Club Hispano.
New discoveries in the Maya world, a lecture by George Stuart
Tuesday September 12, 2006
September 12 7:30 PM at the Museum of Anthropology
“New Discoveries in the Maya World” by George Stuart, president of the Center for Maya Research, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12, at MOA. Stuart will discuss ancient Maya cosmology (vision of the universe) and religion and their relationship with the modern Maya people.
New discoveries in the Maya World, lecture by George Stuart
Tuesday September 12, 2006
September 12 7:30 PM at the Museum of Anthropology
“New Discoveries in the Maya World” by George Stuart, president of the Center for Maya Research, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12, at MOA. Stuart will discuss ancient Maya cosmology (vision of the universe) and religion and their relationship with the modern Maya people.
Maya exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology
Tuesday September 12, 2006 - Tuesday May 15, 2007
MOA - Museum of Anthropology
"Gifts of the Monkey Gods: Maya Crafts from Guatemala" will be the first exhibit of the 2006-2007 season at the Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit will open Sept. 12 and run through Dec. 15.
The exhibit will feature wooden masks, hand-woven clothing, wooden sculptures and other crafts made in Guatemala during the last century. The works reflect the inspiration of the Monkey Gods, the supernatural patrons of artisans during the Classic period (250 - 900 B.C.).


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Mexican Politics and Civil-Military Relations under Vicente Fox- with Prof. Roderic Camp
Thursday April 06, 2006
7:00 PM Law School Auditorium Worrell Professional Center
Prof. Roderic Camp, the Philip Mckenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont Mckenna College, will speak on "Mexican Politics and Civil Military Relations under Vicente Fox" .

Roderic Camp is a frequent consultant to national and international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and BBC. His special interests include Mexican politics, comparative elites, political recruitment, church-state relations, and civil-military affairs. He is the author of numerous articles and over twenty books on Mexico.
"Aztecs, Incas, and Other Dead White Men" - with Prof. Ruth Hill
Thursday March 16, 2006
7:30 in Greene 145
Professor Ruth Hill of the University of Virginia will talk on her work on the critical theory of race in the Americas.
She is the author of Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy (c. 1680-1740) and numerous articles, and has recently published a new book on Hierarchy, Commerce and Fraud in Borboun Spanish America.
Learn about the 2005 Chilean elections"
Tuesday November 15, 2005
4:30 PM in Greene 541
Join us for an informal talk by Dr. Peter Siavelis on "Chile's Democratic Success and the 2005 Elections." Refreshments will be served.
Music of Latin America and the U.S. - A Choral Concert
Saturday October 29, 2005
October 29 3:00 PM Brendle Recital Hall
A World Premiere Misse Brevis by Jeffrey Van -  Wake Forest University Concert hoir, Brian Gorelick, conductor    University of North Carolina at Greensboro Chamber Singers, Welborn Young conductor GUEST CONDUCTORS: Guido Minoletti of Chile and Ariel Perez-Monagas of Venezuela Guest Artists: Jeffrey Van, Guitar and Patricia A Dixon, Guitar.
The event is free and open to the public
A Celebration of Music in the Americas
Friday October 28, 2005 - Saturday October 29, 2005
October 28 7:30 Room M208 Scales Fine Arts Center
History and Current Trends in the Choral Music of Chile and Venezuela - Lecture/Demonstration
The interpretation of Latin American music - by a guitar virtuoso
Wednesday October 19, 2005
Scales Arts Center - Music Wing - Room M208 - 7:30 PM
A lecture-demonstration by Chilean Guitar virtuoso Carlos Perez, organized by the Department of Music. Free admission.
"Days of the Dead" - Dia de los muertos
Friday September 30, 2005 - Saturday November 05, 2005
Museum of Anthropology
An exhibit at the MOA on the Mexican Day of the Dead traditions, votive offerings and faith. Started Sept 30 and closing on November 5.
Fiesta 2005, the 14th annual Hispanic street fest
Saturday September 24, 2005
Noon-8PM at Fourth St. and Spruce St. Downtown
a key community event celebrating diversity, Hispanic/Latino heritage and cross-cultural understanding among all people of the community.  [read more] [related information]
Protest and Rebellion in Latin America - A Film Series
Wednesday September 07, 2005 - Wednesday November 16, 2005
at 7:30pm Tribble B117 and following Wednesdays
Come and watch films from Cuba, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Argentina on Wednesdays at 7:30pm. All films are subtitled in English.  [read more]
Democracy in Latin America: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Peru and Mexico
Wednesday April 27, 2005
The Annenberg Forum (Carswell 111) 6:30pm
Carlos A. Forment is director of the Center for Research and Documentation of Public Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His two-volume work, Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900: Civic Selfhood and Public Life (University of Chicago Press) provides a Tocquevillian account of democracy in Latin America, and a Latin American account of Tocqueville. Forment is now studying the emergence of democratic practices in contemporary Argentina.

Respondents:
Judit Bokser Liwerant is director of the Graduate School of Political and Social Sciences at the UNAM University in Mexico, where she also holds the position of Senior Professor at the Center for Social Theory. A member of the Mexican Academy of Science, she has published seven books and numerous articles on political theory and collective identities.

Mario S. Sznajder, Leon Blum associate professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, is renowned for his studies of political ideologies, particularly European fascism, and the study of political democratization and human-rights in Latin America.  [read more]
Martin Espada: The Pablo Neruda of North American Poets
Thursday April 14, 2005
Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102, 7:00 PM
A Poetry Reading with Commentary and Book Signing.
Poet, editor, translator and teacher, Martin Espada has been labeled the Latino poet of his generation. He is the author of seven poetry collections, including the American Book Award-winning "Imagine the Angels of Bread and Alabanza: New and Selected Poems", winner of the 2002 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement.  [read more]
LAS reception!!!!!!
Wednesday April 13, 2005
6:00 PM in Tribble A-302
Come enjoy meeting fellow students and faculty, enjoy Latin American music and food, see some of our Faculty's new publications, AND watch a recent short film - a hilarious parody - on Being a Gringo in Mexico. Don't miss it.
Noches de amor efimero
Sunday February 13, 2005
A performance by the University of Virginia Theater Group, at the Ring Theater, SFAC, 3 pm.
MUSIC IN CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: "CANTO A LO POETA IN CHILE"
Monday November 15, 2004
Patricia A. Dixon of the Music Department at WFU will present MUSIC IN CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: "CANTO A LO POETA IN CHILE"
Jose' Rivera at WFU
Wednesday November 10, 2004 - Thursday November 11, 2004
Renowned Puerto Rican-born playwright Jose' Rivera visits Wake Forest
During a three-day visit to Wake Forest University, renowned Puerto Rican-born playwright Jose' Rivera will present two free, public events. "A Conversation with Playwright Jose' Rivera" will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 10 in the Thomas C. Taylor Atrium on the second floor of the Calloway Center. Rivera will speak on "Writing as Vocation and Entrepreneurship," followed by a question-and-answer session and a reception. At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 11, Rivera will hold a reading of his play "Brainpeople" in the Ring Theatre of Scales Fine Arts Center. Rivera, who studied with novelist Gabriel Garci'a Marque'z at the Sundance Institute, is known for creating tragicomedies that transform the bizarre into the familiar.
The Miracle of Lomantan: The Religious Reflection of the Zapatista Revolt.
Thursday November 04, 2004
:30 P.M., MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY. Free Lecture.
Louanna Furbee, Professor Anthropology and Religious Studies, University of Missouri, will present The Miracle of Lomantan: The Religious Reflection of the Zapatista Revolt.
"Milagros: Votive Offerings at the Altars of Faith."
Thursday October 28, 2004
4:00 pm at the Museum of Anthropology
Martha Egan, Santa Fe-based author of books on votive offerings and a new novel, will talk on votive traditions and the Mexican Day of the Dead entitled "Milagros: Votive Offerings at the Altars of Faith."
Carlos Perez, Chilean virtuoso guitarist, at the Brendle Recital Hall
Friday October 22, 2004
8:00 pm, Brendle Recital Hall
Friday, October 22 2004 - 8 pm, Carlos Perez, Chilean virtuoso guitarist, at the Brendle Recital Hall, Scales Fine Arts Center - free admission.
A lecture and discussion in Spanish on Human rights in Latin America: "Problems of implementation and analysis"
Thursday October 21, 2004
4:30 pm, Greene 239
A lecture and discussion in Spanish on Human rights in Latin America: problems of implementation and analysis, by Dr. Luis Roniger - readings available upon request.
Theater and community empowerment: A 21st century model
Monday October 18, 2004
7:30 pm, at the Pugh Auditorium. FOMMA
Fortaleza de la mujer maya - Theater and community empowerment: A 21st century model. The five women who comprise FOMMA use theater as a vehicle of empowerment, education and entertainment. They will perform original plays in Spanish with English translation provided. Admission is free.
"Sacred Reciprocity: Miracles, Sacrifices, and Vows"
Tuesday September 28, 2004
7:30 P.M, Lecture
Sacred Reciprocity: Miracles, Sacrifices, and Vows
Linda Barnes, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine.  [read more]
3th Annual Fiesta 2004
Saturday September 18, 2004
Starting at 12:00 noon to 8:00 pm, in Downtown (4th and Spruce), Winston-Salem: Enjoy live Latin American music and feast on diverse cuisine styles from various Latino countries, in downtown's street festival. Organized by the Hispanic League of the Piedmont Triad.
Thursday September 16, 2004
8:00 pm, Davis Chapel
Christopher Berg, Professor at the University of South Carolina, will be playing works by Venezuelan Composer Antonio Lauro and Paraguayan composer Agustin Barrios.
Tokens of Thanks: Ex-votos from Brazil and Mexico
Saturday August 07, 2004 - Saturday January 15, 2005
Tokens of Thanks: Ex-votos from Brazil and Mexico  [read more]
Thursday April 15, 2004
11AM, 317 Greene Hall
Reception for Latin American Studies Minors and awards ceremony.
Thursday April 15, 2004
Recital by Pat Dixon and Jeffrey Van. Latin American Music in Brendle Recital Hall.
Friday April 02, 2004 - Sunday April 04, 2004
Conference at Wake Forest University: "Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Democracy in Latin America".  [related information]
Thursday April 01, 2004
"Democracy North and South of the Border, Does National Identity Make a Difference?"
Lecture by Roderic Ai Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, and well known analyst of Mexico and Mexican/US relations. This campus wide address is co-sponsored by Political Science, Latin American Studies, and the Fostering Dialogue Theme Year Committee. Law Court Room Auditorium,
1312 Worrell Professional Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
Wednesday March 17, 2004
4PM, 239 Greene Hall
Informal talk about Chile with Professors Peter Siavelis and Teresa Sanhueza.