Spring 2021 Events

Image from Temporada (Long Way Home). (Courtesy of Filmes de Plástico.)

New Brazilian Cinema

Film Series
January 21 - March 7, 2021
Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Flyer showing the Mexico-U.S. border wall for Migration and Racism in the Americas: The Case of Migrants in the United States, part of Mobilities and Migration Across the Americas

Migration and Racism in the Americas: The Case of Migrants in the United States

Ramón Grosfoguel and Julia Roth
January 29, 2021 | Part of Mobilities and Migration Across the Americas

Promotion image for "Decolonizing Epistemology" event, featuring the main speakers. (Image courtesy of The Latinx Research Center.)

Decolonizing Epistemology: A Conversation with Latinx Philosophers

PJ DiPietro, Mariana Ortega, Chela Sandoval, & Gabriela Veronelli
February 18, 2021 | Panel Discussion

Promotional image for "Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres", featuring the speakers.

Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres

Zahira Kelly-Cabrera, Janel Martinez, & Alan Pelaez Lopez
February 18, 2021 | Panel Discussion

Video

Promotional image for "Re-Writing Black Religions in the Atlantic World: A Conversation with Andrea Mosquera-Guerrero." (Image courtesy of the BLAC Working Group.)

Re-Writing Black Religions in the Atlantic World: A Conversation with Andrea Mosquera-Guerrero

Andrea Mosquera-Guerrero and Andreína Soto
February 25, 2021 | Part of the AfroLatinx Voices Series

Video

The border between Mexico and Guatemala. (Photo by Joachim Pietsch.)

Mexico and the United States: Frontierization and Migration Policies

Kateřina Březinová and Luicy Pedroza
February 26, 2021 | Part of Mobilities and Migration Across the Americas

Conmemoración de una ceremonia religiosa nahua.

Conversaciones y reflexiones sobre la cultura náhuatl de Chicontepec

Abelardo de la Cruz de la Cruz, Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz, Jacinta Toribio Torres, Claudio Holzner, y Fanny Guadalupe Blauer
26 de febrero, 2021

Promotional image for Challenging the Reader: Translating Minority Languages to Colonial Languages. (Image courtesy of the Language Revitalization Working Group.)

Challenging the Reader: Translating Minority Languages to Colonial Languages

Víctor Cata and Rosemary Beam de Azcona
March 3, 2021

Children in a boat, from Once Upon a Time in Venezuela. (Photo by John Márquez.)

DocuLatino: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador (Once Upon a Time in Venezuela)

Directed by Anabel Rodríguez (Venezuela, 2020)
March 6, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 DocuLatino Series 

Máxima Acuña spins wool from her sheep. (Image courtesy of TrustFall Films.)

DocuLatino: Máxima

Directed by Claudia Sparrow (Peru, 2019)
March 14, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 DocuLatino Series 

Part of the poster for the film Bacurau. (Image courtesy of Kino Lorber.)

Bacurau

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (Brazil, 2019) 
March 11, 2021 | A Screening to Support CLAS

Photo © Simón González Vélez, from Jaguar: Voz de un territorio. (Courtesy of Canoa Films and Ruge Films.)

DocuLatino: Jaguar voz de un territorio

Directed by Simón González (Colombia, 2020)
March 20, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 DocuLatino Series 

A TransMetro bus rapid transit vehicle in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (Photo by Andy9696down.)

Public Transport in the Americas: Mobility and Transatlantic Scientific Exchanges

Andra B. Chastain, Dhan Zunino Singh, Bianca Freire-Medeiros, & Mario Peters
March 26, 2021 | Part of Mobilities and Migration Across the Americas

Bolivian Indigenous women climbing the side of a mountain. From Cholitas. (Image courtesy of Arena Comunicación.)

DocuLatino: Cholitas

Directed by Jaime Murciego (Bolivia, 2020)
March 28, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 DocuLatino Series 

Still showing Bolivian soldiers in the rain during the Chaco War. From the film Chaco. (Image courtesy of Murillo Film.)

CineLatino: Chaco

Directed by Diego Mondaca (Bolivia, 2020)
April 3, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 CineLatino Series 

A young man in the entrance to a soccer stadium. Image from 90 Minutos. (Image courtesy of Pulsar.)

CineLatino: 90 Minutos (90 Minutes)

Directed by Aeden O’Connor (Honduras, 2019)
April 11, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 CineLatino Series

Tengo miedo torero (My Tender Matador) poster

CineLatino: Tengo miedo torero (My Tender Matador)

Directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda (Chile, 2020)
April 17, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 CineLatino Series

AfroLatinx Voices Series flyer

No Longer a Racial Democracy: Critical Whiteness in Latin America and the Caribbean

Erika Edwards, Patricia Pinho, and Isar Godreau
April 20, 2021 | Part of the AfroLatinx Voices Series

CineLatino: The Cordillera of Dreams

Directed by Patricio Guzmán (Chile, 2019)
April 25, 2021 | Part of the Spring 2021 CineLatino Series

A red airplane with the word Avianca painted in white landing at Rio's Santos Dumont Airport

Flying Down to Rio: Aviation, National Identities, and Hemispheric Relations in the Americas

Melina Piglia, Leonie Schuster, Peter Soland, Stefan Rinke & Mario Peters
April 30, 2021 | Part of Mobilities and Migration Across the Americas

Event’s flyer with a photo of Iduvina Hernández and Giovanni Batz

Guatemala Scholar-Activism: Linking Scholarship and Struggle

Giovanni Batz, Iduvina Hernández, and the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
May 11, 2021 | Video 

Photo of protests in Colombia

Protests, State Violence, Human Rights and Social Crisis in Colombia

Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, Alejandro Lanz, Gimena Sánchez and Lizeth Montero Piedrahita
May 17, 2021

Headshots of Natalie Diaz and Ailton Krenak

Natalie Diaz and Ailton Krenak: On Borderlands

Natalie Diaz, Ailton Krenak, Natalia Brizuela, and Beth Piatote
May 21, 2021

Contruyendo ciencias para la paz flyer in Spanish with photos of the four speakers

Construyendo ciencias para la paz

Iokiñe Rodríguez, Diego Calderón Franco, Lina Pinto García, and Pablo Palacios
June 1, 2021

4th Nahuatl Conference beige poster with logos of the cosponsors

4th Annual Nahuatl Conference

June 4, 2021 | Virtual Conference

Kid’s silhouette against fire

SummerCine: Sin señas particulares (Identifying Features)

Directed by Fernanda Valadez (Mexico, 2020)
June 6, 2021 | Part of CineLatino Spring 2021

Eduardo San Juan dressed as Hernán Cortez in "499"

SummerCine: 499

Directed by Rodrigo Reyes (Mexico, 2020)
June 12, 2021 | Part of the 2021 SummerCine Series

A person image from behind while walking

SummerCine: Cosas que no hacemos (Things We Dare Not Do)

Directed by Bruno Santamaría (Mexico, 2020)
June 20, 2021 | Part of the 2021 SummerCine Series

Event’s flyer in Spanish, green with photos of the four speakers and logos of the cosponsors at the bottom

Crisis climática y política en Guatemala: un año después de Eta e Iota

Reyna Vásquez, Juan Ramírez Ramos, Baltazar de la Cruz Rodriguez, and Diego Petzey
July 12, 2021 | Video