Friday, October 2: Sarah Luna (UH Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies): 鈥淪ex Workers and Missionaries
at the US/Mexico Border,鈥� 12pm McElhinney (CCS Brownbag) Flyer
Wednesday, October 7: Caribbean Film Series screening of the Dominican film La Hija Natural (2011), with
discussion led by Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn, 5:30pm, Roy Cullen 105 Flyer
Friday, October 16: Ricardo Nuila (Baylor College of Medicine): Health and undocumented immigrants in
the U.S., 12pm McElhinney (CCS Brownbag)
Monday, October 19: Esther Allen (Writer and Translator), "The Perils of Polyglossia," 3:00 - 5:00
pm, Roy G. Cullen, Graduate Library (Translation Studies & the English Department)
Thursday, October 22: Xenia Reloba (Casa de las Americas, Cuba) "Cuba online: the challenge of knowing
and communicating in an offline country" 5:30-7:30pm, 304 Agnes Arnold Hall
Wednesday, November 4: Alberto Salcedo Ramos (Colombian writer) and Daniel Centeno (Venezuelan author):
鈥淟iterary Journalism in Latin America,鈥�5:00-7:00pm, 210 Agnes Arnold Hall
Tuesday, November 10: Caribbean Film Series screening of the Cuban film, La Piscina (2011), introduction
by Dr. Mabel Cuesta, 5:30pm, Roy Cullen C102
Wednesday, November 11: Cecilia Ball铆 (Anthropologist), "," 1-2:30pm; Panel discussion on themes of the talk: UH professors Sarah Luna, Christina
Sisk, Maria Gonzales, 2:30-4pm, Rockwell Pavilion, MD Anderson Library
Monday, November 16:Javier 脕lvarez, "Contemporary Music: Notes from a Concept," at the Moore's School
of Music, 10:30am-1:00pm, an event aimed at CLASS faculty and graduate students engaged
in the Lecture Series organized by the School of Art. RSVP with Anadeli Bencomo for lunch Flyer
Thursday, November 19: Cristina Rivera Garza (UC San Diego), "Literary Writing in the Digital Era,"4:30-6:00pm,
210 Agnes Arnold Hall
SPRING 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies will host professor Aisha M. Beliso-De Jes煤s
(Harvard Divinity School) with Solimar Otero (Louisiana State University): 鈥淓lectric
Santer铆a: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Santeria,鈥� 11:30-1pm, 11:30-1pm,
Student Center North - Synergy (Rm 212).
Tuesday, February 9, 2016:Caribbean Film Series screening of the documentary (2015) about the African roots of Dominican cultural traditions during Semana Santa.
Panel discussion to follow with film's director, Rub茅n Dur谩n, Afro-Dominican singer-songwriter
Xiomara Fortuna, Dominican studies scholars Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse University)
and Rachel Afi Quinn (91猎奇), with translations by Mabel Cuesta (University
of Houston) other guests, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Graduate College of Social Work Auditorium
(Room 101). More information about the week's events and sponsors (UH's Women's, Gender
& Sexuality Studies, Hispanic Studies, Department of English, Religious Studies, African
American Studies and the Houston Community College Office of International Initiatives)
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