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University of San Diego
Languages and Literatures
Founders Hall 138
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 260-4070
languages@sandiego.edu
Department Chair
Richard Stroik, Ph.D.
rstroik@sandiego.edu
Media Contact
Liz Harman
harman@sandiego.edu
(619) 260-4682
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Activities and Events
Actividades culturales
Theater: Fourth Annual Día de los Muertos Time: 7-10 pm |
Chronos Theatre Group presents an evening of multi-cultural music, dance, visual arts, and readings from The Divine Comedy by Dante. This memorial performance celebrates those who have passed on and is a fund raiser for both Chronos Theatre Group and Swedenborg Hall
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Exhibit:
Café con los muertos (Coffee with Death) Time: 1-4 pm |
Celebrate the holiday and learn the traditions, history and culture.
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El Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead or All Souls' Day) Time: 4 pm |
Come enjoy some pan de muerto and Mexican hot chocolate with colleagues and neighbors. Offerings/ ofrendas are welcome to decorate the altar. |
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Exhibit: Barro Sin Plomo (Clay without Lead) Time: 6-8:30 pm |
Exhibit and Sale of Lead Free Pottery |
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Film: Perro come perro (Dog Eat Dog) Schedule:
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A gritty Colombian gangster flick, with humor, follows two small-time thugs, Eusebio and Victor, who share a room and a crime boss. When, for completely different reasons, they manage to get on the boss' bad side, they try to escape their fate, with the other's help. |
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Film: Voy a explotar Schedule:
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This crowd-pleasing Mexican Drama tells the story of Roman and Maru, two troubled teenagers who attempt an impossible rebellion against the adult world. Despite the risk of getting caught by the police and their parents, the young fugitives jeopardize the security of their hiding place in hope to return to the real world where wounds are real and actions have consequences. |
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Film: Fermat’s room Schedule:
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Stunning Spanish thriller, winner of numerous festival awards. Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
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Lecture: Tequila Talk with Amalia García, Governor of the State of Zacatecas, México Time: 6:30-7:45 pm
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Presentation will be in Spanish. |
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Performance: Areito Borincano Time: 7 pm
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Puerto Rican music and dance
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Performance: Ollin Time: 8 pm |
East L. A. Favorites!
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Lecture: Tequila Talk with Rommel Moreno Manjarrez, Attorney General of Baja California, Mexico Time: 6-7:45 pm |
Presentation will be in Spanish. |
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Lecture: Global Crossroads: Planning and Infrastructure for the California-Baja California Border Region Time: 9-11 am |
Lawrence A. Herzog, Ph.D. will provide a brief presentation of his publication and findings, which describe the California-Baja California infrastructure crisis, underscore the need for developing a cross-border infrastructure strategy, and define potential future policy strategies for border infrastructure. Among the challenges that Herzog highlights in the publication are the strains on existing infrastructure placed by rapid economic growth and demographic change, the economic and environmental costs of border delays, inadequate highway trade infrastructure, poorly developed rail linkages, lost opportunities to other regions with better infrastructure, insufficient port of entry capacity, and the shift to a national security framework at the border. |
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Keynote Address by William Ury: From the Boardroom to the Border: Negotiating for Sustainable Agreements Time: 7-8:30 pm |
Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series presents William Ury, Ph.D., co-founder and senior fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project and co-author of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Urywill be the keynote speaker for the Greening Borders: Cooperation, Security and Diplomacy for the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. Due to overwhelming interest, the main theatre is now full. Seating in overflow is still available. |
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Conference: Greening Borders: Cooperation, Security and Diplomacy Time: 7 am-3 pm |
Greening Borders: Cooperation, Security and Diplomacy is a three-day, binational working conference, to enhance cooperation and effective communication among policymakers, scientists, community organizations, tribal communities, and conflict resolution experts designed to advance integrated water resource management of the Tijuana River Watershed. |
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| Films: Sleep Dealer + Short Film Montage Time: 8 pm |
Border perspectives: Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor, and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology. The program also includes a selection of short films by director Alex Rivera that address border issues. [2008, Mexico/USA, 90 min.] |
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Theater: The House of Bernarda Alba Schedule:
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After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, a domineering Spanish matriarch, imposes a period of mourning on the five adult daughters. Tension mounts within the household where morality is dictated by the fanatical tyranny of ideology. Menial daily rituals are the only thing that makes the daughters lives bearable while they are slowly eaten alive by their own repression. The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca's last play, was completed mere months before he was assassinated by the Nationalists in 1936. Parking Passes Required: Monday through Friday. Weeknight passes are $2 per vehicle from the vending machines located in the UC San Diego Theatre District/La Jolla Playhouse parking lots and entry display case. Please remember your parking space number. You will need it to purchase your parking pass. Note: Machines take all major credit cards except Discover and when paying with cash you must use exact change, NO CHANGE GIVEN. Parking Passes Not Required: Saturdays and Sundays Cars without permits are subject to ticketing by UCSD Campus Police. The Theatre & Dance Department does not have the authority to waive and cannot pay parking tickets. |
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Conference: Critical Issues in Latin America Time: 8:30 am-12:30 pm |
CHINA AND LATIN AMERICA THE ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY DRUGS AND VIOLENCE |
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Border Meetup: Reviving the Binational Garden 11/21 Time: 10 am There is a ground swell of environmental grass roots work going on in Tijuana that is fueling a revival of Native habitat and clean beaches. Several organizations in Tijuana are entusiastic about reviving the bi-national garden and will be working hard that day to clean up and replant the garden before on time for the rainy season. We want to all come together from both sides and revive this garden. |
Take I5 to Dairy Mart Rd. Exit. Turn South/Southwest onto Dairy Mart Rd. Dairy Mart Road turns into Monument Rd. When the Park is open to vehicles, follow the road through the open gate to the park. When you get near the end, you will go up a hill to a parking lot wher the park is located. If the park is closed to vehicles, it is still always open to foot, bicycle, and horses. Follow the same directions until you get to a closed gate about 1.5 miles from the park. There is a dirt parking lot there and you can walk/ride the rest of the way in. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Ongoing |
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Exhibit Time: 12-4 pm (Tuesday-Sunday) |
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Exhibition: Picasso, Miró, Calder Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10-5; Sun., 12-5 |
This exhibition features works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Joan Miró (1893–1983), and Alexander Calder (1898–1976), unquestionably three of the greatest artists working in the twentieth century. Conceived as a complement to Calder Jewelry, this installation will celebrate the generosity of the Museum's donors—whose support is so critical to the institution’s success—and bring out a choice selection of the Museum’s collection of modernist painting and sculpture that has long been out of sight. Picasso, Miró, Calder will be a taste of great things to come in 2010: the Museum’s curatorial team is planning a full reinstallation of holdings from the modern collection over the course of the year. Come rediscover some of your favorite artists from the height of the modern age. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibit: The Art of Andean Retablos: Religion, Tradition and Social Commentary Hours: Daily, 10-4:30
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This fascinating exhibit explores and discusses the art of the retablo, specifically the works of artist Nicario Jimenez Quispe. Retablos first came to Peru in the 16th century. Brought by the Spanish Conquistadors, they were used in the Old World as portable altars for travelers and also carried into battle by warriors during the Crusades. Early retablos often featured Saint James, who was the patron saint in the war against the Moors. In the New World they were used by the Spanish to spread the Catholic faith. The Museum of Man holds a beautiful and unique collection of these retablos. The exquisite art pieces tell the stories, histories, and traditions of the Highland people of South America. The intent of the exhibition is to showcase the artwork of the retablo and to share information about the people who make them: how the events and traditions around them have influenced their lives. The retablo art of Peru moves beyond the religious scenes originally depicted by the Spanish. These retablos reflect the lives of the indigenous people of Peru. As an artist, Quispe creates beautiful artwork, but he also comments on the political history and the traditional ways of his village and his people. |
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Exhibit: Automatic Cities:
The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art
Hours: Thurs.-Tues., 11-5; Closed Weds. |
Automatic Cities explores the psychological and metaphorical influence of architecture on contemporary visual art. The title of the exhibition refers to the Surrealist practices of automatic writing and automatic drawing, which sought to access individual creativity by tapping into the unconscious. The exhibition explores notions of architecture in the broadest sense, comprising images of sites and cities both built and unbuilt, rising from collective experience and imagination. Automatic Cities includes works by 13 artists and one artists’ collective hailing from 11 countries around the globe including Los Carpinteros (Cúba). |
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Exhibition: Maya: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth Hours: Daily, 10-4:30 |
The flora and fauna of the forest, the rhythm of burning and planting, and the cycles of birth and death shaped the myth, ritual, and pageantry that are celebrated in art and architecture of these ancient and contemporary peoples. This exhibit features exact copies of Classic Maya monuments from the ancient city of Quiriguá, Guatemala, covered with hieroglyphs that recount the stories of Maya rulers and gods. The exhibit also features a colorful mural resplendent with the animals and birds of the jungle surrounding the Ceiba tree (the symbolic tree of life that links the heavens, earth, and underworld) and Maya pottery and figurines, as well as information on how the giant monuments were carved more than 1200 years ago. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibition: Modern Mexican Art Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10-5; Sun., 12-5 |
As the first phase of a complete reinstallation of SDMA’s American galleries, Modern Mexican Art at SDMA and from Private Collections presents a selection of Mexican paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture that range in date from the late 19th to the early 21st century. This presentation includes examples of Realism as well as pieces influenced by the avant-garde movements of Cubism and Surrealism. To highlight the depth of SDMA’s collection, and to convey the Museum’s commitment to preserving these fragile works on paper, there will be two rotations: the first focusing on the early 20th century, and the second on the period roughly from the 1950s to the present day. Taken together, this selection of objects illuminates a critical period in both the art historical narrative of the country and the envisioning of modern Mexican identities. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Film: Ocean Oasis
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Take a fascinating journey into two remarkably different, but inextricably linked worlds—Mexico's Sea of Cortés and the Baja California desert. Ocean Oasis, a giant-screen film, mesmerizes audiences as they witness the beauty of life in Baja California's rich waters and seemingly barren land. Produced by the San Diego Natural History Museum, Summerhays Films, and PRONATURA A.C., with sponsorship from Sempra Energy. Winner of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and the International Wildscreen Film Festival. |
