University of San Diego
Latin American Studies
Founders Hall 146
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 260-7417
ameter@sandiego.edu
Program Director
Alejandro Meter, PhD
ameter@sandiego.edu
Media Contact
Melissa Wagoner
mwagoner@sandiego.edu
(619) 260-4659
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Lecture Series
In an effort to encourage the study of topics within Latin American Studies, from local to global contexts, and to help create an active learning experience beyond the classroom, the program promotes relevant events on the University of San Diego campus. Latin American Studies has sponsored or co-sponsored the following events:
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"Guatemala Today: Challenges to Lasting Peace"
Lecture by Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum (November 16, 2009)
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"Pancho Villa, el (anti)héreo revolucionario de la cinematografía mexicana y estadounidense"
Lecture by Fernando Fabio Sánchez (November 18, 2009)
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Advancing U.S.-Mexican Relations: Vicente Fox
With the election of 2000, Vicente Fox of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) was the first opposition party candidate in Mexico to be elected president after…
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Re-Thinking Ethnic Studies: View from Latin America
The focus of noted scholar Jeffery Lesser's research is ethnicity, immigration and race, especially in Brazil. He is the award-winning author of…
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Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity: Aesthetic Traditions in Contemporary Mexico
Fernando Fabio Sánchez presents a critical analysis on intellectual and aesthetic genealogies in contemporary…
