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University of Maryland, College Park

Semana de la Latina Presents

“Taking it to the Streets: Race, Popular Education and Local History”

Laura Pulido, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity,

University of Southern California

Tuesday, April 30

4 – 6 p.m.

Marie Mount, Maryland Room

Please join us for Dr. Laura Pulido’s keynote address for Semana de la Latina, “Taking it to the Streets: Race, Popular Education and Local History.” Her talk will address the impetus behind her recently co-authored book, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, which is a “deliberate political disruption of the way Los Angeles is commonly known and experienced….Struggles over who and what counts as ‘historic’ and worthy of a visit involve decisions about who belongs and who doesn’t, who is worth remembering and who can be forgotten, who we have been and who we are becoming” (4).

Dr. Pulido is a Professor American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Professor Pulido researches race, political activism, Chicana/o Studies, critical human geography, and Los Angeles. She studies how various groups experience racial and class oppression, how these experiences differ among particular communities of color, and how they mobilize to create a more socially-just world. Asking such questions, Professor Pulido has done extensive work in the field of environmental justice, social movements, labor studies, and radical tourism.

The Department of American Studies is offering new and engaging summer courses ranging from topics in popular culture, digital media, Latin American studies, Asian American studies, food cultures and even television. A wide range of courses are available for your interests and education requirements. Faculty-mentored independent learning is available along with online classes.

All interested students can view the available courses and their respective course descriptions here:

http://amst.umd.edu/programs/courses/#Summer+2013+AMST+Courses

Along with offering peer-reviewed articles, the inaugural issue will feature art reviews on both national and local exhibits as well as book reviews on interdisciplinary scholarship important to the field. There will also be a piece that reflects on the state of American Studies and its possible futures. In the Digital Roundtable, Dr. Sheri Parks of American Studies, joined by Dr. Michelle Rowley (UMD), Dr. Niambi Carter (Temple University), Dr. Jeb Middlebrook (California State University, Dominguez Hills), and Chirag Gunvantbhai Bhakta (a Student Union Organizer), offered an extended perspective on the role of the public intellectual in and beyond academia.

There will be a few events to celebrate the launch of the journal, so keep an eye out. Please spread the word about Powerlines to any and all who may be interested!

Journal Website: http://amst.umd.edu/powerlines

When : Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Where : Shoemaker : 0114

The Counseling Center’s Research and Development series presents Sheri Parks, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Department of American Studies, who will speak on: “The Sacred Dark Feminine and the Strong Black Woman: Expectations for and of Black Female Students.”

All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited.

Website: counseling.umd.edu

For more information, contact:

Renee Jorisch

+1 301-314-7673

rjorisch@umd.edu

counseling.umd.edu

After being brought to the Legal Defense and Educational Fund by Thurgood Marshall, Motley became the lead lawyer in desegregation and trespass prosecution cases throughout the South after 1954 and won nine of ten cases before the U.S. Supreme Court from 1961-1965.  After a term in the New York State Senate, Motley was appointed a justice of the federal southern district court of New York where she became chief justice in 1982.

The film includes interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou; President Bill Clinton; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; Professor Charles Ogletree; Professor Drew Days; Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton; Joel Motley, III; Herbert Wright; members of the Little Rock Nine; Dr. Bernard Lafayette and other Freedom Riders; The Honorable Andrew Young; Reverend Wyatt T. Walker; Charlayne Hunter Gault; and other civil rights activists that have been represented by Motley.  Dr. Angelou contributed a poetry reading to the film, and narration was by Juan Williams.

The film debuted on PBS in 2012 and has been honored with the 2012 Best Higher Education Film of Seedling Film Assocation’s Offshoot Film Fest as well as a 2013 Telly Award.  Ford has also been nominated in the category of Best Producer at the St. Tropez International Film and Television Festival of World Cinema, a global industry event to be held in Nice, France in May.

Douglas Ishii (PhD candidate, American Studies) will present his research paper entitled “did you think when I opened my mouth: Asian American Indie Rock and the Middling Noise of Racialization.”

Theo Gonzalves, Chair, American Studies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, will serve as commentator.

Friday, April 5

12-1:30p

Lunch provided

Taliaferro 2103

RSVP: aast@umd.edu

Professor Theodore S. Gonzalves’ areas of scholarly interest include: Filipino/American cultures, histories, and politics; U.S-Philippine relations; ethnic and cultural studies; cultural nationalisms; and the performing arts. He studied at Santa Clara University (BA Political Science), San Francisco State University (MA Political Science), and at the University of California at Irvine (PhD Comparative Culture). Prof. Gonzalves’ books include

*   Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists<http://www.amazon.com/Stage-Presence-Conversations-Filipino-Performing/dp/0979411939/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314045001&sr=1-1> (Meritage Press, 2007)

*   The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora<http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1947_reg.html> (Temple University Press, 2009)

*   Filipinos in Hawai’i<http://www.amazon.com/Filipinos-Hawaii-America-Theodore-Gonzalves/dp/0738576085/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3> [with Roderick N. Labrador] (Arcadia Publishers, 2011)

*   Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces<http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/carlos-villa-and-the-integrity-of-spaces/11065018> (Meritage Press, 2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxfILbV1JTc

The Interrupters (2011)

Hoff Theatre, Stamp Student Union

Monday, February 25, 5:30-7:30pm

In 2011, Kartemquin Films produced a documentary, The Interrupters, which distills the inner-workings of the “violence interrupters” during what was the most violent epoch in Chicagoland history. Violence Interrupters are community advocates who intervene in disputes and disagreements before they become violent.  Ceasefire, an anti-violence organization started in Chicago in 1995, began to use violence interrupters in 2004.  This film documents the careful methods of these community advocates as they work under dangerous conditions to end violence in their community.  While focused on Chicago, the film serves as a great tool to discuss the intersections of race, gender, and violence, the complexities of urban violence, and how policy and community politics conflict/coalesce.

“Interrupting Violence: A Critical Dialogue”

Tuesday, February 26, 5:30pm

Howard Zinn Room, Busboys & Poet, 5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, MD 20781

This panel discussion will explore topics pertaining to gender and violence. First, showing
excerpts from the documentary, “The Interrupters”—a film which explores and vividly
captures how three change agents (one who will be featured on the panel, Ameena
Matthews) are using innovative techniques to help curb violence on Chicago streets. In addition to
the film showing, there will be a rich conversation amongst community activists, authors, and
scholars addressing violence within our communities, potential solutions, and the role of gender in
the representation and reproduction of violence.

This event is presented by the Department of Women’s Studies, and co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities; the Department of American Studies; Department of English; the African American Studies Department; the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity; the Curriculum Transformation Project; and the Pepsi Corporation.

A promotional flyer for this event can be found here.