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Concert-Calle Sur

Date: Nov 29, 2007
Acoustic folk-rooted music from Latin American and the Caribbean.

¿Puedo Hablar? May I Speak? 

Date: Nov. 8th, 2007
Screening of Venezuelan documentary: Discussion with co-director Chris Moore.

The World of Creole Languages: Thoughts from Haiti and Jamaica

Date: October 29, 2007
Featuring IWP writers Beaudelaine Pierre, novelist and fiction writer from Haiti, and Kei Miller, writer and editor from Jamaica. Introduction by Anny Curtius, Associate Professor of French, and Mary Lou Emery, Associate Professor of English.

Afro-Cuban Drum & Dance Ensemble Performances

Date: October 19-21, 2007
Sponsor: Dept. of Dance, Division of Performing Arts
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Democracy in Latin America: Between Expectations and Experience

Date: Oct 12, 2007
Presenter: Cordelia Ida Beam Visiting Professor Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Cuba and the United States: From Cultural Engagement to Political Conflict

Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007
Presenter: Cordelia Ida Beam Visiting Professor Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Africa Near and Far: The Changing Nature of Afro-Brazilian Art
in the Twentieth Century

Date: Monday, October 8, 2007
Presenter: Kimberly Cleveland, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese