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SPRING 2008 EVENTS:
FOR THE RECORD: Negotiating Identities on the Immigration Beat
A lecture with Mirta Ojito
Wednesday, 02/06
7:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Across the globe, public discourse has become increasingly hostile towards immigrants. In America, we need only tune into debates surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border to witness the kinds of prejudice that bleed into (and in some cases are even caused by) the media. But what of an unbiased press? And what unique challenges face reporters who also happen to be immigrants? Mirta Ojito, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter and professor of journalism at Columbia University, discusses the perils and joys of covering one’s own community, and tells how she envisions the role of the media on the immigration beat in the 21st century.
MILAGROS: MADE IN MEXICO
Tuesday, 02/19
7:00 p.m.
Julius Held Lecture Hall
304 Barnard Hall
This hour-long documentary, shot primarily in Mexico, covers the impact of emigration on the women of a sleepy rural town near Guanajuato. The women candidly discuss the difficulty of balancing the need for remittances with their grief over losing family members through emigration to the U.S. The film also examines their efforts to use micro-enterprises to overcome crippling generational poverty, and the resulting change in gender roles in rural Mexico. The screening will be followed by a conversation with its producer and co-director Martina Guzman.
IBERIA & THE AMERICAS: Contacts and Migrations
Friday - Saturday, 04/25 - 04/26
Philosophy Hall, Columbia University
This two-day conference surveys the connections between Spain and Portugal, and Latin America from the colonial period to the present. Celebrated scholars begin the discussion by examining why European culture left a deeper imprint here than in the colonies of other European powers elsewhere. They’ll also explore how the massive transatlantic migration of Spaniards and Portuguese in the postcolonial period strengthened social connections between Iberia and the New World in spite of the rupture of formal relations of empire. The final panel examines the recent explosion in Spanish investments in Latin America and of Latin American emigration to Spain and Portugal.
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