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Justice for Victor Jara
Almudena Bernabeu
September 19, 2016 | Part of the Fall 2016 Bay Area Latin America Forum
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Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-racial Rights in Latin America
Tianna Paschel
September 21, 2016 | Part of the Fall 2016 Bay Area Latin America Forum
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Critique of the Apocalypse: Narratives of Spectacle, Violence and Grief in Contemporary Mexico
Juan Villoro
September 26, 2016
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Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America
René Davids
September 27, 2016 | Part of the Fall 2016 Bay Area Latin America Forum
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CineLatino: Boy and the World
Directed by Alê Abreu (Brazil, 2013)
September 28, 2016| Part of the Fall 2016 CineLatino Series
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Universities, the U.S. and the Right to Truth in Postwar El Salvador
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
October 7, 2016
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Environmental Justice and the Murder of Berta Cáceres
Rosemary Joyce
October 12, 2016 | Part of the Fall 2016 Bay Area Latin America Forum
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CineLatino: The Clan
Directed by Pablo Trapero (Argentina, 2015)
October 19, 2016| Part of the Fall 2016 CineLatino Series
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Screening: Finding Oscar
Directed by Ryan Suffern (United States, 2016)
October 24, 2016 | Film Screening and Discussion
![(Image courtesy of 212BerlinFilms.) Still from the film The Mexican Suitcase](https://clacs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/styles/openberkeley_brand_widgets_thumbnail/public/2016-10-26-cine-mexicansuitcase-750p.jpg?itok=Ux7umq31×tamp=1623382547)
CineLatino: The Mexican Suitcase
Directed by Trisha Ziff (Mexico, Spain, USA 2011)
October 26, 2016| Part of the Fall 2016 CineLatino Series
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2016 Tinker Field Research Symposium
October 27, 2016 | Student Research Presentations
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Screening: Aquarius
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil, 2016)
Film Screening and Q+A with Sonia Braga
October 28, 2016
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CineLatino: Ixcanul
Directed by Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala, 2015)
November 9, 2016 | Part of the Fall 2016 CineLatino Series
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The 2016 U.S. Election and the Americas
Harley Shaiken, Maria Echaveste and Paul Pierson
November 21, 2016
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