Speaker: Emilio Sauri, Associate Professor of English College of Liberal Arts, Director Concentration in Transnational and Multiethnic Literatures, UMass Boston
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard...
Speakers: Elizabeth Jelin, Senior Researcher, CONICET Argentina and Professor Doctoral Program in the Social Sciences IDES-UNGS ; Kathryn Sikkink, Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Kimberly Theidon, Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Moderator: Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
Noted sociologist and pioneer of studies about historical memory human rights and politics Elizabeth Jelin...
West Village F Room 020 at Northeastern University
I Dream in Another Language (Narrative, 101 mins)
Ernesto Contreras Mexico/Netherlands 2016
Co-presented by the Independent Film Festival of Boston and in collaboration with the ARTS@DRCLAS Series Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Film and Video Art (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018) A young linguist travels to the jungle of Mexico to research a language on the verge of disappearing. Once there he discoverers its last two speakers clashed 50 years ago and have refused to speak to each other since. Attempting...
West Village F Room 020 at Northeastern University
Tempestad Documentary 104 mins Tatiana Huezo México 2017
Co-presented by Intercultural Productions and The Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston
Tickets must be purchased through the BLIFF Eventbrite page.
Two women their voices echoing over the landscape and highways of Mexico from north to south as they tell how official corruption and injustice allowed violence to take control of their lives desires and dreams. An emotional and evocative journey steeped not only in loss and pain but also in love dignity and resistance. Official Selection 66th Berlin...
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
DRCLAS is pleased to co-sponsor several screenings of the 2017 Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF). In its 15th year, the festival remains committed to its mission of "using the power of film to break stereotypes bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues that affect the Latino community in the United States and Latin America."
The 2017 programming is aligned with this mission and expands the festival’s scope. “This year in addition to showcasing films by submission BLIFF will also include many award-winning feature-length films never...
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
DRCLAS is pleased to co-sponsor several screenings of the 2017 Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF). In its 15th year the festival remains committed to its mission of "using the power of film to break stereotypes bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues that affect the Latino community in the United States and Latin America." The 2017 programming is aligned with this mission and expands the festival’s scope.
The festival runs from Thursday Sep 28 through Sunday Oct 1 with screenings taking place at DRCLAS on Thursday Sep 28 and Friday...
