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SUMMARY:Dávila Santiago and Robles Gutiérrez - Puerto Rico: Filming Resistance and Survival
DESCRIPTION:For the last four years\, Puerto Ricans have experienced challenges that will leave an indelible mark on their collective memory and history. In 2016\, the U.S. government started to implement extreme austerity measures on the island and in 2017\, the island experienced one of the most devastating hurricanes from the past 100 years. In 2019\, weeks of massive street protests resulted in the successful ouster of former governor Ricardo Rosselló\, the first governor to ever resign in Puerto Rico’s history. Over the course of this period\, filmmaker Juan C. Dávila has been traveling back-and-forth to Puerto Rico to film these historic moments in Puerto Rican history. This event will showcase his most important work from this time. \nAs part of the program\, we will screen a short film as well as a work-in-progress about his new upcoming long-form film project\, which follows the resistance movement #SeAcabaronLasPromesas (The Promises Are Over)\, a movement that was born in 2016 in opposition to the new colonial measures imposed by the U.S. Congress over Puerto Rico. Dávila explores the organization of the movement as they occupy the streets\, and engage in the necessary community work that is part of any social movement uprising. The films capture the voices of the young and unemployed\, the elderly without pensions\, the peasants without land\, the communities without schools\, and the survivors of over 500 years of colonialism. \nPost-screening Q&A facilitated by Prof. B. Ruby Rich with film director Juan C. Dávila and activist Marisel Robles Gutierrez. \nEvent is free and open to the public with advance registration required. \nCo-Sponsored by the Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, Environmental Studies Pepper-Giberson Endowed Chair\, Film and Digital Media Department\, Kresge College\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, Oakes College\, Politics Department\, Sociology Department\, and The Institute for Social Transformation. \n  \nJuan C. Dávila Santiago is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, multi-media journalist\, and PhD student of Latin American and Latinx Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Dávila Santiago has directed two feature documentary films: Compañeros de lucha (2012) and Vieques: una batalla inconclusa (2016). Dávila Santiago currently works as a correspondent for Democracy Now! and his work has also been featured in TeleSur\, the Huffington Post\, and The Washington Post. He holds a Bachelor in Arts of Communication from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico (2011) and a Master of Arts in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz (2015). Currently\, he is the artist in residence of Agitarte\, a cultural organization of working-class artists based in Puerto Rico\, whose work focuses on supporting grassroots social movements\, and agitating for liberation. \n  \nMarisel Robles Gutiérrez is an activist and organizer from the movement “Jornada se acabaron las promesas.” She was born and raised in Río Piedras\, Puerto Rico. During her undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez\, she actively participatied in the student strike of 2010. Robles Gutiérrez began her radical political formation with the International Socialist Organization (OSI in Spanish)\, and became a central figure in developing “Jornada Se Acabaron Las Promesas\,” which became the main force of opposition to a Fiscal Control Board instituted by the US Congress to push austerity measures in Puerto Rico. She currently works as a coordinator in the Mutual Aid Center “Olla Común” and supports the project of “Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/davila-santiago-and-robles-gutierrez-puerto-rico-filming-resistance-and-survival/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:International Women's Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
DESCRIPTION:The Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2017). The second speaker is Dr. Barbara Sutton of the University of Albany\, SUNY who will speak about her book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York University Press\, 2018). Together\, these books explore the critical themes of resistance\, survival\, intersectionality\, and trauma/hardships in the Americas. \nSchedule:\n1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ~ Dr. Ranita Ray\, University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\n3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. ~ Break with light snacks\n3:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. ~ Dr. Barbara Sutton\, University at Albany\, SUNY \nAbout the Speakers: \nRanita Ray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. She is an ethnographer specializing in women of color feminisms\, children and youth\, urban inequalities\, and education and policing. Her book\, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2018)\, challenges common wisdom that targeting “risk behaviors” among youth such as drugs\, gangs\, violence\, and teen parenthood is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray has published several other articles and book chapters related to children/youth\, urban inequalities\, race\, class and gender\, and co-authored a book titled As The Leaves Turn Gold: Aging Experiences of Asian Americans (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers\, 2012). Ray is currently preparing a book manuscript that draws on rigorous fieldwork to explore how the relationship between policing\, race\, class\, and gender shapes schooling experiences and educational trajectories of children growing up in marginalized communities in Las Vegas. Ray is actively involved in community-oriented research projects\, and co-founder of Heating Youth Voices—a Connecticut based youth led organization. \nBarbara Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY). She is also affiliated with the departments of Sociology and of Latin American\, Caribbean\, and U.S. Latino Studies at the same institution. She earned a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (her country of origin) as well as a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon. Professor Sutton’s scholarly interests include body politics\, global gender issues\, state violence and human rights\, collective memory\, and women’s movements\, particularly in Latin American contexts. Her book\, Bodies in Crisis: Culture\, Violence\, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press\, 2010) received the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association. Her new book\, Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina\, was published by NYU Press in the Spring of 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-womens-day-celebrating-feminist-scholarship-americas/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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