Losing Afghanistan on the Installment Plan

Date: Ocotber 7
Time: 12 pm

Christine Fair, Security Studies Professor at Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service will discuss key factors that made any victory, howsoever defined, in Afghanistan impossible.⁠

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Film Screening and Discussion: Call Her Ganda

Date: October 28
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Eventive
Reserve your free ticket here.

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case-an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother-galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

All are welcome to participate in this documentary screening and conversation exploring gender and justice, gender-based violence, and the experiences of transgender people in the context of U.S. militarism and imperialism in the Philippines.

PANELISTS:

• Judith Mirkinson, President of the “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition and Cofounder, Gabriela Network
• Victoria Reyes, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside

This film will have live commentary followed by a short post film discussion.

SPONSORS: Utah Film Center, Asian American Student Association (AASA), Center for Equity and Student Belonging, Asian Pacific Islanders American Advocates Utah (OCA), Gender-Based Violence Consortium, Asia Center, Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Utah Chapter

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Conversaciones y Reflexiones sobre la Cultura Nahua

Date: Ocotber 29
Time: 12 pm
Location: YouTube

Este encuentro busca hacer diálogo entre académicos sobre la cultura náhuatl para discutir temas actuales e históricos. En esta presentación se invitan a tres especialistas en la materia quienes se destacan por sus investigaciones en el ámbito histórico, en los estudios mesoamericanos y los estudios coloniales sobre México. En primer lugar, se inicia de la educación formal que se buscaba por las mujeres de una comunidad de Chicontepec y la transmisión de la cultura materna a las nuevas generaciones. Enseguida se presenta el tema de los sueños como una parte asociada con la tradición oral de las comunidades nahuas de hoy en las regiones de Tlaxcala y Puebla. Para finalizar se presentan las obras de teatro en náhuatl producidos durante la época colonial en referencia al diálogo que existe entre el Cristo indígena y los personajes femeninos.

Moderator:

• Abelardo de la Cruz de la Cruz, Associate Instructor, World Languages ​​and Cultures, University of Utah

Openers:

• Dr. Susie Porter, Director, Center for Latin American Studies Director and Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah

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Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship

Dates and Times:
October 22 | 1-2
October 26 | 3-4 pm
October 27 | 1-2 pm

Come learn more about Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarships! The online application will be available in November, 2021 and is due on Friday, January 28, 2022 for bothSummer 2022 (6-10 week intensive language programs abroad or in the US- perhaps virtual depending on travel restrictions) andAcademic Year 2022-2023(2-semester language and area study at the University of Utah) awards. Only one application is needed if you are applying for both awards.

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