LAII: SOLAS

SOLAS promotes the study of Latin America on the UNM campus and in the Albuquerque community. Contact SOLAS President Lucy Grinnell by EMAIL

Brown Bag Lectures

LIMON

List-Serv

Social Events

Brown Bag Lectures SOLAS hosts a one hour "Brown Bag" lecture or movie each week, usually at the LAII. Many of the brown bags are held Fridays at noon.

Scholars, activists, students and faculty are invited from inside and outside the UNM community.

Past brown bags have included:

Jose La Luz, "Los desafíos del movimiento obrero en las Américas: Renovación o Irrelevancia"
Blanca Figueroa, "Domestic Women Workers in Peru"
Ruben Palma, "The Trail We Leave: Experience of Culture Shock and Exile"
John Ross, "Zapatista Autonomy: Impacts on Indigenous Groups in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador"

SOLAS publishes the quarterly newsletter, LIMON
(latin american and iberian multidisciplinary opinion newsletter).

LIMON was formally called Las Noticias Estudiantiles.

Students have the opportunity to write articles about their research, experiences, or other events related to Latin American Studies. LIMON is also a forum for students to comment on current SOLAS listserv discussions.

Currrently, there about 150 subscribers to LIMON.

You can check out back issues of Las Noticias Estudiantiles latest issue on-line.
We will update the webpage with the latest issues of LIMON ASAP.

For more information, to contribute, or to be an assistant-editor, email Mayra.

Read Weekly News From Latin America at UNM's LADB News Service. If you log in from your UNM account you have free access to read current issues of SourceMex, NotiCen, and NotiSur. Also, Search LADB's archives of articles dating from 1986!

Get information about jobs, funding opportunities, conferences, and information about local cultural and political events relating to Latin America.

Our electronic list-serv currently has over two hundred subscribers.

Please feel free to join!

Social
Events SOLAS hosts:

Parties
Picnics
Happy Hours
Meetings
Where undergraduate, graduate students and community members interested in Latin American Studies have the opportunity to know each other in an informal setting

We are sponsoring the Fourth Annual Sin Fronteras Film Festival again this April 20-23, 2006. Watch for details of times, locations, and film titles, and find the Call for Films and Submission form on the festival web page http://www.sinfronterasfilmfestival.com/ Announcements will also be made through the SOLAS Listserv as well as on-campus fliers and publicity.