Events
Spring 2024
Guest Speaker
Film Series
Fall 2023
Film Series
Spring 2023
Film Series
Uýra
Directed by Juliana Curi.
Uýra, a trans Indigenous artist, travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery, using performance art and ancestral messages to teach Indigenous youth and confront structural racism, environmental degradation, and transphobia.
April 18, 2023 at 7:00 pm in Brennan Hall Auditorium 228
Mucho, Mucho Amor
Directed by Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch.
Every day for decades, Walter Mercado—the iconic, gender non-conforming astrologer—mesmerized 120 million Latinx viewers with his extravagance and positivity. Why did he suddenly vanish?
March 21, 2023 at 7:00 pm in Brennan Hall Auditorium 228
Lembel
Directed by Joanna Reposi Garibaldi.
Writer, visual artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1980s. The film is an intimate and poetic journey through Lemebel’s risky performances dealing with homosexuality, human rights, and mortality.
February 21, 2023 at 7:00 pm in Brennan Hall Auditorium 228
Events
Caminemos Con Jesús: Incarnating Hispanic/Latinx Theology in Song
Join scholar and composer Tony Alonso for a theological and musical reflection on how Hispanic/Latinx theology shapes his own compositional craft through the prism of Caminemos con Jesús, his Latin Grammy-nominated album of sacred music that celebrates the beauty, passion, and vitality of Cuban music.
Wednesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. | Madonna Della Strada Chapel, The University of Scranton, 420 Monroe Ave., Scranton, PA
El Carnaval
February 17, 2023 at 8 p.m. in The DeNaples Center Ballroom
Fall 2022
Film Series
Zama
Directed by Lucrecia Martel, the film tells the story of Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer in colonial Asunción attempting to be transferred to Buenos Aires in hopes of prosperity.
Based on the novel by Antonio DiBenedetto written in 1956.
November 10, 2022 at 7:00 pm in Brennan Hall Auditorium 228
The Last Forest
Directed by Luiz Bolognesi, The Last Forest combines a documentary and drama style to tell the story of the Yanomami community in the Amazon rain forest and the environmental decline.
October 13, 2022 at 7:00 pm in Brennan Hall Auditorium 228
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
Directed by Anabel Rodriguez , Once Upon a Time in Venezuela shows the divided politics of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela and how the villagers attempt to surive pollution, neglect and economic decline leading up to the parliamentary elections.
September 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm in Brennan Hall Auditorium 228
Que Viva el Barrio
This 22 minute documentary produced by the The San Diego Union-Tribune details a Chicano community's fight against pollution. Barrio Logan, a small Chicano community on San Diego’s waterfront, is residential and commercial, home to humans and the biofuel industry.
The film shows how residents of Barrio Logan tried to fight pollution in their town and what they did leading up to a city counsel vote that would determine the future of their community.
September 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm in Brennan Hall Auditorium 228
Events
LALS Lecture with Mariana Ortega
Listening to Sorrow in Border Cantos:
This presentation explores how the aesthetic may serve as a response to abjection, violence and marginalization, and how photographic practices open the possibility for re-orienting our cognitive, sensory, and affective ways of being in the world. It engages the exhibit Border Cantos by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo in order to show the importance of both visuality and sound in the process of honoring and mourning those who perish crossing the Mexico-U.S. border in search for better lives.
December 1, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. in the Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall 228
South Side Restaurant Tour
Wrap up Hispanic Heritage Month by enjoying South Scranton's Mexican and Salvadoran cuisines.
October 15th, 2022 from 11:30 am - 2:00 pm