Central American and Transborder Studies Events

Central American Studies - 15 Years of Education, Community, and Activism

Friday, September 19, 2014 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm

The Central American Studies Program was created in 2000 to empower the large and growing Central American community in the United States by promoting academic excellence, community involvement, and cultural diversity; to open spaces of global citizenship and dialogue between academia and society that contribute to the construction of a Central American transnational identity Read more

Migration and Memory, An interdisciplinary symposium

Monday, April 28, 2014 - 8:45am to Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 1:00pm

Panel topics: Deportations and Ethnicity, Student-Alumni Activism, Immigration and Political Participation, Non-Governmental Organizations, DREAM Activist panel, Memory and Migration, and Transmigrants, Domestic Workers, and Community. Film screening of the documentary: A Bridge Apart. Please see the following schedule of events for times and presenters.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 2:00pm

Until the last drop: Tales from el Salvador's Agua Apocalypse, examines opposing visions of water management as they clash in El Salvador. This documentary provides an inside view of the Salvadoran movement against water privatization and battle over how to manage El Salvador's water, which could reverberate throughout Latin American, where water is becoming more and more scarce. Read more

Life and Empowerment through the Kuna and Embera Lenses

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 5:00pm

Panamanian documentary filmaker Anayansi Prado returns to CSUN from the autonomous community of Akua Yala, Panama, to share two films produced by Kuna and Embera Youth. Read more

Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Romero

Monday, March 24, 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

A film by Ana Carrigan & Juliet Weber, produced by the Kellogg Institute University of Notre Dame. Monseñor Romero was assassinated on March 24th 1980, for denouncing the human rights violations of the poor in El Salvador. Over 75,000 dead, more than 8,000 disappeared and millions of displaced within El Salvador and abroad. Thirty years after his assassination, the United Nations (UN) proclaimed, the day Read more

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