Symposium: "The Legacy of Che Guevara"
Event Date:
Saturday, October 17, 2015 -
8:30am to 6:00pm
Event Location:
Dodd Hall 121
The 17th International Symposium, organized under the auspices of the International Che Guevara Foundation
Program
8:30am
Coffee, tea, & pastries
Coffee, tea, & pastries
9am
Welcome and short introduction,
David Kunzle, Professor of Art History, UCLA
9:15am
Roberto Massari, author, publisher, Founder and President of the International Ernesto Che Guevara Foundation, Italy
9:30am
Maurice Zeitlin, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, "How I Met Che Guevara"
9:45am
Luiz Pericàs, Professor of Sociology, Uni. of São Paulo, "Che Guevara, the Cuban Revolution, and Brazil"
10:30am
Margaret Randall, Poet & Latin Americanist, "Che on My Mind"
11:15am
Coffee break
11:45am
Christine Sellin, Professor, Cal. Lutheran University, in dialogue with Becca Wilson, daughter of Che! screenwriter Michael Wilson, "Che! : How 'One of the Ten Worst Films Ever Made' Got Made and Unmade"
12:30pm
Lunch break
2pm
Michael Casey, author & researcher, "Che: The Afterlife"
2:45pm
David Kunzle, "Chesucristo: Poetry and Imagery of Che’s Christification"
3:30pm
Roberto Massari, "The Ethics of Che"
4:15pm
Tea break
5pm
Fabian Wagmister, Professor, Dept. Motion Pictures, TV and Digital Media, UCLA, Installation: Two, Three Many Guevaras
5:45pm
Wrap-up
This event is FREE. For more information, see the flyer below.
Co-sponsors: Chicano Studies Research Center, Division of Humanities, Latin American Institute, Departments of Art History; Film, TV and Digital Media; History; Sociology; Spanish and Portuguese
Image courtesy of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles
