After the fracture of the Republic of Colombia in 1831, a first civil war that took place in the Republic of New Granada—known as the War of the Supremes (1839-1842)—pitted slaveholding elites in New Granada’s Cauca region against the central government in Bogotá, whose republican platform centered egalitarian and inclusive antislavery goals. As a means of mobilization, Julio Arboleda, a powerful slaveowner in Cauca, founded the newspaper El Payanés. From the outset of the war, then, an influential proslavery voice was articulated publicly, and with the intent of fostering favorable opinion. The paper denounced what it called ‘violent acts’ by Afro-descendants across the country, and was expressly concerned with the supposed ‘sedition’ of Afro-New Granadans in and around the cities of Cali and Popayán. It produced a solid image of the dangers that the slaves, as a population, represented and argued in favor of their exclusion from the republic; literally their exportation outside of the territory.

This presentation contextualizes the rise of this proslavery publication in the broader process of republican formation in South America, analyzing the links of Arboleda’s proslavery activism to the emergence of a Pacific transnational class in defense of slavery. Putting El Payanés and its racist discourse about slaves’ incompatibility with the republican project at the center of the study, the presentation also reads Arboleda’s denunciatory accounts in El Payanés against the grain to trace slaves’ politics in Cauca as a crucial factor in the War of the Supremes and in close connection with the New Granadan antislavery republic’s foundations and goals.

Marcela Echeverri is the author of Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Join us on Zoom throughout the fall for LRC Happy Hour. Every third Tuesday of the month. We'd love to hear how it’s going! All of it.

Bring your (language instruction) stories whether they be good, bad, amazing, or unusual. It takes all kinds of stories to make a Happy Hour great!Bring your own coffee, tea, or mystery beverage.While we can't serve lunch, the LRC will provide fun, jokes, and laughs free of charge.Also, we just want to see your smiling faces, because we miss you.

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Global flows of workers from Central America and the Caribbean to sustain agricultural production in the US are highlighted in this presentation. Based on interviews with farmworkers, we will examine their motivations for leaving home, their experience in the US, long term goals and structural challenges. We will explore the particular health vulnerabilities of immigrant workers under COVID-19, and strategies to maintain communication with and support for building capacity among this population.

Presenter: Mary Jo Dudley, Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program and Chair, Farmworker Committee, Finger Lakes Community and Migrant Health

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Part of the series "Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Species Examination"

In addition to the expropriation of lands that belonged to native communities, one of the most consequential outcomes of settler colonialism in the Americas was the invention, speciation, and treatment of enslaved people of African ancestry as subhuman. As a clandestine network of perilous migration routes, the Underground Railroad provided the enslaved with the opportunity to reject their categorization as "human property" and transition to the enjoyment of a freedom that recognized them as fully human. This presentation examines the Underground Railroad as a form of migration that, in challenging the dehumanization of the enslaved, impacted the politics of a United States on the brink of civil war.

Presenter: Gerard Aching, Professor of Africana and Romance Studies and Co-Principal Investigator with the Rural Humanities Initiative, Cornell University

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Part of the series "Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Species Examination"

The current era of immigration policy reflects a tradition of virulent racism and xenophobia. Research by ILR Professor Shannon Gleeson examines the function of these policies in the workplace, and how they impact not only the 8 million undocumented immigrant workers in the United States, but also documented guestworkers, and other temporary categories of migrants.

Presenter: Shannon Gleeson, Associate Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History at the ILR School at Cornell University

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Part of the series "Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Species Examination"

This event is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

Join filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane after viewing a special Central New York regional screening of her latest feature film, Crossing Columbus, a unique take on the US/Mexico border. Crane has been charting a speculative history on film since 1994, and in 2013, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her lyrical re-combinations of archival and staged material. Her body of work enjoyed its first survey in 2015 as part of the American Original Now series at the National Gallery of Art. Crane’s award-winning films (which include the experimental biographies Pasolini’s Last Words and Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil) have screened at Viennale, San Francisco International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Cinematheque Francais, BFI, and Arsenal/Berlin and are distributed by Canyon Cinema, Lightcone, and Films Media Group.

Her first feature-length fictional hybrid The Manhattan Front (2018) premiered at SFIndie Fest in 2018 with a profile in Filmmaker Magazine. Crossing Columbus, a feature-length documentary about the border town of Columbus, New Mexico was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency and the El Paso Cultural Foundation. Her engagement with the history of the US/Mexico border will continue as a 2021 Residency Fellow at the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin, where she will prepare an installation of Drawing the Line, a film series presented at the 2019 Poetics and Politics Documentary Research Symposium at UC Santa Cruz.

Crane is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College.

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This film screening is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

2020 > USA > Directed by Cathy Lee Crane

"History haunts the border town of Columbus, N.M. when Mexican riders on horseback cross the line to commemorate Pancho Villa's 1916 raid. As border dwellers and their divergent accounts of the Villa raid are introduced, the more subtle work a borderline does in shaping their lives comes into focus." (Ashland Independent Film Festival) A special Central New York regional screening. More at crossingcolumbus.com
1 hr 18 min

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This film screening is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

2018 > Chile > Directed by Joaqu’n Cocina, Cristobal Leon
With Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause

Inspired by the actual case of Colonia Dignidad (The Dignity Colony, a remote, Chilean Nazi sect founded after WWII), The Wolf House masquerades as an animated fairy tale, photographed to appear as one continuous shot, waiting for the wolf at the door."[The film fuses] Grimm, the early shorts of David Lynch and the stop-motion work of Jan _vankmajer into a visually engrossing, reference-rich and disturbing tale." (The Hollywood Reporter) Subtitled. More at kimstim.com/film/the-wolf-house-virtual
1 hr 13 min

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