Claudia Kedar, visiting scholar from the University of Michigan’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, will lecture on Argentina during Juan Perón’s rule. Kedar will reveal that the tendency to describe populist Perón as the archenemy of the IMF and the World Bank as instruments of U.S. imperialism is no more than a myth promoted by Peronists and anti-Peronists alike. The lecture takes place on Monday, November 30 at 4 p.m. in the Richter Library, third-floor conference room. The event, a presentation of the University of Miami’s Center for Latin American Studies, is free and open to the public.

Mark Rosenberg, president of Florida International University, will examine key trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and will explore questions about educational attainment and per-capita income when he presents “21st-Century Competitiveness in Latin America: The Role of Education.” The talk will take place on Tuesday, November 17 at 6 p.m. in the Wesley Gallery.

The Center for Latin American Studies and the Sue Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies presents Tropical Zion with Allen Wells, a professor at Bowdoin College and the son of a Sosúa settler. Wells will explain why Washington’s refusal to accept Jewish refugees from German-occupied territory placed the lives of those fleeing Nazism at risk and jeopardized the Sosúa settlement in the Dominican Republic. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation, which will take place on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Merrick 105.

Join the Center for Latin American Studies for the Sugar Babies roundtable discussion with filmmaker Amy Serrano as she tackles the themes and controversies surrounding her film. The discussion will take place on Friday, November 13 at 12 p.m. in WBC 4029. Please RSVP to [email protected] for this event.

The Latin American Film Series presents Sugar Babies, a film by Amy Serrano. This film examines the moral price of sugar, exposing those who continue to profit via human trafficking in the Dominican Republic. The film screening will take place on Thursday, November 12 at 7 p.m. in Cosford Cinema and will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker.

Mark Wasserman, professor of history at Rutgers University, will present “The New Nineteenth Century in Latin America,” which will focus on redefining 19th-century Latin America. The event, presented by UM’s Center for Latin American Studies, will take place on Thursday, October 29 at 7 p.m. at the Whitten Learning Center, Room 192.

The Center for Latin American Studies presents Hidden Scars, a films that tells the story of a Maya Indian, kidnapped from his neighborhood in Guatemala City, falsely accused as a guerrilla spy, tortured for days, then left for dead on a roadside. Shattered and alone, he makes his way north to Los Angeles, where he seeks political asylum and relief from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The documentary, which screens on Monday, September 28 at 7 p.m. at the Cosford Cinema, is intended to add a human face as context to the current discussion of the effectiveness or futility of torture used as a political tool. A discussion of the film with director Grace Barnes will follow.