Symposium: “The Legacy of Che Guevara”

The 17th International Symposium, organized under the auspices of the International Che Guevara Foundation

Program

8:30am
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