Stories about "South America"
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10 Bates students and alumni awarded Fulbright grants
Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:38 am
Recognized as a "top producer" of prestigious Fulbright grants, Bates again runs true to form.
![The Assad Family in performance.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2014/03/Olin-1314-Assad-Quinteto-300x199.jpg)
Assad Family brings ‘Brazilian Songbook’ to Bates
Friday, March 28, 2014 12:50 pm
Featuring brothers called "the best two-guitar team in existence," the Assad Family brings their "Brazilian Songbook" program to Bates on April 6.
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Kristen Kelliher ’16 leads team up Aconcagua, highest peak in the Western Hemisphere
Friday, December 20, 2013 2:00 pm
With a Bates banner at the ready, the climbers hope to celebrate the new year atop the 22,800-foot peak.
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‘Intricate Glances’: Dance, anthropology meet here
Friday, December 6, 2013 2:36 pm
"What I was doing to create a dance stemmed from fieldwork that was anthropological and choreographic," says Colleen Fitzgerald '14, who choreographed "Intricate Glances Will Meet Here."
![Julieta Zylberberg stars in Diego Lerman's film "The Invisible Eye."](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2012/02/GL12-InvisibleEye_LowRes2-300x199.jpg)
‘Memories of Present Past’ film series fetes new Latin American studies program
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 2:01 pm
Celebrating the introduction of its Latin American studies program, Bates presents a festival of independent films set in Latin America Oct. 11-13.
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New Latin American studies program presents lecture by Harvard Divinity School professor
Thursday, September 12, 2013 1:49 pm
Davíd Carrasco, a Mexican American historian of religions, offers the inaugural lecture in Bates' Latin American studies program on Sept. 16
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Summer Student Work: Schriger ’14 examines dating violence among Chilean college students
Monday, August 19, 2013 12:00 pm
Schriger received grant funding through the Mellon Foundation to help her integrate her summer research into her academic work as a senior.
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Seven receive Fulbright awards to teach, conduct research abroad
Friday, June 1, 2012 3:02 pm
Seven 2012 Bates graduates have received Fulbright awards for teaching and conducting research in Europe, Asia and South America.
![Ana Carbatti plays Iara in Sérgio Bianchi's 2009 film "The Tenants."](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2012/02/GL12-Tenants-LoRes3-300x171.jpg)
The Global Lens series of international films returns Feb. 29
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:23 pm
The Global Lens series of international films returns this month starting with Brazilian director Sérgio Bianchi's The Tenants on Feb. 27.
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Barlow grant supports senior’s Christmas presence in Ecuador
Monday, December 12, 2011 7:04 pm
At 6 a.m. Dec. 10, just hours after her last class of the semester, Tiarra Abell '12 will begin her journey back to Ecuador, where she spent her junior semester.