Daniel Mosquera’s documentary, “Sanpachando (San Pacho es pa'l que lo goce)” was selected to participate in the 24th Chicago Latino Film Festival and in the Caribbean International Film Festival in Barbados, both set for April. The documentary is being contracted with Artmattan Productions for distribution. Based in New York City, Artmattan Productions distributes films that focus on the human experience of black people in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and Europe. In addition, Mosquera’s English translation of the Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s XVII century religious play “El gran teatro del mundo (The Great Theater of the World)” has been published in the third volume of “Nahuatl Theater: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation,” edited by Barry D. Sell, Louise M. Burkhart and Elizabeth R. Wright (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). Mosquera is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies.
An article by Political Science Prof. Terry Weiner, “Touching the Third Rail: Explaining the Failure of Bush's Social Security Initiative,” was published in December in “Politics and Policy,” an official journal of the Policy Studies Organization. The article explores which models of agenda setting can help explain why President Bush was unable to get support for Social Security privatization. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Northeast Political Science Association meetings in Philadelphia. Weiner is the Chauncey H. Winters Professor of Comparative Social Analysis.