The Aesthetic of Revolt: Latin America in the 1960s
The Aesthetic of Revolt: Latin America in the 1960s
The Latin American Studies Center/Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Maryland, College Park
Thursday, April 14 – Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14
Panels to be held in the Maryland Room, 0100 – Marie Mount Hall
8:45-10:45 a.m.
Rupture and Return in Thought, Politics, and Art
“A Landscape for Passion: Notes on Poetics and Politics in 1960s Cuba”, Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UMCP
“Rupture and Return in Mexican Anthropology: Modernization Theory, Dependency Paradigms, and the “Colonial,” 1945-1970”, Karin Rosemblatt, Director, Latin American Studies Center and Associate Professor, Department of History, UMCP
“Innovation in Brazilian and Argentine Film”, Paula Halperin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY Purchase
“Desbunde Revisited: Counterculture and Authoritarian Modernization in Brazil, 1968-1973”,Christopher Dunn, Associate Professor, Department of Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, Tulane University
Chair: Sergio Waisman, Associate Professor of Spanish and International Affairs and Chair, Department of Romance, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, George Washington University
10:45 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Vanguards and El Pueblo
“Cultural Vanguards, Popular Culture, and National Politics: Argentina 1968”, Mariano Mestman, Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
“Paulo Freire: “The People” or “The Oppressed”, Andrew J. Kirkendall, Associate Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University
“Seremos como el Che”: The New Man’s Legacy in Cuba”, Ana Serra, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, American University
“Vanguard and Gender in Left-Wing Movements in the Southern Cone in the 1960s”, Cristina Wolff, Associate Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Chair: Daryle Williams, Associate Professor, Department of History, UMCP
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Protests of 1968 and 1969
“Sex, Students, and the State—A Transnational Perspective”, Deborah Cohen, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri , St. Louis and Lessie Jo Frazier, Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Elena Garro and Octavio Paz in Mexico – 1968”, Sandra Cypess, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UMCP
“The Argentine “Cordobazo”: Retelling the Event from the Province”, Laura Demaría, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UMCP
“The Walls of 1968 and a Humored Feminism”, Joana Maria Pedro, Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Chair: Jocelyn Olcott, Associate Professor, Department of History, Duke University
Friday, April 15
Panels to be held in the Maryland Room 0100 – Marie Mount Hall
8:45-10:45 a.m.
Sights and Sounds of Rebellion
“8 Millimeters vs. 8 Million”: Super-8 Cinema in Mexico in the 1970s”, Jennifer Boles, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Revolutionary Theater and the Gray Years in Cuba”, Laurie Frederik Meer, Assistant Professor, School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UMCP
“The Rise and Fall of “La Onda Chicana”: Mexico´s First Original Rock Movement”, Federico Rubli Kaiser, Independent Rock Historian, Writer, and Critic, Mexico, DF
“An Unpleasant Lucidity: Cuban Films from the 1960s and Video Works by Juan C. Alom, Manuel Piña, and Felipe Dulzaides”, Antonio Eligio Fernández “Tonel,” Belkin Arts Gallery and Walter C. Koemer Library, University of British Colombia
Chair: Eyda Merediz, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UMCP
10:45 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Bodies in Motion
“Red Hair: Melenudos, Masculinity, and Revolutionary Ideology on the Chilean Road to Socialism”, Patrick Barr-Melej, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Ohio University
“Finding the Huicholes, Finding Utopia: Hippies, Peyote, and Mexican Countercultures”, Alexander S. Dawson, Associate Professor, Department of History and Director, Latin American Studies, Simon Fraser University
“Poner el cuerpo”: Gender, Sex, and Youth Revolutionary Politics in Argentina, 1969-1976″, Valeria Manzano, ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago
Chair: Adriana Brodsky, Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Voices on the Margin Breaking Through
“Y va brotando, brotando”: Violeta Parra and the Nueva Canción Movement in Chile”, Ericka Verba, Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University, Dominguez Hills
From the Margins: Breaking Plastic Hegemonies in Mexico”, Mary Kay Vaughan, Professor, Department of History, UMCP
“Así es La Vida/That’s Life in Abjection: On Oscar Lewis’s A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty, San Juan and New York”, Ivette Rodríguez-Santana, Associate Director, Latin American Studies Center, UMCP
“The Indigenous Speak: Bilingual, Bicultural Teachers in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca”, Shane Dillingham, PhD Candidate, Department of History, UMCP
Chair: Eileen Findlay, Associate Professor, Department of History, American University
4:30-5:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UMCP
Nuestros graduados: Laura Maccioni sobre Reinaldo Arenas
El cielo por asalto: Reinaldo Arenas y la Revolución como literatura
Laura Maccioni, University of Maryland at College Park
Disfrute de su verano/Enjoy this Summer 2011
Come join us this Summer 2011 at UMD. Let’s do it in Spanish
This Summer, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers an amazing variety of courses during the several term sessions available at the University of Maryland, College Park. There is everything for everyone.
Les esperamos.
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