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February 17 at the Mexican Cultural Institute

The University of Maryland’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the School of Languages Literatures and Cultures, in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute, are proud to present A Tribute to José Emilio Pacheco. This tribute will honor the lauded Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco (2009 Cervantes Award Winner) a year after his death with discussion and readings. The event will feature special guest, Cristina Pacheco, prominent Mexican journalist and Pacheco’s wife. Also in attendance will be scholars Saúl Sosnowski and Hernán Sánchez Martínez de Pinillos. Join us at this celebration of José Emilio Pacheco’s extraordinary life and work.

El Departamento de Español y Portugués y la Escuela de Literatura y Culturas de la Universidad de Maryland, en colaboración con el Instituto Cultural de México, se enorgullecen en presentar Un homenaje a José Emilio Pacheco. Este diálogo y lectura de la obra de Pacheco honrará la memoria del galardonado escritor mexicano (Premio Cervantes 2009) a un año de su fallecimiento. En el evento participará como invitada especial Cristina Pacheco, destacada periodista mexicana y esposa del escritor, así como los acádemicos expertos en literatura hispana Saúl Sosnowski y Hernán Sánchez Martínez de Pinillos. ¡Acompáñenos en esta celebración a la vida y obra de José Emilio Pacheco!

More info: http://www.instituteofmexicodc.org/index.php#pacheco

This event will be held in Spanish

CONVOCATORIA Septiembre 27 a 29 de 2012  El documento como materialidad, el manuscrito, el monumento, la imagen, el hipertexto, el cuerpo, el tejido, el mapa, son el objeto tangible y la unidad mínima de los archivos históricos, literarios, científicos y culturales de una familia, una nación o una colectividad, física o virtual. El papel, la piedra, la cerámica, la voz, el archivo digital, soportes concretos y virtuales registran una amplia gama de materialidades y sonoridades en torno a las cuales se organizan las historias. El documento puede ser abordado desde distintos frentes y en innumerables formas para ser interpretado dentro de las colecciones que construyen los diversos sentidos de la cultura, en relación con el pasado, pero también como lectura del presente y medio para imaginar el futuro.  La Universidad San Francisco de Quito convoca a la conferencia académica interdisciplinaria En torno al documento, por llevarse a cabo del 27 al 29 de septiembre de 2012 en el campus de la universidad (Cumbayá, Vía Interoceánica, afueras de la ciudad de Quito).  Buscamos promover una reflexión desde las artes, la antropología, la historia del arte, la historia, el cine, la literatura, la filosofía, el psicoanálisis y la ciencia en relación con las humanidades. Aceptamos propuestas para paneles y ponencias individuales. Cada panel debe estar compuesto por un mínimo de tres personas. Se sugiere que los paneles estén integrados por miembros de más de una institución, país o disciplina. Las ponencias deben tener una duración máxima de 20 minutos y no pueden haber sido publicadas con anterioridad. Se receptarán también ponencias individuales que, de ser aceptadas, serán asignadas a paneles ya conformados. Las ponencias pueden ser presentadas en español, inglés o portugués.   Los interesados deberán enviar una propuesta de panel o ponencia individual a: entornoaldocumento@usfq.edu.ec  El plazo de entrega de las propuestas es el 30 de abril de 2012. Las aplicaciones deben indicar el área temática a la que pertenecen, así como los nombres de cada uno de los proponentes y su afiliación académica. El encuentro tiene como objetivo la publicación de una selección de los trabajos presentados. >> Descargar convocatoria en formato PDF Enlace: http://www.usfq.edu.ec/Eventos/entorno/Paginas/espanol.aspx  Invitadas Asunción Lavrín, Arizona State University Carmen Benito-Vessels,  University of Maryland Carmen Anhalzer. Ecuador, USFQ Gabriela Alemán. Ecuador, USFQ

Tomando distancia: la literatura como exilio, Enrique del RiscoTomando distancia: la literatura como exilioPor Enrique Del RiscoLuego de haberle dicho a Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia cual iba a ser el tema de mi conferencia casi me arrepentí de inmediato. Evidentemente había escogido un mal tema, y un mal tema es aquel que apenas invita a la discusión, como este, que casi se demuestra por sí mismo desde el título. Y no solo por la larga tradición de exilios que incluye a casi toda la literatura judía, que no es poco, y va de Ovidio a Dante, de Joseph Conrad a Kundera y entre los que pueden encontrarse en el siglo pasado nombres tan ilustres como los de Thomas Mann, Hermann Broch, Witold Gombrowic, Solzhenitsyn, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, Cezlaw Milosz, Nabokov, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Mario Vargas Llosa y Julio Cortázar. Esta condición que veo como metáfora útil del hecho literario es definida por la Real Academia con una simpleza escalofriante: “Abandono de alguien de su patria, generalmente por motivos políticos”. Prefiero la definición más abarcadora e imprecisa de wikipedia que lo resume como “el estado de encontrarse lejos del lugar natural”. Y la prefiero a la de la academia que limpia, fija y da esplendor porque incluye un momento anterior a la política y las patrias.

(Lea la conferencia completa en: Boca del cangrejo: manglaria: Tomando distancia: la literatura como exilio, Enrique del Risco.)

The Latin American Studies Center is proud to announce our Visiting Scholars for the spring 2012 semester.

Dr. Carlos Pabón of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, specializes in questions of repression and historical memory.
Dr. Juan Castillo Cocom of the Universidad Intercultural Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico, specializes in questions of ethnicity and indigenous peoples.

LASC Visiting Scholars will be in residence for between 10 days and two weeks. They will lecture publically and run intensive workshops for graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates may also attend. UMD students may receive credit for attending.
Mark your calendars.

Carlos Pabón
Lecture: “Can the Story Be Told? History, Memory, and Fiction in the Representation of Extreme Violence” Wednesday, February 22nd 5:00pm – 7:00pm, location TBA)
In his lecture, Professor Pabón will discuss the challenges posed by the relationship between History, Memory and Fiction in the Representation of the Holocaust, the Spanish Civil War, the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile and the military dictatorship in Argentina.

Workshop: “History and Memory of Recent Traumatic Pasts (Chile, Argentina, and Spain)” (Friday, February 24th 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Saturday, February 25th 9:30 am – 3:30 pm with working lunch)
Professor Pabón’s workshop will focus on the problem of the “subjective turn” in historiography, particularly in the field of the “recent history” of traumatic pasts, focusing on the cases of Chile, Argentina, and Spain. This turn has been expressed in the centrality that the figure of the witness or the victim, testimony and memory have received, after decades of invisibility or marginalization on the part of historical discourse.

Juan Castillo Cocom is the author of various articles on identity and specifically has written on Maya identity politics. He has taught at Florida International University, the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, CINVESTAV, and the Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. In 2003, he was the Yucatán academic seminar leader for the Fulbright Hays Summer Seminar on Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Issues in México and Costa Rica. Since the summer of 2007, he has been the chair of the teaching faculty of the Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo.

Lecture: “Ethnoexodus: Strategic forgetfulnesses and flashbacks” (Wednesday, April 4th 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, location TBA)
Professor Castillo Cocom will discuss the production of knowledge on “the Maya” through different channels, such as popular media, tourism industry and academic discourse. His presentation provides a critique on anthropological knowledge and discourses as these infiltrate the social imagination. It investigates the “Maya” individual’s constant production of, dislocation from, and re-location in temporary points of identity as practical strategies of “ethnoexodus.” The concept of ethnoexodus is a critique of the idea ethnogenesis as a way of understanding “Maya” identity, and identity formation in general, and how it relates to production of ethnos. Ethnoexodus, as a conceptual tool, focuses on how an individual/social actor can “exit” a temporal “point” of identity suture without having necessarily ever been “in” that particular construction of identity.

Workshop: “Ethnoexodus: Maya Yucatec Topographic Ruptures” (Friday, April 6th 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Saturday, April 7th 9:30 am – 3:30 pm with a working lunch)
The primary goal of Professor Cocom’s workshop is to think through the conceptual framework that gives rise to ethnoexodus. This will be accomplished by way of considering, in the first part of the course, the case study of Maya Topographic Ruptures. The goal will be to explore how and why the identity politics of being Indian/Indígena and Maya in Yucatan differ from the politics of Indigeneity in Chiapas, and other parts of México, Guatemala and the Americas.

Students interested in receiving course credit should contact Dr. Karin Rosemblatt at karosemb@umd.edu. Students who attend the lecture and workshop and submit a short final paper may receive one credit.

Annual Meeting: Call for Proposals

“Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future,” November 15-18, 2012: Puerto Rico Convention Center (All Events) and the Caribe Hilton San Juan, Puerto Rico

The 2012 ASA Program Committee invites current individual members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) to submit proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, roundtables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats described below on any topic dealing with American cultures.

All proposal submitters must be current ASA members (or an affiliated international American studies association) at the time of submission. Each panel submission should also include a second current ASA member (in addition the panel organizer) at the time of submission.

Please note that if you had a user account for the 2011 submission site you will need to create a new account for the 2012 submission site.

• Register here after December 1, 2011 to submit a proposal through the ASA’s 2012 submission site.

All panelists, including chairs and commentators, must be current individual members of the ASA (or an affiliated international American studies association) in order to participate. All participants must buy *both* a membership and a registration in order to be properly registered for the conference. There is no log in required.

• Register here to begin or renew an ASA membership and for the annual meeting.

Membership includes subscriptions to American Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online, and the ASA Newsletter (quarterly publication). Membership also includes discounts on conference registration and hotel.

The submission site will open on December 1, 2011. Follow the submission instructions precisely and start the application process early. Emailed, faxed, scanned, or posted proposals will NOT be accepted. It is not possible to extend the submission deadline or accept late submissions for any reason. The submission site will automatically shut down at 11:59 PM (Pacific) on January 26, 2012.

Meeting Theme

Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future

The Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The site of the 2012 conference calls on us to continue thinking deeply about the conceptual and methodological demands of a truly transnational American Studies. From Christopher Columbus’s second voyage in the late fifteenth century to the irony of an African American president’s state visit to Puerto Rico in the early twenty-first, the long history of this island and its peoples evokes many crucial themes regarding the transnational traffics generated by imperialism and anti-imperialism: indigeneity, conquest, and resistance; the administrative and juridical structures of empire; slavery and emancipation; migrations and diasporas; the mutually constitutive relationship between gender and sexuality on the one hand and imperial practice, subjugation, resistance, or citizenship on the other; the politics of inclusion and exclusion; militarism; local, national, and transnational feminisms; the footprints of corporate capitalism, from extraction to tourism; globalization and neoliberalism; the circuits of slavery and escape, political exile, and cultural production that link Puerto Rico with the larger Caribbean and the Americas; the travel and syncretism of circum-Atlantic arts and musics; the aesthetic traditions of a transnational imaginary; drug traffic; environmental degradation; appalling inequities and the endurance of genius and spirit. Equally important for a transnational American Studies is Puerto Rico’s unique relationship to the United States. From the perverse imperial logic of the Insular Cases, whereby the Supreme Court could define Puerto Rico as “foreign in a domestic sense” — that is, somehow “in” the United States but not “of” it — to Sonia Sotomayor’s ascendance to that very bench (amid dissenting characterizations of her as perhaps more “foreign” than “domestic”) a century later, the history of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans sheds a very particular light on the ongoing contradictions of the United States: the limits of U.S. citizenship, the displacements stimulated by neoliberal capitalism, the culture and politics of migration and diaspora. Finally, the simultaneously local and transnational specificities of Puerto Rican history and culture — from the Taino revival movement to the Young Lords and the Nuyorican Poets Café, from bomba and plena to Salsa and Reggaeton, from the island’s rich journalistic tradition to the alternative political movements of squatters, students, and anti-military activists — remind us that a transnational American studies must also be a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into how the material and symbolic are imbricated, how “culture” encompasses the imaginary and the everyday, how big political events and ideologies, are lived in intensely translocal ways.

via Submitting a Proposal | American Studies Association.

Several decades ago, Édouard Glissant wrote in Le Discours antillais of the “undeniable” reality of a common Caribbean culture that had emerged from the shared history of the plantation, island living, creolization, and social systems. For Glissant, however, this reality remained “virtual”: although it was “inscribed in facts,” it was also “endangered” as it was not “inscribed in consciences.”Glissant was not the first to at once posit the potentiality and question the viability of a common transcolonial Caribbean culture, nor was he the last. For despite the oft-expressed aim of transcending the local, Caribbean studies remains largely balkanized, its limits and contours often determined by national borders. Perhaps the single most important element in this balkanization of Caribbean studies is language. To Glissant, the European idioms spoken in the Caribbean were inevitably “languages of compromise,” each a lingua franca that only reinforced colonial boundaries and worked against the full realization of common Caribbeanness. Consequently, the practice of translation takes on a special significance in the Caribbean. The word’s Latin etymology—“to carry across” or “to bring across”—reminds us of the traveling function of translation, that it acts as an admittedly privileged intermediary between languages and cultures.Small Axe shares this function: as a pan-Caribbean enterprise, we are increasingly attentive to the importance of expanding beyond the Anglo-Creole Caribbean. Since 2005, we have published three issues devoted exclusively to the French-speaking Caribbean, and it is our intention now to initiate a fuller integration of sustained critical reflections on the literary, political, historical, and visual cultures of the wide range of linguistic communities in the region. Our project, “Translating the Caribbean” aims to further the goal of pan-Caribbean linguistic and critical integration in a series of activities over the next three years. The first of these is a special issue of the journal, themed around the question of translation within the context of a changing Caribbean modernity—or perhaps, rather, a changing awareness of what modernity means in the Caribbean. Foregrounding at once the historical and the contemporary geo-political concerns embedded in issues of translation, we aim to look at the points of tension between elite opportunities for translation—understood as extra-insular/regional circulation on very literal and very literary levels—and the class and language bounded-ness of non-elite Caribbean citizens.We invite contributors working in any of the languages of the Caribbean to participate in a generative conversation surrounding translation and the real and imagined multiculturalism of the Americas in papers that might address among other topics: languages in/and/of exile – class, travel, and writing from the Caribbean francophonie in/and Haiti multilinguality, scholarship, and pedagogy in Caribbean Studies the viability and legitimacy of a designated lingua franca in the Caribbean the relevance of translation to issues of illiteracy the place of Creoles in scholarship of the Caribbean translation and the literary history of the Caribbean translation in Caribbean cultural theory translation and the history of Caribbean journals the limitations of translation: what is untranslatable in the transcolonial Caribbean?Abstracts of 250-300 words and short bios should be sent tosubmissions@smallaxe.net by 15 December 2011. Accepted abstracts will be confirmed by 15 January 2012. Final papers of no more than 6000 words must be submitted 31 May 2012.

via Call for Papers: Translating the Caribbean in small axe « Repeating Islands.

Estimados colegas:
Se prorroga la fecha límite para inscripción y envío de resúmenes hasta el miércoles 7 de setiembre. Esa será la última fecha de aceptación.
Agradecemos la excelente acogida que ha tenido nuestra convocatoria.
Los esperamos en noviembre.

Secretaria IV Congreso Celehis de Literatura
Prof. Fernandez M. Eugenia

FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS
CENTRO DE LETRAS HISPANOAMERICANAS (CELEHIS)
IV CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL
CELEHIS DE LITERATURA
(Literatura española, latinoamericana y argentina)
Mar del Plata, 7, 8 y 9 de noviembre de 2011
Consulte nuestra página web:
http://www.mdp.edu.ar/humanidades/letras/celehis/congreso/2011/index.htm
Fecha límite: 31 de agosto
SEXTA CIRCULAR

Presidente: Dra. Aymará de Llano
Comité Académico: Dra. Elisa Calabrese, Dra. Mónica Marinone, Dra. María Coira, Dra. Laura Scarano, Dra. Gabriela Tineo, Dra. Mónica Scarano, Dra. Mónica Bueno, Dra. Adriana Bocchino, Prof. Marta Villarino, Mg. Graciela Barbería
Comité Ejecutivo: Dra. Marcela Romano, Dra. Marta Ferrari, Dra. Ana María Porrúa, Dra. Mariela Blanco, Dr. Fabián Iriarte, Dra. Cristina Fernández
Tesorera: Dra. Mónica Marinone
Secretaria: Prof. Ma. Eugenia Fernández
Colaboradores: Francisco Aiello, Milena Bracciale, Víctor Conenna, Julián Fiscina, Verónica Leuci, Hernán Morales, Mayra Ortiz Rodríguez, Ma. Pía Pasetti, Martín Pérez Calarco, Marinela Pionetti, Sabrina Riva, Julio Juan Ruiz.

Nos han confirmados su asistencia los siguientes colegas y escritores:
Invitados internacionales:
William Rowe (Inglaterra), Víctor Bravo (Venezuela), Gonzalo Espino y Dorian Espezúa (Perú), Paco Tovar, Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Luis García Montero (España), Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia (Puerto Rico)
Invitados nacionales:
Noé Jitrik, Carlos Altamirano, Susana Zanetti, María Teresa Gramuglio, Melchora Romanos, María del Carmen Porrúa, Celina Manzoni, Carmen Perilli, Mario Goloboff
Escritores invitados:
Carlos Marzal (España), Pablo Montoya (Colombia). De Argentina: Fabián Casas, Juan José Becerra, Felix Bruzzone, Hebe Uhart, Juana Bignozzi, Gustavo Fontán (director de cine y escritor)

1. ÁREAS CULTURALES: Se recibirán trabajos críticos sobre las tres grandes áreas geoculturales de las literaturas hispánicas, en sus diferentes géneros: literatura española, latinoamericana y argentina.
2. PARTICIPANTES: Podrán participar docentes, graduados y alumnos en calidad de:
Expositores o asistentes (no presentan trabajos)
Los trabajos presentados por los estudiantes deben contar con el aval de un profesor de la especialidad de la Universidad de origen. El aval puede enviarse por mail a la dirección del Congreso indicando el nombre del trabajo y del autor avalado.
3. INSCRIPCIÓN AL CONGRESO: El pago de acuerdo con los aranceles y plazos abajo consignados se hará por correo, mediante giro postal a nombre de: MÓNICA EMILCE MARINONE (San Luis 3929, 7600 Mar del Plata), haciendo mención del destino: IV CONGRESO CELEHIS DE LITERATURA.

LUGAR del CONGRESO: Hotel 13 de Julio, calle 9 de julio 2777. Teléfono: 54 223 4994400.
Los expositores deberán enviar, por correo electrónico exclusivamente, la FICHA DE INSCRIPCIÓN PERSONAL y el RESUMEN del trabajo, antes del 31 de agosto como plazo final, a la dirección electrónica del congreso: celehis2011@gmail.com dirigiéndose a la secretaria del congreso, Prof. María Eugenia Fernández.

ARANCELES
Hasta el 31 de agosto:
Expositores nacionales: $ 200
Expositores del exterior (excepto latinoamericanos): U$S 200
Expositores latinoamericanos: U$S 125
Después del 31 de agosto y durante el Congreso
Expositores nacionales: $ 250
Expositores del exterior (excepto latinoamericanos): U$S 250
Expositores latinoamericanos: U$S 150
Asistentes nacionales: $ 100
Asistentes del exterior: U$S 100

6. RECEPCIÓN DE RESÚMENES: los resúmenes se recibirán hasta el 31 de agosto de 2011 por correo electrónico exclusivamente. El resumen será de no más de 200 palabras, a doble espacio, encabezado por el título seguido del nombre y apellido del autor y lugar de trabajo.
Enviar a celehis2011@gmail.com

7. NORMAS DE ESTILO PARA PONENCIAS: Los trabajos deberán adaptarse a las siguientes normas sin excepciones para participar del CD rom en el que se editarán las Actas, se entregarán en Cd y en papel al coordinador de la mesa después de haber sido leídos.
Extensión: 8 páginas como mínimo y 10 páginas como máximo (incluyendo notas y bibliografía), A 4, Times New Roman 12, interlineado doble, márgenes convencionales (superior e inferior: 2,5 cm.; izquierdo y derecho: 3 cm.)
Titulo y subtítulo: Times New Roman 12, en negrita, sin cursiva
Nombre del autor: Times New Roman 12 (sin cursiva y sin negrita), debajo del título, a la derecha, citando pertenencia institucional y sin especificación de título profesional. Quienes sean miembros del Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas deben añadir a la institución de pertenencia la sigla “CELEHIS”.
En caso de no haber entregado la ponencia luego de haber sido leída, enviarlas por e-mail dirigido a la Secretaría del Congreso, Prof. María Eugenia Fernández, en archivo adjunto (procesador Word) guardados con apellido y nombre; indicar en el Asunto “Envío de ponencia”.

8. En la próxima circular se enviarán datos sobre los hoteles, alojamientos y hostels.
9. Se puede consultar nuestra página web en:
http://www.mdp.edu.ar/humanidades/letras/celehis/congreso/2011/index.htm
En la página del Congreso encontrarán el listado de hoteles y hostels. En el momento de la reserva de alojamiento deberán indicar que participarán en el IV Congreso para gozar de las tarifas promocionales
IMPORTANTE: En el envío de ficha de inscripción personal, indicar apellido y nombre en el asunto y enviarla por documento adjunto.
Las formas de pago son únicamente las indicadas arriba.

En adelante, toda información será indicada en el sitio del IV Congreso.
10. FICHA DE INSCRIPCIÓN PERSONAL
FICHA DE INSCRIPCIÓN PERSONAL
Apellido y nombres: …………………………………………………..
DNI / CI / LC…………………………………………………..
Dirección: …………………………………………………………………
Teléfono: ………………………………………………………………….
Dirección electrónica: …………………………………………………
Categoría en que participa: □ Expositor
□ Asistente
Datos laborales (cargo, institución):……………..:…………….
……………………………………………………………………………….
Dirección:…………………………………………………………………
Título de la ponencia:………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………………………………
Área cultural:…………………………………………………………….
Palabras clave (no más de cinco)…………………………. …………………………………………………………………
*ANEXAR RESUMEN (MÁXIMO 200 PALABRAS)

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

On Monday, April 19, at 12:00pm (Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall), Ana María Shua will give a lecture titled, “With all I am: Woman, Jew, Latin American, Writer…”

Ana María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of over forty books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, poetry, children’s fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays. Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Icelandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967. She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos (The Book of Memories, 1994). Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita’s Loves, 1984), which was made into a movie,  La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997), and  El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007).  Her four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante in 2009.

Please, find attached the event poster. This event is sponsored by SLLC, SPAP, The Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, and The Women Studies Department. The presentation will be in English.