Lecture

Ludmer will be hosting two “conversatorios” in Spanish with the graduates of the Departament of Spanish and Portuguese on March 6, 2-3 pm, March 7, 11 am -1 pm at St. Mary’s Hall. These events are open to the public.

Noticias del diluvio

Eduardo Lalo

(Conferencia leída en el Departamento de Español y Portugués, UMD, 23 de septiembre de 2011.)

El acto de caminar es el movimiento inmemorial de la inquietud. Primero y durante miles de años pueblos nómadas, más tarde  peregrinos, naturalistas u hombres y mujeres de incierto oficio y pasado, recorrieron el espacio, impulsados por sus propios pies, dándole la espalda a la seguridad de muchas cosas, en busca de experiencias y conocimiento. En el camino había marcas (esa suerte de escritura anterior a la letra), que podían ser el rastro de animales u otros hombres, piedras en forma de montículos o levantadas como dólmenes o, también, las cenizas frías de los hogares en los que se encontraba ya la materia orgánica de la que saldría la tinta. La sucesión indefinida de pisadas del caminante antiguo anunciaba la línea vacilante de las posteriores palabras escritas en renglones; era ya, para el poseedor de los pies que se hundían en las huellas, una escritura del mundo en el mundo.

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A Lecture by
Dr. Marysa Navarro
Charles Collis Professor Emerita of History, Dartmouth College and
Resident Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies, Harvard University and
Dr. Ana Lau Jaiven
Research Professor, Department of Politics and Culture,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco

Monday, October 30, 2011
3:30 – 5:30 PM
FSK 2120
(Merrill Room)

Dr. Ricardo Padrón holds a PhD in Romance Languages from Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. He is interested in the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly in the various expressions of the Hispanic imperial imagination. His first book, The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature and Empire in Early Modern Spain, was published in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press. His current work focuses on Spanish interest in Pacific and Asia in the wake of the Encounter with the Americas in relation to the emergence of globalism during the early modern period. He has also published on the poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, Fernando de Herrera, and Luis de Góngora, as well as on the mapping of imaginary worlds throughout the modern period.

Students in Prof. Harrison’s seminar “Guaman Poma” are reading “Tracking Space,” a chapter from Ricardo Padrón’s The Spacious Word. For a PDF, send a request to reglee@umd.edu.

The U.S. Latina/o Studies Program, the American Studies Department, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to invite you to join us for Dr. Michelle Habell-Pallán’s talk titled: “‘American Sabor-U.S. Latinos Shaping Popular Music’: The Possibilities of Public/Digital Humanities Post-911?” on Monday, October 17, 5:30 – 7:00 pm at 1102 Francis Scott Key Hall (the Dean’s Conference Room). Dr. Habell-Pallán is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture and co-editor of Latino/a Popular Culture, both published by New York University Press. She is one of the guest curators of the exhibit “American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music” at the Smithsonian Institution and traveling across the United States.

We hope to see you at the talk. For more information, please see the attached flyer.