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El papel de la cultura hispanohablante aumenta veloz en Estados Unidos. No solo númericamente, ya son la minoría mayoritaria, sino como influencia y presencia cultural real. “Y tienen pánico”. Esta es una de las conclusiones de la mesa redonda convocada por este diario en su especial EL PAÍS en el Hay Cartagena de Indias 2012, con la participación de cuatro autores nacidos y criados en Estados Unidos y/o muy vinculados a ese país: los escritores Francisco Goldman, Edmundo Paz Soldán y el historiador Morris Berman.

En este vídeo los cuatro invitados dan algunas de las claves de la transformación vivida tanto por la cultura hispana como por la manera como Estados Unidos ha asumido y está asumiendo ese protagonismo emergente. El afloramiento del racismo o la discriminación y las medidas contra los inmigrantes son la expresión del miedo a una situación real. “Los republicanos creen que están en el apocalipsis. Tienen pánico”, dicen los invitados.

El temor de Estados Unidos a la cultura hispanohablante >> Papeles Perdidos >> Blogs EL PAÍS.

 

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.

LOCAL CLARKSBURG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS VISIT SLLC’S SPANISH DEPARTMENT | College of Arts & Humanities.

Our colleague and friend, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world, on November 30, 2009. According to the jury, he is “an exceptional poet of daily life”, with the “ability to create his own world” and with “an ironic distance from reality” in his texts. Kudos/Congratulations José Emilio

The Miguel de Cervantes Prize, also known as Cervantes Prize, is a literary prize in Spanish awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture of Spain from the candidates proposed by the Language Academies of the Spanish-speaking countries. Established in 1976, this prize is the most important recognition in Spanish language to celebrate the overall body of work of an outstanding writer whose oeuvre is unique for the Spanish cultural heritage. Therefore, this prize is regarded as the Spanish language Nobel Prize in Literature.

The winner receives a monetary award of 125,000 euros (or $188,430 US dollars). The award is named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, the best novel written in Spanish literature.

Members of the jury

The president of the jury is José Antonio Pascual, member of the Spanish Royal Academy. The other members of the jury are Jaime Labastida, representative from the Mexican Language Academy; Luis García Montero, from the Spanish Universities’ Presidents Conference; María Agueda Méndez, from the Association of Latin American Universities; Soleda Puértoles, from the Cervantes Institute; Almudena Grande, from the Ministry of Culture; Pedro García Cuartango, from the Spanish Associated Press Federation; Ana Villareal, from the Latin American Associated Press Federation; David Gíes, from the International Hispanic Association; and Juan Gelman, winner of the prize in 2007. Rogelio Blanco, general Director of the Book, Archives and Libraries Office, and Mónica Fernández, general assistant of the Book Promotion, Reading and the Spanish Language, are the board secretaries.

List of Cervantes Prize Winners

1976 Jorge Guillén

1977 Alejo Carpentier

1978 Dámaso Alonso

1979 Jorge Luis Borges

Gerardo Diego

1980 Juan Carlos Onetti

1981 Octavio Paz

1982 Luis Rosales

1983 Rafael Alberti

1984 Ernesto Sábato

1985 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

1986 Antonio Buero Vallejo

1987 Carlos Fuentes

1988 Maria Zambrano

1989 Augusto Roa Bastos

1990 Adolfo Bioy Casares

1991 Francisco Ayala

1992 Dulce María Loynaz

1993 Miguel Delibes

1994 Mario Vargas Llosa

1995 Camilo José Cela

1996 José García Nieto

1997 Guillermo Cabrera Infante

1998 José Hierro

1999 Jorge Edwards

2000 Francisco Umbral

2001 Álvaro Mutis

2002 José Jiménez Lozano

2003 Gonzalo Rojas

2004 Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio

2005 Sergio Pitol

2006 Antonio Gamoneda

2007 Juan Gelman

2008 Juan Marsé

Premio Cervantes Prize To Emeritus Professor Jose Emilio Pacheco.

CALL  FOR  PAPERS — PLEASE CIRCULATE

We are pleased to announce the
9th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association
to be held at the
Hartford Marriott Downtown Hotel
Hartford, CT
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bdldt-hartford-marriott-downtown/

21 – 23 October 2010

Download the
MEMBERSHIP FORM, CALL FOR PAPERS and PROPOSAL FORMS
http://www.puertorican-studies.org/

Deadline for submission: 10 February 2010!

More information will be posted here as available
check back for details
http://www.puertorican-studies.org/

Smithsonian Latino Center – Fall Lecture & Conference Series

Production and Propaganda—Colonial Art from the Spanish Caribbean, Panama, and Peru

Saturday, September 26, 2009, 3pm – 4pm

Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum

8^th and G St. NW, Washington, DC

Admission is free and open to the public

During the 16^th, 17^th, and 18^th centuries, the art that was circulated, as well as produced locally, throughout the Spanish Caribbean, Panama, and Peru was overwhelmingly religious in content.  Religious imagery in the form of paintings or sculpted figures, in addition to other sacred objects, were highly in demand as objects of personal devotion, as well as tools for the conversion of indigenous peoples and the assertion of colonial identities.  Join the Smithsonian Latino Center and Smithsonian American Art Museum for a talk with Panamanian art historian Orlando Hernández Ying to explore the meaning and context of colonial art from the Spanish Caribbean, Panama, and Peru.  Admission is free, but please arrive early to ensure a good seat!  Auditorium doors will open 30 minutes before the show.

The Chinese Communities of Panama

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 6pm – 7:15pm

Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art

1100 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC

Admission is free and open to the public

Join the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program for an evening lecture and discussion exploring the legacy of Chinese immigration to the Americas.  Lok Siu, Anthropology Professor at the New York University, will present an engaging historical and cultural overview of Chinese migration to Panama that addresses themes like labor, racial exclusion, gender, and new cycles of migration to other parts of the Americas.  Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University will introduce the program and facilitate an audience dialogue after the presentation.  Admission is free, but please arrive early to ensure a good seat!  Auditorium doors will open 30 minutes before the program.

Latino Art in Transition—with Pepón Osorio and Miguel Luciano

Friday, October 9, 2009, 7pm – 8pm

Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian American Art Museum

8th St. and G St. NW, Washington, D.C.

Admission is free and open to the public

Hear about new movements in Latino art from two major Latino artists: Pepón Osorio (whose works reside in major museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum) and Miguel Luciano, an emerging artist who has exhibited in a number of national and international forums including the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris, the San Juan Triennial in Puerto Rico, and at the Smithsonian.  Virginia Mecklenburg, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will provide an introduction and moderate the discussion.

Interpreting 500 Years of Panamanian History

Friday, October 16, 2009, 4pm – 7pm (followed by a reception)

Historical Society of Washington, DC

801 K Street, NW at Mount Vernon Square, Washington, DC

Admission is free and open to the public

Discover 500 years of Panamanian history in a three-part lecture by some of the most dynamic scholars in the field: Alfredo Castillero Calvo (independent scholar), Aims McGuinness (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), and Julia Greene (University of Maryland, College Park).  Covering the colonial period, the 19^th, and 20^th centuries, this lecture will address topics like the economics of early globalization, imperialism, labor and ethnicity, and Panamanian sovereignty.  This program is being organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center and the History Department of the University of Maryland, College Park, with the support of the Historical Society of Washington, DC.

Tropical Archeology in Panama—Reconstructing the Indigenous Past

Sunday, November 8, 2009, 1pm – 2pm

Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History

Washington, DC

Admission is free and open to the public

Join Dr. Richard Cooke from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for a special program to connect lay and scholarly audience with the latest findings in the tropical archeology happening in Panama.  Dr. Cooke will present his work in concert with other cross-disciplinary studies used to reconstruct the history of the indigenous peoples (and their use of the environment) on the Isthmus of Panama.  This program is being organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the National Museum of Natural History.  Admission is free, but please arrive early to ensure a good seat!  Auditorium doors will open 30 minutes before the show.

Indigenous Mapping: Tools for Native Politics in Panama and the World

Friday, December 4, 2009, 4pm – 5pm

Conference Room 4018-19, National Museum of the American Indian

Fourth Street & Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC

Admission is free and open to the public

Join anthropologist and indigenous rights advocate Mac Chapin for an illustrated lecture discussing a mapping project carried out with the Kuna of Panama from 2001–2003.  This project was a collaborative effort among the Kuna General Congress, the National Geographic Institute in Panama, and the Center for the Support of Native Lands in Arlington, Virginia.  The maps that resulted from this project are being used by the Kuna to protect their territory, strengthen their culture and political organization, and for their school curriculum.  Similar methodology for mapping indigenous lands has been used in Central and South America, Africa, and New Guinea.  This program has been organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center and the National Museum of the American Indian.  Admission is free, but please arrive early to ensure a good seat!

The Puerto Rican literature and culture discussion group of the MLA 2009 Convention will consider proposals for its session on:

Puerto Rican Culture and (Post)Work: Symbolic and social value of (im)productivity in this transnational community: cultural activism; commodification of artistic labor; local/global socioeconomic dynamics.

Submit 1-page abstracts to guillermo.irizarry@uconn, by 1 March 2009.

“Puerto Rican Matinee pt. 2: Contemporary Films from the Island”
Sunday, December 7
12:00 p.m. —2:00 p.m. “Cayo” (2005) by Vicente Juarbe
3:00 p.m. —5:00 p.m. “Maldeamores” (2007) by Carlos Ruiz Ruiz and Mariem Pérez Riera
McEvoy Auditorium / Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
8th St. and G St. NW
Washington, D.C.

Set on the island of Culebra, “Cayo” is a touching love story about friendships lost and regained.  With stellar acting, “Maldeamores” is the award-winning film produced by Benicio del Toro.  A dark comedy about love and relationships, “Maldeamores” will be followed by a short discussion on filmmaking in Puerto Rico.  Tickets are available one hour before each show (or after 11:30 a.m.) and are subject to availability—be sure to arrive early for a good seat!

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“Puerto Rican Art Now – with Antonio Martorell”
Friday, December 12
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum
Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW
Washington, DC
Admission is free

The Smithsonian Latino Center presents one of Puerto Rico’s best known artists, Antonio Martorell, who will discuss the work of Puerto Rican artists since the 1980s and their presence in international museums, galleries on the island and in the global art market.

For more information about this and other upcoming programs, please visit http://latino.si.edu/newsevents/ – Look out for next week’s Ambulante at the Smithsonian: New Documentaries from Mexico.