Queer Baroque: Nestor Perlongher takes a stroll down the Parque Lezama
Rubén Ríos Ávila
The distinguished Professor Ruben Rios Avilia will present his study of the exploration of the intersection of baroque poetry and queer theory through the comparison of the poetics of Cuban neo-baroque poet José Lezama Lima and Argentinian queer activist and neo-baroque poet Nestor Perlongher. The analogy will be explored from the stand-point of Góngora’s poetics and Deleuze’s philosophy of the fold.
He will also be meeting with Graduate Students for further discussion on Friday, November 16th at 3:30 PM in the Sala Pacheco, 2215 JMZ
Josefina Ludmer at UMD, March 5-7, 2012
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.
University of Maryland, Latin American Studies Center. Visiting Scholars Spring 2012
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.
VI Annual Graduate Student Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean Imagining Culture, Past and Present
VI Annual Graduate Student Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean
Imagining Culture, Past and Present
Thursday November 3 and Friday November 4
McKeldin Library
Special Events Room (6137)
Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Center
Featuring a Keynote Address by
Olivia Cadaval of the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Recent scholarship on Latin America has provided fresh takes on culture. Questioning monolithic views of the concept, scholars are asking how people imagine themselves simultaneously in relation to local, national, transnational, and global worlds. They are also rethinking forms of analysis that separate culture from economics and politics. They are looking, for instance, at the role of culture in economic and political practices and institutions; at consumption as a site where economics and culture intersect; at the role of political and economic practices in shaping creativity and the arts. Other scholars are rethinking culture itself as an analytical concept and its relation to categories such as gender, race, class, and ethnicity. This conference seeks to further interdisciplinary conversation on the theme of culture, from the pre-colonial period to the present day.
Conference Schedule
9:00-9:15
Karin Rosemblatt, Professor of History and LASC Director
Welcome Address
9:30-11:00
Creating Knowledge, Transforming Culture
Comment: Professor Judith Freidenberg, Dept. of Anthropology
Sarah Walsh, UMCP, “El Culto de la Verdad: The Relationship between Catholicism and Science in Early 20th Century Chile”
Rodrigo Magalhães, FIOCRUZ– Brazil, UMCP, “For a Hemisphere United and Free of Disease:
International Cooperation in Health in the Pages of the Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana
Margarita Farjardo, Princeton, “ECLA is not all about Structuralism: The Political Economy of Economic
Knowledge in Latin America”
11:15-12:45
Popular Culture in the Transnational Imagination
Comment: Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, Prof. and Chair, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
María José Navia, Georgetown University, “Ramificaciones de una identidad pop-moderna en The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Conciliating Tradition and Modernity: Elis Regina Group and the Transformations of Samba”
Adam Fenner , American University, “Paradise Wasted: US Perceptions of Honduras Before 1933”
Reyna Esquivel-King , NYU, “Día de los Muertos: Race and Gender in From Dusk Till Dawn”
2:00-3:30
Remembering the Past, Shaping the Present: Research on Cultural Memory
Comment: Eyda Merediz, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Enrique Rivera, UMCP, “Silencing through Official Memory: UNESCO and the 1795 Coro Rebellion”
Yuridia Ramirez, Duke University, “Disguised Dissent?: The Memorialization of El Pípila in Postrevolutionary Guanajuato”
Robert Nathan, UNC Chapel Hill, “Yes, We Make Patriots”: Education, Memory, and Narratives of Nation in the Early Cuban Republic
Keynote Address 4:00pm
Olivia Cadaval, Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
“Encountering Imagined Culture”
Friday, Nov. 4
9:30-11:00
Looking at Visual Culture
Comment: Abigail McEwen, Professor of Art History
Corinna Zeltsman, Duke University, “Reprinted Revolution: The Prints of José Guadalupe Posada and the Creation of a Revolutionary Mexican Aesthetic, 1925-1930”
Daniel Richter, UMCP, “I Am a Photographer: Horacio Coppola and the Politics of Transnational Modernity in the 1930s and 2000s”
Marcio Siwi, New York University “U.S. – Brazil Cold War Relations and the Making of Modern Art Museums in São Paulo”
Linette Manrique, “Un Juan cualquiera: The Discourse of Mestizaje in a Mexican Telenovela (Corazón Salvaje)
11:15-12:45
Cultural Struggles and the Everyday
Comment: Talía Guzmán-González, Professor of Portuguese
Reid Gustafson, UMCP,“Pulque, Pederasts, and Paper Boys: Masculinity and the Culture of Working-Class Youths in Mexico City, 1917-1929”
Paola Reyes, Duke University, “Strategies of Resistance: Indigenous Opposition to Federal Rural Schools in Chiapas, 1934-1940”
Julia Eichstedt, Johns Hopkins University, “Lispector and Eltit: the Paradox of Self-Writing in the Hour of the Star and Mano de obra”
2-3:30
Spaces for Negotiating Culture
Comment: Daryle Williams, Professor of History
Heidi Krajewski , Tulane University, “Transnational Interactions in the U.S.-Nicaragua Solidarity Movement:A Case Study of the Nuevo Instituto de Centroamerica”
Raelene Wyse, NYU, “Making Spaces for Jewishness with Argentine and Chilean Cinema”
Julia Tomasini Maciel, UMCP, “Literatura y traducción en Internet: Proyecto web Brasil. Papeles sueltos.”
Closing Remarks: 3:30-3:45
The Founding of the Inter-American Commission of Women: Havana, February 1928
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)
Latin American Studies Center-Open House on October 26
The Latin American Studies Center will be holding its annual Open House on October 26, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. We encourage all those interested in the Latin American Studies Undergraduate Certificate to come and reconnect with new and old certificate students. We want students on campus to learn about LASC, the Certificate Program, opportunities for internships, language study and study abroad. As always LASC will have delicious food and refreshments. Please, spread the word about the Open House and the LASC Undergraduate Certificate Program. The flyer is attached below. If you would like printed flyers please let us know.
We would also like to remind LASC students to set an appointment with our associate director and undergraduate advisor Ivette Rodriguez Santana to discuss their progress on the Certificate in Latin American Studies. If students plan to graduate this fall and have not spoken with Dr. Rodriguez Santana yet, it is important that they contact her ASAP. Dr. Rodriguez Santana’s email is rivette@umd.edu .
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
The Latin American Studies Center 20th Anniversary Conference. Reconfiguring Latin America: Conversations for the 21st Century.
The Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland cordially invites you to our 20th Anniversary Conference, “Reconfiguring Latin America: Conversations for the 21st Century”
Whose National Anthem?
“Whose National Anthem? Clotilde Arias translation of Star Spangled Banner” by Marvette Pérez
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Location: 2120 Francis Scott Key
