Caribe abierto ( ) Ensayos críticos is a collection of critical essays published by the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature [Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana], edited by Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia.Description: In the words of the editor, this critical anthology “spoils the disciplinary sharpness or moral correctness of many well-pondered narratives barely dedicated to presenting an inventory of the identity particularities of the islands.” What guides the exploration of a possible Caribbean space here is not the “mainstream tendency” but rather unique, anomalous, and impossible subjectivities, as well as abject, unmotivated, and unbelievable actions. The works’ critical register spans from the health deliria of Dr. Ashley in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the counter-Dantesque orgies of José Lezama Lima.

 

The contributors are Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Ana Serra, Ivette Rodríguez-Santana, Horacio Legrás, Marilyn Grace Miller, Néstor E. Rodríguez, Francisco Morán, Eduardo González, Laura Maccioni, and Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia.

via New Book: Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia’s “Caribe abierto” | Repeating Islands.

Queer Baroque: Nestor Perlongher takes a stroll down the Parque Lezama | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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

 

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)

Please join us. These two writers are coming to Maryland and will talk on their current projects.
Please feel free to announce and pass around the information.

Looking forward to see you all,

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

El cielo por asalto: Reinaldo Arenas y la Revolución como literatura

Laura Maccioni, University of Maryland at College Park

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”

On Monday, February 22, at 12:00pm (St Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room), Professor Licia Fiol-Matta will give a lecture titled, “The Times of Your (Colonial) Life: Sound, Gender, and the Politics of Voice in Puerto Rico, 1935-1995.”

Licia Fiol-Matta (Ph.D. Yale University) is Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. She is the author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and of scholarly articles on gender, race, and sexuality. Her current research focuses on pop music and media; her second book, forthcoming from Duke University Press, is tentatively entitled The Politics of Voice: Gender and Music Culture in Puerto Rico. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of Social Text and co-editor of the series “New Directions in Latino American Cultures and New Concepts in Latino American Cultures” at Palgrave/Macmillan.