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

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”

Tomorrow, Thursday, March 3, 2010 Pía Barros will talk on “Globalization and Changes in Cultural Consumption” at 3:30pm (Multipurpose Room, St Mary’s Hall).

Pía Barros es una de las escritoras de más renombre en Chile. Desde 1976, Barros dirige los talleres Ergo Sum y la Editorial Asterión. Ha publicado una treintena de libros-objeto, con cuentos ilustrados por distinguidos artistas gráficos. Por sus talleres literarios, que destacan entre los de mayor prestigio en el ámbito, han pasado una infinidad de alumnos incluyendo a los célebres escritores Pedro Lemebel y Alejandra Costamagna. Entre sus publicaciones se cuentan: Miedos transitorios (Ediciones Ergo Sum, 1985, traducido al inglés en 1996); A horcajadas (Mosquito Editores, 1990); Astride (Edición bilingüe, 1992); El tono menor del deseo (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1990); Signos bajo la piel (Editorial Grijalbo, 1994); Ropa usada (Ediciones Asterión, 2000); Lo que ya nos encontró, primera novela chilena en formato digital editada por Chilelibro.com (2000); Los que sobran, cuentos (Ediciones Asterión, 2002). Sus cuentos han aparecido en más de treinta antologías, en Latinoamérica, Estados Unidos, Europa y Australia.

On Friday, February 26, at 12:00pm (St Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room), Professor Adela Pineda will give a lecture titled : “The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of Hollywood: The Case of ‘Viva Villa’ (1934).”

Adela Pineda Franco (Ph.D., University of Texas) is a faculty member in the Latin American Studies Program at Boston University. She is the author of Geopolíticas de la cultura finisecular en Buenos Aires, Paris y México: las revistas literarias y el modernismo (ILLI, 2006) and co-editor of Hacia el país del mezcal (Aldus Editorial, 2002) and Alfonso Reyes y los estudios latinoamericanos (University of Pittsburgh, 2004). She was awarded a grant by the US-Mexico Fund for Culture and the Rockefeller Foundation, and was a member of the SNI (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) in Mexico (1999-2001). She is currently at work on a book project on Mexico City, its lettered culture, and the Mexican Revolution.

“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

Aquí les dejamos unas cuantas imágenes de nuestra recepción. Se puede escuchar la voz de Celia Cruz entre las conversaciones.

Mount Rainier, Maryland—Bodies of Marvel, Monsters and Women, opens on September 4 – September 28, 2008 at the H&F Fine Arts Gallery located at 3311 Rhode Island Avenue, Mount Rainier, MD.  An opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 6, from 5-8pm.

Curated by Marvette Pérez and Tonya Jordan, eight women artists explore ideas of the grotesque and other worldly, the monstrous, the unimaginable, the uncanny, and the strange through painting, woodcut, installation, mixed media, video, photography, and illustration. Robbi Behr, Deidra Defranceaux, Andrea Meyers, Michelle Morby, Marta Pérez García, Kharlla Piñeiro, Raquel Quijano Feliciano and Lisa-Renee Thompson present work focused on the dark side of the human psyche and the humorous side of the grotesque.

Bodies of Marvel features internationally renowned artists from the East and West Coasts and Puerto Rico, who have exhibited in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. From kinetic sculptures, Caribbean Baroque woodcuts of hybrid beings, a video game inhabited by women and their tormentors and victims, to images of mental hospitals; these artists force us to come to terms with disturbing and fantastical themes. From monsters and wondrous creatures, women with superpowers, culture bending Ganguros, and Possible Mothers—this exhibit showcases the magnificent talent of this group of female artists.

For this month long exhibit, the H&F Fine Arts Gallery will become a mythic territory where destroyers, tormentors, protectors, creators, hybrid creatures, and tortured souls challenge perceptions of personal truths and the dualities of creation and destruction.

For information contact Marvette Pérez at 240.535-0278/marvetteperez@verizon.net or Tonya Jordan at 202.297-1053/tjordan226@hotmail.com.