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
Oscar Santos Sopena receives the 2012 Graduate Student Minority Achievement Award
Our graduate student, Oscar Santos, have been selected to receive the 2012 Graduate Student Minority Achievement Award to recognize the many outstanding contributions and accomplishments he has made for the University. The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 10th at 4:00pm – 5:30pm in the Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall. Oscar will also get a congratulatory letter from President Loh in a few days. Please feel free to invite your family, friends, and colleagues to the ceremony. Invitations will be forwarded to all vice-presidents, deans, directors, and department chairs,as well as many other members of the campus community.
Felicitaciones, te lo mereces, Oscar.
SPAP la pone en la China: Ana Acedo, Rocio Gordon y Ana Patricia Rodriguez
Congratulations to Ana Acedo, Rocío Gordon and Ana Patricia Rodríguez!
Ana Acedo
One of Ana’s students, Charlotte Kiernan, a rising senior in the College of Education, has been chosen as a 2012-2013 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar. Ana has been named by Charlotte as the faculty mentor who has made the most impact on her academic achievement. This highly selective program is made possible by the generosity of the Philip Merrill family and recognizes academic excellence in our students and the important role that teachers and faculty have as mentors. Felicidades Ana.
Rocío Gordon
Rocío is one of our graduate students and she was awarded the prestigious Ann D. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships are one-semester awards intended to support outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertation and whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertation. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships carry a stipend of $10,000 plus candidacy tuition remission and $800 toward the cost of health insurance. The Graduate School awards approximately 40 Wylie Dissertation Fellowships per year. Felicidades Rocío.
Ana Patricia Rodríguez
The Office of Multi-ethnic Student Educatin (OMSE) 2012 Academic Excellence Awards committee selected our Ana Patricia Rodríguez as the recipient of the Outstanding University Faculty Member Award. Based on the nominations of undergraduate students, this award is bestowed on an individual that has contributed to the academic excellence of multi-ethnic students at the University of Maryland. Please note this is a highly-competitive selection process and well-deserved based on her ongoing dedication and service to multi-ethnic students. Felicidades Ana Patricia.
Un abrazo a este trío. Nos sentimos orgullosos por sus logros.
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.
Congratulations Laura Maccioni
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to announce that Ms. Laura Maccioni successfully defended her dissertation, entitled: “Puntos de fuga: Literatura y política en Reinaldo Arenas y Juan Jose Saer (1960-1970),” on Monday, November 14, 2011.
The Dissertation Committee Members were:
· Dr. Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia (Chair and Director, Spanish)
· Dr. Laura Demaria (Spanish)
· Dr. Eyda Merediz (Spanish)
· Dr. Sandra Cypess (Spanish)
· The Dean’s Representative was Dr. Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz (Sociology).
Again congratulations to Dr. Laura Maccioni!
Best,
David
David Watson
Graduate Coordinator
University of Maryland, College Park
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
1104 Jimenez Hall
College Park, MD 20742-4821
Email: dcwatson@umd.edu
Office: 301-405-6021
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 .
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