SPAP Department event

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

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

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)

Dr. Ricardo Padrón holds a PhD in Romance Languages from Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. He is interested in the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly in the various expressions of the Hispanic imperial imagination. His first book, The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature and Empire in Early Modern Spain, was published in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press. His current work focuses on Spanish interest in Pacific and Asia in the wake of the Encounter with the Americas in relation to the emergence of globalism during the early modern period. He has also published on the poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, Fernando de Herrera, and Luis de Góngora, as well as on the mapping of imaginary worlds throughout the modern period.

Students in Prof. Harrison’s seminar “Guaman Poma” are reading “Tracking Space,” a chapter from Ricardo Padrón’s The Spacious Word. For a PDF, send a request to reglee@umd.edu.

The U.S. Latina/o Studies Program, the American Studies Department, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to invite you to join us for Dr. Michelle Habell-Pallán’s talk titled: “‘American Sabor-U.S. Latinos Shaping Popular Music’: The Possibilities of Public/Digital Humanities Post-911?” on Monday, October 17, 5:30 – 7:00 pm at 1102 Francis Scott Key Hall (the Dean’s Conference Room). Dr. Habell-Pallán is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture and co-editor of Latino/a Popular Culture, both published by New York University Press. She is one of the guest curators of the exhibit “American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music” at the Smithsonian Institution and traveling across the United States.

We hope to see you at the talk. For more information, please see the attached flyer.

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,