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
Disfrute de su verano/Enjoy this Summer 2011
Come join us this Summer 2011 at UMD. Let’s do it in Spanish
This Summer, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers an amazing variety of courses during the several term sessions available at the University of Maryland, College Park. There is everything for everyone.
Les esperamos.
http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/soc?term=201106&crs=SPAN
Ana Maria Shua will give a lecture titled: With all I am: Woman, Jew, Latin American, Writer
On Monday, April 19, at 12:00pm (Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall), Ana María Shua will give a lecture titled, “With all I am: Woman, Jew, Latin American, Writer…”
Ana María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of over forty books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, poetry, children’s fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays. Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Icelandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967. She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos (The Book of Memories, 1994). Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita’s Loves, 1984), which was made into a movie, La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997), and El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007). Her four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante in 2009.
Please, find attached the event poster. This event is sponsored by SLLC, SPAP, The Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, and The Women Studies Department. The presentation will be in English.
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”
Pia Barros will talk on Globalization and Changes in Cultural Consumption
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.
Adela Pineda: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of Hollywood: The Case of -Viva Villa- (1934).
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.
Licia Fiol-Matta: The Times of Your (Colonial) Life: Sound, Gender, and the Politics of Voice in Puerto Rico, 1935-1995.
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.
Abril Trigo: A Critique of the Politico-Libidinal Economy of Contemporary Culture
Abril Trigo will give a lecture titled, “A Critique of the Politico-Libidinal Economy of Contemporary Culture.”
Abril Trigo (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park) is “Distinguished Humanities Professor of Latin American Cultures” at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Memorias migrantes. Testimonios y ensayos sobre la diáspora uruguaya. (Beatriz Viterbo Editora 2003), ¿Cultura uruguaya o culturas linyeras? (Para una cartografía de la neomodernidad posuruguaya) (Vintén Editor, 1997), Caudillo, estado, nación. Literatura, historia e ideología en el Uruguay (Hispamérica, 1990), and co-editor of Critical Index of Uruguayan Theater (Ohio State University, 2009), The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader (Duke University Press, 2004), Los estudios culturales latinoamericanos hacia el siglo XXI (Revista Iberoamericana 2003).
Arnaldo Cruz-Malave: Queer Latino Testimonio: Writing the Self and Community
The LGBT Studies program is proud to invite you to the first event in our eighth annual lecture series, Bent Voices: Queer of Color Interventions.
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé “Queer Latino Testimonio: Writing the Self and Community”
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
5:00pm – 6:45pm
Tawes 1101
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Fordham University and is author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (2007) and co-editor, with Martin Manalansan, of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (2002).
We look forward to seeing you as we welcome Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé to our campus.
We are grateful to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its support of the series. Additional sponsors include the departments of African American Studies, American Studies (including U.S. Latina/o Studies), Anthropology, English, Spanish and Portuguese, and Women’s Studies; the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, the Latin American Studies Center, and the Asian American Studies Program.
For further information, please visit our Web site at http://www.lgbts.umd.edu
