UPCOMING EVENTS

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Friday, March 20
3:00 PM
142 Cathedral of Learning

Rubén Rios
Professor of Comparative Literature
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Locas barrocas, indigencia americana maricona/
The Queer Face of Poverty
as Exposed in the Testimonial Barroque
of Nestór Perlonger and Pedro Lemebel

Rubén Ríos Ávila is the author of La raza cómica: del sujeto en Puerto Rico and Embocaduras: ensayos de crítica cultural. He has published extensively on contemporary Caribbean authors, cinema, Queer literature, and cultural criticism. His criticism benefits from a creative reading of Lacan, Zizek and postcolonial theory. Rubén Ríos has also ventured into television, delivering agile, seductive critical interventions of a depth seldom experienced in that medium. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Notre Dame, Emory, and other universities.

The talk will be given in Spanish. Bilingual participaton of the public in the question and answer session is welcome.

Co-sponsored by The Center for Latin American Studies.

For more information please contact Connie Tomko, 412-624-5226 or email at connie@pitt.edu.

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Wednesday, March 25
3:00 PM
232 Cathedral of Learning

Julieta Paredes

Las luchas feministas y la nueva constitución política en Bolivia
(in Spanish with English translation)

Aymara/Bolivian feminist, lesbian activist, poet, and founding member of Mujeres Creando and Asamblea Feminista,  Julieta Paredes will address the challenge of a radical feminist agenda in the Evo Morales era.  Her talk will discuss burning issues in contemporary Bolivia: Communitarian feminism, Asamblea Feminista, the New Political Constitution of the Bolivian State, and the building of a revolutionary Estate different from the Western liberal model: the Communitarian Estate.

Julieta Paredes is the author of Hilando Fino.  Desde el feminism comunitario (2008), Grafiteadas (1999), Con un montón de palabras (s/f), and Porque la memoría no es puro cuento (s/f).

Co-sponsored by The Center for Latin American Studies.

For more information please contact Connie Tomko, 412-624-5226 or email at connie@pitt.edu.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG
AND
THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

ANNOUNCE

5th UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Friday, April 3, 2009

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE

•  Audiovisual culture in Latin America
•  Immigration
•  Art and literature
•  Mass media and popular culture
•  Transatlantic relations
•  Brazilian cultures and literatures

Proposal abstracts of no more than 150 words must be submitted
by March 3, 2009.

Julian Asenjo, juasenjo@pitt.edu
Ana M. Caula, ana.caula@sru.edu
Alicia V. Covarrubias, lacupg@pitt.edu
Lucy DiStazio, lud3@pitt.edu
Wilfredo Hernandez, whernand@allegheny.edu

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Monday, April 6
time and location TBA

Horacio Castellanos Moya

topic TBA

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Friday, January 23, 2009
3:30-5:00 p.m.
244B Cathedral of Learning

in conjunction with
THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

we are pleased to announce a roundtable discussion

THE ART OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
A PROPOS OF THE PUBLICATION OF
GERALD MARTIN
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: A LIFE

Published in the United Kingdon by Bloomsbury in 2008 and scheduled for publication in the United States in May 2009 (also to be released in Spanish translation by Mondadori in 2009).

Gerald Martin and Daniel Balderston will participate and respond to questions from the audience.

Gerald Martin is currently a distinguished research professor at London Metropolitan University.  He was formerly the Mellon professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh.  His publications include the well-known survey of the modern Latin American novel, Journeys through the Labyrinth (London: Verso, 1989), his translation of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Men of Maize (Pittsburgh, 1995), his critical editions of several Miguel Angel Asturias titles by Colección Archivos including Hombres de maíz (Paris: ALLCA, 1992), and El señor Presidente (Paris: ALLCA, 2000), his important surveys of cultural production in Latin America for the Cambridge History of Latin America, and his many articles on Latin American narrative.  His biography of García Márquez is the result of seventeen years of research, including interviews with hundreds of people whose lives have crossed that of the Colombian author.

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Friday, February 6
3:00 PM
142 Cathedral of Learning

Julio Premat
Professor of Latin American Literature
L'Université de Paris-VIII (St. Denis)

Una obra en borradores: Principios y orígenes en Saer

Professor Premat is the author of a celebrated book on Juan José Saer, La dicha de Saturno, and editor of the complete stories of Antonio DiBenedetto, as well as the coordinator of the forthcoming critical edition of Saer’s El entenado and Glosa.

Since the point of departure for the talk will be Saer’s novel El entenado, we have scanned the novel and posted it on the Borges seminar gmail account, and encourage everyone to read it. It is in two files on that account. You can reach it at gmail.com with username span2464, password spring2009, and then download the PDFs.

Co-sponsored by The Center for Latin American Studies.

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Friday, February 20
3:00 PM
119 Cathedral of Learning

Hernán Martínez Millán
Universidad de Santo Tomás, Bogotá

El Platón de Borges:
Sobre la hermenéutica borgiana de Platón

Professor of ancient philosophy at the Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá, Hernán Martínez Millán has also taught at the Universidad San Buenaventura and universities in Bucaramanga. He did graduate work at the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain, and has published articles on ancient philosophy in specialized journals in Spain and Colombia. This talk comes out of his present interest in the uses of ancient philosophy in modern Latin American literature.

Co-sponsored by The Center for Latin American Studies.

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PAST EVENTS

SPRING 2008
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Narco-Epics Unbound: New Narrative Territories, Affective Aesthetics, and Ethical Paradox

Hermann Herlinghaus (Coordinator)
Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures 

April 4 – 5, 2008
Pittsburgh Athletic Association, Main Dining Room 

With renowned international scholars and artists

• Elmer Mendoza (Mexico, Tusquets Award Winner for the Best Novel 2007)
• Felipe Aljure, (Colombia, Film Director)
• Víctor Gaviria (Colombia, Film Director)
• Catherine L. Benamou (University of California at Irvine)
• Rebecca E. Biron (Dartmouth College)
• Nancy D. Campbell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Elaine Carey (St. John’s University)
• Richard DeGrandpre (University of Auckland, NZ)
• Luis Duno Gottberg (Florida Atlantic University)
• Mark Cameron Edberg (The George Washington University)
• Beatriz González-Stephan (Rice University)
• Hermann Herlinghaus (University of Pittsburgh)
• Curtis Marez (University of Southern California)
• Julián Olivares (University of Houston)
• Cynthia Steele (University of Washington)
• Juana Suárez (University of Kentucky)
• Elijah Wald (Freelance Writer)

Narco-Epics designate transnational narrative formations that emerged, during the 1980s and 1990s, throughout (Latin) American literature, music, film and testimony. This dynamic realm conveys images and affective configurations of shattered life – existences that are massively endangered by privation, proliferating marginalities and informal labor, and illicit global flows, together with paradoxical forms of communitarian resistance and social deviance. Narco-epics address some of the most intricate issues of philosophy and ethics today. To what extent does globalization rely on an unequal distribution of guilt and fear throughout the world?  How can those territories, in which the proximity of violence, religiosity and “bare life” seems to displace modernity’s civilian core, be understood? And how can aesthetic thinking recover the immanent political value of life? 

Download the program (pdf)

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Fall 2007

(des)articulaciones: schedule of events

Cathedral of Learning, Room G-24 (ground floor)

Friday, October 5

8:30 - 9:00 am, Registration
9 - 9: 45 am, Identidades: Raza Género y Sexualidades (Primera parte) Discussant: Sarah Ohmer

Representations of Slave Suffering in Alonso Sandoval's Instauranda Aethiopum Salute , Rubén Sánchez-Godoy , University of Pittsburgh
Herejía y profecía en el pensamiento de Marcus Garvey y su impacto en el imaginarse la diáspora africana a través del siglo XX, George Palacios, University of Pittsburgh
9:45 - 10:15 , Debate

10: 15 - 10:45 , Break
10:45 -11:45 am, Espacios urbanos y  migraciones
Discussant: Fernando Toledo S.

La casa de cartón y los cambios sociales en la Lima de los veintes, Richard Parra, New York University  
El papel de la raza en la configuración del espacio urbano en “Alienación” de Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Diana Vela , State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
Identidad, ciudad y deseo en Cuzco después del amor de Luis Nieto Degregori , Claudia Arteaga , Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Inmigración, identidad híbrida y proceso de modernización en la novela Los Turcos del escritor chileno Roberto Sarah. Gabriela Mc Evoy , University of California, San Diego
11:45 - 12:30 pm , Debate

12: 30 - 2: 30 pm, Break
2:30 - 3:15 pm, América Latina y el Estado-nación: entre dos flancos, Discussant: Jung Won Park
The Future of the Latin American Nation State, Liesder Mayea, University of California , Riverside
Are There Really Cultural Latinos?, Ernesto Rosen Velásquez , State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
The Borderlands between Two Identities in Paredes' George Washington Gomez and Piri's Down These Mean Streets , Eid A. Mohamed , George Washington University
3:15 - 3:45 pm, Debate

4 - 4:45 pm, Documentary projection
La Historia de los Noticieros de TV en Colombia (1954 – 1980) , Presentación a cargo del realizador Fabio López de la Roche, University of Pittsburgh

5 - 8:30 pm , Recepción

Saturday, October 6

 9 - 9:50 am , Identidades: Raza Género y Sexualidades (Segunda parte) , Moderator: Becky Klink
Questions of Privilege and the Unified Subject in Clarice Lispector's A Paixão Segundo G. H. , Leah Strobel , University of Pittsburgh
Healing and Resisting Patriarchy: Nation, Race and Female Sexuality in Aurora and Rosario Morales' Getting Home Alive , Sarah Ohmer , University of Pittsburgh  
Migraciones trasnacionales: La historia del Caribe hispano representada a   través de la metáfora del travestismo en Sirena Selena vestida de pena , Luz Elena Rodríguez , Universidad de Puerto Rico
9:50 - 10:20 am , Debate

10:20 - 11:00 am , Break

11 - 12:00 pm
Introduction: Leah Strobel
Discussant: Professor Lund

 Transamericans:  I call it New Orleans

Debra A. Castillo

Cornell University

12 - 12: 30 pm, Debate

12: 30 - 2:30 pm , Break

2:30 - 3:45 pm, Lenguajes y medios: hegemonías, subordinaciones, Moderator: Fabio López de la Roche
Hackers y el movimiento por el software libre en América latina. Una lucha contra la hegemonía tecnológica, Carolina Gaínza , University of Pittsburgh
Oralidad y escritura en la educación andina, Gabriela Núñez , University of Pittsburgh
Painting Colonial Subjects: Race, Gender and Transnational Identities in Eighteenth Century Spain and Mexico , Julia Haeyoon Chang , University of California, Berkeley   
La voz y la memoria no se subordinan: un análisis de Basura , Edward Chauca , University of California, Los Angeles
3: 45 - 4:15 pm , Debate

4:15 - 4:45 pm , Break

4:45 - 6:45 pm, Film projection
La sombra del caminante, de Ciro Guerra , Comentarios: Carolina Rueda, University of Pittsburgh

6:45 - 7:30 pm, (des)articulaciones in/with Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Processes , Moderator: Lizardo Herrera

Panel de conclusiones y cierre