Past Events
Fall 2012
Lecture
"Almodóvar's Women: Cinema, Theater, Television"
Prof. Paul Julian Smith
Friday, September 7
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 4116
Lecture
"Una pelea cubana contra el realismo. Letras para el siglo XXI"
Prof. Licia Fiol - Matta
Friday, September 21
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 4116
Conference
"Mexican Itineraries for the Twenty - First Century: (Re)locating Literature, Culture and the Nation"
Thursday, October 11 & Friday, October 12
Time: 10:00 am
Room: Segal Theater
Symposium
"Colonial Latin American Review: 20 years"
Friday, October 19
Time: 6:00 pm
Room: Skylight
Lecture
“Vector in fabula. Los estudios transareales y las literaturas del mundo”
Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, Potsdam Universitat
Friday, October 26
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Room: 4419
Colloquium
"National and Post-National Perspectives on Language and Citizenship in the Iberian Peninsula"
Adela Franze Mundanó: “Spanish as a foreign language” and “Spanish for Immigrants”: The Construction of Immigration through Public Linguistic Policies.
Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas: Language, Society and the Nation in 21th-Century Galicia: Some Paradoxes of a Difficult Relationship
Joan Pujolar: Understanding the Catalan Crisis: The End of Print Capitalism?
Jacqueline Urla: From Language Revival to Language Management: Tactical Shifts in Basque Activist Discourse
Friday, November 9
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Room: 9204/9205
Presentation
"Enclave, revista de creación literaria en español"
Friday, November 30
Time: 4:00 pm
Room: 9204
Spring 2012
"An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Iván Cepeda and Alfredo Molano on Forced Disappearance in the Colombian Conflict"
Michael Taussig (Columbia University) respondent
Colombian Studies Group
Friday, February 10
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Room: Skylight
A Tribute to Thomas Mermall
"Untimely Meditations: The Role of Rhetoric in Literature and Philosophy"
Prof. Jorge Brioso, Carleton College
Lecture will be delivered in Spanish. An English translation will be distributed.
Friday, March 16
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 4116
Graduate Student Conference
"Actitudes y opciones lingüísticas entre familias catalanas y gallegas residentes en Nueva York"
Eva Juarros-Daussà, University at Buffalo
Friday, March 23
Time: 4:45pm
Room: C201
"La voz animal. Políticas de lo viviente e imaginación estética"
Gabriel Giorgi, NYU
Saturday, March 24
Time: 2:50pm
Room: 5414
"La Segunda República en Galicia: Memoria e Historia"
Prof. Emilio Grandío Seoane, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Monday, March 26
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Room: 4116.18
Lecture on Cuban poetry of 80's, 90's and 2000
"Three generations"
Reina María Rodríguez, Cuban poet, novelist and essayist
Friday, March 30
Time: 6:00 pm
Room: 4116
"El Parnaso olvidado: la poesía española entre Barroco y Neoclasicismo"
Prof. Alain Bègue, Université of Poitiers
Friday, April 20
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Room: 4116.18
"La multiplicidad de la opresión: interseccionalidad de género y raza en la narrativa de
Anacristina Rossi"
Prof. Salvador Mercado, University of Denver
Friday, April 20
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 9206
"Batallas del alma: la narrativa caballeresca espiritual del siglo XVI"
Prof. Emma Herrán Alonso, University of Poitiers
Friday, April 27
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Room: 4116.18
Historias, memorias, identidades: Perspectivas centroamericanas
"Si no hay cámara de justicia, hay cámara de cine. Reflexiones sobre cine y memoria en la posguerra"
Valeria Grinberg-Pla, Bowling Green State University
"Usos de la historia en El Salvador de post-guerra"
Héctor Lindo Fuentes, Fordham University,
"De ombligos y memorias: sobre el sujeto femenino y la re-escritura de la Historia a través del recuerdo en la novela Por los signos de los siglos Amén, de Raquel Villarreal"
María León, Graduate Center, CUNY
Friday, April 27
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: Skylight
Delibes Colloquium
"El escritor y sus circunstancias: voces del exilio, de la dictadura, de la democracia"
Participants: Ramón Buckley, Álvaro Enrigue, José Ramón González.
Moderator: Ma. Pilar Celma Valero.
Friday, May 4
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: Recital Hall
Alumni Lecture by Prof. Constanza Lopez and End of Semester Party
"Testimonio y re-escritura del conflicto colombiano en Escrito para no morir de María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo"
Friday, May 11
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 4116
"Los "vicios de dicción" de las gramáticas académicas: de 1880 a 1962"
José Gómez Asencio, Universidad de Salamanca
Wednesday, May 16
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Room: 6421
Dialogue with Jorge Robledo/ Colombian Congress Man on Free Trade Agreement
Friday, May 18
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Room: C204/205
Fall 2011
"Utopía y transgresión en el universo literario de Bernardo Atxaga"
Professor Mari Jose Olaziregi, Etxepare Institute
Friday, September 9
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 9204
"Bernardo Atxaga: Lectura poética de la obra de Atxaga"
Tuesday, September 13
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Room: Segal Theatre
Inauguration of the Bernardo Atxaga Chair in Basque Literature & Language
Bernardo Axtaga
Friday, September 16
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: Skylight
"Creolization and Beyond: A Postcolonial Reading of Caribbean Colonialities"
Professora Yolanda Martínez San Miguel, Rutgers University
Friday, September 23
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 9204
"Entre lo épico y el consumo: Lezama Lima y las revoluciones".
Professor Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Fordham University
Tuesday, October 4
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 9204
"Bibliotecas en la literatura"
Professor José Luis de Diego, Universidad de la Plata
Friday, October 14
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 4116
"Todas las sangres" y la estructura familiar andina
Professor Juan Ossio
Friday, October 21
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 9206
"Language Policies: Why do They Matter?"
Monday, October 24
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: Proshansky
"Public Philologists: Notaries and Public Scribes, 1230-1295"
Professor Rodriguez Velasco, Columbia University
Friday, October 28
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 4116
"Encuentros entre Literatura, Filosofía y las Artes Visuales"
Organized by Nuria Morgado and Rolando Pérez
Thursday, November 3 Symposium
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Room: C198
"Encuentros entre Literatura, Filosofía y las Artes Visuales"
Organized by Nuria Morgado and Rolando Pérez
Friday, November 4 Symposium
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Room: C198
"Imaginarios del campo cultural mexicano en la era neoliberal"
Professor Ignacio Sanchez Prado (Washington University at St. Louis)
Oswaldo Estrada (UNC-Chapel Hill)
José Ramón Ruisánchez (University of Houston)
Oswaldo Zavala (CUNY)
Friday, November 11
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 9206/9207
"Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro entre la crítica"
Mexican author Juan Villoro
Prof José Ramón Ruisánchez (University of Houston)
Prof.Oswaldo Zavala (College of Staten Island-CUNY)
Monday, November 14
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: C198
Spanish Media Colloquium "Intermediality and Spanish-Language Visual Culture"
Organized by Prof. Paul Julian Smith
Friday, November 18
Time: 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Room: 9205
"¿Un realismo sin ontología? El dilema de Abulcásim en 'La busca de Averroes' de J.L. Borges"
Professor Silvia Dapía, John Jay College
Friday, December 2
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Room: 4116