Events
Spanish Studies
Spanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño, “A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas”
Humanities 2, Room 259A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño Ximena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde 2008. Es doctora por la Universidad de Cornell y egresada de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca en teorías de […]
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
Humanities 1, Room 202Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina: A Talk by Héctor Hoyos Se propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales, […]
Jordi Aladro “Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDesde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos, fantasía de misóginos, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad, la cristiandad la ha […]
The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
Humanities 2, Room 259Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act. Kent Wong […]
Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present: Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26) By Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU) Friday June 3rd, 6:00PM Humanities 1, Room 210 Vanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form […]
La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present: LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC) Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma, […]
Joseph M. Pierce: “Writing Queer Sisterhood: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge and the Argentine Fin de Siglo (1890-1910)”
Humanities 1, Room 402This presentation focuses on a unique coincidence in Argentine fin de siglo (1890-1910): sisters who 1) simultaneously kept a diary for an extended period of time, 2) actually shared, read, and commented on reading each other’s diaries, and 3) though under quite different circumstances, published these diaries subsequently. I read the diary as an interface […]
Carmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical wit. She has published fifteen novels, among them El complot de los románticos (winner of the Premio de Novela Café Gijón in 2008), Las paredes […]