"'Vulgar Negroid Sambas': Issues of National Identity, Race and Gender in That Night in Rio with Carmen Miranda"
Walter Clark
Professor of Musicology
University of California- Riverside
Bailey Hall Room 318
12:00-1:00pm
A simple lunch of rice and beans will be served.
For more information contact the Center of Latin American Studies
864-4213 - latamst@ku.edu
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Norge Espinosa Mendoza: Cuban poet, playwright, theatre worker, and critic
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Kansas
Norge Espinosa Mendoza
Cuban poet, playwright, theatre worker, and critic
“Las otras caras de una cuba sexuada:
Disensos y deseos de una isla en revolución”
Monday, April 5, 2010, 4 p.m.
1003 Wescoe Hall
A prominent young Cuban poet and playwright, Norge Espinosa was among the first to experiment with homosexual themes in the late 1980s, with his widely anthologized poem “Vestido de novia,” written when he was a teenager. His poetry includes Las breves tribulaciones (1992, National Poetry Prize from the Cuban magazines El Caimán Barbudo) and Las estrategias del páramo (2000) and his plays include Romanza del lirio, La virgencita de bronce (a retelling of the Cecilia Valdés story), Ícaros, and Cintas de seda. He has also developed cultural presentations and is a prolific lecturer and a theatre critic. He has worked closely in multiple roles with Teatro El Público, one of the most acclaimed theatre groups of the 1990s in Havana, and has organized events on gay and lesbian culture in Cuba. He has been invited to the International Writing Program of University of Iowa in 2001 and to workshops at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
University of Kansas
Norge Espinosa Mendoza
Cuban poet, playwright, theatre worker, and critic
“Las otras caras de una cuba sexuada:
Disensos y deseos de una isla en revolución”
Monday, April 5, 2010, 4 p.m.
1003 Wescoe Hall
A prominent young Cuban poet and playwright, Norge Espinosa was among the first to experiment with homosexual themes in the late 1980s, with his widely anthologized poem “Vestido de novia,” written when he was a teenager. His poetry includes Las breves tribulaciones (1992, National Poetry Prize from the Cuban magazines El Caimán Barbudo) and Las estrategias del páramo (2000) and his plays include Romanza del lirio, La virgencita de bronce (a retelling of the Cecilia Valdés story), Ícaros, and Cintas de seda. He has also developed cultural presentations and is a prolific lecturer and a theatre critic. He has worked closely in multiple roles with Teatro El Público, one of the most acclaimed theatre groups of the 1990s in Havana, and has organized events on gay and lesbian culture in Cuba. He has been invited to the International Writing Program of University of Iowa in 2001 and to workshops at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Luis Argueta Guest Speaker
“The story of the most brutal, most expensive, and one of the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the history of the United States.”
Talk and Presentation with Acclaimed Guatemalan/American Film Director: Luis Argueta
Wednesday, April 28th
4:30 pm
Wescoe 3139
Co-Sponsors: Spanish and Portuguese, The Office of Diversity and Equity, The Office of the Provost, American Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, English, Film and Media Studies
Talk and Presentation with Acclaimed Guatemalan/American Film Director: Luis Argueta
Wednesday, April 28th
4:30 pm
Wescoe 3139
Co-Sponsors: Spanish and Portuguese, The Office of Diversity and Equity, The Office of the Provost, American Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, English, Film and Media Studies
Monday, March 22, 2010
Merienda: "Cary Fukanga's Sin Nombre: A Central American Narrative of Belonging and Non-Belonging"
The Center of Latin American Studies invites you to join us this Thursday (March 25th) at noon for the Merienda:
"Cary Fukanga's Sin Nombre: A Central American Narrative of Belonging and Non-Belonging"
Yajaira Padilla
Spanish & Portuguese, KU
Bailey Hall 318, 12:00-1:00pm.
A simple lunch of rice and beans will be served.
For more information, visit http://www.ku.edu/~latamst
"Cary Fukanga's Sin Nombre: A Central American Narrative of Belonging and Non-Belonging"
Yajaira Padilla
Spanish & Portuguese, KU
Bailey Hall 318, 12:00-1:00pm.
A simple lunch of rice and beans will be served.
For more information, visit http://www.ku.edu/~latamst
Juan Carlos González-Espitia: “A Latin American Syphilography: Literary, Medical and Political Discourses”
LATIN AMERICAN SEMINAR
Juan Carlos González-Espitia
Spanish
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“A Latin American Syphilography: Literary, Medical and Political Discourses”
Friday, March 26
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
THERE IS NO PAPER FOR THIS SEMINAR.
If you would like more information about this or other Latin American Seminar sessions, contact Elizabeth Kuznesof (Center of Latin American Studies, 864-4213, kuznesof@ku.edu), Brent Metz (Anthropology, 864-2631, bmetz@ku.edu), Peter Herlihy (Geography, 864-4292, herlihy@ku.edu), or contact the Hall Center at hchseminars@ku.edu or by calling 785-864-4798.
Juan Carlos González-Espitia
Spanish
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“A Latin American Syphilography: Literary, Medical and Political Discourses”
Friday, March 26
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
THERE IS NO PAPER FOR THIS SEMINAR.
If you would like more information about this or other Latin American Seminar sessions, contact Elizabeth Kuznesof (Center of Latin American Studies, 864-4213, kuznesof@ku.edu), Brent Metz (Anthropology, 864-2631, bmetz@ku.edu), Peter Herlihy (Geography, 864-4292, herlihy@ku.edu), or contact the Hall Center at hchseminars@ku.edu or by calling 785-864-4798.
Monday, February 8, 2010
"How to Publish an Article from the Dissertation"
Spring 2010
Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshops
All graduate students are invited to attend this workshop, directed by the four people who received Hall Center Graduate Summer Research Awards. The talks will incline more to method, problem, or theory than to subject content, to increase their appeal to a wider audience. All workshops will be held in the Hall Center Seminar Room. Lunch provided. RSVP required at least two days prior to the event to hallcenter@ku.edu, or 864-4798.
Co-directors:
Keri Behre, English
Jocelyn Buckner, Theatre
Kristen Epps, History
Darrick Taylor, History
Wed, Feb 10, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
"How to Publish an Article from the Dissertation"
Iris Smith Fischer, Editor, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Sherrie Tucker, Editor, American Studies
Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshops
All graduate students are invited to attend this workshop, directed by the four people who received Hall Center Graduate Summer Research Awards. The talks will incline more to method, problem, or theory than to subject content, to increase their appeal to a wider audience. All workshops will be held in the Hall Center Seminar Room. Lunch provided. RSVP required at least two days prior to the event to hallcenter@ku.edu, or 864-4798.
Co-directors:
Keri Behre, English
Jocelyn Buckner, Theatre
Kristen Epps, History
Darrick Taylor, History
Wed, Feb 10, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
"How to Publish an Article from the Dissertation"
Iris Smith Fischer, Editor, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Sherrie Tucker, Editor, American Studies
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