2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2:00 TO 3:15 P.M.

M.L.L. CONFERENCE ROOM
(MERRICK 210-01)



COURSE PARTICIPATION BY

ABDELLAH TAΪA

Abdellah Taïa is a young Moroccan writer and intellectual figure living in Paris and writing in French. He is the author of several novels, most recently L’Armée du Salut and Une Mélancolie arabe (Éditions du Seuil), the co-author with Frédéric Mitterand of the texts of a photography book entitled Maroc 1900-1960 (Actes Sud), and the editor and introducer of Lettres à un jeune Marocain (Éditions du Seuil), a collective volume to which 17 Moroccan writers, artists, intellectuals and university students have collaborated in defense of a new, liberal, open minded, and secular Morocco. As the first openly gay writer intervening publicly in Morocco itself (actually the first in the entire Arab world) and whose novels are distributed in that country, he has been ranked by the influential Moroccan weekly magazine Tel Quel as one of the three of contemporary Moroccan culture and society. He is also a vigorous defender of tolerance, cultural and civic openness, democracy and human rights in his native country and everywhere. Novels by Abdellah Taïa have already been translated in Spanish, Dutch and Italian, and Salvation Army just appeared in English, translated by Frank Stock and prefaced by Edmund White, at M.I.T. Press, in the Semiotext(e) series directed by Hedi El Kholti. Taïa’s “calmly transgressive work” has been recognized as a “major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora”, as it combines narrative and rhetorical complexity with the subjective genuine tonality of personal story telling and auto-fictional apparent confession. His Miami appearance is part of a tour which will feature him at universities (N.Y.U., Columbia, Harvard, U.C.L.A, U.C. Berkeley, University of Miami), bookstores and cultural centers in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Miami. This undergraduate course participation (in French) is open to all faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and interested outside persons. This event is co-sponsored by the Embassy of France in the United States and the M.L.L. Department Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, with the support of the French Cultural Services in Miami and the Miami Book Fair.


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5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the Centro Cultural Español de Miami
announce a lecture by

Dr. Ángeles Encinar
Professor of Spanish, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009.

“La guerra civil española en la narrativa breve de
Manuel Rivas y Juan Eduardo Zúñiga”

This talk will be delivered in Spanish


Tuesday, November 17,
5:00 p.m.
Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room,
Merrick 210-01


Dr. Encinar holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Spanish literature from Washington University, St. Louis and a Licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is the author of scores of essays on contemporary Spanish narrative. She is the single author of three books: Narrativa española del siglo XX. Diez autores (Madrid, Edelsa, 2002); Uso interactivo del vocabulario (Madrid, Edelsa, 2001; reprinted 2003); and Novela española actual: La desaparición del héroe, Madrid, Pliegos, 1990

Dr. Encinar has co-edited five essay collections: Género y géneros. Escritura y escritoras iberoamericanas, vols. I y II, eds. Ángeles Encinar, Eva Löfquist y Carmen Valcárcel (Madrid, Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2006); La pluralidad narrativa. Escritores españoles contemporáneos (1984-2004), Ángeles Encinar y Kathleen M. Glenn (eds.) (Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2005); Aproximaciones críticas al mundo narrativo de José María Merino, ed. Ángeles Encinar y Kathleen M. Glenn (León, Edilesa, 2000); España y América en sus literaturas, ed. Ángeles Encinar (Madrid, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, 1993); and Escritoras y compromiso (Madrid: Visor, 2009).

She has compiled several anthologies of contemporary Spanish short stories, such as Maneras de vivir. Antología de cuentos de Ignacio Aldecoa (Madrid, Marenostrum, 2006); Historias de detectives (Barcelona, Lumen, 1998); Cuentos de este siglo. Treinta narradoras españolas contemporáneas (Barcelona, Lumen, 1995); and the very popular Cuento español contemporáneo, eds. Ángeles Encinar y Anthony Percival (Madrid, Cátedra, Colección Letras hispánicas, 1993).

Dr. Encinar is the recipient of many prestigious grants and scholarships from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Caja Madrid’s Obra Social, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), the American Council of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Fundación Universitaria Ortega y Gasset.


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5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
MLL Conference Room, MB 210-01

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
invites you to a lecture by

JO LABANYI,New York University

“IMAGE AND SOUND TRACK IN AUDIOVISUAL TESTIMONIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR”

Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish at New York University, where she directs the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. She was previously Professor of Spanish Cultural Studies at the Universities of London and Southampton, and directed the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of London, where she founded its Cultural Memory graduate program. A founding editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, she has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish culture, including Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel (OUP, 2000) and the edited volume Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain (OUP, 2002). Her volume on Spanish Literature in OUP’s Very Short Introduction series is in press, and she is co-authoring a Cultural History of Modern Literatures in Spain (Polity), and co-editing a Companion to Spanish Cinema (Blackwell). She directed the collaborative research projects An Oral History of Cinema-Going in 1940s and 50s Spain and Film Magazines, Fashion and Photography in 1940s and 50s Spain. Her research interests include literature, film, photography, popular culture, gender, and memory studies. She was elected a member of the British Academy in 2005.

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9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room

Call for Papers
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami, Coral Gables

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL
MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND BAROQUE SYMPOSIUM

"AUTHORSHIP"
February 19 - 20, 2010

The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium of the University of Miami invites papers on the many facets of authorship in the pre- and early-modern periods. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: anonymity; workshop or group works; collective or collaborative authorship; relationships between sponsors and authors; writing vs. dictating; writings on creative endeavors; the author’s voice in a text; anthologies; collections of written works; citations; silvae; salon and academy writing; implied author, implied readers; actors as authors; improvisation.

Keynote speakers:
Jane Tylus,
Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature,
New York University
and
William E. Wallace,
Barbara Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History,
Washington University in St. Louis

A one page abstract and brief CV to should be sent
no later than November 1, 2009 to:
Michelle Prats
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, Florida 33124-2074
or via e-mail to m.prats@miami.edu

Acceptances will be confirmed no later than December 1, 2009.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes. Electronic submissions are encouraged.

Symposium Co-organizers:
Perri Lee Roberts, Senior Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities
Maria Galli Stampino, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures


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