Events
Previous Years Events
Thursday, January 28, 2010
A WORKSHOP BY Prof. João Antônio Telles, "Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All"Dr. Telles coordinates “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All,” a pedagogical project that uses Internet technology to match language students at Brazilian universities ...
10:30 am - 11:30 am
MB 201, MLL Language Lab
THE PORTUGUESE PROGRAM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INVITES FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND LEARNERS TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP BY Prof. João Antônio Telles, Ph.D., Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All” Wednesday, January 28, 2010 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM Merrick Building 201, MLL Language Lab Dr. Telles coordinates “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All,” a pedagogical project that uses Internet technology to match language students at Brazilian universities with students learning Portuguese in other countries. With tandem language learning, each partner learns and practices the language of study for one hour. In the second half of the session, the students switch roles and languages. Dr. Telles’ lecture will explain the project in detail in hopes of establishing new partnerships with universities in Florida. For more information about the program or about Dr. Telles’ work, please visit: www.teletandembrasil.org and http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4727332J6.
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MB 201, MLL Language Lab
THE PORTUGUESE PROGRAM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INVITES FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND LEARNERS TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP BY Prof. João Antônio Telles, Ph.D., Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All” Wednesday, January 28, 2010 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM Merrick Building 201, MLL Language Lab Dr. Telles coordinates “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All,” a pedagogical project that uses Internet technology to match language students at Brazilian universities with students learning Portuguese in other countries. With tandem language learning, each partner learns and practices the language of study for one hour. In the second half of the session, the students switch roles and languages. Dr. Telles’ lecture will explain the project in detail in hopes of establishing new partnerships with universities in Florida. For more information about the program or about Dr. Telles’ work, please visit: www.teletandembrasil.org and http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4727332J6.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
A LECTURE BY Dr. João Antônio Telles, "Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All"Dr. Telles coordinates “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All,” a pedagogical project that uses Internet technology to match language students at Brazilian universities ...
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
The Portuguese Program of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami invites foreign-language teachers and learners to participate in a lecture by Prof. João Antonio Telles, Ph.D., from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). The event will take place on Thursday, January 28, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. on the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami. (Modern Languages Conference Room: Merrick Building, 210-01). Dr. Telles coordinates “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All,” a pedagogical project that uses Internet technology to match language students at Brazilian universities with students learning Portuguese in other countries. With tandem language learning, each partner learns and practices the language of study for one hour. In the second half of the session, the students switch roles and languages. Dr. Telles’ lecture will explain the project in detail in hopes of establishing new partnerships with universities in Florida.
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MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
The Portuguese Program of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami invites foreign-language teachers and learners to participate in a lecture by Prof. João Antonio Telles, Ph.D., from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). The event will take place on Thursday, January 28, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. on the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami. (Modern Languages Conference Room: Merrick Building, 210-01). Dr. Telles coordinates “Teletandem Brasil – Foreign Languages for All,” a pedagogical project that uses Internet technology to match language students at Brazilian universities with students learning Portuguese in other countries. With tandem language learning, each partner learns and practices the language of study for one hour. In the second half of the session, the students switch roles and languages. Dr. Telles’ lecture will explain the project in detail in hopes of establishing new partnerships with universities in Florida.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
"Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered:A Heroic Poem" by Maria Galli Stampino
The Center for the Humanities invites you to Books & Books, Coral Gables for a discussion with Maria Galli Stampino on her recently published book
"Enrico; or,...
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Books & Books, Coral Gables
The Center for the Humanities invites you to Books & Books Coral Gables for a discussion with Maria Galli Stampino Department of Modern Languages and Literature University of Miami On her recently published book Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered: A Heroic Poem (The University of Chicago Press, 2009) MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009 8:00 p.m. Books & Books 265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables, FL 33134 305.442.4408 Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. Now available for the first time in English translation, Enrico retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202–04), interspersing historical events in Marinella’s account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Maria Galli Stampino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Miami. Her research centers on the emergence of modern Western theater in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, she studies the Petrarchan lyrical tradition in Europe, and early modern women writers.
Books & Books, Coral Gables
The Center for the Humanities invites you to Books & Books Coral Gables for a discussion with Maria Galli Stampino Department of Modern Languages and Literature University of Miami On her recently published book Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered: A Heroic Poem (The University of Chicago Press, 2009) MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009 8:00 p.m. Books & Books 265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables, FL 33134 305.442.4408 Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. Now available for the first time in English translation, Enrico retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202–04), interspersing historical events in Marinella’s account of the invasion with numerous invented episodes, drawing on the rich imaginative legacy of the chivalric romance. Maria Galli Stampino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Miami. Her research centers on the emergence of modern Western theater in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, she studies the Petrarchan lyrical tradition in Europe, and early modern women writers.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
“IMAGE AND SOUND TRACK IN AUDIOVISUAL TESTIMONIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR” by JO LABANYI, New York University.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...
5:00 pm - 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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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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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Dr. Ángeles Encinar presents “La guerra civil española en la narrativa breve de Manuel Rivas y Juan Eduardo Zúñiga”This talk will be delivered in Spanish. Dr. Encinar is a Professor of Spanish, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus and is currently a Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas...
5:00 pm - 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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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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Thursday, November 12, 2009
"MÉLANCOLIE ET PASSION" COURSE PARTICIPATION BY ABDELLAH TAΪAAbdellah Taïa is a young Moroccan writer and intellectual figure living in Paris and writing in French. He is the author of several novels...
2:00 pm - 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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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)
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
MOROCCAN WRITER ABDELLAH TAΪA AT BOOKS AND BOOKSABDELLAH TAΪA will present the recent English and Spanish translations of his novel Salvation Army. He will discuss his work with Ralph Heyndels and Gema Perez
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Books and Books, Coral Gables
MOROCCAN WRITER ABDELLAH TAΪA @ BOOKS AND BOOKS 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009, 6:30 P.M. MOROCCAN WRITER ABDELLAH TAΪA will present the recent English and Spanish translations of his novel Salvation Army. He will discuss his work with Ralph Heyndels and Gema Perez (University of Miami) during this trilingual event (English, Spanish, French). 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). 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. 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.
This is a novel about love in all his forms. A Moroccan boy’s love for his mother (…)The boy’s love for his older brother (…) About the boy’s love of the French language and literature (…) This is (…) a book about the love of men for men(…) This a book about a boy’s love for his past. This is also a book about fear. (…) If the secret of great fiction (…) is “defamiliarization”, making everything known seem strange, then nothing could be more accomplished and persuasive than this mysterious novel. The boy himself is foreign to us, our world is foreign to him, everyone is a foreigner in love with the “other” (whether that be a Swiss man or an older brother). Despite the simplicity and clarity of Taïa’s style, we sense how sophisticated he is – that this is a simplicity that only intelligence (…) can buy. Not only has the language been chastened, but the selection of scenes to show and to exclude has also been subjected to a draconian editing process. Finally, this is a book about poverty. About sexual tourism, its benign side (…) and its cruel side. But Abdellah Taïa doesn’t spell this out. His is an ecstatic and generous nature who lives in the particular, who shies away from generalizations. No matter how often he might be disappointed or wounded he is ever (…) prepared to receive that wonderful, transforming thing: reciprocal affection. This book is a clear stream; drink from it deeply. Edmund White
This event is organized in conjunction with the U.M. Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the French Cultural Services (Miami office), with the support of the U.M. Queer Studies Research Group and the U.M. Africana Studies Program, along with the Alliance Française de Miami-Fort Lauderdale.. Open to the public. Free admission.
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Books and Books, Coral Gables
MOROCCAN WRITER ABDELLAH TAΪA @ BOOKS AND BOOKS 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009, 6:30 P.M. MOROCCAN WRITER ABDELLAH TAΪA will present the recent English and Spanish translations of his novel Salvation Army. He will discuss his work with Ralph Heyndels and Gema Perez (University of Miami) during this trilingual event (English, Spanish, French). 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). 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
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
BUSINESS AND HUMANITIES IN MILAN, ITALY – SUMMER 2010INFORMATION SESSION: Meet the professors, hear details about the courses, get an application…
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Dean’s Conference Room, Jenkins 217
BUSINESS AND HUMANITIES IN MILAN, ITALY – SUMMER 2010 MGT 303 (Operations Management) and ITA 310 “W” (Building Theater: Theater Buildings in Renaissance Italy) will be taught by Professor Luca Donno and Dr. Maria Galli Stampino in Milan, Italy May 31-June 25, 2010. These are faculty-led courses (taught in English) based in the heart of Milan at an international study center. Students will be housed in furnished apartments with easy access to public transportation, computer labs, library, health center, and 24 hour support. Students may enroll in MGT 303 or ITA 310 or both for 3-6 UM credits. Students will be able to participate in both courses’ site visits regardless of which course they are enrolled in. Prof. Donno’s MGT 303 will include trips to major Italian corporations, like Montalcino wine production, Ferrarini Parmesan cheese factory, and Alfa Romeo to see operations first hand. Dr. Stampino will lecture at famous theater sites including the Olimpico in Vicenza, La Scala in Milan, and the Farnese in Parma. A combined trip to Tuscany will be included. For further information on course descriptions, study program details, and estimated price, please contact: Prof. Luca Donno ldonno@miami.edu ,
Dr. Maria Stampino mariagallistampino@yahoo.it ,
or Mrs. Karen Donno, Undergraduate Business Programs, kdonno@miami.edu .
Final applications are due on March 1, but students need to start planning now. Space will be limited !!! NOTE: MGT 303 is a Business Professional Core requirement for all business students. It is also part of the Management major or minor. ITA 310 “W” is taught in English and counts as a fine art, humanities choice, 300 level writing credit, general education choice, or an elective for business students. Students from other schools outside of business are welcome to apply.
INFORMATION SESSION: Meet the professors, hear details about the courses, get an application….
Date: November 4, 2009, Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Place: Dean’s Conference Room, Jenkins 217
Dean’s Conference Room, Jenkins 217
BUSINESS AND HUMANITIES IN MILAN, ITALY – SUMMER 2010 MGT 303 (Operations Management) and ITA 310 “W” (Building Theater: Theater Buildings in Renaissance Italy) will be taught by Professor Luca Donno and Dr. Maria Galli Stampino in Milan, Italy May 31-June 25, 2010. These are faculty-led courses (taught in English) based in the heart of Milan at an international study center. Students will be housed in furnished apartments with easy access to public transportation, computer labs, library, health center, and 24 hour support. Students may enroll in MGT 303 or ITA 310 or both for 3-6 UM credits. Students will be able to participate in both courses’ site visits regardless of which course they are enrolled in. Prof. Donno’s MGT 303 will include trips to major Italian corporations, like Montalcino wine production, Ferrarini Parmesan cheese factory, and Alfa Romeo to see operations first hand. Dr. Stampino will lecture at famous theater sites including the Olimpico in Vicenza, La Scala in Milan, and the Farnese in Parma. A combined trip to Tuscany will be included. For further information on course descriptions, study program details, and estimated price, please contact: Prof. Luca Donno ldonno@miami.edu
Monday, October 19, 2009
"The History of Brazilian Women Writers" by Joyce CavalccanteA história da literatura feminina no Brasil
La historia de la literatura femenina en el Brasil
The talk will be delivered in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Merrick Building Rm 210-01, MLL Conference Room
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES & THE PROGRAM IN WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES HAVE THE PLEASURE OF INVITING YOU TO A LECTURE BY JOYCE CAVALCCANTE A história da literatura feminina no Brasil La historia de la literatura femenina en el Brasil The History of Brazilian Women Writers Author of six novels and numerous short stories and articles that today appear in eight anthologies, Joyce Cavalccante is the Founder and President of REBRA, Rede de Escritoras Brasileiras (Network of Brazilian Women Writers) and Director of RELAT--Red de Escritoras Latinoamericanas, associations devoted to the dissemination of women writers worldwide. Born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Joyce Cavlaccante currently resides in São Paulo, Brazil. Her works have been translated to English, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Prize of the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA) for best novel in 1993 for her piece Inimigas ĺntimas (Intimate Enemies). In 2002, Joyce Cavalccante won the Radio France Internationale Prize for her short story "Neguinha" ("Little Black Girl"). In 2007, Ms. Cavalccante received an award conferred by the Academie de Arts, Sciences et Lettres. Much of her work is considered "erotic" in nature, notably O discurso da mulher absurda (The Discourse of the Absurd Woman, Global Editora, 1985) and she has devoted her corpus to portrayals of the resigned lives of women in a patriarchal, machista society, socialized to pray, marry and die. Joyce Cavalccante is currently engaged in completing a saga of the retirante nordestino (Brazilian immigrant from the Northeast), historically framed between 1954 and 2004, a trilogy consisting of the already published Inimigas ĺntimas (Editora Maltese, 1993) and O cão chupando manga (Editora Bertrand Brasil, 2001), literally, "The Mango-Sucking Dog," a figurative expression used in Northeastern Brazilian slang for one who is physically very ugly. The third and final edition of the trilogy will appear soon and is entitled Deus é brasileiro mas mora em Miami (God is Brazilian but lives in Miami). Ms. Cavalccante has lectured in various North American and European institutions, including, in the United States, at the University of Arizona, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the University of New Mexico. In France and Italy, she has delivered talks on the topic of Brazilian women writers at the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne, Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne, Université de Provence, Université d'Aix-Marseille, the Université de Bordeaux, and the Università di Bologna.
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Merrick Building Rm 210-01, MLL Conference Room
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES & THE PROGRAM IN WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES HAVE THE PLEASURE OF INVITING YOU TO A LECTURE BY JOYCE CAVALCCANTE A história da literatura feminina no Brasil La historia de la literatura femenina en el Brasil The History of Brazilian Women Writers Author of six novels and numerous short stories and articles that today appear in eight anthologies, Joyce Cavalccante is the Founder and President of REBRA, Rede de Escritoras Brasileiras (Network of Brazilian Women Writers) and Director of RELAT--Red de Escritoras Latinoamericanas, associations devoted to the dissemination of women writers worldwide. Born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Joyce Cavlaccante currently resides in São Paulo, Brazil. Her works have been translated to English, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Prize of the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA) for best novel in 1993 for her piece Inimigas ĺntimas (Intimate Enemies). In 2002, Joyce Cavalccante won the Radio France Internationale Prize for her short story "Neguinha" ("Little Black Girl"). In 2007, Ms. Cavalccante received an award conferred by the Academie de Arts, Sciences et Lettres. Much of her work is considered "erotic" in nature, notably O discurso da mulher absurda (The Discourse of the Absurd Woman, Global Editora, 1985) and she has devoted her corpus to portrayals of the resigned lives of women in a patriarchal, machista society, socialized to pray, marry and die. Joyce Cavalccante is currently engaged in completing a saga of the retirante nordestino (Brazilian immigrant from the Northeast), historically framed between 1954 and 2004, a trilogy consisting of the already published Inimigas ĺntimas (Editora Maltese, 1993) and O cão chupando manga (Editora Bertrand Brasil, 2001), literally, "The Mango-Sucking Dog," a figurative expression used in Northeastern Brazilian slang for one who is physically very ugly. The third and final edition of the trilogy will appear soon and is entitled Deus é brasileiro mas mora em Miami (God is Brazilian but lives in Miami). Ms. Cavalccante has lectured in various North American and European institutions, including, in the United States, at the University of Arizona, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the University of New Mexico. In France and Italy, she has delivered talks on the topic of Brazilian women writers at the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne, Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne, Université de Provence, Université d'Aix-Marseille, the Université de Bordeaux, and the Università di Bologna.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
XVIth Annual Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning Research Working GroupXVIth Annual Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning Research Working Group, 10/15/09 - 10/17/09.
7:00 pm - 3:00 pm
CAS Wesley Gallery
We will have 18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning. All the presentations are work in progress. We have a wide variety of topics: Theoretical issues on perception, mediation, language and mind; Teaching ESL, Spanish, French, Italian; Testing through Dynamic Assessment; Gesture and self-regulation; Heritage learners; study abroad; issues of linguistic policy in Rwanda… Some of THE leading scholars in Applied Linguistics in North America are going to be on campus (Leo van Lier, Merrill Swain, James Lantolf). If you recognize the name Merrill Swain, it is probably because you are familiar with her work on French. She is the scholar that proposed the construct communicative competence in the 1980s (see Canale & Swain, 1980). Leo van Lier is the leading scholar in Semiotics and Second Language Learning. Jim Lantolf is the leading scholar in Sociocultural Psycholy and SLA. It is truly an international meeting. We have participants coming from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and all over the United States (California, Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, NYU… and of course, Florida). It is also a non-conventional conference. There are no parallel sessions. Scholars present research in progress, and there is ample time for discussion (one hour per session). If you have some time to attend, you will find that there is genuine, unique dialogue and exchange of academic ideas. We hope you can attend some of the sessions and participate in any way you can. We are convinced you will find the program interesting and relevant to your own research and teaching interests.
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CAS Wesley Gallery
We will have 18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning. All the presentations are work in progress. We have a wide variety of topics: Theoretical issues on perception, mediation, language and mind; Teaching ESL, Spanish, French, Italian; Testing through Dynamic Assessment; Gesture and self-regulation; Heritage learners; study abroad; issues of linguistic policy in Rwanda… Some of THE leading scholars in Applied Linguistics in North America are going to be on campus (Leo van Lier, Merrill Swain, James Lantolf). If you recognize the name Merrill Swain, it is probably because you are familiar with her work on French. She is the scholar that proposed the construct communicative competence in the 1980s (see Canale & Swain, 1980). Leo van Lier is the leading scholar in Semiotics and Second Language Learning. Jim Lantolf is the leading scholar in Sociocultural Psycholy and SLA. It is truly an international meeting. We have participants coming from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and all over the United States (California, Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, NYU… and of course, Florida). It is also a non-conventional conference. There are no parallel sessions. Scholars present research in progress, and there is ample time for discussion (one hour per session). If you have some time to attend, you will find that there is genuine, unique dialogue and exchange of academic ideas. We hope you can attend some of the sessions and participate in any way you can. We are convinced you will find the program interesting and relevant to your own research and teaching interests.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
XVIth Annual Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning Research Working Group18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning, 10/15/09 - 10/17/09.
7:00 pm - 6:30 pm
CAS Wesley Gallery
We will have 18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning. All the presentations are work in progress. We have a wide variety of topics: Theoretical issues on perception, mediation, language and mind; Teaching ESL, Spanish, French, Italian; Testing through Dynamic Assessment; Gesture and self-regulation; Heritage learners; study abroad; issues of linguistic policy in Rwanda… Some of THE leading scholars in Applied Linguistics in North America are going to be on campus (Leo van Lier, Merrill Swain, James Lantolf). If you recognize the name Merrill Swain, it is probably because you are familiar with her work on French. She is the scholar that proposed the construct communicative competence in the 1980s (see Canale & Swain, 1980). Leo van Lier is the leading scholar in Semiotics and Second Language Learning. Jim Lantolf is the leading scholar in Sociocultural Psycholy and SLA. It is truly an international meeting. We have participants coming from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and all over the United States (California, Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, NYU… and of course, Florida). It is also a non-conventional conference. There are no parallel sessions. Scholars present research in progress, and there is ample time for discussion (one hour per session). If you have some time to attend, you will find that there is genuine, unique dialogue and exchange of academic ideas. We hope you can attend some of the sessions and participate in any way you can. We are convinced you will find the program interesting and relevant to your own research and teaching interests.
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CAS Wesley Gallery
We will have 18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning. All the presentations are work in progress. We have a wide variety of topics: Theoretical issues on perception, mediation, language and mind; Teaching ESL, Spanish, French, Italian; Testing through Dynamic Assessment; Gesture and self-regulation; Heritage learners; study abroad; issues of linguistic policy in Rwanda… Some of THE leading scholars in Applied Linguistics in North America are going to be on campus (Leo van Lier, Merrill Swain, James Lantolf). If you recognize the name Merrill Swain, it is probably because you are familiar with her work on French. She is the scholar that proposed the construct communicative competence in the 1980s (see Canale & Swain, 1980). Leo van Lier is the leading scholar in Semiotics and Second Language Learning. Jim Lantolf is the leading scholar in Sociocultural Psycholy and SLA. It is truly an international meeting. We have participants coming from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and all over the United States (California, Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, NYU… and of course, Florida). It is also a non-conventional conference. There are no parallel sessions. Scholars present research in progress, and there is ample time for discussion (one hour per session). If you have some time to attend, you will find that there is genuine, unique dialogue and exchange of academic ideas. We hope you can attend some of the sessions and participate in any way you can. We are convinced you will find the program interesting and relevant to your own research and teaching interests.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
VIth Annual Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning Research Working GroupThere will be 18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning, 10/15/09 - 10/17-09
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
2nd Floor University Student Union, Flamingo Ballroom C & D
We will have 18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning. All the presentations are work in progress. We have a wide variety of topics: Theoretical issues on perception, mediation, language and mind; Teaching ESL, Spanish, French, Italian; Testing through Dynamic Assessment; Gesture and self-regulation; Heritage learners; study abroad; issues of linguistic policy in Rwanda… Some of THE leading scholars in Applied Linguistics in North America are going to be on campus (Leo van Lier, Merrill Swain, James Lantolf). If you recognize the name Merrill Swain, it is probably because you are familiar with her work on French. She is the scholar that proposed the construct communicative competence in the 1980s (see Canale & Swain, 1980). Leo van Lier is the leading scholar in Semiotics and Second Language Learning. Jim Lantolf is the leading scholar in Sociocultural Psycholy and SLA. It is truly an international meeting. We have participants coming from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and all over the United States (California, Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, NYU… and of course, Florida). It is also a non-conventional conference. There are no parallel sessions. Scholars present research in progress, and there is ample time for discussion (one hour per session). If you have some time to attend, you will find that there is genuine, unique dialogue and exchange of academic ideas. We hope you can attend some of the sessions and participate in any way you can. We are convinced you will find the program interesting and relevant to your own research and teaching interests.
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2nd Floor University Student Union, Flamingo Ballroom C & D
We will have 18 presentations connecting Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Teaching and Learning. All the presentations are work in progress. We have a wide variety of topics: Theoretical issues on perception, mediation, language and mind; Teaching ESL, Spanish, French, Italian; Testing through Dynamic Assessment; Gesture and self-regulation; Heritage learners; study abroad; issues of linguistic policy in Rwanda… Some of THE leading scholars in Applied Linguistics in North America are going to be on campus (Leo van Lier, Merrill Swain, James Lantolf). If you recognize the name Merrill Swain, it is probably because you are familiar with her work on French. She is the scholar that proposed the construct communicative competence in the 1980s (see Canale & Swain, 1980). Leo van Lier is the leading scholar in Semiotics and Second Language Learning. Jim Lantolf is the leading scholar in Sociocultural Psycholy and SLA. It is truly an international meeting. We have participants coming from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and all over the United States (California, Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, NYU… and of course, Florida). It is also a non-conventional conference. There are no parallel sessions. Scholars present research in progress, and there is ample time for discussion (one hour per session). If you have some time to attend, you will find that there is genuine, unique dialogue and exchange of academic ideas. We hope you can attend some of the sessions and participate in any way you can. We are convinced you will find the program interesting and relevant to your own research and teaching interests.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Ricardo Castells, "La primera escena de La Celestina: análisis y documentación del sueño de Calisto"
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami invites you to a lecture by: Ricardo Castells Professor of Spanish, Florida International University "La primera escena de La Celestina: análisis y documentación del sueño de Calisto" Friday, September 4, 2009 MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room 1:30 – 2:30 PM Dr. Castells received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages with an emphasis in Golden Age Spanish Literature from Duke University. His publications include Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision: Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in Celestina (Penn State University Press, 2000); and Calisto’s Dream and the Celestinesque Tradition: A Rereading of Celestina (University of North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages, 1995). His latest book, An Empire of Faith: The Conquest of America in Golden Age Spanish Theater, is forthcoming with Edition Reichenberger (Kassel,Germany).
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The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami invites you to a lecture by: Ricardo Castells Professor of Spanish, Florida International University "La primera escena de La Celestina: análisis y documentación del sueño de Calisto" Friday, September 4, 2009 MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room 1:30 – 2:30 PM Dr. Castells received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages with an emphasis in Golden Age Spanish Literature from Duke University. His publications include Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision: Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in Celestina (Penn State University Press, 2000); and Calisto’s Dream and the Celestinesque Tradition: A Rereading of Celestina (University of North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages, 1995). His latest book, An Empire of Faith: The Conquest of America in Golden Age Spanish Theater, is forthcoming with Edition Reichenberger (Kassel,Germany).
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
“The Image of Spain in 21st-Century Spanish Cinema” by Dr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Queensland, AustraliaDr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito is Head of School and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Queenslnd, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of th...
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Merrick Building 210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY Dr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito University of Queensland, Australia “The Image of Spain in 21st-Century Spanish Cinema” THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009, AT 2:00 P.M. MERRICK BUILDING CONFERENCE ROOM, MB 210-01 Refreshments will be served. Dr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito is Head of School and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Queenslnd, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the author of scores of articles and more than six books on 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Latin American literature and film, including Escrituras torcidas: ensayos de crítica “queer” (2004); Gay and Lesbian Writing in the Hispanic World (2000); Los escribas furiosos: configuraciones homoeróticas en la narrativa española actual (1998). He most recently co-authored, with Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2007).
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY Dr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito University of Queensland, Australia “The Image of Spain in 21st-Century Spanish Cinema” THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009, AT 2:00 P.M. MERRICK BUILDING CONFERENCE ROOM, MB 210-01 Refreshments will be served. Dr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito is Head of School and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Queenslnd, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the author of scores of articles and more than six books on 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Latin American literature and film, including Escrituras torcidas: ensayos de crítica “queer” (2004); Gay and Lesbian Writing in the Hispanic World (2000); Los escribas furiosos: configuraciones homoeróticas en la narrativa española actual (1998). He most recently co-authored, with Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2007).
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
“Queer Literature Now: A Global Perspective”Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Queensland, Australia
Steve Butterman, University of Miami
Marc Brudzinski, University of Miami
Brenna Munro, Universi...
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hardcore Art Gallery, 3326 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33127
April 29 Symposium “Queer Literature Now: A Global Perspective” At Hardcore Art Gallery, 3326 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33127 Free Admission With: Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Queensland, Australia Steve Butterman, University of Miami Marc Brudzinski, University of Miami Brenna Munro, University of Miami Moderator: Gema Pérez-Sánchez, University of Miami This event is open to the general public. Presenters will talk for 15 minutes each about the state of LGBTQ literature now in their areas of expertise (Spain, Brazil, French & Spanish Caribbean, Anglophone Africa), followed by a general Q&A with the audience.
Hardcore Art Gallery, 3326 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33127
April 29 Symposium “Queer Literature Now: A Global Perspective” At Hardcore Art Gallery, 3326 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33127 Free Admission With: Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Queensland, Australia Steve Butterman, University of Miami Marc Brudzinski, University of Miami Brenna Munro, University of Miami Moderator: Gema Pérez-Sánchez, University of Miami This event is open to the general public. Presenters will talk for 15 minutes each about the state of LGBTQ literature now in their areas of expertise (Spain, Brazil, French & Spanish Caribbean, Anglophone Africa), followed by a general Q&A with the audience.
Friday, April 24, 2009
“From ‘littérature-monde’ to ‘littérature migrante’: Towards a Theory of Migrant Literature in French” by Dr. Subha XavierThe Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce its Faculty Lecture Series for April 2009. The lectures will be held at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 210 Me...
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MB210-01, MLL Conference Room
Friday, April 24 – Professor Subha Xavier,
“From ‘littérature-monde’ to ‘littérature migrante’: Towards a Theory of Migrant Literature in French”
Abstract: In the Fall of 2006, 33 writers from the French-speaking world signed a manifesto in favor of a World Literature in French to replace the concept of “Francophonie.” The Manifeste pour une littérature-monde argued that the term “Francophonie” betrays neocolonial tendencies that continue to relegate works from former French colonies and beyond to a literary periphery where France still occupies the center. This paper considers the viability of Littérature-monde as a new way of categorizing and studying literature by tracing the term back to its German and Anglo-American antecedents in order to argue in favor of yet another literary classification that might offer a way out of the impasse that is “Francophonie” today. In devising a theory of Migrant Literature in French, Professor Xavier works through the current debate to suggest new ways of approaching French language texts that do not subscribe to colonial or national schemas.
Subha Xavier is currently at work on a book-length manuscript theorizing migrant French literature entitled The Economy of the Migrant Text: Theorizing a French Literature of Immigration. She has published articles on migrant authors Ying Chen, Dai Sijie and Leïla Sebbar and has forthcoming articles on Tahar Ben Jelloun, Mehdi Charef and Alain Mabanckou.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Presentation of poetry book: 'Tropología' by Dr. Eduardo NegueruelaPresentation of poetry book: Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, April, 23rd, 2009, 7:00pm Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana
Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, Directo...
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
entro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana
Presentation of poetry book: Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, April, 23rd, 2009, 7:00pm Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program at the University of Miami, and Assistant Professor of Spanish Second Language Acquisition at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, has been selected as the winner of "Nuevos valores de la poesía hispana 2008", a literary competition sponsored by Editorial Baquiana and the Centro Cultural Español de Miami. His book of poetry, Tropología, will be presented this coming Thursday, April, 23rd, 2009, at 7:00pm at the Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana. 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite 170. Coral Gables, FL 33134 About the first place: The jury granted, by a majority of votes, the first place to the book of poems entitled Tropología by Eduardo Negueruela Azarola, due to its exquisite variety, conceptual as well as formal, its mastering of the literary resources of the Spanish language, and the perfect understanding and equilibrium between experimental and traditional poetry. The books will be presented by: Gonzalo González de Lara, Education & Science Attaché – General Consulate of Spain in Miami, Francisco Javier Usero Vïlchez – Professor of the Program of International Studies from the Ministry of Education of Spain, and Maricel Mayor Marsán – Chief Editor of Baquiana Literary Magazine.
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entro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana
Presentation of poetry book: Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, April, 23rd, 2009, 7:00pm Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program at the University of Miami, and Assistant Professor of Spanish Second Language Acquisition at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, has been selected as the winner of "Nuevos valores de la poesía hispana 2008", a literary competition sponsored by Editorial Baquiana and the Centro Cultural Español de Miami. His book of poetry, Tropología, will be presented this coming Thursday, April, 23rd, 2009, at 7:00pm at the Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana. 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite 170. Coral Gables, FL 33134 About the first place: The jury granted, by a majority of votes, the first place to the book of poems entitled Tropología by Eduardo Negueruela Azarola, due to its exquisite variety, conceptual as well as formal, its mastering of the literary resources of the Spanish language, and the perfect understanding and equilibrium between experimental and traditional poetry. The books will be presented by: Gonzalo González de Lara, Education & Science Attaché – General Consulate of Spain in Miami, Francisco Javier Usero Vïlchez – Professor of the Program of International Studies from the Ministry of Education of Spain, and Maricel Mayor Marsán – Chief Editor of Baquiana Literary Magazine.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
“Homo Baby Boom” de Anna Boluda (2008) 27 mins.About the film:
Six families with lesbian or gay parents in Catalonia and Valencia, Spain, tell how they had children and the reactions they have had to face. They also s...
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Wolfsonian, FIU - Miami Beach
“Homo Baby Boom” de Anna Boluda (2008) 27 mins. Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m. In Catalan with English subtitles Documantary screening and Colloquium Co-presented with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Miami Beach Gay Pride 2009 At The Wolfsonian FIU 1001 Washington Ave. Miami Beach, Fl. 33139. About the film: Six families with lesbian or gay parents in Catalonia and Valencia, Spain, tell how they had children and the reactions they have had to face. They also show how the legal gains for same-sex marriage and adoption in 2005 have changed their lives. After the film UM faculty Drs. Brenna Munro (English), Gema Pérez-Sánchez (Modern Languages), and Juris Doctor Candidate Thomas J. Hart, Jr. (Law School) will discuss the legal conditions for LGBTQ families in South Africa, Spain, and the US, respectively.
The Wolfsonian, FIU - Miami Beach
“Homo Baby Boom” de Anna Boluda (2008) 27 mins. Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m. In Catalan with English subtitles Documantary screening and Colloquium Co-presented with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Miami Beach Gay Pride 2009 At The Wolfsonian FIU 1001 Washington Ave. Miami Beach, Fl. 33139. About the film: Six families with lesbian or gay parents in Catalonia and Valencia, Spain, tell how they had children and the reactions they have had to face. They also show how the legal gains for same-sex marriage and adoption in 2005 have changed their lives. After the film UM faculty Drs. Brenna Munro (English), Gema Pérez-Sánchez (Modern Languages), and Juris Doctor Candidate Thomas J. Hart, Jr. (Law School) will discuss the legal conditions for LGBTQ families in South Africa, Spain, and the US, respectively.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Round Table Discussion: Queer Art Social InterventionsArt and culture are well known for their role as vehicles of expression and communication. They become essential motors for change in repressive or unfair situations. What has b...
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Bass Museum of Art
UM FACULTY PARTICIPATE IN MIAMI BEACH CULTURAL EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE CENTRO CULTURAL ESPAÑOL DE MIAMI Round Table Discussion: Queer Art Social Interventions Wednesday April 15th, 7pm At . Bass Museum of Art. Free Admission Participants: Pablo Pintado, curator; David Leddick, photographer; David Trullo, artist and Gema Pérez Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish at UM. 2121 Park Ave Vino de bienvenida cortesía de Campo Viejo Art and culture are well known for their role as vehicles of expression and communication. They become essential motors for change in repressive or unfair situations. What has been the role of culture in the fight for the civil rights of minorities? Participants in this round table discussion include representatives from the visual arts, literature, and pop culture who will discuss how culture has contributed to the visibility of homosexuality and what goals might LBTQ culture embrace now.
Bass Museum of Art
UM FACULTY PARTICIPATE IN MIAMI BEACH CULTURAL EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE CENTRO CULTURAL ESPAÑOL DE MIAMI Round Table Discussion: Queer Art Social Interventions Wednesday April 15th, 7pm At . Bass Museum of Art. Free Admission Participants: Pablo Pintado, curator; David Leddick, photographer; David Trullo, artist and Gema Pérez Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish at UM. 2121 Park Ave Vino de bienvenida cortesía de Campo Viejo Art and culture are well known for their role as vehicles of expression and communication. They become essential motors for change in repressive or unfair situations. What has been the role of culture in the fight for the civil rights of minorities? Participants in this round table discussion include representatives from the visual arts, literature, and pop culture who will discuss how culture has contributed to the visibility of homosexuality and what goals might LBTQ culture embrace now.
Friday, April 10, 2009
“Detectives in the Classroom: L2 Development and the Sociocultural Mind” by Dr. Eduardo NegueruelaThe Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce its Faculty Lecture Series for April 2009. The lectures will be held at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 210 Me...
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MB210-01, MLL Conference Room
Friday, April 10–Professor Eduardo Negueruela
“Detectives in the Classroom: L2 Development and the Sociocultural Mind”
Abstract: This presentation outlines the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical implications of adopting a sociocultural understanding of the human mind in the field of Second Language (L2) Teaching and Learning. Based on Vygotsky’s theory of conceptual development (Vygotsky, 1986) and Galperin’s Systemic-Theoretical Instruction (STI), Professor Negueruela argues that L2 development should be constructed as a conceptual process. He begins by proposing an alternative sociocultural representation of the human mind. Then, he considers the methodological implications for research and data collection that a Sociocultural understanding of the mind and L2 development offers. Finally, basic pedagogical implications for the L2 classroom are explored. The paper concludes by proposing that the critical moment in second language development is mediation through tools of the mind -specifically mediation through concepts. Through studying conceptual mediation in second language teaching and testing, we are not only able to assess second language development from a prognosis stance but we are also able to capture the essence of the mediated mind.
Eduardo Negueruela holds a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University, and is Assistant Professor of Spanish Second Language Acquisition at the University of Miami. He works on Sociocultural theory, Spanish second language acquisition, and Foreign Language pedagogy. He is currently working on a monograph entitled Second Language Development and the Sociocultural Mind.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
“ Who comes first, what comes second?Curricular sequencing in collegiate foreign language education” by Dr. Hiram Maxim, Emory UniversityTHE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
Dr. Hiram Maxim,Emory University
“ Who comes first, what comes second?Curricular sequ...
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Merrick Building 210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY Dr. Hiram Maxim Emory University “ Who comes first, what comes second? Curricular sequencing in collegiate foreign language education” THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009, AT 4:00 P.M. MERRICK BUILDING CONFERENCE ROOM, MB 210-01 Refreshments will be served. For over twenty years there have been increasing calls for and interest in overcoming the traditional division between lower-level "language" courses and upper-level "content" courses in collegiate foreign language (FL) education. The recommendation in the 2007 report by the Modern Language Association's Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages to transform curriculum and departmental governance represents one of the most recent and public examples of this growing concern about the efficacy of bifurcated departmental curricula. While such pronouncements would seem to reflect a growing consensus in the profession about the need to address curricular incoherence in collegiate FL departments, there has been, to date, very little attention to theoretical principles or practical steps that can guide departments in accomplishing this daunting task. Specifically, one of the central challenges facing departments is the establishment of a four-year curricular sequence that integrates the study of language and content at all levels of the curriculum. This talk will respond to this shortcoming by presenting how genre can be a particularly helpful construct for conceptualizing, sequencing, and implementing an integrated four-year undergraduate curriculum. Examples from an ongoing genre-based curriculum reform project at an undergraduate FL department will be provided. Hiram H. Maxim (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of German Studies and a Core faculty member in the Program in Linguistics. His research focuses on instructed adult second language acquisition (SLA) with specific interest in curricular models that support the longitudinal nature of second language development. He currently is applying much of this research as the coordinator of a full-scale revision of the undergraduate curriculum in his home department at Emory
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY Dr. Hiram Maxim Emory University “ Who comes first, what comes second? Curricular sequencing in collegiate foreign language education” THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009, AT 4:00 P.M. MERRICK BUILDING CONFERENCE ROOM, MB 210-01 Refreshments will be served. For over twenty years there have been increasing calls for and interest in overcoming the traditional division between lower-level "language" courses and upper-level "content" courses in collegiate foreign language (FL) education. The recommendation in the 2007 report by the Modern Language Association's Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages to transform curriculum and departmental governance represents one of the most recent and public examples of this growing concern about the efficacy of bifurcated departmental curricula. While such pronouncements would seem to reflect a growing consensus in the profession about the need to address curricular incoherence in collegiate FL departments, there has been, to date, very little attention to theoretical principles or practical steps that can guide departments in accomplishing this daunting task. Specifically, one of the central challenges facing departments is the establishment of a four-year curricular sequence that integrates the study of language and content at all levels of the curriculum. This talk will respond to this shortcoming by presenting how genre can be a particularly helpful construct for conceptualizing, sequencing, and implementing an integrated four-year undergraduate curriculum. Examples from an ongoing genre-based curriculum reform project at an undergraduate FL department will be provided. Hiram H. Maxim (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of German Studies and a Core faculty member in the Program in Linguistics. His research focuses on instructed adult second language acquisition (SLA) with specific interest in curricular models that support the longitudinal nature of second language development. He currently is applying much of this research as the coordinator of a full-scale revision of the undergraduate curriculum in his home department at Emory
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Friday, April 3, 2009
“Educating ‘Our Indians’ in ‘Our America’: Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and the Construction of Brazilian Modernity”, Dr. Tracy Devine GuzmánThe Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce its Faculty Lecture Series for April 2009. The lectures will be held at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 210 Me...
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MB210-01, MLL Conference Room
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce its Faculty Lecture Series for April 2009. The lectures will be held at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 210 Merrick Building. Papers are available from the authors. Please write and request a copy. A reception will follow each lecture. Friday, April 3 – Professor Tracy Devine Guzmán,
“Educating ‘Our Indians’ in ‘Our America’: Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and the Construction of Brazilian Modernity”
Abstract: Indigenous peoples have been used or imagined as guardians of Brazilian borders since the mid-nineteenth century. This association was central to the foundation of the Indian Protection Service (SPI) during early 1900s and culminated with the “Amazonian Vigilance System” (SIVAM) at turn of the millennium. The longstanding desire for defensive dominion over disputed national territories has subjected “Indians” to interrelated discourses of scientific progress, national security, and economic development. A “trinity” of Brazilian modernity, these goals interpellated native peoples primarily through the rhetoric of education, which grounds their historical relationship with dominant national society. Drawing on SPI records, government documents, journalism, personal testimony, and visual media, this paper traces the impact of the “modernist trinity” on indigenist policy and the lives of those who perpetrated or were subjected to its tutelary power. By transforming private indigenous spaces into public domain, Brazil’s “anti-imperialist imperialism” propagated a colonialist, metonymic relationship between “our Indians” and “our America” into the twenty-first century.
Tracy Devine Guzmán Tracy Devine Guzmán holds a Ph.D. from Duke University. Her work appears in the Bulletin of Latin American Research, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, the Latin Americanist, and other specialized publications in the U.S. and Latin America. She is working on a book that examines the role of indigeneity in the Brazilian cultural imaginary.
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The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce its Faculty Lecture Series for April 2009. The lectures will be held at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 210 Merrick Building. Papers are available from the authors. Please write and request a copy. A reception will follow each lecture. Friday, April 3 – Professor Tracy Devine Guzmán,
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
“In or Out: Belonging in the Hispanic Caribbean Literature”,by Dr. Marc Brudzinski
Dr. Marc Brudzinski is presenting a lecture as the second keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and ...
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Communications International Building, 3053 Shoma Hall - Third Floor
Dr. Marc Brudzinski is presenting a lecture as the second keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and Macrocosms: Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts", on March 27-28, 2009. Dr. Marc Brudzinski is a Professor of French at the University of Miami. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies at Duke University (2001). B.A., Williams College (1993). Also taught at North Carolina Central U before coming to U Miami in 2001. Current research interests concern theories of the Caribbean culture and literary imaginations of networks of communication within and beyond the nation. Interests also include postcolonial theories of space, and the relationship between lived space and literary sensibility in the Caribbean. Currently finishing a manuscript on the literary and cultural dimensions of secrecy in the French and Spanish Caribbean from the 19th to through the 20th centuries. Saturday, March 28, 2009 12:00 p.m. Keynote Address: “In or Out: Belonging in the Hispanic Caribbean Literature” Dr. Marc Brudzinski Professor of French, Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean Literature University of Miami Communication International Building – 3053 Shoma Hall, Third Floor
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Communications International Building, 3053 Shoma Hall - Third Floor
Dr. Marc Brudzinski is presenting a lecture as the second keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and Macrocosms: Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts", on March 27-28, 2009. Dr. Marc Brudzinski is a Professor of French at the University of Miami. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies at Duke University (2001). B.A., Williams College (1993). Also taught at North Carolina Central U before coming to U Miami in 2001. Current research interests concern theories of the Caribbean culture and literary imaginations of networks of communication within and beyond the nation. Interests also include postcolonial theories of space, and the relationship between lived space and literary sensibility in the Caribbean. Currently finishing a manuscript on the literary and cultural dimensions of secrecy in the French and Spanish Caribbean from the 19th to through the 20th centuries. Saturday, March 28, 2009 12:00 p.m. Keynote Address: “In or Out: Belonging in the Hispanic Caribbean Literature” Dr. Marc Brudzinski Professor of French, Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean Literature University of Miami Communication International Building – 3053 Shoma Hall, Third Floor
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
"Microcosms and Macrocosms: Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts",AY 2009 Modern Languages and Literatures Gradudate Student Conference
Graduate Student Conference
March 27 – 28, 2009
Hosted by the Department of
Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami, Coral Gables
7:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Merrick Building 210-01
Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:00 – 8:45 am: Breakfast Merrick Breezeway, Second Floor Session I: Literary Spaces, Part 1: Intertextual/ Metanarrative Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210 -01 Chair: Lennie Coleman 9:00 am: Concepción Torres Borges y Auster. El espacio de la creación: La habitación cerrada 9:20 am: Fredrik Ronnback The Empty Space: Spatiality and Meaning in the Work of Georges Perec 9:40 am: Claudia Lequerica Lucía Jeréz and the Treatment of Space 10:00 am: Claudia Arteaga “Me cago en la literatura”: La derrota final en el protagonista de Yepeto de Roberto Cossa Session II: Literary Spaces, Part 2: Poetic/Post Poetic Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01 Chair: Vanessa Reynaud 9:00 am: Mark Aquilano “Augustinian and Thomistic Dream Theory and the Allegoric Visions of Micer Francisco Imperial” 9:20 am: Mara Pastor “Unidos por la muerte”: herencia y espectros en la poética de Leopoldo María Panero 9:40 am: Marta del Pozo El espacio postpoético como encuentro entre ciencia y poesía en la obra de Agustín Fernández Mallo Session I: Psychological and Identity Spaces Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210 – 01 Chair: Mary Bartsh 10:40 am: Mamadou Moustapha The in-between in Edouard Glissant’s work: Introduction à une poétique du Divers and Poétique de la Relation 11:00 am: Irene Koyada Psychological Spaces: A Necessity for Creativity Session II: Queer/Gender Space Modern Languages Library, Merrick 210-02 Chair: Melva Persico 10:40 am: Aaron Boalick Falling Through Narrative Spaces in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and 20 Centímetros 11:00 am: Marine Piriou La Religieuse de Denis Diderot ou l’art de la mise-en-scène homotextuelle 11:40 – 12:00 pm: Coffee Break Merrick Breezeway, Second Floor 12:00 p.m. Keynote Address: “In or Out: Belonging in the Hispanic Caribbean Literature” Dr. Marc Brudzinski Professor of French, Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean Literature University of Miami Communication International Building – 3053 Shoma Hall, Third Floor 1:15 – 2:15 PM LUNCH BREAK Communication International Building – Third Floor Patio Session V: Intimate Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210 - 01 Chair: Julie Samit 2:30 pm: Lennie Coleman Redefining the Home: Intimate Spaces in Ucrania and Nunca pasa nada 2:50 pm: Sandra Navarro Lo posible y lo irrealizable en El portero 3:10 pm: María Fernanda Negrete Cockroach-Scale Writing: The Metamorphoses of Space in The Passion According to G.H. Session VI: Urban Spaces Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01 Chair: Edwin Murillo 3:50 pm: Jim Deys Domestic and Public Space in The Lonely Londoners and In Pursuit of the English: Housing and Identity Formation in the Post-WWII Novel 4:10 pm: Fontaine Lien Mapping the Dialectic Space between Ville and Campagne in 19th Century French Literature Session VII: Cinematic Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01 Chair: Sabrina Drai-Wengier 4:50 pm: John Stadler “Rejected”: Reading Postmodern Space in Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Film with and through Web 2.0 5:10 pm: Felipe Pruneda Sentíes The Linguistic Geography of Cinema: The Use of Intertitles in Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:00 – 8:45 am: Breakfast Merrick Breezeway, Second Floor Session I: Literary Spaces, Part 1: Intertextual/ Metanarrative Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210 -01 Chair: Lennie Coleman 9:00 am: Concepción Torres Borges y Auster. El espacio de la creación: La habitación cerrada 9:20 am: Fredrik Ronnback The Empty Space: Spatiality and Meaning in the Work of Georges Perec 9:40 am: Claudia Lequerica Lucía Jeréz and the Treatment of Space 10:00 am: Claudia Arteaga “Me cago en la literatura”: La derrota final en el protagonista de Yepeto de Roberto Cossa Session II: Literary Spaces, Part 2: Poetic/Post Poetic Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01 Chair: Vanessa Reynaud 9:00 am: Mark Aquilano “Augustinian and Thomistic Dream Theory and the Allegoric Visions of Micer Francisco Imperial” 9:20 am: Mara Pastor “Unidos por la muerte”: herencia y espectros en la poética de Leopoldo María Panero 9:40 am: Marta del Pozo El espacio postpoético como encuentro entre ciencia y poesía en la obra de Agustín Fernández Mallo Session I: Psychological and Identity Spaces Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210 – 01 Chair: Mary Bartsh 10:40 am: Mamadou Moustapha The in-between in Edouard Glissant’s work: Introduction à une poétique du Divers and Poétique de la Relation 11:00 am: Irene Koyada Psychological Spaces: A Necessity for Creativity Session II: Queer/Gender Space Modern Languages Library, Merrick 210-02 Chair: Melva Persico 10:40 am: Aaron Boalick Falling Through Narrative Spaces in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and 20 Centímetros 11:00 am: Marine Piriou La Religieuse de Denis Diderot ou l’art de la mise-en-scène homotextuelle 11:40 – 12:00 pm: Coffee Break Merrick Breezeway, Second Floor 12:00 p.m. Keynote Address: “In or Out: Belonging in the Hispanic Caribbean Literature” Dr. Marc Brudzinski Professor of French, Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean Literature University of Miami Communication International Building – 3053 Shoma Hall, Third Floor 1:15 – 2:15 PM LUNCH BREAK Communication International Building – Third Floor Patio Session V: Intimate Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210 - 01 Chair: Julie Samit 2:30 pm: Lennie Coleman Redefining the Home: Intimate Spaces in Ucrania and Nunca pasa nada 2:50 pm: Sandra Navarro Lo posible y lo irrealizable en El portero 3:10 pm: María Fernanda Negrete Cockroach-Scale Writing: The Metamorphoses of Space in The Passion According to G.H. Session VI: Urban Spaces Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01 Chair: Edwin Murillo 3:50 pm: Jim Deys Domestic and Public Space in The Lonely Londoners and In Pursuit of the English: Housing and Identity Formation in the Post-WWII Novel 4:10 pm: Fontaine Lien Mapping the Dialectic Space between Ville and Campagne in 19th Century French Literature Session VII: Cinematic Space Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01 Chair: Sabrina Drai-Wengier 4:50 pm: John Stadler “Rejected”: Reading Postmodern Space in Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Film with and through Web 2.0 5:10 pm: Felipe Pruneda Sentíes The Linguistic Geography of Cinema: The Use of Intertitles in Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma
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Friday, March 27, 2009
"Re-presenting Oceania:Arboresence and Errancy in French Caribbean Literature" by Jean Michael DashDr. Michael Dash is presenting a lecture as the opening keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and Ma...
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Communications International Building, 3053 Shoma Hall - Third Floor
Dr. Michael Dash is presenting a lecture as the opening keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and Macrocosms: Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts", on March 27-28, 2009. Dr. Michael Dash is a Professor of French, and Social & Cultural Analysis. He has been awarded multiple honors and Fullbrights such as the U.W.I. Award for Excellence in Research; Senior Fulbright Hays Award, Senior Fulbright Research Award. His publications include: Culture and Customs of Haiti (Greenwood Press, 2001). Libete: A Haiti Anthology, Ed. with Charles Arthur (Latin American Bureau, 1999). The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (University Press of Virginia, 1998). Haiti and the United States (MacMillan, 1997). Edouard Glissant (Cambridge University Press, 1995). Literature and Ideology in Haiti: 1915-1961 (MacMillan, 1981). Jacques Stephen Alexis (Black Images, 1975) Friday, March 27, 2009 3:45 p.m. Welcoming Remarks by Dr. David Ellison, Modern Languages and Literatures Chair Communication International Building – 3053 Shoma Hall, Third Floor 4:00 p.m. Keynote Address: [bold]“Re-presenting Oceania:Arboresence and Errancy in French Caribbean Literature”[/bold] [bold]Dr. J. Michael Dash[/bold] Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis New York University 5:00 p.m. Reception Communication International Building – Third Floor Patio
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Communications International Building, 3053 Shoma Hall - Third Floor
Dr. Michael Dash is presenting a lecture as the opening keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and Macrocosms: Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts", on March 27-28, 2009. Dr. Michael Dash is a Professor of French, and Social & Cultural Analysis. He has been awarded multiple honors and Fullbrights such as the U.W.I. Award for Excellence in Research; Senior Fulbright Hays Award, Senior Fulbright Research Award. His publications include: Culture and Customs of Haiti (Greenwood Press, 2001). Libete: A Haiti Anthology, Ed. with Charles Arthur (Latin American Bureau, 1999). The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (University Press of Virginia, 1998). Haiti and the United States (MacMillan, 1997). Edouard Glissant (Cambridge University Press, 1995). Literature and Ideology in Haiti: 1915-1961 (MacMillan, 1981). Jacques Stephen Alexis (Black Images, 1975) Friday, March 27, 2009 3:45 p.m. Welcoming Remarks by Dr. David Ellison, Modern Languages and Literatures Chair Communication International Building – 3053 Shoma Hall, Third Floor 4:00 p.m. Keynote Address: [bold]“Re-presenting Oceania:Arboresence and Errancy in French Caribbean Literature”[/bold] [bold]Dr. J. Michael Dash[/bold] Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis New York University 5:00 p.m. Reception Communication International Building – Third Floor Patio
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A COLLOQUIUM ON AND WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CAS Wesley Gallery
2:00 – 3:30 P.M. SESSION ONE Moderator: Marc Brudzinski Greetings by David Ellison, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures DAVID ELLISON « Une histoire. Une maison. Un livre. Un désert. Une errance. Le repentir et le pardon (L’enfant de sable) » SUBHA XAVIER, « L’immigré et l’éternel départ (Les yeux baissés et Le dernier immigré) » RALPH HEYNDELS, « On ne part pas. (Partir) » CONVERSATION WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN 3:30 P.M. COFFEE BREAK 3:45 – 4:45 P.M. SESSION TWO Moderator: Maria Galli Stampino GENERAL DISCUSSION WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN ON HIS WORK AND INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT 4:45 P.M. COFFEE BREAK 5:00 – 6:00 P.M. SESSION THREE Moderator: Arthur Tang Greetings by Norbert Duffort, Cultural Attaché of France in Miami Dr. RALPH HEYNDELS, Ecrire dans la soudure fraternelle : Tahar Ben Jelloun TAHAR BEN JELLOUN, Ecrire dans la langue de l’autre 6 :15 P.M. RECEPTION This event is co-sponsored by the Modern Languages and Literatures Department Carter Memorial Fund and the Consulate of France in Miami, with the support of the Alliance Française of Miami-Fort Lauderdale. An English summary of the interventions will be provided during each session of the colloquium.
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CAS Wesley Gallery
2:00 – 3:30 P.M. SESSION ONE Moderator: Marc Brudzinski Greetings by David Ellison, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures DAVID ELLISON « Une histoire. Une maison. Un livre. Un désert. Une errance. Le repentir et le pardon (L’enfant de sable) » SUBHA XAVIER, « L’immigré et l’éternel départ (Les yeux baissés et Le dernier immigré) » RALPH HEYNDELS, « On ne part pas. (Partir) » CONVERSATION WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN 3:30 P.M. COFFEE BREAK 3:45 – 4:45 P.M. SESSION TWO Moderator: Maria Galli Stampino GENERAL DISCUSSION WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN ON HIS WORK AND INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT 4:45 P.M. COFFEE BREAK 5:00 – 6:00 P.M. SESSION THREE Moderator: Arthur Tang Greetings by Norbert Duffort, Cultural Attaché of France in Miami Dr. RALPH HEYNDELS, Ecrire dans la soudure fraternelle : Tahar Ben Jelloun TAHAR BEN JELLOUN, Ecrire dans la langue de l’autre 6 :15 P.M. RECEPTION This event is co-sponsored by the Modern Languages and Literatures Department Carter Memorial Fund and the Consulate of France in Miami, with the support of the Alliance Française of Miami-Fort Lauderdale. An English summary of the interventions will be provided during each session of the colloquium.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A LECTURE BY TAHAR BEN JELLOUN "Ecrire dans la langue de l’autre"THIS LECTURE IS PART OF THE COLLOQUIUM ON AND WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THAT SAME AFTERNOON AT THE C.A.S. CENTER FROM 2 TO 5 P.M. (RECEPTION TO FOLLOW AT 6:15)...
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
CAS Wesley Gallery
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF ARTS SCIENCES THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES HAS THE PLEASURE OF INVITING YOU TO A LECTURE BY TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Ecrire dans la langue de l’autre WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009, 5:00 P.M. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GALLERY AND CONFERENCE CENTER (WESLEY CENTER, 1210 STANFORD DRIVE) Author of more than 35 books of fiction, poetry, theater, and essay – from Harrouda published by Denoël in 1973 to Au pays which will be released by Gallimard in March 2009 –, Tahar Ben Jelloun, who writes in French and is translated in over 40 languages, is considered as a major literary and intellectual figure of our time. Novels such as Moha le fou, Moha le sage (Seuil, 1978), L’enfant de sable (Seuil, 1985), La nuit de l’erreur (Seuil, 1997), among many others, along with his poetry (Poésie complète, Seuil, 1995), have been internationally acclaimed. The variety of rhetorical and narrative strategies and sites (Tangier, Naples, the Parisian “banlieues”); the dialectics of socio-historical issues (political repression, economical alienation, patriarchy), literary and visual esthetics (Caravagio, Giacometti, Genet) and subjective themes (loving passion, aging, existential solitude); and the poetical writing of his works have been examined by critics of all scholarly fields, from post-structuralism and new historicism to gender and post-colonial studies. In 1987, he received French most prestigious literary prize, the “Prix Goncourt”, for La nuit sacrée (Seuil). Most recently, he was awarded a Doctorate honoris causa by the University of Montreal and made “Officier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur”, French highest civil recognition. Living today between Tangier and Paris, Tahar Ben Jelloun – who was arrested in 1966 in his native Morocco, accused of having participated into the organization of student unrest against the government, and incarcerated in a military disciplinary camp during 7 months – has relentlessly advocated for the respect and enforcement of human rights in both France and Morocco, and has been engaged in causes such as the defense of immigrants and underprivileged people all over the world, and in the fight against racism, xenophobia, homophobia, religious intolerance and fundamentalism, (neo)colonialism and imperialist wars, and all forms of prejudice, injustice and alienation. Several of his writings bear testimony of this critical engagement, including novels – La réclusion solitaire (Denoël, 1975), Les raisins de la galère (Fayard, 1996), Partir (Gallimard, 2005) – ; theater – Entretien avec M. Said Hammadi ouvrier algérien (Actes Sud, 1984) – ; essays – Hospitalité française (Seuil, 1984), Le racisme expliqué à ma fille (Seuil, 1997), L’Islam expliqué aux enfants (Seuil, 2002) – ; and poetry – Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures (Maspero, 1976), La remontée des cendres (Seuil, 1991). Tahar Ben Jelloun is also an influential opinion journalist who contributes on cultural, social and political issues many major European newspapers (Le Monde, Il Corriere de la Sera, El Pais, among others). THIS LECTURE IS PART OF THE COLLOQUIUM ON AND WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THAT SAME AFTERNOON AT THE C.A.S. CENTER FROM 2 TO 5 P.M. (RECEPTION TO FOLLOW AT 6:15) THIS EVENT IS ORGANIZED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES DEPARTMENT CARTER MEMORIAL FUND AND THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF FRANCE IN MIAMI.
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CAS Wesley Gallery
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF ARTS SCIENCES THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES HAS THE PLEASURE OF INVITING YOU TO A LECTURE BY TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Ecrire dans la langue de l’autre WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009, 5:00 P.M. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GALLERY AND CONFERENCE CENTER (WESLEY CENTER, 1210 STANFORD DRIVE) Author of more than 35 books of fiction, poetry, theater, and essay – from Harrouda published by Denoël in 1973 to Au pays which will be released by Gallimard in March 2009 –, Tahar Ben Jelloun, who writes in French and is translated in over 40 languages, is considered as a major literary and intellectual figure of our time. Novels such as Moha le fou, Moha le sage (Seuil, 1978), L’enfant de sable (Seuil, 1985), La nuit de l’erreur (Seuil, 1997), among many others, along with his poetry (Poésie complète, Seuil, 1995), have been internationally acclaimed. The variety of rhetorical and narrative strategies and sites (Tangier, Naples, the Parisian “banlieues”); the dialectics of socio-historical issues (political repression, economical alienation, patriarchy), literary and visual esthetics (Caravagio, Giacometti, Genet) and subjective themes (loving passion, aging, existential solitude); and the poetical writing of his works have been examined by critics of all scholarly fields, from post-structuralism and new historicism to gender and post-colonial studies. In 1987, he received French most prestigious literary prize, the “Prix Goncourt”, for La nuit sacrée (Seuil). Most recently, he was awarded a Doctorate honoris causa by the University of Montreal and made “Officier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur”, French highest civil recognition. Living today between Tangier and Paris, Tahar Ben Jelloun – who was arrested in 1966 in his native Morocco, accused of having participated into the organization of student unrest against the government, and incarcerated in a military disciplinary camp during 7 months – has relentlessly advocated for the respect and enforcement of human rights in both France and Morocco, and has been engaged in causes such as the defense of immigrants and underprivileged people all over the world, and in the fight against racism, xenophobia, homophobia, religious intolerance and fundamentalism, (neo)colonialism and imperialist wars, and all forms of prejudice, injustice and alienation. Several of his writings bear testimony of this critical engagement, including novels – La réclusion solitaire (Denoël, 1975), Les raisins de la galère (Fayard, 1996), Partir (Gallimard, 2005) – ; theater – Entretien avec M. Said Hammadi ouvrier algérien (Actes Sud, 1984) – ; essays – Hospitalité française (Seuil, 1984), Le racisme expliqué à ma fille (Seuil, 1997), L’Islam expliqué aux enfants (Seuil, 2002) – ; and poetry – Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures (Maspero, 1976), La remontée des cendres (Seuil, 1991). Tahar Ben Jelloun is also an influential opinion journalist who contributes on cultural, social and political issues many major European newspapers (Le Monde, Il Corriere de la Sera, El Pais, among others). THIS LECTURE IS PART OF THE COLLOQUIUM ON AND WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THAT SAME AFTERNOON AT THE C.A.S. CENTER FROM 2 TO 5 P.M. (RECEPTION TO FOLLOW AT 6:15) THIS EVENT IS ORGANIZED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES DEPARTMENT CARTER MEMORIAL FUND AND THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF FRANCE IN MIAMI.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Dr. Anne-Emmanuelle Deysine, “Education Opportunities in France for Undergraduate and Graduate Students”Anne- Emmanuelle DEYSINE, lives in Paris. She received her Juris Doctor from the Paris II Law School and her Ph.D from the University of Paris. She also has a Masters' degree of...
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AND THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI presents a lecture by Dr. Anne-Emmanuelle Deysine President of Mission Interuniversitaire deCoordination des Echanges “Education Opportunities in France for Undergraduate and Graduate Students” Monday, February 23, 2009 3:45 P.M. MLL Conference Room: Merrick Building 210-01 REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED Anne- Emmanuelle DEYSINE, lives in Paris. She received her Juris Doctor from the Paris II Law School and her Ph.D from the University of Paris. She also has a Masters' degree of American Studies and is a graduate of Paris Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She is a Professor at Paris X-Nanterre University, where she is Director of a Master’ Programme of International Business and cross cultural Negotiation ["Affaires Internationales et Négociation Interculturelle, aini] that she created in 1994. She was Vice President for International Relations at Paris X from 1998 to 2003. During that period she set up cooperation programmes with higher education institutions in Europe, Eastern Europe, America, South America and Asia (China, Japan, Thailand). She is now President of the US/French consortium of academic cooperation, Micefa. She has taught in various European and US institutions and co-directs the GGU comparative summer Law Programme in Paris. She has written about aspects of French/American law, such as "Labour Law in the US" in L'Etat des Etats - Unis" for Editions La Découverte, Paris, 1990, the Independent Counsel (in Le Monde, 1999) and has published numerous articles on Product liability, standards, Intellectual Property Rights (in le MOCI, 1996-1999). Additionally, she has had numerous interviews on French radio and LCI on American Politics and legal questions.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AND THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI presents a lecture by Dr. Anne-Emmanuelle Deysine President of Mission Interuniversitaire deCoordination des Echanges “Education Opportunities in France for Undergraduate and Graduate Students” Monday, February 23, 2009 3:45 P.M. MLL Conference Room: Merrick Building 210-01 REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED Anne- Emmanuelle DEYSINE, lives in Paris. She received her Juris Doctor from the Paris II Law School and her Ph.D from the University of Paris. She also has a Masters' degree of American Studies and is a graduate of Paris Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She is a Professor at Paris X-Nanterre University, where she is Director of a Master’ Programme of International Business and cross cultural Negotiation ["Affaires Internationales et Négociation Interculturelle, aini] that she created in 1994. She was Vice President for International Relations at Paris X from 1998 to 2003. During that period she set up cooperation programmes with higher education institutions in Europe, Eastern Europe, America, South America and Asia (China, Japan, Thailand). She is now President of the US/French consortium of academic cooperation, Micefa. She has taught in various European and US institutions and co-directs the GGU comparative summer Law Programme in Paris. She has written about aspects of French/American law, such as "Labour Law in the US" in L'Etat des Etats - Unis" for Editions La Découverte, Paris, 1990, the Independent Counsel (in Le Monde, 1999) and has published numerous articles on Product liability, standards, Intellectual Property Rights (in le MOCI, 1996-1999). Additionally, she has had numerous interviews on French radio and LCI on American Politics and legal questions.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
REVISITING FOUCAULT IN 2008Dr. Guy Haarscher from Free University of Brussels & Duke Univeristy will lecture in English on the topic of Foucault.
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
CAS Wesley Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive
Dr. Guy Haarscher (Doctor of Law, 1971; Ph.D., 1977, Free University of Brussels) is Professor at the Free University of Brussels, President of its world famous Center for Philosophy of Law, where he succeeded to Chaīm Perelman, and former Dean of its College of Philosophy and Letters, He is also on the faculty of Duke University. He was member of the Board of Trustees of the Free University of Brussels from 1982 to 1984, and is currently on the Board of Trustees of its Martin Buber Institute. An internationally recognized scholar in critical theory, philosophy, philosophy of law, cultural studies, and rhetoric and argumentation, Dr. Haarscher has published more than 150 articles and 11 books, including the critical edition and translation of Lukàcs’ The Soul and the Forms for the series co-directed by Sartre at Gallimard, L’Ontologie de Marx (Brussels University Press), La Raison du plus fort (Mardaga), La Laīcité (Presses Universitaires de France), Le Fantôme de la liberté (Labor), Philosophie du Droit (Dalloz), and most recently Juger les droits de l’homme. Europe et Etats-Unis face à face (Bruylant, 2008), in addition to 4 books written in collaboration, and 11 edited books. He has extensively written on Hegel, Zola, Heidegger, Sartre, Aron, Perelman, the Frankfurt School, Habermas, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Duras – just to name a few –, along with issues related to esthetics, ethics, human rights, Judaism and Islam in the contemporary world. He has been Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University, Chaīm Perelman Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, Visiting Professor at Columbia University and CUNY, at the European Academy for the Theory of Law (Brussels), at the Central European University (Budapest), at the College of Europe (Bruges), at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the University of Florence, and has lectured all around the world, including at the Collège de France, the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt), the Catholic University of Louvain, the Institut d’Etudes Européennes (Brussels), and the Universities of Paris-Panthéon Sorbonne, Montreal, Giessen, Athens, Saint-Galles, Murcia, Siena, Tel Aviv, among numerous others. Member of the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, Dr. Haarscher has been awarded numerous prizes including from the Royal Academy of Belgium and the Belgian French Community Parliament. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
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Dr. Guy Haarscher (Doctor of Law, 1971; Ph.D., 1977, Free University of Brussels) is Professor at the Free University of Brussels, President of its world famous Center for Philosophy of Law, where he succeeded to Chaīm Perelman, and former Dean of its College of Philosophy and Letters, He is also on the faculty of Duke University. He was member of the Board of Trustees of the Free University of Brussels from 1982 to 1984, and is currently on the Board of Trustees of its Martin Buber Institute. An internationally recognized scholar in critical theory, philosophy, philosophy of law, cultural studies, and rhetoric and argumentation, Dr. Haarscher has published more than 150 articles and 11 books, including the critical edition and translation of Lukàcs’ The Soul and the Forms for the series co-directed by Sartre at Gallimard, L’Ontologie de Marx (Brussels University Press), La Raison du plus fort (Mardaga), La Laīcité (Presses Universitaires de France), Le Fantôme de la liberté (Labor), Philosophie du Droit (Dalloz), and most recently Juger les droits de l’homme. Europe et Etats-Unis face à face (Bruylant, 2008), in addition to 4 books written in collaboration, and 11 edited books. He has extensively written on Hegel, Zola, Heidegger, Sartre, Aron, Perelman, the Frankfurt School, Habermas, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Duras – just to name a few –, along with issues related to esthetics, ethics, human rights, Judaism and Islam in the contemporary world. He has been Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University, Chaīm Perelman Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, Visiting Professor at Columbia University and CUNY, at the European Academy for the Theory of Law (Brussels), at the Central European University (Budapest), at the College of Europe (Bruges), at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the University of Florence, and has lectured all around the world, including at the Collège de France, the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt), the Catholic University of Louvain, the Institut d’Etudes Européennes (Brussels), and the Universities of Paris-Panthéon Sorbonne, Montreal, Giessen, Athens, Saint-Galles, Murcia, Siena, Tel Aviv, among numerous others. Member of the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, Dr. Haarscher has been awarded numerous prizes including from the Royal Academy of Belgium and the Belgian French Community Parliament. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
“The Art of Inventing Narrative Art”“A arte de inventar a arte narrativa”
“El arte de inventar el arte narrativo”
Nélida Piñon will give a lecture about "The Art of Inventing Narrative Art". The lecture will be held in a combination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
School of Communications, Shoma Hall, Room 3053
Nélida Piñon was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1937, in a family of Galician origins. She studied Journalism in the Department of Philosophy at Rio de Janeiro's Pontifical Catholic University, and furthered her studies at Columbia University. She inaugurated the first Chair in Literary Creation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1970, and held the Dr. Henry King Stanford Chair in Humanities at the University of Miami (1990 - 2003). She has also lectured at universities in France, Spain and Peru, as well as being a regular contributor to the Brazilian media. She began to write at the tender age of ten and was acclaimed worldwide in 1961 when she published 'Guide Map of Archangel Gabriel', a novel. 'Season of Fruit' (1966), 'Founder' (1969), 'The House of Passion' (1972), 'Weapons Room' (1973), 'Thebes of my Heart' (1974), 'The Force of Destiny' (1977), 'The Republic of Dreams' (1984), 'The Presumed Heart of America' (2002) and 'Voices of the Desert' (2004) all figure outstandingly amongst her literary production. Nélida comes to U.M. from her recent tour through Spain last month, where she launched in Spanish her most recent book, Aprendiz de Homero, published by Alfaguara. While in Spain, she participated in a ceremony in which the Don Quijote Prize was bestowed on Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. Also during this time in Spain, Ms. Piñon inaugurated the Foro Ibero América in Seville, of which she is founding member. The ceremony included a dialogue between Carlos Fuentes and Nélida Piñon on the work of one of the world’s greatest writers, the Brazilian author Machado de Assis.
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School of Communications, Shoma Hall, Room 3053
Nélida Piñon was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1937, in a family of Galician origins. She studied Journalism in the Department of Philosophy at Rio de Janeiro's Pontifical Catholic University, and furthered her studies at Columbia University. She inaugurated the first Chair in Literary Creation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1970, and held the Dr. Henry King Stanford Chair in Humanities at the University of Miami (1990 - 2003). She has also lectured at universities in France, Spain and Peru, as well as being a regular contributor to the Brazilian media. She began to write at the tender age of ten and was acclaimed worldwide in 1961 when she published 'Guide Map of Archangel Gabriel', a novel. 'Season of Fruit' (1966), 'Founder' (1969), 'The House of Passion' (1972), 'Weapons Room' (1973), 'Thebes of my Heart' (1974), 'The Force of Destiny' (1977), 'The Republic of Dreams' (1984), 'The Presumed Heart of America' (2002) and 'Voices of the Desert' (2004) all figure outstandingly amongst her literary production. Nélida comes to U.M. from her recent tour through Spain last month, where she launched in Spanish her most recent book, Aprendiz de Homero, published by Alfaguara. While in Spain, she participated in a ceremony in which the Don Quijote Prize was bestowed on Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. Also during this time in Spain, Ms. Piñon inaugurated the Foro Ibero América in Seville, of which she is founding member. The ceremony included a dialogue between Carlos Fuentes and Nélida Piñon on the work of one of the world’s greatest writers, the Brazilian author Machado de Assis.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
“Queer Diasporas: Inhabiting Bodies in a Landscape of Desire"Dr. Romero Bachiller will present her current work in progress on queer studies approaches to the study of immigration in contemporary Spain.
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
Carmen Romero Bachiller, holds a Ph.D. (2006) with European Mention in Sociology from the University Complutense in Madrid (Spain) about migrant women in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés in Madrid. She is currently working as Lectora (Assistant Professor) in Sociology and Sociology of Science in the Department of Sociology V (Sociological Theory) at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (Spain). Her research interests focus mainly on the study of bodies from a wide perspective that articulate feminist studies of technoscience, actor-network theory, intersectional feminism, queer theory, cultural and postcolonial studies. She has been Ph.D. visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S., 1999-2000), Lancaster University (U.K., 2001) and Utretcht Universitëit, (The Netherlands, 2002). She has participated in several research projects on transnational migrations and re-structuring of urban areas in Spain and also on the bio-medical practices and discourses in the production of sexed bodies. She has published several articles on those topics and co-edited the books El Eje del Mal es Heterosexual: Figuraciones, Prácticas y Movimientos Feministas Queer, (Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2005) and El Doble Filo de la Navaja: Violencia y Representación (Madrid: Trotta, 2006). At the moment she is working on queer diasporas and on a critique of re-biologization of sexual difference around genes and sexual hormones.
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Carmen Romero Bachiller, holds a Ph.D. (2006) with European Mention in Sociology from the University Complutense in Madrid (Spain) about migrant women in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés in Madrid. She is currently working as Lectora (Assistant Professor) in Sociology and Sociology of Science in the Department of Sociology V (Sociological Theory) at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (Spain). Her research interests focus mainly on the study of bodies from a wide perspective that articulate feminist studies of technoscience, actor-network theory, intersectional feminism, queer theory, cultural and postcolonial studies. She has been Ph.D. visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz (U.S., 1999-2000), Lancaster University (U.K., 2001) and Utretcht Universitëit, (The Netherlands, 2002). She has participated in several research projects on transnational migrations and re-structuring of urban areas in Spain and also on the bio-medical practices and discourses in the production of sexed bodies. She has published several articles on those topics and co-edited the books El Eje del Mal es Heterosexual: Figuraciones, Prácticas y Movimientos Feministas Queer, (Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2005) and El Doble Filo de la Navaja: Violencia y Representación (Madrid: Trotta, 2006). At the moment she is working on queer diasporas and on a critique of re-biologization of sexual difference around genes and sexual hormones.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Arabophonie Et Francophonie En TunisieDr. Ghazi Karmaoui will lecture in French. He will take and respond to questions in English and French.
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Merrick Building 210-01
Dr. Ghazi Karmaoui (Ph.D. University of Paris X-Nanterre), formerly Director of the University of Jendouba French Department, is currently Professor of French Literature at the University of Tunis - El Manar and Director of the University of Tunis Zaghouan Higher Institute for Applied Studies in the Humanities. He is also a member of the Tunisian National Commission on the Reform of French Studies in Higher Education and a Delegate to Zaghouan's Regional Assembly, among other academic and civic responsibilities. His fields of scholarship and teaching are French literature of the 19th and 20th century, art and literature (particularly impressionism), literary semiotics and socio-linguistics. He has published critical essays on Anise Koltz, Emile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Vallès, J.M-G. Le Clézio, Roger Vailland, Georges Perec, Jean Genet, Amin Zaoui, Judeo - Tunisian literature, French as a foreign language (FLE), and bilingualism in Tunisia. He has been a Visiting faculty at Middlebury College French School, and has lectured and presented papers at the Universities of Montreal. Lyon II, Paris VII-Denis Diderot, Cergy-Pontoise, Aix-en-Provence, Paris IV-Sorbonne, La Manouba, Damas, Madrid, and Miami.
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Dr. Ghazi Karmaoui (Ph.D. University of Paris X-Nanterre), formerly Director of the University of Jendouba French Department, is currently Professor of French Literature at the University of Tunis - El Manar and Director of the University of Tunis Zaghouan Higher Institute for Applied Studies in the Humanities. He is also a member of the Tunisian National Commission on the Reform of French Studies in Higher Education and a Delegate to Zaghouan's Regional Assembly, among other academic and civic responsibilities. His fields of scholarship and teaching are French literature of the 19th and 20th century, art and literature (particularly impressionism), literary semiotics and socio-linguistics. He has published critical essays on Anise Koltz, Emile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Vallès, J.M-G. Le Clézio, Roger Vailland, Georges Perec, Jean Genet, Amin Zaoui, Judeo - Tunisian literature, French as a foreign language (FLE), and bilingualism in Tunisia. He has been a Visiting faculty at Middlebury College French School, and has lectured and presented papers at the Universities of Montreal. Lyon II, Paris VII-Denis Diderot, Cergy-Pontoise, Aix-en-Provence, Paris IV-Sorbonne, La Manouba, Damas, Madrid, and Miami.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPThis day-long workshop from 9:30AM - 5:00PM, on the place of culture in foreign language learning and the implications of sociocultural theory in the classroom, will include han...
7:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wesley Gallery
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Spring 2008 TOPIC: "Sociocultural Theory and Language Teaching: Teaching Culture through the Integration of Texts and Projects in Second Language Classrooms" Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Sponsored by: McGraw-Hill Hosted by: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami Organizers: Dr. Heather Allen, Dr. Eduardo Negueruela Place: Wesley Gallery Workshop Leaders: Dr. Heather Allen Dr. Eduardo Negueruela Dr. Gabriela Appel (confirmed) Dr. James P. Lantolf (invited plenary, confirmed) Workshop description: Integrating both text-based lessons and projects in second language classrooms are concrete ways to teach language through culture in informative ways. In this workshop, participants will learn about the theoretical basis for the importance of culture in language teaching (Sociocultural Theory). Participants will work on applying specific principles to developing both appropriate text-based lessons and coherent projects for their second language classrooms; and finally they will reflect on how to assess their students' linguistic and cultural development. Format of the workshop: Lectures, participants’ mini-presentations, group discussions, and hands-on activities Schedule: 9:30 – 10:00 am Welcome: Coffee and registration 10:00 – 10:30 am Introduction –Overview of sessions (Allen, Negueruela) A sociocultural take on language learning Defining culture and its practical implications 10:45 - 12:00 Culture, Projects, and the second language classroom ; (Gabriela Appel) 12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Hands-on session 3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee break 3:30 – 5:00 pm Plenary: Sociocultural theory and language teaching; (Dr. Lantolf) 5:00 – 6:00pm Closing remarks and final reception
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Wesley Gallery
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Spring 2008 TOPIC: "Sociocultural Theory and Language Teaching: Teaching Culture through the Integration of Texts and Projects in Second Language Classrooms" Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Sponsored by: McGraw-Hill Hosted by: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami Organizers: Dr. Heather Allen, Dr. Eduardo Negueruela Place: Wesley Gallery Workshop Leaders: Dr. Heather Allen Dr. Eduardo Negueruela Dr. Gabriela Appel (confirmed) Dr. James P. Lantolf (invited plenary, confirmed) Workshop description: Integrating both text-based lessons and projects in second language classrooms are concrete ways to teach language through culture in informative ways. In this workshop, participants will learn about the theoretical basis for the importance of culture in language teaching (Sociocultural Theory). Participants will work on applying specific principles to developing both appropriate text-based lessons and coherent projects for their second language classrooms; and finally they will reflect on how to assess their students' linguistic and cultural development. Format of the workshop: Lectures, participants’ mini-presentations, group discussions, and hands-on activities Schedule: 9:30 – 10:00 am Welcome: Coffee and registration 10:00 – 10:30 am Introduction –Overview of sessions (Allen, Negueruela) A sociocultural take on language learning Defining culture and its practical implications 10:45 - 12:00 Culture, Projects, and the second language classroom ; (Gabriela Appel) 12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Hands-on session 3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee break 3:30 – 5:00 pm Plenary: Sociocultural theory and language teaching; (Dr. Lantolf) 5:00 – 6:00pm Closing remarks and final reception
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Seventeenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque SymposiumThree day Conference from Thursday, February 21 - Saturday, February 23, 2008.
7:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Modern Languages Department
Seventeenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium; cosponsored by the Departments of History and Modern Languages and Literatures. "Spectacle and the Spectacular in Early Modern Europe." Keynote Speakers: Valeria Finucci, Duke University, "In Search of a Sexual Fix: The Peruvian Elixir"; and Alison Weber, University of Virginia, "Believing is Seeing: Stigmata, Spectacle, and the Fall of an Aspiring Saint".
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Modern Languages Department
Seventeenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium; cosponsored by the Departments of History and Modern Languages and Literatures. "Spectacle and the Spectacular in Early Modern Europe." Keynote Speakers: Valeria Finucci, Duke University, "In Search of a Sexual Fix: The Peruvian Elixir"; and Alison Weber, University of Virginia, "Believing is Seeing: Stigmata, Spectacle, and the Fall of an Aspiring Saint".
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Translation and TransitionsTwo day Conference from Friday, February 15 - Saturday, February 16, 2008.
7:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room; Merrick 210-01
UM Graduate Student Conference, co-hosted by the Departments of English and Modern Languages and Literatures. "Translation and Transitions" Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred MacAdam, Columbia University.
Graduate Student Conference Program
Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room; Merrick 210-01
UM Graduate Student Conference, co-hosted by the Departments of English and Modern Languages and Literatures. "Translation and Transitions" Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred MacAdam, Columbia University.
Graduate Student Conference Program
Friday, November 16, 2007
Special Session by Abdellah Taia, "Jean Genet, Abdallah, et moi"This Lecture is part of the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
"Les Passions de Jean Genet / Jean Genet’s Passions"
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
CAS Wesley Gallery
ABDELLAH TAIA is a Moroccan writer who lives in Paris for the last 8 years. After having studied French literature at the Universities of Rabat, Geneva and Paris-Sorbonne, he started writing fictional texts of autobiographical inspiration: three short stories in Des nouvellles du Maroc (Paris: Paris-Méditerranée, 1999); Mon Maroc (Paris: Séguier, 2000); Le rouge du tarbouche (Paris: Séguier, 2005; Casablanca: Tarik, 2006); L’Armée du salut (Paris: Seuil, 2006). He recently authored with Frédéric Mitterand a book of photos and texts entitled Maroc 1900-1960 (Paris: Actes Sud, 2007). The first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco, Abdellah Taia appears also in Rémi Lange’s film Tarik el Hob (The Road to Love), which will be screened at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Espanola Wy, South Beach, on November 15, at 7:30 PM
This event is co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France. Reception will follow.
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CAS Wesley Gallery
ABDELLAH TAIA is a Moroccan writer who lives in Paris for the last 8 years. After having studied French literature at the Universities of Rabat, Geneva and Paris-Sorbonne, he started writing fictional texts of autobiographical inspiration: three short stories in Des nouvellles du Maroc (Paris: Paris-Méditerranée, 1999); Mon Maroc (Paris: Séguier, 2000); Le rouge du tarbouche (Paris: Séguier, 2005; Casablanca: Tarik, 2006); L’Armée du salut (Paris: Seuil, 2006). He recently authored with Frédéric Mitterand a book of photos and texts entitled Maroc 1900-1960 (Paris: Actes Sud, 2007). The first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco, Abdellah Taia appears also in Rémi Lange’s film Tarik el Hob (The Road to Love), which will be screened at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Espanola Wy, South Beach, on November 15, at 7:30 PM
This event is co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France. Reception will follow.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Passions of Jean GenetTwo day Conference from Thursday, November 15 - Friday, November 16, 2007.
7:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wesley Gallery
November 15 and 16, 2007. "The Passions of Jean Genet." Symposium organized by Dr Ralph Heyndels
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November 15 and 16, 2007. "The Passions of Jean Genet." Symposium organized by Dr Ralph Heyndels
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Special Lecture by Frieda EkottoThis lecture is a part of the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
"Les Passions de / The Passions of Jean Genet"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Richter Library Conference Room, Third Floor
FRIEDA EKOTTO is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature, at the University of Michigan, where she is also on the faculty of the Center for African American and African Studies. She is the author of L’écriture carcérale et le discours juridique: Jean Genet and the co-editor of Narrative and Confinement. She is currently completing The Aesthetic of Race: Which Color is Black? Jean Genet as Négritude Thinker, and has published on Frantz Fanon, Leila Sebbar, Calixthe Beyala, Medhi Charef, Mariama Bâ, Dany Laferrière, Sony Labou Tansi, Amélie Nothomb, Arthur Rimbaud, André Gide, commodity exchange and women in Maroon societies, “négritude” and “black identity”, borders in France and the condensed symbol of political space, comparative slaveries, Francophone theater and African cinema. She has also published a novel entitled Chuchote pas trop.
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Richter Library Conference Room, Third Floor
FRIEDA EKOTTO is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature, at the University of Michigan, where she is also on the faculty of the Center for African American and African Studies. She is the author of L’écriture carcérale et le discours juridique: Jean Genet and the co-editor of Narrative and Confinement. She is currently completing The Aesthetic of Race: Which Color is Black? Jean Genet as Négritude Thinker, and has published on Frantz Fanon, Leila Sebbar, Calixthe Beyala, Medhi Charef, Mariama Bâ, Dany Laferrière, Sony Labou Tansi, Amélie Nothomb, Arthur Rimbaud, André Gide, commodity exchange and women in Maroon societies, “négritude” and “black identity”, borders in France and the condensed symbol of political space, comparative slaveries, Francophone theater and African cinema. She has also published a novel entitled Chuchote pas trop.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Special Seminar by Didier Eribon, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self"This lecture is a part of the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM "Les Passions de / The Passions of Jean Genet"
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
MLL Conference Room, Merrick 210-01
DIDIER ERIBON
"INSULT AND THE MAKING OF THE GAY SELF"
DIDIER ERIBON, is Co-director of the Center for Sociology of the Homosexualities at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor at the University of Picardie – Jules Vernes. He was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Study of Princeton University in 2006 and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003-04 and 2004-05. He is the author of Une morale du minoritaire. Variations sur un thème de Jean Genet and has recently published D’une révolution conservatrice et de ses effets sur la gauche française. He has extensively written on Michel Foucault, on gay studies (Réflexions sur la question gay, translated in English under the title Insult and the Making of the Gay Self ; Les Etudes gays ; Hérésies. Essais sur la théorie de la sexualité ; Dictionnaire des cultures gays et lesbiennes), and on Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Dumézil, André Gide, Marcel Proust, among others. He contributes regularly to the influential French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur and other periodicals.
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MLL Conference Room, Merrick 210-01
DIDIER ERIBON
"INSULT AND THE MAKING OF THE GAY SELF"
DIDIER ERIBON, is Co-director of the Center for Sociology of the Homosexualities at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor at the University of Picardie – Jules Vernes. He was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Study of Princeton University in 2006 and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003-04 and 2004-05. He is the author of Une morale du minoritaire. Variations sur un thème de Jean Genet and has recently published D’une révolution conservatrice et de ses effets sur la gauche française. He has extensively written on Michel Foucault, on gay studies (Réflexions sur la question gay, translated in English under the title Insult and the Making of the Gay Self ; Les Etudes gays ; Hérésies. Essais sur la théorie de la sexualité ; Dictionnaire des cultures gays et lesbiennes), and on Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Dumézil, André Gide, Marcel Proust, among others. He contributes regularly to the influential French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur and other periodicals.
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
“THE WORLD OF BRUNO DUMONT”
8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
THE MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE; 512 ESPANOLA WAY, SOUTH BEACH
“THE WORLD OF BRUNO DUMONT”
THIS FILM SERIES IS CO-ORGANIZED WITH THE MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE. 4 FILMS FROM THE AWARD WINNING FRENCH DIRECTOR WILL BE SCREENED AND PRESENTED BY DR. RALPH HEYNDELS AND CHARLES MICHAEL (ENGLISH DEPARTMENT) ON NOVEMBER 2, 16, 23, AND 30, AT MBC, 512 ESPANOLA WAY, SOUTH BEACH.
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THE MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE; 512 ESPANOLA WAY, SOUTH BEACH
“THE WORLD OF BRUNO DUMONT”
THIS FILM SERIES IS CO-ORGANIZED WITH THE MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE. 4 FILMS FROM THE AWARD WINNING FRENCH DIRECTOR WILL BE SCREENED AND PRESENTED BY DR. RALPH HEYNDELS AND CHARLES MICHAEL (ENGLISH DEPARTMENT) ON NOVEMBER 2, 16, 23, AND 30, AT MBC, 512 ESPANOLA WAY, SOUTH BEACH.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Lecture by Dr. Joaquín Sueiro
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01
Dr. Joaquín Sueiro, Universidad de Vigo, will speak on "Las relaciones entre la lengua y el poder: el caso de la política lingüística española en la América Colonial"
MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01. Refreshments will be served.
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MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01
Dr. Joaquín Sueiro, Universidad de Vigo, will speak on "Las relaciones entre la lengua y el poder: el caso de la política lingüística española en la América Colonial"
MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01. Refreshments will be served.
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Saturday, April 14, 2007
The First Annual Florida Cervantes Symposium
7:00 pm - 5:30 pm
MLL Conference Room, Merrick 210-01
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures presents the First Annual Florida Cervantes Symposium. Event will be held April 14th, 2007 from 9:00am - 5:30pm in the Modern Languages and Literatures Converence Room, Merrick 210-01. The Keynote Speaker, Jose Ignacio Diez Fernandez from la Universidad Complutense, Madrid, will present his paper, "Para una teoría de la violencia en el Quijote" at 4:30pm-5:30pm.
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MLL Conference Room, Merrick 210-01
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures presents the First Annual Florida Cervantes Symposium. Event will be held April 14th, 2007 from 9:00am - 5:30pm in the Modern Languages and Literatures Converence Room, Merrick 210-01. The Keynote Speaker, Jose Ignacio Diez Fernandez from la Universidad Complutense, Madrid, will present his paper, "Para una teoría de la violencia en el Quijote" at 4:30pm-5:30pm.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
"Proust's Allegorical Body"
3:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01
Dr. Christopher Prendergast, will be giving a lecture entitled, "Proust's Allegorical Body" on Thursday, March 22, 2007 in the MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01 at 3:30 PM. Refreshments will be served.
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Modern Languages Conference Room, Merrick 210-01
Dr. Christopher Prendergast, will be giving a lecture entitled, "Proust's Allegorical Body" on Thursday, March 22, 2007 in the MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01 at 3:30 PM. Refreshments will be served.
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Thursday, March 8, 2007
“Images de soi et projets épistolaires: Les Liaisons Dangereuses”
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Merrick Building, Room 203
Dr. Jürgen Siess, Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Caen will be giving a lecture titled, “Images de soi et projets épistolaires: Les Liaisons Dangereuses” on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 3:30 PM in the Merrick Building, Room 203.
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Merrick Building, Room 203
Dr. Jürgen Siess, Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Caen will be giving a lecture titled, “Images de soi et projets épistolaires: Les Liaisons Dangereuses” on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 3:30 PM in the Merrick Building, Room 203.
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Thursday, March 8, 2007
“The Correspondence of Alred and Lucie Dreyfus: Epistolary Dialogue and Argumentation”
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01
Dr. Ruth Amossy, Henri Glasberg Professor of French Modern and Contemporary Culture at Tel Aviv University will be giving a lecture titled, “The Correspondence of Alred and Lucie Dreyfus: Epistolary Dialogue and Argumentation” on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 5:00 PM in the Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room, Merrick Building, 210-01.
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MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01
Dr. Ruth Amossy, Henri Glasberg Professor of French Modern and Contemporary Culture at Tel Aviv University will be giving a lecture titled, “The Correspondence of Alred and Lucie Dreyfus: Epistolary Dialogue and Argumentation” on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 5:00 PM in the Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room, Merrick Building, 210-01.
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
“Un écrivain français venu d’ailleurs: Rachid O”
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01
Dr. Madeleine Bertaud, Professor Emeritus at University of Nancy will be giving a lecture titled, “Un écrivain français venu d’ailleurs: Rachid O” on Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 5:00 PM in the Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room, Merrick Building, 210-01.
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MLL Conference Room, Merrick Building 210-01
Dr. Madeleine Bertaud, Professor Emeritus at University of Nancy will be giving a lecture titled, “Un écrivain français venu d’ailleurs: Rachid O” on Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 5:00 PM in the Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room, Merrick Building, 210-01.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
The Sixteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium; “Questioning Colonialism”
7:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Merrick Building
February 22-24, 2007. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures hosts "Questioning Colonialism," the 16th annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium co-sponsored with the Department of History. Dr. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at Yale University will give the first keynote speech ,“The Polemics of Possession in the Conquest of America,” on Thursday, February 22, at 5:30 pm. Dr. Karen Kupperman, Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University will give the second keynote speech “Youthful Intermediaries and Cross-Cultural Experience in Early Atlantic America” on Friday, February 23, at 6:00 pm. Both talks will be held in the Richter Libraries Conference Room, 3rd floor. Call Michelle Prats at 305-284-5585 for more information. http://www.mll.miami.edu/mll/events/index.htm
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Merrick Building
February 22-24, 2007. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures hosts "Questioning Colonialism," the 16th annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium co-sponsored with the Department of History. Dr. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at Yale University will give the first keynote speech ,“The Polemics of Possession in the Conquest of America,” on Thursday, February 22, at 5:30 pm. Dr. Karen Kupperman, Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University will give the second keynote speech “Youthful Intermediaries and Cross-Cultural Experience in Early Atlantic America” on Friday, February 23, at 6:00 pm. Both talks will be held in the Richter Libraries Conference Room, 3rd floor. Call Michelle Prats at 305-284-5585 for more information. http://www.mll.miami.edu/mll/events/index.htm
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Friday, February 23, 2007
The Sixteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium; “Questioning Colonialism”Dr. Karen Kupperman, Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University will give the second keynote speech “Youthful Intermediaries and Cross-Cultural Experience in Ear...
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Merrick Building/ Richter Library
February 22-24, 2007. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures hosts "Questioning Colonialism," the 16th annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium co-sponsored with the Department of History. Dr. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at Yale University will give the first keynote speech ,“The Polemics of Possession in the Conquest of America,” on Thursday, February 22, at 5:30 pm. Dr. Karen Kupperman, Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University will give the second keynote speech “Youthful Intermediaries and Cross-Cultural Experience in Early Atlantic America” on Friday, February 23, at 6:00 pm. Both talks will be held in the Richter Libraries Conference Room, 3rd floor. Call Michelle Prats at 305-284-5585 for more information. http://www.mll.miami.edu/mll/events/index.htm
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Merrick Building/ Richter Library
February 22-24, 2007. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures hosts "Questioning Colonialism," the 16th annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium co-sponsored with the Department of History. Dr. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at Yale University will give the first keynote speech ,“The Polemics of Possession in the Conquest of America,” on Thursday, February 22, at 5:30 pm. Dr. Karen Kupperman, Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University will give the second keynote speech “Youthful Intermediaries and Cross-Cultural Experience in Early Atlantic America” on Friday, February 23, at 6:00 pm. Both talks will be held in the Richter Libraries Conference Room, 3rd floor. Call Michelle Prats at 305-284-5585 for more information. http://www.mll.miami.edu/mll/events/index.htm
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Sixteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium; "Questioning Colonialism"Dr. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at Yale University will give the first keynote speech ,“The Polemics of Possession in the C...
4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Otto G. Richter Library
February 22-24, 2007. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures hosts "Questioning Colonialism," the 16th annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium co-sponsored with the Department of History. Dr. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at Yale University will give the first keynote speech ,“The Polemics of Possession in the Conquest of America,” on Thursday, February 22, at 5:30 pm. Dr. Karen Kupperman, Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University will give the second keynote speech “Youthful Intermediaries and Cross-Cultural Experience in Early Atlantic America” on Friday, February 23, at 6:00 pm. Both talks will be held in the Richter Libraries Conference Room, 3rd floor. Call Michelle Prats at 305-284-5585 for more information. http://www.mll.miami.edu/mll/events/index.htm
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Otto G. Richter Library
February 22-24, 2007. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures hosts "Questioning Colonialism," the 16th annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium co-sponsored with the Department of History. Dr. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at Yale University will give the first keynote speech ,“The Polemics of Possession in the Conquest of America,” on Thursday, February 22, at 5:30 pm. Dr. Karen Kupperman, Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University will give the second keynote speech “Youthful Intermediaries and Cross-Cultural Experience in Early Atlantic America” on Friday, February 23, at 6:00 pm. Both talks will be held in the Richter Libraries Conference Room, 3rd floor. Call Michelle Prats at 305-284-5585 for more information. http://www.mll.miami.edu/mll/events/index.htm
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
The 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium“Situating French / Situer le français”
7:00 pm - 5:00 pm
University of Miami
Papers may be given in either English or French. Presentations will be selected for inclusion in the conference program on the basis of merit. All submissions must contain the following information for all proposed speakers. • Name • Affiliation • E-mail address • Mailing address, phone, and fax number • Title of paper or presentation • Brief description/summary of paper or presentation (250-500 words)Possible Topics: • French and Francophone geographies • Situating the subject • Francophone literary migrations • French and the Americas • Post-Colonial French literatures, cultures, discourses • Migrations, Immigrations, Diasporas • Hybridities, Métissages • Situating gender • France-Africa interfaces • Computer sites • « Foreigners » writing in French; étrangers au français/étrangeté du français • Creole and créolisation • Les lieux de mémoire • Transformations of French narrative, poetry, theatre • Frontiers of representation • Interlingual intertexts • Situating the canon Proposers of panels and other sessions must provide the above information for each paper, together with their own contact details and a brief description/summary (250-500 words) of the overall rationale for the proposed panel or session. Deadline for submission: 1 October 2005. Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to: Dr. David Ellison University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures P.O. Box 248093 Coral Gables, FL 33124-4650 Telephone: 305-284-4858, ext. 8-7226 Fax: 305-284-2068 E-mail: dre@miami.edu The preferred method of communication is e-mail. Be sure to include your e-mail address when contacting the conference organizer so that you may be alerted to any program updates. Information pdates will be posted regularly on the conference website: http://www.fll.miami.edu/fll/20thconf/index.htm
University of Miami
Papers may be given in either English or French. Presentations will be selected for inclusion in the conference program on the basis of merit. All submissions must contain the following information for all proposed speakers. • Name • Affiliation • E-mail address • Mailing address, phone, and fax number • Title of paper or presentation • Brief description/summary of paper or presentation (250-500 words)Possible Topics: • French and Francophone geographies • Situating the subject • Francophone literary migrations • French and the Americas • Post-Colonial French literatures, cultures, discourses • Migrations, Immigrations, Diasporas • Hybridities, Métissages • Situating gender • France-Africa interfaces • Computer sites • « Foreigners » writing in French; étrangers au français/étrangeté du français • Creole and créolisation • Les lieux de mémoire • Transformations of French narrative, poetry, theatre • Frontiers of representation • Interlingual intertexts • Situating the canon Proposers of panels and other sessions must provide the above information for each paper, together with their own contact details and a brief description/summary (250-500 words) of the overall rationale for the proposed panel or session. Deadline for submission: 1 October 2005. Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to: Dr. David Ellison University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures P.O. Box 248093 Coral Gables, FL 33124-4650 Telephone: 305-284-4858, ext. 8-7226 Fax: 305-284-2068 E-mail: dre@miami.edu The preferred method of communication is e-mail. Be sure to include your e-mail address when contacting the conference organizer so that you may be alerted to any program updates. Information pdates will be posted regularly on the conference website: http://www.fll.miami.edu/fll/20thconf/index.htm
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry Seventh Biennial Conference"Popular Poetry and its Influence in High and Low Culture"
7:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Doubletree Hotel, Coconut Grove
Conference Theme: "Popular Poetry and its Influence in High and Low Culture" Keynote Speaker Dr. Antonio Carreño, W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities, Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University All participants must also be members of the SRBHP (includes subscription to the journal Caliope). Abstracts: Please submit abstract and one-page CV by August 31, 2005. http://www.fll.miami.edu/fll/srbhp/index.htm
Doubletree Hotel, Coconut Grove
Conference Theme: "Popular Poetry and its Influence in High and Low Culture" Keynote Speaker Dr. Antonio Carreño, W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities, Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University All participants must also be members of the SRBHP (includes subscription to the journal Caliope). Abstracts: Please submit abstract and one-page CV by August 31, 2005. http://www.fll.miami.edu/fll/srbhp/index.htm
Saturday, February 19, 2005
THE FOURTEENTH ANNUALMEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND BAROQUE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
"THE RULE OF WOMEN"
The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium is hosted yearly by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. This year, its co-sponsors include the Departments of ...
7:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Convocation Center Hurricane 100 Room
8:00 a.m. Coffee Session IV–A - Cane Room Women on Stage Chair: Laura Giannetti, University of Miami 8:30 a.m. Janet Hathaway, Northern Illinois University “Spirituality and Women’s Devotional Song in the Royal Habsburg convent of Las Descalzas” 9:00 a.m. Colleen Baade, Concordia University “Nun Musicians in Early Modern Spain: Questions of Agency and Ambition” 9:30 a.m. Janet Pollack, University of Puget Sound “Elizabeth Stuart as Musician and Muse” 10:00 a.m. Discussion and Coffee 10:15 a.m. Esther Fernández, University of California, Davis “Playing with Fire: The Sexual Power of Seventeenth Century Actresses’ Fictional Roles” 10:45 a.m. Kimberly Cashman, Rutgers University “The Power of Virtue: Women Rulers in Plays by Women” 11:15 a.m. Discussion Session IV-B - Palm Room Writing The Female Self Chair: Elaine Kruse, Nebraska Wesleyan University 8:30 a.m. Mary Ekman, SUNY New Paltz “‘Satisfaite de soy en soy mesme’: The Politics of Self-Representation in Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample declaration” 9:00 a.m. Katherine Risse, Boston College “Mística ciudad de Dios: From Wifely Duties to Motherly Models. An Alternative to the Conduct Book in Seventeenth-Century Spain” 9:30 a.m. Tien-yi Chao, University of Sussex “‘Our wits joined as in matrimony’: The Co-Ruling and Cooperative Relationship Between the Emperor and the Empress in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666)” 10:00 a.m. Rosa Perelmuter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Addressing Gender: The Rhetoric and Reception of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz” 10:30 a.m. Discussion 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break - Ibis Room Session V - Cane Room Women at Court Chair: Maria Galli Stampino, University of Miami 11:00 a.m. Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Iowa State University “The Queen’s privada in Late 14th-Century Iberia: A Woman’s Path to Privilege and Power” 11:30 a.m. Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Tufts University “‘Speculum Reginae’: The Education of the Queen in Fact and Fiction in Early Modern Spain” 12:00 p.m. Catherine Howey, Rutgers State University of New Jersey “Fashioning Monarchy: Women, Dress, and Power at the Court of Elizabeth I” 12:30 p.m. Lunch Break - Ibis and Palm Rooms Session VI - Cane Room The Rule of the Body Chair: Pamela S. Hammons, University of Miami 2:00 p.m. Anna Klosowska, Miami University of Ohio "Out of the Closet in Early Modern France: Madeleine de l'Aubespine and Others" 2:30 p.m. Horacio Sierra, University of Florida “Out of the Closet in Early Modern England: Margaret Cavendish’s Gender Politics and Lesbian Explorations” 3:00 p.m. Kirk D. Read, Bates College “Mythologizing Midwives: Empowering Narratives in Early Modern Women’s Medicine” 3:30 p.m. Discussion & Coffee 4:00 p.m. Maria Cristina Quintero, Bryn Mawr College “Portrait of a Queen: Christina of Sweden and the Limits of Representation” 4:30 p.m. Carrie Meathrell, University of California, Los Angeles “Drama and the Royal Body: The Coronation Procession of Anne Boleyn” 5:00 p.m. Discussion and Closing Remarks Mihoko Suzuki & Anne J. Cruz
Convocation Center Hurricane 100 Room
8:00 a.m. Coffee Session IV–A - Cane Room Women on Stage Chair: Laura Giannetti, University of Miami 8:30 a.m. Janet Hathaway, Northern Illinois University “Spirituality and Women’s Devotional Song in the Royal Habsburg convent of Las Descalzas” 9:00 a.m. Colleen Baade, Concordia University “Nun Musicians in Early Modern Spain: Questions of Agency and Ambition” 9:30 a.m. Janet Pollack, University of Puget Sound “Elizabeth Stuart as Musician and Muse” 10:00 a.m. Discussion and Coffee 10:15 a.m. Esther Fernández, University of California, Davis “Playing with Fire: The Sexual Power of Seventeenth Century Actresses’ Fictional Roles” 10:45 a.m. Kimberly Cashman, Rutgers University “The Power of Virtue: Women Rulers in Plays by Women” 11:15 a.m. Discussion Session IV-B - Palm Room Writing The Female Self Chair: Elaine Kruse, Nebraska Wesleyan University 8:30 a.m. Mary Ekman, SUNY New Paltz “‘Satisfaite de soy en soy mesme’: The Politics of Self-Representation in Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample declaration” 9:00 a.m. Katherine Risse, Boston College “Mística ciudad de Dios: From Wifely Duties to Motherly Models. An Alternative to the Conduct Book in Seventeenth-Century Spain” 9:30 a.m. Tien-yi Chao, University of Sussex “‘Our wits joined as in matrimony’: The Co-Ruling and Cooperative Relationship Between the Emperor and the Empress in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666)” 10:00 a.m. Rosa Perelmuter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Addressing Gender: The Rhetoric and Reception of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz” 10:30 a.m. Discussion 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break - Ibis Room Session V - Cane Room Women at Court Chair: Maria Galli Stampino, University of Miami 11:00 a.m. Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Iowa State University “The Queen’s privada in Late 14th-Century Iberia: A Woman’s Path to Privilege and Power” 11:30 a.m. Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Tufts University “‘Speculum Reginae’: The Education of the Queen in Fact and Fiction in Early Modern Spain” 12:00 p.m. Catherine Howey, Rutgers State University of New Jersey “Fashioning Monarchy: Women, Dress, and Power at the Court of Elizabeth I” 12:30 p.m. Lunch Break - Ibis and Palm Rooms Session VI - Cane Room The Rule of the Body Chair: Pamela S. Hammons, University of Miami 2:00 p.m. Anna Klosowska, Miami University of Ohio "Out of the Closet in Early Modern France: Madeleine de l'Aubespine and Others" 2:30 p.m. Horacio Sierra, University of Florida “Out of the Closet in Early Modern England: Margaret Cavendish’s Gender Politics and Lesbian Explorations” 3:00 p.m. Kirk D. Read, Bates College “Mythologizing Midwives: Empowering Narratives in Early Modern Women’s Medicine” 3:30 p.m. Discussion & Coffee 4:00 p.m. Maria Cristina Quintero, Bryn Mawr College “Portrait of a Queen: Christina of Sweden and the Limits of Representation” 4:30 p.m. Carrie Meathrell, University of California, Los Angeles “Drama and the Royal Body: The Coronation Procession of Anne Boleyn” 5:00 p.m. Discussion and Closing Remarks Mihoko Suzuki & Anne J. Cruz
Friday, February 18, 2005
THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND BAROQUE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM"THE RULE OF WOMEN"
The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium is hosted yearly by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. This year, its co-sponsors include the Departments of ...
7:00 pm - 6:30 pm
UC Center
Friday, February 18, 2005 Whitten University Center Flamingo Ballroom A and Orange Key Room 245 8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Session I - Flamingo Ballroom A Issues of Sovereignty Chair: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami 8:45 a.m. Miriam Shadis, Ohio University “Women on the Edge: Gender and Rulership in the Liminal Realms of Jerusalem and Portugal” 9:15 a.m. Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University “Transmitting the Rule of Women: Catalina of Lancaster and her Daughters” 9:45 a.m. Molly Martin, Columbia University “Ruling Widowed Dowagers: The Case of Northern Italy’s Princely Courts” 10:15 a.m. Discussion & Coffee Issues of Sovereignty (contd.) Flamingo Ballroom A Chair: Mary Lindemann, University of Miami 10:30 a.m. Magdalena Sánchez, Gettysburg College “Sword and Wimple: Isabel Clara Eugenia and Power” 11:00 a.m. Pauline Puppel, Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz “Rights and Discourse: Regencies of Women in Early Modern Germany (1500-1800)” 11:30 a.m. Éva Deák, University of Wuppertal “‘Princeps non Principissa’: Catherine of Brandenburg, Elected Prince of Transylvania” 12:00 p.m. Discussion 12:10 p.m. Lunch Break Session II-A - Flamingo Ballroom A Subversive Spanish Spirituality Chair: Viviana Díaz Balsera, University of Miami 1:30 p.m. Ronald E. Surtz, Princeton University “Tecla Servent and the Spanish Inquisition” 2:00 p.m. Helen Reed, SUNY Oneonta “The Strange and Holy Power of Catalina de Cardona, ‘la mujer pecadora’” 2:30 p.m. Ivan Fernández, Yale University “Hermeneutical Control: Teresa of Ávila and her Confessors” 3:00 p.m. Darcy Donahue, Miami University of Ohio “Founding Mother: Ana de San Bartolomé and the Discalced Carmelites in France” 3:30 p.m. Discussion & Coffee Session II-B - Orange Key Room 245 Women and War Chair: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami 1:30 p.m. David Hay, University of Lethbridge “Fragging the Frauenfrage: Women’s Military Leadership in the Age of Church Reform, 1050-1150” 2:00 p.m. Lara Cahill, University of Miami “Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc: Authority for Christian Feminism” 2:30 p.m. Tracy Adams, University of Auckland “A present par grace de Dieu Regnant”: Isabeau of Bavaria in the Work of Christine de Pisan” 3:00 p.m. Katharine Gillespie, American University “‘The Child of Light Walking in Darkness’: Anne Venn Seeks the English Republic, 1639-1658” 3:30 p.m. Discussion & Coffee Session III–A - Orange Key Room 245 Anglo-French Relations Chair: Barbara Woshinsky, University of Miami 3:45 p.m. Sandra Logan, Michigan State University “Thrice-Royal Queen: Katherine de Valois and the English Succession” 4:15 p.m. JoAnna Klein, University of Minnesota “‘I do not think her so unnatural’: (De)-Sexualizing Isabella of France in Elizabethan Historical Literature” 4:45 p.m. “Elizabeth Ketner, University of Minnesota History, Power and the Representation of Elizabeth I in La Princesse de Clèves” Session III–B - Flamingo Ballroom A Abbesses Chair: Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami 3:45 p.m. Karen Blough, Plattsburgh State University “The Role of the Royal Abbess in Ottonian Germany: An Assessment of the Visual Evidence” 4:15 p.m. Christina Carlson, Iona College “‘A seruant for to be rather than an abase of great auctorite:’ Good Governance in the English Life of St. Radegund” 4:45 p.m. Jessica Banks, The Pennsylvania State University “St. Brigid and the Merovingian Abbesses: A Common Paradigm of Power and Sanctity” 5:15 p.m. Second Keynote Speech - Flamingo Ballroom D Introduction: Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami Dr. Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History, University of Nebraska “Elizabeth I as Subject, Queen, and ‘Loving Kinswoman’”
UC Center
Friday, February 18, 2005 Whitten University Center Flamingo Ballroom A and Orange Key Room 245 8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Session I - Flamingo Ballroom A Issues of Sovereignty Chair: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami 8:45 a.m. Miriam Shadis, Ohio University “Women on the Edge: Gender and Rulership in the Liminal Realms of Jerusalem and Portugal” 9:15 a.m. Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University “Transmitting the Rule of Women: Catalina of Lancaster and her Daughters” 9:45 a.m. Molly Martin, Columbia University “Ruling Widowed Dowagers: The Case of Northern Italy’s Princely Courts” 10:15 a.m. Discussion & Coffee Issues of Sovereignty (contd.) Flamingo Ballroom A Chair: Mary Lindemann, University of Miami 10:30 a.m. Magdalena Sánchez, Gettysburg College “Sword and Wimple: Isabel Clara Eugenia and Power” 11:00 a.m. Pauline Puppel, Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz “Rights and Discourse: Regencies of Women in Early Modern Germany (1500-1800)” 11:30 a.m. Éva Deák, University of Wuppertal “‘Princeps non Principissa’: Catherine of Brandenburg, Elected Prince of Transylvania” 12:00 p.m. Discussion 12:10 p.m. Lunch Break Session II-A - Flamingo Ballroom A Subversive Spanish Spirituality Chair: Viviana Díaz Balsera, University of Miami 1:30 p.m. Ronald E. Surtz, Princeton University “Tecla Servent and the Spanish Inquisition” 2:00 p.m. Helen Reed, SUNY Oneonta “The Strange and Holy Power of Catalina de Cardona, ‘la mujer pecadora’” 2:30 p.m. Ivan Fernández, Yale University “Hermeneutical Control: Teresa of Ávila and her Confessors” 3:00 p.m. Darcy Donahue, Miami University of Ohio “Founding Mother: Ana de San Bartolomé and the Discalced Carmelites in France” 3:30 p.m. Discussion & Coffee Session II-B - Orange Key Room 245 Women and War Chair: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami 1:30 p.m. David Hay, University of Lethbridge “Fragging the Frauenfrage: Women’s Military Leadership in the Age of Church Reform, 1050-1150” 2:00 p.m. Lara Cahill, University of Miami “Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc: Authority for Christian Feminism” 2:30 p.m. Tracy Adams, University of Auckland “A present par grace de Dieu Regnant”: Isabeau of Bavaria in the Work of Christine de Pisan” 3:00 p.m. Katharine Gillespie, American University “‘The Child of Light Walking in Darkness’: Anne Venn Seeks the English Republic, 1639-1658” 3:30 p.m. Discussion & Coffee Session III–A - Orange Key Room 245 Anglo-French Relations Chair: Barbara Woshinsky, University of Miami 3:45 p.m. Sandra Logan, Michigan State University “Thrice-Royal Queen: Katherine de Valois and the English Succession” 4:15 p.m. JoAnna Klein, University of Minnesota “‘I do not think her so unnatural’: (De)-Sexualizing Isabella of France in Elizabethan Historical Literature” 4:45 p.m. “Elizabeth Ketner, University of Minnesota History, Power and the Representation of Elizabeth I in La Princesse de Clèves” Session III–B - Flamingo Ballroom A Abbesses Chair: Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami 3:45 p.m. Karen Blough, Plattsburgh State University “The Role of the Royal Abbess in Ottonian Germany: An Assessment of the Visual Evidence” 4:15 p.m. Christina Carlson, Iona College “‘A seruant for to be rather than an abase of great auctorite:’ Good Governance in the English Life of St. Radegund” 4:45 p.m. Jessica Banks, The Pennsylvania State University “St. Brigid and the Merovingian Abbesses: A Common Paradigm of Power and Sanctity” 5:15 p.m. Second Keynote Speech - Flamingo Ballroom D Introduction: Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami Dr. Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History, University of Nebraska “Elizabeth I as Subject, Queen, and ‘Loving Kinswoman’”
Thursday, February 17, 2005
THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND BAROQUE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM"THE RULE OF WOMEN"
Keynote Address
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum
Thursday, February 17, 2005 Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum 4:00 p.m. Opening Remarks Dr. Anne J. Cruz, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Dr. Mihoko Suzuki, Department of English Welcoming Remarks Dr. Donna E. Shalala, President, University of Miami 4:30 p.m. Tour of the Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Art 5:25 p.m. Introduction Dr. Jane Connolly, Vice Dean for Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences 5:30 p.m. First Keynote Speech Dr. Barbara Weissberger, University of Minnesota “‘Nuptial Fictions’: The Power of Isabel I of Castile and her Royal Emblem” 6:30 p.m. Reception Tobin Gallery, Lowe Art Museum
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum
Thursday, February 17, 2005 Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum 4:00 p.m. Opening Remarks Dr. Anne J. Cruz, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Dr. Mihoko Suzuki, Department of English Welcoming Remarks Dr. Donna E. Shalala, President, University of Miami 4:30 p.m. Tour of the Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Art 5:25 p.m. Introduction Dr. Jane Connolly, Vice Dean for Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences 5:30 p.m. First Keynote Speech Dr. Barbara Weissberger, University of Minnesota “‘Nuptial Fictions’: The Power of Isabel I of Castile and her Royal Emblem” 6:30 p.m. Reception Tobin Gallery, Lowe Art Museum
Friday, November 5, 2004
Rimbaud's Africas Symposium
7:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lowe Art Museum
This event is part of a world series endorsed by the Société des Amis de Rimbaud and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Conferences will take place (or have been held) at the Société Française de Géographie (Paris), the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne, the University of Naples, the Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines of Tunis, the Institut Français and University of Addis Ababa, the University of Tokyo, the University of Sao Paulo, among other institutions. Vincenzo Viti’s work will be exhibited (or has been shown) in conjunction with the 150th anniversary celebration of Rimbaud’s birth at the Espace de la Création (Paris), the Royal Palace of Naples, the Galerie Mille Feuilles of La Marsa (Tunis), and the Musée National Rimbaud of Charleville (France) The Symposium is co-sponsored by its organizers with the generous support of the University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Joseph Carter Memorial Endowment, the U.M. Program in Africana Studies, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of France in Tunis, the Institut Français de Tunis, the Centre de Recherches en Littérature Comparée and the Centre de Recherches sur la Littérature de Voyage of the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne, the Rector’s Office of International Relations of the University of Bari, the Miami Beach Cinematheque, and the University of Florida France-Florida Research Center. The film screening and performance at the Miami Beach Cinematheque is partly supported by the University of Miami Provost’s Hospitality Fund. The exhibition Rimbaud’s Captive of Vincenzo Viti art works has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Leo Matiz Foundation (Bogotá, Milan, Rome, Miami), the Italy – Colombia Association (Rome), Leader Comunicazioni (Milan), and Schena Editore (Fasano). The proceedings of the Symposium will be edited by David Ellison and Ralph Heyndels, and published by the Presses de l’Université de Paris - Sorbonne, in the series Transatlantique directed by Giovanni Dotoli and Ralph Heyndels for the Biblioteca della Ricerca. Special thanks to: the Honorable Christophe Bouchard, Consul General of France in Miami; the Honorable Michael Hacker, Honorary Consul of Senegal and Togo; Professor Giovanni Girone, Rector of the University of Bari; Maxwell Blandford of The Forge; Isabel Virgen, and the staff of the University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Alliance Française of Miami – Fort Lauderdale and the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in Miami. Illustrations in this program are from Alain Borer, Rimbaud. L'heure de la fuite. Paris: Gallimard, 1991 (2003): Rimbaud by Carjat (Paris, 1871); Rimbaud by Rimbaud (Harar, 1883); signature of Rimbaud; plaque of Rimbaud Street (Harar). This symposium is free and open to the public Click here for more details.
Lowe Art Museum
This event is part of a world series endorsed by the Société des Amis de Rimbaud and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Conferences will take place (or have been held) at the Société Française de Géographie (Paris), the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne, the University of Naples, the Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines of Tunis, the Institut Français and University of Addis Ababa, the University of Tokyo, the University of Sao Paulo, among other institutions. Vincenzo Viti’s work will be exhibited (or has been shown) in conjunction with the 150th anniversary celebration of Rimbaud’s birth at the Espace de la Création (Paris), the Royal Palace of Naples, the Galerie Mille Feuilles of La Marsa (Tunis), and the Musée National Rimbaud of Charleville (France) The Symposium is co-sponsored by its organizers with the generous support of the University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Joseph Carter Memorial Endowment, the U.M. Program in Africana Studies, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of France in Tunis, the Institut Français de Tunis, the Centre de Recherches en Littérature Comparée and the Centre de Recherches sur la Littérature de Voyage of the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne, the Rector’s Office of International Relations of the University of Bari, the Miami Beach Cinematheque, and the University of Florida France-Florida Research Center. The film screening and performance at the Miami Beach Cinematheque is partly supported by the University of Miami Provost’s Hospitality Fund. The exhibition Rimbaud’s Captive of Vincenzo Viti art works has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Leo Matiz Foundation (Bogotá, Milan, Rome, Miami), the Italy – Colombia Association (Rome), Leader Comunicazioni (Milan), and Schena Editore (Fasano). The proceedings of the Symposium will be edited by David Ellison and Ralph Heyndels, and published by the Presses de l’Université de Paris - Sorbonne, in the series Transatlantique directed by Giovanni Dotoli and Ralph Heyndels for the Biblioteca della Ricerca. Special thanks to: the Honorable Christophe Bouchard, Consul General of France in Miami; the Honorable Michael Hacker, Honorary Consul of Senegal and Togo; Professor Giovanni Girone, Rector of the University of Bari; Maxwell Blandford of The Forge; Isabel Virgen, and the staff of the University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Alliance Française of Miami – Fort Lauderdale and the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in Miami. Illustrations in this program are from Alain Borer, Rimbaud. L'heure de la fuite. Paris: Gallimard, 1991 (2003): Rimbaud by Carjat (Paris, 1871); Rimbaud by Rimbaud (Harar, 1883); signature of Rimbaud; plaque of Rimbaud Street (Harar). This symposium is free and open to the public Click here for more details.
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Special Round Table Discussion from French Africa to African France
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
University Center Rm 245
CHAIR: PAULETTE HACKER (University of Miami) PARTICIPANTS: EDMUND ABAKA (University of Miami) FRIEDA EKOTTO (University of Michigan) RALPH HEYNDELS (University of Miami) GHAZI KARMAOUI (Université de Djendouba) DOMINIQUE LANNI (Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne) This event is free and open to the public Click here for more details.
University Center Rm 245
CHAIR: PAULETTE HACKER (University of Miami) PARTICIPANTS: EDMUND ABAKA (University of Miami) FRIEDA EKOTTO (University of Michigan) RALPH HEYNDELS (University of Miami) GHAZI KARMAOUI (Université de Djendouba) DOMINIQUE LANNI (Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne) This event is free and open to the public Click here for more details.
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Rimbaud's Captive Exhibition
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Richter Library
RIMBAUD’S CAPTIVE Art works by Vincenzo Viti RIMBAUD’S IMAGES Photography exhibit organized by Pierre Brunel, Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2004 FROM 6:00 TO 7:30 P.M. THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI OTTO G. RICHTER LIBRARY 1300 Memorial Drive On the Coral Gables Campus Exhibit: Third Floor Reception Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion, Second Floor Presentation at 6:30 P.M. of Rimbaud’s Anthology illustrated byVincenzo Viti RSVP mandatory jcpwonder@yahoo.com This event is free and open to the public The exhibition will run until November 30, 2004 Click here for more details.
Richter Library
RIMBAUD’S CAPTIVE Art works by Vincenzo Viti RIMBAUD’S IMAGES Photography exhibit organized by Pierre Brunel, Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2004 FROM 6:00 TO 7:30 P.M. THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI OTTO G. RICHTER LIBRARY 1300 Memorial Drive On the Coral Gables Campus Exhibit: Third Floor Reception Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion, Second Floor Presentation at 6:30 P.M. of Rimbaud’s Anthology illustrated byVincenzo Viti RSVP mandatory jcpwonder@yahoo.com This event is free and open to the public The exhibition will run until November 30, 2004 Click here for more details.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Religions and Politics in Modern EuropePresentation by Dr. Blandine Kriegel
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Storer Auditorium
DR. BLANDINE KRIEGEL IS PRESIDENT OF THE HIGH COUNCIL FOR INTEGRATION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SPECIAL ADVISER FOR INTEGRATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS TO FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC. In her governmental capacities, Dr. Kriegel is at the forefront of significant and challenging issues such as multicultural integration within today’s French nation, the defense and protection of human rights and minorities, and the continuing need for civic dialogue and solidarity in an increasingly more complex French society. Docteur d’Etat, Professor of History, Political Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, Dr. Blandine Kriegel has been a Research Fellow of the French National Center for Scientific Research, and has taught at the Universities of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne and Lyon III, and at the Institute of Political Sciences, Paris. A former collaborator of Michel Foucault (to whom she dedicated a book entitled Michel Foucault aujourd’hui [M.F. today] (2004), Professor Kriegel has published more than twenty books, including her now canonical L’Etat des esclaves (1979), translated into English by M.A. LePain and J.C. Cohen under the title The State and the Rule of Law, and her leading L’Histoire de l’âge classique [History of the Classical Age], in 4 volumes (1988, 1996). Among her most recents works are Propos sur la Démocratie [Essays on Democracy] (1994), Philosophie de la République [Philosophy of the Republic] (2000), and Réflexions sur la Justice [Reflections on Justice] (2001). REFRESHMENTS WILL FOLLOW THE LECTURE FREE ADMISSION This event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Office of the Vice Dean for Arts and Humanities of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Miami European Union Center, the U.M. Departments of History and Philosophy, the Joseph Carter Memorial Endowment Fund of the University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; and is promoted with the support of the University of Miami Department of International Studies, Africana Studies Program, Judaic Studies Program, and Humanities Colloquium, along with the Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Storer Auditorium
DR. BLANDINE KRIEGEL IS PRESIDENT OF THE HIGH COUNCIL FOR INTEGRATION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SPECIAL ADVISER FOR INTEGRATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS TO FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC. In her governmental capacities, Dr. Kriegel is at the forefront of significant and challenging issues such as multicultural integration within today’s French nation, the defense and protection of human rights and minorities, and the continuing need for civic dialogue and solidarity in an increasingly more complex French society. Docteur d’Etat, Professor of History, Political Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, Dr. Blandine Kriegel has been a Research Fellow of the French National Center for Scientific Research, and has taught at the Universities of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne and Lyon III, and at the Institute of Political Sciences, Paris. A former collaborator of Michel Foucault (to whom she dedicated a book entitled Michel Foucault aujourd’hui [M.F. today] (2004), Professor Kriegel has published more than twenty books, including her now canonical L’Etat des esclaves (1979), translated into English by M.A. LePain and J.C. Cohen under the title The State and the Rule of Law, and her leading L’Histoire de l’âge classique [History of the Classical Age], in 4 volumes (1988, 1996). Among her most recents works are Propos sur la Démocratie [Essays on Democracy] (1994), Philosophie de la République [Philosophy of the Republic] (2000), and Réflexions sur la Justice [Reflections on Justice] (2001). REFRESHMENTS WILL FOLLOW THE LECTURE FREE ADMISSION This event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Office of the Vice Dean for Arts and Humanities of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Miami European Union Center, the U.M. Departments of History and Philosophy, the Joseph Carter Memorial Endowment Fund of the University of Miami Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; and is promoted with the support of the University of Miami Department of International Studies, Africana Studies Program, Judaic Studies Program, and Humanities Colloquium, along with the Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
