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Spring 2007
Influencia del Boom en la Narrativa Española
The talk will be in Spanish (with as many excursions into English as necessary)
When: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 3:30-5:00 PM
Where: Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas
As in Latin America, narrative writers of the so-called “Boom” (Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Cortázar, Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, etc.) became overwhelmingly popular in Spain. However, the question remains why. For Spanish readers, the narrative’s “exoticism” is absolutely central. In the 1950’s and 60’s, Spanish narrative was predominately “realistic” and socio-politically oriented. The “magical realism” of the “boom” was received as a breath of fresh air in a society of readers repressed by the Franco dictatorship. This talk will discuss Latin American narrative as a symbol of “freedom” and its socio-political influence as perceived by Spanish readers.
Professor Carlos Blanco was born in Spain and exiled in Mexico as a child after the Spanish Civil War, in 1939. He received his PhD in 1953 from the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). Professor Carlos Blanco is Emeritus Professor at UCSD since 1964 and was one of the founders of Thurgood Marshall College.
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Spain at the Crossroads: Imperial Nostalgia or Modern Colonialism
When: May 24, 2007 3:30-5:00 PM
Where: Deutz Room, The Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD Campus
Alda Blanco, Professor of Spanish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received her Ph.D. at UCSD in 1983. Blanco is currently writing a book entitled "Writing the Spanish Empire: Cultural Sites of Imperial Consciousness in XIXth-Century Spain". Her work on gender and Spanish women's literature has produced "Escritores virtuosas: narradoras de la domesticidad en la España isabelina" (2001). She has also devoted many years to the study of María Martínez Sierra, one of Spain's most forgotten writers and feminist thinkers.
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Modernizing Imperical Madrid in the Eighteenth Century
When: May 17, 2007 3:30-5:00 PM
Where: Deutz Room, The Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD Campus
Professor David R. Ringrose will discuss the ways in which the relatively prosperous Bourbon monarchy of eighteenth century Madrid reconfigured its capital city. The talk will show how seventeenth century Madrid was shaped (or not shaped) by the Habsburgs and then illustrate the changes of the eighteenth century. Those changes involved greater royal ability to finance urban construction and also a changing sense of what sort of urban environment projected the royal will into the context of a "modernizing" eighteenth century urban elite. The talk will be illustrated with a series of prints, drawings, and paintings from the era.
Professor Ringrose is a Professor Emeritus of History at UCSD. He has written a number of books on Madrid and Spain, including Spain, Europe, and the "Spanish Miracle,” 1700-1900 and Expansion and Global Interaction: 1200-1700. His current writing project is a book entitled Europeans Abroad, 1400-1700: Strangers in Not-So-Strange Lands.
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History and Literature in Brazil: Interpreting Machado de Assis
When: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:00AM-1:00PM
Where: Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas
Sidney Chalhoub, Pedro Meira Monteiro, Leonardo Pereira, Gabriela Sampaio
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Postcolonial Antagonisms in Spanish Immigration Film: From Cultural Conversion to Radical Cosmopolitanism
When: Thursday, May 10,2007 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Where: Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas Complex
Professor Luis Martin-Cabrera will analyze how two Spanish films, La Vida Aqui (2003) and Princesas (2005) uniquely deal with the emergence of Latin American Immigrant communities and the transformation of Spain into a postcolonial society. Following Gilroy’s concept of cosmopolitanism, Cabrera argues that a deeper understanding of the Spanish colonial heritage in relation to the emergence of Latin American immigration provides a powerful framework for shaping an anti-racist agenda and to pave the way for the articulation of new forms of transnational solidarity.
Martin-Cabrera received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan. He is currently working on a transatlantic study of detective fiction published during the post-dictatorship period in Spain and the Southern Cone. He is also co-author of a forthcoming textbook to teach Spanish through films.
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Populism in Latin America Today: Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua
When: Monday, April 16, 2007 6:30-7:45PM
Where: Weaver Conference Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD campus
Professor Heinz R. Sonntag will discuss his views on the “new populism” in Latin America and what it means for regional economic development and security in the Americas.
Professor Sonntag is a retired Professor of Sociology at the Central University of Venezuela and former director of its Center for Development Studies - CENDES. He has authored over 20 books as well as several scholarly articles. He has taught and conducted research in practically all the countries within the Western Hemisphere and many others around the globe.
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute of the Americas CEPAS Program Speaker Series and San Diego State University's Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). For more information call (858) 534-6050.
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En La Mira: El Chiste Político en México
Political Humor in Mexico: From Cortez to Calderón
When: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:30-2:00 PM
Where: Weaver Conference Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD Campus
Samuel Schmidt is currently a Professor of Social Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez and the Director of North American Studies at the Colegio de Chihuahua. He is also the Associate Director of the journal Araucaria and the Editor of the weekly El Reto . Schmidt was the Former Director for the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of over twenty books exploring the relationship between Mexican society and the State. For more information, please call (858) 534-6050. Please click here to download the PDF flyer for this event.
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