FALL 2008

SEPTEMBER

>>Taller de Acentuación. Wed. 17, 12.45-2pm. En el Laboratorio. 5to piso. Orientado a los estudiantes de la especialidad y estudiantes avanzados de Lengua.

>>Hispanic Language & Literature Colloquium 2008-2009
Sharona Frederico (Stony Brook Univ graduate student), "La imagen del esclavo negro en la literatura y la pintura colonial: El blanco conceptualiza al otro"; y Prof. Veronica Kim (Stony Brook Univ), "Disrupting 'El mito blanco': A Study of the Korean Immigrant Community in Buenos Aires". Wed. 24, 12:45 - 2:00. Melville Library N3060.

OCTOBER

>> Violence in the Hispanic World in the 16th and 17th century / La violencia en el mundo hispánico en los siglos XVI y XVII.  Co-organized by our Department and GRISO (Universidad de Navarra, Spain). October 9 and 10, 2008 at Stony Brook University main campus.

    Full conference  schedule here on PDF

>> Película: "María llena eres de gracia" (Colombia-USA, 2004, dir. Joshua Marston). Wed. Oct. 15, 12.45-2pm. Melville Library N3060. Presentada por Tatiana Rzhevsky.

>> Conferencia de Pedro Lastra (prof. emérito, Stony Brook Univ.): "Testimonios de José María Arguedas". En el seminario del prof. Paul Firbas. Viernes oct. 17, 4-5.30 pm. Melville Library N3060.

>> The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. Conference:  "The Eighteen Century Cosmopolis: Global Cities and Citizens in the Age of Sail". Oct. 23-24, 2008 Stony Brook Manhattan . More info here.

NOVEMBER

 >> Hispanic Languages & Literature Colloquium 2008-9. Dean Allbritton (Stony Brook Univ), "On Infirm Ground: Ill Masculinities in El mar." Prof. Adrián Pérez Melgosa (Stony Brook Univ), "Reaction Shots: The Role of Camera Technique and Inter-American Affects." Wed., Nov. 5, 2008. 12:45 - 2:00. Melville Library N3060.

DECEMBER

>>IX Taller Cultural Hispano.  Wed Dec. 3, 12.45-2pm, en el Departamento. Con la participación activa de los TA’s, lectores y profesores.

SPRING 2008

FEBRUARY

 >>Talk by Chilean poet and scholar Pedro Lastra: "El encuentro en el Nuevo Mundo y las incitaciones poéticas de la extrañeza".  Feb. 7, 3:oo-4:30 pm in Prof. Firbas's graduate seminar in Melville Library N 3062.

>>Lecture by Prof. Víctor García Ruiz (Univ. de Navarra): "Nada, de Carmen Laforet. Del tremendismo a Juan Ramón Jiménez." Friday, Feb. 15, 3:30 pm in Melville Libarry N3060.

>>Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Africana Studies. Wed. Feb. 20 at 12:50-2:10 pm in Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

MARCH 

 >> Graduate Student Colloquium: "After Theory: Hispanism at the Crossroads/ Después de la teoría: el hispanismo en la encrucijada." Friday and Saturday, March 7 & 8, 2008 in Wang Center 201.     See full program in pdf.  Go to the  conference blog.

>> Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACC) 7th annual graduate student conference:  “Inventing the Americas." Keynote Speaker Prof. Walter Mignolo (Duke Univ.). Friday and Sturday, March 14-15, 2008 at the Stony Brook Manhattan Campus. 

>> Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Paul Firbas, Hispanic Languages & Literature. "An Andean Colonial Text: Don Quixote and the Inca (1607)." Tuesday, Mach 25 at 4:00-6:00 pm in Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

>> Talk by Prof. Jorge Brioso (SUNY Albany):  "La muerte de la teoría y el regreso de la poesía: Rubén Darío y los poderes de los arcaico". Wed. March 26 at 5.30 pm in Melville Library N3060.

APRIL 

 >> The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook: "Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures." April 3-5, 2008. More information (PDF poster).

>>Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Rachel Price, Hispanic Languages & Literature. "Animal life, bare life, barren lives: Vidas Secas." Monday, April 14 at 4:00-6:00 pm in Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

>> Conference. "Violence in Latin America: New Realities, Emerging Representations."  April 18 - 19, 2008 in Stony Brook Manhattan, New York City.  See full schedule  here/Programa

 MAY 

>> Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Jennifer Anderson, History Department. Thursday, May 1 at 2:00-4:00 pm in  Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

FALL 2007

SEPTEMBER 

>>Doctoral Defense by Natalia Núñez Bargueño. "Barcelona múltiple: transformaciones urbanas, ciudadanos, visitantes e inmigrantes. De ‘ciudad condal’ vencida a urbe postolímpica." Adviser: Prof. Daniela Flesler. Sept. 26 at 12:40 pm in Melville Library N3062.

>>Talk by Prof. Teresa Vilarós (University of Aberdeen). "La gauche divine de Barcelona: vanguardia y banalidad". Tuesday Sept. 25 at 2:30pm. Seminar Room Library N3062

OCTOBER 

>> "450 Women Have Been Murdered in Ciudad Juárez." Guest speakers and artwork depicts unsolved crimes occurring on the border of U.S and Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez. Sponsored by LACC and Sigma Lambda Upsilon/ Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. Thursday Oct. 4, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, at the Student Activities Center Art Gallery.

>>Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: Memory· Spaces· Cities· Images. Conference organized by the Humanities Institute. Oct. 10 to 13 . See full schedule.

>>Talk by Federico Finchelstein, "Christianized Fascism" (The New School). Organized by the The New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW), an inter-university project. Friday, Oct. 26, 12:00-2:00 pm at Stony Brook Manhattan (401 Park Ave. South at 28th St, 2nd Floor)

>>Tak by Prof. Sujatha Fernandes (Queen College, CUNY)."Cuba Represent! Rap Music and Racial Politics in Contemporary Cuba." Tuesday Oct. 30 at 2:30 pm in Melville Library. Room TBA.

NOVEMBER 

>> Doctoral Defense by Melanie Catherine Simpson. "The persistence of difference: Mythologies of essentialism, the Anglophone world and modern Spanish cultural identity." Adviser: Prof. Daniela Flesler. Nov. 2 at 10: 30 am in Melville Library N3062.

>>Talk by Laura Freixas." Souls in Purgatory - Or How I Became a Writer Thanks to Francisco Franco, My Mother and Simone de Beauvoir." Co-sponsored by Hispanic Languages and Literature, Comparative Litearary and Cultural Studies, Women's Studies and the Humanities Institute. Monday Nov. 5 at 4 pm in Melville Library N3060.

 >>Lecture by Prof. Alain Badiou (European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland). "The Affirmative Part of Negation: A Poetical Paradigm for Philosophy." Organized by the Provost's Lecture Series. Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 4:00 pm in the Student Activities Center (SAC) Auditorium.

 >>Undergraduate Mayor Event. Come and talk with our Faculty about your major o minor in Spanish. Wed. Nov. 14 from 12:oo to 2:00 pm in the Student Activity Center.

>>Talk by Prof. Paul Firbas (Stony Brook Univ, Dept of Hispanic Lang & Lit)."Maroon Societies in Early Spanish Colonial Geographies". Wed. Nov. 14 at 4:00 pm in Social and Behavioral Sciences N320.

>>Talk by Prof. Rachel Price (Stony Brook Univ, Dep of Hispanic Lang & Lit). "The Spirit of Martí." Friday Nov. 16 at 2:oo pm in Melville Library. Room TBA.

>>Taller Cultural Hispano. Homenaje a Rigoberta Menchú. Bailes, recitales y comidas típicas, con la participación de estudiantes y profesores. El miércoles 28 de noviembre de 12:45 a 2:10 pm, en el Dept of Hispanic Languages and Literature.

>>Talk by linguist Prof. Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers University) on Quechua language: "Peripheral Domains, Informational Structure and AGREE in Quechua." Friday Nov. 30 at 3:30 in SAC 304. Organized by the Dept of Linguistics.

DECEMBER 

>> Canceled: Documentary screening and talk by director Ernesto Cabellos (Guarango Videos, Peru). "Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mone" (52 min.).