Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowship

On Tuesday, October 20th, Tim Frye (MA/PhD Hispanic Literatures & Cultures Grad Student), along with seventeen other graduate and professional degree students, will be celebrated for receiving the 2015 Walter Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowship.  

Walter H. Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowships are designed to support the continued internationalization of the University of Minnesota by providing critical assistance to students enrolled in master’s and professional degree programs, and to increase opportunities for students to study, undertake internships, and conduct research projects abroad.

Tim's research involves literary fieldwork of memory sites of the Canal Zone in Panama. His research goes beyond the study of race alone by examining the way power and politics in Panama are spatially determined. The Canal Zone is best understood as space that bridges race, commerce, and ecology at once intertwined with social and economic marginalization, but which are invisible to the official historical record. For that reason, the study of these spaces is paramount in the study of cultural narratives of Panama. 

Latin American Visions: Film, Memory, and Human Rights

A Conversation with filmmaker Sergio Schmucler about  The blue Shadow/La sombra azul (2012).

Wednesday, October 14th

1:00-2:15 p.m.

335 Nicholson Hall

Javier Rodriguez is a police officer who suffered torture during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. After his exile in Denmark, he returns to his home country to find out that some of the same police officers who tortured him are now senior officials.

This film is about the long-lasting effects of the violence of the past, and about the role that survivors of political repression have had (and still have) in the struggle against impunity.

This film is also about the difficulties of representation of the testimonial accounts of survivors.

The talk will be in Spanish and is open to the public. 

For more information contact Prof. Ana Forcinito aforcini@umn.edu 

This event is sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Spanish & Portuguese Research Group (SPRG)

Friday, October 9, 2015
317 Folwell Hall
3:30-5:00pm

Veronica Menaldi

Enchanting Go-Betweens: Mediated Love Magic Within and Without "El Libro de buen amor"

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Carla Manzoni

Multi-screen Post-dictatorial Memory: Alternative narrative suture in Argentina and Spain

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