3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference - "Exchange and Collision"

"Exchange and Collision"
March 25-26, 2016 

 We welcome the public to the following events

Keynote Speakers

Patrick Dove, Professor, Indiana University 

Friday, March 25th

3:30pm, 140 Nolte Center

“The Secret of the World: Globalization, History and Modernity in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666”

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Saturday, March 26th

 4:00pm, Folwell 112

"La Mancha (negra?) del plátano: Language and self-/other-ascribed identity"

Film Screening

Colombian documentary

Testigos de un etnocidio Memorias de resistencia
(Witnesses to Ethnocide: Memories of Resistance)

Friday, March 25 at 6:30 pm Nolte 140. 

Maryanne Williams, department advisor, receives the John Tate Award

We would like to congratulate our department advisor, Maryanne Williams, on receiving the John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising is named in honor of John Tate, Professor of Physics and first Dean of University College (1930-41). The Tate Award serves to recognize and reward high-quality advising at the University of Minnesota. It calls attention to the contributions that academic advising and career services make in helping students formulate and achieve their intellectual, career, and personal goals. By recognizing professionals for their outstanding commitment to students, the Tate Award celebrates the role that academic advising and career services play in the University’s educational mission.

The passing of Russell Hamilton

Russell Hamilton, 2nd from left

 

We are saddened to announce the death of RUSSELL HAMILTON, former Professor of Portuguese in our department. He passed away over the weekend in his sleep after a two-week bout with pneumonia. 

In 1964, Professor Hamilton joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota where he spent the next twenty years. He was one of the founding members of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies which previously had been designated as a Department of Romance Languages.

In 1984, he went to Vanderbilt University as Dean of the Graduate School. Throughout the sixteen years he served as Dean, he was able to teach an occasional course and maintain a research agenda until he retired in 2004. After his return to Minneapolis which he and his wife, Cherie, consider “home”, Russell contributed again to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies by teaching an occasional course and giving lectures to graduate and undergraduate students. In 2007, he was one of the academics recognized with the Medalha do Vulcão by President Pedro Pires of Cape Verde. 

There will be a symposium in honor of his legacy this coming October. Details will follow at a later time.

Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Association (HaLLA) for March 4th

Friday, March 4, 2016

11:00am-12:30pm
104 Folwell Hall

                       Speakers:

Tripp Strawbridge

L2 Pragmatics and Human Cognition in Study Abroad

and

Alicia Ocampo

Tango tradicional: Texto y metatexto

Radio Interview with Prof. Luis Ramos-Garcia

This morning (Wednesday, March 2nd) Radio Francia Internacional, during its show “París América” that will be broadcast across all of Latin America, will be interviewing Professor Luis Ramos-García regarding the results of the US Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.  If you would like to listen, the live show begins at 10:00am, and it looks like you can listen to the live broadcast here: http://www.espanol.rfi.fr/  On the right hand side of the page just slightly down from the top you will see a red box that says “Escuchar RFI” and “Haga clic para escuchar en directo”.  An international interview regarding US political issues is another excellent example of our department contributing to CLA and University public engagement initiatives as well as bringing departmental expertise to the international community.

If you did not have the opportunity to listen to the París América broadcast on Radio Francia Internacional, in which Professor Luis Ramos-García was interviewed regarding the results of Super Tuesday, the show is available online here.

Reading History through Fiction, A lecture by Alicia Kozameh

Latin American Visions:

Literature and Human Rights

Reading History through Fiction

A lecture by Alicia Kozameh

March 2, 2016
11.15 am

Nicholson Hall 125

            

Alicia Kozameh, writer and former political prisoner during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, is the author of the novels Pasos bajo el agua (Steps Under Water) 259 saltos, uno inmortal (259 Leaps, the Last Immortal),  Patas de avestruz , Basse danse ; Natatio aeterna; and  Eni Furtado no ha dejado de correr (2013), Bruno regresa descalzo (forthcoming 2016) the collection of short stories Ofrenda de propia piel, the book of poetry Mano en vuelo (Hand in Flight) was published in 2008, the anthologies: Caleidoscopio, la mujer en la mira, and Caleidoscopio 2, inmigrantes en la mira. In collaboration with another four ex-political prisoners she wrote the testimonial book Nosotras, presas politicas, that includes the testimonial accounts of more than one hundred women from the same prison, published in Spanish and Italian. Among other literary awards, she has been granted the Crisis International Award for best short story, and the Memoria historica de las mujeres en America Latina y el Caribe. After having taught at several institutions, she is currently associate professor of Creative Writing at Chapman University.
 
Sponsored by: Ohanessian Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Human Rights Program