Spanish & Portuguese Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Concert of Music to Accompany the Poetry of Ausiàs March

For more information, visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/spanport/curriculum%20Josep%20y%20Nuria.pdf

This program is cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumna Lecture: Roberta Johnson

“Literary Epiphanies, the Pleasures of Recognition and Maria Zambrano”

A lecture by Professor Roberta Johnson (Emerita, University of Kansas)

2005-2006 Recipient of the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Award

Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. The Hacienda Room at the Faculty Center

In a bit of a departure from her past writings, Professor Johnson takes Zambrano’s hermetic prose as a launching pad to explore how literary language works cognitively. She will refer to a number of studies in contemporary cognitive science and to some recent work on cognition and literature by literary scholars. Please join us.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact spinfo@humnet.ucla.edu

Julio Ramos Lecture: Subject to Change: Gutiérrez Alea's 'Memories of Underdevelopment' and Cuban Cultural Politics

Julio Ramos UC Berkeley

"Subject to Change: Gutiérrez Alea's 'Memories of Underdevelopment' and Cuban Cultural Politics" Friday, February 24th 3 pm Royce 306

-We strongly encourage everyone to participate in the seminar (pre-registered) and to attend the afternoon talk. Please note that there will be a small group seminar in Spanish with Prof. Ramos that same day at 10 am in the Lydeen Library.

Additional seminar "Leyendo con Julio Ramos" (in Spanish) 10 am in 4302 Rolfe, Lydeen Library Department of Spanish and Portuguese

-Please contact Anna More (amore@humnet.ucla.edu)to register and to receive pre-circulated articles for the discussion.

Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American Center

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/lusohispanisms/

"The Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 15th Century"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

“On Studying the Spanish and Portuguese Empires Together”

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is one of the foremost historians of the Portuguese empire and of early modern India. He is a prolific and wide-ranging scholar whose work has focused on the interplay between economic, political and cultural history in this period, subsuming several national historical traditions. His most recent books include The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India (University of Michigan Press, 2001) and a two-volume work entitled Explorations in Connected History (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is fluent in seven languages, including Portuguese. Subrahmanyam has taught and lectured widely in Europe and the United States and is currently director of the Center for Indian and South Asian Studies at UCLA, where he also holds the Doshi Chair in Indian History. Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Advance registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first- come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "Prof. Subrahmanyam's seminar in Royce Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Simulation and Concert

Reservations are required. Please respond to 310-206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu.

Admission Is Free; Parking Is Available in Lot 9 for $8

-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (nettie@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact friends@english.ucla.edu

Literatura e música popular no Brasil

Jose Miguel Wisnik (Universidade de São Paulo)

Friday, May 12th

3 pm "Literatura e música popular no Brasil" Lecture will feature live piano music! Royce 314

Reception to follow

José Miguel Wisnik is one of Brazil’s leading composers, musicians and literary critics and a Professor of Brazilian Literature at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). His writings have sought the intersection between Brazilian popular music, literature and culture and include most recently the collection of essays Sem receita—ensaios e canções (2004). His music has been featured in films such as Terra Estrangeira (1995) and Janela da Alma (2001) and has been recorded by artists such as Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Zizi Possi and Caetano Veloso. He has composed together with Tom Zé for the dance Parabelo (1997), with Caetano Veloso for Onqotô (2005), and individually for a number of theater and dance spectacles, including for the dance troupe Grupo Corpo. His most recent CD is Pérolas aos poucos (2003).

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humanities.ucla.edu

Noties de Cinema

N O I T E S DE C I N E M A

A weekly Brazilian film exhibit at UCLA

When:Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 7:00 pm Where: Moore Hall 100 - UCLA

O Homem do Ano

Director: José Henrique Fonseca 2003

Based on the award-winning novel by Patrícia Melo "O Matador" (Brazil 1995), "The Man of the Year" marks the feature film debut of director José Henrique Fonseca and depicts, in a very original manner, a society in Convulsion.

Meet Maiquel (as Michael) in his incredible destiny: the unemployed car salesman turned assassin-for-hire who becomes the owner of a highly successful security firm. "The Man of the Year" features Brazil's film and TV superstars Murilo Benicio (from Fina Torrez's "Woman on Top") and Cláudia Abreu (from Bruno Barreto's "4 Days in September") in the roles of Maiquel and his wife Cledir.

Original music composed by Dado Villa-Lobos ("Bufo & Spallanzani").

For more information visit the website, please contact pjlheman@ucla.edu or vanina@ucla.edu, or visit our site at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/port/bal.html

This is a free event.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

Noties de Cinema

N O I T E S DE C I N E M A

A weekly Brazilian film exhibit at UCLA

When:Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 7:00 pm Where: Moore Hall 100 - UCLA

O Homem do Ano

Director: José Henrique Fonseca 2003

Based on the award-winning novel by Patrícia Melo "O Matador" (Brazil 1995), "The Man of the Year" marks the feature film debut of director José Henrique Fonseca and depicts, in a very original manner, a society in Convulsion.

Meet Maiquel (as Michael) in his incredible destiny: the unemployed car salesman turned assassin-for-hire who becomes the owner of a highly successful security firm. "The Man of the Year" features Brazil's film and TV superstars Murilo Benicio (from Fina Torrez's "Woman on Top") and Cláudia Abreu (from Bruno Barreto's "4 Days in September") in the roles of Maiquel and his wife Cledir.

Original music composed by Dado Villa-Lobos ("Bufo & Spallanzani").

For more information visit the website, please contact pjlheman@ucla.edu or vanina@ucla.edu, or visit our site at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/port/bal.html

This is a free event.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

Paulinho da Viola - Meu Tempo é Hoje

present

Noites de Cinema A weekly Brazilian film exhibit at UCLA

What: Paulinho da Viola - Meu Tempo e Hoje (director: Izabel Jaguaribe,2003)

When: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 7:00 pm

Where: Moore Hall 100 - UCLA

A must-see documentary that presents the life of one of the most prestigious and talented Brazilian Samba composers, Paulinho da Viola. It is a musical trip that takes the viewer to the universe of Samba in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with amazing performances, including the following classics "O Sol Nascera" (Elton Medeiros e Cartola), "Pecadora" (Joaozinho da Pecadora e Jair do Cavaquinho), "Carinhoso" (Pixinguinha e Joao de Barro) e "Filosofia" (Noel Rosa), among many others.

The film also presents interviews and special participations of Velha Guarda da Portela, Cristina Buarque, Marina Lima, Marisa Monte, Teresa Cristina, Zeca Pagodinho, and many more. 83 minutes of pure delight. Paulinho da Viola - Meu Tempo é Hoje. Director: Izabel Jaguaribe 2003

For more information, please contact pjlheman@ucla.edu or vanina@ucla.edu, or visit our site at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/port/bal.html

This is a free event.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact pjlheman@ucla.edu

"THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: THEN AND NOW"

Present

"THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: THEN AND NOW"

By: Marcos Aguinis (Author; Former Secretary of Culture, Argentina)

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Roland Greene: “The Past and Future of Close Reading”

Organized by Michelle Clayton, Anna More & Maite Zubiaurre.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

Juana M. Liceras Lecture

Ever since, in the late seventies, research on second language acquisition joined, in a rather timid way, the cognitive sciences, the comparison between the development of non-native grammars and native grammars, diachronic change and Creole formation has followed very different paths. In the case of primary language acquisition, the comparison has been systematic both to highlight the similarities and the differences between the two processes. The comparison between interlanguage systems and the development of pidgins reached a peak when the pidginization (Schumann 1979) and the nativization (Andersen 1983) hypotheses were put forward and then faded away, at least for those studying second language acquisition from the ‘linguistic’ perspective. With regards to the comparison between the development of non-native grammars and diachronic change, while there have been some sporadic attempts, one could well say that no dialogue has been established between the two disciplines.

In this presentation we will rely on two different constructs of linguistic theory, Chomsky’s (1986, 1991) I-language/E-language dichotomy and the concept of grammaticalization (Roberts and Roussou 2003), to discuss the advantages and limitations for the analysis of non-native systems of three proposals related to the above-mentioned types of change: (i) the ‘feature-assembly’ proposal put forward by Lardiere (2005, in press) in an attempt to account for the variability that characterizes interlanguage systems; (ii) the ‘relexification hypothesis’ (Lefebvre 1998) which attributes to the adult the fundamental role in Creole formation; and (iii) the ‘competing grammars hypothesis’ (Kroch 1994) whose central objective is to account for the parametric variability which characterizes native grammars at specific stages.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

Overcoming Borders: Mapuche poetry and Technology

Please join us for a presentation of the anthology organized by Allison Ramay and Motus Sodalis.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact spoffice@humnet.ucla.edu

Conversations with the Author Juan Manuel de Prada

Mr. De Prada will be presented by the Consul General of Spain in Los Angeles, the honorable Inocencio F. Arias.

Date: Tuesday, February 6th Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: 314 Royce Hall

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

Rubén Benítez Book Presentation

February 9, 2007

4:00 p.m.

Hacienda Room, Faculty Center

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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Symposium on César Vallejo

A Celebration of César Vallejo

Featuring his Translator, Award-Winning Poet and 2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer

Clayton Eshleman

Thursday, February 22nd, 4pm, 314 Royce

Clayton Eshleman will read from his translation, The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo (University of California Press, 2006).

Reception to follow.

Copies of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman, will be available for purchase on both days.

César Vallejo (Peru, 1892-1938) is one of the foremost Latin American poets of the twentieth century; his four densely lyrical and demanding volumes of poetry map the passage from modernismo through the avant-garde to politically-engaged writing.

Clayton Eshleman's translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo was recently published by the University of California Press. Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

Symposium on César Vallejo

A Celebration of César Vallejo

Featuring his Translator, Award-Winning Poet and 2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer

Clayton Eshleman

Friday, February 23rd, 10am-4:30pm, Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge

A Symposium on the Poetry of César Vallejo

10am: Roundtable on Poetry and Translation, featuring Clayton Eshleman, Kelly Austin (University of Chicago), and Michael Heim (UCLA), moderated by Efrain Kristal (UCLA).

12-1:30pm: Break for lunch.

1:30pm: Screening of Traspié entre 46 estrellas, a short biographical film on César Vallejo, by Stephen Hart (University College London).

2pm: New critical readings by Efraín Kristal (UCLA), Michelle Clayton (UCLA), Stephen Hart (University College of London) and Chrystian Zegarra (UCLA) followed by Q&A session. 4:30pm: Reception.

Copies of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman, will be available for purchase on both days.

César Vallejo (Peru, 1892-1938) is one of the foremost Latin American poets of the twentieth century; his four densely lyrical and demanding volumes of poetry map the passage from modernismo through the avant-garde to politically-engaged writing.

Clayton Eshleman's translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo was recently published by the University of California Press. Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

2007 UC Regent's Lecturer Clayton Eshleman

2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer Clayton Eshleman In a Series of Events on Poetry and Translation

Thursday, March 1st, 3:00 PM, 4302 Rolfe Hall “The Translator’s Ego,” followed by “Translation Problems in a Sonnet by Vallejo.”

Q&A to follow. Hosted by the Center for World Languages.

Clayton Eshleman is an award-winning poet and translator. Over the course of half a century he has published more than forty books of poetry and prose, as well as ground-breaking translations of César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Aimé Césaire, and Antonin Artaud. His work in both poetry and translation has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1978 his National Book Award-winning translation, with José Rubia Barcia, of the Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo introduced the Peruvian poet to a North American audience; his 1992 translation of Vallejo’s avant-garde collection Trilce garnered the Academy of American Poets’ Landon Translation Award. In late 2006 the University of California Press published a revised and completed edition of his Vallejo translations, The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. Eshleman’s most recent volume of poetry, which appeared at the same time, is An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire.

Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public.

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & Tthe Center for World Languages

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

2007 UC Regents’ Lecturer Clayton Eshleman In a Series of Events on Poetry and Translation

Hosted by the Babel Group for Translation Studies.

Clayton Eshleman is an award-winning poet and translator. Over the course of half a century he has published more than forty books of poetry and prose, as well as ground-breaking translations of César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Aimé Césaire, and Antonin Artaud. His work in both poetry and translation has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1978 his National Book Award-winning translation, with José Rubia Barcia, of the Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo introduced the Peruvian poet to a North American audience; his 1992 translation of Vallejo’s avant-garde collection Trilce garnered the Academy of American Poets’ Landon Translation Award. In late 2006 the University of California Press published a revised and completed edition of his Vallejo translations, The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. Eshleman’s most recent volume of poetry, which appeared at the same time, is An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire.

Parking is available for $8 in Parking Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & the Center for World Languages

-- submitted by Dacia (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humanities.ucla.edu

UCLA The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Presents Robin Fiddian

Robin Fiddian

Arte de pájaros: Pablo Neruda's "Oda a la gaviota" and its precursors (with particular reference to Antonio Machado and Leopoldo Lugones)

Monday, March 5th 2007 at 4:00PM

Lydeen Reading Room, Rolfe 4302

"Oda a la gaviota" (1957) represents a notable triumph in the composition of poetry on bird themes, very close to Neruda's heart. With his usual ambition and panache, the Chilean laureate intertwines strands taken from both a European tradition, including Wordsworth, Keats and Baudelaire, and an American tradition rooted in Martí, Lugones and Mistral, not forgetting his own earlier work (in Canto general, for example). It will be the business of this lecture to reconstruct one of many possible genealogies for "Oda a la gaviota," through a detailed and often polemical comparison with two poems: the canonical "A orillas del Duero" by Antonio Machado and "El crepúsculo de los cóndores" by Leopoldo Lugones. Delivered in English, with translations of material quoted from the original Spanish, the lecture should be of interest to students and devotees of modern poetry, hispanic studies, and comparative literature.

Parking is available for $8 in Parkin Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

UCLA The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Presents Robin Fiddian

Robin Fiddian

'Arte de pájaros': Pablo Neruda's "Oda a la gaviota" and its precursors (with particular reference to Antonio Machado and Leopoldo Lugones)

Monday, March 5th 2007 at 4:00PM

Lydeen Reading Room, Rolfe 4302

"Oda a la gaviota" (1957) represents a notable triumph in the composition of poetry on bird themes, very close to Neruda's heart. With his usual ambition and panache, the Chilean laureate intertwines strands taken from both a European tradition, including Wordsworth, Keats and Baudelaire, and an American tradition rooted in Martí, Lugones and Mistral, not forgetting his own earlier work (in Canto general, for example). It will be the business of this lecture to reconstruct one of many possible genealogies for "Oda a la gaviota," through a detailed and often polemical comparison with two poems: the canonical "A orillas del Duero" by Antonio Machado and "El crepúsculo de los cóndores" by Leopoldo Lugones. Delivered in English, with translations of material quoted from the original Spanish, the lecture should be of interest to students and devotees of modern poetry, hispanic studies, and comparative literature.

Parking is available for $8 in Parkin Lot 4. All events are free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

"Obverse Urbanization in the Americas: from Brasilia to Los Angeles"

“Obverse Urbanization in the Americas: From Brasilia to Los Angeles”

Presented by

Justin Read (SUNY at Buffalo)

Justin Read is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Romance Languages at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His research focuses on aesthetic modernism and political-economic modernization in the American hemisphere, with particular attention to Brazil. His work has appeared in Luso-Brazilian Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Modernism/Modernity, among others. His first book, Inter:America (Modern Poetry and Cultural Aesthetics of the Americas), is currently under review for publication.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

4:30 PM

Rolfe Hall 4302 (Lydeen Library)

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LUSO-HISPANIC STUDIES Lecture Series 2006-2007

Neil Larsen (UC Davis)

Lecture: “Towards a Theory of ‘Theory’” Wednesday, April 11 Lecture — 4 p.m. Royce Hall 306

Please write to Dacia Serrano (dacia@humnet.ucla.edu) to register for the seminar and receive a pre-circulated paper

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Education Office, Consulate General of Spain, in Los Angeles.

This event is free and open to the public.

Parking is available in Lot 4 for $8.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LUSO-HISPANIC STUDIES Lecture Series 2006-2007

Organized by Michelle Clayton, Anna More & Maite Zubiaurre

Neil Larsen (UC Davis)

“Race, Periphery, Reification: Speculations on ‘Hybridity’ in Light of Gilberto Freyre’s Casa grande e senzala ”

Thursday, April 12

Seminar — 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)

Please write to Dacia Serrano (dacia@humnet.ucla.edu) to register for the seminar and receive a pre-circulated paper.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Latin American Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Education Office, Consulate General of Spain, in Los Angeles.

This event is free and open to the public.

Parking is available in Lot 4 for $8

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dacia@humnet.ucla.edu

Sanctuaries & Readings from the Heart: Poetry & Prose

Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

Sanctuaries and Readings from the Heart: Poetry and Prose

A bilingual reading in english & spanish followed by a Q&A session with the author.

Copies of "Sanctuaries of the Heart" and "Puppet" will be available for purchase.

April 13, 2007 Royce 306 4:00 p.m.

Margarita Cota-Cárdenas was born in 1941 in the rural town of Heber, Imperial County, California, just eight miles north of the Mexico–U.S. border. She spoke only Spanish before starting first grade, and her home became increasingly bilingual through the years. Her family became involved in agricultural or farm labor from their early years in the U.S., and after their migration over several years to the central San Joaquin Valley in California, they settled there. It was in the San Joaquin Valley that Margarita graduated from high school in Newman, California; from college in Turlock, California; and earned a Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis, in 1968. After returning to teach two years at her alma matter in Turlock, she came to the University of Arizona to pursue her doctoral degree, which she received in 1980. She raised three children during these years. Except for 1980-1981, Margarita has lived in Arizona from 1970 to the present. She taught at Arizona State University for over twenty years until Fall 2002, when she retired as Professor Emerita. She principally taught bilingual Spanish, Chicano/Chicana literature and Mexican literature courses.

Margarita has written since high school, where she wrote a column called “Just Talking.” She has published short stories, which have in part been incorporated in her novels Puppet (1985), and Sanctuaries of the Heart (2005). Puppet, considered to be the fi rst novel in Spanish by a Chicana in the U.S., was translated into English by Dr. Trino Sandoval of Phoenix College and Dr. Barbara Riess of Allegheny College, with the author and was published in a bilingual edition by The University of New Mexico Press in 2000. She also is the cofounder of Scorpion Press, which in the 1970s published four books of poetry, including her fi rst collection Noches despertando in Conciencias. Her second collection, Marchitas de mayo: sones pa’al pueblo, appeared in 1989.

She has been inspired by writers like Tomás Rivera, to “write about what you know, what has happened to you or to people you know.” Rivera maintained that sincerity and good writing went hand in hand, rather than dogma, in describing the Chicano/Chicana experience. Margarita says: “You need to have those ganas, a sense of humor, and a lot of persistence, to make it in this life!”

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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The Thirtieth Symposium on Portuguese Traditions--SIMPÓSIO XXX

The Symposium traditionally has no fixed theme and welcomes the widest range of pertinent topics. Papers may be presented in English or Portuguese and are limited to fifteen minutes reading time. Registration forms, programs of recent Symposiums, and contents of recent issues of Encruzilhadas/Crossroads may be found at www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/portsymp/portsympmain.html. Registration is $50 ($40 before March 15th); no fee for UCLA students, faculty, and staff. Send registration check to: Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, c/o Prof. Claude L. Hulet, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Los Angeles CA 90095-1532.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact chulet@ucla.edu

The Literature that Rises from the Streets

the 2007 Lois B. Matthews Lecture

"The Literature that Rises from the Streets"

A lecture by eminent writer

Elena Poniatowska

Friday April 27, 2007

3:00 p.m.

Royce 314

Elena Poniatowska Amor is a leading novelist, essayist, and journalist of Mexico. Her chronicle,La noche de Tlatelolco, (Massacre in Mexico), relates the bloody repression of the student movement of 1968 in Mexico City. Hasta no verte, Jesús mío, (Here’s to you, Jesusa), narrates the life of a proletarian Mexican woman who fought in the Mexican Revolution. Most recently, she is finishing the chronicle of the presidential campaign of Manuel López Obrador in 2006.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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Mujeres de celuloide en el cine clasico mexicano

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Latin American Center Present:

Julia Tuñón "Mujeres de celuloide en el cine clásico mexicano"

Wednesday, May 23, 6:00 pm Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)

Prof. Julia Tuñón holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Mexico (UNAM). She has written extensively on women's history in Mexico and on the representation of women and children in Mexican cinema. Prof. Tuñón is the author of several books, among them, Las mujeres en México. Una historia olvidada (1988), Mujeres de luz y sombra en el cine mexicano. La construcción de una imagen, 1939-1952 (1998), and Cuerpo y espíritu. Médicos en celuloide (2005), She has been a member of Mexico´s prestigious National System of Researchers since 1989. Her talk will focus on the image of women in Mexico´s classic cinema.

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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Lecture on Manoel de Oliveira by Randal Johnson

*Reception Follows the Lecture*

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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"Worlds of Words: Through the Looking Glass"

-- submitted by Dacia Serrano (dacia@humanities.ucla.edu)

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