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2008-2009 Events

Mesa de Conversación

Friday 25 September 2009, 12:00–12:50pm
Ratty, Sala 6

Si no tienes “mealplan,” se puede decir al cajero que no quieres comer, sólo asistir al evento en sala 6.


Conversatorio: “Mascar coca, digerir diferencia” (sobre literatura andina)

Esperanza López Parada

John Carter Brown Library Scholar

18 September 2009, 12:00 noon
Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street


DUG Senior Lunch

El Hispanic Studies DUG invita a los miembros del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos a un almuerzo de pizza y gaseosas para honrar a nuestros seniors.

Acompáñanos en el Piano Lounge de Machado el jueves, 7 de mayo, de 12 – 2 p.m.

Por favor, reponde a esta invitación a la siguiente dirección: hispdug@gmail.com


Colloquium on Carlos Fuentes

Graduate Students in the Department of Hispanic Studies José-Ramón Ortiz, María Pizarro Prada, Daniella Wittern y Kyle James Matthews will present papers on the narrative of Carlos Fuentes.

Friday, 24 April 2009, 5:00-7:00pm
Machado House


Sant Jordi at Brown

We want to celebrate this event at Brown with a party open to everyone. We will have:

  • A welcome rose
  • Traditional Catalan food and drinks
  • A short introduction to the meaning of the festivity
  • A reading of Catalan texts in English translation
  • The announcement of the winners of the literature contest

Click on the image to download the full event announcement!

Rules for the literature contest.

Thursday, 23 April 2009, 7:00 pm
Machado House, 87 Prospect Street

SafeRIDE stops at the front door.


Workshop on Poetry: Fictions of correspondence: Three Pairs of Poems by César Vallejo and Rainer Maria Rilke (co-sponsored by the Departments of German Studies, Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature.)

Michelle Clayton

Associate Professor, UCLA

A workshop with Michelle Clayton, author of a forthcoming book on Peruvian poet César Vallejo (The Reach of Poetry: César Vallejo and Interwar Aesthetic Politics, University of California Press). Therewill be a short presentation by Dr. Clayton followed by a discussion of the poems.

Thursday, 23 April 2009, noon to 2:00 pm
Marston Hall 209

Lunch will be provided. Pre-registration required with thangam_ravindranathan@brown.edu.

Pre-circulated readings will be available starting Friday afternoon at: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/German_Studies/media/MC/.


Lecture: Cómo y por qué escribí Gringo viejo

Carlos Fuentes

Professor-at-large, Department of Hispanic Studies

Thursday, 23 April 2009, 10:00 am to noon
Smith-Buonanno, Room G18


Conference: After Globalization: A Critique of the Crisis

A multidisciplinary forum on the Latin American response to the international crisis

Join a discussion of the global crisis with authors Carlos Fuentes, Nelida Piñón, Sergio Ramírez, Mexican diplomat and judge at the International Court of Justice in La Haya Bernardo Sepúlveda, rector from the University of Guadalajara Pablo Arredondo, and Brown postdoctoral fellow of Caribbean history Adrián López-Denis.

Download the full program (PDF).

Monday, 20 April 2009, 2:00–6:00pm
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.


Lecture: Un arte de hacer ruinas

Antonio José Ponte, leading Cuban poet and fiction writer

Friday, 17 April 2009, 5:10 pm
Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street

Reception to follow.


Conversatorio: Almodóvar y la construcción de la ‘agencialidad’ de la mujer española

Elena Gascón Vera

Professor, Wellesley College

Tuesday, 7 April 2009, noon
Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street


Conversatorio: “Reflexiones sobre la palabra en el tiempo”

Carmen Benito-Vessels

Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Maryland

Friday, 10 April 2009, 12:00 pm
Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street


Film: Nueve Reinas

(English trailer)

Part of the Hispanic DUG Film Series

Friday, 10 April 2009, 8:00pm
MacMillan 115

Film will be shown with English subtitles. Come for movies, pizza, and fun!


Lecture: Moving Bodies of the Avant-Garde (Co-sponsored by The Departments of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and The Program in Literary Arts)

Michelle Clayton

Associate Professor, UCLA

Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 5:30pm
Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street

Reception to follow


Lecture: “The Bishop, the Pirate, and the Black Slave: Cuba's Renaissance Epic” (Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Center for Latin American and Carribbean Studies, Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, and the John Carter Brown Library)

Peter Hulme

Monday, 6 April 2009, 5:30 pm
John Carter Brown Library Reading Room

Reception to follow


Film: Volver

Part of the Hispanic DUG Film Series

Friday, 3 April 2009, 8:00pm
MacMillan 115

Film will be shown with English subtitles. Come for movies, pizza, and fun!


First Annual Cogut Visiting Professor Lecture: “Sombras son la gente” (Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

Juan Oterto Garabis

Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Monday, 16 March 2009, 5:30 pm
McKinney Conference Room


Conversatorio: “Proceso, dilemas, y criterio en la edición del texto de Acosta (2008)”

Fermín del Pino

Grupo de Investigación "Antropología comparada de España y América" (ACEA)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Monday, 13 April 2009, 12:00 pm
Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street


Conversatorio: “Desde el ‘cine con tetas’ a CIMA: ¿hacia una conciencia de género?”

Barbara Zecchi

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 12:00 pm
Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street


DUG Open House

Download the announcement (PDF)

The Hispanic Studies Department Undergraduate Group (DUG) will celebrate an Open House for possible concentrators. This Open House provides an opportunity for undergraduates to meet and talk to professors in the Department of Hispanic Studies.

Monday, 9 March 2009, 6:00-7:00 pm
Peterutti Lounge


Movie Night at Machado

Screening: Seres Queridos / Only Human

Friday, 6 March 2009, 6.00 pm
Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect St

SafeRIDE stops at the front door.


Conversatorio: “Cuba, España y el pos-romanticismo”

Rachel Price

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hispanic Studies

Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:00 pm
Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street


Conversatorio: “Enfoque por tareas y lengua real: Ejemplos para la clase de español”

Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo

Director of Language Programs, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University

Friday, 27 February 2009, 12:00 pm
Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street


Tertulia en Machado

¡Bocadillos en Machado!

Ven a platicar en español y a comer bocadillos y aceitunas.

Thursday, 26 February 2009, 8:00 pm
Machado House, 87 Prospect Street

SafeRIDE stops at the front door.


Lecture: “In Praise of Naivety”

Javier Gomá

Fundación Juan March, Madrid

Monday, 23 February 2009, 5:30 pm
Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect Street


Poetry Reading

Raúl Zurita

Thursday, 19 February 2009, 7:00 pm
McCormack Family Theater


Book Presentation: Créxeir amb Poe

A novel by M. Pilar Gil

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Thursday, 12 February 2009, 5:15 pm
Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect Street