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
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
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