Events

SPRING 2012

TALK

"Romania Nova: Romance Languages in the Americas"

Francisco Ordóñez, Dept of Hispanic Languages & Literature, Stony Brook University
APRIL 18th, 12:50-2:10 PM @ SBS Bldg., Room N320

TALK

 

"Property rights: Autobiography and the ownership of life"
Sylvia Molloy, New York University
Wed, Mar. 7th 12:50-2:10pm,
Room N3060, Melville Library
Sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
 

TALK

"Endangered Languages of New York City"
Daniel Kaufman, Founder and Co-Director of the “Endangered Language Alliance"
Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 4pm, Hum 1006 (reception to follow)
More info

TALK

"Spanish in New York, Spanish of New York, or Spanglish?"
Ricardo Otheguy (CUNY)
Wed, Mar. 14th, 4pm, Hum 1006 (reception to follow at Hum 1052)

 CALL FOR PAPERS

"Trans-nationalizing Popular Culture"

Stony Brook University
Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center
11th Annual Graduate Conference
(deadline Feb 28)
Friday, April 20, 2012
at Stony Brook Manhattan Campus
More Information on LAC/conference

 

FALL 2011

 

  Talk on Mon, Dec 12, 2011

   Juan Villoro: Oblivion: A Personal History of Mexico City    

   Melville Library, room w4550

   12:45 am to 2:10 pm

 

 

Event on Wed, Nov 30, 2011

Taller Cultural Hispano: Un espacio para  compartir la lengua y la cultura hispana     

Common Study Room, Hispanic Languages Department, Melville Library, room N3041

at 12:45 am to 2:10 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 Talk on Wed, Nov 16, 2011:

Judith Hellman (York University) "The Changing World of Mexican Migrants"

Social Behavioral Sciences Building, LACC, Room N320

12:50 to 2:10pm

 

 

 

Talk on Wed, Nov 16, 2011:

Javier Uriarte (Stony Brook Univ) "Guerra en Terra Incognita: Letters from the Battle Fields of Paraguay de Richard F. Burton"

Melville Library, N3060

11:30 am to 12:30 pm

 

 

 Event on Wed., Nov 16, 2011:

Stony Brook Cinelites: Selected Papers from the International Conference of Hispanic Film and Literature, Portland (2011)

Common Study Room, Hispanic Languages Department, Melville Library

12:50 to 2:10 pm

 

 

Talk on Wed, Nov 9, 2011:                                                                         

 John Mraz (Univ. de Puebla and Princeton Univ.) "Historizing Photographs: A View  from Mexico"

Social Behavioral Sciences Building, LACC, Room N320

12:50 to 2:10pm

Co-esponsored by the History Department

 

 

  Mini Film Festival, From Nov.1 to Nov. 4:

   Hispanic Languages Mini Film Fest: Liquid Identities, Living across borders

   Humanities, Room 1006

   Wed. Nov. 1 to Nov.3 (2011): 6:30 to 8:30pm; Nov.4 (2011), 1:30 to 3:30 pm

   Sponsored by the Hispanic Languages and Literatures Department, The Humanities Institute, The Latin American and Carribean Center, and The Graduate Student Organization

 

 

Talk on Wed, Nov 2, 2011:

Julie Hempel "Calacas, Damas, Catrines y Muertitos: The Lotería of Mexican and Chicana/o Identities" (Austin College)

LACS Seminar and Conference Room @ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320

12:45 to 2:10 pm

Co-Sponsored by the Hispanic Languages Department

 

 

 

Round Table/Mesa redonda on Wed, Oct. 26, 2011:

“Profiteering, Public Education, and Social Movements in Chile 2011”

 LACS Seminar and Conference Room @ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320

 12:45 to 2:10 pm

 

 

 

Documentary on Wed, Oct. 5, 2011:

Imagining Mina (2010)http://imaginingmina.com/trailer.html                                                                 

LACS Seminar and Conference Room @ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320

12:45 to 2:10 pm

 

 

Fall 2010

 

Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (Princeton University)

"Literatura y artes gráficas en Puerto Rico"
Miércoles 17 de Nov. 2010, 12.45 pm in Melville N3060

SPRING 2010 

APRIL

Cooking Up Dreams: A Dialogue with Documentarist Ernesto Cabellos

Peruvian documentarist Ernesto Cabellos will be presenting and discussing clips from his three documentaries: Choropampa: The Price of Gold (2002); Tambogrande: Magos, Murder, Mining (2007); and his recent work on Peruvian food and national culture, Cooking Up Dreams (De ollas y sueños, 2009)

 

The presentation will be in English in Prof. Firbas’s HUS 254 “Latin America Today.”
Wed. April 28 from 2.20-3.40 pm in Javits 103

Fall 2009

DECEMBER

>>   Colloquium: "Heritage Tourism and Its Vicissitudes"

 

NOVEMBER

>> Hispanic Language & Literature Colloquium 2009-2010
Prof. Katy Vernon: "'Anna Montserrat Barcelona,'or Reading Marta Balletbo-Coll's Costa Brava with Woody Allen". Anna Shilova (Stony Brook Univ graduate student) Sor Juana y María Luisa (Bemberg): Vida y obra en transgresión." Wednesday, Novemeber 18, 2009; 12:45 - 2:00, Melville Library N3060

OCTOBER

 >> Prof. Agnes Lugo-Ortiz  (Univ. of Chicago)

>> Hispanic Language & Literature Colloquium 2009-2010
Prof. Junyoung Verónica Kim: "Borders Within Cities: The Topography of Power in the Global Order". Salma Ralph (Stony Brook Univ graduate student): "Reclaiming Space at the Borderlands in Helena Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them". Wednesday, October 21, 2009; 12:45 - 2:00, Melville Library N3060 

SEPTEMBER 

Talks by film director Cheryl Dunye, Lalitha Gopalan (UT Austin), Manthia Diawara (NYU), Marvin D'Lugo (Clark U), film director François Woukoache and Brian Larkin (Columbia)

Organized by Profs. Patrice Nganang, Shirley Lim and Adrián Pérez Melgosa.

>>Hispanic Language & Literature Colloquium 2009-2010
Zaida Corniel (Stony Brook Univ graduate student), "La mirada hacia el “Otro” una construcción “post tourists” en “¿Quién Diablos es Juliette? y Sanky Panky"; y Prof. Paul Firbas  (Stony Brook Univ), "El Pueblo negro en Luis Palés Matos". Sept. Wed 30, 12:45 - 2:00. Melville Library N3060.

 

SPRING 2009  

>>  4th Annual Hispanic Languages and Literature Graduate Student Conference

FALL 2008

 

SEPTEMBER

>>Taller de Acentuación. Wed. 17, 12.45-2pm. En el Laboratorio. 5to piso. Orientado a los estudiantes de la especialidad y estudiantes avanzados de Lengua.

>>Hispanic Language & Literature Colloquium 2008-2009
Sharona Frederico (Stony Brook Univ graduate student), "La imagen del esclavo negro en la literatura y la pintura colonial: El blanco conceptualiza al otro"; y Prof. Veronica Kim (Stony Brook Univ), "Disrupting 'El mito blanco': A Study of the Korean Immigrant Community in Buenos Aires". Wed. 24, 12:45 - 2:00. Melville Library N3060.

OCTOBER

>> Violence in the Hispanic World in the 16th and 17th century / La violencia en el mundo hispánico en los siglos XVI y XVII.  Co-organized by our Department and GRISO (Universidad de Navarra, Spain). October 9 and 10, 2008 at Stony Brook University main campus.

    Full conference  schedule here on PDF

>> Película: "María llena eres de gracia" (Colombia-USA, 2004, dir. Joshua Marston). Wed. Oct. 15, 12.45-2pm. Melville Library N3060. Presentada por Tatiana Rzhevsky.

>> Conferencia de Pedro Lastra (prof. emérito, Stony Brook Univ.): "Testimonios de José María Arguedas". En el seminario del prof. Paul Firbas. Viernes oct. 17, 4-5.30 pm. Melville Library N3060.

>> The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. Conference:  "The Eighteen Century Cosmopolis: Global Cities and Citizens in the Age of Sail". Oct. 23-24, 2008 Stony Brook Manhattan . More info here.

NOVEMBER

 >> Hispanic Languages & Literature Colloquium 2008-9. Dean Allbritton (Stony Brook Univ), "On Infirm Ground: Ill Masculinities in El mar." Prof. Adrián Pérez Melgosa (Stony Brook Univ), "Reaction Shots: The Role of Camera Technique and Inter-American Affects." Wed., Nov. 5, 2008. 12:45 - 2:00. Melville Library N3060.

DECEMBER

>>IX Taller Cultural Hispano.  Wed Dec. 3, 12.45-2pm, en el Departamento. Con la participación activa de los TA’s, lectores y profesores.

>> Join us for the final Hispanic Languages & Literature Colloquia of Fall 08! Dissertation presentations by two of our advanced ABD students, with a brief Q&A afterwards. Melissa Culver González and Victor Pueyo Zoco. Wednesday, December 10, 2008, from 12:45 - 2:00 in Melville Library N3060.

SPRING 2008

 

FEBRUARY

 

 >>Talk by Chilean poet and scholar Pedro Lastra: "El encuentro en el Nuevo Mundo y las incitaciones poéticas de la extrañeza".  Feb. 7, 3:oo-4:30 pm in Prof. Firbas's graduate seminar in Melville Library N 3062.

 

>>Lecture by Prof. Víctor García Ruiz (Univ. de Navarra): "Nada, de Carmen Laforet. Del tremendismo a Juan Ramón Jiménez." Friday, Feb. 15, 3:30 pm in Melville Libarry N3060.

 

>>Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Africana Studies. Wed. Feb. 20 at 12:50-2:10 pm in Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

 

MARCH 

 

>> Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACC) 7th annual graduate student conference:  “Inventing the Americas." Keynote Speaker Prof. Walter Mignolo (Duke Univ.). Friday and Sturday, March 14-15, 2008 at the Stony Brook Manhattan Campus. 

>> Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Paul Firbas, Hispanic Languages & Literature. "An Andean Colonial Text: Don Quixote and the Inca (1607)." Tuesday, Mach 25 at 4:00-6:00 pm in Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

>> Talk by Prof. Jorge Brioso (SUNY Albany):  "La muerte de la teoría y el regreso de la poesía: Rubén Darío y los poderes de los arcaico". Wed. March 26 at 5.30 pm in Melville Library N3060.

APRIL 

 >> The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook: "Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures." April 3-5, 2008. More information (PDF poster).

>>Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Rachel Price, Hispanic Languages & Literature. "Animal life, bare life, barren lives: Vidas Secas." Monday, April 14 at 4:00-6:00 pm in Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

>> Conference. "Violence in Latin America: New Realities, Emerging Representations."  April 18 - 19, 2008 in Stony Brook Manhattan, New York City.  See full schedule  here/Programa

 MAY 

>> Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium: Jennifer Anderson, History Department. Thursday, May 1 at 2:00-4:00 pm in  Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320.

FALL 2007

 

SEPTEMBER 

>>Doctoral Defense by Natalia Núñez Bargueño. "Barcelona múltiple: transformaciones urbanas, ciudadanos, visitantes e inmigrantes. De ‘ciudad condal’ vencida a urbe postolímpica." Adviser: Prof. Daniela Flesler. Sept. 26 at 12:40 pm in Melville Library N3062.

>>Talk by Prof. Teresa Vilarós (University of Aberdeen). "La gauche divine de Barcelona: vanguardia y banalidad". Tuesday Sept. 25 at 2:30pm. Seminar Room Library N3062

OCTOBER 

>> "450 Women Have Been Murdered in Ciudad Juárez." Guest speakers and artwork depicts unsolved crimes occurring on the border of U.S and Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez. Sponsored by LACC and Sigma Lambda Upsilon/ Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. Thursday Oct. 4, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, at the Student Activities Center Art Gallery.

>>Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: Memory· Spaces· Cities· Images. Conference organized by the Humanities Institute. Oct. 10 to 13 . See full schedule.

>>Talk by Federico Finchelstein, "Christianized Fascism" (The New School). Organized by the The New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW), an inter-university project. Friday, Oct. 26, 12:00-2:00 pm at Stony Brook Manhattan (401 Park Ave. South at 28th St, 2nd Floor)

>>Tak by Prof. Sujatha Fernandes (Queen College, CUNY)."Cuba Represent! Rap Music and Racial Politics in Contemporary Cuba." Tuesday Oct. 30 at 2:30 pm in Melville Library. Room TBA.

NOVEMBER 

>> Doctoral Defense by Melanie Catherine Simpson. "The persistence of difference: Mythologies of essentialism, the Anglophone world and modern Spanish cultural identity." Adviser: Prof. Daniela Flesler. Nov. 2 at 10: 30 am in Melville Library N3062.

>>Talk by Laura Freixas." Souls in Purgatory - Or How I Became a Writer Thanks to Francisco Franco, My Mother and Simone de Beauvoir." Co-sponsored by Hispanic Languages and Literature, Comparative Litearary and Cultural Studies, Women's Studies and the Humanities Institute. Monday Nov. 5 at 4 pm in Melville Library N3060.

 >>Lecture by Prof. Alain Badiou (European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland). "The Affirmative Part of Negation: A Poetical Paradigm for Philosophy." Organized by the Provost's Lecture Series. Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 4:00 pm in the Student Activities Center (SAC) Auditorium.

 >>Undergraduate Mayor Event. Come and talk with our Faculty about your major o minor in Spanish. Wed. Nov. 14 from 12:oo to 2:00 pm in the Student Activity Center.

>>Talk by Prof. Paul Firbas (Stony Brook Univ, Dept of Hispanic Lang & Lit)."Maroon Societies in Early Spanish Colonial Geographies". Wed. Nov. 14 at 4:00 pm in Social and Behavioral Sciences N320.

>>Talk by Prof. Rachel Price (Stony Brook Univ, Dep of Hispanic Lang & Lit). "The Spirit of Martí." Friday Nov. 16 at 2:oo pm in Melville Library. Room TBA.

>>Taller Cultural Hispano. Homenaje a Rigoberta Menchú. Bailes, recitales y comidas típicas, con la participación de estudiantes y profesores. El miércoles 28 de noviembre de 12:45 a 2:10 pm, en el Dept of Hispanic Languages and Literature.

>>Talk by linguist Prof. Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers University) on Quechua language: "Peripheral Domains, Informational Structure and AGREE in Quechua." Friday Nov. 30 at 3:30 in SAC 304. Organized by the Dept of Linguistics.

DECEMBER 

>> Canceled: Documentary screening and talk by director Ernesto Cabellos (Guarango Videos, Peru). "Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mone" (52 min.).

SPRING 2007

Feminist Campus Colloquium Presents : Feminist Ecologics 

Prof. Gabriela Polit (Hispanic Languages and Lit). "The Ecology of Words: A Genealogy of Andean Cultures in the Cocaine Era." Thursday, April 19 at 4:30 pm. 

Prof. Heidi Hutner (English). "Ecofeminism, Motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia in Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents,and Into the Forest." Thursday, March 1 at 4:30 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program and HISB. In the HISB Room 1008 Humanities Building

FALL 2006

Memories of Modernity
An International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas
November 10-11, 2006
Stony Brook Manhattan, Park Ave and 28th St., New York, NY

Conference Program

SPRING  2005

CONFERENCE

Arms and Letters: Old and New Violence in Hispanic Literature. Saturday, April 9th 2005 at the Wang Center, Stony Brook University.

This Graduate Student Conference is being organized by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, at Stony Brook University. The event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.

A POETRY READING WITH CRITICAL COMMENTARY

In Celebration of the Jorge Carrera Andrade Collection
Wednesday April 20, 2005
The Javits Room / 2nd Floor Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library
Participants Gabriela Polit-Dueñas, Steven Ford Brown, Jonathan Cohen, J. Enrique Ojeda

SPRING 2004

BODIES, LANGUAGE AND MEMORY / CUERPOS, LENGUAJES Y MEMORIA

March 26 and 27, 2004 at the Wang Center, Stony Brook University. This conference has been organized by the Hispanic Languages and Literature Department at Stony Brook University and el Departamento de Literatura Comparada at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. The Keynote speaker will be Frances Aparicio and other participants include: Amy Kaminsky, Román de la Campa, Licia Fiol Matta, Kelly Oliver, Antonio Orejudo-Utrillas, Irene Vilar, Juan Duchesne-Winter, Rubén Ríos Avila and Mara Negrón.

 

FALL 2003

EUROPE AND THE GYPSIES. An Interdisciplinary Colloquium. Serie de conferencias organizada por Lou Charnon-Deutsch y Kathleen Vernon que se celebrará en el otoño de 2003.
Participantes: Ian Hancock, Wim Willems, Carol Silverman, Timothy Mitchell.

Alda Blanco. "Critica feminista y los estudios de genero: Las escritoras de la domesticidaqd en la España Isabelina." Septiembre 2004 en Departmental Conference Room.

SPRING 2003

Talk by Noël Valis. "Writing Camp in Post-Franco Spain" 24 de abril 2003 en Departmental Conference Room.

Talk by Noam Chomsky. "Violence and Justice: Some Useful Truisms" 30 de abril 2003 en The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook.

Talk by Paul Gilroy. "British Culture & Postcolonial Melancholia". 26 de marzo 2003 en The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook.

Conferencia de Pedro Lastra. "Exilio y Poesía". 8 de marzo del 2003.

FALL 2002

Talk by Jo Labanyi. 15 de noviembre 2002.

Talk by Jacques Derrida. "The World of Enlightenment to Come". 24 de octubre 2002 en The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook.

 

SPRING 2002

Talk by Dolores Prida. 15 de abril, 2002.
Talk by Junot Díaz: 17 de marzo, 2002.

Quevedo y el Hispanismo en el Nuevo Milenio
Coloquios del GRISO, New York 15-16 de Noviembre
Organized by: Stony Brook University (Department of Hispanic Languages) and GRISO (Universidad de Navarra).

 

FALL 2001

Talk by William Rowe: "How to disappear completely"
28 de septiembre, 2001.