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Neurosis and Masculinity in the Contemporary Argentine Novel
April 14th
4:00 to 5:30 P.M.
Room 335, in Ortega Hall

Professor Idelber Avelar, of Tulane University will be visiting the University of New Mexico on April 14th and 15th. On April 14th he will give a talk on “Neurosis and Masculinity in the Contemporary Argentine Novel.” The lecture will take place from 4:00 to 5:30 P.M. in Room 335, in Ortega Hall.

Idelber Avelar is a full professor of Latin American Literatures (specializing in the Southern Cone), Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies at Tulane University. He is a preeminent scholar of postdictatorship Southern Cone fiction and culture and has published extensively on this topic. Besides being the author of various essays on Latin American literature and culture, Professor Avelar has also published The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (2004) and The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (1999), winner of the MLA Kovacs prize and which was translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

Most recently, he won the Brazilian Foreign Ministry essay contest on Machado de Assis. Currently Professor Avelar is working on two monographs, El vértice y el desamparo: Arte, subjectividad y masculinidad en la novela argentina post-crisis and Timing the Nation: Rhythm, Race, and Nationhood in Brazilian Popular Music. Additionally, he is editing Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship (with Christopher Dunn).

For more information on Professor Avelar and his research/writing, please go to:
Website: http://www.tulane.edu/~spanport/avelar.htm
Blog: http://www.idelberavelar.com/

The Feminist Research Institute Presents

African Queens in Colonial Quarrels: Reflections from the Making of an Ibero-Atlantic Anthology

Wednesday, March 26th
12 noon
SUB Scholars
Kathryn McKnight
Asssociate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese

Women of African descent in Spanish and Portuguese colonial America exercised leadership in their communities, drawing on both ancestral and colonial models to respond to conflict. Dr. McKnight discusses the "quarrels" of two Afro- Latino queens: Leonor of the 17th-century maroon community of Limón (Colombia) and the unnamed widow of the Mina Maki king who had led the confraternity dedicated to Saints Elesbão and Iphigenia in 18th-century Rio de Janeiro. Dr. McKnight places these women's agency in relationship to both their transatlantic (Angolan) counterpart Queen Njinga and the many women who accessed a principle colonial technology of domination-bureaucratic writing-to carve their own self-determination. The paper reports on an ongoing collaborative anthology, which presents the highly mediated voices of Afro-Latino people living in the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world For more information, contact femresin@unm.edu or 277-1198

Code-switching and grammatical change: Yo and I in New Mexico

Friday, March 28
3:00 pm
Ortega Hall Reading Room

Professor of Spanish, Rena Torres-Cacoullos and
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Catherine E. Travis

Spanish has been spoken in New Mexico for 400 years, existing in intense contact with English for the past 150 years. One linguistic consequence of this contact is widespread code-switching among bilingual New Mexicans, for example:

sure I’m glad que yo no estoy -- .. putting any kids to school now.
‘sure I’m glad that I am not -- .. putting any kids to school now.’

It has been claimed that code-switching promotes convergence, or structural similarity, between the languages in contact (e.g. Toribio 2004:172). In this study, we test this hypothesis by examining patterns of subject expression (that is, where subjects are expressed and where they are not) in New Mexican Spanish. We use the comparative variationist method (Poplack & Tagliamonte 2001), comparing patterns of variable “yo” expression among New Mexicans with those found in previous studies for non-contact varieties of Spanish and for English. We make further comparisons in our own data in two environments: (1) across speakers of differing degrees of bilingualism and (2) across contexts where code-switching is, and is not, present in the surrounding discourse. We do not find significant differences in the patterning of subject expression in these environments, and thus our study does not support Spanish convergence with English, nor does it support the notion of code-switching as a mechanism of contact-induced change.

En Vieques, la lucha continúa: Popular Protest and Community Development in Vieques, Puerto Rico
A talk on the success of a grassroots campaign against U.S. militarization in 2003 and the current challenges of community development on the island of Vieques.

Néstor de Jesús Guishard, activist and community organizer
Thursday, March 6, from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Ortega Hall 335, University of New Mexico

This event is sponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Institute, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and the Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS).

15th Annual UNM Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society...
Heroes and Anti-heroes:
A Celebration of the Cid

Hot off the press the Spanish & Portuguese Newsletter...

African Presence in Cuba and Brazil Colloquium...
Monday, Nov. 12th
3 - 4:30 pm A scholarly talk by Prof. William Luis (Vanderbilt U)
"Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters,"
Reading Room Ortega Hall 335
4:30 - 6 pm A documentary film on the Afro-Brazilian communities of resistance "Quilombo Country,"
Ortega Hall 153

Tuesday, Nov. 13th
3 - 4:30pm Bi-lingual poetry reading by Afro-Brazilian poets Miriam Alves and Conceição Evaristo.
Critical introduction to the works of the two poets (in English) by M.A. candidate Michele Henrique,
Reading Room Ortega Hall 335

Priscilla Ybarra
Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University
presents:
“All Nature Obeys Me”:
Jovita González’s Environmental Writing and the Transformation of South Texas
Thursday, October 4, 2007
3:00 – 4:00 pm
in the
Ortega Hall Reading Room

ALFRED RODRIGUEZ LECTURE SERIES
Presents:

Adriana Lisboa
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro

"Writing in Brazil after Clarice Lispector: Fictional Snares"

April 17, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Ortega Hall Reading Room
Free and open to the public

UNM, Sabine Ulibarrí SHL Program, &
the McGraw Hill Publishing Company
Announce:
The Politics of Language
Cross Disciplinary Symposium & Workshops:
The Invisible Majority of the Southwest
Learners of Spanish as a Heritage Language
October 19 - 21, 2006
In the Student Union Building.

Keynote Speakers:

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Otto Santa Ana - UCLA
Associate Professor - Chicano/a Studies, Linguistics
English and the Discourse of Fear, American and a Discourse of Challenge

Friday, October 20, 2006
Erlinda Gonzales-Berry - Oregon State University
Chair, Ethnic Studies Department
Nuestra Herencia, Nuestro Tesoro: Salvaging the Cultural Self through Heritage Language Programs

Guest Speaker:
Robert N. Smead
Brigham Young University
Thursday, October 5 at 4:30 pm
in the Ortega Hall Reading Room.
That's what I speak: Pigdin English and [Puerto Rican] Spanish: Language mixing as evidenced by Luis C., a first-generation Puerto Rican Hawaiian

Professor Elizabeth Bernhardt
Stanford University
Director of Language Programs

Workshop on Advanced-level Reading
Tuesday, August 15th 10:00-12:00 am
Ortega 335 (Reading Room)
This workshop will focus on second-language reading proficiency with a specific emphasis on upper-level expository and literary texts. The workshop will shift between and among research findings and the application of those finding to language programs at the second-year level and beyond. Examples in German, French, and Spanish.

Presentation
Less Commonly Taught Languages’
Surviving and Thriving in Conventional College and University Settings
Tuesday, August 15th 1:30-2:30 pm
Ortega 335 (Reading Room)

DUSTY LUST... Celestina in New Mexico
Celebración Celestinesca / Celestinesque Celebration
The University of New Mexico
in conjunction with
the Instituto Cervantes
19-21 April 2006 UNM CAMPUS
Robert Duncan Reading Room 335 Ortega Hall (Spanish)
&
Third Floor Lounge Ortega (English)

Celebración de la mujer
Lectura de poemas
El 29 de marzo, a las 11:oo de la mañana
en el Reading Room de Ortega Hall
refrendaremos esta celebración con un evento especial: una lectura de textos de mujeres poetas que han dejado su huella en la historia de la literatura hispana.

Ana María Shua
Writings, Reading and Argentina Today
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 4:00 PM
Ortega Hall 335, Reading Room

Alfred Rodríguez Lecture
Linguistic change: gradual or abrupt?
An empirical characterization of the transition period
Shana Poplack,
Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair,
University of Ottawa.

March 10, 2006
2pm
ORTG Reading Room

Sponsors:
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American and Iberian Institute.

UNM Annual Conference
14th Annual Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society

¡ Wateke de SAN VALENTÍN !

Professor Enrique Lamadrid Awarded the Américo Paredes Prize

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