News: Events Archive
Schedule of Events 2007-2008
November 2007
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January 2008 | February 2008 | March 2008
November 2007
29 November, 2007
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese presents a lecture by
Elsa Drucaroff
Novelist and Professor at the ISP Joaquín V. González
"Por una memoria utópica: poder literario para los que no tienen poder en la novela histórica de hoy"
Thursday, November 29, 2007
at 4:00 PM
Departmental Library, 5125 Dwinelle
¿Para qué escribir ficción sobre el pasado? ¿Para qué, una ficción con fidelidad histórica? ¿Cuál es la fuerza artística de la verosimilitud histórica realista y cuáles los sentidos de la invención o el juego? ¿Es político el gesto de la novela histórica? Reflexionando sobre sus propias ficciones, Elsa Drucaroff, autora de tres novelas históricas, desarrolla el concepto de memoria utópica literaria casi como un reverso del trabajo con la Historia que hace la ciencia-ficción. A partir de sus novelas, y en particular de El infierno prometido. Una prostituta de la Zwi Migdal, postula que es posible no edulcorar las tragedias del pasado pero sí construir ficciones donde ganar una batalla, ya que se perdió la guerra, dibuje un linaje imaginario en el que la victoria es posible.
January 2008
25 January, 2008
Workshop: Modernities: Political & Visual Economies
I. Race and Visual Culture in the Tropics
"Injurious Laughter: Racial Anxieties and Visual Humor in Slaveholding Cuba" Agnes Lugo Ortiz, University of Chicago
" 'Making Them Slaves Again': History and the Shadow of Photography in Colonial Jamaica" Krista A. Thompson, Northwestern University
Friday, January 25, 2008
1-3pm
5125 Dwinelle Hall
Co-sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
February 2008
8-9 February, 2008
The End of the Old Regime in the Iberian World
(Click here to download the current program)
Friday, February 8, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
Saturday, February 9, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Morrison Room, Doe Library
Presented by the UC Berkeley Spanish Studies Program and Portuguese Studies Program of the Institute of European Studies
Well-established and younger specialists in history, literature and the history of art will come together for a two-day conference marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and Spain that set off events leading to the end of their absolute monarchies and the break-up of their American empires. The conference will draw on new research and the experience of senior scholars to rethink the significance of these developments for the cultural, social, and political life of the Iberian world on both sides of the Atlantic.
LECTURE, Janis Tomlinson
After the Hero: Goya in Context, 1814-1824
Friday, February 8, 7:30 p.m.
Berkeley Art Museum Theater
An integral part of the above conference, copresented by the Berkeley Art Museum
Admission Free
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15 February, 2008
Spain and Portugal in a Globalized Context
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Portuguese Studies Program, The College of the Humanities of the University of California, Berkeley present:
A Symposium on Spain & Portugal in a Globalized Context
with
Francisco Marcos-Marin, Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio,
Catedrático (Ret.), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Professore Ordinario per chiara fama (Ret.),
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
To speak on
“Spanish & Portuguese for Public Services in a New Global Context”
&
Amando De Miguel
Professor Emeritus, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
Visiting Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
To speak on
“Mutual social images of Spaniards & Portuguese”
Friday, February 15th, 2008
From 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Geballe Room, Stephens Hall
A reception will follow.
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29 February, 2008: Workshop
Modernities: Visual and Political Economies
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Townsend Center invite you to the second workshop in the series
MODERNITIES: VISUAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMIES
Prof. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, UC Berkeley
"Cutting Panama"
Prof. Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Duke University
"Surrealism, Indexicality, Value: Óscar Domínguez and Wifredo Lam"
Friday, February 29, 2008
1:00PM - 3:00PM
5125 Dwinelle Hall
Spanish Department Library
March 2008
13 March 2008: Lecture by Prof. Paul Julian Smith
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese & the Film Studies Program
Invite you to a lecture by Prof. Paul Julian Smith, Cambridge University
Entitled
"Women on the Verge of an Urban Breakdown: City Girls in Almodóvar’s Cinema and Television"
Thursday, March 13, 2008
12 Noon
Spanish and Portuguese Library
5125 Dwinelle Hall