The book "Ciberfeminismos, tecnotextualidades y transgéneros. Literatura digital en español escrita por mujeres", edited by Isabel Navas and Dolores Romero from the Universities of Almería and Complutense in Madrid, explores the literature produced by contemporary Spanish writers Belén Gache, María Mencía, Tina Escaja and Alex Saum. Including original work produced by these authors, the volume features research produced in Spain and Latin America around their pioneering work in digital literature. The essays focusing on Saum's work, look at her engagement with feminist ways of representation...
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg...
Please join us for a talk - Speaking up: Pathways for Linguistcs Students toward Language Access Advocacy - by Juan Rosas on Thursday, March 9th 5-6:30pm in Dwinelle 370.
Juan Rosas is a third-generation Mexican-American, a heritage speaker of Spanish, and a language access coordinator. He has a background in linguistic anthropology and is passionate about working with communities to advance racial equity.
In this talk, supported by a Community Engaged Scholarship and Teaching Grant, Juan Rosas will share his trajectory from linguistics student to language access...
Please join us for a talk - Speaking up: Pathways for Linguistcs Students toward Language Access Advocacy - by Juan Rosas on Thursday, March 9th 5-6:30pm in Dwinelle 370.
Juan Rosas is a third-generation Mexican-American, a heritage speaker of Spanish, and a language access coordinator. He has a background in linguistic anthropology and is passionate about working with communities to advance racial equity.
In this talk, supported by a Community Engaged Scholarship and Teaching Grant, Juan Rosas will share his trajectory from linguistics student to language access...
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg...
In what ways can a Center for Latin American Studies contribute to decentering the very notion of Latin America? To what extent can often overlooked sensemaking practices be centered in a Center for Latin American Studies? How much can margins take center stage? Wapichana Indigenous artist Gustavo Caboco welcomes us to experience the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley as a site of critical inquiry and aesthetic practice, not as an enclosed space to be taken for granted but as a fertile soil for conjuring alternate itineraries, vocabularies, and belongings.
The Terena, an Indigenous people living in Brazil, teach us that Voro'pi is an entity that roams the cosmos through groundwater, safeguarding visible and invisible riverbeds. In response to improper human interference with the flow of...
January 27, 2023 - 4 pm, at 5125 Dwinelle (Spanish and Portuguese Library)
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, Erin Graff Zivin's work focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American literature and media, the relationship between ethics, politics, and aesthetics, and the intersection of philosophy and critical theory more broadly. She is the author of several books, including Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading (Fordham University Press, 2020), Figurative...