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A talk, in Spanish, by Javier Pérez Andújar, Spanish author and critic

COME LEARN ABOUT SPANISH PULP FICTION!

Thursday, October 25, 2012
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
116 Folwell Hall

Free and open to the public -- Light refreshments served

Christopher Crump, Combined Major in Spanish and Portuguese Studies, with President Kaler during the Poster Session for McNair Scholars Students

Chris, a student of Professor Ana Paula Ferreira, worked under her mentorship on the research project, "Representations of 'Race' in Brazilian Literature and Film"

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies would like to congratulate two of our faculty members that received a 2012 Imagine Fund Award. They are, Assistant Professor Ana Forcinito for her project, "Mirrors and Mirages: Human Rights, the Gaze and the Representation of Sex Trafficking," and Professor Carol Klee for her project, "Indigenous Influence in the Personal Narratives of Andean Migrants to Lima, Peru."

The Imagine Fund grant programs support projects in the arts, humanities and design at the University of Minnesota. The programs are supported by a generous grant from the McKnight Foundation, from new internal reallocations from the University of Minnesota Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research, and from the creation of the chairs through the Permanent University Fund.

Following are previous recipients, within our department, that have received Imagine Funds.

Argentine artist and cartoonist, Miguel Rep, will create a mural depicting the struggles of memory and Human Rights in Argentina in the last decades.

Miguel Rep will be painting the mural on the 4th floor of Folwell Hall between March 1-2. There will be a formal presentation on Saturday March 3rd at 11:00 a.m. on the 4th floor.

Please join the Department for a lecture on Monday, February 27th, with Dr. Sophia Beal, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from Tulane University.

The talk will begin at 2:45pm in room 120 Folwell Hall.

Everyone welcomed, refreshments will be served.

Announcing the publication of Volume 9 of Hispanic Issues Online, Hybrid Storyspaces, edited by Christine Henseler and Debra A. Castillo. This latest volume of Hispanic Issues Online examines "new hybrid spaces of storytelling, including the effects on narrative of new televisual and cybernetic media spaces (You Tube, blogs, Google maps, Yahoo Jukebox), new genres (videoclip novels, zapping fiction, docufiction, hypertext), new processes (mashups, mapping, remixing), and new critical forums (blogs, webpages, videos, open-source publications),"

For more information visit our website at http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html

Announcing the publication of Spectacle and Topophilia: Reading Early Modern and Postmodern, edited by David R. Castillo and Bradley J. Nelson (Vanderbilt University Press), volume 38 in the Hispanic Issues series. The volume explores the intersection between theories of the modern spectacle and findings in the fields of urban studies, landscape studies, and, generally speaking, studies of space. As with most volumes published in the series since its inception in the mid-1980s, this one registers strong connections to Minnesota.

For further information please visit our website at http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/

Tuesday, October 11, 2011
3:30-5:00 p.m.
12 Folwell Hall

September 29- October 1, 2011
Maroon and Gold Rooms
McNamara Alumni Center
200 Oak St. SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Downloadable Symposium Program (.pdf)

Tues. Sept. 20, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
1210 Heller Hall
Free and open to the public

Did a mother's ethnic identity affect that of her sons in al Andalus? Professor Filios explores mother-son relations and complex constructions of elite identity in early Islamic historiography.