- CLACS AND THE LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES WELCOME
Fabio
Akcelrud Durão,
Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor for Fall 2014.
Fabio Durão is professor
of literary theory at the State University of Campinas. He is the author
of Modernism and Coherence (2008), Teoria (literária) americana (2011), and the
forthcoming Fragmentos Reunidos (2015). Among his edited and coedited volumes,
there are Modernism Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship
(2008) and Culture Industry Today (2010). He is Associate Editor of the journal
Alea, and has published essays in such journals as Critique, Cultural Critique,
Latin American Music Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and
Parallax. He has recently been elected president of ANPOLL, Brazil's National
Association of Graduate Studies in Letters and Linguistics.
Glen
Goodman,
Assistant Professor at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Goodman’s work
focuses on the intersection between immigration,
ethnicity, and regional and national identity in twentieth century Brazil.
Specifically he studies the evolution of German-Brazilian identity in local
(primarily Rio Grande do Sul) and national contexts, with a particular interest
in incorporating material culture such as tourism, cuisine, and architecture
into my research.
Glen received his B.A. in 2004 from Georgetown University with
majors in Comparative Literature and Spanish and a minor in German. He then
pursued a M.Sc. in Latin American Studies at Oxford University (Exeter
College), awarded with distinction in 2006. His thesis looked at the political
and philosophical history of Chile's most conservative and most popular party,
the Union Democratica Independiente (UDI). Subsequently he worked as a
journalist in England and Colombia and attended Le Cordon Bleu in Paris for six
months.
- LIST OF ALL LECTURES AND EVENTS FOR THE FALL 2014 http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/news/lectures.aspx
- LIST OF APPROVED COURSES FOR FALL 2014 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES DEGREES AND FLAS STUDENTS http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/courses.aspx
- NEW COURSES FALL 2014
- LAST 490, SECTION NS (meets with PORT 410 - Studies in Brazilian Lit )-Critical Theory: Made in Brazil
- LAST 490 , SECTION 0
Multidisciplinary Approaches to
Latin American Studies
This course is designed to provide an overview of current trends
and issues in Latin American Studies. Students enrolled in the course will
attend the CLACS brown bag lecture series and also meet with the professor to
discuss the lectures. Readings will be assigned from a wide array of
disciplines (i.e. Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Economics, Geography,
History, Literature, Media Studies, Political Science) to complement and
contextualize the public lectures. The course will also address the history and
current status of Latin American Studies as an academic field.
- SPAN 314: Early Literary Identities of Spanish America
Swashbuckling
pirates, swindling bandits and disobedient women. These are but a few of the
many identities that we will explore in SPAN 314: Early Literary Identities of
Spanish America. Students will embark upon a survey of pre-colonial to early
national texts from Spanish America as we answer the following
questions: How does Spanish American literary and cultural production
engage notions of identity? How do the notions of gender, race, nationalism,
and space change as Latin America shifts from a system of colonies to a system
of nation-states? Readings, assignments and classroom discussions will be
in Spanish. PREREQUISITE: SPAN 250 or 254 or consent of instructor.
For more information: https://www.smore.com/kqwj3-need-a-spanish-class-for-fall-2014
- DID YOU MISS ANY LECTURE DURING SPRING 13? WATCH ALL OUR VIDEOS http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/videos/default.aspx
- GRADUATE MINOR IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
- Area Coursework: A minimum of 8 graduate hours at the 400/500-level from courses in two different departments approved by CLACS every semester. The Center updates and posts approved courses in our website and announce them through our listserv. Our Center has approximately 104 faculty affiliated from different departments in campus, and we approve their courses as part of our curriculum. The Center will record the approved courses on a master list to be kept in the unit that will be used to certify that students took approved courses during their studies in the minor.
- Language Component: At least 4 hours in language coursework taken in any Latin American language (Portuguese, Spanish or Native American Language or Haitian Creole) while enrolled in the Graduate Minor program.
- In the case that not enough or advance language courses are offered, The Center also accepts as equivalent area courses taught in these languages, i.e. literature class taught in Portuguese or Spanish.
- If the chosen language course is at the 400-or 500 level it may count towards the required 12 hours for Graduate Minor. We anticipate that students registering in the Minor already have knowledge of Latin American language.
- If the Student's Master's thesis or doctoral dissertation deals with a country from Latin America and the Caribbean, we advise students in this minor to speak with their advisor about including a committee member from the minor area.
- We recommend that the courses taken for the minor not be applied to course requirements in the students' Master's or PhD program
- http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/graduate/minor/default.aspx
- Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America is the only refereed journal entirely dedicated to lowland South America. Tipití is increasingly recognized as an established and cutting-edge journal for lowland South American anthropology scholarship. Although lowland South American anthropology is far from being a unified, homogeneous field of research, it is renewing anthropological thinking on a number of issues through its debates and its diversity. And although various schools of Amazonian anthropology, rooted in different national traditions, co-exist today, they all share the same commitment to ethnography, as well as the view that it is through advancing cross-cultural comparative research that lowland South American specialists will contribute to anthropological theory. Tipití is committed to providing a space for such a diverse intellectual meeting-ground.
Current
Issue: Volume 12, Issue 1 (2014) Amazonian Quichua. We are pleased to
publish this Special Topics issue on Amazonian Quichua. The contributions are
part of a session at the SALSA meetings in Nashville in the spring of 2013,
organized by Michael Uzendoski and Norman E. Whitten (Emeritus Professor of
Anthropology, UIUC)
- New Certificate in International Development Studies offered by LAS Global Studies to undergraduates from all majors and colleges at the University of Illinois. http://www.globalstudies.illinois.edu/academics/certificate
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SEPHARAD AS IMAGINED COMMUNITY: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND RELIGION
FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE 21st CENTURY
Organized by Mahir Şaul (Anthropology, UIUC) and José I. Hualde
(Spanish, Italian and Portuguese & Linguistics, UIUC)
SEPTEMBER 2-3, 2014
Illini Union, Room 210
This
conference will examine the formation and development of Judeo-Spanish in the
Eastern Mediterranean lands of the Ottoman Empire and the varied cultural and
identity-related roles that several oral and written manifestations of this
language played for centuries and continue to play in the present for its
speakers. The conference is focused in its topic, Judeo-Spanish, but broad in
the spectrum of disciplinary perspectives on the themes that we would like to
bring together, including perspectives from diverse fields such as Linguistics,
History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary and Cultural Studies and Religious
Studies.
For
more information, including the full program, click here http://www.sip.illinois.edu/sepharad/index.html
This
conference is co-sponsored by
Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities
Center
for Advanced Study
The
Program in Jewish Culture and Society
College
of Letters, Arts and Sciences
School
of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Department
of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Department
of Anthropology
Department
of Linguistics
Department
of Religious Studies
UIUC
Library
European
Union Center
Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Russian,
East European and Eurasian Center
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LEMANN LECTURES
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd
Room 101 ISB, 1-2:30
Prof. DAIN BORGES,
Department of History, University of Chicago
NOVELS OF UPWARD
MOBILITY IN A POST-EMANCIPATION METROPOLIS: LIMA BARRETO AND MACHADO DE ASSIS
The writers Machado de Assis and Lima
Barreto are often contrasted as evidence of the scope and limits of social
mobility under Brazilian racial conditions: one rising gracefully from poverty,
the other frustrated in his middle class aspirations. Their writings from
different stances show a surprising amount of agreement about ambitions and
opportunities in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the Empire and the early
Republic.
Dain Borges is Associate Professor in the
Departments of History and Romance Languages and Literatures, at the University
of Chicago. He is the author of The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945,
the editor of the Oxford translation of Machado de Assis, Esau and Jacob, and
author of articles on Lima Barreto.
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AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER
19-25, 2014
ART
THEATER CO-OP
CHAMPAIGN,
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FEATURE FILMS AND ONE DOCUMENTARY
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CONFERENCES/CALL
FOR PAPERS
- LASA2015 / Precariedades, exclusiones, emergencias
XXXIII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
May 27 – 30,
2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Caribe Hilton
Caribe Hilton
Many of us, from
our different locations and disciplines, have been thinking about
precariousness and emergent practices a good deal lately, focusing on three
large and very different realms: social and labor issues in Latin America; the
academic workplace and education; and modalities of knowledge exchange (how our
work and networks are evolving). Precariousness is often associated with
exclusions of class, gender, race, age, and sexual identity and yet, in these
times of permanent crisis and emergency, we also see some of the most exciting
flowerings of emergent practices.
These are large questions that have a bearing on many forms of human and social expression. For example, the recent mobilization of millions of citizens in Brazil, the massive student manifestations of the past years in Chile or Puerto Rico, the growing environmental crisis and its effects on local communities across countries and regions, or the plight of 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are events that strike to the heart of how we think of democracy in a neoliberal hemispheric context. All of them also speak all at once on the three concepts that we would like to engage in the 2015 LASA Congress.
While the conditions of the academic workplace vary tremendously throughout the Americas, one of the huge shifts in higher education in the United States and many countries in Latin America has been to move away from the tenure system towards a system of contingent, contract labor. The recently released Delphi Project report, for example, confirms that approximately 70% of all instructors in U.S. colleges and universities are now contingent faculty. The squeeze on tenure line positions and their replacement by short-term contracts has made the job market very challenging for many of our young colleagues, who can now look forward to little more than poverty-level income with no benefits. Even more precarious is the status of students from Latin America, who increasingly find green card or citizenship requirements as the bar they must meet for consideration. Likewise, in Latin America the structural reforms and the flexibilization of labor have affected the working conditions in academia. According to reports from members of the Federación de Colegios del Personal Académico de la UNAM, in the higher education system in Mexico, approximately 70% of the teaching is now under the responsibility of professors in part-time positions and under temporary contracts. “Tenured positions” (plazas con definitividad) are being substituted by temporary positions under partial contracts, leaving the new generations of Latin American academicians without any labor security. In the midst of these critical realities, academic communities seem to be facing not only their own internal issues but also a pressing need to imagine and establish other modes of linking the university to public life and scholarship to social service.
As part of this process, we experience the precariousness of our conventional concepts of knowledge production and sharing--the book, the academic article, the conference— as well as the challenge to old understandings of intellectual practice that are suggested by new forms of expression, often finding their homes on the vast world we call the internet. The new media—as well as broader material, technological, and ecological changes—have suggested to us new and unexpected forms of exchange, opening up exciting possibilities for the future. Moreover, new technologies have become central to linguistic, cultural, social, political, and economic subjects as tools to challenge existing exclusions, exercise new horizons of knowledge, and forge creative forms of emergence, visibility, and empowerment.
These are large questions that have a bearing on many forms of human and social expression. For example, the recent mobilization of millions of citizens in Brazil, the massive student manifestations of the past years in Chile or Puerto Rico, the growing environmental crisis and its effects on local communities across countries and regions, or the plight of 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are events that strike to the heart of how we think of democracy in a neoliberal hemispheric context. All of them also speak all at once on the three concepts that we would like to engage in the 2015 LASA Congress.
While the conditions of the academic workplace vary tremendously throughout the Americas, one of the huge shifts in higher education in the United States and many countries in Latin America has been to move away from the tenure system towards a system of contingent, contract labor. The recently released Delphi Project report, for example, confirms that approximately 70% of all instructors in U.S. colleges and universities are now contingent faculty. The squeeze on tenure line positions and their replacement by short-term contracts has made the job market very challenging for many of our young colleagues, who can now look forward to little more than poverty-level income with no benefits. Even more precarious is the status of students from Latin America, who increasingly find green card or citizenship requirements as the bar they must meet for consideration. Likewise, in Latin America the structural reforms and the flexibilization of labor have affected the working conditions in academia. According to reports from members of the Federación de Colegios del Personal Académico de la UNAM, in the higher education system in Mexico, approximately 70% of the teaching is now under the responsibility of professors in part-time positions and under temporary contracts. “Tenured positions” (plazas con definitividad) are being substituted by temporary positions under partial contracts, leaving the new generations of Latin American academicians without any labor security. In the midst of these critical realities, academic communities seem to be facing not only their own internal issues but also a pressing need to imagine and establish other modes of linking the university to public life and scholarship to social service.
As part of this process, we experience the precariousness of our conventional concepts of knowledge production and sharing--the book, the academic article, the conference— as well as the challenge to old understandings of intellectual practice that are suggested by new forms of expression, often finding their homes on the vast world we call the internet. The new media—as well as broader material, technological, and ecological changes—have suggested to us new and unexpected forms of exchange, opening up exciting possibilities for the future. Moreover, new technologies have become central to linguistic, cultural, social, political, and economic subjects as tools to challenge existing exclusions, exercise new horizons of knowledge, and forge creative forms of emergence, visibility, and empowerment.
·
September 8, 2014
Deadline to renew your LASA membership to be able to submit proposals and travel funding requests.
Deadline to renew your LASA membership to be able to submit proposals and travel funding requests.
· September
8, 2014
Deadline for proposal submissions and travel funding requests to be received
Deadline for proposal submissions and travel funding requests to be received
Guidelines to
submit proposals and renew subscription: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/index.asp
- IPRH ANNUAL THEME 2015–16: “INTERSECTIONS”
Marking
spatial and conceptual sites of convergence and departure, intersections offer
junction points for tracking and investigating multiple paths, perspectives,
imaginaries, or systems at once. As literal and figurative spaces of mingling
and divergence, intersections produce crossroad moments, from which personal,
political, disciplinary, or historical trajectories can emerge. They invite
multidirectional webs of inquiry into where and how ideas, cultures, and
identities cross and collide, and the effects of such encounters and overlaps.
Such inquiries could include but are not limited to what is understood as
“intersectional” analyses of how gender, race, class, sexual orientation,
ability, and other axes of identity interact on multiple, concurrent levels.
IPRH
welcomes applications from all disciplines and departments with an interest in
humanities and humanities-inflected research. We
invite applications from faculty and graduate students that focus on any aspect
of “Intersections.” The theme also provides an opportunity for artists to
consider the relevance of ‘Intersections” in their creative practice. IPRH is
especially interested in fostering interdisciplinary work.
All
Fellows are expected to maintain residence on the U of I campus during the award
year, and to participate in IPRH activities, including the yearlong Fellows
Seminar.
Complete
fellowship application guidelines for 2015–16 can be found on the IPRH website
(Faculty / Graduate Students). Applications must be
submitted through an online application portal, which will open September 1,
2014. No paper or emailed applications or letters of recommendation
will be accepted.
The
submission links will be as follows:
Graduate
Students: https://my.atlas.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=794
Eligibility: Applications
are invited from full-time, tenured or tenure-track U of I faculty members, and
advanced graduate students engaged in dissertation/thesis preparation.
Award:
Faculty Fellows receive release time for one semester in residence, and
$2,000 in research funds to be transferred to the faculty member’s departmental
research account. (The department will be compensated $12,000 for releasing the
faculty member; in the case of faculty members with two percentage
appointments, these funds will be distributed in accordance with the department
that holds the course offering/s).
Graduate
Student Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend and a tuition and fee waiver.
Deadline:
All application materials, including letters of reference, must be submitted by
midnight, Friday, December 5, 2014. IPRH strongly recommends, however, that
submissions be made prior to 4:30 p.m. on the day of the deadline, as
staff will not be available to assist with troubleshooting after close of
business on December 5.
For more information about the IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student
Fellowship program, please visit IPRH on the web at http://www.iprh.illinois.edu. Questions about the
fellowships may be directed to Nancy Castro at ncastro@illinois.edu.
- LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SECTION (LACS) OF THES SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
November 11-14,
2015
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
LACS accepts papers and panels on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including the fields of borderlands and the Atlantic World. Submissions should include a 250-word abstract for each paper and a brief curriculum vitae for each presenter. We encourage faculty as well as advanced graduate students to submit panels and papers. Graduate students are eligible for the Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize, awarded each year for the best graduate student paper. Please note that the program committee may revise proposed panels. All panelists are required to be members of LACS. For information about membership, please visit the website at: http://www.tnstate.edu//lacs/ or contact Tamara Spike of the University of North Georgia tamara.spike@ung.edu. For more information about the Southern Historical Association, visit the website: http://www.uga.edu/~sha/ Submit conference panels and papers to Peter Szok, Department of History and Geography, TCU at p.szok@tcu.edu.
Proposal deadline: October 1, 2014
- BORDER ENCOUNTERS IN THE AMERICAS
LAGO Graduate Student Conference
February 13-15th, 2014
New Orleans, LA
Deadline for Submissions: October 25th, 2013
At
Tulane University’s Latin American Graduate Organization’s (LAGO) 2014 graduate
conference, meet graduate scholars, faculty, and community leaders interested
in Latin America across disciplines and experience the unique Mardi Gras season
in New Orleans with the famous Krewe du Vieux parade
set to roll on Saturday evening!
Latin
America and the Caribbean are rich with cultural, linguistic, and geographic
diversity which has historically made and continues to make the region an
object of prolific scholarly study across disciplines. Produced within this
diversity are the boundaries—both physical and abstract—between nations,
languages, ethnic and racial identities, ecologies, and geographies. Figurative
and literal borders are confronted each day as people move across regions,
navigate between cultures, and communicate with others around the world; global
capital crosses national borders, redefines local economies, and produces labor
migrations; geographical landscapes shift as land becomes deforested or
designated as protected. These various “border encounters” highlight the ways
in which borders can both restrain and liberate the objects, people, or ideas
that face them, a distinction that is often bound up with power and politics.
With
this broad theme in mind, LAGO invites graduate scholars across disciplines to
submit abstracts exploring the notion of borders—their strictures, leniencies,
and significance—in Latin America and the Caribbean for LAGO’s 2014 graduate
student conference. LAGO encourages participants to interpret this theme as
they see fit. We invite submissions in the English and other languages of Latin
America and the Caribbean regions.
Submit your abstract here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xhzn9mE1rhQ8XnOMWofDFYxoUKhflgfCyCXlC-9AfSA/viewform by
Friday, October 25th, 2013.
- 23rd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CENTRAL AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (CILCA)
Tulane/Loyola Universities
March 11-13, 2015.
Please contact <mshea@tulane.edu> or <uquesada@loyno.edu>
for more information or visit the website for up-to-date information: http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/go/cilca
Tulane University,
Loyola University New Orleans, y Purdue University Calumet tienen el gusto de
invitar al CONGRESO DE LITERATURA y CULTURA CENTROAMERICANAS (CILCA XXIII) que
se llevará a cabo en la ciudad de New Orleans, Louisiana, del 11 al 13 de marzo
del 2015 en el campus de Tulane
University y Loyola University New Orleans.
Desde el primer
congreso realizado en Nicaragua 1993, CILCA se ha caracterizado por ser un
espacio de intercambio intelectual y de amistad para académicas/os,
escritoras/es y lectoras/es. El congreso se ha efectuado en todos los países
centroamericanos y por primera vez en su historia, CILCA se realizará en los Estados
Unidos. La ciudad escogida es Nueva Orleáns, puerta de entrada hacia el Caribe
y los países de América Central. El intercambio cultural entre Nueva Orleáns y
América Central ha sido intenso por muchísimos años, y la ciudad alberga una de
las comunidades de origen hondureño más grandes de los Estados Unidos. Tulane
University tiene estrechos lazos con la región a través del Stone Center for
Latin American Studies, the Latin American Library, y the Middle American
Research Institute. Loyola University New Orleans se ha distinguido
por el trabajo con las comunidades hispanas que realizan varias de sus unidades
académicas, incluyendo the Law School y el Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies.
La organización de
CILCA XXIII la realizan la Dra. Maureen Shea y el Dr. Uriel Quesada, expertos
en literatura y cultura centroamericanas, con el apoyo del Dr. Jorge Román
Lagunas, creador y promotor de CILCA.
La convocatoria
será publicada en agosto 2014.
Tulane University,
Loyola University New Orleans, and Purdue University Calumet invite you to the Congress
on Literature and Culture of Central America (CILCA XXIII) which will take
place in New Orleans, Louisiana March 11-13 2015 on the campuses of Tulane and Loyola New Orleans.
From the first
conference, held in Nicaragua in 1993, CILCA has been a space for intellectual
exchange and friendship for academics and writers. The conference has been held
in all of the Central American countries and for the first time in its history
will be held in the United States. New Orleans, the gateway to the Caribbean
and Central America, has been chosen as the location. New Orleans and Central
America have a longstanding cultural exchange and New Orleans has one of the
largest Honduran communities in the United States. Tulane has long connections
with the region through the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Latin American Library,
and the Middle
American Research Institute. Loyola New Orleans works closely with
hispanic communities particularly through the Law school and the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies.
CILCA XXIII is
organized by Drs. Maureen Shea and Uriel Quesada, experts on the literature and
culture of Central America, with the support of Dr. Jorge Román Lagunas,
creator of CILCA.
Call for papers
coming in August 2014.
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- Intensifying Presidential Campaign Brings Tension to Brazil’s Financial Markets http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/world/americas/intensifying-presidential-campaign-brings-tension-to-brazils-financial-markets.html?ref=americas&_r=0
- Colombian military officers meet Farc rebels in Havana http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28905674
- Argentina Takes on Pirates and Vultures http://nacla.org/news/2014/8/14/argentina-takes-pirates-and-vultures
- Venezuela plans to introduce supermarket fingerprinting http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28891292
- A Defiant Ecuador Seeks Solutions in Assange Case http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/25/a-defiant-ecuador-seeks-solutions-in-assange-case/
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