Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 3:30 pm CT
Queer sexuality and photography disturb linear temporalities such as normative social development and the subordination of the past to the present. Close readings of selected novels, short stories, and poems by Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003), demonstrate that queerness and photography also disturb linear conceptions of an author’s trajectory.… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: Sacrificing the Goat in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La fiesta del Chivo
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 @ 3:30 pm CT
Please join us for the first LACUSL Speakers Series of the 2021-2022 academic year. Dr. Christopher Schulenburg, Professor of Spanish at UW-Platteville. … Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “Living ‘A Part Apart’: Brazilian Migrants in Toronto, Canada”
Monday, March 8, 2021 @ 2:00 pm CST
Based on a preliminary ethnographic study, this presentation will provide a semiotic analysis of how Brazilian migrants are situated—and situate themselves—within the multiethnic landscape of Toronto, Canada.… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “Madness as a Space of Ontological Resistance in Latinx Women’s Writing”
Monday, February 15, 2021 @ 3:30pm CST
Proposing madness as a space of fluidity (Elizabeth Grosz) and as an interstitial space a lo Homi K. Bhabha, I examine la locura as an ontological space of resistance in the work of three Latinx writers: Estela Portillo Trambley, Judith Ortiz Coffer, and Ana Castillo. … Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “STATE AND BLACK MOVEMENTS IN BRAZIL: (1980-2010) COOPERATION, CONTESTATION, OR AUTONOMY?”
Thursday, January 30, 2020, 3:00-4:30pm, AGSL, Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor)
Dr. Fernanda Barros dos Santos will present “STATE AND BLACK MOVEMENTS IN BRAZIL: (1980-2010) COOPERATION, CONTESTATION, OR AUTONOMY?”… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago”
Tuesday, November 12, 12:00-2:00pm, AGSL, Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor)
“Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago” presented by Professor Frances R. Aparicio, AMUW Chair in Humanistic Studies, Marquette University; Professor Emerita, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University, with guest Lulu Sanchez, LAUCSL and English Major, University of Wisconsin-Milwauk… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “Communication Technologies and Political Polarization in Latin America”
Tuesday, October 1, 3:00pm, AGSL, Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor)
Professor Hernando Rojas to present “Communication Technologies and Political Polarization in Latin America”… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “The Novels of Lucrecia Zappi: A Reading and Conversation”
Monday, April 1, 2019
2:00pm, AGSL, Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor)
Lucrecia Zappi (Brazilian Author and Journalist)
“The Novels of Lucrecia Zappi: A Reading and Conversation”… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “Peruvian Colonial Spanish: Spanish and Indigenous Narrative Strategies”
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
2:30pm, AGSL, UWM Libraries, 3rd floor
Dr. Anna María Escobar, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Colonial documents of the Viceroyalty of Peru include writings where the author presents herself as an Indigenous individual. Historians of the colonial period have long cast doubt on whether these documents were really written by individuals of Indigenous origin, since only the Indigenous elite had access to formal education.”… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “The Contemporary Latin American Novel: Psychoanalysis and Violence”
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
3:20 pm, AGSL, Golda Meir Library (3rd floor)
Dr. Beatriz Botero (Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, UW-Madison)
“The Contemporary Latin American Novel: Psychoanalysis and Violence”… Continue Reading »