September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008
Department Sponsored Events
September 2007
Writer’s Workshop
Wednesday, September 26 from 10:00am – 1:00pm, 113 Folwell Hall
Taller I: Igual pero Diferente: La razón de ser del ensayo de comparación y
Taller II: ¿Cómo se presenta la tesis en un ensayo?
Taller III: La puntuación en los textos escritos en español
For further descriptions of each session, click here!
October 2007
Adriana Ortiz Ortega Lecture Gender and Sexualities Project
Our Department along with Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change and the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies is pleased to invite Adriana Ortiz Ortega to present on her Gender and Sexualities Project. She will give a lecture entitled, "Introducing Gender and Sexualities in the Academic Curricula: A South-South Project Across Regions and Countries"
The lecture will be the afternoon of Wednesday, October 17, 2007. Place and time to be determined.
Dr. Adriana Ortiz Ortega is a researcher and professor at El Colegio de México in Mexico City and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. As part of a multi-country Ford Foundation Grant, she serves as the director of the Interdisciplinary Program of Women Studies (PIEM), a major program in women/gender studies in Latin America at El Colegio de México. In addition to her research and publications on abortion, women's health, and human rights in Mexico, Dr. Ortiz Ortega has served as a consultant for numerous agencies, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Population Council, and the Center for Women's Global Leadership, based at Rutgers University. Dr. Ortiz Ortega launched and directs a South-South International initiative, "Introducing Gender and Sexualities in the Academic Curricula" that combines the expertise of professionals in academia from Asia, Africa, and Latin America who research how to incorporate gender and sexualities into university curricula.
More information on the project can be found at: http://www.sexualityproject.org/
Writer’s Workshop
Tuesday, October 23
11:10am – 2:00pm, 113 Folwell
Taller I: Finding your way through the Library web page
Taller II: Guía de ayuda para la elaboración de tu ensayo
Taller III: La puntuación en los textos escritos en español
For further descriptions click here!
Cañizares-Esguerra to give Lecture on Trans-Atlantic Studies
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to invite Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra to give the lecture entitled “Structural Resemblances or Transnational Circulation? The Devil and Typology in the 17th-century Mexico and New England” as the inaugural “Trans-Atlantic Lecture Series.”
The lecture will be Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 2:30 pm in 113 Folwell Hall.
November 2007
Writer’s Workshop
Friday, November 29, 2007
12:10am – 2:50pm, 113 Folwell
Taller I: Workshop offered by Spanish and Portuguese 3xxx Level Students
Taller II: Workshop on MLA and APA
Taller III: Workshop on Definition, Stereotypes, and Prejudice
For further descriptions click here
January 2008
Center for Medieval Studies Colloquia
Interfaith Taxation, the Cid, and the Cash-in-Advance Constraint
Thursday, January 31
4:00 pm, 140 Nolte Center
Lecture entitled, "Interfaith taxation, the Cid, and the Cash-in-Advance Constraint" by Visiting Professor Benjamin Liu as part of the Center for Medieval Studies Colloquia.
Estampas Porteñas presents ‘Tango Fire’ 
at Northrup Auditorium
Enjoy tapas and wine while mingling with
Department of Spanish and Portuguese faculty and friends before the
Estampas Porteñas performance of Tango Fire
at Northrop Auditorium.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Nicholson Hall Lounge (ground floor) http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/NichH/
To attend: Order tickets for the tango performance at the special rate of $23 per ticket by January 24 by calling Northrop group sales at 612-625-8878 and mentioning the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
More tango and music will follow in the Northrop lobby after the performance.
Parking/directions: http://www1.umn.edu/umato/parking_northrop.html | Questions? 612-625-2015
See Estampas Porteñas profiled in the December 16 New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/arts/dance/16kour.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Estampas Porteñas presents the mystery and seductive power of tango from the heart and soul of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Featuring ten torrid dancers and a group of brilliant musicians, Tango Fire sizzles with pleasure in a journey through the history of tango—the world’s most alluring and exciting dance. Founded in 1996 by the distinguished Argentine ballerina and choreographer, Carolina Soler, the artistry of Estampas Porteñas portrays the complexity of pairing passionate music with fiery dance. Tango Fire traces tango from its origins in Buenos Aires to the glamour of the Roaring Twenties to its evolution into the world of contemporary ballroom.
February 2008
Current Approaches to Spanish & Portuguese Second Lanaguage Phonology Conference
Friday-Saturday, February 22-23, 2008This conference aims to include a wide range of approaches to the study of second language phonology, as well as a wide range of contexts, from acquisition of Spanish phonology by English speakers to the acquisition of Portuguese phonology by Spanish speakers, from classroom-based learning to full immersion in the culture of the second language. By focusing on the breadth of approaches that scholars are taking to the study of second language phonological acquisition in Spanish and Portuguese, this conference aims to represent the state-of-the-art in second language phonological acquisition.
For further information on this conference click here or go to the website at http://www.spanport.umn.edu/L2Phonology/
A Pre-Conference Workshop: “The Expulsion of the Moriscos 1609: A Retrospective”
Wednesday February 27, 2008
3:30pm – 5:30pm
334 Folwell Hall
GUEST SPEAKERS: Professor Mary Elizabeth Perry; Professor Anouar Majid
A workshop with Professors Mary Elizabeth Parry and Anouar Majiid to prepare an international and multidisciplinary conference “The Expulsion of the Moriscos: 1609: A Retrospective” to be held at the University of Minnesota in September 24-26, 2009 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Morisco expulsion. The workshop will disscuss the conference’s program and asking other colleagues to participate, or to provide feedback and advice. We are in the process of contacting other participants. Please let us know of scholars who would be interested. Also, if you are interested in presenting a paper, please let us know, contact information is at the bottom of this message.
Participants: Giancarlo Casale; Sarah Chambers; Evelyn Davidheiser; Ana Paula Ferreira; Michael Hancher; Donald C. Johnson; Benjamin Liu; Raul Marrero-Fente; Nabil Matar; Susan Noakes; William Phillips; Paula Rabinowitz; Marguerite Ragnow; Kathryn L. Reyerson; Laura Seifert; Jim Tracy; Rafael Tarrago; John Watkins; Barbara Weissberger; Eric D. Weitz.
The sponsoring University of Minnesota departments and organizations of this event include: Spanish and Portuguese Studies; English; College of Liberal Arts; Institute of Global Studies; History; European Studies Consortium.
Contact: Raul Marrero-Fente (rmarrero@umn.edu) Nabil Matar (matar010@umn.edu)
March 2008
Writer’s Workshop
Thursday, March 27, 2008
12:10am – 2:50pm, 113 Folwell
For further descriptions click here
2008 Graduate Symposium in Romance Studies
March 28-29 , 2008
Speaker, Alicia Kozameh, will do a Public Reading and book signing on Friday, March 28 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 135 Nicholson Hall.
For more information on the Symposium vist the AGSRS website at www.tc.umn.edu/~agsrs.
April 2008
Spanish & Portuguese Studies Alumni Reunion 2008
April 5, 20089:00am - 1:30pm
Folwell Hall and Nolte Center
It's not to late to register! Click Here to download a .pdf registration form.
Forms can be send back to:
Lynn Argetsinger
CLA External Relations
220 Johnston Hall
101 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
lpa@umn.edu
Office: 612-625-5378
Fax: 612-625-3504
Schedule
9:00 - Pastries, coffee and welcome (Nolte Center)
10:00 - Mini-classes (Folwell Hall)
10:45 - Break (Folwell Hall)
11:00 - Mini-classes (Folwell Hall)
12:00 - Lunch (Nolte Center)
1:30 Informal chats with current students and faculty (Nolte Center, and elsewhere)
Mini-classes
10:00 – 10:45
Joanna O’Connell
"El 'Boom Femenino' and Mexican Women Writers"
Maria Antonia Calvo
"A Year of Elections: Spanish Parliamentary and U.S. Presidential Races in 2008"
Fernando Arenas
"Popular Music in the Portuguese-Speaking World"
Angela Carlson-Lombardi
"Hablando artisticamente / Express Yourself Like an Artist: Strategies for Spanish Instructors"
11:00 – 11:45
Jaime Hanneken
"Visual and Textual Images of Cannibalism, 1492-1992"
Ofelia Ferrán
"Memories of War and Wars of Memory in Contemporary Spain"
Timothy Face
"Dialectologia musical: Pronunciation Across the Spanish-Speaking World"
Marcus Brasileiro
"Vamos Falar Português!” or “Let’s Speak Portuguese!"
Writer’s Workshop
Friday, April 18, 2008
12:10am – 2:50pm, 113 Folwell
TALLER I: Writing the Research Paper: APA. . . MLA. . . What’s the Difference?
12:10 p.m. – 1 p.m.
You’ve done all your research. Now how do you organize it? If you aren’t exactly sure, this session is for you. The Modern Foreign Language Association (MLA) style bibliography is often required for research projects in literature and culture classes whereas the American Psychological Association (APA) style bibliography is used more frequently for linguistic papers as well as papers in the social and behavioral sciences. This fifty-minute session will discuss and compare how to format your manuscript, cite information within the text, and prepare your bibliography in both style formats. We’ll take a careful look at how to cite web sources and review sample essays to identify common errors. Bring your research and any questions!
Kajsa Larson and Mandy Fleming
Graduate Instructors
TALLER II: CONECTORES DE ESPAÑOL
1:10 – 2 p.m.
En este taller se hará una revisión de los conectores, expresiones que sirven para:
darle coherencia al texto escrito guiar al lector en cuanto a la intención de las ideas expresadas
En la escritura del español resulta especialmente útil tener a mano un inventario de conectores porque en esta lengua se valora la variedad en lugar de la repetición. Tal inventario se proveerá en el taller organizado en cuatro formas principales: adición consecución, oposición y concesión.
María Eugenia Dominguez-Mujica
Graduate Instructor
Symposium on Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian Cultures
April 23-24, 2008Wednesday April 23, 2008 (2:00pm - 6:00pm)
Thursday April 24, 2008 (10:00am- 5:00pm)
HHH Institute of Public Affairs, Wilkins Room 215
This symposium will discuss the impact of Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian cultures.
For Detailed Information on times and speakers, click here!
"Veiled Ladies and Urbanism in the Early Modern Hispanic World"
Friday April 25, 2008
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Folwell Hall Room 116
Lecture entitled "Veiled Ladies and Urbanism in the Early Modern Hispanic World" presented by Visiting Professor Laura Bass from Tulane University.
From early modern Seville to Madrid to Lima, the figure of the seductively veiled lady (tapada) was a source of both fascination and anxiety. Novelists, playwrights, and painters exploited and arguably promoted the fashion for face veiling, while moralists and legislators tried to put a stop to it. What accounts for this fashion and why was the Crown determined to eradicate it? This paper addresses these questions through an examination art, literature, and the law. While attending to the probable Hispano-Muslim origins of veiling in the Hispanic world, it argues that this highly charged, gendered practice belonged less to Spain’s past than to the early modern present and, particularly, to the new forms of urbanism that developed in both the ancient city of Seville and the much younger capitals of Madrid and Lima. As these rapidly expanding cities offered their inhabitants new possibilities for social mobility, wealth and consumerism, they also generated anxieties of failure and deception, and the tapada became consummate emblem of both the promises and perils of urban life.
This event is free and open to the public
Light Refreshments will be served
May 2008
"Power genres and digital vernaculars: A pedagogy of language awareness and practical engagement"
Monday, May 5, 2008
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Room 140 Nolte Hall
CLA-OIT and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese are pleased to invite you to a Brown Bag Presentation and Discussion with Dr. Steven L. Thorne.
Professor Thorne will present (see abstract below) and then we will then open the floor for discussion, brainstorming, and idea sharing.
Abstract: This presentation describes a broad pedagogical research program aimed at heightening language awareness among students and revitalizing university-level course work in language-related fields (English, foreign languages, rhetoric, and written expression across a variety of disciplines), and more broadly, to language learning and use across contexts and the lifespan. The discussion begins by establishing the need for language and genre-focused activities that attend to the shifting social practices and emerging literacies associated with digital media. I will then describe a pedagogical model called "bridging activities" that involves guided exploration and analysis of student selected or created digital vernacular texts originating in Web 2.0 and other technologies/practices (e.g., instant messaging and synchronous chat, blogs and wikis, remixing, and multiplayer online gaming). The bridging activities approach is designed to enhance educational engagement and relevance through the incorporation of students' digital-vernacular expertise, experience, and/or curiosity, coupled together with instructor guidance at the level of semiotic form to explore interactional features, discourse-level grammar, and genre. The ultimate goal is to foster critical awareness of the anatomy and functional organization of a wide range of communicative practices relating to both digital and analogue textual conventions.
Biography: Steven L. Thorne is an Assistant Professor in the department of Applied Linguistics and Associate Director of the Center for Language Acquisition at the Pennsylvania State University. He also serves as the Advisor for Mediated Learning at the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (a national foreign language resource center). His research focuses on cultural historical activity theory, computer-assisted language learning, new media literacies, second language acquisition, and themes relating to social theory and critical pedagogy. His research has appeared in numerous edited collections as well as the Handbook of New Literacies, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, and the Modern Language Journal, Language Learning & Technology, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, CALICO Journal, and Intelligence, among other venues. His book length works include a co-edited volume on Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (Thomson/Heinle, 2006) and the co-authored monograph Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development (Oxford University Press, 2006).
"End of the Year Party "
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Room 140 Nolte Hall
Faculty, Staff and Students from the Department, please join us for food, fun, prizes & music for our annual End of the Year Party.