Latin American Literary History: debate at CUNY - February 8, 2018

Americanos, europeus, enfim, pessoas normais, tendem a programar com a "necesaria antelación" seus eventos acadêmicos, como faz agora este programa da City University of New York, para um evento que vai realizar-se apenas no dia 8 de fevereiro de 2018.
Conheço o Roberto González Echevarria, da Yale, a quem já concedi um visto quando no Consulado em Hartford, CT, e tenho o seu livro, generosamente oferecido a mim pelo próprio Roberto, quando me visitou. O seu curso sobre Cervantes está aqui, neste link:
https://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese/span-300
Recomendo, aos que puderem assistir...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Latin American Literary History:

Continuities and Discontinuities

Thursday, February 8, 2018, Room 9206/07

The Graduate Center, CUNY

A discussion with Rolena Adorno and Roberto González Echevarría, authors of the recently published Breve historia de la literatura latinoamericana colonial y moderna (Madrid, 2017). The two parts of the Breve historia are hinged by Andrés Bello, the Venezuelan polymath, and range from Columbus to Bolaño, while devoting attention to authors rarely considered by the general public such as Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Esteban Echeverría, and Severo Sarduy. The discussion will center on how various periods of Latin American literature engage each other and how current literature deals with the past and with literatures in other languages.

Panelists:

Rolena Adorno, Yale University

Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University

Commentators:

Regina Harrison, University of Maryland, College Park

Moderator: Araceli Tinajero, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Rolena Adorno (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Sterling Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Author of Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2011), De Guancane a Macondo: Estudios de literatura latinoamericana (2008), The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative (2007, 2014), Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, with Patrick Charles Pautz (1999), and Guaman Poma Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (1986, 2000). She is a member of the National Council on the Humanities of the NEH, an Honorary Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015 Adorno received the Modern Language Association’s Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement.

Roberto González Echevarría (Ph.D., Yale) is the Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale. Ph.D.Yale, 1970, and among honorary doctorates one from Columbia in 2002. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. President Barack Obama bestowed on González Echevarría the National Humanities Medal in 2010. His Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative won awards from the MLA and LASA and I son its sixth edition. He was awarded in 2014 the National Prize for Criticism by the Instituto Cubano del Libro for Lecturas y relecturas. In 2002 Fondo de Cultura published Crítica práctica/Práctica, and in 2005 Yale Press published Love and the Law in Cervantes. In 2014 the University of Minas Gerais issued Monstros e archivos, while in 2016 Yale Press brought out his edition of Cervantes' Exemplary Novels, translated by Edie Grossman. He has written for The New York Times Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, and The Nation. González Echevarría's twenty-four lecture course on Cervantes’s Don Quijote is available through Yale Open Courses. His work has appeared in Spanish, English, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Persian, and soon Chinese.

Regina Harrison (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Comparative Literatures, University of Maryland, College Park. Her scholarship combines the disciplines of literary studies and anthropology. She is author of Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture (University of Texas, 1989), which won the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, and Entre el tronar épico y el llanto elegíaco (Quito, Ecuador; 1997). Her book Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru (University of Texas Press, 2014) was awarded the Bainton Prize in History from the Sixteenth-Century Society, and her DVD, Mined to Death, filmed with Quechua-speaker miners in Bolivia, was awarded LASA’s “Award of Merit in Film.”

Araceli Tinajero (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is Professor of Spanish at The Graduate Center and City College of New York, CUNY. She is the author of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano, El lector de tabaquería (Eng. El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader), and Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón. Professor Tinajero is the editor of Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI, Exilio y cosmopolitismo en el arte y la literatura hispánica, and Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World. 

Brazil and the World: Strategy and Foreign Policy - City College of New York (April 25, 2014, 4PM )

To be held:

Panel Discussion Brazil and the World: Strategy and Foreign Policy Professor Luiz Pedone Brazilian Institute of Strategic Studies Universidade Federal Fluminense Discussants: Kenneth Erickson The Graduate Center and Hunter College Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner The Graduate Center and City College of New York Friday, April 25, 2014, 4PM The Graduate Center, Room C201 About the speakers: Luiz Pedone obtained his Ph.D at the University of Massachusetts. He taught at the University of Brasilia from 1976 to 2003 and is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Strategic Studies at UFF. His current research focuses on energy as a key factor in defense and security stategy. He also earned degrees in public administration at University of Brasilia and studied industrial engineering. Kenneth Erickson is a professor of Political Science at Hunter College. His areas of specialization include comparative politics, Latin American politics, democratization, drugs and public policy, and environmental and energy policy. Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner is a specialist in foreign policy, diplomacy and development, particularly with respect to small states (and specifically Caribbean states) as well as the nations of the global south in general. Prof. Braveboy-Wagner was the first Caribbean female president of the Caribbean Studies Association (1992-3). For many years, she has also served as the United Nations-NGO representative of the International Studies Association.

The China Factor in Latin America - CUNY, May 22, 2013

Asia and Latin America The China Factor in Latin America Adrian Hearn Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney Daniel P. Erikson Senior Advisor for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State Moderator: Mauricio Font Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies Date: Wednesday, May 22, 5:00 PM Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204/05                        365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street) The China Factor in Latin America Adrian Hearn's presentation focuses on China’s growing economic role in the Americas and its challenge to many countries in this region to develop new approaches to trade, investment, and development that favor economic sustainability, environmental responsibility, and political trust. Driven by Chinese demand, commodities now account for 60% of exports from Argentina, 47% from Brazil, and 75% from Chile. Around 90% of Latin America’s exports to China consist of mining and agriculture, but managing the resulting structural transformations is only one of the challenges. Equally important are strategies for negotiating with Chinese state owned enterprises, integrating growing Chinese communities into national social and economic systems, and promoting education about Chinese politics and culture. The presentation examines these challenges and draws parallels with Australia, where 59% of exports are commodities and China is the number one trade partner. As in Argentina and Brazil, concern about Chinese land acquisitions has prompted Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board to reconsider its “national interest test” to ensure local economic benefit, environmental sustainability, and adequate employment standards. Australia and Latin America harbor a shared need to manage their changing circumstances, both in dialogue with each other and with Chinese partners. About the speakers Adrian Hearn is professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. His research examines the geopolitical implications of China’s deepening diplomatic and economic relations with Latin America, and by comparison with Australia.He is co-editor of China Engages Latin America: Tracing the Trajectory, Boulder (2011). His most recent publications include “China, Global Governance and the Future of Cuba” (2012) in Journal of Current Chinese Affairs; "Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba" (2012) in The China Quarterly); and "Cuba and China: In Mixed Enterprise we Trust" (2012) in Hemisphere. Dr. Hearn current work adopts an ethnographic approach to explore cultural convergences/divergences, economic development, and approaches to transparency and technology transfer from the ground up. Daniel P. Erikson is senior advisor for policy in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State since 2010. He advises the assistant secretary on issues related to policy and strategy, economic engagement, and multilateral affairs. Erikson previously served as senior associate for U.S. policy and director of Caribbean programs at the Inter-American Dialogue. Erikson has published more than sixty articles, numerous book chapters, and is the author of The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution, which won ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award for political science. Erikson has taught Latin American politics at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies and his past positions include research associate at Harvard Business School and Fulbright-Garcia Robles fellow in U.S.-Mexican business relations. Mauricio Font is director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York. His research examines problems of development and reform in Brazil, Cuba and Latin America as well as international cooperation in the Western Hemisphere. PLEASE RESERVE by sending an email tobildner@gc.cuny.edu

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