[Hum_events] Calendar Events (3): Theory Event; CIRA Event;
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--> Literary Theory Round Table
--> Naoki Sakai, "Ethno-Linguistic Unity and the Schema of
Co-figuration"
--> RECONSIDERING THE HISTORICAL NOVEL
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5/24/04 (Mon)
Literary Theory Round Table
3:00PM until 6:00PM
In: Faculty Center
THE UCLA LATIN AMERICAN CENTER AND
THE UCLA DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
Proudly invite you to a
ROUND TABLE
"INTERSDISCIPLINARY LATIN AMERICANISM:
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORIES"
Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Gender Studies,
Gay and Lesbian Studies, Subaltern Studies
with
Prof. Sara Castro-Klarén (Johns Hopkins University)
Prof. Jean Franco (Columbia University)
Prof. Sylvia Molloy (New York University)
Monday May 24, 2004
3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Organizers
Prof. Adriana J. Bergero, UCLA Department of Spanish &
Portuguese
Prof. María Cristina Pons, UCLA César Chávez Center
Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Carlos A. Torres, UCLA Latin American Center
Prof. Gerardo Luzuriaga, UCLA Department of Spanish &
Portuguese
Prof. Adriana J. Bergero, UCLA Department of Spanish &
Portuguese
Prof. María Cristina Pons, UCLA César Chávez Center
Moderator
Elizabeth Marchant, UCLA Spanish and Portuguese
Speaker Introductions
Marisol Castillo, UCLA Spanish and Portuguese
Susana Dias, UCLA Spanish and Portuguese
Anna Frandsen, UCLA Latin American Studies Center
Maria Abigail Sandoval, Latin American Studies Center
Reservations are not required, but an RSVP is encouraged.
Please respond to the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese (310)
825-1036 by Thursday, May 20, 2004, if you plan to attend
this event. Parking is available for $7 on the UCLA campus.
For more information on parking, please visit:
www.transportation.ucla.edu/parking/Parking.HTM
Sara Castro-Klarén is Research Professor of Latin American
Literature and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. She is
the former Director of the Latin American Studies Program
at John Hopkins University. She has published extensively
on the work of modern and colonial Latin American writers.
Her works include Escritura, transgresión y sujeto en la
literatura latinoamericana (1989), and with Sylvia Molloy
and Beatriz Sarlo she co-edited Women's Writing in Latin
America (1991). Her work in cultural studies includes
essays on Latin American literature and culture from the
colonial period through the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. She has written on the sixteenth-century
millennial movement Taqui Onqoy, on the work of Guamán
Poma, on "cannibalism" as a key trope in the cultural
history of modernity both in Europe and Brazil, and on the
relationship of anthropology to the novels of Mario Vargas
Llosa. Her work represents a theoretical intersection of
Cultural Studies, Feminism, Gender Studies, and Subaltern
Studies.
Jean Franco received her Ph.D. from King's College,
University of London, in 1964, writing a dissertation
titled "Theme and Technique in the Novels of Ángel
Ganivet." She was named Doctor of the University, Essex
University, in 1992. Her teaching career began in 1958, in
a post with the London Education Authority. Since then she
has held positions at Queen Mary College of London
University; was named Professor of Latin American
Literature, University of Essex, in 1968; was appointed
Professor of Spanish at Stanford University in 1972,
holding the Olive H. Palmer Chair of Humanities from 1979
to 1982; and became Professor of Spanish at Columbia
University in 1982. She has held visiting professorships at
several universities, including Freie University Berlin and
the University of California, San Diego. Jean Franco had
held several university administrative positions and has
been the recipient of many honors and research grants over
her long career. In 1987 Professor Franco was elected vice
president and president of the Latin American Studies
Association (LASA). She served as the Association's
president from November of 1989 to April of 1991. She is
the author of nine books and nearly 90 articles based on
Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, including Plotting
Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico and Critical
Passions.
Sylvia Molloy received her B.A. in Letters and Modern
Literature at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, in 1960;
her M.A. in Modern Literature at the University of Paris,
Sorbonne, in 1961; and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, in 1967. She was
president of the International Institute of Ibero-American
Literature from 1992 to 1994. She was Professor of Latin
American Literature and Chair of the Spanish and Portuguese
Department at Yale University from 1986 to 1990. She is the
editor of Revista Iberoamericana, Filología, Latin American
Literary Review, La Torre, PMLA, Nueva Revista de Filología
Hispánica, and is a member of the International Association
of Hispanists, the International Institute of Latin
American Literature, the Modern Language Association, the
Academy of Literary Studies, the Latin American Studies
Association, and the Centre d'Etudes des Littératures et
Civilisation du Río de la Plata. Her works include La
diffusion de la littérature hispano-américaine en France au
XX siècle (1972), Las letras de Borges (1979), En breve
cárcel (1981), Of Abscence (1989), At Face Value:
Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), Women's
Writing in Latin America (in collaboration with Sara Castro
Klarén and Beatriz Sarlo, 1991). She has published more
than 60 articles on Latin American and comparative
literature topics related to the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries and based on Cultural and Post-colonial Studies,
Gender Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies.
-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi at humnet.ucla.edu)
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For more information, contact http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/events/calendar.html
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This event is taken from the Spanish & Portuguese Calendar.
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5/25/04 (Tues)
Naoki Sakai, "Ethno-Linguistic Unity and the Schema of Co-figuration"
4:00PM until 6:00PM
In: 10383 Bunche Hall
Naoki Sakai is Professor of Japanese Literature and
History in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell
University.
Professor Sakai will explore how the modes of
identification, which ascribe individuals to ethnic,
racial, and national identities, came into being from the
historical perspective. Granted that ethnicity, race, and
nationality are all modern constructs, he will explore how
one is urged to identify with a specific ethnos, race or
nation. These loci of identification are also given as the
unities of a language. Hence, in modernity, the individual
is assumed to be endowed with some cultural essence, most
often expressed in terms of the indigenous heritage of his
or her native language. Ultimately, what anchors the
individual’s identity is found in the unity of a specific
language. This cultural essence embodied in one native
language is therefore the basis of the peoplehood, but it
is a kind of ideological shortcut that attempts to free
the concepts of sovereignty and modernity from the
antagonism and crisis that define them. But, how can we
conceive of the native language as a unity? Here, it is
important to note that modernity is marked by a series of
projects in terms of which vernacular or colloquial
languages are represented and standardized. In this
respect, the role of translation should be discussed as a
subjective technology whereby to constitute ethnic or
national subject. What is decisive is not the
communicative equivalent that is supposedly transferred
from the addresser to the addressee, but the
representation of the translation process in which one
language is figured out alongside another: the
representation of translation serves as the schema of co-
figuration and establishes two languages as two unities
distinct from one another and each being somewhat
autonomous. Thanks to this technology, the world is
imagined to consist of the juxtaposition of separate
languages in modernity. The world thus became the
international world.
Sponsored by the UCLA Program for Comparative and
Interdisciplinary Research on Asia and the UCLA Asia
Institute.
For more information, please contact Linda Truong at
ltruong at international.ucla.edu.
-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez at humnet.ucla.edu)
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For more information, contact http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/
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This event is taken from the Spanish & Portuguese Calendar.
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5/26/04 (Wed)
RECONSIDERING THE HISTORICAL NOVEL
2:00PM
In: 306 Royce Hall
The Department of Comparative Literature
Proudly presents
A Symposium:
RECONSIDERING THE HISTORICAL NOVEL
Wednesday May 26, 2004
314 Royce Hall
2:00 – 3:45 pm Part 1: Remarks
FREDRIC JAMESON
“IS THE HISTORICAL NOVEL STILL POSSIBLE?”
HAYDEN WHITE
“ANOMALIES OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL”
4:00 – 5:00 pm Part 2: Comments on the Remarks
PERRY ANDERSON
KIRSTIE MCCLURE
VINCENT PECORA
MODERATOR: EFRAIN KRISTAL
-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo at humnet.ucla.edu)
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This event is taken from the Comparative Literature Calendar.
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