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Noticias de la Semana
May 3, 2013 - May 11, 2013
Compiled by the Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program
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Greetings!
As the end of the semester draws near, all of us in LACIS wish to thank you for supporting our programming. Should you have any ideas for future lectures, events, courses, etc., please feel free to contact us.
Sincerely,
Sarah Ripp
LACIS Outreach Coordinator/Undergraduate Advisor
P.S. Should you wish to submit an event to the Noticias de la Semana, please visit: http://lacis.wisc.edu/index.php?q=node/614. |
| FRIDAY, MAY 3 | | |
"Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela"
Where: Institute for Research in the Humanities, Room 212, University Club
When: 3pm-5pm
Presented by Waïl S. Hassan, Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
This presentation is part of ongoing research on Arab-Brazilian literary and cultural relations that, among other things, argues for greater attention to the South-South dimension in discussions of world literature. The questions I ask in this paper are: if Orientalism represents a discourse of Western mastery over the "Orient," as Edward Said argued, what happens when it "travels" to another part of the imperialized world? What are the contours of Brazilian Orientalism? If not driven by imperial or foreign policy imperatives, what are the ideological investments of this derivative discourse? This paper addresses such questions by focusing on the representation of Morocco and Islam in O Clone (The Clone), a specimen of the highly popular genre of the telenovela, or television soap opera. O Clone first aired on Brazil's Globo TV network from October 1, 2001 to June 15, 2002. With an ostensible focus on the controversial topics of human cloning and drug addiction, the novela also featured a "forbidden love" story that, in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, quickly became the main thematic focus. This Orient is both a locus of otherness (strange customs and sexual mores, Europe's Other) and solidarity (another part of the Third World, a partner in the anti-imperial struggle). It is at once the repository of authentic (even Catholic) spirituality as well as anti-modern and tradition-bound-"just like us" and radically different. These paradoxes bespeak the problematics of identity in twenty-first century Brazil.
 Waïl S. Hassan is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also Affiliate Faculty in the Center for African Studies, the Center for Global Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Translation Studies, the Departments of French and English as well as the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
Professor Hassan's areas of interest include Modern Arabic, Anglophone and Francophone literatures; literary and cultural theory; gender, postcolonial, translation, and transnational studies. He has published widely, including Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003), a co-edited volume of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, and most recently Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab-American and Arab-British Literature, published with Oxford University Press in 2011. Hassan is also the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language. His current project is a book-length study of Arab-Brazilian literature and Arab-Latin American cultural relations in general.
Click here to watch the opening credits for " O Clone."
Click here to watch an overview of " O Clone."
Sponsored by Center for the Humanities, Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH), Global Studies, European Studies, African Languages and Literature, and the African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle.
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| WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 | | |
"Salvador da Bahia: Economic and Social Aspects of a Proto-global City in Brazil, 1650-1750"
Presented by Christopher Ebert
Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College/CUNY
Where: 101 Psychology Building When: Noon
About the talk:
Second only to Lisbon in importance in the Portuguese Empire, and containing a large population of African slaves working in urban and portuary occupations, Salvador da Bahia was a key node in a proto-global economic system. However, the city of Salvador, the capital of Portuguese Brazil from 1549 to 1763, has often been understood as merely an appendage of one of South America's largest plantation societies. It has seldom been analyzed during this period as an urban center in its own right or compared with the other great global port cities of its time. This brief examination of Salvador looks at the organization of its port and its position in global circuits of trade during a critical time of growth both in the city and in "Atlantic" economic systems in general. It shows that the dynamic of growth in Salvador was not rigidly dependent on production of tobacco and sugar in its hinterland, since it played a variety of roles as a maritime service center and redistribution hub for a variety of commodities that had global reach and were traded both legally and illegally.
About the presenter:
Christopher Ebert is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College/CUNY. He is the author of Between Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy (1550-1630), (Brill, 2008) and a variety of articles about early-modern economic history appearing in journals such as Past & Present and the Colonial Latin American Review. He is currently researching and writing an economic and social urban history of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first colonial capital.
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program, the Brazil Initiative and the Division of International Studies. |
| THURSDAY, May 9 | | |
Argentine Tango Thursdays with Tango Club UW!
When: 8pm-10pm
Where: Memorial Union or Union South (check
TITU or the club's Facebook page)
Thursday prácticas are free and sponsored by Tango Club UW. University community members, friends, significant others, and guests are welcome! Open práctica for experienced dancers is from 9:00pm-10:00pm. Dancers who are new to tango can take the informal beginner lesson series from 8:00pm-9:00pm and try out their new moves from 9:00pm-10:00pm! No partner necessary. *Wear shoes with slippery bottoms or thick socks*
Follow the Tango Club UW on Twitter! |
| THURSDAY, MAY 9 | | 
Havens Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship: Eduardo Galeano
"Children of the Days"
When: 7pm
Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. He is the author of the trilogy, Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Voices of Time, Upside Down Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. His most recent book is Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History, published in English in Spring 2013. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has inspired popular and classical composers and playwrights from all over the world and has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the American Book Award, the Casa de las Américas Prize and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur.
Click here for more information!
Co-sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program. |
| FRIDAY, MAY 3-SUNDAY, MAY 26 | | LACIS' past director Joseph Thome has brought to our attention a play that his daughter, Andrea Thome, has written. It is having its opening weekend in New York City. If you are lucky enough to be in the area in the coming month, check out Andrea's play and let us know about it! It has an interesting LACIS region-Wisconsin connection.
Two young sisters living in Reagan-era Wisconsin create imaginary worlds to make sense of their Chilean parents' exile and troubled marriage. One daughter copes by wrestling with the political and cultural issues she's hearing about, the other by escaping into a world of pure fantasy. Pinkolandia will be performed in English, although some dialogue in the play is spoken in Spanish.
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EDUCATION, VOLUNTEER & JOB OPPORTUNITIES...
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| Fall 2013 Course Offering | | |
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| Joaquim Nabuco Award | | 
The Brazil Initiative of the Division of International Studies and the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program sponsor the Joaquim Nabuco Award, given annually to the two best essays on Brazil (any field) by a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.
Thanks to the generosity of Ms. Vivi Nabuco of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the prize amounts have been increased to a lump-sum cash award of $2,000 to one graduate and one undergraduate student each.
Requirements:
*Applications should include a cover letter stating the student was enrolled in the UW during the 2012-13 academic year.
*The essay may be written in English or Portuguese.
*Essays should be ≥15 double-spaced pages in length.
*Winners are encouraged to use the award for a research trip to Brazil and will present their essay in the Fall of 2013.
*Deadline for submission is May 10, 2013;
hard copy only to Prof. Severino Albuquerque's mailbox in 1018 Van Hise. |
| "Know your rights" Visits to Detained Immigrants | | 
"know your rights" visits to non-citizen detainees at the Dodge County Jail in Juneau, Wisconsin. At any given time, the jail houses approximately 200 non-citizens who are in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and are facing deportation proceedings. Volunteers visit the detainees to give them an overview of their rights and to conduct one-on-one intake interviews to screen cases for possible representation.
These visits give volunteers first hand experience with our immigration system while providing a social good to underserved communities. Non-citizens in deportation proceedings have no right to court-appointed counsel, so these visits may be the only service detainees receive throughout the deportation process.
Spanish-language ability is preferred, but not required, and volunteers must attend a one-hour training prior to participating. The training session is scheduled during the week proceeding the visit in accordance with the volunteers' schedules. We can take up to 12 people per visit. Visits happen one Friday of the month, departing Madison by 7:00 am, and returning by 2:00 pm; transportation is provided. Tentative dates for the spring semester are: May 3, and June 7. If you have interest, come and join us and learn a little bit more about the immigration system in this country, how it operates, and whom it affects! Interested volunteers should contact LLSA's David Williams at
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2013 Summer Intensive Portuguese Institute
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About the Institute:
This special eight-week course is designed for people wishing to intensively study beginning Brazilian Portuguese. Enrollment is open to graduate students, faculty, other researchers, and advanced undergraduates with permission, from any institution, and will be particularly useful to those who need to develop communication skills and reading knowledge for research. The Institute will take place during the eight-week summer session, June 17 to August 9, 2013. Instruction is five days a week, four hours a day and the course (listed as Portuguese 301-302) carries 8 semester credits. Applications are required no later than May 10, 2013.
Enrollment:
Applications are required no later than May 10, 2013. Late applications may be considered if space is available, prior to the start of class. Knowledge of Spanish is required (2-3 years equivalency). Enrollment is limited to 18 students.
Application forms and details are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1018 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Drive, UW-Madison, WI 53706-1523, 608-262- 1156, www.spanport.lss.wisc.edu.
For more information, please consult the institute flyer here. |
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CLACS Summer Teacher Institute
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Indigenous Movements in Contemporary Latin America
When: July 10-12, 2013 Where: UW-Milwaukee
In the past three decades, Indigenous peoples have been organizing in new and effective ways to counter their traditional exclusion in Latin American societies.These movements have sought land rights, protection of natural resources and the environment, cultural recognition and political rights. Many of the Indigenous peoples' demands have become part of international human rights agreements and integrated into new constitutions of several Latin American nations.
This summer institute will examine a variety of contemporary Indigenous movements with a particular focus on themes and materials about the topic that lend themselves to inclusion in Spanish language and global studies courses.
A collaboration between UW-Whitewater, UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS) and the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
Click here to download the application!
Click here for the institute flyer!
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Language Conversation Tables
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Meet new people and practice a foreign language while taking advantage of the Spanish & Portuguese Department's informal conversation tables.
La Mesa de Conversación (Spanish)
Beginning on the second Tuesday of the the academic semester, La mesa is held weekly from 5-7pm in the Rathskellar of the Memorial Union. All levels of Spanish are welcome at this informal conversation table. For more information please contact Steve Fondow srfondow@wisc.edu.
Bate Papo (Portuguese)
Bate Papo meets on Thursdays from 4:30pm until 6:30pm at the Kollege Klub, 529 North Lake Street (corner of Lake and Langdon). Please contact Ellen Sapega ewsapega@wisc.edu with questions.
For more information on language tables for other languages, visit the Language Institute's website.
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BRIDGE International Friendship Program | |
BRIDGE (Building Relationships in Diverse Global Environments) pairs new international students with American students for a whole semester based on similar interests, personalities and needs. BRIDGE provides new international students with a friend, ally, resource person, and cultural navigator. The program offer numerous cross-cultural activities, learning experiences and fun. To learn more, visit www.iss.wisc.edu/bridge. |
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Millennium Development Goals Awareness Project
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MDGAP educates the campus about eight United Nations development goals on poverty, hunger, education, gender eqaulity, global health and the environment. The project also links students with hands-on , goal-related research, internships and volunteer opportunities in order to further job skills, foster global competency, and advance the goals. For details, visit www.iss.wisc.edu/mdgap.
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