Fall 2008-Winter 2009

Upcoming events

Monday Feb 16, 2009
Lecture by Professor Alberto Ascoli. Date subject to change. For more information on this event, please contact Professor Alison Cornish (acorn@umich.edu).
4pm, 4th Fl East Conference Rm, Rackham Graduate School

Thursday March 19, 2009
Lecture title: 'There is Food in Egypt! It is Floating down the River!’ Notes on Judeo-Spanish Belles-Lettres and the Medieval Coplas de Yosef"
Lecture by ProfessorLuis Giron-Negron (Harvard University). This event was sponsored by RLL, Comparative Literature, Near Eastern Studies, MEMS, and the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. For more information on this event, please contact Professor Ryzan Szpiech (szpiech@umich.edu).
4pm, 4th Fl Common Room, Modern Languages Bldg.

Thursday April 2, 2009
Lecture by Professor Simon Gaunt of Kings College London. For more information, please contact Professor Peggy McCracken (peggymcc@umich.edu).
4pm, 4th Fl East Conference rm, Rackham Graduate School

Thursday April 9, 2009
Lecture by Professor John Foot. Title TBA. For more information, please contact Professor Vincenzo Binetti (vbinetti@umich.edu).
4pm, 4th Fl East Conference rm, Rackham Graduate School

Thursday April 16, 2009
Lecture by Professor Angel Loureiro. Title TBA. For more information, please contact Professor Cristina Moreiras-Menor (moreiras@umich.edu).
4pm, 4th Fl Commons, Modern Languages Bldg.

Past events from 2008-2009

Friday Nov 14, 2008
Lecture: A Lament for Moses Rimos:  Poetry, Poison and History
Lecture by Professor Susan Einbinder. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.  She is the author of Trial by Fire:  Burning Jewish Books (2000),  Beautiful Death:  Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France (2002), and No Place of Rest:  Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (2008).This event is sponsored by the Departments of History, Near Eastern Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Rackham Graduate School, and the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. For more information, please contact Professor Peggy McCracken (peggymcc@umich.edu).
3pm, 4th Fl East Conference Rm, Rackham Graduate School

Friday Nov 7 & Saturday Nov 8, 2008
16th Annual Fraker Conference: Defacing Limits. Annual conference organized by RLL graduate students. Keynote speakers: Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels, and Eduardo Cadava. For more information, please contact the Fraker Committee (fraker2008@umich.edu).

Monday Nov 3, 2008
Lecture: Lingua franca in the Mediterranean
Lecture presented by Karla Mallette, Miami University (Ohio). Karla Mallette works on medieval literature; cultural contacts between Europe and the Arab world, medieval and modern; and Mediterranean studies. She has taught at Northwestern University, American University in Beirut, Stanford University, and she is now teaching at Miami University. She is the author of The Kingdom of Sicily 1100-1250: A Literary History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). She has recently completed another book manuscript entitled, European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean.This event is sponsored by Near Eastern Studies and RLL. For more information, please contact Michèle Hannoosh (hannoosh@umich.edu).
4pm, 2022 Thayer Bldg.

Friday Oct 10, 2008
Policies, Ideologies, and Linguistic Structures in the 21st Century: Bilingualism and Spanish in the U.S.
Lecture presented by Professors Ofelia Garcia and Ricardo Otheguy. "Given the current “spirited” debates on immigration and bilingual education in our community and across the nation, we are delighted that two professors of international standing have accepted the invitation to speak on these topics in forums that coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct.15) and El Día de la Raza (Oct. 12). Professor Ofelia García of Columbia University Teachers College (see attached biosketch) and Professor Ricardo Otheguy at the City University of New York (see attached biosketch) are well-known for fostering stronger working relationships with academic units and community groups in the areas of multicultural education, sociolinguistics and literacy. The goals of their visit will complement all aspects of the King-Chávez-Parks Program, and we are proud to have assembled a coalition of units to support this effort…” This event was sponsored by RLL, Latina/o Studies, American Culture, School of Education, the Linguistic Department, and the English Language Institute. For more information, please contact Professor Teresa Satterfield (tsatter@umich.edu).
4pm, 3512 Haven Hall

Wednesday Sept 24, 2008
Lecture: Italy as a Land of Jihad
Lecture presented by Professor Federico Marazzi. This event is sponsored by the History Department, co-sponsored by Romance Languages & Literatures. For more information on this event, please contact Professor Paolo Squatriti (pasqua@umich.edu).
5pm, 1014 Tisch Hall

Friday Sept 19, 2008
Michigan Medieval Seminar
For more information on this event, please contact Professor Peggy McCracken (peggymcc@umich.edu).

Thursday Sept 18, 2008
Lecture: Inversion, Interpellation, Identification:  Sexual Diversity in Latin American Literature, 1895-1938
Lecture presented by Professor Daniel Balderston. Balderston joined the University of Pittsburgh on January 1, 2008 as Mellon Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Balderston is the current president of the IILI, director of the Borges Center, and editor of Variaciones Borges. An expert on Borges, Southern Cone literature, Brazilian literature, and Latin American gender and sexuality studies, Balderston’s recent publications include: Approaches to Teaching Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman; El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: Ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas; y Borges, realidades y simulacros.To view Balderston's entire profile, click here. For more information on this lecture, please contact Professor Alex Herrero (aherrero@umich.edu).
4pm, 4th Fl Commons, Modern Languages Bldg.

Thursday Sept 4, 2008
Black and Latina/o Queer Arts in the Bronx: A Lunchtime Conversation with Arthur Avilés and Charles Rice-González
Leading modern dancer and choreographer Arthur Aviles and playwright and author Charles Rice-Gonzalez will talk about their creative work and about their experiences directing the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), an alternative performance space that caters to community groups and artists as well as avant-garde, downtown performers. A former dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Aviles has directed his own company (the Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre) since 1996. He founded the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in an old factory building in Hunts Point in 1998 with his partner Charles Rice-Gonzalez. In addition to two concerts per year presented by AATT, BAAD! annually presents BAAD! ASS WOMEN, a cultural celebration of works by women; the Boogie Down Dance Series, a spring festival of dance in the Bronx; OUT LIKE THAT!, the Bronx's only fest celebrating works by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender artists during the month of June; and the BlakTino Performance Series, presenting the works of Black, Latino and artists of mixed race, in the fall.
Light lunch will be provided. Free and open to the public. Event generously cosponsored by the Program in American Culture, Arts of Citizenship, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Women's Studies (list in formation). For more information please contact Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (lawrlafo@umich.edu).
11:30am-1:30pm, 3512 Haven Hall

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