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November 6, 2006 Jacqueline Loss The collective filter of the world that the Soviet Union provided Cuba has disappeared, does not mean it has departed from the imaginations of Cubans. In its very disintegration, the Soviet Union has begun to expand and morph in contemporary Cuban culture. In the absence of the material presence of the USSR. Cubans are referencing its traces. Those Cubans who studied in the Soviet bloc possess an immediate, up-close inheritance that includes the Russian language. The cultural workers/politicians are still recasting the Soviet legacy, isolating those elements that are most oppressive and bureaucratic while vindicting others. | |
August 31, 2006 Pablo Brescia | |
May 8, 2006 Master of Ceremonies: Professor Cory Reed The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Presents: The 3rd Annual Departmental Awards Ceremony May 8, 2006, 3:30-5:00 PM, BEN 2.104 Master of Ceremonies: Cory Reed 1. Undergraduate The Stacy Maureen Sowell Endowed Presidential Scholarship: Mary Lisbeth Lowy Dr. Bailey R. Collins/Ellene Collins/Mary Sue Collins Hibbs Scholarship: Eun Joeng Eoh Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Graduate School Internship: Anne Kathryn Kovak Undergraduate Research Fellowship Sponsored by Hector Dominguez Ruvalcaba: Laura Jazmine Ulloa Certificate of Appreciation for Serving as President of Spanish National Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, Zeta Chapter: Mary Margaret "Meg" Dowdy 2. Graduate Program (Matthew Bailey) Professional Development Awards: Fernando Bueno Steven Byrd Cristina Carrasco Christian cousins Maria Mayberry Danny Mendez Ana Nogar Francisco Plata Casis Dissertation Awards: Steven Byrd Maria Mayberry Anna Pyeatt Robert Simon Antonio Valle de Anton Casis MLA Travel Awards: Alfonso Abad Mancheno Irma Cantu Debra Ochoa Jennifer Powers Robert Simon William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award: Jason Brazeal Texas Exes Award for Best instructor in the College of Liberal Arts: Sarah Pollack Fellowships: Carrie Lee Kennedy Fellowships: Christian Cousins Will Cowan Ryan Schmitz Graduate Recruitment Fellowship: Juan Carlos Lopez Deans Recruitment Fellowship: Daniel Olson Danela Yardanova Continuing Fellowships: William S. Livingston Fellowship: Brian Price Bruton Fellowship: Erin Redmond Tuition Fellowship: Janie Zackin 3. Master Assistant Instructrs: Master AI SPN 507 2005-2006 Beatriz Guttierrez Master AI SPN 508K Spring 2006 Regan Boxwell Master AI SPN 508K Fal 2005: Jason Brazeal Master AI SPN 508K 2005-2006 Tim Ditoro 4. Pterodactillo (Diego Trelles and Francisco Plata): Cover Presentation 5. Faculty (Dr. Leo Bernucci): Dean's Fellows: Sonia Roncador Madeleine Sutherland-Meier Faculty Research Assignment (FRA): Matthew Bailey 10 Years of Service Award: Nicolas Shumway Retirees: Virginia Higginbotham, with Professor Emeritus Status Arnold Vento 6. Visiting Faculty Recognition (Dr. Leo Bernucci): Francisco Foot Hardman Ana Belen Lasheras Hugo Medrano Ingrid Vinas Tomczyk 7. Staff Recognition (Dr. Leo Bernucci): COLA Staff Excellence Award: Liz Hastings | |
May 4, 2006 Cedomil Goic | |
April 27, 2006 Dr. Vicky Unruh Vicky Unruh of the University of Kansas Department of Spanish and Portuguese will present a lecture on Thursday 4/27. Her research and teaching fields include modern Spanish American narrative and theatre, the literary vanguards in Latin America, and Hispanic Caribbean literature. Please join us in welcoming this prolific researcher, instructor, and writer to the University of Texas. | |
April 22, 2006 The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is proud to present the 32nd Annual Poetry Declamation Contest. This event will give over 100 Austin area school children (grades 3-12) the opportunity to test their Spanish language skills. The students will memorize two poems in Spanish, one chosen by their teachers and one chosen by a U.T. faculty member. U.T. faculty and lecturers will participate in judging the contestants. This exciting event is free and open to the public, so please join us for a day of fun and poetry! | |
April 20, 2006 Ingrid M. Vinas This lecture will be given by visiting Professor Ingrid M Vinas a researcher in the field of Lingustics. | |
April 13, 2006 Professor Hugo Medrano In this lecture, Prof. Medrano will speak about the values and importance of the literature of: Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Asturias, Gabriel Garcia,and Octavio Paz | |
April 11, 2006 Luiza Moreira | |
April 6, 2006 Professor Ana Belen Lasheras Pena | |
March 30, 2006 Ricardo de la Fuente | |
March 24, 2006 Keynote Speaker: Alberto Sandoval-S¡nchez. Additional Speakers: Guillermo de los Reyes, Ben Sifuentes-J¡uregui, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Yolanda MartÂnez-San Miguel, Laura Guti©rrez, Marivel Danielson, Licia Fiol-Matta, Deborah Paredez, Arnaldo Cruz-Malav©, Jafari Allen, Denilson Lopes | |
March 23, 2006 | |
March 9, 2006 Francisco Foot Hardman | |
February 1, 2006 Last day an undergraduate student may add a course except for rare and extenuating circumstances. Payment due for added courses (add bill). Last day to drop a course for a possible refund. Last day a graduate student or a law student may, with the required approvals, add a course. | |
January 17, 2006 | |
December 9, 2005 Last day to submit master's report, recital, thesis, doctoral dissertation, or treatise to the graduate dean. Last day a graduate student or a law student may, with the required approvals, drop a course or withdraw from the University. | |
October 31, 2005 Registration for the spring semester for continuing and readmitted students. | |
October 26, 2005 | |
October 17, 2005 | |
September 30, 2005 This conference, which is free and open to the public, will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Don Quijote in 1605 and focus on the tremendous literary influence of Cervantes' great novel throughout the Spanish-speaking world, including Latin America and the American Southwest. The invited speakers are James A. Parr (University of California, Riverside), Rosina Conde (Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico), Manuel Sol Tlachi (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico), MarÂa de los Angeles Gonzalez Briz (Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay), Jesºs Maestro (Universidad de Vigo, Spain), and Eduardo Urbina (Texas A/M University). UT Speakers include Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Michael Harney, Cory Reed, and Madeline Sutherland-Meier. Speakers are subject to change. | |
September 30, 2005 | |
September 16, 2005 Last day an undergraduate student may add a course except for rare and extenuating circumstances. Payment due for added courses (add bill). Last day to drop a course for a possible refund. Last day a graduate student or a law student may, with the required approvals, add a course. | |
April 13, 2005 Speakers include: Jesºs Tafoya (Sul Ross University) "La sangre como tinta: el discurso po©tico ante el drama de las muertas de Ju¡rez" Susana B¡ez (Universidad Aut³noma de Ciudad Ju¡rez) La dramaturgia en Chihuahua: un acto de resistencia civil ante la violencia hacia las mujeres en Ciudad Ju¡rez; James Nicolopulos (University of Texas at Austin) The representation of violence in border narco-corridos: killing for honor vs killing per se. | |
April 12, 2005 In recent years, scholars from institutions on both sides of the Mexico-US border have proposed different views on the violence currently affecting the area. Violence has been related to political issues, the globalizing economy, changes in gender role structure after the proliferation of maquiladoras, the promotion of hate against immigrants, women, and sexual minorities, and the control of organized crime in economic and social life. In addition, artists, journalists, politicians, writers, musicians, and filmmakers, have been producing a large number of works on this culture of violence. The complex relationship between violence and its representations needs to be evaluated in a scholarly, cross-disciplinary dialogue¢ÂÂwhich is what this symposium proposes to do. The questions we will address are: What knowledge on border violence has been produced in the Mexican and US institutions? How have the relevant research problems been framed? What are the main debates regarding concepts of violence and our understanding of the border? What light can an interdisciplinary dialogue shed on these issues? To understand from a multidisciplinary perspective a social phenomenon as complex violence, do we need to consider reorganizing our methods of knowledge production? Objectives: To discuss the discursive production and reception regarding violence in the northern border of Mexico. To foster exchange of knowledge and insight across disciplinary boundaries in order to promote a comparative bi-national dialogue about violence. To stimulate further collaborative research initiatives across disciplinary and institutional lines. | |
April 7, 2005 Guillermo Giucci Schmidt | |
April 2, 2005 This colloquium, organized by graduate students in order to give other graduate students an opportunity to share their current work, will be held in joint session with the 2nd FIGS Conference for French and Italian Graduate Students in Linguistics and Literature. It will feature presentations from researchers in the United States as well as several coming from Europe and Brazil. | |
March 25, 2005 Laura Mu±oz Mata An affiliated presentation to the preceding day's colloquium on "History Under the Spell." Laura Mu±oz Mata is professor/research at the Jos© MarÂa Mora Research Institute in Mexico City. She is the author of GeopolÂtica, seguridad nacional y polÂtica exterior: M©xico y el Caribe en el siglo XIX (2001) and many articles and reviews about Mexico¢ÂÂs historical relation to the Caribbean. | |
March 24, 2005 This bilingual colloquium alternates presentations by historians of the Hispanic Caribbean and its Diaspora with responses by literary and cultural scholars. The goal: to foster a dialogue on how ¢ÂÂpostmodern¢Â literary agendas and methods have influenced or transformed the standards of historiographical practice and documentation in Caribbean Studies. There will also be a one-hour session on Friday, March 25 in BEN 2.140. | |
February 2, 2005 Dr. Emilio Bejel | |
April 12, 2004 Pura Lopez Colome, Poet | |
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March 23, 2004 |