Taft Lecture, Poetry: Arturo Gutierrez Plaza

Arturo Gutiérrez-Plaza

Bilingual poetry reading

Poet, essayist, and professor Arturo Gutiérrez-Plaza was born in Caracas in 1962. He earned a MA in Contemporary Latin American Literature from the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela in 1991 and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from UC in 2009. Gutiérrez-Plaza was a 1997 fellow at the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa and director of the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies, Venezuela from 1995 to 2000. His work has earned the 1995 Third Biennial Mariano Picón Salas Poetry Prize, the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Spanish-American Poetry Prize, and the Prize of the Foundation for Urban Culture, Venezuela in 2009. His publications include scholarly monographs, anthologies, essay collections, and the poetry collections Al margen de las hojas (1991), Principios de contabilidad (2000), and Pasado en limpio (2006). Gutiérrez-Plaza currently serves as Professor of Language and Literature at the Universidad Simón Bolívar.

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Taft Lecture, Political Science: Dr David Baker

Thursday, May 19, 2011

3:00 pm

Taft Research Center

David Baker

Warwick University, UK. (Retired)

Hon Fellow: Political Economy Research Centre, University of Sheffield, UK

Gives the talk: Markets Against Democracy – the Political Economy of the Tea Party Movement

An examination of the economic ideas of the Tea Party and their potentially destabilizing consequences for American pluralist democracy.

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Taft Lecture, Spanish: Dr Roberta Johnson

Roberta Johnson

Professor Emerita, University of Kansas

& Visiting Professor, UCLA

Gives the talk: Spanish Feminist Thought and the Contemporary Spanish novel.

The feminist movement in Spain has had a long history of allying itself with prose fiction. The lecture provides historical precedents for this phenomenon in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before concentrating on the Franco era (1939-1975) when other forms of feminism were forbidden. More recent developments in Spanish feminist thought will be explored in novels written from 1975 to the present.

Date of the lecture: May 18, 2011

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2010-11 Taft Annual Symposium Keynote Event: Dialog Michael Hardt - Raj Patel

"The Commons: What It Is, How to Reclaim It" A Dialogue and Debate between
Michael Hardt (Duke University) and Raj Patel (UC-Berkeley)

Date: May 12, 2011

Who owns the earth's riches? Radical notions of the Commons suggest that our shared inheritance should be held in common, rather than commodified. In what is sure to be a thought-provoking and timely discussion, theorists Michael Hardt and Raj Patel come together to debate ideas of the Commons.

Introduction by Adrian Parr, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and
Sexuality Studies (A&S) and Urban Design (DAAP).

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Taft Lecture, Spanish: Dr Jose Quiroga

Dr. José Quiroga
Professor of Spanish, Emory University
Keynote Speaker, 31st Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures

Givs the talk: Language Games

Poetry turns language into a spectacle—it twists and bends and forces language to speak of itself while also speaking about something else: reality or unreality, oppression or freedom, social conditions or inner spaces. In Latin America,
poetry has always played with and recombined languages. What forms of temporality does this create, and how does it render legible our distinct ways of being in the world?

May 5, 2011

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Taft Lecture, Spanish: Jose Prats Sariol

José Prats Sariol

Gives the talk: Baroque times in Latin America: José Lezama Lima y el Curso Délfico

April 29, 2011

Literary critic, novelist , essay writer and university professor, José Prats Sariol (La Habana, 1946) has published the novels Mariel (1997, 1999), Guanago Gay (2001), and the essays Estudios sobre poesía cubana (1988), Criticar al Crítico (1983), Fabelo (1994) y No leas poesía ( 2007). Prats Sariol was part of the group of critics that prepared the final edition of Paradiso, by José Lezama Lima, for the UNESCO in 1988, and has offered conferences in universities and cultural centers of Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States.

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Taft Lecture, English: Dr Sue J. Kim

Sue J. Kim
Associate Professor of English
University of Alabama at Birmingham

April 21, 2011

Gives the talk: 'This Game is Rigged, Man': Cognition, Race, & the Politics
of Anger in 'The Wire'

Sue J. Kim is the author of Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race (2009). Her current project, On Anger, seeks to bring together insights into political anger developed in the fields of ethnic, postcolonial, and women's studies with recent work on emotion in cognitive studies and narrative theory.

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