Tribute to José Martí
Panel discussion (In Spanish)
Participants:
Ivan A. Schulman, University of Illinois
Oscar Montero, Lehman College and The Graduate Center
Mauricio Font, Bildner
Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, The Graduate Center and Queens College
Esther
Allen, PEN Translation Committee
When:
Thursday, May 22 at 6:00 P.M.
Where: The Skylight Conference Room (9100)
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
(Between 34th and 35th Street)
La
vida moderna y el crítico de arte
Ivan A. Schulman
Ivan A. Schulman is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University
of Illinois, Emeritus; Research Associate, University of South Florida;
Professor of Hispanic Studies, Florida Atlantic University; Visiting Professor,
Florida International University. Among his publications are Símbolo
y color en la obra de José Martí (1970), Génesis
del modernismo: Martí, Nájera, Silva, Casal (1968),
El modernismo hispanoamericano (1969), Martí Darío
y el modernismo (1969), Coloquio sobre la novela hispanoamericana
(1967), Versos libres de José Martí (1970),
Relecturas martianas: narración y nación (1994), Poesía
modernista hispanoamericana y española (1999), El proyecto
inconcluso: la vigencia del modernismo (2002).
Por
la puerta natural: Martí en Dos Ríos
Oscar Montero
Oscar Montero is Professor of Latin American literature at Lehman College
and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author
of The Name Game (Chapel Hill, 1988) on Cuban writer Severo Sarduy,
and
Erotismo y representación en Julián del Casal (Amsterdam,
1993). His recent
publications include Casal y Maceo en La Habana elegante. Casa de las
Américas 225 (octubre-diciembre, 2001): 57-70. Do Latins Make Lousy
Lovers? A reputation revisited. Hopscotch 2.1 (2000): 2-9. He is currently
working on a book on José Martí. He has also written several
articles in different magazines and lectures frequently on José Martí.
¿Martí,
Apóstol de qué?
Mauricio Font
Mauricio Font is director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere
Studies and professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Queens
College, City University of New York. His research examines problems of
development and reform in Brazil, Cuba and Latin America as well as
international cooperation in the Western Hemisphere. Font's current research
focuses in part on reform processes in Latin America, where institutional
and social actors at all levels of government have advanced strategies to
address social needs and economic disparities. Font's publications on Brazil
include Transforming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspective (2003),
Coffee,
Contention, and Change (1990), and Brazilian Statism: Rise, Limits,
and
Decline (forthcoming, 2003). He also edited and introduced Charting
a New
Course: The Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation (2001),
a
volume with twenty-six essays by Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Font's work
on Cuba includes co-editing Toward a New Cuba? (1997) and Integración
económica y democratización: América Latina y Cuba
(1998). He is co-editor of Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando
Ortiz (forthcoming) and of La República Cubana y José
Martí 1902-2002 (forthcoming). He has also published a number
of essays on Latin America, the North American Free Trade Agreement and
US-Latin America relations, Cuba, Brazil and the comparative-historical
study of development trajectories in settler societies.
Martí
en la historia norteamericana
Esther Allen
Esther Allen edited, translated and annotated the Selected Writings of José Martí (Penguin Classics, 2002) which was listed as one of the most notable books of the year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review and is now in its third printing. She has translated more than fifteen other books from Spanish and French, including Dark Back of Time by Javier Marías and The Book of Lamentations by Rosario Castellanos, and she was co-translator of the Selected Non-Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges (Viking, 1999) which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She is also the translator of a forthcoming memoir by Alma Guillermoprieto, about teaching dance at the Escuela Nacional de Artes in Cuba. Currently Chair of the PEN Translation Committee, she has received Fulbright and National Endowment for the Arts grants, and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from NYU.
Presented in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes and the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies.
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