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Friday, February 17, 2006
"Fractal Writing II, o el Códice/Codigo del mundo (Poéticas no lineales de Ramon Dachs: A Latin European Poet." Sponsored by Mercè Rodoreda Chair.
(Room 4116.18, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, February 17, 2006
CUNY FACULTY LECTURE SERIES, Professor Eva Fernández, Queens College, Linguistics, "La prosodia en el habla del bilingüe."
(Room 4102, 6:00 pm)

Friday, March 3, 2006
CUNY FACULTY LECTURE SERIES, Professor Licia Fiol-Matta, Lehman College, "Memoria y diáspora en Lydia Cabrera."
(Room 4102, 6:00 pm)

Friday, March 24, 2006
Colloquium - Focus on Juan José Saer: Approaches and Interpretations of His Works, Professor Jorgelina Corbatta, Wayne State University, "Presencia de la amistad en la obra de Juan José Saer." Professor G. Montaldo, Columbia University, "Saer: una exploración de los limites".
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm)

Friday, March 31, 2006
CUNY FACULTY LECTURE SERIES, Professor Jean Graham-Jones, Hunter College, GC, Ph.D. Program in Theater, "Crisis y espectáculo: Buenos Aires 2002."
(Room 4102, 6:00 pm)

Friday, April 7, 2006
Linguistics Symposium, "La influencia del contexto en el discurso." (6:15 pm): Prof. Ángel López García, "Sinonimia y circuitos neuronales." In collaboration with the Universitat de Valéncia
(Room 4116, 3:00 - 6:00 pm)

Friday, April 28, 2006
CUNY FACULTY LECTURE SERIES, Prof. Magdalena Perkowska, Hunter College, "Un duelo de memorias: la historia celebrada y una memoria vivida en '1492. Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla' de Homero Aridjis."
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm)

Thursday, May 4, 2006
Professor Eduardo Lago, Sarah Lawrence College, "From Literary Criticism to Fiction: Llámame Brooklyn, a Novel by Eduardo Lago (Nadal Prize 2006)." With the participation of Professor José María Pozuelo Yvancos, University of Murcia, Spain, and literary critic of the newspaper ABC, Madrid, and Professor Isaías Lerner, The Graduate Center.
(Room 4116, 6:30 pm)

Friday, May 5, 2006
Colloquium of Writers on "Autoficción/Self-fiction." Coordinator and moderator: Professor J.M. Pozuelo Yvancos, University of Murcia, Spain. With the writers Luis Mateo Díez (Spain); Carmen Riera (Spain); María Rosa Lojo (Argentina); Juan Villoro (México).
(Room 9206/9207, 5:00 pm)

Friday, May 12, 2006
Professor Eduardo Lago, Sarah Lawrence College, "In the Ruins of the Boom: Roberto Bolaño’s Novelistic Paradigm."
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm)

Fall 2005

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Friday, September 9, 2005
Professor Arturo Casas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, "Hacia una historia comparada de las literaturas ibéricas." 

Spring 2005

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Friday, February 4, 2005
Professor Jorge Brioso, Carleton College, "De maniquíes, de amadas muertas y del amor mas allá de la muerte: literatura, arte y filosofía en Hable con ella de Pedro Almodóvar."

Fall 2004

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Friday, September 10, 2004
Professor Antón Figueroa, Universidad de Santiago, "El campo literario gallego en el contexto hispánico." 

Spring 2004

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Friday, February 6, 2004
Inaugural Reception. Seminarios "Castilla y León." Sponsored by the Fundación Duques de Soria.
(Room 4116; 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, February 20, 2004
"Defensa e ilustración de la Segunda Parte de Calderón de la Barca". Professor Santiago Fernández Mosquera, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 
(Room 4116; 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, March 5, 2004 "Distinguished Professor José Olivio Jiménez: A Memorial." Speakers: Professors Dionisio Cañas, Marithelma Costa, Isaías Lerner, and Jeanine Plottel. [Program, photos].
(Segal Theater; 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, March 19, 2004
"Neruda. Su centenario y Estravagario". Professor María Luisa Fischer, Hunter College. 
(Room 4116; 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, April 16, 2004 
"La novela histórica en la época posrevolucionaria: 1989-2004." Professor Seymour Menton, University of California at Irvine. 
(Room 4116; 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, April 23, 2004
A Colloquium "Cultural Encounters in the Caribbean: Haiti, Santo Domingo, Cuba". Co-sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in French. 
(Rooms C202-C204; 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)

Monday, April 26, 2004
"Isaac Chocron, Venezuelan Novelist/Dramatist". Celebrating the publication of his latest novel Pronombres personales. Co-sponsored with The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Welcome and Presentation by Nora Glickman.
(Room TBA; 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)

Friday, May 7, 2004
A Colloquium, "Memoria y ficción".
(Rooms C201-C202, 5:00 p.m.)

Friday, May 14, 2004
"El estatuto de poesía lírica en el Siglo de Oro: poética implícita y poética explícita". Professor Begoña López Bueno, Universidad de Sevilla.
(Room 4116; 6:30 p.m.)

Fall 2003

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Friday, September 5, 2003
An International Symposium "Entre o nacionalismo literario e a literatura nacional. Homenaxe a Xoán González-Millán". Co-sponsored with the Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College. 
(Room 9205; 11:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.)

Friday, September 19, 2003
The IVth Seminar on the Transatlantic Dimension of the Spanish Language. Sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes, with the collaboration of the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics and the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures. Participants: José del Valle, Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, GSUC (El español en el mundo y su tratamiento como recurso económico); Ofelia García, Columbia's Teachers College (La enseñanza del español a los latinos de los Estados Unidos: contra el viento del olvido y la marea del inglés); Ricardo Otheguy, Ph.D. Program in Linguistics, GSUC (Sistemas lingüísticos y denominaciones lingüísticas: consideraciones empíricas sobre el español en Nueva York).
(Skylight Conference Room; 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) 

Friday, October 3, 2003
"Gabo y Fidel: el paisaje de una amistad". Professor Ángel Esteban, University of Granada. 
(Room 4116; 6:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, October 8, 2003
"Language and Nationalism in Contemporary Brazil." Professor Ana Stahl Zilles, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul.
(Room 7314; 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, October 10, 2003
"Juan José Saer: teoría poética y práctica narrativa." Professor Jorgelina Corbatta, Wayne State University. 
(Room 4116; 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, October 17, 2003
"1543: Modelo Editorial, Modelo Poético." Professor Pedro Ruiz Pérez, University of Cordoba. 
(Room 4116; 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, October 24, 2003
"Saul Yurkievich's Books Presentation." Introduced by Suzanne Jill Levine with the participation of the author. 
(Room 4116; 6:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, October 29, 2003
"On Translating the Elusive Uruguayan, Felisberto Hernández." Esther Allen.
(Room 3306; 4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, October 31, 2003
Voces Multiculturales, Ninth International Graduate Students Conference. 
(Room 9204; All Day)

Friday, November 14, 2003
An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Beyond Books and Borders, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the Florida Frontier. [see Program, Presenters and Abstracts]
(Room C197; 3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Students' Reading Group. Professor Muñoz-Millanes, speaker.
(Room C197; 6:30 p.m.)

Thursday, December 11, 2003
"La fuerza mítica del '27: amistad y vocación poética." Professor Claudio Guillén, Real Academia Española; Emeritus, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. 
(Room 6494; 4:30 p.m.)

Spring 2003

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Thursday, January 23, 2003
Panel Discussion About Gaudi's Attraction Hotel: A Skyscraper Project for New York. Participants will include Prof. Joan Bassegoda i Nonell, curator of the Real Cátredra Gaudi of the Politecnic University of Catalonia, and Marc Mascort i Boix. Presented in collaboration with The Catalan Consortium for the Exterior Promotion of Culture (COPEC) and the Instituto Cervantes.
(Martin Segal Theatre, 6:00 pm)

Monday, February 3, 2003
Flamenco and Classical Music. Participants will include Carmen Serrano (soprano) and Antonio López (piano). Presented by the Instituto Cervantes and organized by the General Consulate of Spain.
Fri-Sat, February 7-8, 2003 (Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 9:00 am). Intern'tl Congress on Miguel Delibes. Coordinated by Pilar Celma Valero, University of Valladolid. Co-sponsored with the Junta de Castilla y León and the Instituto Cervantes. 
(Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 8:00 pm)

Monday, February 10, 2003
"Flamenco Guitar as Told by Its Creators." Manuel Gamboa. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes.
(Martin Segal Theatre, 6:00 pm).

Monday, February 10, 2003
"La literatura mundial en el cambio de siglo. Sentidos de la defensa de un mito." Domingo Sánchez-Mesa, Universidad de Granada. Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso- Brazilian Literatures and The Students Reading Group. It is recommended you sign up with Anna Santiago (ASantiago@gc.cuny.edu) or David Rodríguez-Solas (drsolas@hotmail.com).
(Room 9205, 6:30 pm).

Friday, March 14, 2003 
"El canto A la pintura de Rafael Alberti", by Professor Antonio Sánchez Trigueros, University of Granada/ Universidad Menéndez Pelayo. Co-sponsored with The City College, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm)

Friday, March 21, 2003
"El New Historicism en el contexto hispánico, ¿un regreso a la historia?. Professor Gonzalo Pontón, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and The Students Reading Group. The following texts will be discussed and are available in the Office of the Assistant Program Officer, Anna Santiago:

Stephen Greenblatt, "The Circulation of Social Energy," en Shakespearean Negotiations, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988. Catherine Gallagher & Stephen Greenblatt, "Introduction," en Practicing New Historicism, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago-Londres, 2000, pp. 1-19.

(Room TBA, 6:30 pm).

Friday, March 28, 2003
"Genre and Canon Formation Relative to Mexico's National Book: El Periquillo Sarniento." Nancy Vogeley, Professor Emerita of Spanish, University of San Francisco. Co-sponsored with The City College, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Thursday, April 3, 2003
"From Fiction to Drama: La fiesta del chivo." Lecture and video presentation by Jorge Alí Triana and members of the cast of Repertorio Español. (Cancelled)
(Room 4116, 6:30 pm).

Friday, April 4, 2003
"Colonial Languages in a Global World: The Case of Spanish", by Clare Mar-Molinero; Spanish Language Policy and Politics in New York City by Ofelia García. Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages in collaboration with The Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) and the Instituto Cervantes. Followed by a roundtable discussion with Professors José del Valle and Ricardo Otheguy.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Friday, May 2, 2003
"Collective Behavior in Cervantes' La Galatea." Professor Dominick Finello, Rider University/Brooklyn College.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Friday, May 9, 2003
"Sobre intención y autoría en el Lazarillo." José Luis Madrigal.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Friday, May 16, 2003
"The World of Quantum Culture/El mundo de la cultural cuántica." Book presentation and panel discussion (In Spanish). Participants will include Gregorio Morales, John Murphy and Manuel Caro. In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Thursday, May 22, 2003
Tribute to José Martí. Panel discussion (In Spanish). Participants will include Iván Shulman, Andrés Sorel, Oscar Montero, and Mauricio Font. In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes and the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies.
(Skylight Conference Room, 6:00 pm).

Fall 2002

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Friday, September 20, 2002
"Rubén Darío, Martí y la hispanidad." Professor Héctor Darío Pastora.
(Martin Segal Theatre, 6:00 pm)

Thursday, September 26, 2002
"La cultura en español en Internet: el Centro Virtual Cervantes."
Miguel Marañón Ripoll, Head of Departamento de Foros, Centro Virtual Cervantes, Madrid. 
(Room 4116, 6:30 pm)

Friday and Saturday, September 27-28, 2002 
Simposium, "Teaching Spanish in the United States and in Spain: Challenges and Opportunities." Click [here] for more information. 
(Graduate Center Recital Hall)

Friday, October 4, 2002 (Room 4116, 6:00 pm)
Inauguration of the Seminars Castilla y León. Co-sponsored with The Junta de Castilla y León, Fundación Duques de Soria, and The Hispanic Society of America. 

Friday, October 11, 2002
"Mexican Poetry Now/La poesía mexicana actual". Efraín Bartolomé, Jorge Fernández Granados y Carmen Hernández de Valle Arizpe. A poetry reading and discussion of their work now featured in the bilingual Mexican poetry anthology, Reversible Monuments, edited by Mónica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers, published this year by Copper Canyon Press. Co-sponsored with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. 
(Room 9206/9207, 6.30 pm)

Thursday and Friday, October 17-18, 2002.
A Celebration of Brooklyn Hispanism: Hispanic Literature from Cervantes to Today.
Presented by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, the Department of Modern Languages of Brooklyn College and the Instituto Cervantes.
October 17, 4:30 pm, Instituto Cervantes Library, 122 East 42nd Street.
October 18, 4:30 pm, Brooklyn College, The Gold Room - SUBO, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY.

Friday, October 25, 2002
Los Mundos de las palabras. Eighth International Graduate Students Conference. 
(Fifth Floor; All Day).

Monday, October 28, 2002
"East Meets West, South of the Pyrenees: Alfonso X y el saber oriental".  Francisco Gago-Jover, College of the Holy Cross, 
(Room 3306, 5:15 pm).

Friday, November 1, 2002
"The Eve of Spain: Mythmaking and the Conversion of History". Professor Patricia Grieve, Columbia University,  Co-sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in French. 
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Tuesday, November 5, 2002
A book presentation of La novia oscura by Laura Restrepo. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes.
(Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 6:00 pm).

Friday, November 8, 2002
"Constructing Realities: History Against Fiction During Francoist Spain and the Transition to Democracy."  Professor David Herzberger, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Monday, November 11, 2002
"Fray Luis y el desconcierto: Utopia y política lingüística después de Trento." Professor Alberto Medina Domínguez, Boston University, 
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Wednesday, November 20, 2002
A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas, edited by Thomas Colchie. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes.
(Martin Segal Theater, 6:00 pm).

Friday, November 22, 2002
"Porqué se escribe una novela."
Elvira Lindo, Writer.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm)

Friday, December 6, 2002
"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Sight, Sound and the Patronage Game." Professor Frederick Luciani, Colgate Univeristy.
(Room 4116, 6:00 pm).

Spring 2002

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Monday, January 28, 2002
"Great Moments of the Cante/Momentos estelares del cante." Angel Alvarez Caballero,  Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes.
(Recital Hall, 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, February 1, 2002
Book Presentation About New York City by Hilario Barrero, José Luis García-Martín, Martín López-Vega, José Muños-Millanes, Susana Reisz: "Líneas urbanas." Presented by Professor Isaías Lerner.
(Room 4116, 4:00 p.m.)

Friday, February 15, 2002
Professor Domingo Sánchez Mesa, University of Granada, " Con todos pero solo: nuevos rumbos en la joven poesía española." Co-sponsored with The City College, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 
(Room 4116, 6:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, February 20, 2002 Carmen Boullosa, "Mi camino a la novela: lealtad y traición." Co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies.
(Segal Theatre, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, February 22, 2002
Professor Jorge Schwartz, University of São Paulo, " Primitivismo y negritud en los años veinte: pintura y poesía." Co-sponsored with The City College, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, March 1, 2002
Professor Antonio Carreño, Brown University, "Lope de Vega y la historia." Co-sponsored with The City College, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Thursday - Friday, March 7 - 8, 2002
An International Colloquium: Past and Present: The Legacy of Baltasar Gracián. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes. 
(Segal Theatre, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, March 15, 2002
"Historias de una novela; las novelas de la historia. Mentira y verdad narrativa en su libro Los papeles de Miranda."  Mario Szichman, Writer,
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, March 22, 2002
An International Colloquium:  France and Spain (1600-1680): Neighbors, Cousins, Enemies. Co-sponsored with the French Program. 
(Segal Theatre, 2:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 10, 2002
"Conferencia del escritor gallego Alfredo Conde sobre su obra novelística en el contexto de la narrativa española contemporánea." Alfredo Conde.
(Room 4422, 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, April 12, 2002
"Evita: cuerpo y cadáver de la literatura argentina."  Andrés Avellaneda, University of Florida.
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 16, 2002
"El Centro de Documentación Ortega y Gasset." Carmen Asenjo,
(Room 4116, 3:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 17, 2002
" Las geografías secretas de Alvaro Mutis." Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente.
(Skylight Conference Room, 5:00 p.m.)

Friday, April 19, 2002
"Espectros del imperio."  Professor Angel Loureiro, Princeton University.
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, April 19, 2002 
"Reading the Urban University." Professor Louise Mirrer, Executive Vice-Chancellor, The City University of New York, Co-Sponsored with Comparative Literature and Italian Studies.
(Room C197, 4:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 
Celebrating April 23: Book Day and the Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes. 
(Rooms C203 - C205, 1:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.)

Friday, April 26, 2002
A Colloquium: Martín Sarmiento y la cultura del Siglo de la Ilustración. Co-sponsored with the Xunta de Galicia. 
(Room 4116, 10:00 a.m.)

Thursday - Friday, May 2 - May 3, 2002
A Two-Day Symposium: Pensar en España: del modernismo a la posmodernidad. Coordinated by Professor Thomas Mermall. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes.
(Segal Theatre, May 2, 6:00 p.m.; May 3, 1:00 p.m.)

Fall 2001

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Friday, October 5
"Fantasía y creación en la lengua española". Professor Jacques de Bruyne, University of Gent-Belgium,
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, October 17
"Proceso de escritura y estilística de variantes en las Soledades de Góngora". Professor Joaquín Roses, University of Córdoba (Spain), 
(Room 4419, 5:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, October 17
"The Uses and Abuses of Post-Colonial Theory". Professor Epifanio San Juan, Washington State University,  Co-sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature.
(Room 4116, 6:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, October 31
"The World of Spanish Habaneras". A recital of Spanish music. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes of New York.
(Recital Hall, 7:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, November 7
Antonio Muñoz-Molina, Writer, Visiting Professor, Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, GC. A book presentation of his latest novel, Sefarad. Co-sponsored with the Instituto Cervantes and Editorial Alfaguara.
(The Segal Theatre, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, November 9 
"Don Juan Manuel: autor cinegético."
Professor Denis Menjot, University of Lyon.
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, November 30
"El romancero y sus músicas"
Professor Susana Asensio, New York University, 
(Room C197, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, December 7
"'Mother' Malinche and Allegories of Gender, Ethnicity and National Identity in Mexico". Professor Sandra Cypess, University of Maryland, 
(Room 4116, 6:00 p.m.)

Friday, December 14
"César Vallejo: potencia y zozobra"
Professor Saúl Yurkievich, Université de Paris VIII,
(Room 4116.18, 6:00 p.m.)