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Activities - spring 2010
Reflections on "Historia Patria", and the Construction of the Mestizo Nation in Porfirian Mexico; or, how to Read the Fiestas del Centenaria, 1910
24 March 2010 - 10:15 to 12:00, room 23.4.39
Guest lecture by Professor Paul Garner, University of Leeds.
Research seminar on Tuesday the 23th of March, 14-16, room 24.3.62
Thea Pitman, University of Leeds, will make a presentation about her research on Chicano art in the USA. The title of her paper is: 'Policing the Borders of Chicano Cinema: The Critical Reception of Allison Anders's Mi vida loca / My Crazy Life (1994) by the Chicano Community'
Ingrid Agostoni will talk about: "Chicanismo: Border Crossings and In-Between Spaces. Gloria Anzaldúa and Guillermo Gómez-Peña."
Stuart Noble (ENGEROM), and Jan Gustafson (CBS, Centre for the Americas) will prepare questions and comments.
Activities - autumn 2009
Theories on Migration
10 November 2009
Guest lecture by Ph.D. fellow Lars Trans, TORS, University of Copenhagen.
Migration from Central America
27 October 2009 - 10 am - 12 am, room 24.2.11
Guest lecture by Senior Researcher Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, DIIS.
Communication for social change
23 September 2009
Guest lecture by Professor Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University.
Mexican Litterature Festival 2009 - 18-25 September
A celebration of Leonora Carrington
25 September 2009 - 3 pm, room 23.4.39
Lectures by the Canadian writer Rosemary Sullivan and the Mexican novelist and critic Mauricio Montiel Figueiras. The lectures are followed by a concert, with an art exhibition and a reception.
Rosemary Sullivan (Montreal, Canada). Canadian writer and academic, with a very rich international career. She has published biography, poetry, historic essay, literary critic and journalism. She has gotten several awards and international fellowships for her literary and academic work. She is currently a lecturer at Toronto University.
Further information on Sullivan
Mauricio Montiel Figueiras (Guadalajara, 1968) Novelist, essayist and translator. One of the most prestigious voices of the new generation of Mexican authors and intellectuals. The publishing house Acantilado in Barcelona published in 2001 his novel La penumbra inconveniente, acclaimed by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. Recently he published in Mexico an essays volumen: Terra cognita. He collaborates regularly with the magazine Letras Libres.
Further information on Figueiras
The lectures are also part of the ENGEROMIC Recognitions series.
About ENGEROMIC Recognitions
This is the first in a series of events designed to draw attention to writers whose work has been obscured because it does not fit into a single language or a single national tradition. ENGEROM is the name of the University of Copenhagen's Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, and in ENGEROMIC Recognitions we shall look at writers who use more than one language, who are displaced by migration, persecution, exile or choice from their 'own' nation or tradition. Some of these writers are famous and need no special recognition from ENGEROM: Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Celan, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera, W.G. Sebald, to name a few. ENGEROMIC Recognitions will not ignore such figures as these, but the series will be inaugurated with a celebration of a name not sufficiently well-known. It is that of an artist and writer who is one of the few surviving participants in one of the key movements and passages of twentieth-century culture: Leonora Carrington.
'ENGEROMIC RECOGNITIONS: Leonora Carrington' is arranged by
Jørn Boisen, (Lecturer in French), Anne Marie Ejdesgaard Jeppesen (Lecturer in Latin American Studies) and Charles Lock (Professor of English) - from whom further details may be obtained.
About Leonora Carrington
Born in England in 1917, Leonora Carrington was an art student in London when in 1937 she met Max Ernst, with whom she subsequently lived in Paris and the south of France. There she continued to paint, at the very centre of the Surrealist movement. She was also encouraged to write, by André Breton and Paul Eluard; her earliest stories are in French. With the fall of France of 1940, the American diplomat Varian Fry provided a house near Marseilles, the Villa Air-Bel, for the protection of those artists and intellectuals threatened by the Vichy government. Max Ernst, still a German citizen, was arrested; Leonora escaped over the Pyrenees to Spain, and thence to Lisbon. The experience led to a breakdown and a clinical diagnosis of dementia, to which her account En Bas (Down Below) forms one of the most powerful of all literary testimonies. Through marriage to a Mexican diplomat, Leonora obtained papers to travel to New York (where she met up with Breton and Marcel Duchamp), and thence to Mexico. Based in Mexico for most of the last sixty-five years, Leonora Carrington still works, and is acclaimed as one of the greatest of Mexican artists. She continues to write plays, stories and novels, in French, Spanish and English. Those who admire her literary works (including, in Mexico, Octavio Paz) often describe Leonora Carrington as the last of the modernists, even as the most important living English writer. Though a selection of her works was issued by Virago in the 1980s, with an introduction by Marina Warner, her writings have not been readily available since. Her paintings, however, have been the subject of a number of major exhibitions in North America, especially in recent years.
For further details about Leonora Carrington go to: http://www.carringtonleo.5u.com/leoweb/leobio.htm
The Mexican Contemporary Cinema
23 September 2009 - 1 pm-3 pm, room 27.0.09
Lecture in Spanish by novelist Mauricio Montiel Figueiras.
Mauricio Montiel Figueiras (Guadalajara, 1968) Novelist, essayist and translator. One of the most prestigious voices of the new generation of Mexican authors and intellectuals. The publishing house Acantilado in Barcelona published in 2001 his novel La penumbra inconveniente, acclaimed by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. Recently he published in Mexico an essays volumen: Terra cognita. He collaborates regularly with the magazine Letras Libres.
Further information on Figueiras
The Devil and Cervantes
22 September 2009 - 1 pm-3 pm, room 27.0.09
Lecture by novelist Ignacio Padilla.
Ignacio Padilla (Mexico City, 1968) One of the most internationally distinguished and prestigious Mexican novelist. He belongs, along with Jorge Volpi, to the so called group "Crack", which burst with great strength in the Hispanic American literature horizon of the 21st century's first decade. Hus novel Anphitryon has been translated into more that 15 languages, includiing Swedish. He has a Doctorate in Literature from the University of Salamanaca with the dissertation The Devil in Cervantes, published in 2005.
Further information on Padilla
Georg Brandes and Hispanic America
18 September 2009 - 11 am-1 pm, room 22.0.47
Lecture in Spanish by essayist Christopher Domínguez. The lecture is part of the Mexican Literature Festival 2009 18-25 September at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.
Christopher Domínguez Michael (Mexico City, 1962) Historian and essayist, he is currently one of themost influential literary critics in the Spanish speaking world. Disciple and close collaborator of Octavio Paz. The publishing of his Diccionario Crítico de Literatura Mexicana (1955-2005) in 2008 was a big editorial affair. He is a regular collaborator with the magazine Letras Libres and with the newspaper Reforma.
Further information on Domínguez
The Mexican Litterature Festival 2009 at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies is in collaboration with the Hispanic libraries in Copenhagen, Rayuela and EX Libris. Books by the authors are available in both libraries.
Special thanks to the Professors from Copenhagen University: Charles Lock, Julio H. Casado and Anne M. Jeppesen.