Please send your announcements, Bravos

and events for the weekly newsletter

to Casandra (csiefkes2@unl.edu)

by 5 pm on Thursdays.

Bravos!Congratulations to all our department members who received awards during the 2015 Employee Service Awards. See here for a complete list: https://unl.app.box.com/s/5o3wbf0wzjvqgvnh3pq810i6i2myz2yv

Emeriti AwardsThomas M. Carr Jr.Evelyn M. JacobsonMila Saskova-Pierce

30 Years of ServiceMarie Christine Blair

25 Years of ServiceRadha Balasubramanian20 Years of ServiceLola Lorenzo10 Years of ServiceCatherine D. Johnson

Iker González-Allende published his article “The Basque Big Boy? Basque Masculinities in Vaya Semanita” in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 21.1 (2015): 19-37. The article can be accessed through this link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VIhYWASQ23es7gANND6V/full

Abla Hasan has a new publication in a peer reviewed journal of social science. “The individual-group transformation: a triple academic approach to understand social human nature”, Jil, an international peer reviewed journal, Jil research center, ISSN 2311-5181, No 11, September 2015.

María Antonia García de la Torre has signed a contract to publish her book “Campos de Pop corn” (Pop Corn Fields) with Peregrino Ediciones and will be published by the end of the year”.

Important D

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OctOber

7th - 10th - Cecilia Barriga Visit27th - Department Faculty Meeting

19th -20th - Fall Break - Student Holiday

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Calls for Papers .................................. 2Clubs ..................................................... 2

Social Media Corner .............................. 2Digital Humanities Event ........................ 2

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n Languages

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Language Clubs

& Student Centers

page 2 issue 1 month oct year 2015

Digital Humanities

EventOct. 15 | 4 pm

Heritage Room, Union

“Big Data and Global Knowledge: A Protagorean

Analysis of the United Nations’ Global Pulse.”

See link for more informaiton: http://events.unl.edu/

cdrh/2015/10/15/101600/

Social Media Corner

#NHHM - Sep 15-Oct 15: National Hispanic Heritage

Month

#LatinAMAs - Oct 8: Latin American Music Awards

@CeciliaBarriga_ - Oct 7-9: Cecilia Barriga will be visiting our campus, please see flyer for details on events

and tweet comments & photos throughout her visit.

*OR* Tell me about research you are working on or a conference you are attending, send photos or quotes or interesting cultural facts from class.

If you have something interesting planned for a club or table

meeting let me know and I will tweet it!

THANKS!

Spanish Tutoring Center

Mon/Wed12:30-2:30

1126 OLDH

Spanish Table

Fridays4-5pm

BURN 302#UNLMesa

Portuguese TableFridays 3-4 pm

OLDH 1126

StammtischWednesdays

4:30-6Dempsey’s

French TableThursdays3:30-5:30YiaYia’s

Chinese Table

Thursdays3:45-4:45 PM

35 Henz

German Club

Mondays4:30

City Union

Japanese Table100-level | Fridays

3-4 pm200-level | Tuesdays

5-6pmKawasaki Reading

Room

Arabic TableMondays5-6 pm

BURN 301

Calls for Papers / Open PositionsSee Bulletin Board in 1107 for more information

• Symposium of Spanish as a Heritage Language; University of Oregon; Abstract DUE: Dec. 2, 2015

• • Assistant Professor, in Colonial Latin American Studies,

University of Leeds

Study Abroad Fair

Clara Ramos VisitClara Ramos Visit

Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

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October

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October 9, 201510:30 am|Q&A with Ms. Barriga to

follow showing

Mary Riepma Ross Arts CenterSouth Theater, 313 North 13th Street

We invite you to join us for a showing of Cecilia Barriga’s documentary “Three Moments, A Shout” followed by a Q&A session with the director. This documentary considers Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish Indignados and Chilean student protests as parallel events.

Cecilia Barriga works in a variety of visual formats and has produced 11 video performances, experimental documentaries or films shown in art museums and exhibitions. She has written and directed one feature film, 16 documentaries, five experimental pieces, and three short films.

Chilean Filmmaker

Undergraduate Workshop with Cecilia Barriga

October 7 | 2:30 pmLove Library 102 Auditorium

Three Moments, A Shout

Cecilia Barriga

Department of Modern Languages

& Literatures

Presentation Sponsored by:

Women’s & Gender Studies Program

Institute for Ethnic Studies

Follow us! @UNLModLang

Film Studies Program of the Department

of English

Actividades Tres instantes. Un grito (Cecilia Barriga, 2013)

Lola Lorenzo

Biografía de la directora

Nació en Concepción, Chile. En 1977 se traslada a Madrid donde realiza estudios de cine y televisión en la Universidad Complutense. Ha vivdo en Nueva York, La Habana, Berlín, Zurich y Concepción. Desde hace más de 30 años trabaja en la creación audiovisual utilizando diversos formatos y géneros como el cine de ficción y documental, el video arte experimental y la performance en colaboración con otras artistas. Sus trabajos se han presentado internacionalmente en museos de arte contemporáneos, televisión, festivales y salas de cine.

Algunas obras: Encuentro entre dos reinas (1991), video experimental; La herida de mi ojo (1994), documental de creación; Time’s up! (2000) largometraje de ficción; El camino de Moises (2003), documental para televisión; En el río (2007) y El día del euro (2008), video creación; El esqueleto tatuado (2010), video performance; Granada, 30 años después (2010), documental; Casa de red (2011), video creación.

Para los que quieran saber más sobre la directora, os coloco a continuación un enlace a YouTube con una entrevista donde habla de la importancia del documental social

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=3-nVxhRYJXw&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Actividades para recibir crédito extra

i. Toma nota de los comentarios de la directora

ii. Haz una reseña del documental para lo cual necesitas seguir este orden:

Resumen del documental comentando los tres movimientos colectivos. ¿Cuál es el contexto histórico común a los tres movimientos? Pregunta y comparte información con tus compañeros

Comentario sobre el documental

Actividades para Span 305

i. ¿Te identificas con alguna de estas personas o con un grupo de personas? ¿Te hubiera gustado estar en estas manifestaciones urbanas de empoderamiento de la ciudanía?

ii. Cecilia Barriga tiene una intención didáctica y política, habla de despertar el pensamiento colectivo. ¿Cómo piensas que esta idea se hace realidad en el documental?

iii. El libro de texto de Span 305 divide el focalizador emocional en cuatro categorías: identificación, distanciamiento, objetos de simpatía y objetos de antipatía. Busca en el documental un personaje, lugar, objeto, color, música, consigna, etc. para presentar tus reacciones emocionales.

iv. Cuáles son los sentimientos que te provoca el visionado de este documental.

v. Todo artefacto culltural presenta una visión del mundo ¿Cuál es la visión del mundo o cosmovisión en que se basa Tres instantes. Un grito.

MLCS Graduate Student Conference

Fourth Annual CONNECTIONS Conference When: February 4 and 5, 2016 Where: University of Alberta Submission Deadline: November 20, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Graduate Students Council invites proposals for a two-day interdisciplinary conference celebrating the Creative Connections explored by academics and artists alike. Inspired by Picasso’s words: “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not,” we are inviting scientific, academic and creative contributions that challenge our perspectives on the possibilities and limits of the creative impulse. Participants will consider and discuss how creativity initiates connections.

Possible questions to consider include, but are not limited to: How is language involved in the produc-tion of different patterns of speech and artistic expression? How is human imagination expressed in artistic works? What are the politics of creation? [How] does creativity enter academic work? Both as a subject of analysis and a personal way to address it. Are creativity and scholarly analysis compatible? How does language perform both creative and analytic functions? How is language tied to socio-politi-cal, gender, race and cultural issues?

The topic of creative connections can be examined by a wide range of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences: Applied Linguistics; Translation; Cultural Studies; Literature; Women’s Studies; Comparative Literature; Digital Humanities; Philosophy; Sociology; History; Drama; etc. Our confer-ence will be comprised of traditional academic panels, as well as artistic performances and exhibits.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Academic Fields

• Creative uses of language • Translating and creativity • Literary imaginaries • Creative processes • Creative nonfiction • Politicization of aesthetics • Visual culture • Digital worlds • Creating comparisons • Originality and authenticity

Artistic Contributions

• Poetry reading • Performance art • Comics • Storytelling • Art exhibit • Singer/Songwriting

Academic presentations will be 15 minutes in length and will be followed by a 5-minute discussion pe-riod. Panel discussions and round tables will run for 60 minutes. We also welcome panels and co-presen-tations.

Artistic contributions will be showcased during the evenings at special venues to be announced.

Please send a 250-word abstract or excerpt of creative work (a photograph or example), including a short bio of 150 words. To submit your abstract please go to the following link:

https://docs.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/forms/d/1Up5z7p3XmLq4THhEZ6cXdEPd7bqaZg6QVUZ-SOpZ4-Ms/viewform

Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by mid-December.

To keep up to date with Creative Connections: MLCS Graduate Student Conference 2016 as it pro-gresses, please visit the conference website at: https://connections2016.wordpress.com/

Any additional questions you may have can be sent to: modlang@ualberta.ca

We look forward to hearing from you!