Global Hispanism Workshop (GHW)
The Global Hispanism Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars at Rice and in the local academic community to explore the global scope and interrelatedness of the Iberian, Latin American and U.S. Latino cultures. Its focus in the study of the historical, cultural and linguistic complexity of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian traditions in Europe and the Americas has led its members to discuss issues such as Pan-Hispanism, the cultures of the U.S.-Mexican Border, and Transnational Caribbean Cultures in a framework that challenges the usual academic divisions among Peninsular, Latin American and U.S. Latino Studies.
The Workshop has celebrated two symposia: “Reinventing Hispanism in the Age of Globalization,” organized by Beatriz González-Stephan and Lane Kauffmann, and “México y Estados Unidos: posiciones y contraposiciones,” organized by Maarten van Delden.
Past speakers include: Sebastiaan Faber, David J. Weber, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Mari Carmen Ramírez, John Beverly, Carlos Monsivais, Robert Irwin and John Hart. Speakers for this year include: Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Jossianna Arroyo. Participants from Houston’s academic and cultural community include: Anadeli Bencomo, Marc Zimmerman, Christina Sisk, Guillermo de los Reyes, Rosemary Salum, Fernando Casas, and Fernando Castro.
Conference Cycle: Transnational Caribbean Cultures
Descripción en español
El Taller sobre el Hispanismo Global, auspiciado por el Centro de Investigaciones de las Humanidades y el Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Rice, le invita a participar en su nuevo ciclo de conferencias titulado Culturas Transnacionales del Caribe. Nuestro taller ha dedicado sus reuniones de los últimos dos años a la discusión del concepto de frontera/border, partiendo de una reflexión en torno a las relaciones de México y los Estados Unidos. El próximo año académico 2007-08, el taller continuará su exploración del concepto de frontera/border, pero esta vez desde una perspectiva que asuma el desafío de investigar los enlaces transnacionales que surgen en el Caribe. Emerge el Caribe como frontera si consideramos que su historia -desde la época colonial hasta el presente- ha estado marcada tanto por barreras imperiales como por un deseo de establecer puentes culturales hacia otros modos de imaginar el mundo. Exploraremos las diversas concepciones que existen de esta región: el Caribe insular de la plantación; el Caribe geopolítico, intervenido por fuerzas imperiales; el Gran Caribe, que se extiende desde las costas de México hasta las costas de Venezuela y Colombia; así como una gama de vínculos transatlánticos, entre ellos, el concepto de Afro-América, que invita a pensar los lazos del Caribe con Brasil y el sur de los Estados Unidos. Discutiremos el impacto transnacional de las culturas caribeñas desde una amplia perspectiva que atienda las complejas configuraciones lingüísticas, geopolíticas y socio-económicas de la región y sus diásporas. Nos interesa el Caribe que se inventa en cada travesía insospechada, el Caribe que emerge del dolor y nos regala su sabor en múltiples cruces hemisféricos.
Description in English
The Global Hispanism Workshop is pleased to announce its new cycle of conferences: Transnational Caribbean Cultures. In the last two years, members of Global Hispanism have been discussing the impact of the concept of border/frontera in US/Mexican relations with a series of invited speakers from both sides of the border. This year the Global Hispanism Workshop proposes to continue the study of the concept of border/frontera by revising its impact on the Caribbean region, conceived as a zone of transatlantic crossings. The Caribbean emerges as a border zone if we consider that its history -from colonial times to the present- has been shaped by imperial limits as well as by the desire to build cultural bridges giving access to new ways of imagining the world. Participants will explore different notions of the Caribbean in the workshop's monthly meetings: the insular plantation system; the geopolitical region, marked by imperial interventions; The Great Caribbean, which runs from the Mexican to the Venezuelan/Colombian coasts and includes the archipelago; as well as many other transatlantic links, such as the concept of Afro-America, which invites to think about other cultural networks shaping the Caribbean: hemispheric crossings from Brazil to the American South. The members of Global Hispanism look forward to discuss the impact of transnational Caribbean cultures from a wide perspective that would take into consideration the linguistic, geopolitical and socio-economic complexities of the region and its diasporic circuits.
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Program Schedule
28 September, 2007, 4 p.m.
Tradición y malestar de la frontera en el Caribe HispanoRayzor Hall 123
Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Rice University
Dr. Rodríguez, co-organizer of the Global Hispanism Workshop, is an award winning poet (Premio Olga Nolla 2005) and co-editor of Polygraph: an International Journal of Culture and Politics issue # 15 on "Immanence, Transcendence, Utopia," (Spring 2004). He recently completed his Ph.D. in Literature at Duke University and is presently investigating the representation of Latin American political events in Post-Cold War documentary films: the Zapatista uprising, the Pinochet case, the Argentine Financial Crisis, the April 11, 2002, failed coup against Chavez in Venezuela and the urban ruins in Havana. His future projects include Malestar de la frontera, a study of the concept of border in the Caribbean, and Imaginarios Urbanos del Caribe Global, a study of Caribbean urban circuits in the age of globalization.
2 November, 2007, 4 p.m.
Radical Statehood: A Brief History in its Tenth Anniversary
Rayzor Hall 302
Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Assistant Professor of English, Columbia University
Dr. Negrón-Muntaner will present her work on the reception of the radical statehood manifesto in Puerto Rico and the United States. She is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. She is author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (named 2004 Choice Outstanding Book), editor of four books, including Sovereign Acts (South End Press, 2008) and None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (Palgrave, 2007), and Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), and director of Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (1994) and For the Record: Guam and World War II (2007). Negrón-Muntaner is a founding board member and past chair of NALIP, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. She currently teaches Latino and Caribbean literatures and cultures at Columbia University.
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November, 2007, 4 p.m.
El Gran Caribe: A View from the Canefields of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
123 Rayzor Hall
Alexander X. Byrd, Assistant Professor of History, Rice University
Dr. Byrd's area of expertise is Afro-America, especially black life in the Atlantic world and the Jim Crow South. He is presently completing a history of free and forced transatlantic black migration in the period of the American Revolution, a book entitled Captives & Voyagers. The study follows the two largest steams of free and forced transoceanic black migration across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world: enslaved black migration to Jamaica and free black migration to Sierra Leone. The book is propelled by the premise that it is possible to gain new purchase on the history of eighteenth-century transatlantic migration by examining free and forced migration together, and by paying careful attention to the social consequences of the actual processes of emigration.
18 January, 2008, 4 p.m.
Masonic Genealogies: Modernity & Revolution in the Atlantic Caribbean
302 Rayzor Hall
Jossianna Arroyo, Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Arroyo will explore the concept of border through the experiences of Freemasons in the Americas. She is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the University of Texas at Austin, and is the author of Travestismos Culturales: literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2003). Her areas of interest include Latin American, Caribbean, Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; race, gender and sexuality in colonial and postcolonial societies; Latin American discourses in literature, ethnography and sociology.
14 March, Friday, 4 p.m.
Other Caribbean Confederations: Sexiles
302 Rayzor Hall
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Associate Professor of Romance Languages,
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Martinez-San Miguel is the author of Saberes americanos:
subalternidad y epistemologнa en los escritos de Sor Juana (Pittsburgh:
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 1999) and Caribe
Two Ways: cultura de la migraciуn en el Caribe insular hispanico
(Ediciones Callejуn, 2003). She edited with Mabel Moraсa the
compilation of essays Nictimene sacrílega: homenaje a Georgina Sabat de
Rivers (Mexico: Iberoamericana and Claustro de Sor Juana, 2003). She is currently working on her third book project From Lack to Excess: 'Minor ' Readings of Latin American Colonial Discourse, and a comparative study on internal Caribbean migrations between former/actual metropolis and colonies, using Puerto Rico and Martinique as case studies, to question transnational and postcolonial approaches to massive population displacements and their cultural productions.
April 2008
21 April, Monday
Transnational Caribbean Cultures
310 Rayzor Hall
Angel Quintero Rivera (UPR) will explore the impact of dancing in the creation of a corporeal experience of culture.
Angel Quintero Rivera is the author of ¡Salsa, sabor y control! Sociología de la música tropical (México: Siglo XXI, 1998) and Vírgenes, magos y escapularios: Imaginería, etnicidad y religiosidad popular en Puerto Rico (San Juan: CIS, 1998). He has been visiting professor at Havard, University of Warwick, Illinois, and Sao Paulo.
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