Workshop and Lectures with Jacques Rancière

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Philosopher Jacques Rancière is among the preeminent contemporary thinkers of the intersection between politics and aesthetics, including questions of social history, political participation, education, cinema, literature, modernity and human rights. Among his latest of more than fifteen books to be translated into English are Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art (Verso, 2013), and Béla Tarr: The Time After (Univocal, 2013). His books also include The Future of the Image (Verso, 2007) and Film Fables (Berg, 2006).

The Discovery of the "New World" and Traditions of Othering

A lecture by Pedro Martínez García
September 20, 2013
Room 1210 Heller Hall
12:15 p.m.

The arrival of the Castilian caravels in 1492 on the coast and islands which at first sight were identified as the Orient and the resulting encounters with the first natives oddly coincides with the end of the so called "coexistence of the three cultures" in the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. Contemporary Christian Castilians set aside their Jewish and their Morisco others to engage with "new others" in unchartered territories, where concepts like conversion, conquista and cohabitation evolved and were adapted to new contexts. This moment is often considered a symbolic turning point between the Middle Ages and Modernity.

In his talk, Dr. Martinez will focus on the traditions of othering in the early modern Iberian Atlantic World, paying special attention to the European perceptions of the natives of the "New World" through chronicles and travel narratives.

Pedro Martínez García is a lecturer in the Chair of Early modern History, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Since 2008, he has been writing his dissertation entitled "Face to Face with the Other: Travel Narratives and Alterity from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period"
at the University of Valladolid (Spain) and the University of Bayreuth (Germany).

Sponsored by: Center for Holocaust and Genocides Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, European Studies Consortium.

Barbara Fuchs: "Genre and Empire in the Mediterranean"

CEMH Work-in-Progress Seminar
Friday, September 13
12:15 p.m.
East Bank (TBD)



Barbara Fuchs, of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of English at UCLA, will share her work "Genre and Empire in the Mediterranean" in a Center for Early Modern History work-in-progress seminar. A copy of the paper for this seminar will circulate in advance and will be available from the Center for Early Modern History website.

Sponsored by: Center for Early Modern History, European Studies Consortium, Department of English, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

FLAS Award Winners Announced

The Institute for Global Studies and The European Studies Consortium would like to congratulate the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) awardees for Summer 2013 and the upcoming Academic Year 2014.

Western Europe Summer 2013
Madeline Reibe, Undergraduate, Intermediate Italian, Department of French and Italian
Kristen Stoeckler, PhD, Beginning Turkish, Theater
Amanda Taylor, PhD, Intermediate Italian, English
J. Adelia Chrysler, PhD, Beginning Yiddish, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch
Rachel Schaff, PhD, Beginning Czech, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

Western Europe Academic Year 2013-2014
John Stanoch, Undergraduate, Intermediate Russian, Linguistics & Russian
Timothy Bell, Undergraduate, Intermediate Italian, Physiology/French and Italian Studies
Jean Costello, Undergraduate, Intermediate Russian, Mathematics
Felicia Stevens, Undergraduate, Intermediate Dutch, Theater Arts & Dance
Paul Vig, PhD, Intermediate Dutch, Department of History
Andrew Hoyt, PhD, Intermediate Italian, Department of History
Margarita Kopelmahker, PhD, Advanced Russian, Theater Arts & Dance
Lucas Franco, PhD, Intermediate Norwegian, Political Science


International Summer 2013
Emily Walz, Undergraduate, Advanced Chinese. Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Alexandra Mitchell, Undergraduate, Intermediate Arabic, Institute for Global Studies
Julia Corwin, Graduate, Intermediate Hindi, Geography
Katie Lambright, PhD, Intermediate Chinese, History
International Academic Year 2013-2014
Gabrielle Abeles-Allison, Undergraduate, Intermediate Arabic, Food Science and Nutrition
Jennifer Cafarella, Undergraduate, Advanced Arabic, Institute for Global Studies
Pashouably Vang, Undergraduate, Intermediate Chinese, Asian Languages and Literature
Na Hee Lee-Workman, Undergraduate, intermediate Portuguese, Spanish & Portuguese
Jenna Marie Rasmusson, Graduate, Advanced Swahili, School of Public Health
Julia Corwin, Graduate,Intermediate Hindi, Geography
Terran Chambers, JD, Beginning Arabic, Law School
The FLAS competition is open to undergraduate, graduate and professional students to promote the study of modern foreign languages and in particular less-commonly-taught languages in European and International studies.
Summer Fellowships provide $2500 living stipend and $5000 towards tuitions and fees for undergrads, graduate and professional students. Academic Fellowships provide undergraduates with a $5000 living stipend and $10,000 towards tuition and fees. A $15,000 living stipend and $18,000 towards tuition and fees is available for graduate and professional students.
The nomination process for Summer 2014 and AY 2015 will begin in the fall of 2013. Look for information on the IGS and ESC website in August.

Schedule now availaible for Burning the Sea

Friday and Saturday, April 19-20, 2013
Nolte Center
Free and open to the public. Reservations available online until Wednesday, April 17 by clicking here.

Program schedule available for download by clicking the link below:
BTSfinal.pdf



"Burning the Sea: Clandestine Migrations in the Age of Globalization" is a symposium designed as an interdisciplinary conference that will bring together fifteen scholars from various national and international institutions, with a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Panelists will discuss contemporary clandestine human migratory flows across the Mediterranean Sea between southwestern Europe and North- and Sub-Saharan Africa, as they are represented in French, Francophone, and Spanish literature and cinema. Panels will also examine these migratory patterns, concentrating on how they are accounted throughout history, in mass media, and political discourse.

Convened by Hakim Abderrezak, Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota

Participating Scholars:

Silvia Bermúdez, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sabrina Brancato, University of Bayreuth
Carla Calargé, Florida Atlantic University
Sylvie Durmelat, Georgetown University
Claudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Anouar Majid,University of New England
Brinda Mehta, Mills College
Valerie Orlando,University of Maryland-College Park
Gema Pérez-Sánchez, University of Miami
Liliana Suárez-Navaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Yale University

Plenary Address:
Dominic Thomas, UCLA

Panel Chairs:
Shaden Tageldin, Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
Ofelia Ferran, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota
Nabil Matar, Department of English, University of Minnesota
William Viestenz , Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota

Sponsored by: University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Special Events Programs,
European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Immigration History Research Center, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, Department of French and Italian, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Department of History, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Department of English, Department of Anthropology.

Hakim Abderrezak Convener of Burning the Sea

Hakim Abderrezak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research deals primarily with Maghrebi literature and cinema, and Mediterranean Studies.

His most recent publications include an article on the topic of clandestine migration in francophone Moroccan "illiterature," an interview with Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, and a book chapter on the film Il était une fois dans l'oued (Once Upon a Time in the Oued). His work has appeared in various journals, such as Sites: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Critical Interventions, and The Journal of North African Studies.

He co-edited a special issue of Expressions Maghrébines on Plurilingualism in the Maghreb (Winter 2012). His forthcoming book is entitled Ex-Centric Migrations: Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music (Indiana University Press 2014).

Special Screening: Mama Illegal

Tuesday, April 23
7:00 PM
St. Anthony Main Theatre
Cost: $10.00-$12.00
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Mama Illegal is a documentary by award-winning ÖRF journalist Ed Moschitz chronicles seven years in the lives of three women.

Aurica, Raia and Natasa leave their Moldovan village--and the broken roads, the dilapidated schools and the countless abandoned houses--to work in Austria or Italy as cleaners or child care workers. Here they live a life in the underground without valid documents, without health care, and separated from their children and families for years. They send the little that remains of their hard-earned Western money home to their families.

But their desire for a brighter future and a better life comes at a high price: After all these years, their return is not what they planned. Their children are grown and their husbands estranged. The social gulf that they sought to overcome threatens to tear apart the families once and for all. Having never really arrived and been accepted in the West, they find that they have become alienated from their homeland.

The Center for Austrian Studies' BMWF Research Fellow Matthias Falter will lead a discussion after the film.

Sponsored by: Center for Austrian Studies, European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies, Immigration History Research Center, MSP International Film Festival