Conferencias

SEMINARIO PÚBLICO

Public Issues, Private Tensions: David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross

Dr. Matthew Roudané (Georgia State University, Atlanta)

Martes 26 de enero de 2010 Aula A-41

Próximas sesiones del "POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR: Estudios literarios y culturales en lengua inglesa"

Con el profesor Glyn Hambrook, de la Universidad de Wolverhampton

- 5 de febrero, 18.00-20.00 : "Hacia un convenio entre doctorantes y directores de estudios sobre derechos y responsabilidades, dentro del marco de una experiencia doctoral holistica". Aula A-12.

- 19 de febrero, 18.00-20.00 : " Getting in print : Como llegar a publicarse el el ambito editorial britanico". Salón de Grados, edificio "A".

Más información sobre el seminario aquí

Conferencia
"El poder Latino en las elecciones estadounidenses: la carrera hacia la Casa Blanca.", Prof. Pedro Castillo, Catedrático de Historia de UC Santa Cruz, el próximo Lunes 3 de Noviembre de 2008, a las 11:30, en el aula A-200.

Charla con el académico y escritor Carlos Morton, el próximo 7 de mayo de 2007 a las 13.00 en el aula A-41. "Un dramaturgo Chicano en Europa" (charla en inglés). CV aquí

Carlos Morton has over one hundred theatrical productions, both in the U.S. and abroad. His professional credits include the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center Theatre, La Compania Nacional de Mexico, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and the Arizona Theatre Company. He has also written for Columbia Pictures Television, Fox Television as well as three radioplays in Spanish for the SRE (Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores) and the IMER (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio) in Mexico City.

He is the author of The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales and Other Plays (1983) and Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays (1992) both published by Arte Publico Press. The Fickle Finger of Lady Death (1996, Peter Lang Press) are English language translations of four plays by contemporary Mexican playwrights. Rancho Hollywood y otras obras del teatro chicano, (1999, Arte Publico Press & Ediciones El Milagro) is a Spanish language collection of his plays.

A former Mina Shaughnessy Scholar and Fulbright Lecturer to Mexico, Morton holds a M.F.A. in Drama from the University of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1999 he was inducted into the "Writers of the Pass," in El Paso, Texas.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Morton has lived on the border between Mexico and the United States since 1970. He has taught playwriting and courses in dramatic art in various universities in Texas, California and Mexico. His association with the University of California goes back 25 years as a graduate student at UCSD (1976-79), part-lecturer at UC Berkeley (1980-81), and tenured Professor of Theat19/1/10the Center for Chicano Studies and Professor of Dramatic Arts at UCSB where he teaches classes in playwriting, U.S. Latino Theatre, and Latin American Theatre.
[http://research.ucsb.edu/ccs/morton.html]

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Coloquio: la escritora/académica/activista musulmana americana de origen hindú, Samina Alí, nos visitará el próximo 8 de mayo de 2007 a las 15:30 en el aula A-15. "La mujer musulmana en el mundo post-11 de Septiembre". CV aquí

Lectura de poemas: profesor Jerome Rothenberg, "Performing Language: Poems and Other Soundings" el próximo jueves 22 de marzo de 2007 a las 11.30, en el aula A-15.

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet with over seventy books of poetry and several assemblages of traditional and contemporary poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred, Exiled in the Word (a.k.a. A Big Jewish Book),and Poems for the Millennium.  His most recent books of poetry include Writing Through: Translations & Variations (Wesleyan University Press), 25 Caprichos, after Goya, with Spanish translations by Heriberto Yépez (Kadle Books, Tenerife), A Book of Concealments (Chax Press, Tucson), and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems by Pablo Picasso, co-edited with Pierre Joris (Exact Change, Cambridge, Mass.)  A Book of Witness, his twelfth book of poems from New Directions, appeared in 2003.