The Revista de Estudios Hispánicos will sponsor a plenary session on academic publishing
The Organizing Committee seeks proposals for individual presentations and special sessions on any aspect of the literatures and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula or Latin America, written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. Panels or individual proposals related to the conference theme are especially encouraged. We welcome alternatives to the traditional format of three to four papers: roundtables, workshops, lightning talks, workshops, pecha kucha, etc. Please note that we discourage panels from groups of scholars coming from the same institution.
Send 250-word abstracts for individual papers by March 31, 2017 to: machl@wustl.edu
To submit a panel proposal or if you have any questions, please e-mail: machl@wustl.edu
The annual Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures is a joint undertaking of the universities of Colorado (Boulder), Kansas (Lawrence), Missouri (Columbia), Nebraska (Lincoln), Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee), and Washington University (St. Louis).
Lobotomies, Pain, Guns and Shredded Data: Patient H.M. and the Ethics of Human Experimentation
Speaker Luke Dittrich in conversation with Rebecca Messbarger, Professor in Arts & Sciences
Graham Chapel
Lobotomies, Pain, Guns and Shredded Data: Patient H.M. and the Ethics of Human Experimentation
Speaker Luke Dittrich in conversation with Rebecca Messbarger, Professor in Arts & Sciences
Graham Chapel |
"Memories make us. Everything we are is everything we were," wrote Luke Dittrich in "Patient H.M: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets."
Henry Molaison lost the precious ability to store memories during an experimental lobotomy, and it changed his life - and the history of memory research - forever.
In his conversation with Rebecca Messbarger, professor in Arts & Sciences, Dittrich, the surgeon's grandson, will describe the true story of "Patient H.M." and explore how it raises troubling questions about research ethics, exploitation and informed consent.
The Curren(t)cy of Frankenstein: "Shelley's Frankenstein and Modern Medical Practice: A Family Story of Lobotomy."
Luke Dittrich - Author of "Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets."
Clopton Auditorium, Washington University School of Medicine
The Curren(t)cy of Frankenstein: "Shelley's Frankenstein and Modern Medical Practice: A Family Story of Lobotomy."
Luke Dittrich - Author of "Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets."
Clopton Auditorium, Washington University School of Medicine |
A three-day forum. September. 28, 29 and 30, organized by Prof. Rebecca Messbarger celebrating the novel's 200th anniversary by contemplating its bearing today in medical research, practice, and ethics.
Title: "What is the Word": Celebrating Samuel Beckett
event type: colloquium
dates: 7-8 November (1 PM-8 PM on Thursday 7 November, 11 AM-evening on Friday 8 November)
description: Washington University houses one of the premiere collections of Samuel Beckett’s papers, and 2019 is both the fiftieth anniversary of Beckett’s Nobel Prize and the thirtieth anniversary of his death. "What is the Word" is a two-day colloquium devoted to the French- and English-language writings of Samuel Beckett, with a particular focus on questions of translation and performance. There will be five invited speakers, including literary scholars, editors, and translators; other events will include translation workshops, pedagogical workshops, class visits, readings, theatrical performances, a film screening, and guided visits of two library exhibits devoted to rare Beckett materials from our archive and from other collections. Please click:
Panel Discussion: Hostile Terrain 94 with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Tabea Linhard, Ila Sheren, Mattie Gottbrath, and Mee Jey discuss the impact of border policies and border crossing on local and global communities and will share their experiences organizing Hostile Terrain 94 in St. Louis.
Ann and Andrew Tisch Park in front of the Museum (weather permitting)
Panel Discussion: Hostile Terrain 94 with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Tabea Linhard, Ila Sheren, Mattie Gottbrath, and Mee Jey discuss the impact of border policies and border crossing on local and global communities and will share their experiences organizing Hostile Terrain 94 in St. Louis.
Ann and Andrew Tisch Park in front of the Museum (weather permitting) |
Join Tabea Linhard, professor of Spanish and comparative literature and Global Studies affiliate; Mattie Gottbrath, coordinator for international programming in Global Studies; and Ila Sheren, associate professor of art history & archaeology, all in Arts & Sciences, as they discuss Hostile Terrain 94, a global pop-up exhibition that gives representation to the thousands of migrants who died crossing the US–Mexico border since the mid-1990s and raises awareness of this humanitarian crisis. They will discuss the impact of border policies and border crossing on local and global communities and will share their experiences organizing this participatory exhibition in St. Louis.
The program will begin with a performance of “MY BABY” by artist Mee Jey that honors the unidentified people who lost their life in the desert of Arizona. Visitors are invited to view the exhibition before and/or after the program.
About the speakers
Tabea Linhard is professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and Global Studies at Washington University. She is the author of Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (2005), Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory (2014), and the co-author of Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space. She recently completed Unexpected Routes: Refuge in Mexico (1931–1945) and regularly teaches courses on global migration.
Mattie Gottbrath is the coordinator for International Programming for Washington University’s undergraduate Global Studies major, and one of the lead organizers for St. Louis’s Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit. In her current role she teaches first-year students in the workshop for the Global Citizenship Program, which includes an immersive border awareness program in Tucson. She enjoys connecting locally with individuals impacted by immigration by volunteering with Casa de Salud, the International Institute, IFCLA, and other organizations. Gottbrath graduated from Washington University in 2018 with degrees in international affairs and Spanish. After graduating, she volunteered for a year in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with Rostro de Cristo. While there, she developed youth outreach programs with a local community development nonprofit, Hogar de Cristo.
Ila N. Sheren is associate professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Washington University in St Louis. She is the author of Portable Borders: Performance Art and Politics on the US Frontera since 1984 (University of Texas Press, 2015), as well as articles published in The Journal of Borderlands Studies, GeoHumanities, and the anthologies Border Spaces (University of Arizona, 2018) and Liquid Borders/Fronteras Liquidas (Routledge, 2021). As part of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity’s Innovation Space initiative, she is launching a collaborative map of community art on the US–Mexico Border in 2022. Click here for more information about the map.
Mee Jey is a multidisciplinary artist concerned with lived experiences. Mee focuses on the collective politico-cultural identity and experiences, communal creativity and connections through her immersive installations, performances, relational art projects, and time-based media. She is a recipient of McDonnell International Scholarship and Legislative Fellowship, USA. She works out of St. Louis and New Delhi.
bell hooks and the Power of Teaching: A Reflective Panel Discussion
Open to members of the WashU community, organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning
Zoom - RSVP
bell hooks and the Power of Teaching: A Reflective Panel Discussion
Open to members of the WashU community, organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning
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A panel of WashU faculty, administrators, and staff will reflect on the life and legacy of bell hooks, with a particular focus on insights and lessons gleaned from Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom and Teaching Community: a Pedagogy of Hope.
Panelists
Adrienne Davis, J.D. William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law; Founder & Co-director of the Law & Culture Initiative; Professor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership, Olin Business School
Anna Gonzalez, PhD, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Meg Gregory, PhD, Associate Director for Faculty Programs and Services, Center for Teaching and Learning
Eliza Williamson, PhD, Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Romance Language & Literatures
Rafia Zafar, PhD, Professor of English, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies
This event is open to members of the WashU community.
University Libraries recently acquired a rare copy of Hypnerotomachie, printed in Paris in 1561. The book features gorgeous illustrations, interesting layouts, and notes from previous owners. Hypnerotomachie will be on display with other items from the Rare Book Collections that contextualize its importance in history.
Miguel A. Valerio, assistant professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and author, ‘Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640’
Olin Library, Room 142
Faculty Book Talk: Miguel A. Valerio
Miguel A. Valerio, assistant professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and author, ‘Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640’
Olin Library, Room 142 |
Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640, provides an exploration of how Afro-Mexicans affirmed their culture, subjectivities, and colonial condition through festive culture and performance.
Join us for a discussion with Miguel A. Valerio (Romance Languages and Literatures). His talk will be followed by a Q&A, and refreshments will be provided.
Free and open to all, registration required. Organized by University Libraries.
Intersections: Black and Indigenous Sound in the Early Atlantic World
Organized by Miguel Valerio, assistant professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Washington University, and colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University, Christopher Newport University, Florida State University
Zoom - RSVP
Intersections: Black and Indigenous Sound in the Early Atlantic World
Organized by Miguel Valerio, assistant professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Washington University, and colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University, Christopher Newport University, Florida State University
Zoom - RSVP
Join us in exploring the intersections of Black and Indigenous sounds and music in the early Atlantic world. The event will feature short presentations from leading scholars, Q&A sessions, music, and a performance by the Charlottesville-based band Lua, known for their innovative blend of Latin-American and Appalachian tradition. The event is free and open to all.
This public event is part of a two-day symposium that focuses on sound in the early Atlantic world. In recent decades, thinkers in Black Studies and Indigenous Studies have transformed our understanding of this region's deeply multicultural past. But disciplinary, geographic, and linguistic divides can make it difficult for those working in diverse fields to bring research in these areas into dialogue. This symposium gathers scholars of music, history, literature and languages to converse about early Indigenous and Black performances in Latin America, the colonial United States, Atlantic Africa, Europe, and throughout the Atlantic basin.
This event is timed to coincide with Hispanic heritage month and Indigenous People’s Day in order, to highlight intersections among Indigenous and Black performances in Latin-American and Anglo American colonial histories. In the spirit of collaboration, participants converse across disciplines in pursuit of a more inclusive understanding of the colonial past.
Collective, interdisciplinary thinking is an important “next step” in the burgeoning field of early Atlantic sound. By moving beyond traditional subjects, geographies, and disciplinary divides, scholars can work together to tackle common challenges and better attune our ears to harmonies and resonances throughout the vast region.
Humanities Research Center, College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University
The fantastical anatomical collections of Frederik Ruysch: A symposium
Registration is required: Last day to register is Nov. 4, 2022.
Olin Library (Danforth Campus) & Bernard Becker Medical Library (Medical School Campus)
The fantastical anatomical collections of Frederik Ruysch: A symposium
Registration is required: Last day to register is Nov. 4, 2022.
Olin Library (Danforth Campus) & Bernard Becker Medical Library (Medical School Campus) |
Ruysch’s anatomical tableaux are some of the most compelling images in the history of scientific illustration: Fetal skeletons stand on mountains of kidney stones and specimens float in jars topped with arrangements of dried flowers — a vision of death and science that can be disconcerting to modern eyes.
Becker Library had the honor of contributing images to a new English translation of the works of Frederik Ruysch. The latest edition was edited by Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, who joins us as keynote speaker for this special one-day event to celebrate the book's launch.
In this symposium, we’ll explore the fascinating works of Dutch anatomist and botanist Frederik Ruysch and discuss the early modern artistic and scientific traditions that gave rise to his vision.
Keynote speaker
Joanna Ebenstein, Founder & Creative Director, Morbid Anatomy Museum
Panelists
Claudia Swan, Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History, Washington University in St. Louis
Rebecca Messbarger, Professor of Italian, Washington University in St. Louis
Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum
Karla Aguilar Velásquez, PhD student in Hispanic Studies, discusses the work of Indigenous photographer, Martín Chambi, who photographed Inca ruins and portraits of Andean communities in the early 20th century. The talk challenges Chambi’s association with Peruvian Indigenism, a cultural-political movement that celebrated the place of the Indigenous community within national identity, and considers how the photographs function as forms of resistance to performing exceptionality as national pride through scenes of leisure.
2022 Nobel Prize Laureate Annie Ernaux Reading & Discussion
Olin Library, Ginkgo Reading Room
2022 Nobel Prize Laureate Annie Ernaux Reading & Discussion
Olin Library, Ginkgo Reading Room |
In celebration of Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize, the Libraries and the Department of Romance Languages and Literature welcome you to a special reading and discussion. Ernaux is a prominent French writer, professor of literature, and was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 6, 2022.
Les déterminants non-médicaux de la santé au Sénégal
Zoom
Les déterminants non-médicaux de la santé au Sénégal
Zoom |
"Les déterminants non-médicaux de la santé au Sénégal" (conversation in French).
The French Connexions cultural center creates many opportunities for our students in French studies :
Interested in public health?
Visioconference live from Dakar with Pr Abdou Salam FALL, sociologist, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD)
Organized as part of the MEDFRAN (Médecine dans le monde francophone) series of lectures, in collaboration with Dr. Caline Mattar (MD), Epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine, and medical students from the MedFrench group at WUSM.
¿Quién soy? Y ¿Quiénes somos?: A Panel Discussion with Latine Poets
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity has invited several poets to Washington University in St. Louis for a panel discussion in celebration of Latine Heritage month. Join us for a discussion about poetic craft and issues of race and identity. Moderated by Tila Neguse, Associate Director and Gicela Medina, Hispanic Studies PhD Student.
Women’s Building Formal Lounge
¿Quién soy? Y ¿Quiénes somos?: A Panel Discussion with Latine Poets
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity has invited several poets to Washington University in St. Louis for a panel discussion in celebration of Latine Heritage month. Join us for a discussion about poetic craft and issues of race and identity. Moderated by Tila Neguse, Associate Director and Gicela Medina, Hispanic Studies PhD Student.
Interested in emergency medicine in France? Expand your professional network!
The French Connexions Center of Excellence at Washington University invites you: EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN FRANCE
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, noon Chicago Central Time/ 12:00PM Central Times: conversation in French with Dr Julie Bacqué, MD: La médecine d'urgence en France, in conversation with Caline Mattar, MD.
Zoom
Emergency Medicine in France
Interested in emergency medicine in France? Expand your professional network!
The French Connexions Center of Excellence at Washington University invites you: EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN FRANCE
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, noon Chicago Central Time/ 12:00PM Central Times: conversation in French with Dr Julie Bacqué, MD: La médecine d'urgence en France, in conversation with Caline Mattar, MD.
"How to Write the History of the American West from a French Perspective"
Corridor Creole Research Initiative (CCRI) at Washington University in St. Louis / French Connexions Center of Excellence
Soazig Villerbu, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Limoges.
Her research focuses on the American West (US and Canada), the village of Ste Geneviève (near St Louis) and the history of French migration to the USA in the 19th century.
Zoom
"How to Write the History of the American West from a French Perspective"
Corridor Creole Research Initiative (CCRI) at Washington University in St. Louis / French Connexions Center of Excellence
Soazig Villerbu, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Limoges.
Her research focuses on the American West (US and Canada), the village of Ste Geneviève (near St Louis) and the history of French migration to the USA in the 19th century.
Conversation with Estelle-Sarah Bulle and Sylvain Duffard
The Kwazman Vwa team will be welcoming novelist Estelle-Sarah Bulle and photographer Sylvain Duffard to discuss their haunting collaboration in "Guadeloupe, paysages intranquilles" (Éditions Long Cours, 2022).
Zoom
Conversation with Estelle-Sarah Bulle and Sylvain Duffard
The Kwazman Vwa team will be welcoming novelist Estelle-Sarah Bulle and photographer Sylvain Duffard to discuss their haunting collaboration in "Guadeloupe, paysages intranquilles" (Éditions Long Cours, 2022).
An anecdotic topography of chance: Una topografía anecdótica del azar
Note: This workshop will be held in Spanish and conversational Spanish is required for participation. Please arrive early so that we can start on time. Doors will open 15 minutes before the workshop begins.
John M. Olin Library, Instruction Room 3
An anecdotic topography of chance: Una topografía anecdótica del azar
Note: This workshop will be held in Spanish and conversational Spanish is required for participation. Please arrive early so that we can start on time. Doors will open 15 minutes before the workshop begins.
Join us for an evening of prose in translation with genre-defying author Verónica Gerber Bicecci. Bicecci will be joined in conversation by Paco Tijerina, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies.
John M. Olin Library, Ginkgo Reading Room
Verónica Gerber Bicecci
Join us for an evening of prose in translation with genre-defying author Verónica Gerber Bicecci. Bicecci will be joined in conversation by Paco Tijerina, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies.