CLADEM (Comité de América Latina y El Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer – Committee of Latin American and the Caribbean for the Defense of the Rights of Women):
https://cladem.org/
Ni Una Menos (historical background on feminist activism in Latin America related to femicide): https://nacla.org/news/2016/11/01/niunamenos-not-one-woman-less-not-one-more-death
A piece Dr. Pamela Neumann wrote about violence against women in Nicaragua: https://nacla.org/news/2017/04/28/nicaragua-failure-address-violence-against-women
National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/
National Coalition against Domestic Violence: https://ncadv.org/
State of Texas Health and Human Services Family Violence Program: https://hhs.texas.gov/services/safety/family-violence-program
TAMIU Green Dot program https://www.tamiu.edu/compliance/TitleIX/greendot.shtml
Casa de Misericordia
Call: 1.956.712.9591
Call: 1.956.726.0151
Visit: www.casademisericordia.org
Love is Respect.Org
Call: 1.866.331.9474
Text: loveis to 22522
Chat: www.loveisrespect.org
Break The Cycle
Visit: www.breakthecycle.org
For Emergencies
Call: 911
10 Warning Signs of an Abusive Relationship:
1. Checks your phone without permission
2. Puts you down, calls you names
3. Extremely jealous OR insecure
4. Sends insulting, threatening texts or is constantly texting you
5. Isolates you from your friends and family OR tells you who you can and can't talk to
6. Tells you what to do OR what to wear
7. Explosive temper OR mood swings
8. Makes all the decisions
9. Yells at you
10. Threatens you - saying " I'll kill myself if you leave me."
For more information, please visit:
http://crimic-sorbonne.fr/manifestations/escrituras-plurales-teoria-y-practica-de-novela-corta-x/
Escrituras plurales: teoría y praxis de la novela corta 2018
Seminario interuniversitario
(sistema de videoconferencia)
Sesiones:
viernes: 23 de marzo, 4 de mayo, 15 de junio
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. (Ciudad de México, Laredo) / 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. (París)
Texas A&M International University, Western Hemispheric Trade Center (WTH), Salón 224
Se invita a estudiantes de español y literatura hispánica: Licenciaturas (cursos superiores), Maestría y Doctorado.
Sin costo, abierto a personas interesadas en el tema y al público en general.
Para información comunicarse con el Dr. José Cardona-López, Department of Humanities al teléfono 956.326.2690
Marginalia is a Latin term that in its origins referred to the inscriptions that monks and other amanuensis made on the empty space surrounding the body of text inscribed on a parchment. Romance languages are, to a great extent, the product of marginal inscriptions on Latin manuscripts. Thus, the first manifestations of the Spanish language are to be found in the glosses that monks scribbled on the margins of Latin manuscripts to clarify and comment on words whose meaning was already obscure for the medieval reader, and those annotations were made in the new romance language, which was nothing but macaronic Latin. By extension, marginalia refers to those writings that do not belong in the canonical body of works of a culture or civilization, and is close in meaning to apocryphal. Furthermore, it can be understood as referring to the interstices existing between two or more cultures, nations, or religions. In our usage of the term, marginalia refers to those areas of the world that are populated by displaced or uprooted individuals, limbic spaces in which mere survival can be considered an illegal activity.
Due to its geographical location on the banks of the Río Grande/Bravo—being the busiest inland port in the Americas--and its unique history—including being the capital of the short-lived Republic of the Río Grande—Laredo certainly offers an exceptional site for an academic conversation on borders and frontiers. Such is the reason why IASA has chosen to celebrate its first congress in the United States.
As in our previous world congresses, this call for papers does not exclude any topic in our field of inquiry, and all proposals are welcome even if they do not relate directly to the theme of the conference. Hence, possible topics include but are not limited to:
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devoted to the study of Spanish American short novels or nouvelles will held its IV, V, and VI sessions during this Spring/Summer of 2017. It will be in Spanish and draw both scholars and students from Séminaire Amérique Latine (Paris-Sorbonne University), Centro de Estudios Literarios (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), and Department of Humanities (Texas A&M International University). This seminar will be delivered virtually through a videoconference system, starting this Friday, March 31 at Western Hemispheric Trade Center, room 224, at 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Ciudad de México, Laredo)/ 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. (Paris).
Abstract: In the 1970s and 80s, writers and thinkers from different but related fields became interested in how gender is represented in visual culture, whether in art or in the media. With the 1970s feminist and gay rights movements, increasingly larger groups of writers and thinkers began investigating notions of representation and identity. Art historian John Berger and film theorist Laura Mulvey wrote influential works in which they described one of the pervasive modes of representation of women in the Western world: whether in art or on screen, women seem to be on display and objectified for a viewing subject that is implicitly male, implicitly consuming the woman on display. The notion of the “male gaze” became a central term in film studies that other theorists engaged and deployed in their analyses, but also that they questioned. One of the biggest challenges to Mulvey’s work, specifically, was the work of queer theorists, who began exploring the gaze of gay men and lesbians. These viewer, they argued, would not “consume” women on screen in the same manner as straight men, and that Mulvey’s notion of straight women who must identify with the objectified actress on the screen would not hold easily for other populations. This lecture will explore Berger and Mulvey’s influential ideas, as well as some exciting queer interventions into the realm of aesthetics, the male gaze, and representation, including gay male reclamations of Hollywood divas; the lesbian gaze; and camp aesthetics.
Abstract: My presentation will briefly approach the theory and practice of ekphrasis in the history of literature against the background of the ongoing philosophical discussion about mimesis, from the Greeks to the Romantics. The concept of ekphrasis refers, in its most basic definition, to a literary text that speaks to or of an artistic object, and thus refers to a transgression of the boundaries between various forms of art. For Plato, this mode of expression would represent a farther removal from the ideal and would therefore be an even worse kind of lie than that of the artistic object itself. As Peter Barry observes, “The Greek roots ek and phrasis in combination simply mean 'speaking out' or 'out-speaking', which can also bear the connotation that what the poem speaks of lies unambiguously 'outside' the poem, rather than within the poet's imagination, even though it is not in the 'real' world, but in the parallel universe of art” (Barry 155). In this respect, ekphrastic literature can be considered as a quintessential Postmodernist mode, since its referents are not to be found in “reality” but in art itself. For the Romantics and their anti-mimetic conception of artistic creation, ekphrasis becomes a favored mode as a valuable tool in their search for the totality of the sublime. In the last part of my presentation, I will analyze in some detail ekphrasis in Melville’s Moby Dick and its role in turning the novel into a treatise on the interconnectedness of literature and the arts.