Conference Desarticulaciones 2015--10/9-10/10

(des)articulaciones 2015

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Graduate Student Conference

 

Representation, Mediation and Dialogues between Text and Image

October 9–10, 2015

Keynote Speakers:

Diamela Eltit, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing (NYU)

Sylvia Molloy, Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (NYU)

 

Cathedral of Learning, Fifth and Sixth Floor and the University Club

Friday, October 9 from 8:00 am – 8:00 pm

Saturday, October 10 from 9:15 am – 8:00 pm

 

Facebook link

https://www.facebook.com/events/1384355015210208/

 

 

Hispanic Languages and Literatures website page

http://www.hispanic.pitt.edu/event/desarticulaciones-2015-5th-biennial-international-symposium

For more information: Sebastian Urli at sdu3@pitt.edu

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Office of the Provost

Center for Latin American Studies

Humanities Center

Cultural Studies Program

Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

John Beverley

 

Reminder: MLSAC Polyglot Cafe Oct. 16 (Please sign up for the event)

MLSAC’s annual event, the Polyglot Cafe will be held next Friday (October 16^th)2:00 - 4:00PM in UC Peter/Wright/McKenna. The event is open to all ML faculty and students. It will provide a good opportunity for ML faculty and students to communicate in a friendly and relaxing environment about their questions, concerns, comments and suggestions regarding language learning. Pizza, snacks and light refreshments will be provided. If you haven’t done so already, please fill out the following survey if you plan to come. Once again, this is a very good opportunity for ML faculty and students to get to know more about each other, and it promotes communication within the ML department.

 

http://goo.gl/forms/t269cQIhae

 

 

Today: I Never Learned To Spell "Successful"

 

Alumnus Javier Soltero Speaks to Campus   Javier Soltero (DC'98) attended Carnegie Mellon University at the dawn of the Internet era. Since then, Soltero - an information systems major with a concentration in computational finance - has climbed to the top of the technology industry.   However, Soltero's path to becoming the corporate vice president of Outlook Program Management at Microsoft was not without hurdles. He will share his experiences with the CMU community today, Wednesday, Oct. 7 from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the College of Fine Arts' Kresge Theater.   "I Never Learned To Spell 'Successful'" is the first lecture in the Dietrich College Entrepreneurs Speaker Series and is also sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.   "Most of my experience comes from failure, and I'll share how those failures all played a key role in helping me build a career as an entrepreneur in the technology field," Soltero said.   At Microsoft, Soltero leads the team responsible for the vision and strategy for the Outlook client and cloud service across all platforms. Prior to this role, he was the general manager of Outlook Mobile, the most downloaded iOS and Android Microsoft mobile app.   Soltero joined Microsoft in 2014 when Acompli, the startup he co-founded, was acquired. In 18 months, he led Acompli to great success, building a world-class team of developers and launching the product to rave reviews.   Learn more.

 

 

I Never Learned To Spell “Successful”

Wednesday, October 7, 2015  /  12:30-1:30pm  /  College of Fine Arts' Kresge Theater

Dietrich College Entrepreneurs Speaker Series

I Never Learned To Spell "Successful"

Javier Soltero (DC'98) attended Carnegie Mellon University at the dawn of the Internet era. Since then, Soltero – an information systems major with a concentration in computational finance – has climbed to the top of the technology industry.

However, Soltero's path to becoming the corporate vice president of Outlook Program Management at Microsoft was not without hurdles. He will share his experiences with the CMU community on Wednesday,

"I Never Learned to Spell 'Successful'" is the first lecture in the Dietrich College Entrepreneurs Speaker Series and is also sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

 

Reminder~~Center for Latin American Studies @ Pitt/Open House/Welcome Reception--10/6/2015

 

 

 

Cafe Con Leche is looking for interns!

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FW: EVENTS FOR TOMORROW---Venezuelan Cinema @ Pitt and Richard Blanco Reading @ Carlow University

PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS: VENEZUELAN FILM WITH HAYDEE CHAVERO—Part 2

Date: Friday October 2, 2015

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall (4^th Floor, Wesley Posvar Hall)

For more information: Karen Goldman at kgoldman@pitt.edu

 

PAPITA, MANI, TOSTON. Luis Carlos Hueck / 90 min / Venezuela, 2013 | Spanish with English subtitles

Andrés (Jean Pierre Agostini) is a fan of Los Leones del Caracas one of the main baseball teams of Venezuela. Julissa (Juliette Pardau) is a fan of Los Navegantes del Magallanes, the rival team. One day Andrés gets tickets to see the game in Magallanes' VIP Zone. He meets Julissa and her dad who is not only fan but one of the team's managers. Andres and Julissa will fall in love and will have to pretend to be fan of the other's team. But soon trouble will arise.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/U4Gqb2BzI6Y

 

Sponsored by: El Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía de Venezuela (CNAC).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS at the University of Pittsburgh, the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Ch and Duke University, and the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 

 

 

 

MADWOMEN READING SERIES

presents a reading by

Richard Blanco

 

Date: Friday, October 2, 2015

Location: Rosemary Heyl Theatre, Antonian Hall, Carlow University

Time:

Reading at 7:30 p.m. (book table at 7 p.m.)

Reception and book signing following the reading.

Free and open to the public.

Richard Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in US history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. He was recently commissioned by the State Department to write a poem for the ceremonial re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. This poem, Matters of the Sea / Cosas del Mar, will be released as a bilingual chapbook by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Born in Madrid to Cuban-exiled parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place characterize his body of work. He is the author of the memoirs The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood and For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey; the poetry chapbooks One Today and Boston Strong; and the poetry collections Looking for the Gulf Motel, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, and City of a Hundred Fires. Currently, he is collaborating with renowned illustrator Dav Pilkey on a children’s book of his poem One Today.

Blanco’s many awards include the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Thom Gunn Award. A builder of cities as well as poems, Blanco holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.F.A in Creative Writing.

“Blanco’s contributions to the fields of poetry and the arts have already paved the path forward for future generations of writers.” —President Barack Obama

 

Sponsored by Carlow University’s English Department, Creative Writing, and Women and Gender Studies.

For more information, please contact Sarah Williams-Devereux at sewilliams412@carlow.edu; or Jan Beatty at jpbeatty@carlow.edu. www.carlow.edu.