We are excited for the coming year of programs, events, and initiatives, including the celebration of the KJCC’s 25th Anniversary in April 2022, with a plethora of commemorative activities and events during Spring 2022 (STAY TUNED). This semester all of our programmed activities will continue to be...
more »
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR I officially became Director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) in September 2020, however, months before I began working with Laura Turégano, Associate Director (Interim Director, 2019-2020), on planning how to continue the goals of our center (academic, cult...
more »
Thursday, July 22, 2021, 2:00-4:00 pm EST This event was ONLINE and in ENGLISH. Captioning is provided. A conversation with Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa and film scholar Glòria Salvadó-Corretger (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Organized and Introduced by Sara Nadal-Melsió (NYU) Moderated by F...
more »
In April 2022, NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will turn 25. To commemorate this milestone, we are producing ATRIUM: Voices from the KJCC, an oral history project that will capture memories of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center through the recorded testimonies of our past Chairs going a...
more » In April 2022, NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will turn 25. To commemorate this milestone, we are producing ATRIUM: Voices from the KJCC, an oral history project that will capture memories of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center through the recorded testimonies of our past Chairs going a...
more »
New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in Spanish are pleased to announce GSAS alumnus Professor Louis Milton Bourne (MA ’87 and PhD ’98 -Spanish) has made a generous donation through a bequest to endow and establish the “Professor Lo...
more »
Introduced by Rubén Ríos-Ávila. Presented by Daniela Trabuchi. Monday, May 17, 2021 7:00pm EST This event was in SPANISH Organized by NYU MFA Creative Writing in Spanish Program.
more » In April 2022, NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will turn 25. To commemorate this milestone, we are producing ATRIUM: Voices from the KJCC, an oral history project that will capture memories of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center through the recorded testimonies of our past Chairs going a...
more »
HOST: Casilda García López GUEST: Samantha Hudson Time & Date: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 •9:00-10.30pm Links: •https://wnyu.org/programs/radiole •https://facebook.com/kjccnyu •bit.ly/kjccyoutube KJCC partnered with WNYU (NYU’s radio station) to launch a series of conversations that delve into the...
more »
Friday, May 7th, 2021 | 7:00 PM This event was in SPANISH Laura Turégano of the King Juan Carlos I Spain Center (KJCC) and Alejandro Moreno of the Creative Writing in Spanish (CWS) Series, invited you to NYU’s DramaLab 2021. DramaLab 2021 featured two days of virtual readings of plays written by...
more »
Thursday, May 6, 2021, 2:00pm EST This event was in ENGLISH Respondent: Gisela Heffes (Rice University) Moderator: Jens Andermann (NYU) Beginning with Andrés Bello’s “Silva a la agricultura de la zona tórrida”, the first part of this lecture explored the social and ecological contradictions of c...
more »
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 | 7:00 PM This event was in SPANISH Laura Turégano of the King Juan Carlos I Spain Center (KJCC) and Alejandro Moreno of the Creative Writing in Spanish (CWS) Series, invited you to NYU’s DramaLab 2021. DramaLab 2021 featured two days of virtual readings of plays written...
more »
written by Crisanto Aquino, Janica Mae Regalo, and Ays de Guzman; directed by Aquino. April 30 – May 6 Synopsis: Two young writers with different styles must work together to write a romantic film. Their creative and personal struggles and aspirations enmesh them in each other’s troubles and th...
more »
written and directed by Ida del Mundo. April 23 – 29 Synopsis: When K’na, a young T’boli woman, becomes a dreamweaver, she has the chance to weave together her village’s warring clans. In the process, she faces a choice between this dream and her personal happiness. For the Visions/Panawin Fil...
more »
Featuring: Carlos Aguasaco (Artepoética Press); Sara Cordón and Ulises Gonzales (Chatos Inhumanos); Giancarlo Huapaya and Charlotte Whittle (Cardboard House Press), Asdrúbal and María Angélica García (Sudaquia editores). Hosted and moderated by: Mariela Dreyfus Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 7:00pm ...
more »
Watch Black Henry Watch the Talkback Black Henry explored the profound consequences of a clash of cultures, when in 1521 Ferdinand Magellan and three Spanish ships make landfall in the Philippines. His Malay slave, Enrique, acts as the go-between the conquistadors and the islanders. However, ...
more »
A Virtual Artistic Residency Diptych Isabel Do Diego & La Señorita Blanco Curated by Daniel Valtueña From Isabel Do Diego’s sounds to La Señorita Blanco’s landscapes April 19, 2021 After the world premiere of Isabel Do Diego’s DEPUEBLO (El origen) developed during their artistic residency at ...
more »
written by Henry Francia, Ed Rocha, and Jerrold Tarog; directed by Jerrold Tarog. April 16 – 22 Synopsis: After the late 19th-century Philippine revolution and declaration of independence from Spain, Madrid-educated Antonio Luna emerges as one of the fiercest generals of the Philippine forces i...
more »
part of the Mactan500 Virtual Conference Friday, April 23, 2021, 5:00 -7:00pm (EST) John D. Blanco (UCSD), “A God is Weeping: Reinterpreting the Conquest” Oona Paredes (UCLA), “Death on the Beach: ‘Decolonizing’ Mactan’s Pericolonial Moment” Vicente Rafael (University of Washington), “Duterte’s ...
more »
With Arlett Cancino, Valeria Melchiorre, Juan Pablo Richter, Eliezer Márquez-Ramos, Julio César Márquez, Carlos Egaña, Alexander Castillo, Jessica M. Ortiz, Lucia Orellana, Germán Alcalde, Adriana Lea Plaza, Apolinar Islas, Isaac Franfel and Mariana Covarrubias Introduced by Lila Zemborain, Leni ...
more »