In response to the crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and limitations on travel and visas, and in an attempt to support younger scholars who are facing precarity because of this crisis, the advisory committee of the KJCC revised this year’s nomination of its Chairs as a call for applicati...
more »
In April 2022, NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will turn 25. To commemorate this milestone, we introduce 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 as f...
more »
Thursday, December 10, 2020 | 2:30 PM EST This event was in English Introduced and Moderated by Rafael Cesar (NYU) and Eva Woods (Vassar College) “Conversion, Translation, and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Cartagena de Indias” Larissa Brewer-García (University of Chicago) “No es país p...
more »
Wednesday, December 9th 2020 | 7PM This event was ONLINE and in SPANISH **AMPARO NOGUERA** with the play _LA VOZ HUMANA_ by Jean Cocteau **PAULINA URRUTIA** with the play _MENTES SALVAJES_ by Marcus Lindeen In dialogue with the actresses and Victor Carrasco, director of both plays done by Teatro ...
more »
This event was ONLINE and IN SPANISH Ernesto Castro is one of Spain’s most promising millennial philosophers, sparking questions on our youth, our world, and its existential concerns. Castro finds meaning in the most recondite spaces, from trap music to the unaddressed postmodern philosophical te...
more »
Sonoridad.es Sound Landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula A Virtual Artistic Residency Diptych Curated by Daniel Valtueña NYU King Juan Carlos of Spain I Center | 2020-2022 A CONVERSATION WITH ISABEL DO DIEGO Artist Conversation Thursday December 3, 2020 2:30-4:00 pm EST (NYC) | 20:30-22:00 ECT (Peni...
more »
Presented by Mariela Dreyfus Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 7:00pm This event was ONLINE and in SPANISH Esther Allen’s translation of Zama, the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto (NYRB Classics), won the 2016 National Translation Award. With a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, she has since...
more »
Featuring Esther Ramón and Jordi Doce Presented by Lila Zemborain Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 7:00 PM EDT This event was in Spanish Esther Ramón (1970, Madrid) is a poet and critic, PhD in comparative literature and associate professor at Carlos III University of Madrid. Her work has be...
more »
CORTOCIRCUITO VIRTUAL CINEMA PRESENTS SHORT FILMS FROM SPAIN, LATIN AMERICA, THE COLOMBIAN PACIFIC AND LATINOS FROM THE US UNDER THE THEME OF EMPATHY = IN THE PLACE OF THE OTHER ●Virtual screening room in the Tri-State Area (NY, NJ, and CT), Texas, and Cali,Colombia. ●Registration was free of charg...
more »
This event was in Spanish Over the past 25 years Paul Ramirez-Jonas has sought to challenge the definitions of art and the public and to engineer active audience participation and exchange. He has been made public in galleries, institutions and urban spaces around the world. He has been an Associa...
more »
If we stop and listen to the Iberian landscape, what does it sound like? Curated by Daniel Valtueña Thursday, October 29, 2020 2:30-4:00pm EST (NYC) | 7:30-9:00pm ECT (Peninsular Spain) With Isabel Do Diego (Artist), La Señorita Blanco (Artist), Dylon Robbins (NYU) and Daniel Valtueña (Curator) I...
more »
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | 7:00 PM EDT This event was in Spanish An event organized by our MFA second-year students. Featuring: Silvina López Medín (Ugly Duckling Presse); Olga Martínez & Paco Robles (Editorial Candaya); Andrea Montejo (Indent Literary Agency). Presented by Lucía Orellana and Le...
more »
Introduced by Enid Valle, Lourdes Vázquez and Ruben Ríos-Ávila Participants: Jacqueline Herranz Brooks, Myrna Nieves, Mercedes Roffé, Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Mariela Dreyfus, Alejandro Varderi, Marta López Luaces, Christ Brandt and Lila Zemborain Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 7:00 PM EDT This event w...
more »
CREATIVE WRITING IN SPANISH: Zona de escritura. Featuring Fernanda Trías (Uruguay) and Giuseppe Caputo (Colombia). Hosted by Diamela Eltit. In Spanish Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) published the novels Cuaderno para un solo ojo, La azotea, La ciudad invencible and Mugre rosa, and the short story ...
more »In response to the crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and limitations on travel and visas, and in an attempt to support younger scholars who are facing precarity because of this crisis, the Advisory Committee of NYU’S King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center has revised this year’s nomination o...
more »
In Spanish. Participants: Carlos Egaña Apolinar Islas Yaissa Jimenez Adriana Lea Plaza David Ornelas Jessica Ortiz Morales Jorge Sánchez Maria Ximena Santaolalla Enrique Aureng Silva Sponsored by NYU MFA Creative Writing in Spanish Program and NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
more »
July 23, 2020 2:30PM EDT Organized in collaboration with el taller @ KJCC Summer Institute. Set the Farm on Fire: Rethinking Rural Cinema in a Postnational Context A Q&A with filmmaker Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol, moderated by Sara Nadal-Melsió. Oliver Laxe is a French-born Gali...
more »
May 11, 2020 7:00 pm EDT In Spanish CREATIVE WRITING IN SPANISH: Farewell Reading by Graduating Students from the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish. Hosted by Lila Zemborain and Mariela Dreyfus. Participants: Catalina Ángel, Estefanía Angueyra, Eric Barenboim, Salomé Benalcázar, Gabriel Carle, ...
more »May 6, 2020 7:00 pm In Spanish CREATIVE WRITING IN SPANISH: Corazón sagrado de los rebeldes: a conversation with Chilean poet Héctor Hernández Montesinos. Hosted by Mariela Dreyfus with Roberto Ibáñez Ricóuz. Héctor Hernández Montesinos (Chile, 1979) has a PhD in Philosophy, focus on Esthetics a...
more »
April 15, 2020 7:00 pm In Spanish and English CWS Series: Presentation of the Spanish translation of Yusef Komunyakaa’s The Emperor of the Water Clocks Bilingual reading by Yusef Komunyakaa and his translator Adalber Salas. Hosted by Mariela Dreyfus. Yusef Komunyakaa (Bogalusa, Louisiana) is on...
more »