KJCC welcomes Prof. Marisa Belausteguigotia, Spring 2019 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations
PhD. in Ethnic Studies with an emphasis on women, race and sexuality at the University of California at Berkeley (2000). Full Professor at the School of Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)/National Autonomous University of México (2004). Coordinator of curricular innovat...
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Spanish Cinema Days | Recent films from Spain (2016-2017)
Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, NYC Five outstanding films have been carefully selected to showcase recent production from Spain. The lineup strikes a delicate balance between emerging talent and established filmmakers, as well as between commercial and independent productions...
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Lecture | Andrés Bello Chair Julio Ramos Second Public Lecture: Diverging Underground: The Experimental Films of José Rodríguez Soltero and Jaime Barrios in 1968
Andrés Bello Chair Professor Julio Ramos 2nd Public Lecture | Diverging Underground: The Experimental Films of José Rodríguez Soltero and Jaime Barrios in 1968 Venue: KJCC Auditorium Reception to Follow Julio Ramos is the Fall 2018 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations, ...
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CWS Series | Conversation about the novel Sumar by Diamela Eltit
Diamela Eltit will be presenting her new novel Sumar. Featuring Julio Ramos (Andrés Bello Chair in Latin-American Cultures and Civilizations at KJCC) and Prof. Aurea María Sotomayor (Pittsburg University). Diamela Eltit is a groundbreaking Chilean novelist, essayist, critic, and university profes...
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CWS Series | Conversation with Cezanne Cardona and Francisco Font
Born in 1982, Cezanne Cardona Morales is a novelist, short story writer, professor, and columnist. In 2009 he won one of the Puerto Rico’s most prestigious literary awards, the Short Story Prize of the newspaper El Nuevo Día. In 2010 he published his first novel, La velocidad de lo perdido(Terranova...
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Symposium | Andrés Bello Chair Julio Ramos: Regímenes de alteración: Literatura, droga y gobierno de la vida
2 y 3 de Noviembre, 2018 En Auditorio KJCC / 53 Washington Square South, NYC La historia moderna y contemporánea provee ejemplos múltiples de la preocupación literaria por la alteración sensorial inducida por los psicoactivos, tema recurrente en las discusiones sobre la estética, las políticas del...
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Film Screening | 68 Voices by Gabriela Badillo
October 18, 2018 6:00 pm Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, NYC 68 Voices is a series of animated shorts that retell 68 indigenous stories narrated their native tongues. Created by Gabriella Badillo under the premise that “no one can love what they do not know,” 68 voices seek...
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Film Screening | El verdugo (The Executioner)
Luis Garcia Berlanga’s black-comedy masterpiece of 1963, El verdugo critiques Franco-era values through a macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner’s daughter and reluctantly takes over her father’s job. Influenced by Italian neorealism, this caustic film depicts what Berlanga cal...
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Film Screening and Discussion | La grieta (The Divide)
La Grieta (The Divide) by Irene Yagüe and Alberto García Ortiz (Spain, 2017, 76’) Following the local government’s sale of thousands of public apartments to foreign investment funds in 2013, many families living in Madrid were forced to leave their homes. This film takes a hard look and, despite th...
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Lecture | Andrés Bello Chair Julio Ramos First Public Lecture: Detroit´s Rivera: public art, film and labor
Detroit´s Rivera: public art, film and labor Introduction and Screening by Julio Ramos Julio Ramos has written extensively about literary and visual culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. His books include Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina: literatura y política en el sigo XIX ...
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KJCC Poetry Series | Reading of the book of poems Juana I
This reading will introduce the bilingual edition of Ana Arzoumanian’s Juana I to American audiences. Arzoumanian’s genre-defying tour de force is delivered via a trance-like, first person narration that collapses time and space. It is both a love poem to and poetic justice for Juana of Castile, aka...
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Discussion | Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror
Sept. 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Conversation on the exhibit Miradas Paralelas/Parallel Looks. Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror with curator Zara Fernández; photographers Soledad Córdoba (Spain) and Gohar Dashti (Iran); and Carmen Fernández-Távora, deputy director of the Three Cultures of the Medite...
more » Exhibit | Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror
ON VIEW from Tuesday, September 18 until Sunday, December 9, 2018. Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror, provides the platform for the first encounter of twelve female photographers from Iran and Spain who, from such distant origins, unmistakably surprise us w...
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KJCC welcomes Prof. Julio Ramos, Fall 2018 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations
Julio Ramos has written extensively about literary and visual culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. His books include Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina: literatura y política en el sigo XIX (1989; translated by John D. Blanco as Divergent Modernities in 2002), Paradojas de la le...
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Exhibit | Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom
On view at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center | February 23- Extended to June 2nd., 2018 (Picture: Édouard Duval-Carrié | Queen Candace and The Three Kings) Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom brings together over a dozen contemporary artists working across a range of media to interpret ...
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Video Interview | Keila Grinberg - Spring 2018 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations
Keila Grinberg, Spring 2018 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations, is an Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil). Me...
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NYU KJCC welcomes Prof. Keila Grinberg, Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations for Spring 2018
Keila Grinberg joins NYU as the Spring 2018 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin AmericanCultures and Civilizations. She is an Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development...
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