- Spring 2023
April 6
Lost Beyond La Mancha: Liberalism in Cervantes Studies
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages
Speaker: Dr. Ana Laguna
February 23The Cubans Painted by Themselves (1852):
Writing the Nation in an International Context
Sponsors:Department of Modern Languages, Modern Languages Graduate Student Organization, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, and the Cuban Research Institute.
Speaker: Dr. Kari Soriano - Fall 2022
Thursday, November 3rd
Antonio Benítez Rojo. La isla que se repite: 30 aniversario.
Sponsors: Cuban Research Institute, FIU. Department of Modern Languages, FIU.
Panelists: Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Ph.D., Enciro Mario Santi, Ph.D., Erik Camayd-Freixas, Ph.D., Jorge Duany, Ph.D.
Moderator:Medardo Rosario, Ph.D.
Film-maker: Eliecer Jimenez Almeida
Presentor:Santiago Juan-Navarro, Ph.D.Wednesday, November 2nd
The Lost Plays of Virgilio Piñera
Sponsors: Cuban Research Institute, FIU, Department of Modern Langauges, FIU.
Presenter: Enrico Mario Santi, Ph.D.Wednesday, October 5th
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Between Two Waters - Feminine Weapons in the Construction of a Nation
Sponsors: Cuban Research Institute, FIU, Department of Modern Langauges, FIU.
Presenter: Beatriz M. Marqués. - Spring 2022
Wednesday, April 13th
Black Spain: Past, Present, and Future - A Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Coleman
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages, Dorothea Green Lecture Series, Modern Languages Graduate Students Organization (MLGSO), European and Eurasian Studies Program, African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights & Diplomacy.
Speaker: Jeffrey K. Coleman
Moderator:Dr. Renee Silverman
Wednesday, March 16th
Cervantine Blackness
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages, FIU, Dorothea Green Lecture Series, African and African Diaspora Studies Program.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Jones, UC Davis
Moderator: Dr. Medardo Rosario
Friday, March 11thTransatlantic Identities, Music and Verse in the Latin American Decima
Identidades Trasatlánticas, Música y Verso en la Décima Latinoamericana
Sponsors: Dorothea Green Lecture Series, FIU School of Music, Cuban Research
Institute, Sigma Delta Pi Hispanic Honor Society, Díaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American
Popular Music Collection, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center,
Modern Languages Graduate Students Organization (MLGSO), Department of Modern Languages.
Presenters: Dr. Maida Watson, Dr. Jorge Duany, Dr. Mesut Ozgen.
Vocals and Narrative: Luciana Kube
Instrumentalists:Henry Linarez (Cuatro), Saúl Vera (bandola cordillerana, llanera and oriental, and mandoline), José Francisco Montes (double bass).
Special Guest:Carlos Silva (tenor).Thursday, March 10th
Raíces Culturales: Memoria, Presencia, y Dramaturgia del Actor
Theoretical and Practical Seminar
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages, FIU, Cuban Research Institute, FIU.
Invited Speaker: Sarimé Alvarez
Moderators: Dr. Ivonne López Arenal, Ph.D. Dr. Jeniffer Fernández, Ph.D.Wednesday, February 23rd
Caidije...La Extensa Realidad
"Cineafrocubano: Una Vision desde el Interior de Cuba"
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages, FIU, Cuban Research Institute, FIU.
Invited Speaker: Gustavo Pérez Fernández
Moderators:Dr. Santiago Juan-Navarro, Eliecer Jimenez Almeida
Wednesday, February 2ndEthics in Translation and Interpreting Research and Practice
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages, FIU.
Lecturer: Dr. Moira Inghilleri, University of Massachussetts Amherst
Moderator: Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas, Florida International University
Thursday, January 20thNation and Race: A Conversation about Cultural Politics in Contemporary Cuba
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages, FIU, Cuban Research Institute, FIU.
Panelists: Yesenia Selier, Anamely Ramos
Moderator: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, Ph.D. - Fall 2021
Tuesday, November 2
El Murciélago: identidad en conflicto y representaciones del pueblo afrodescendiente en la Lima del XIX
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages, FIU.
Lecturer: Dr. Marcel Velázquez Castro - Spring 2021
March 24
"Centering Blackness as an Anti-Racist Method"
Lecture by Dr. Nicholas Jones, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Affiliated Faculty in Latin American Studies, Bucknell UniversityFebruary 4
"En el (nuevo) torbellino": Miguel de Unamuno and Historical Memory in Contemporary Spain
Lecture by Dr. Leslie Harkema, Associate Professor of Spanish and director of the Division of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Languages, Baylor UniversityJanuary 25, 2021
Una Teoria Literaria Para El Siglo XXI
Lecture by Dr. Ascensión Rivas Hernández, Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of Salamanca - Fall 2020
December 3rd
De Mapas y Piratas: Representaciones Literarias y Cartograficas del Caribe en el Siglo de Oro Espanol
Lecture by Dr. Medardo Gabriel Rosario, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Florida International UniversityNovember 16th
Imagenes de la Ciudad en los Cuentos de Ribeyro
Lecture by Dr. Marcel Velazquez Castro, Professor of Latin American Literature, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito) - Spring 2020
February 20th
Radio Ambulante: The Success Story of Radio Ambulante by one of its Co-Founders Lecture by Camila Segura, Co-founder and Editorial Director of Radio Ambulante
January 27th
The Effects of Instruction on Heritage Language Learners
Lecture by Dr. Julio Torres, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, University of California, Irvine - Fall 2019
November 14-15th
III Congreso Internacional Perú XIX Prensa y redes literariasen América Latina XIX
Lectures by Dr. Isabelle Tauzin-Castellanos, Dr. Felipe Martínez-Pinzon, Dr. Mayra Bottaro, and Dra. Cecilia Rodriguez LehmannNovember 7th
Identidades Itinerantes y Travestismo Cultural: El Museo Ambulante de la Baronesa de Wilson
Lecture by Pura Fernandez - Spring 2019
March 5th
Capital simbólico y transición lírica: La poética en tránsito de Noni Benegas
Lecture by Dr. Esther Sánchez-PardoFebruary 21st
El deseo poscolonial, la violación sexual y las trampas del mestizaje
Lecture by Dr. Marcel VelázquezJanuary 17th
(Judeo-)Spanish Variation among the Sephardim of the United States
Lecture by Dr. Bryan Kirschen - Fall 2018
November 8th
"Translation technologies and the translator in the 21st century"
Lecture by Dr. Miguel Jimenez - Spring 2018
March 8th
“El erotismo y la norma sexual en la poesía cubana de fin de siglo"
Lecture by Dr. Jorge Camacho - Fall 2017
November 28th
Teaching Spanish to Heritage Speakers: Pedagogical and Administrative Considerations
Lecture by Dr. Kim PotowskiNovember 13th
"I am not at all what you think": Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Negotiations with Fame
Lecture by Dr. Rosa PerelmuterOctober 9th
Afecto, feminismo y redes en las veladas literarias de Lima, 1876-1891
Lecture by Dr. Ana Peluffo - Spring 2017
April 7th
Meeting the needs of heritage learners through research-based programmatic and curricular practices
Lecture by Dr. Sara BeaudrieApril 6th
Film Screening and Panel Discussion of Severo Secreto
Presented by Co-Directors Oneyda González and Gustavo PérezMarch 30th
Formas y funciones de la violencia en el teatro espanol contemporáneo escrito por mujeres
Lecture by Dr. Cerstin Bauer-Funke - Fall 2016
October 24th
Palabra de América: rastros de los nuevos rumbos en la narrativa hispanoamericana actual
Lecture by Dr. Eduardo Becerra
September 14th
Cuerpos impropios: escrituras documentales y géneros hoy
Lecture by Dr. Cristina Rivera-GarzaSeptember 13th
Doris Lessing, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007
Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Altamirano.September 12th
Sor Juana Inés de la Poesía: Recreaciones modernas de su figura
Lecture by Dr. Rosa Perelmuter - Spring 2016
March 22th
Educación y literatura: Américo Castro y Francisco Giner de los Ríos
Lecture by Dr. Santiago López-RíosFebruary 3th
A palavra nao domesticada
Lecture by Dr. Eliane Brum - Fall 2015
November 30th
"Cantando la pena, la pena se olvida": Overlook of Andalucía and What It Means to Be an Andaluz
Lecture by Ezequiel Moreno EscamillaNovember 18th
A cultura popular brasileira pós-identidade nacional
Lecture by Marcus Vinicius FaustiniNovember 6th
Cuban Music: Halfway Between Africa and Spain
Lecture by Alberto Sosa CabanasNovember 20th
"Un canon propio": Cartografias de la modernidad en la ciudad letrada de fines de siglo
Lecture by Francesca DenegriOctober 27th
El papel de los catalanes en la creación de la cultura uruguaya
Lecture by Thomas HarringtonOctober 5th
Current Literary and Cinematic Trends
Lecture by Pablo Barrios AlmazorSeptember 3rd
La tradición del presente
Lecture by Carlos Cortés - Spring 2015
May 1 - May 2nd
Eight Florida Cervantes ConferenceApril 10th
Slight Expectations: Literature in (a) Crisis
Closing Keynote: Joshua LandyApril 9th
Antigone's Example: Women's Political Writing and Civil War
Opening Keynote: Mihoko SuzukiMarch 23rd
Questions of Flight, Part 1: Desert Epiphanies
Lecture by José QuirogaFebruary 5th
Juan Corona, America's First Serial Killer: On Becoming or Not Becoming Mexican-American
Lecture by Robert IrwinJanuary 22nd
El escritor en su paraíso: 30 grandes autores y su tiempo como bibliotecarios
Lecture by Ángel Esteban - Fall 2014
November 24th
Rewriting Latino Theater History from Miami
Lecture by Lillian ManzorNovember 18th
La obra en prosa de Juan Ramón Jimenez: "Platero y yo"
Lecture by Antonio Fernandez AlmanzaSeptember 23rd
The Dangerous Games of Fantasy
Lecture by Daína ChavianoAugust 28th
Contemporary Cuban Culture: Notes on Alternative Thinking
Lecture by Madeline Cámara Betancourt - Spring 2014
April 4th
La otra vida de la Avellaneda
Lecture by Maria del Carmen Simon PalmerMarch 31st
Revolution in Translation: The Plays of Augusto Boal in a Post 9-11 World
Lecture by Robert MoserFebruary 18th
Liberty as Heresy (Why One Writes a Novel)
Lecture by Leonardo PaduraFebruary 13th
Violent Rituals of Exclusion: Women, Dissidence and Punishment under Franco
Lecture Part 01, Lecture Part 02, Lecture Part 03, Lecture Part 04
Lecture by Cinta Ramblado MineroFebruary 3rd
Masculinity and Human Rights in Brazilian Literature under Dictatorship
Lecture by Idelber Avelar - Fall 2013
November 8th
El expansionismo español del siglo XVI en el Lejano Oriente y su representación literaria
Lecture by Santiago García-CastañonOctober 29th
La creation litteraire: enjeux esthetiques, linguistiques et sociaux
Lecture by Evelyne TrouillotOctober 9th
Fauxciutto: Is Italian-American Cuisine Really Italian?
Lecture by Mark D'Alessandro - Spring 2013
March 29th
Writing Gender in the Modern Empire: Spain and the Philippines
Lecture by Joyce Tolliver, Associate Professor of Spanish
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
March 20th
Negotiating Intellectual Smugness from the Meta-Narrative of Orientalism to the Alternative Strategies of Hispanic and Self-Orientalism: Edward Said via Severo Sarduy
Lecture by Julia Kushigian, Professor of Hispanic Studies
Connecticut College, Connecticut
February 26th
Pioneras en los escenarios del Teatro Español de Madrid: Avellaneda, Acuña y Casanova
Lecture by María del Carmen Simón Palmer, Doctora en Historia
Profesora del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, España
February 7th
The Multiple Temporalities of Memory: The Contested Memory of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary Spain
Lecture by Dr. Jo Labanyi, Professor of Spanish
New York University, New York
January 16th
Narrativas posnacionales e imaginarios de la globalización en la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XXI
Lecture by Dr. Catalina Quesada Gómez, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture
University of Bern, Switzerland - Fall 2012November 19th
Narrative, Memory and Ruins
Lecture by Dr. Jaime Ginzburg, Professor of Brazilian Literature and Literary Theory
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil - Spring 2012
March 1st
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Current State of Spanish and Latinos in the U.S.
Lecture by Dr. Maria Carreira,Professor of Spanish
California State University, Long BeachFebruary 13th
El Desarrollo Cultural Peruano en la Decada de 1870
Lecture by Dr. Alberto Varillas,Professor Emeritus
Universidad Catolica del PeruFebruary 16th
La Descripcion de Costumbres en la Literatura Peruana del Siglo XIV: Pardo, Palma y Gamarra
Lecture by Dr. Alberto Varillas,Professor Emeritus
Universidad Catolica del PeruJanuary 17th
Fictional Autobiography of Whatever: Women Writers in Spain
Lecture by Phyllis ZatlinProfessor Emerita of Spanish at Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey - Fall 2011November 16th
Writing and the Japanese Body in Mario Bellatin's Fiction
Lecture by Dr. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo,Professor of Latin American Literature
University of California, Merced
- Spring 2023
April 6
Lost Beyond La Mancha: Liberalism in Cervantes Studies
Sponsors: Department of Modern Languages
Speaker: Dr. Ana Laguna
February 23The Cubans Painted by Themselves (1852):
Writing the Nation in an International Context
Sponsors:Department of Modern Languages, Modern Languages Graduate Student Organization, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, and the Cuban Research Institute.
Speaker: Dr. Kari Soriano
