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A free online workshop for teachers of high school Spanish: this program is entirely conducted in Spanish. 

University of Virginia

THE PROGRAM IS OFFERED THANKS TO A GRANT FROM THE LONGVIEW FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION IN WORLD AFFAIRS & INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING

En este taller de primavera del Centro de Artes Liberales vamos a examinar distintos conceptos de lo global en el contexto de las literaturas del mundo hispánico.  Veremos cómo los autores de América Latina y España leen y escriben en un contexto global, y consideraremos preguntas como ¿Qué perdemos o ganamos al considerar a estos autores como “globales”? y ¿Hasta qué punto deben influir las teorías de la globalidad en la enseñaza del español hoy?.  Estudiaremos obras de escritores españoles y latinoamericanos además del papel que juega la traducción.  Presentarán Gustavo Pellón y otros profesores de la Universidad de Virginia y Kit Decker del Piedmont Virginia Community College.

In this spring’s workshop of the Center for the Liberal Arts we will examine different concepts of the global in the context of the literatures of the Spanish-speaking world.  We will see how authors in Latin America and Spain read and write in a global context and discuss questions such as What is important—what is gained and lost—by thinking of such authors as “global”? and How should theories of the global influence Spanish instruction today?  We will study the works of Spanish and Latin American authors, as well as the role of translations. There will be presentations by Gustavo Pellón and other professors from the University of Virginia and Kit Decker of Piedmont Virginia Community College.

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Welcome and Panel discussions

Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia. http://spanitalport.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/gp6a


Speakers

Kit Decker, Piedmont Virginia Community College.

Kit Decker nació en Birkenhead, Inglaterra. Cursó estudios en español y francés en Trinity College, Oxford y tiene un doctorado en literatura hispánica de la Universidad de Tulane en Nueva Orleáns. Se mudó a Virginia para enseñar en la Universidad de Richmond. Desde 2001, es profesor de español en Piedmont Virginia Community College y coordinador de Humanidades & Ciencias Sociales.

 

Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia. http://spanitalport.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/rp2d

Ricardo Padrón is an Associate Professor of Spanish who studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography. His recently published monograph, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020) examines the role of Spanish writing about the Pacific and Asia in its ongoing conceptualization of the Indies as a geopolitical category. 

 

Fernando Valverde, University of Virginia. https://www.fernandovalverde.com/en/official-fernando-valverde/

Fernando Valverde (Granada, 1980) has been voted the most relevant Spanish-language poet born since 1970 by nearly two hundred critics and researchers from more than one hundred international universities (Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton, Bologna, Salamanca, UNAM and the Sorbonne). Please check out his website and Instagram.


Agenda 


10:00 - 10:15

Registration

Welcome message by Gustavo Pellón


10:15 - 11:00

Kit Decker

Explorando la cultura hispana: Expectativas, ejercicios y estrategias


11:00 - 11:15

Breakout room discussion


11:15 - 11:25

Break


11:25 - 12:10

Ricardo Padrón

Spanish America and Spain’s Transpacific Empire


12:10 - 12:25

Breakout room discussion


12:25 - 1:00

Lunch Break


1:00 - 1:45

Fernando Valverde

Global Poetry in Spanish Language Today: una perspectiva transatlántica

-- Global Spanish Language Poetry Today: A Transatlantic Perspective --


1:45 - 2:00

Breakout room discussion


2:00 - 2:10

Break and Evaluation Survey


2:10 - 2:30

Wrap-up Panel Q & A


 

This program was Sponsored by

https://longviewfdn.org/

When
Where
Zoom