World Languages

This workshop for secondary school French teachers will provide information and methods for broadening the geographic scope of French courses. With a focus on Reunion Island, Senegal, and Haiti we plan to visit two new exhibitions at the University of Virginia and foster conversations around art, history, and culture in the global Francophone world.

The symposium will be conducted primarily in French. Each teacher who attends the program will receive a $100 stipend and a Professional Development certificate issued by the UVA Center for the Liberal Arts.

We will begin with an introduction to a new exhibition at UVA’s Shannon Library “The Strange Story of Furcy Madeleine.” This exhibit comes to UVA from the Villèle Historical Museum in Réunion and tells the story of an enslaved man named Furcy who, for 27 years, fought for his freedom through the French legal system and eventually succeeded. Furcy’s story will introduce us to the Francophone regions of the Indian Ocean, particularly the Mascarene islands. We will learn about the history, geography, and cultures of these islands both today and in historical perspective.  We will visit this exhibit and, in the afternoon, share ideas for how to incorporate elements of Furcy’s story into the secondary school classroom. We will have access to materials made by teachers in Réunion who worked with their students on this exhibit, a graphic history made about Furcy’s story, and other visual materials. 

In the morning, we will be delighted to have the guest participation of Dr. Jérémy Boutier, legal scholar, historian, and an organizer of the original Furcy exhibition in Réunion to help set the stage for the day. Dr. Kate Lakin-Schultz, Master Lecturer in French, Overall Coordinator of the French Language Program at Boston University, who lived for one year in Réunion, will help us get a better sense of place, culture, cuisine, and geography pertinent to the Indian Ocean, and particularly of Réunion as a Francophone space.

The afternoon will be devoted to the development of pedagogical materials and the exchange of ideas. In addition to a follow-up pedagogical session on Furcy’s story, we will have two sessions devoted to Senegal. We will be delighted to welcome UVA Professor Emeritus Kandioura Dramé, a specialist of African literature, culture, and film, who will be on hand for commentary and to serve as a respondent for the following presentations on Senegal:

1. Dr. Lakin-Schultz will discuss how to effectively use a French language textbook, La belle histoire de Leuk-le-lièvre, written by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdoulaye Sadji, in multiple levels of the French language classroom. 
2. Sara Phillips-Bourass, a French and Arabic teacher at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, FL., visited Senegal in 2024 after which she and her students worked on a project about Gorée Island. Together, they researched the life of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, a formerly enslaved Senegalese woman in Florida and Zoomed with a Senegalese guide whose expertise is on the Slave House and Gorée island. In 2025, she and her students won the Salomon Faculty Curriculum Design Award from the Institute for Global Learning  for their work. Katy Wheelock, JoEllen Delamatta, teachers of French in Northern Virginia who regularly organize trips and virtual exchanges to Senegal, will also be part of this panel to share their experiences and perspectives and suggest how teachers may participate in such projects.

This final session will allow us to connect the story of two islands – Réunion and Gorée – and their relation to complex global histories and legacies of freedom and unfreedom.

The day will end with a free visit of the Fralin Art Museum’s exhibit “Haiti’s Time”.

• 10:00-10:20 Arrivée, accueil, petit déjeuner léger 
• 10:20-10:30 Remarques de Bienvenue : Janet Horne (University of Virginia).
• 10:30 -11:00 Dr. Jérémy Boutier, "Une introduction à l’histoire de Furcy Madeleine et sa signification dans la Réunion d’aujourd’hui"
• 11:00-11:30 Kate Lakin-Schultz (Boston University), "La Réunion : un lieu et une culture métisse"
• 11:30-11:40 Pause 
• 11:40-12:40 Exhibition visit: “The Surprising Story of Furcy Madeleine”
• 12:40-1:20 Lunch
• 1:20-2:00 Discussions et applications pédagogiques de l’histoire de Furcy Madeleine
• 2:00-2:10 Pause 
• 2:10-2:45 Kate Lakin-Schulz, "Usages pédagogiques de La belle histoire de Leuk-le-lièvre, écrit par Léopold Sédar Senghor et Abdoulaye Sadji"
• 2:45-3:20 Sara Phillips-Bourass : « Le local comme une vitrine sur le monde : Les liens entre l’histoire de Jacksonville et les études francophone. » Cette unité pédagogique porte sur la Gorée et une Sénégalaise, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, anciennement vivant en esclavage, et sa vie en Floride après son émancipation. 
• 3:20-3:45 Professor Kandioura Dramé : Commentaires, puis questions et discussion avec le public et les présentatrices.
• 3:45-4:00 Remerciements, évaluations 
• A partir de 4 :00 (et jusqu’à la fermeture du musée à 5 :00) Visite libre de l’expo « Haiti’s Time » Fralin Musuem of Art.

This event was hosted on September 27, 2025, 10:00 am at the UVA Shannon Library, Room 330, 160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

This free program is organized by the University of Virginia’s Center for the Liberal Arts. CLA’s Spanish workshop will focus on visual culture, specifically film, visual arts, and comic books. It will look at how these genres engage with modern culture and society in both Spain and Latin America and will include attention to how using such materials can foster students’ language acquisition and cultural competency. Breakfast and lunch will be served.

Organizers:

Ricardo Padrón, Professor of Spanish, University of VIrginia.

Kit Decker, Professor of Spanish and Interim Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, PVCC.

Presenters:

Comic books were once an almost exclusively male domain. Men produced them: men or boys consumed them. As comic books morphed into the the graphic novel, women entered the space as both producer and consumer. Jennifer Hogg, a Spanish instructor with more than two decades of experience, introduces us to Spanish-language graphic novels by women creators.

Agenda:

• 10:00 - 10:20 Registration, Welcome
• 10:20 - 11:00 “The Shock of Spanish Film.” - Prof. David Gies
• 11:00 - 11:05 Break
• 11:05 - 11:45 “Latin-American ARTivism” - Prof. Nicole Bonino
• 11:45 - 11:50 Break
• 11:50 - 12:30 “Graphic Novels: Not Just for Boys Anymore.” - Prof. Jennifer Hogg
• 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
• 1:30 - 2:10 - “Bringing Visual Materials into the High School Language Classroom” - Maggie Payne
• 2:10 - 2:15 Break
• 2:15 - 2:50 Group Discussion
• 2:50 - 3:00 Evaluation Survey, Good-bye

This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

This event was hosted on April 26, 2025, 10:00 am at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC), The Bolick Center, 501 College Dr., Charlottesville, VA 22902.

This in-person Spanish program will feature the below five presenters who are the selected Longview Fellows, who will present and share new frameworks and lesson plans for teaching about human rights, activism, and learning in a Globalized world. The Fellows have been working with Prof. Chávez to develop new classroom materials in bringing the concept of the Global to Spanish classrooms.

Presenters:

Luis Miguel Ortiz Pérez Unity Reed High School, Prince William County PS

Thirzia López Kellam High School, Virginia Beach City PS

Verónica Pérez Spotswood High School, Rockingham County PS

Ángels Natal-Asensio Oakton High School, Fairfax County PS

Oscar Pizarro-González Unity Reed High School, Prince William County PS

Prof. Daniel Chávez Landeros University of New Hampshire - Department of Languages Literatures & Cultures

Our special guest is Cindy Macedo from the Global Nomads Group, who will introduce us to their work and how it might provide an opportunity for future collaboration.

Agenda:

• 10:00 - 10:30 Registration, breakfast
• 10:30 - 10:40 "Welcome" message - Prof. Daniel Chávez
• 10:40 - 11:00 "Tradiciones culturales de los países hispanohablantes y su influencia en nuestra comunidad" - Luis Miguel Ortiz Pérez
• 11:00 - 11:05 Break
• 11:05 - 11:25 "Conectándonos con el Mundo en la Era Digital: Project Based Learning" - Thirzia López
• 11:25 - 11:30 Break
• 11:30 - 11:50 "Proyectos Impactantes" - Verónica Pérez
• 11:50 - 12:50 Lunch
• 12:50 - 1:10 "Desafíos de justicia social en el sur global" - Angels Natal-Asensio
• 1:10 - 1:15 Break
• 1:15 - 1:35 "Una mirada a El Amazonas desde la literatura y otras perpsectivas" - Oscar Pizarro-González
• 1:35 - 1:40 Break
• 1:40 - 2:00 Global Nomads Group - Cindy Macedo
• 2:00 - 2:15 Evaluations, good-bye

This program is sponsored by the Longview Foundation.

This event was hosted on October 21, 2023, 10:00 am at UVA, Zehmer Hall 104 Midmont Ln, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

With an initial focus on Francophone West Africa and the Caribbean, we plan to share new research and foster conversations around art, history and culture that will find their way into secondary school French courses. The program will feature scholars, artists, and activists from UVA and from West Africa and the Caribbean to share an aspect of their current work with you, and hopefully, one day with your students. The symposium will be conducted primarily in French. Teachers who attend the program will receive a $250 stipend to cover travel expenses and professional development points.

This program will be offered under the auspices of the UVA-French Center of Excellence and the Center for the Liberal Arts, with funding from the Embassy of France in the United States as part of a larger project entitled “Global French connections in Virginia schools.” A broader goal of the project is to foster closer connections between UVA faculty and French teachers across the Commonwealth, and to work together to grow and diversify the population of students who choose to study French. Additional support is provided by UVA’s Department of French, Karsh Institute of Democracy, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Clay Endowment for the Humanities.

Participants in the one-day program will be invited to join an optional virtual working group that will meet several times during the following academic year to continue conversations and develop curricular materials. We are also working towards a future residency program in which we will invite two guest scholar-artists from West Africa to make in-person visits to your French classes.

Any questions for French colleagues may be directed to Janet Horne. 

Agenda:

• 9:30 - 10:00 Arrivée, accueil, petit déjeuner léger 
• 10:00 - 10:10 Remarques de bienvenue
• 10:10 - 10:50 Rashana Lydner (University of Virginia), "Le français en contextes multilingues / French in Multilingual Contexts" 
• 10:50 - 11:00 Pause 
• 11:00 - 11:45 Yarri Kamara (UNESCO), "Art, culture et développement en Afrique francophone" 
• 11:45 - 12:45 Déjeuner 
• 12:45 - 1:30 Jacqueline Couti (Rice University), "Faire de son ventre un cyclone": le corps parlant et dansant en contextes educatifs français" 
• 1:30 - 1:45 Pause 
• 1:45 - 2:30 Mamadou Dia, "Le Sénégal au cinéma" 
• 2:30 - 3:15 Discussion participants/intervenants en petit groupe 
• 3:15-3:30 Remerciements, évaluation 

This event was hosted on September 30, 2023 - 9:30am at UVA, Morven Farm 600 Morven Dr, Charlottesville, VA 22902

This is a 100% in-person, 100% Spanish event. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Organizer:

Ricardo Padrón  Professor of Spanish and Project Director, Center for the Liberal Arts, University of Virginia

Speakers:

Sam Amago Professor, University of Virginia - “An Introduction to Environmental Humanities”

Jorge Grajales-Diaz Professor, Piedmont Virginia Community College - “Literature in Spanish and the Amazon Basin: An ecocritical perspective”

Gabriela Dongo Arévalo Lecturer, University of Virginia - “Ecopedagy in the Spanish Class” 

Agenda:

• 9:30 – 10:00 Open registration, breakfast, coffee
• 10:00 – 10:45 “An Introduction to Environmental Humanities” - Prof. Sam Amago
• 10:45 – 11:00 Break
• 11:00 – 11:45 “Literature in Spanish and the Amazon Basin: An Ecocritical Perspective” - Prof. Jorge Grajales-Diaz
• 11:45 – 12:00 Special Event: Farewell to Prof. Gustavo Pellón and Welcome to Prof. Ricardo Padrón
• 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
• 1:00 – 2:15 “Ecopedagogy in the Spanish Class” - Prof. Gabriela Dongo Arévalo
• 2:15 – 2:30 Evaluation, closing remarks

This event was hosted on April 15, 2023 - 6:00am at UVA, Zehmer Hall 104 Midmont Ln, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Two-day Spanish Institute (Global Approaches) at PVCC

Lead Organizer:

Daniel Chávez Landeros Associate Professor of Latin American and LatinX studies, University of New Hampshire

Presenters:

Esther Poveda Senior Lecturer of Spanish, University of Virginia

Kit Decker Chair of Humanities & Social Sciences, Professor, Piedmont Virginia Community College

Special Guest:

Jennifer Manise Executive Director, Longview Foundation

Agenda:

Saturday, October 8:

• 10:00 - 10:10 Registration and Welcome message 
• 10:10 - 10:50 “Immigration, Racism & Identity in Spain 1” - Esther Poveda
• 10:50 - 11:10 Group discussion, activities - Esther Poveda
• 11:10 - 11:20 Break            
• 11:20 - 11:50 Global Competence Exercise - Jennifer Manise
• 11:50 - 12:30 “Revolution and Culture in Latin America. Mexico” - Daniel Chávez Landeros
• 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch
• 1:45 - 2:25 “Revolution and Culture in Latin America. Cuba and Nicaragua” - Daniel Chávez Landeros
• 2:25 - 2:55 Group discussion, Activities - Daniel Chávez Landeros
• 2:55 - 3:00 See you tomorrow!

Sunday, October 9

• 9:00 - 9:35 “Immigration, Racism & Identity in Spain 2” - Esther Poveda
• 9:35 - 9:50 Group discussion, activities - Esther Poveda
• 9:50 - 10:00 Break
• 10:00 - 10:35 “Resiliencia monumental: interpretando íconos de las culturas hispanas” - Kit Decker
• 10:35 - 10:50 Group discussion, activities - Kit Decker
• 10:50 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 11:35 "Revolution and Culture in Latin America. Neozapatismo” - Daniel Chávez Landeros
• 11:35 - 11:50 Group discussion, activities - Daniel Chávez Landeros
• 11:50 - 12:00 Closing remarks/Evaluation forms

This event was hosted on October 8, 2022 and October 9 at the Dickinson Building Room 334, Piedmont Virginia Community College, 501 College Dr. Charlottesville, VA 22902

A Global Approach to Indigenous Activism

In this spring’s workshop for Spanish teachers, “A Global Approach to Indigenous Activism,” we will examine Latin America’s long history of indigenous activism. We will also consider methods to introduce these topics in your classes. 

En el taller de esta primavera para maestras y maestros de español, “Un acercamiento global al activismo indígena”, examinaremos la larga tradición de activismo indígena en América Latina. También consideraremos métodos para presentar estos temas en tus clases.

Lead Organizer:

Gustavo Pellón Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia

Speakers:

Daniel Chávez Associate Professor of Latin American and LatinX studies, University of New Hampshire - “Autonomía y Afirmación Cultural y Material de los Pueblos Originarios de México en el Siglo XXI"

Mathilda Shepard Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia - "El cine indígena en Abya Yala: colaboración, autonomía y soberanía visual." 

Pedro Larrea Rubio Associate Professor of Spanish, University Lynchburg - "Aquí, sobre la tierra": La poesía indígena como canto y resistencia. 

Kit Decker Chair of Humanities & Social Sciences, Professor, Piedmont Virginia Community College - Title TBD.

Agenda:

En este taller estudiaremos el activismo y la producción cultural de indígenas en las América 

• 10:00-10:20 Matrícula y encuesta de entrada.
• 10:30-11:15 University of New Hampshire. “Autonomía y Afirmación Cultural y Material de los Pueblos Originarios de México en el Siglo XXI” - Daniel Chávez Landeros
• 11:15-11:25 Descanso
• 11:30-12:15 University of Virginia. "El cine indígena en Abya Yala: colaboración, autonomía y soberanía visual" - Mathilda Shepard
• 12:15-12:25 Descanso
• 12:30-1:15 University of Lynchburg. "Aquí, sobre la tierra": La poesía indígena como canto y resistencia - Pedro Larrea Rubio
• 1:15-2:00 Almuerzo
• 2:00-2:45 Piedmont Virginia Community College. “Aplicaciones al aula de los temas presentados” - Kit Decker

This program is sponsored by The Longview Foundation.

This event was hosted on April 23, 2022 - 6:00am at Zehmer Hall University of Virginia 104 Midmont Ln, Charlottesville

Understanding the Concept of the Global South from South America to Southern Iberia

Organizers:

Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia.

Kit Decker, Piedmont Virginia Community College

Speakers:

Fernando Valverde, University of Virginia.

Federico Díaz Granados, Distinguished Visiting Professor and Colombian poet.

Mathilda Shepard, University of Virginia.

Agenda:

• 10:00 – 10:10 Matricula; encuesta de entrada.
• 10:10 – 10:55 "El Sur Global: Historia, Conceptos y métodos” - Mathilda Shephard
• 10:55 - 11:00 Descanso
• 11:00 – 11:45 “Colombia y el Sur Global” - Federico Díaz Granados
• 11:45 – 12:30 “Andalucía y el Sur Global” - Fernando Valverde
• 12:30 - 1:15 Almuerzo
• 1:15 – 2:30 Kit Decker & Jorge Grajales-Díaz
• 2:30 – 2:45 Premios, conclusiones y encuesta de salida.

This event was sponsored by the Longview Foundation

This event was hosted on November 13, 2021 - 10:00am at Piedmont Virginia Community College

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

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.

Welcome and Panel discussions:

Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia.

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.

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.

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).

Agenda:

• 10:00 - 10:15 Registration - Welcome message by Gustavo Pellón
• 10:15 - 11:00 Explorando la cultura hispana: Expectativas, ejercicios y estrategias - Kit Decker
• 11:00 - 11:15 Breakout room discussion
• 11:15 - 11:25 Break
• 11:25 - 12:10 Spanish America and Spain’s Transpacific Empire - Ricardo Padrón
• 12:10 - 12:25 Breakout room discussion
• 12:25 - 1:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00 - 1:45 Global Poetry in Spanish Language Today: una perspectiva transatlántica -- Global Spanish Language Poetry Today: A Transatlantic Perspective -- Fernando Valverde
• 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 the Longview Foundation

This event was hosted on April 24, 2021 - 6:00am on Zoom

We are sorry; this event has been postponed.

Details TBD.

This program was sponsored by the Longview Foundation for Education in Word Affairs & International Understanding

This event was planned for June 29, 2020 - 4:00am at UVA

This program has been postponed. Please stay tuned for updates.

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

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 modernos 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 modern 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.

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. 

Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia.

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:00 Registration, coffee, pastries
• 9:00 - 9:30 Introduction - Gustavo Pellón
• 9:30 - 10:20 El Pacífico ibérico y el contexto global del imperio español - Ricardo Padrón
• 10:20 - 10:50 Descanso, conversación sobre los temas presentados y preguntas.
• 11:00 - 11:50 Conceptos de lo global - Gustavo Pellón
• 12:00 - 12:20 Descanso, conversación sobre los temas presentados y preguntas.
• 12:20 - 1:20 Almuerzo
• 1:30 - 2:20 Explorando la cultura del mundo hispano: Expectativas, ejercicios, estrategias - Kit Decker
• 2:20 - 2:40 Descanso, conversación sobre los temas presentados y preguntas.
• 2:40 - 3:00 Conclusiones, evaluaciones.

The program is offered thanks to a grant from the Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs & International Understanding.

This event was planned for April 25, 2020 - 5:00am at Zehmer Hall, 104 Midmont Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22904

A free workshop for teachers of high school Spanish 

CLA Project Director Prof. Gustavo Pellón will lead the program “Enlazando lengua y cultura” on April 27th, at the University of Lynchburg, 9AM – 3PM. The program will be conducted entirely in Spanish, and it will cover topics such as music, film and literature with a roundtable discussion session. It is a follow-up session to the program held last year at UVA, but all are welcome, including teachers who did not attend last year. The program is funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and is free, including breakfast, lunch and materials, for all K-12 teachers.

Presenters:

Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia

Dr.Eunice Rojas, Furman University

Dr. Pedro Larrea Rubio, University of Lynchburg

Dr. Tammy Hertel, University of Lynchburg

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:00 Registration, coffee, pastries
• 9 - 9:30 General introduction - Gustavo Pellón
• 9:30 - 10:20 "El uso de la música latinoamericana en la enseñanza culturalmente receptiva del español” - Dr.Eunice Rojas
• 10:20 - 10:30 Break
• 10:30 - 11:20 “La palabra justa: poesía y traducción como herramientas en el aula.” Dr. Pedro Larrea Rubio
• 11:20 - 11:30 Break
• 11:30 - 12:20 “Promoción de la competencia cultural y lingüística a través del cine documental en español.” - Dr. Tammy Hertel
• 12:20 - 1:20 Lunch and AATSP annual meeting
• 1:20 - 2:50 Roundtable discussion
• 2:50 - 3:00 Conclusion, evaluations

This program is sponsored by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation

This event was hosted on April 27, 2019, 4:30 am at the University of Lynchburg West Room at Drysdale

A Professional Development Workshop for 9-12 Teachers

University in the High School Program is honored to host this workshop sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the University of Virginia’s Center for Liberal Arts

People most everywhere are crossing borders, perhaps in numbers never before seen. When we think of these crossings in the Americas, we imagine them as a one-way street, and from south to north. But people have moved around in any number of directions within the hemisphere, and have been doing so for generations.

This one day workshop sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will offer rich perspectives on the humanity of migrants throughout the Americas, a broad context within which to teach the stories of those reaching the borders of the United States from the global south, and the long history of U.S. policies toward these newcomers.

All high school history, social sciences and humanities teachers are welcome to attend.

Presenters:

Carl Bon Tempo is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany. His research and teaching focus on twentieth century U.S. political and public policy history, immigration and refugee history, and the history of human rights. In 2008, he published Americans at the Gates: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War with Princeton University Press. Currently, he is co-authoring with Hasia Diner (NYU) a book titled Immigration: An American History for Yale University Press. Bon Tempo is also writing a monograph titled Human Rights at Home: The United States and Human Rights in the 1980s for the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2014, Bon Tempo received the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, University at Albany, SUNY.

Susan Gauss is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research focuses on the history of development, industrialization, race, and inequality in Latin America. Her first book, Made in Mexico, Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s (2010), examined the political and social causes of urban industrialism in Mexico. She has also published on gender and labor movements, and a co-authored textbook with Lawrence Clayton and Michael Conniff, A New History of Modern Latin America, 3rd Edition (University of California Press, 2017). Her current research is a history of Mexican beer. She teaches on democracy and development, social movements, human rights, and food culture in Latin America. From 2003 to 2016, she taught at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Sam North is a teacher in the social studies department at Ossining High School In Ossining, NY. His specialty is U.S. History. In 2006, Sam began a collaboration with Jillian McRae from the Ossining High School English department to partner with the University in the High School Program on several college level elective course offerings at Ossining High School. These courses include Classism, Racism, Sexism; Latino USA; Intro to African/African-American History; and Concepts of Race and Culture in the Modern World. Jillian and Sam have been co-teaching these courses to Ossining High School students for college credit through the University at Albany's University in the High School program ever since. Sam is also currently working with Brent Glass, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as an educational consultant on the development of curriculum for the Sing Sing Prison Museum.

Debernee S. Privott is Assistant Dean for Public Engagement for the College of Arts & Sciences and Director of the University in the High School Program at the University at Albany.Prior to her service at the University at Albany, she was employed at the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy at Clark Atlanta University, where she also worked with the Army Environmental Policy Institute. Privott has worked with the Continual Improvement Project, now known as Service Outcomes Action Research, at the University at Albany.Additionally, she has worked with the following: Father Peter Young’s Honor Court Program, the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, the New York State Defender’s Association, the District Attorney’s “Bring It to the Courts” Program, and Girls Incorporated of the Greater Capital Region. Privott currently serves as a NEW Leadership^tm Committee Member – a program of the Women's Leadership Academy at the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society. Additionally, she serves on the Instructional Program Advisory Committee of the Niskayuna Central School District.With a passion for meaningful education, Privott has designed a course that encourages applied learning as well as community engagement, which she developed through the University at Albany’s top ranked School of Criminal Justice, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. She is a member of the first class of the Leadership Academy of the State University of New York Research Foundation and a past recipient of the University at Albany’s Initiatives For Women President’s Award.She devotes much of her time to community engagement; and she works very closely with the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York and AVillage, Inc.

Marc J. Selverstone is Associate Professor and Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950(Harvard, 2008), which won the Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He is also the editor of A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), consulting editor of the SHAFR Guide to the Literature (Brill, 2017–), and general editor of the Presidential Recordings Digital Edition(Virginia, 2014–). He is currently writing The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam, under contract with Harvard University Press.

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:00am Check-in, Meet & Greet, Light refreshments
• 9:00 - 9:30am Introduction - Debernee S. Privott, Ph.D., Marc Selverstone, Ph.D.
• 9:30 - 10:45am Global Migration - Susan Gauss, Ph.D.
• 10:45 - 11:00am Break
• 11:00 - 12:15pm US Immigration - Carl Bon Tempo, Ph.D.
• 12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch and Discussion
• 1:30 - 3:00pm Pedagogy - Sam North

This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

This event was hosted on January 25, 2019, 4:00 am at the University at Albany Campus Center West Expansion Board Room.

A Free Workshop for Teachers of High School Spanish

Presenters:

Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia

Pedro Larrea Rubio, Lynchburg College

Eunice Rojas, Lynchburg College

Hector Amaya, University of Virginia

Allison Carneiro da Silva, teacher, Hanover County Public Schools

Professor Ruth Ferree, University of Virginia

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:00 Registration, coffee, pastries
• 9:00 - 9:30 General introduction - Gustavo Pellón
• 9:30 - 10:20 "El intelectual renacentista como modelo interdisciplinar para el siglo XXI” - Pedro Larrea Rubio
• 10:20 - 10:30 Break
• 10:30 - 11:20 "Protesta astronómica: Viendo las estrellas en el cine, la música y la narrativa chilena” - Eunice Rojas
• 11:20 - 11:30 Break
• 11:30 - 12:20 “Los medios de comunicación en español y la práctica deenseñanza interdisciplinaria” - Hector Amaya
• 12:20 - 1:20 Lunch and AATSP annual meeting
• 1:20 - 2:50 Roundtable discussion, led by Allison Carneiro da Silva, and Professor Ruth Ferree:“ Estrategias para salvar barreras y cómo dar vida a ideas interdisciplinarias”
• 2:50 - 3:00 Conclusion, evaluations

This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

This event was hosted on April 28, 2018, 4:30 am at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia.

A Free History Professional Development Program For K-12 Teachers

People most everywhere are crossing borders, perhaps in numbers never before seen. When we think of these crossings in the Americas, we imagine them as a one-way street, and from south to north. But people have moved around in any number of directions within the hemisphere, and have been doing so for generations.

This one day workshop sponsored by the University’s Center for the Liberal Arts and supported by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will offer rich perspectives on the humanity of migrants throughout the Americas, a broad context within which to teach the stories of those reaching the borders of the United States from the global south, and the long history of U.S. policies toward these newcomers

Presenters:

Carl J. Bon Tempois, associate professor of history at the State University of New York, Albany. His research and teaching focus on twentieth century U.S. political and public policy history, immigration and refugee history, and the history of human rights. In 2008, he published Americans at the Gates: The United States and Refugees during the Cold Warwith Princeton University Press. Currently, he is co-authoring with Hasia Diner (NYU) a book titled Immigration: An American Historyfor Yale University Press. Bon Tempo is also writing a monograph titled Human Rights at Home: The United States and Human Rights in the 1980sfor the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2014, Bon Tempo received the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, University at Albany, SUNY.

Elena McGrath, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, is a historian of revolutionary movements, race, gender, and natural resources in Latin America. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2016. Her current project, Devil’s Bargains: The Limits of Worker Citizenship and Resource Nationalism in Bolivia follows mining families as they struggle to hold a revolutionary government accountable, create more egalitarian communities, and survive in the Andes in the 20th Century. At UVa, Elena teaches courses on revolution and migration in Latin America, and has previously taught seminars in global history for adults and college students. Elena’s next project will be a transnational history of how the English bowler hat came tobe a symbol of indigenous femininity in Andean Bolivia.

Jennifer Sublette Williamson, Assistant Principal, Western Albemarle High School, began her teaching career in 1995 in Montgomery County, Maryland where she taught both middle and high school socialstudies and served as an instructional specialist. For the past 15 years, she has worked for Albemarle County Public Schools as a teacher, facilitator of social studies and gifted services, and, now, as an assistant principal at Western Albemarle High School. She received a BA and Ed.S. from the University of Virginia. Having taught a range of courses from 7th grade social studies to AP European history, Ms. Sublette works to integrate content rigor with engaging instructional strategies that support student learning when working with teachers.

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:00 Check-in/Coffee
• 9:00 - 9:30 Intro - Natsuko Rohde, Associate Director, Center for the Liberal Arts, UVA. Marc Selverstone, Chair, Presidential Recordings. Program & Associate Professor, Miller Center, UVA. Herbert Braun, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, UVA.
• 9:30 - 10:45 Global Migration – Elena McGrath
• 10:45 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 12:15 US Immigration - Carl Bon Tempo
• 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch
• 1:30 - 3:00 Pedagogy – Jenn Sublette-Williamson
• 3:00 Departure

This program is sponsored by Center for Liberal Arts the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

This event was hosted on November 11, 2017, 4:30 am at the University of Virginia

Free Saturday Spanish Workshop For All K-12 Virginia Teachers

El tema para el taller del Center for the Liberal Arts, el sábado 29 de abril será: La visión de los vencidos: la perspectiva indígena de la conquista y colonización de las Américas.

Organizer:

Gustavo Pellón Center for the Liberal Arts Project Director for Foreign Languages

Presenters:

Anne-Garland Mahler

Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, UVA

“La solidaridad sur-sur: Activismo negro, indígena, y latinx desde el movimiento por losderechos civiles a Black Lives Matter”

Esta charla examinará algunos ejemplos de activismo contemporáneo multiracial llevados a cabo por comunidades minoritarias en el contexto estadunidense. El análisis de estas manifestaciones considerará tanto la relación entre dichos movimientos y lo que se ha llamado la tradición de la izquierda tercermundista durante la Guerra Fría como las intersecciones y divergencias con el activismo negro e indígena en América Latina. Estudiaremos además la literatura y arte que han sido producidos por estos intercambios políticos y culturales y discutiremos los conflictos y logros sociales de estos ejemplos del activismo sur-sur.

Fernando Operé Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, UVA

“Los cautivos, víctimas marginales del encuentro de mundos”

Se tratará del impacto que el cautiverio tuvo como mecanismo de defensa de los nativos americanos frente a las invasions europeas. El fenómeno cubrió cientos de años, practicamente desde las llegada de Colón en el siglo XV, hasta bien avanzado el siglo XX. Lo cual da cuenta de que la Resistencia Indígena nunca cesó, así como los mecanismos de adaptación.

Ricardo Padrón Associate Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, UVA

"Visión de los vencidos:un manual para la antología de relatos indígenas de la conquista deMéxico compilada por Miguel León Portilla.”

En su obra clásica,Visión de los vencidos, el antropólogo mexicano Miguel León Portilla junta relatos de la conquista de México tomados de una variedad de documentos escritos por autoresmestizos durante el siglo XVI, o de testimonios de indígenas mexicanos. Su libro ofrece una extraordinaria alternativa a las visiones de la conquista que dan conquistadores como Hernán Cortés y Bernal Díaz del Castillo, pero también tiende trampas para el estudiante incauto que pueda pensar que este libro es algo que no es. Este “manual” a la obra de León Portilla examinaalgunas de estas trampas y busca establecer el texto como un estudio de cómo la memoria histórica se crea, se usa y se abusa.

Alicia Salinas Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, UVA

“Voces mayas contemporáneas: Visiones variadas desde la Península de Yucatán”.

Aunque en los siglos pasados, autores no indígenas eran los que representaban a los mayas de la Península de Yucatán en sus obras, desde los años 80, los mismos mayas han fomentado una creciente actividad literaria que se conoce internacionalmente. Vamos a ver cómo estos autoresrepresentan su cultura maya desde el contexto del siglo XXI, junto con algunas consideraciones acerca de qué significa escribir en una lengua mayormente oral.

This event was hosted on April 29, 2017, 5:00 am at the University of Virginia.

A Free Professional Development Workshop for K-12 Teachers

The Center for Liberal Arts, with the sponsorship of UVA’s Institute for Global Humanities and Culture, aims at contributing to the enhancement of the learning goals of Virginia high schools in preparation for the global scene the students will enter by offering a workshop on “From the Global South: Perspectives on Francophone African Literature, Cinema, and Culture.”

Scholars from UVA and Washington & Lee will share their expertize on this region in a series of presentations on major literary texts and films by African artists. Each presentation will take into account pertinent pedagogical issues and each presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. (If possible a group discussion on the day’s program will conclude the workshop).

This program will be conducted in French.

This program is sponsored by the Center for the Liberal Arts and UVA's Institute for Global Humanities and Culture

This event was hosted on April 8, 2017, 5:00 am at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia.

C.L.A. Universidad de Virginia

Este año el Taller de Primavera está dedicado a estudiar distintos aspectos de la inmigración hispanoamericana a los Estados Unidos tomando en cuenta factores históricos, políticos, sociales, además de literarios

Organizer:

Gustavo Pellón, Director del Proyecto de Lenguas Extranjeras

Speakers:

Profesor Daniel Chávez, Universidad de New Hampshire - “La inmigración centroamericana y mexicana a los EEUU”

Profesora Mané Lagos, Universidad de Virginia - “Retrato de una artista cubano americana: Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) en un poema de la poeta cubana Nancy Morejón”

Profesor Gustavo Pellón, Universidad de Virginia - “La cultura cubana del exilio”

Agenda:

• 9:00 - 9:30 Inscripción de participantes
• 9:30 - 9:45 Preguntas antes del taller
• 9:45 - 10:15 "Despertar del sueño americano: historia, literatura y cine de la migración mexicana y centroamericana" Primera parte - Daniel Chávez 
• 10:15 - 10:30 Discusión en grupos
• 10:30 - 11:00 "Despertar del sueño americano: historia, literatura y cine de la migración mexicana y centroamericana" Segunda parte - Daniel Chávez 
• 11:00 - 11:50 “Retrato de una artista cubano americana: Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) en un poema de la poeta cubana Nancy Morejón” - Mané Lagos
• 11:50 - 12:00 Preguntas
• 12:00 - 1:00 Almuerzo y reunión anual de la AATSP
• 1:00 - 1:50 “La cultura cubana del exilio” - Gustavo Pellón
• 1:50 - 2:00 Preguntas
• 2:00 - 2:30 Dividir a los participantes en grupos
• 3:00 - 3:15 Preguntas a responder después del taller
• 3:00 - 3:30 Discusión general

This event was hosted on April 23, 2016, 5:00 am at Zehmer Hall, UVA

THE CENTER FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS IS PROUD TO PRESENT A FREE SATURDAY SPANISH WORKSHOP FOR ALL K-12 VIRGINIA TEACHERS

Para celebrar el aniversario de la publicación de la segunda parte de Don Quijote en 1615, el Center for the Liberal Arts de la Universidad de Virginia invita a los maestros y maestras de K-12 del estado de Virginia a un taller sobre Don Quijote y su impacto en la cultura mundial. Hemos reunido a profesores de la Universidad de Virginia que son expertos cervantistas para guiarnos en este taller que examina el legado de la novela de Miguel de Cervantes. 

Organizer:

Gustavo Pellón, Director del Proyecto de Lenguas Extranjeras, C.L.A., Universidad de Virginia

Presenters:

Alison Weber

Ricardo Padrón

Michael Gerli

Agenda:

• 9:00 - 9:30 Inscripción de participantes.
• 9:30 - 9:45 Presentación: Gustavo Pellón. David Gies: el Quijote en ¡Cine con Clase!
• 9:45 - 10:15 1. “Una lectura detallada de la segunda parte de Don Quijote: capítulos 9, 10 y 11” - Alison Weber
• 10:15 - 10:30 Discusión en grupos.
• 10:30 - 11:00 2. “Una lectura detallada de la segunda parte de Don Quijote: capítulos 9, 10 y 11”. Continuación - Alison Weber
• 11:00 - 11:50 “La segunda parte de Don Quijote y la modernidad” - Ricardo Padrón
• 11:50 - 12:00 Preguntas.
• 12:00 - 1:00 Almuerzo y reunión anual de la AATSP
• 1:00 - 1:50 "Don Quijote y la novela: de Cervantes a Graham Greene” - Michael Gerli
• 1:50 - 2:00 Preguntas.
• 2:00 - 3:00 Dividir a los participantes en grupos. Ronda de los presentadores.
• 3:00 - 3:30 Preguntas.

This event was hosted on April 18, 2015, 5:00 am at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia

Organizer:

Gustavo Pellón, Director del Proyecto de Lenguas Extranjeras, C.L.A. Universidad de Virginia

Presenters:

Alison Weber

Ricardo Padrón

Daniel Chávez

Gustavo Pellón

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:00 Inscripción de participantes
• 9:00 - 9:05 Presentación: Gustavo Pellón
• 9:05 - 9:50 El Lazarillo de Tormes - Alison Weber
• 9:50 - 10:00 Preguntas y descanso
• 10:00 - 10:45 La picaresca - Alison Weber
• 10:45 - 11:00 Preguntas y descanso
• 11:00 - 11:45 Hernán Cortés - Ricardo Padrón
• 11:45 - 12:00 Preguntas.
• 12:00 - 1:00 Almuerzo y reunión anual de la AATSP
• 1:00 - 1:45 La visión de los vencidos de Miguel León Portilla - Daniel Chávez
• 1:45 - 2:00 Preguntas y descanso
• 2:00 - 2:45 Nuestra América de José Martí - Gustavo Pellón
• 2:45 - 3:00 Preguntas.
• 3:00 - 3:15 Mesa redonda con todos los panelistas. 

This event was hosted on April 26, 2014, 4:30 am.

Organizers:

Gustavo Pellón, Director del Proyecto de Lenguas Extranjeras, C.L.A. Universidad de Virginia

Pedro Larrea Rubio, Ph.D., instructor de la Universidad de Virginia. "Introducción al ritmo en la poesía hispánica".

Presenters:

Alison Weber, profesora de la Universidad de Virginia. "'En breve cárcel': Cómo analizar un soneto".

Andrew Anderson, profesor de la Universidad de Virginia. "Acercamientos a la poesía de Lorca (Con 'Preciosa y el aire' como ejemplo)"

Allison Libbey, candidata de doctorado, la Universidad de Virginia. "El arte y la ciencia de la traducción de la poesía".

This event was hosted on April 13, 2013, 4:30 am at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia.

French Teachers Workshop

La Francophonie dans tous ses états (perspectives litétraires, Iinguistiques culturelles et artistiques)

Presenters:

Alison Levine, Department of French Language and Literature, UVA

Stéphanie Bérard, Department of French Language and Literature, UVA

Katy Montminy Jones

Christian Hommel, Department of French Language and Literature, UVA

Organisation de la journée:

• 8:30 - 9:15 inscription
• 9:15 - 9:30 accueil des participants et introduction sur les pays et régions francophones dans Ie monde : une francophonie plurielle
• 9:30 - 10:30 Afrique: Alison Levine - "De la colonie à la postcolonie: l'Afrique au cinéma"
• 10:30 - 10:45 Pause
• 10:45 - 11:45 Caralbe : Stéphanie Bérard - "Le voyage de l' Afrique a la Caraïbe en images et en musique"
• 12:00 - 13:00 Déjeuner
• 13:00 - 14:00 Québec: Katy Montminy Jones - "L'histoire du Québec dans sa chanson"
• 14:00 - 15:00 Christian Hommel - "De la Ouébécitude à l'Américanité: Pour en finir avec "Vive Ie Québec libre""

This event was hosted on December 1, 2012, 3:30 am at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia.

Organizer:

Gustavo Pelión, Director del Proyecto de lenguas Extranjeras, CLA

Los profesores Fernando Operé, Daniel Chávez, y la candidata de doctorado Ashley Kerr, todos del Departamento de Español, Italiano y Portugués de la Universidad de Virginia y el conferenciante invitado Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Profesor de Historia del Arte en la California State University de Los Angeles, presentarán distintos acercamientos a la obra de los grandes muralistas mexicanos

(Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, y José David Alfaro Siqueiros) y los situarán en su contexte artÍstico, histórico y cultural. Damos las gracias a la maestra o maestro que sugirió este tema fascinante en las evaluaciones del taller

del año pasado.

This event was hosted on April 14, 2012, 5:00 am at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia.

Saturday Spanish workshop for teachers

Organizer:

Gustavo Pellón, Director of the Foreign Language Project, CLA

Los participantes de este taller tendrán la oportunidad de oir y conversar con Fernando Operé (profesor de espanol de UVA y poeta) y el escrltor argentino Mempo Giardinelli sobre acercamientos a la poesía, el cuento, y la novela en el aula y fuera de ella. En Argentina Mempo Giardinelli ha lanzado una serie de programas para fomentar la lectura que han tenido mucho éxlto con resonancia internacional. Fernando Operé, además de ser poeta, ha organizado talleres de poesÍa y por 30 años ha presentado obras de teatro en español en Charlottesville en las cuales los estudiantes representanjunto con losprofesores. EI taller será una mezcla deconferencias y oportunidades para conversary hacer preguntas. Ambos Giardinelli y Operé son veteranos de talleres pasados.

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:00 Inscripción de participantes
• 9:00 - 9:05 Presentación - Gustavo Pellón
• 9:05 - 9:50 Argentina. Construir un país. La cultura y la literatura en el siglo XIX - Fernando Operé
• 9:50 - 10:00 Descanso
• 10:00 - 10:45 Lectura y democracia. De Lugones a Borges y Soriano - Mempo Giardinelli 
• 10:45 - 11:00 Descanso
• 11:00 - 11:45 La poesía y sus expresiones - Fernando Operé
• 11:45 - 12:00 Palabras sobre Marilyn Barrueta - David Gies
• 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch Annual AATSP Meeting - Sheila Cockey
• 1:00 - 1:45 La narrativa y sus expresiones - Mempo Giardinelli
• 1:45 - 2:00 Descanso
• 2:00 - 3:00 Conversación en grupos
• 3:00 - 3:30 Discusión general y preguntas

This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the Center for the Liberal Arts

This event was hosted on April 9, 2011, 8:30 am at the University of Virginia.

Presenters:

Kandioura Dramé, Associate professor of French, French Projects Director

Mohamed Kamara, Associate professor of French, Washington & Lee University

Dr. Isabelle Reeves, Saint Anne's Belfield School

Jean-Christophe Kasende, Assistant Professor of French, Dalhousie University

Agenda:

• 8:30 - 9:15 Registration and coffee
• 9:15 - 9:30 Welcome - Kandioura Dramé
• 9:30-10:45  Défense et illustration de la culture africaine dans SARZAN, conte de Birago Diop - Mohamed Kamara
• 10:45 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 12:15 INDIGÈNES de Rachid Bouchareb : quand la rnernoire defie I' Histoi re - Dr. Isabelle Reeves
• 12:15 - 1:15 Lunch
• 1:15 - 2:30 Littéreture francophone afro-antillaise et evaluation du procès historique et culturel. Jean-Christophe Kasende

This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

This event was hosted on November 6, 2010, 4:30 am at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia,

Presenters:

Profesor Michael Gerli, Departamento de español, italiano y portuqués, Universidad de Virginia

Profesor Alison Weber, Departamento de español, italiano y portuqués, Universidad de Virginia.

Profesor Gustavo Pellón, Departamento de español, italiano y portuqués, Universidad de Virginia.

Sheila Cockey

Ana MarÍa Shúa

Agenda:

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:45 LosjudÍos ibéricos y las conversiones al cristianismo antes de 1492. Profesor Michael Gerli

9:45 - 10:00 Descanso

10:00 - 10:45 EI criptojudaÍsmo en el Nuevo Mundo durante los siglos XVI y XVII. Profesor Alison Weber

10:45 - 11:00 Descanso

11:00 - 11:45 La literatura judÍa en Hispanoamérica moderna. Profesor Gustavo Pellón

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and Annual AATSP Meeting - Sheila Cockey

1:00 - 1:45 escritora argentina, nos contará cómo se hizo escritora y nos leerâ selecciones de sus obras - Ana MarÍa Shúa

1:45 - 2:00 Descanso

2:00 - 3:00 Conversación en gnipos. Nos dividiremos en cuatro grupos y haremos una rotación cada 15 minutos para que todos los participantes puedan conversar con los conferenciantes.

3:00 - 3:30 Discusión general y preguntas.

This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

This event was hosted on April 17, 2010, 4:30 am at the University of Virginia.

Agenda:

8:00 - 8:15 Registration

8:15 - 8:45 Annual AATSP Meeting - Sheila Cockey

9:00 - 9:45 "Fronteras Invisibles: Los Moriscos de España 1500 - 1614" - Alison Weber

9:45 - 10:00 Descanso

10:00 - 10:45 "Cautivos: La resistencia indígena a la colonización europea" - Fernando Operé

10:45 - 11:00 Descanso

11:00 - 12:00 "Vivir la Frontera, Historia y Cultura Transnacional Mexico-Estados Unidos" - Daniel Chavez

12:00 - 1:00 Almuerzo

1:00 - 1:45 Discusión en grupos.

1:45 - 2:00 Descanso

2:00 - 2:30 Representaciones cinematograficas de la frontera - Daniel Chavez

2:30 - 3:30 Discusión.

This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

This event was hosted on April 25, 2009, 4:00 am at the University of Virginia.