CIAS-conference: Narrating, Representing, Reflecting ‘Disability:’ 21st Century ‘American’ Perspectives
30.06-01.07.2023 at Bielefeld University in room X-A2-103

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert & Sarah-Lena Essifi, M.A

Conference of the DFG-funded project: “Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Contemporary Literature
from the Contact Zones between the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean

Program here

"LAS GARZAS EN LA ESCRITURA DE WONG", CHARLA CON JULIA WONG KCOMT

La escritora, poeta y gestora cultural Julia Wong es una de las voces más destacadas de la literatura tusan (chino-peruana). Su escritura aborda con frecuencia temas relacionados con la identidad, la migración y los viajes. Ha publicado varios poemarios, libros de ficción, de prosa híbrida y colecciones de cuentos en distintos medios. 

Martes, 27 de junio
16-18 (DE) / 8-10 (MX)
X-E0-216

Zoom: ID de reunión: 617 0742 2122, Contraseña: 714012

COLLOQUIUM INFORMATION for Tuesday, June 20th 2023: Marjorie Agosín’s Poetic Voice of Hope and Resistance: An Anocritical Reading. Roberta Maierhofer (CIAS, Universität Graz)

By defining the field as a way of thinking and an approach to transcend cultural, political, and historical boundaries, Inter-American Studies offers an understanding of academia itself as in flux. Accepted boundaries of time and space as well as of language and culture – both in Europe and the Americas – are questioned, thus encouraging new structures of thought. A redefinition of research areas away from national connotations towards regional (hemispheric) denotations offer unexpected discoveries of similarities and differences. By applying the theoretical lens of anocriticism, Marjorie Agosín’s book A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile (1995/2022) can be read as a ‘narrative presence’, where an otherwise untold family history is remembered and recreated as a unique experience of past lives with implications for the present and future. Similar to the scripted recollections of her mother, Agosín uses the process of writing not to establish a chronological documentary, but to create a hopeful voice of poetic resistance to established modes of perception.

We are cordially inviting you to participate in our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, June 20th, from 18 to 20hrs (CET). Room: X-E1-201 // ¡Lxs invitamos cordialmente a participar en nuestro próximo coloquio, el martes 20 de junio de 18 a 20hrs (CET)! Salón: X-E1-201

COLLOQUIUM INFORMATION for Tuesday, June 6th 2023: IAS Thesis Lab / Laboratorio de Tesis / IAS Schreibwerkstatt

Estudiantes de la Maestría en Estudios InterAmericanos presentan sus tesis de maestría.

Michel Berge: “La élite nahua en el Valle de México durante el siglo XVI bajo dominio español. ¿Cómo cambió la situación de las élites indígenas durante el periodo colonial temprano y cómo reaccionaron ante ello?”

Irina Zudina: "The Problems of Justice and Re-Integration. Theorizing from Lived Experiences of Human Trafficking Survivors in Mexico: A Field Study"

We are cordially inviting you to participate in our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, June 6th, from 18 to 20hrs (CET). Room: X-E1-201

See full program here.

¡Lxs invitamos cordialmente a participar en nuestro próximo coloquio, el martes 06 de junio de 18 a 20hrs (CET)! Salón: X-E1-201

A continuación encontrarán el programa aquí