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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Inside this edition Fall 2018 2 Director’s Greeting 3 CLACS News-Title VI 4-6 El Foro 7 Braceros 8-12 CLACS Events 13-18 Faculty Accomplishments 18-19 Student Accomplishments/Alumni Corner
Photo-submitted by Rowena Galavitz
DIRECTOR’S GREETING CLACS is in a good place at this end of the year: we have become a National Resource Center again, having received Title VI funds for the next four years from the U.S. Department of Education to conduct outreach projects and expand the teaching of Latin American languages as well as interdisciplinary research. We’ve also received FLAS fellowships, supporting graduate and undergraduate students each year. Thanks to all those of you who have brought to us your ideas and initiatives; we look forward to working with you! Having received this grant means that we have grown our team of amazing people assisting us with programming, outreach, and grant administration: Sonia Manríquez, one of our very own CLACS M.A. graduates, is now with us as program manager, and Dan Kreider was our undergraduate intern, along with our wonderful graduate assistants Rosie Eyerman Motz and John “Monty” Montgomery. Then there’s our regular programming this semester: El Foro has been dedicated to inviting faculty from IU regional campuses to present their research in progress to the Bloomington community. We were excited to feature Olimpia Rosenthal (IUB); E. Angeles Martínez Mier (IUPUI), William J. Mello (IU Northwest), and Hayley Froysland (IU South Bend). The Brazilian Studies Group and the Portuguese Program also put together a slate of events. These included a screening, with the presence of director Maria Augusta Ramos, of The Trial, a recent documentary about Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment; visits by writer Alexandra Lucas Coelho and scholars Clara Rowland (New University of Lisbon) and Bryan McCann (Georgetown University). Not to mention Anélia Pietrani, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a visiting fellow in the Lilly Library, who presented her research on gender and poetic consciousness in three Brazilian women writers. We also had wwo Mexico-related events. Between October 26 and November 20, the John Waldron Arts Center of Ivy Tech Community college hosted a “Braceros,” a photo exhibit curated by John Mraz. In conjunction with it, there was a roundtable on “Mexican Labor in Indiana” and a Day of the Dead Altar created by local artist Luz López. Second, IU hosted renowned Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa, who met with students and faculty for a day of conversations in Spanish and in English. As many of you know already, in the spring there will be a host of events themed “Mexico Remixed,” organized by the Arts and Humanities Council. I hope many of you can take the opportunity to attend. Finally, throughout the semester, as usual there was a wonderful program of concerts by the Latin American Music Center, written up in this issue by LAMC Director Javier León. The semester ended with high notes for three of our faculty: Christy Ochoa was named Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor, Anya Peterson Royce was honored with the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, and Serafín Coronel-Molina was named Bicentennial Professor. Many congratulations to them for such outstanding achievements! Wishing you a happy holidays and a restful end of the year. Felices fiestas, boas festas!
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CLACS NEWS: TITLE VI FUNDING A Title VI National Resource Center by Bryan Pitts
In August, CLACS received the news that it has been selected as a National Resource Center in Latin American and Caribbean Studies by the US Department of Education, one of only 17 institutions nationwide to receive this designation, and one of the highest honors that any area studies program can received. The grant includes $860,000 over four years to support language and area studies teaching, conferences and events, faculty travel, library acquisitions, and outreach to teachers, community colleges, and minority-serving higher education institutions. Some of the events we have scheduled this year include a spring conference, organized by Chancellor’s Professor Anya Peterson Royce on indigenous language and cultural activism in Mexico; a visiting Latin American documentary filmmaker whose work centers on minority languages and cultures; and a screening of the Brazilian documentary The Trial (held in October). Outreach events include El GrandEXPO, which will bring Indiana high school students to IU to learn about our Spanish and Portuguese program; a Portuguese Pedagogy Workshop designed to stimulate Portuguese instruction in Indiana high schools; and a variety of international education initiatives carried out in collaboration with the Center for P-16 Research and Collaboration. Finally, we have developed two new collaborations with minority-serving institutions. Carmen Medina will use Title VI funds to develop a program at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón to train pre-service teachers in Critical and Cultural Literacy. At Navajo Technical University in New Mexico, we anticipate CLACS faculty with research on indigenous language and cultural education and activism helping NTU administrators and faculty develop contacts with indigenous educators and institutions in Latin America. Undergraduate and graduate students should keep their eyes open for a variety of hourly positions and assistantships related to the initiatives we are using the grant to carry out. Faculty should be aware of the funds available for domestic and international travel. CLACS faculty on other IU campuses are also eligible to request grants to fund bringing speakers to their own campuses. In addition, CLACS has received an additional $948,000 in funding for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships: four graduate and three undergraduate fellowships per academic year and eight fellowships per summer. FLAS fellowships are open to US citizens and permanent residents and are intended to support the study of Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Maya, and Quechua. The fellowships include a tuition remission, a stipend, and health insurance (for graduate students).
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LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH FORUM: EL FORO Vasco de Quiroga’s Utopian Socio-Spacial Experiments, and the Racializing Effects of the Dual Republic Model. by Patrick Dove
On September 6th, Professor Olimpia Rosenthal gave an informative and engaging talk drawn from her current research project, entitled “Vasco de Quiroga’s Utopian Socio-Spatial Experiments and the Racializing Effects of the Dual Republic Model.” The presentation highlighted the role played by Vasco de Quiroga, the first bishop of Michoacán, New Spain (1531-35), on the design and implementation of the segregated system known as the Dual Republics. Drawing from Thomas More’s Utopia, Vasco de Quiroga’s most important contribution to this “spatial politics of concentration” came in the organization of enclosed towns—Repúblicas de indios—that not only lent material support to the politics of segregation but also initiated a racialized biopolitics through which the institutions and mechanisms of colonial power were increasingly directed toward the administration of life itself. In this respect, Professor Rosenthal builds on recent work by Daniel Nemser on the spatial politics of concentration in colonial Mexico. The influence of More’s 1516 treatise in this context is two-fold. In addition to the modelling of social space on the layout of the monastery, More’s text takes up early-modern English practices associated with the origins of capitalism, including the criminalization of vagabondage and the legal practice of enclosure, in which parcels of land used by peasant communities were consolidated into a single, enclosed estate, access to which was restricted to the landed elite. Whereas More’s text alone attests to how the historical genesis of capitalism relied on the legalized violence of expropriation in England, the link between More and Vasco de Quiroga illuminates the role played by colonialism and its bio-necropolitical forms in the history of modernity. In this context, Professor Rosenthal’s presentation complements recent work by Orlando Bentancor on colonialism and modernity in his The Matter of Empire.
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LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH FORUM: EL FORO Lessons Learned: Oral Health Research in Mexico by Sonia Manriquez
On October 1, 2018, as part of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies El Foro lecture series, Dr. E. Angeles Martínez Mier presented her a talk based on her research and outreach experiences titled, “Lessons Learned: Conducting Oral Health Research in Mexico. “ The ELEMENT project began in 1994, spanned over twenty-four years, and included over two thousand women and children. Dr. Martínez Mier’s ELEMENT project centered on fluoride toxicity in expectant mothers in rural Mexico. However, the lessons she shared with the group were applicable to a broad spectrum of research topics in international healthcare. She noted the importance of thorough patient charting and records to effective research. Treatments for the project were performed to examine prenatal fluoride exposure and cognitive outcomes in affected children. She created La Casita, or little house, which provided a welcoming environment where participants felt comfortable without the confines of the traditional clinical settings. This environment allowed her to conduct more in-depth research by taking into consideration the needs of its participants. Through the collected data of the Element Project, Professor Martínez Mier found that higher maternal fluoride levels found in urine analysis was linked to lower IQ scores in children, an important breakthrough for child development and health research. A crucial point made in the presentation was the importance of cross-cultural understanding and the need for culturally appropriate materials to explain research projects to a given population. Dr. Martínez Mier urged attendees and those conducting international research to value the extensive knowledge of local communities. She described what is known in rural Mexican areas as a promatora, a respected woman in a given community that advises those around her. Martinez Mier and her team were able to promote dental treatments to a wider population by embracing the social networks already in the community. She stressed the importance of working in unison with the local community to promote health and produce effective results. Lastly, she advised that students and educators alike break free from our own ethnocentric viewpoints by treating others as equals. She encouraged an appreciation for knowledge outside of academia and to learn more about the communities where we center our work and studies. Her research and ongoing contributions to dental health care are setting a standard for dental health promotion as well as international health research.
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LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH FORUM: EL FORO Work until You Die: The Effects of the 2016 Coup on the Brazilian Working Class by John (Monty) Montgomery
William J. Mello, Associate Professor of Labor Studies at IU Northwest, joined us for our third El Foro of the fall to present “Work Until You Die: The Effects of the 2016 Coup on the Brazilian Working Class.” In light of the deep economic changes made in Brazil after the 2016 impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, Mello began by pondering, “With absolute freedom for the market, who will defend the poor?” Reflecting on this question, the talk detailed the erosion of union and social movement power in the wake of the questionable removal of President Rousseff. Mello contended that the deep-reaching economic reforms on social security, nationalized industries, and collective bargaining enacted after Rousseff’s impeachment have had a tremendously negative impact on the Brazilian working class. The talk concluded with a lively Q&A session.
A ‘Degenerate’ Race?: Charity, Morality, and Public Health Reforms in Colombia’s Quest to Progress, 1883-1930 by Bryan Pitts
On November 29, Professor Hayley Froysland, Associate Professor in the Department of History at IU South Bend, came to Bloomington to give the fourth and final El Foro lecture. She presented a talk titled “A ‘Degenerate’ Race? Charity, Morality, and Public Health Reforms in Colombia’s Quest to Progress, 1883-1930,” which was drawn from her in-progress book manuscript. The “degeneration” of the Colombian “race” was a source of constant preoccupation for Colombian elites in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, yet the causes posited and solutions proposed varied widely across time. In the late 19th century, Colombian intellectuals cast this degeneration as above all a problem of morality, particularly the supposed immorality of the darker-skinned working classes. That is, individual morality determined the physical health of the nation. Starting in the early 20th century, however, doctors and public health experts began to argue that the root cause of “degeneration” was a lack of physical health. That is, individual and public health determined the moral wellbeing of the nation. Prof. Froysland offered an engaging interpretation of the reasons behind this shift and the process by which it played out.
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CLACS IN THE COMMUNITY: THE BRACEROS EXHIBIT by: Rosie Eyerman Motz
From October 26 to November 20, CLACS had the privilege of displaying the BRACEROS photo exhibit at Ivy Tech’s John Waldron Arts Center. The exhibit was designed by renowned documentary photographer John Mraz, a humanities and social sciences research professor at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and was previously on display at the National Museum of Mexican Railroads. The original photos were taken by The Hermanos Mayo, Spanish republicans who went into exile in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War. The Bracero Program was established in 1942 and lasted 22 years. It brought 5 million Mexican guest workers to the United States to assist primarily in agriculture, and later to work on railroads and in steel mills. During this time, The Hermanos Mayo documented the braceros from the Mexican point of view. Images include scenes from the recruiting centers, emotional goodbyes to families, protests in Mexico City, and the return home from their work in the United States. The month long exhibit included local artist Luz López, who designed a Day of the Dead altar inside the photo exhibit space, and singer Diana Velazquez, who performed her music at the opening reception. Various media outlets in Bloomington including Bloom Magazine and The Bloomington Ryder featured the Braceros exhibit. Roundtable: Mexican Labor in Indiana Corresponding with the exhibit, CLACS organized a roundtable on Mexican labor in Indiana. Discussants included Miriam Acevedo Davis (La Plaza), Professor Sergio Lemus (Latino Studies Program, IU Bloomington), Professor Michael Snodgrass (Dept. of History, IUPUI), and Jane Walter (El Centro Comunal Latino). Sylvia Martínez (Latino Studies Program, IU Bloomington) moderated the event. Each discussant brought a different perspectiveb from the historical perspective of Professor Snodgrass about the Bracero Program and labor in Indiana, to the compelling story Jane Walter told about daily life and work of Latinx families in Monroe County. Engaging discussion during the question and answer session included themes like classification and identification of Latinxs, types of Latinx laborers, seasonal migrant Latinx workers in rural Indiana and migrant labor camps, and Latinx children’s responses to current media rhetoric. The Continuation of the Exhibit Next spring semester, The BRACEROS Exhibit will be displayed digitally at the Herman B Wells Library and at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, as a part of the Indiana University’s Mexico Remixed initiative. CLACS is now invitin other universities across the country to host the exhibit in the months and years ahead.
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CLACS EVENTS Public Scholarship workshop by Ricardo Martins
Professor Lessie Jo Frazier’s Public Scholarship Workshop was helpful in understanding particularities involving academic engagement in social issues while maintaining a level of neutrality in our professional activities, both within and beyond the university setting. By maintaining neutrality, a scholar preserves his/her credibility, and gaining access to agencies and groups in the pursuit of social justice and equality becomes less problematic. Frazier’s personal examples on how to navigate through university bureaucratic levels, and navigating the intricacies of governmental agencies in her work as an expert witness for Central American asylum requests, provided an excellent background on what to expect during problematic situations, especially those involving immigration and Latino rights in the United States. Additionally, Professor Frazier explained how some governmental agencies, particularly in Central America, understand legal frameworks and legitimate US scholarship procedures, and its paramount importance to work within this framework to manipulate the system in one’s favor. Professor Frazier discussed how one’s status as a scholar lends credibility to this kind of advocacy. The legal system places great stock in the expert opinion that scholars can provide, and may tilt the balance in favor of a person receivin asylum.
Happy Hour by Bryan Pitts
Fall 2018 saw the introduction of a new activity aimed at building a stronger sense of community among CLACS faculty and students across disciplines. CLACS Happy Hours, held at Bloomington’s new Switchyard Brewing Company on the last Friday of each month, brought together graduate students and (a few) faculty to socialize, make new friends, and talk about topics of contemporary relevance in Latin America. For the first semester, the topics of conversation were the protests that have shaken the government of Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, the presidential election in Brazil, the economy in Argentina under Mauricio Macri, and the migrant caravan that has arrived at the U.S. border. The Happy Hour will continue in the spring with new topics and (hopefully) CLACS finding a way to pay for the first few pitchers of beer! Enfoque-Page 8
CLACS EVENTS A Visit by Carmen Boullosa, Mexican author by Andrea Carrillo
Renowned Mexican author Carmen Boullosa visited IU on November 5. She was attending the American Literary Translators Association meeting held in Bloomington and subsequently came to IU to participate in events sponsored by IU CLACS, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and CAHI (College of Arts and Humanities Institute). In the morning workshop, conducted in Spanish, Boullosa spoke to faculty and students about her role and positioning among Mexican writers in the aftermath of the 1968 worldwide uprisings, including the infamous one that occurred at Tlatelolco. With visual aids, Boullosa gave context about the scope and impact of these protests in the world and in Mexico and explained how the events of that year set the stage for artistic and cultural flourishing in Mexico, along with new international and foreign policies that affected the country. Boullosa spoke about the impact on those who revolted in 1968 of the Mexican “Dirty War,” carried out under the guise of the U.S.-financed War on Drugs. She also spoke about trends in cultural and artistic movements in Mexico, such as the 1968 feminist movement in art; the Generación de la Ruptura, which rejected folk Mexican art; and the Neomexcanista movement, which parodied Mexican folk art with a focus on popular culture. She also spoke about her own generation as one deeply influenced by neoliberalism and other previous intellectual and political movements. Towards the middle of the workshop, Boullosa gave more details about her generation and her own works. It was interesting to hear that during Boullosa’s generation (1970s), well-known literary and artistic figures such as Nellie Campobello and Frida Kahlo were not part of the cultural canon and were either forgotten or held in disregard in Mexico. Towards the end of the workshop, Boullosa discussed excerpts from her novel Texas (2013) and her essay “El agitador y las fiestas,” which was a more intimate view of her role in the Mexican literary world during her formative years and interactions with literary figures like Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolaño, a Chilean member of the Infrarrealista movement. Students and faculty were invited to ask Boullosa questions at the end of the workshop. Afterwards, a group of graduate students and faculty joined her for lunch and socialized with the famous author.
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CLACS EVENTS LAMC events by Javier Leon
During Fall 2018, the Latin American Music Center worked on a number of different events and activities, designed to dovetail with and support the Mexico Remixed Program organized by the IU Arts and Humanities Council. Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste, a volunteer student mariachi that grew out of a joint initiative between the Latin American Music Center, the La Casa Cultural Center and the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, helped to launch the start of Mexico Remix by performing at the First Thursday Festival at the IU Auditorium on November 1. Additionally, numerous performances were held by the mariachi group within IU and the greater Bloomington area including their end-of-semester performance on Sat Dec 1 at the Musical Arts Center which allowed the LAMC to bid farewell to the mariachi’s director, Jonathan de la Cruz, a recent graduate of Jazz Studies at the Jacobs School of Music, whose hard work, passion and dedication, made possible the creation of this group. LAMC hosted and collaborated on a number of other events that provided connections to Mexico Remixed. The November 15 iteration of our Salón Latino Chamber Music Series, was featured in the official Mexico Remix. Art Song of Mexico a special project devoted to Mexican repertoire for voice and chamber ensemble; was curated by noted mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley, who joined the Jacobs School of Music as a new faculty member in August of this year. Professor Bentley, acting artistic director for this event, performed songs by Manuel de Zumaya and Silvestre Revueltas, while students from her studio performed a series of songs by Manuel Ponce. The recital also included a selection of Nahuatl-language songs by Salvador Moreno performed by doctoral voice student Alejandra Martínez. On October 11, as part of the Salón Latino chamber music series, Las Aves Ensemble gave a concert titled Canciones de un ruiseñor, which featured 16th and 17th century music from Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Spain. Beyond providing another tie-in to Mexico Remixed, the performance by Las Aves helped to inaugurate a year-long project devoted to the exploration of the Latin American early music repertoire. On November 30 in collaboration with faculty and students from the Jacobs School of Music Historical Performance Institute, and under the directorship of doctoral student Sarah Cranor, the ensemble performed its first concert titled Baroque Masters in the New World, the concert featured 18th century instrumental and vocal music from Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Throughout the semester the LAMC sponsored and co-sponsored a number of other activities throughout campus and the surrounding community. During Hispanic Heritage Month, the Center coordinated with the City of Bloomington’s Latino Programs and Outreach to organize two community workshops on Andean and Afro-Peruvian music at the Bloomington City Hall Council Chambers on September 22. The LAMC also collaborated with choral director Susan Swaney and her choir Voces Novae on the concert titled “Sanctuary,” which featured the music of Peruvian composer Francisco Pulgar Vidal. Performances on October 22 were held in both Bloomington and in Bowling Green, IN. On October 24, the LAMC co-sponsored the visit of noted historian Bryan McCann, who gave the talk “Bossa Nova Longplay: Getz/ Gilberto after 50 years (or so).” Finally, for the second year, the center coordinated with the Guitar Department at Jacobs School of Music on the Indiana International Guitar Festival and Competition, sponsoring the Keynote Concert by master Uruguayan guitarist Álvaro Pierri on October 27.
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CLACS EVENTS Luso-Brazilian Cartographies by Estela Vieira
On October 22 the Brazilian Studies Group of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Portuguese Program of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese co-hosted a lecture event, “Luso-Brazilian Cartographies,” with two invited guest speakers: Portuguese writer Alexandra Lucas Coelho and Professor Clara Rowland from the New University of Lisbon. Lucas Coelho, a writer and journalist who has written four novels and five non-fiction books, gave a talk titled, “518 Years of Colonial Ghosts.” Her first novel won the Portuguese Association of Writers’ prize. Deus-dará, her third novel, set in contemporary Rio de Janeiro, where Lucas Coelho lived between 2010-2014, and whose genesis she discussed in her talk, is her most ambitious project to date and an arresting critique deconstructing Portugal’s colonial legacy. A novel that is as much Portuguese as it is Brazilian, this transatlantic revisionary narrative is a sort of Luso-Brazilian cosmogony whose hybrid language attempts to awaken our consciousness of the Lusophone postcolonial context. Clara Rowland, Associate Professor of Brazilian and Comparative Literature, followed with a talk on one of Brazil’s most important twentieth-century writers, “Maps of True Places: Material Cartographies in the Work of Guimarães Rosa.” Rowland is author of A forma do meio: livro e narração na obra de João Guimarães Rosa, a remarkable study of the form and concept of the book in the work of João Guimarães Rosa. Her research focuses primarily on issues of representation and materiality in modern literature and film. In addition to numerous articles on modern Brazilian literature, she has also published widely on film, including co-editing two volumes of essays on writing and film or cinema’s literariness. Clara Rowland was Visiting Professor in Indiana University’s Department of Comparative Literature in 2012.
Bryan McCann by Bryan Pitts
On October 25, CLACS, the Brazilian Studies Program, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Latin American Music Center welcomed Prof. Bryan McCann, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Georgetown University, to present his research on the cultural and social milieu that gave rise to the musical genre bossa nova. In “Bossa Nova Longplay: Getz/Gilberto after 50 Years (or so),” Prof. McCann discussed the meaning and magic of this iconic album bossa nova album. Why did Getz/Gilberto become the most famous bossa nova album? How did it come to define a certain seductive cosmopolitanism in the 1960s? What went into the making of the album and why did it resonate with its many admirers? How did it reflect and challenge the racial and class tensions of 1950s Rio de Janeiro and Brazil? Enfoque-Page 11
CLACS EVENTS The Trial by Bryan Pitts
On October 8, in the GISB Shreve Auditorium, CLACS had the honor of hosting Brazilian director Maria Augusta Ramos for a screening of her new documentary O Processo (The Trial), part of a multi-university tour she did across the United States to share this timely and vastly important work. The Trial provides an inside look at the 2016 impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, with a focus on the period between the opening of the process in April and her definitive removal from office in August. The documentary stands out for the total lack of narration or interviews; rather, it tells its story solely through following legislators, lawyers, demonstrators, and aides as they went about the day-to-day work of prosecuting or defending Brazil’s first woman president. The result is a film that pulls the viewer into the developing story and makes its point about the injustice of the impeachment without being obtrusive or pushy. While Ramos sought to interview key players from both sides of the issue, she found that supporters of the impeachment were largely unwilling to allow her camera crews in on their meetings, while the opponents of impeachment were eager to have their story told. As a result, the film gives much greater emphasis to the opponents of impeachment, a position clearly in keeping with the director’s own political sympathies. After the screening, Ramos spent nearly an hour answering questions from students, faculty, and the public. The next day, she shared her work in a Portuguese course and Prof. Jonathan Risner’s course on Transnational Hispanic Cinema.
Gender and Poetic Consciousness in the Works of Gilka Machado, Cecília Meireles, and Ana Cristina Cesar by Nilzimar Vieira (Mazinha)
On November 1, the Portuguese Program and the Brazilian Studies Group at IU hosted Professor Anélia Pietrani. Pietrani is an associate professor of Brazilian literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In her talk, Professor Pietrani discussed her research on Brazilian poetry produced by women. Pietrani pointed out that although a range of female literary voices are still overlooked by scholars and students, women’s poetry production has gradually gained space in Brazilian poetic tradition. Professor Pietrani deconstructed the image of simplification of Brazilian women’s poetic work by presenting pieces by Brazilian female poets Gilka Machado, Cecília Meireles, and Ana Cristina Cesar. Pietrani explained that among others poets, these poetic works are characterized by their sophistication in expressing women’s motifs. According to Pietrani, these writers break with the paradigms of Brazilian poetic traditions; they exalt female sexuality as in Gilka Machado’s work – which is considered scandalous and erotic. Furthermore, the writers denounce women’s oppressed condition as in Cecília Meireles’s poetic repertoire, represented by the never silenced imagination in the poem “Ballad of the ten casino dancers.” Pietrani’s interpretations showed that Brazilian female poetic voices are eloquent, and Brazilian women’s poetry resists being silenced by shattering conservative writing traditions.
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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Enrica J. Ardemagni,Professor Emerita, Department of Spanish and Portuguese • • • •
Elected President of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care. Elected to the board of the Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters. Elected as Administrator of the Educators Division of the American Translators Association. Appointed to the Leadership Council of the Interpreters Division of the American Translators Association.
Rev. A.B. Assensoh,Professor Emeritus
• Published “Migrant Stories: A Memoir of Living And Survival In The West And Asia,” October 2018 by Pan-African University Press of Austin, Texas, USA. • Co-presented with University of Oregon’s Political Science Professor and Equity and Inclusion Vice-President Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh a researched paper titled “The Need for Press Freedom in Africa,” at the 62nd Annual UNESCO Media Conference and 2018 World Press Freedom Day Observance Meeting at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra, Ghana. • Signed book contract with University of Oregon’s Political Science Professor and Equity and Inclusion VP Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh to complete a 100,000-word biography of Muhammad Ali, which is to be published in 2019 by Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO Publishers of Santa Barbara, CA. • Wrote forward for “Learning from Well-Documented, Historical, and Ethnomusicological Research” Female Highlife Performers in Ghana: Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy, which was authored by IU AAADS Department’s Visiting Assistant Professor Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey, which was published by Lexington Books. • Wrote forward “In Honor of Professor Sulayman S. Nyang: In Search of True Pan-Africanism and Unity” for the book, African Intellectuals and the State of the Continent: Essays in Honor of Professor Sulayman S. Nyang. The 329-page festschrift, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing of the United Kingdom, honored Emeritus Professor Nyang of Howard University. • Awarded research and travel grant for emeritus professors from the IU Office of the Vice-President for Research (OVPR) to complete his book manuscript, “A Comparative Study of Mahatma Gandhi (India), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) and Martin Luther King, Jr. (USA)’”. • Appointed to editorial board of Journal of Global South Studies (JGSS). • Co-editor with Alex Assensoh for Journal of African and Asian Studies of The Netherlands, published by Brill Academic Press of Europe. • Awarded the 2018 Distinguished Humanitarian Award of African Studies and Research Forum (ASRF) of Southwest Georgia University. • Awarded the 2018 Life-Time Distinguished Achievement Award by Marqui’s WHO’S WH0, with a citation, a plaque and a certificate. • Listed in the latest edition of WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA.
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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Eduardo Brondizio, Professor, Department of Anthropology
• Published book, Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity, Strüngmann Forum Reports, Lele, S., E. S. Brondizio, J. Byrne, G. M. Mace, and J. Martinez-Alier (eds.). 2018. vol. 23, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 289. • Published “The urban south and the predicament of global sustainability.” Nagendra, H., X. Bai, E. S. Brondizio, S. Lwasa. 2018, Nature Sustainability 1(1) 341–349 (2018). • Received grants from institutions in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands, and Sweden and was awarded funding from respective national science foundation agencies (through international funders networks NORFACE and Belmont Forum) for the project “AGENTS: Amazonian Governance to Enable Transformations to Sustainability.”
Serafín Coronel-Molina, Associate Professor, School of Education
• Named a Bicentennial Professor, see this article: https://education.indiana.edu/newsevents/_news/2018/2018-12-12-coronel-molina.html.
Keith Dayton, Senior Lecturer, Kelley School of Business
• Published article, along with other authors, “Short-term global business immersion courses: Short-term program, long-term effects?”, Business Horizons, Vol. 61 issue 6, November–December 2018, Pages 903-911,https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1X~5o1lnoFwrI
César Félix-Brasdefer, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese • Published book, Pragmática del español: contexto, uso y variación, London: Routledge Press (2019), printed in October 2018.
Lessie Jo Frazier, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies and Gender Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of History, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies
• Published “Participatory Politics and the Meaning of Mexico ’68,” with Deborah Cohen. Thread: Journal of the Centre for Pan-African Media and Pan-Africa Today (Johannesburg, South Africa), forthcoming November 2018 (inaugural issue). • Published ”‘You can’t always get what you want’: Mexico ’68 and the Winter of Revolutionary Discontent” with D Cohen American Historical Review 2018 Volume 123 Issue 3, 739-743. • Presented “Más que mojo: género, sexo y las eróticas racializadas de 68 global,” with D. Cohen; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; October 16, 2018. • Attended “Gender and 1968,” with D. Cohen; Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico City, October 14-15, 2018. (Two-day graduate and faculty seminar solely about our work on gender and Mexico’68). • Presented “Borderlands Banditry: Frontier and Nation in 1940s U.S. and Mexican Zorro Films,” with D Cohen, XV Reunión Internacional de Historiadores, Guadalajara, Mexico, October 29, 2018. • Presented “On the Global Hot Seat: University Presidents facing the Global ’68 (Columbia, LSE, IU, UNAM)” with D. Cohen, Framing the Global Conference, September 2018 • Presented “Legados de México ‘68: género, política participativa y cambios en la cultura política,” with D. Cohen; Congreso Internacional de 50 años de 68: Utopía en movimiento; CCUT/UNAM, Mexico City; August 29, 2018. • Presented a “Public Scholarship Workshop” in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, November 30, 2018 • Conducted Oral history research, with D. Cohen, on the legacies of Mexico ’68, Mexico City October and November 2018. Enfoque-Page 14
FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Michael Gasser,Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Informatics and Computing and Cognitive Science
• Invited to give two talks at the Tercer Seminario en Traducción, Terminología y Lenguas Minorizadas; San Lorenzo, Paraguay; July 19-21, 2018.entitled “Mainumby: un ayudante para la traducción castellano-guaraní” and “La democratización del conocimiento y el desarrollo de las lenguas minorizadas en la Época Digital.” • Created web application, Mainumby, an experimental assistant for translation from Spanish to Guarani. Will be released on November 30. http://plogs.soic.indiana.edu/mainumby/.
Kimberly L. Geeslin, Professor, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Published book, The Cambridge handbook of Spanish linguistics, Geeslin, K. L. (Ed.), (2018), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 763 pages.
Gerardo Gonzalez, Professor, School of Education
• Published memoir, A Cuban Refugee’s Journey to the American Dream: The Power of Education, Indiana University Press, on August 1, 2018. In a review published in the August/ September issue of Bloom Magazine, Julie Gray wrote, “Much of González’s memoir is an argument for giving other immigrants the same chances he had.” Eduardo J. Padrón, President of Miami Dade College, said “Gerardo M. González brilliantly illustrates the joys and struggles of the refugee experience, and the inarguable role of education as an open door to opportunity.” The book will be featured at the Indiana Historical Society Holiday Author Fair in December and is available through IU Press and on Amazon.
Jeff Gould, Rudy Professor, Department of History
• Presented his documentary film Puerto El Triunfo/Port Triumph at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Columbia, Yale, the Instituto Mora (Mexico City), the Museo Nacional de Uruguay, the Universidad de San Martín (Buenos Aires), and the Universidad de San Andrés (Buenos Aires). • Fellow Spring semester at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies at the Universidad de Guadalajara.
Stephanie Kane,Professor, International Studies
• Delivered keynote speech: “Water Bodies/Human Bodies: Toward a Relational Forensics.” Global Issues, Cultural Perspectives: International Conference on Cultural and Global Criminology, The Willem Pompe Institute, Institute of Criminal Law of Utrecht University’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, 27 June. • Participated in “The Politics of Staging a Controlled Breach (Hoop and Holler, Assiniboine River, Manitoba 2014)” Urban Waterscapes Workshop: Cities, Space and Politics Working Group, Water, Space and Politics Workshop, University of California San Diego, 8 June. • Submitted competitive paper on “Infrastructural Edge as Internal Legal Frontier: Flood Control in Manitoba,” Infrastructures as Regulation at a Conference at the Institute for International Law and Justice, NYU Law School, 28-29 September. • Participated in Podcast: “Losing Ground,” an interview hosted and edited by Jonah Chester and Clay Catlin about her Themester seminar entitled “Arctic Encounters: Animals, People and Ships” and my involvement in the Ice Law Project, University of Durham England, October. Interview link: https://themester.indiana.edu/newsevents/podcasts/2018/kane.html.
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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Michael Martin, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
• Edited and contributed an interview and photo essay to a close-up on French filmmaker Claire Denis, “On the Colony’s Postcolony Encounter in Claire Denis’s Chocolat and White Material,” Black Camera, An International Film Journal, vol. 10, no. 1 (Fall) 2018: 99-122 and 144-155. • Participated in Podcast: “Losing Ground,” an interview hosted and edited by Jonah Chester and Clay Catlin about his Themester seminar entitled “Arctic Encounters: Animals, People and Ships” and his involvement in the Ice Law Project, University of Durham (UK), October. Interview link: https://themester.indiana.edu/newsevents/podcasts/2018/kane.html. • Published (w/David C. Wall and Marilyn Yaquinto) co-editors, Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in the Spook Who Sat By the Door, (Indiana University Press, 2018, 224 pp.).
Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History
• Published the co-authored book chapter “International Organizations and the Technologies of Governance,” in Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress (Cambridge University Press, 2018). • A French translation of her book, Le Projet Cybersyn: La cybernétique socialiste dans le Chili de Salvador Allende (Les Éditions B2, 2017), was named a book of the month (June 2018) in the science section of Le Monde Diplomatique. • Presented a chapter of her new book manuscript-in-progress, Bones and Lives, at Princeton University as part of the Davis Center seminar series on law and legalities. • Delivered the keynote talk at the annual meeting of the computer history society SIGCIS on the topic of “Stored in Memory”. • Appeared on the podcasts Greater than Code and Ventricles, the latter a podcast made by the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School. • Elected to the executive council of the Society for the History of Technology in October 2018.
John McDowell, Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
• Published “Transitionality: The Border as Barrier and Bridge.” In Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes, edited by Roberto Cantú. Cambridge Press. https://www. cambridgescholars.com/border-folk-balladeers. • Published “Folklore and Sociolinguistics.” Humanities 7, 9: 1-12. http://www.mdpi.com/20760787/7/1/9/pdf. • Published “Collage of Colors: Processing Place through Fantasy Play,” Children’s Folklore Review 39 (2018): 62-91. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cfr/article/ view/25376/31238. • Reviewed book by Paul V. Kroskrity and Anthony K. Webster, eds. The Legacy of Dell Hymes: Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. In Journal of American Folklore 131: 111-114.
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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Presented paper “Animal Agency in Sibundoy Ecospirituality” American Folklore Society, Buffalo, N.Y. • Presented paper “Carlos Tamoabioy: The Cultural Production of Ecological Protest” Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures , CLAS, Ohio State University. • Invited to be a visiting professor in the Anthropology Department at UC Berkeley for spring semester 2019.
Jason McGraw, Professor, Department of History
• Published “Sonic Settlements: Jamaican Music, Dancing, and Black Migrant Communities in Postwar Britain,” Journal of Social History (Winter 2018), 1-31.
Kathleen Myers. Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Received a CAHI Faculty Fellowship (2 course release) and her exhibit, “In the Shadow of Cortes: Veracruz to Mexico City,” continues to travel.
Anya Peterson Royce, Chancellor’s Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Comparative Literature
• Organizer and moderator “Voces del Pueblo: Lenguas Indígenas, Literatura, Culturas Vivas/ Voices of the People: Indigenous Languages, Literature, Cultures Alive,” IU/UNAM Gateway opening academic workshops, May 28-29, 2018. • Received Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, for distinguished research, creative activity, and teaching, 2018. https://news.iu.edu/stories/2018/03/iub/inside/19-bloomington-announces-sonneborn-provost-professors.html. • Published “Landscapes of the In-Between: Artists Mediating Cultures,” In The Artist Turned Inside-Out, a volume commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Helen Phelan and Graham Welch, eds. Routledge, in press, date of publication 2019. • Exhibited “Transformations: The Isthmus Zapotec of Juchitán,” 1967-2018. An Exhibit of Photographs by Anya Peterson Royce, Mathers Museum, August 21-December 10. • Presented “Cultural and Linguistic Vitality: The Isthmus Zapotec of Oaxaca,” Panel presentation, ALTA [American Literature and Translation Association], Annual meeting, Bloomington, November 3, 2018. • Presented “Eye of the Photographer,” lecture, Mathers Museum, November 8, 2018.
Jonathan Risner, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Published book in August 2018, SUNY Press entitled Blood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema. • Attended the Latin American Studies Association Conference in May 2018 in Barcelona and presented on contemporary underground cinema from Buenos Aires.
Olimpia E. Rosenthal, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Published “Guamán Poma and the Genealogy of Decolonial Thought.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2018. • Co-organized with Ishan Ashutosh “Visual and Material Cultures in Global Perspective.” 23rd Annual Cultural Studies Conference. Indiana University. September 28 and 29, 2018.
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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Presented “Vasco de Quiroga’s Socio-Spatial Experiments & the Racializing Effects of the Dual Republic Model.” CLACS El Foro. September 6, 2018. • Awarded Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award by the Graduate Student Advisory Counsel, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Fall 2018.
Darlene J. Sadlier, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Received a Bicentennial Funding grant for a 3-D supplement to her forthcoming book, The Lilly Library from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection, to be published by Indiana University Press.
Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, IUPUI
• Appointed as Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis beginning July 1, 2018. • Published español de los Estados Unidos. Unidad en la diversidad, New York: Academia Norteamericana de la lengua Española, 2018. ISBN978-0-99678215-9. • Presented “Ahmad Yamani: entre la interculturalidad y la rebeldía.” ¨Medio Siglo de Hispanismo en Egipto.¨ Asociación de Hispanistas en Egipto, Cairo, Egypt, November 25, 2018. • Presented with DeRose, Barbara (IU School of Nursing), Jing Wang, Kathryn Lauten, “Intercultural Opportunities for Health Professionals in Chinese, French and Spanish.” 50th Annual Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association Conference (IFLTA) held at the Sheraton Keystone, Indianapolis, IN on Saturday, November 3, 2018. • Presented “Migración y ausencia en la escritura de Alicia Borinsky y Lila Zemborain.” North American Academy of the Spanish Language Conference. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, October 5, 2018. • Presented “World Languages in Medical Humanities.” IUPUI School of Liberal Arts Panel, Medical Humanities Fair, Campus Center, IUPUI, September 26, 2018.
Alberto Varon, Associate Professor, Department of English and Latino Studies, Associate Director, Latino Studies Program
• Published book, Before Chicano: Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 (NYUP 2018), July 1.
STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS Kathryn Lehman. Ph.D. Student, Department of History • • • •
Received Forest History Society Walter S. Rosenberry Dissertation Fellowship. Received IU Office of Sustainability Research Development Grant. Received Tobias Center Research Promotion Grant. Received Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA) conference travel grant. • Presented paper “Liberation Radio in the Rainforest” at LASA 2018 in Barcelona. • Presented paper “La selva en llamas: el papel del fuego en los desastres en la Amazonía, 19701988” at SOLCHA in Liberia, Costa Rica.
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STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS Juan Sebastián Rojas E., Ph.D. Student, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
• Graduated from the PhD at the Dept. Folklore and Ethnomusicology, July 2018. • Received the International Travel Award from the Society for Education and Music Psychology Research (SEMPRE) to participate at the 1st Social Impact of Making Music Research Seminar in Helsinki, November, 2018. • Nov. 2018, Received the International Travel Award from the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) to present at their Annual Conference in Albuquerque, November, 2018. • Accepted position at Univerdidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia.
Daniel Runnels, Ph.D. Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese • Awarded the FLAS fellowship for Quechua for Spring 2019.
Rosemary Eyerman, MA student, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and School of Public Health • Awarded the FLAS fellowship for Quechua for Spring 2019.
Sydney Bunch, M.A. Student, School of Public and Environmental Affairs • Awarded the FLAS fellowship for Portuguese for Spring 2019.
Cora Reinhart, Undergraduate Student, School of Public Health • Awarded the FLAS fellowship for Haitian Creole for Spring 2019.
María González-Díaz, Undergraduate Student, Department of International Studies and Department of Spanish and Portuguese • Awarded the FLAS fellowship for Portuguese for Spring 2019.
ALUMNI CORNER David Nemer, Assistant Professor, School of Information Science, University of Kentucky • Authored a piece that was published in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/ world/2018/oct/25/brazil-president-jair-bolsonarowhatsapp-fake-news • Story was replicated in Portuguese in three major news outlets in Brazil: https://exame.abril. com.br/tecnologia/os-3-perfis-de-usuarios-do-whatsapp-que-ajudama-eleger-bolsonaro/; https://www.conversaafiada.com.br/politica/os-tres-tipos-de-usuarios-do-whatsapp-quevao-eleger-jair-bolsonaro; https://www.msn.com/pt-br/noticias/ciencia-e-tecnologia/os-3perfis-deusu%C3%A1rios-do-whatsapp-que-ajudam-a-eleger-bolsonaro/ar-BBOTX9r • Cited in a story published by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard: http://www.niemanlab. org/2018/10/what-to-know-about-whatsapp-in-brazil-ahead-ofsundays-election/ • Invited to write another piece for El País (the main news outlet in Spain and Spanish speaking countries): https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/10/26/opinion/1540565822_010438. html • Interviewed by Quartz: https://qz.com/india/1445013/whatapp-fake-news-helped-bolsonaro-win-brazil-is-indianext/, as well as three other news outlets in Brazil, the Guardian (which wants to run another article with an interview) and the New York Times.
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