{"id":2209,"date":"2014-06-13T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/major-spanish\/?page_id=2209"},"modified":"2016-04-28T15:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:42:30","slug":"programs-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/major-spanish\/news-events\/programs-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Programs & Events"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spring\u00a02016:\u00a0<\/strong>On\u00a0Thursday March 31st, the film “EL Super” was screened and discussed with playwright, filmaker, and Latin jazz concert and record producer Iv\u00e1n Acosta. A classic of the cinema and theater of the Cuban diaspora, “El Super” humorously chronicles the life of a Cuban family in New York City\u00a0where the title character struggles to survive and get ahead in exile. The original play was written and directed by Acosta in 1977.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spring 2016:<\/strong>\u00a0On the Monday following Spring Break, Schomburg Distinguished Visiting Scholar\/Artist Roman D\u00edaz, a master of Afro-Cuban traditional music, presented along with his group a demonstration of conga drumming for rumba dance and the bat\u00e1 drumming of the Santer\u00eda religion, in Friends Hall. \u00a0D\u00edaz then spoke\u00a0with students and Professor Iraida L\u00f3pez about his life and work.\u00a0 The event was\u00a0free and open to the College community.\u00a0 Funded by the Schomburg Program, the events were\u00a0a collaboration of the programs in Music (CA), Communication Arts (CA), Spanish Language (HGS), and Latino\/a and Latin American Studies (HGS) to celebrate the Year of Latin America at 秘密研究所.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spring 2016: <\/strong>On Thursday, February 25th Professor Natalia Santamaria-Laorden presented and discussed the film Even the Rain\u00a0as part of the HGS Film Series.\u00a0In the 2010 film directed by Iciar Bollan, Bolivian film extras launch a protest against the privatization of their water supply, which parallels the Spanish conquest and exploitation of the New World.<\/p>\n Fall 2015:<\/strong> On Wednesday December 9th, Professor Natalia Santamaria-Laorden presented her book proposal entitled “Transatlantic Visions of the Spanish Fin-de-si\u00e8cle Regeneration Movement” as part of the Fall 2015 HGS Colloquium series. Professor\u00a0Santamaria-Laorden completed her book proposal\u00a0during her sabbatical last Spring, while she was a scholar-in-residence in NYU. The book proposal was presented and accepted by a well know publishing house during the celebration of the “Transatlantic Conference” at Brown University.\u00a0A Q&A followed the presentation.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Spring\u00a02016: <\/strong>On\u00a0April 6th,\u00a0<\/strong>Professor Iraida Lopez presented her new book\u00a0Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban
<\/a>Diaspora,<\/em>\u00a0followed by a Q&A.\u00a0<\/em>In this one-of-a-kind volume,\u00a0Iraida L\u00f3pez explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents.\u00a0 Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical or vicarious experience by means of fictional characters or childhood reminiscences. As two-way migration increases in the post-Cold War period, many of these narratives put to the test the boundaries of national identity. Professor Lopez also presented her book at The <\/a>New School in New York City on Wednesday, April 20th.<\/a><\/p>\n
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