Diálogos y Perspectivas

Hispanic and Latin@ philosophy and ideas in context

Everyone welcome

Pizza served

 

Spring 2016

 

 

Thursday, January 21: "Individuals, Community, and Change in Contemporary Cuba."

Discussion leader: Dr. Michal Kofman, Department of Sociology.

Readings: selections from Cuban appellate court cases

      Thursday, February 4: "Afro-Nicaraguan Identity in the Poetry of Carlos Rigby Moses."

      Discussion leader: Dr. Tomás Edison, Department of Classical & Modern Languages

      Readings: Carlos Rigby Moses, Si yo fuera mayo / If I were May"; Bassette Cayasso, "Afro-Nicaraguans before and after the Sandinista Revolution"

            Wednesday, February 24: "The Madres of the Plaza de Mayo."

            Dr. Lisa Wagner, Department of Classical & Modern Languages

            In lieu of readings, surf around the Madres website (in Spanish) and see what strikes your interest. Well worth a look even if you are not a Spanish-speaker.

              Thursday, March 24: "Borges on memory and knowledge."
              Discussion leaders: Dr. Guillermo Rougier, Departments of Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology, and Cynthia Corbitt, Department of Biology

                Readings: Jorge Luis Borges, "On Exactitude in Science" ; "Funes the Memorious"

                Wednesday, April 6: Round table: César Chávez and agricultural labor in America today.

                Discussion leaders: Avery Kolers, Enid Trucios-Haynes and Félix Garza

                 

                FALL 2015

                Wednesday, September 16 / / Noon

                • "Soneto de Fidelidade/Sonnet on Fidelity"
                • Dr. John Gibson, Philosophy

                  Thursday, September 24 //Noon
                • A discussion with film director and visual artist, Miguel Alvear

                Wednesday, October 7 // Noon

                • Prologue of Autobiography of a Runaway Slave
                • Dr. Brenda Ortíz-Loyola, Department of Classical and Modern Languages
                • NEW DATE: Thursday, October 22 // Noon
                • “Arielismo”
                • Dr. Trish Gray, Department of Political Sciences

                Tuesday, November 17 // 1:00 p.m (note different time)

                • "Cervantine Responses to Ethnic Stereotypes"
                • Dr. Greg Hutcheson, Department of Classical and Modern Languages
                • Brief readings: Boase, "The Muslim Expulsion from Spain"; Cervantes, Don Quixote, Book II Chap. 54

                Wednesday, December 2 // Noon

                Fiesta

                 

                For more information, please contact Dr. Avery Kolers, Department of Philosophy, avery.kolers (@) louisville.edu or Dr. Manuel F. Medina, Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages, manuel.medina (@ )louisville.edu

                Thanks to the support of the Departments of Philosophy, Classical and Modern Languages, and the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society.