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The Latin American & Latino Studies Institute BOLETíN FORDHAMUNIVERSITY Vol. XIV, No. 2 The Latin American & Latino Studies Institute New York, Spring 2009 FACULTY *S. Elizabeth Penry D I R E C T O R’S C O R N E R Director, History *Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé During 2009 the Latin American and Latino Institute at Fordham University will Associate Director, Spanish celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. Originally two separate programs, the Puerto Rican and Hugo Benavides Latin American Institute at Lincoln Center and the Latin American Studies Program at Rose Sociology and Anthropology Hill merged in 1995 to form LALSI. Now with a graduate program in addition to the Susan Berger undergraduate major and minor, LALSI continues to be the intellectual home for faculty and Political Science students interested in Latin America and U.S. Latinos. Claudio Burgaleta, SJ Many current LALSI faculty members have been involved in LALSI since its Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education Daniel Contreras inception. Celebrating their years of service, several LALSI faculty members were recently English recognized at a university convocation: Claude J. Mangum (African and African American Clive O. Daniel Studies) received the Bene Merenti Medal for 40 years of service; Greta Ann Gilbertson Economics (Sociology) received the Bene Merenti Medal for 20 years of service; and Luz Lenis Emilio Estela (Associate Dean, Fordham College) was awarded the Archbishop Hughes Medal for 20 LALS *Norma Fuentes-Mayorga years of service. Congratulations to everyone! Sociology and Anthropology LALSI’s new web page is now available. Full of great photos taken by our faculty Greta Gilbertson and students, there’sinformation on our graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as a Sociology and Anthropology place for alums to send their updates. It also includes the Sourcebook on Colonial Latin Javier Jiménez-Belmonte Spanish America, a pilot project with a special emphasis on the Society of Jesus in Latin America. Carey Kasten Here you will find primary sources in translation from all across Latin America. On the Spanish Links and Resources page, you will find our filmography (see page 6) and links to Rafael Lamas newspapers across the region. Check out our new look! Spanish We would like to welcome two new faculty members to LALSI. Dr. Daniel Michael Lee Theology Contreras joined the English Department in fall 2007 and Dr. Rose Perez joined the Sarah Lehman Graduate School of Social Service in fall 2008. Look for more information on the research Spanish projects of these newly affiliated faculty members in the Fall edition of the Boletín. We also *Luz Lenis welcome Dr. Bonnie Wasserman who joined the Modern Languages and Literatures Assistant Dean, FCRH Department as an adjunct professor of Portuguese. For more on Wasserman, see page 2. Héctor Lindo-Fuentes History Congratulations go to the many LALSI faculty members who won Faculty John Macisco Fellowships for 2009-2010: Drs. Daniel Contreras, Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Carey Kasten, Sociology and Anthropology (Emeritus) Hector Lindo-Fuentes, Elizabeth Penry, and Orlando Rodríguez will all receive funding for Viviane Mahieux their research. For more on these projects see page 2. Spanish LALSI faculty were honored to have one of their own, Dr. Barbara Mundy (Art Claude J. Mangum African & African American Studies History), as the keynote speaker for Arts & Sciences Faculty Day. Mundy, an expert on Gioconda Marún colonial Mexico, spoke on the impact of artwork and performance on collective memory. Spanish For more on Mundy’s talk see page 4. Ronald Méndez-Clark LALSI hosted many speakers this semester. Among the highlights, a reading by Director, International and Study Abroad Programs Barbara Mundy Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz, author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, co- Art History sponsored by LALSI on April 15. Also this semester, a Mellon grant from the Fordham Rose Perez College Rose Hill Dean’s office, awarded jointly to the American Studies program and Graduate School of Social Service LALSI, brought noted scholar Juan Flores to campus to discus his new book, The Diaspora Ivette Rivera-Giusti Strikes Back, with LALSI and American Studies faculty. For more see page 3. History Monica Rivera-Mindt Finally, since this is my last semester as Director of LALSI, I would like to thank Psychology the LALSI faculty, students, and staff for making my time as Director so rewarding. Orlando Rodríguez Sociology and Anthropology Elizabeth Penry, Director Clara Rodríguez Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Associate Director Sociology and Anthropology *Christopher Schmidt-Nowara History Janet Sternberg Communication and Media Studies *Cynthia Vich Spanish * Members of the Executive Committee Fordham University Latin American and Latino Studies Institute BOLETíN 1 Faculty News Carey Kasten (Spanish) is on leave from Since his last report to the Boletín almost two years ago, O. Hugo Fordham University this academic year and is Benavides (Anthropology) has published one book on Latin currently teaching at Boğaziçi University American melodrama titled, Drugs, Thugs and Divas: Telenovelas and (Istanbul, Turkey). She recently organized a Narco-Dramas in Latin America panel for the Northeast Modern Languages Association (University of Texas Press, 2008), Convention in Boston (February 2009). The panel is titled eight articles, two book reviews, and "Replaying the Past: Representing the Early Modern in Twentieth one commentary. The articles include: and Twenty-First Century Spain." She was also featured on the 1) “Disciplining the Past, Policing the panel, giving a paper titled "Francisco Nieva's Sacred Irreverence: Present: The Postcolonial Landscape Updating Tirante el Blanco.” On March 17, she presented another of Ecuadorian Nostalgia,” in paper at the Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas Archaeologies, Spring 2009; 2) at Tubingen University in Germany. It is titled "Tradición “Translating Ecuadorian Modernities: propagandística: el auto sacramental franquista." She reports that Pre-Hispanic Archaeology and the she is enjoying her time in Turkey and looks forward to returning reproduction of Global Difference,” to Fordham in the spring 2010 semester. She will then teach in Cosmopolitan Archaeologies, (Duke “Spanish & New York City” and a course onthe twentieth University Press); and 3) “Historical century Spanish novel. Disruptions: Reproducing an Indian Past in Latin America,” in Archaeological Heritage and Human Rights, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (History) participated in several (Springer Press). In 2008, he also delivered three keynote conferences in 2008, including one in addresses and three professional presentations. These include an Barcelona that he helped to organize. invitation to speak at the Coloquio de Antropología e Historia The subject was the history of slavery Regionales, El Colegio de Michoacán/Centro de Estudios and abolition in the Iberian empires. Arqueológicos, Zamora, Mexico. Most recently he has been invited His article "From Columbus to Ponce by the University of Bielefeld’s Center of Interdisciplinary de Leon: Puerto Rican Research in Germany to the conference on "Mediating Ethnic Commemorations between Empires, Identity in the Americas: Ethnic Filmmaking and Film Politics in 1893-1907" appears in the edited book Globalizing Markets,” (March 16-18, 2009). Finally, he is Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of currently working on a final book draft of his latest research on the Modern American State (University of American Football and Horror Films (see WFUV interview on Wisconsin Press, 2009). Also in 2009, February 7, 2009) and the nature of the abject in American Dr. Schmidt-Nowara joined the popular culture. Cultural Committee of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute. His goal for Fr. Claudio M. Burgaleta, S.J.(Graduate School of Religion the summer is to finish his book Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in and Religious Education) visited his native Cuba with a delegation Latin America and the Atlantic World. from Rabbi Arthur Schneier's Appeal of Conscience Foundation from December 15-19, 2008. A good-will and humanitarian pre- This semester, Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé (Spanish) was invited to Christmas/Hanukkah visit in the wake of the disastrous past give a lecture on his recently published book, Queer Latino hurricane season for the island, the delegation met with religious Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails, at the and government leaders on the island, including Cardinal Jaime University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An extensive Ortega of Havana and the nuncio, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi. interview on his book appeared in The Advocate The Cardinal and other religious leaders were optimistic about the (http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid70292.asp). He future of religion on the island under Raul Castro's tenure. was recently invited to speak on his book and New York City’s Claudio also had an opportunity to pay a quick visit to some of gay 1970s culture on Telemundo’s morning show, Las Comadres. the Jesuits at their parish in Havana. There are a total of just He participated in the “Postwar Queer Underground Cinema under 30 Jesuits on the island, and the Society has remained 1950-1968” conference, organized by the Yale University working in Cuba since the Revolution, albeit under difficult Initiative on the Histories of Sexuality. Dr. Cruz-Malavé won a circumstances and with its apostolic activities restricted to parish Faculty Fellowship for a