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Maria Bernedo Del Carpio, Felipe Filomeno, Tania Lizarazo, Thania Muñoz, Carlos Romero-Talamas, and Yolanda Valencia’s research were featured in Inquiring Minds, UMBC’s Research Publication.
Link to the digital copy: https://umbc.edu/research-creative-achievement/inquiring-minds/
International Education Week TODAY!!! NOV 16th
Thania Muñoz + Berman : https://umbc.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/umbc/meeting/download/7c30084c32904a6a95d0de8a1e7a1a4f?siteurl=umbc&MTID=m9ac838b376989ebd0ceee8a159f90a64
Time: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
This panel will discuss cross-dressing cancionistas (singers) on Argentinian radio and feminist Mexican protests against femicides and their use of glitter as performance.
Full Description
In this talk, Thania Muñoz and Jessica Berman will discuss two forms of performance in Latin America: glitter protests and tango singers. Thania Muñoz will discuss her research on “Glitter Bombing” —a political action— in response to alleged rapes against teenage girls perpetrated by the local police and the lack of immediate attention to this act by the Security Minister in Mexico City. By doing an archival transnational literary and journalistic revision of the movement’s origins, from a social justice perspective, Muñoz argues glitter has turned into a sparkly tool of solidarity and protest. By analyzing “glitter bombings” and the performative bodily use of glitter in contemporary feminists’ movements in Mexico, she traces how amidst a violent Nation-State against women, glitter has been used as an instrument to protest patriarchal violence and at the same time to shine on those feminists’ allies who continue to demand justice.
Berman will discuss her research on the development of radio in Argentina in the early 20th century and the rise of Argentine women as tango singers (or cancionistas) and composers at the same time. Berman will argue that modern habits of listening engendered by recorded sound and broadcast radio help propel new ways of understanding embodiment, intimacy, and relation in Argentina in the twenties and thirties, which we can see in the shifting ways that women sound their presence in the world of tango.
Information and How to Join
Delivery: Virtual
Link to join: Click here
Password: TqTVUfhR562
MLLI Research Day 2022: Thania Muñoz D., Milvia Hernández, Elisabeth Arévalo-Guerrero, David Beard (Nov. 18, 2022 10-12pm)
https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mlli/events/111739
10 a.m – 2 p.m.
Full Description
This event is to celebrate the research done by our MLLI community who is composed of a very international diversity cohort of both faculty and students. Our Faculty members are originally from Canada, US, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Morocco, Senegal, China, Japan, Spain, France, Germany, India, Hungary, Russia among others.
During the Annual MLLI research Day 2022, MLLI faculty and graduate/undergraduate students present about their research (10-12 and 1-2pm)
An ” INCC Alumni happy hour” also takes place 12-1pm to reunite our INCC alumni from the MA in Intercultural Communication (INCC) (as well as faculty and grads) to share about their current research, job opportunities, and life events since they graduated. Alumni connect virtually from different parts of the world. This is and international networking opportunity for our current INCC graduate students to learn from possible job/academic applications after they complete their INCC MA program.
Information and How to Join
Delivery: Virtual
Link to Join: Click here
Monumental Denial: Cultural Memory, the Denial of White
Supremacy, & U.S. Territory.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
12:00pm // in person: AOK Library Gallery, UMBC
Dr. Laura Pulido
Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography
University of Oregon
Abstract: In this talk I explore how U.S. cultural memory represents processes of white supremacy and settler colonization. Based on an analysis of National Historical Landmarks, I found that the vast majority of Landmarks erase histories of white supremacy and settler colonization, with significant implications for how we think of the development of U.S. territory.
See attached flyer for more details.
"Yolanda Valencia, assistant professor of geography and environmental studies, and María Célleri, assistant professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies, have received 12-month Career Enhancement Fellowships, funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. They represent two of nine junior faculty recipients across the country from hundreds of applicants in the 2022 award cycle. Their achievement marks the first time two UMBC junior faculty have received this award simultaneously.
The Career Enhancement Fellowship seeks to increase the presence of underrepresented junior and other faculty members in the humanities, social sciences, and arts by creating career development opportunities for selected Fellows with promising research projects. Valencia and Célleri will dedicate their fellowship to advancing their book projects."
Read more here:
https://umbc.edu/stories/umbcs-maria-celleri-and-yolanda-valencia-receive-mellon-fellowships/
¡Muchas felicidades, Yolanda y María!
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