22October2009
Posted by Teresa Longo under: Film; Photography; Poetry.
My book, Visible Dissent, explores the role several small publishing houses, one international newspaper, a prominent filmmaker and a few international poetry festivals play in making dissent public. The ”teaser” is posted here: see the comments.
15December2008
Posted by Teresa Longo under: Cities; Poetry.
What does it mean to keep faith with poetry, to link art with activism? What is social justice? What is poetic justice? How are these issues addressed locally in Virginia, Washington, Willimantic, Medellin, Isla Negra, Chicago and along the US Mexico border? What role does globalization play? These are the questions Hispanic Studies faculty and students are answering in their research and their poetry. Some of our work is posted here. Click on comments to read it.
The comments:
Longo, Teresa . “A Poet’s Place … from Macchu Picchu to a Starbuck’s Parking Lot.”
Goergen, Juana and Silvia Tandeciarz. “Reconquista / Reconquest.”
Ressler, Robert. “Untitled.”
Corcoran, Kristen. “Machu Picchu is Closed Today.”
Russell, Mary. “why I should have listened to mom and majored in computer science.”
13December2008
Posted by Teresa Longo under: Cities; Memory; Photography; Public intellectuals.
What is the connection between urban space and political mobilization? What role do the youth of a city play in the negotiation of urban identity? What role is played by public intellectuals, journalists, photographers and novelists? These are questions the faculty and the students in Hispanic Studies 390/Literary and Cultural Studies 401 are answering in their Fall 2008 class discussions and their research projects. See the comments.
I. The 1968 student movement in Mexico, forty years later:
Longo, Teresa. “Blame it on the Mini Skirt: Fashion, Language and Revolution in Mexico.”
Rizzo, Sam. “El fracaso triste de la memoria: la lucha libre y el fantasma en Amorosos fantasmas.”
Griffin, Lisa. “Urban Space as a Battleground for National Identity.”
Polo, Flavia. “La respuesta de los intelectuales a la masacre de Tlatelolco.”
II. Global Cities: Bogota and New York
Barrera, Taurin. “Arte e ideologia: la forma estetica de Fernando Botero como una evaluacion de la historia de Colombia” (forthcoming).
Moshier, Michaela. “Canticos de alabanza para la ciudad global” (forthcoming).
Dickens, Thomas. “The Aesthetic of Mass Consciousness” (forthcoming).