Monday, November 25, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
REBOOT: 21st Century Digital Lit | Spring 2014 MALAS Seminar!!! JESSICA PRESSMAN @ SDSU with the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences!
REBOOT: 21st Century Digital Lit
Are you digitally literate? You use digital technology, but do you think critically about how and why you use it? Do you understand how your digital tech use, patterns, and online persona impacts the way you think, read, and write? Enroll in this new, experimental course, and you'll learn how to think critically about 21st- century digital culture and its place in media history.
This class pursues digital literacy as a concept and a practice, a topic and a skill-set. Our goal is to gain the critical perspective and literacy tools needed to understand, critique, and actively participate in—rather than just blindly and passively use—our contemporary digital media.
We will study contemporary discourse about attention/distraction, hyper/deep reading, mobile/stationary media, convergence culture, etc. by putting it in context and tracing its precursors. We will read and view a wide range of genres across medial formats: media studies scholarship, cultural criticism, digital literature, youtube animations, interface design, and more. In the process, we will learn to think critically and creatively about cultural, communicative, and cognitive consequences of digital technologies and our contemporary technoculture. We will not only study digital literacy but acquire it.
Jessica Pressman researches and teaches twentieth- and twenty-first century experimental American literature, digital literature, and media theory. She is currently a Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at UCSD. She was Assistant Professor of English at Yale University (2008-2012) and received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA (2007). Her monograph on digital poetics, Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (2014); Transverse Reading: a Collaborative Case Study of William Poundstone’s “Project for the Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit],” co-written with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass, is under contract with Iowa University Press; Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in a Postprint Era, co-edited with N. Katherine Hayles, was just published with Minnesota University Press (December 2013). She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the fetishization of the book object in 21st-century print and digital literary culture. Pressman is Associate Editor of Fiction for Contemporary Literature and Articles Editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly. She is Board Member for both the Electronic Literature Organization (www.eliterature.org) and the online journal of digital art Dichtung-Digital (http://www.dichtung-digital.de/). Her full CV can be found at www.jessicapressman.comFriday, November 8, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Sunday, November 3, 2013
MALAS Fall 2013 Featured Lecture: Mark Schwartz on Disability Studies and TOUCH OF EVIL
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Mark Schwartz has worked for over twenty years in the disability services field in New York City and earned a Master of Arts in Disability Studies from the City University of New York’s School for Professional Studies. He currently works as the assistant director of the Clinic Program for the Shield Institute, an outpatient clinic that serves children and adults with intellectual disabilities. He has written extensively about complex and frequently deleterious representations of disability in culture and language, and how these representations often reinforce dangerously reductive and demeaning notions about disability. He has also produced videos exploring these themes that have been used as training material within his field.
Traversing the Corporeal
Borders Between the “Half-Breed” and The Ice Cream Soda
A Disability Studies Critique of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil by Mark
Schwartz
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2013 @ 11am in GMCS 333 on the SDSU Main Campus
“Traversing the
Corporeal Borders Between the ‘Half-Breed’ and The Ice Cream Soda” examines how
Orson Welles’s film noir masterwork Touch
of Evil (1958) embodies several major tensions in disability studies
critical discourses. Schwartz provides a brief primer on eugenics and
disability history, and shows how they relate to Welles’ film. Welles managed
to jam a litany of challenging and still timely ideas into one narrative: drug
culture in border towns, racial stereotypes, subjugation of the disempowered
through abuse of power. It is a thick and textured work that yields great
fodder for critical analysis. As the film noir genre frequently offers an
antagonistic view to the norms of the community, Touch of Evil functions to disturb notions of class, gender, and
race. While Welles may not have had eugenics on his mind when he rendered this
tale of corruption and murder, he certainly plays with some central ideas in
disability critical theory, like how the hegemonic role of the middle class
helps to reinforce perceptions of normalcy, and how those with different bodies
are often relegated to the margins. Welles offers a complex view of the border,
unsettling how the viewer thinks about citizenship, power and the body.
Mark Schwartz has worked for over twenty years in the disability services field in New York City and earned a Master of Arts in Disability Studies from the City University of New York’s School for Professional Studies. He currently works as the assistant director of the Clinic Program for the Shield Institute, an outpatient clinic that serves children and adults with intellectual disabilities. He has written extensively about complex and frequently deleterious representations of disability in culture and language, and how these representations often reinforce dangerously reductive and demeaning notions about disability. He has also produced videos exploring these themes that have been used as training material within his field.
A Fall 2013 Feature
Lecture from MALAS! The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences @ SDSU
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
MALAS Fall 2013 KABBALAH Seminar!
KABBALAH
Scott Meltzer
This course will survey the roots, history and symbolism of the Jewish mystical tradition known as Kabbalah. Students will be introduced to the major texts, charismatic mystical masters, and schools of Kabbalah, beginning with the ancient Rabbis through to contemporary exponents of Jewish mysticism such as Hasidim and messianic groups. Particular attention will be focused on the "bible" of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar (Book of Splendour). Understanding the meaning and evolution of Jewish mysticism may also shed light on its current more popular appeal to Jews and non-Jews alike.
Scott Meltzer
This course will survey the roots, history and symbolism of the Jewish mystical tradition known as Kabbalah. Students will be introduced to the major texts, charismatic mystical masters, and schools of Kabbalah, beginning with the ancient Rabbis through to contemporary exponents of Jewish mysticism such as Hasidim and messianic groups. Particular attention will be focused on the "bible" of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar (Book of Splendour). Understanding the meaning and evolution of Jewish mysticism may also shed light on its current more popular appeal to Jews and non-Jews alike.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Fall 2013 MALAS Graduate Seminar: CRITICAL MIGRATION STUDIES with Professor Kate Swanson
Critical Migration Studies
Professor Kate Swanson
This course explores the far-reaching consequences of human migration in an age of intense globalization. It will examine transnational migration, borders, detention, immigration policies, human trafficking, among other themes. Through in-depth case studies, we will look at how migration is changing societies and cultures around the globe. I'm currently preparing a short list of books. Two strong contenders include: Seeking Asylum by Alison Mountz and Beyond Walls and Cages by Jenna Loyd et al.... More to come soon!
Professor Kate Swanson
This course explores the far-reaching consequences of human migration in an age of intense globalization. It will examine transnational migration, borders, detention, immigration policies, human trafficking, among other themes. Through in-depth case studies, we will look at how migration is changing societies and cultures around the globe. I'm currently preparing a short list of books. Two strong contenders include: Seeking Asylum by Alison Mountz and Beyond Walls and Cages by Jenna Loyd et al.... More to come soon!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The First Annual Michel Foucault/Carlos Fuentes Lecture on Cultural Studies | 25th Annual Commencement of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences | Featuring Professor Paul Ryan Schneider, Purdue University
Madness
and Delinquency. . . or, What Would You Do
if Carlos Fuentes and Michel Foucault Showed Up
at Your MALAS Graduation Party?
Ryan
Schneider
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department
of English and Program in American Studies
Purdue
University
A few years ago, I did some advising for undergraduates who had been
chosen to give speeches at graduation. I
took over the job from a senior faculty member who was retiring after nearly 30
years. When I got the assignment, I
asked him if he might give me some advice—some tips for how to handle the
students. He told me that nearly every
undergraduate who had been asked to speak had come to him with the same wish:
they wanted their graduation speech to be “different.” I told him that sounded reasonable. He responded by saying that such a wish was
not at all reasonable that that when I was approached by students who wanted to
do something different with their speeches that I should do everything possible
to talk them out of it. I asked him why. What was wrong with encouraging
students to try something new or unexpected?
After all, isn’t that precisely the kind of original thinking we’re
supposed to cultivate in our students?
Why compel them to follow a standard blueprint? He sighed.
And smiled. And he laughed.
And then he told me about some of the students he had worked with over
the years: the English major and budding poet who wanted to give a speech
entirely in iambic pentameter; the Drama major who wanted to use her speech to
do an improve comedy sketch; the Sci-Fi Fantasy lover who wanted to do use the
speech to do a tribute to Joss Whedon; the Linguistics major who wanted to give
his 15-minute address in Klingon; and, my personal favorite, the Film major who
wished to give a speech comprised of exclusively of quotes from the movie “The
Princess Bride” (to which, of course, the only response an advisor could ever give
would be: “Inconceivable!”)
And then he explained to me that graduation speakers need to be advised
to do four things if they want to be successful: 1) thank the people who
deserve be thanked; 2) offer advice to the people who deserve advice; 3) congratulate
the people who deserve to be congratulated; and 4) never wait too long to give
your audience that one magic phrase they most want to hear . . . “in conclusion.”
So after several years of doing my own advising of undergraduates who
want to do something new and different with their graduation speeches, I am
going to see if I can follow those same four pieces of advice myself here today. Here goes:
Number 1: Thank the people who deserve to be thanked:
Bill, thank you very much for that kind and generous introduction. You
have been a friend and mentor to me for more than a decade—since I arrived at
San Diego State in the Fall of 1999 to begin my first job as an assistant
professor, straight out of graduate school, and desperately in need of guidance
and support in every regard. You were—and still are—an academic Godfather to
me, just as I know you are for everyone involved with the MALAS program. Indeed you are the best kind of Godfather any
of us could ever hope to have: eminently wise, endlessly patient, unceasingly
kind, preternaturally charming, highly efficient, and, always, always looking
out for the people who matter. (I’ve
even heard it whispered that you are, like a young Marlon Brando in his prime,
devastatingly handsome, but that is not for me to judge.)
I will always be in your debt, intellectually and professionally, and,
what’s more, I am thrilled to owe you everything that I do. Because I know that
owing you means I have already received something worth far more than I can
ever repay. And I am quite sure—absolutely
certain, in fact—that my feelings hold true for every student and every faculty
member who has been—or ever will be—part of the MALAS program.
Speaking of which. . .
It is most definitely my privilege and my pleasure to be here today to
present the first annual Michel Foucault/Carlos Fuentes Commencement Lecture and
to mark the 25th anniversary for the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts
and Sciences program here at San Diego State University. And I want to underscore that privilege by
thanking the College of Arts and Letters for its continued support of the MALAS
program; it is a wonderful thing—and, I should add, a rather rare thing these
days—for a university to demonstrate the institutional will and dedication to
sustain and nurture a top-flight graduate program; to have that support from
the College of Arts and Letters here at San Diego State is not a thing to be
taken lightly, and never, ever a thing to be taken for granted.
Most important: I want to thank to all of you for allowing me to share
this moment in time with you as a guest at your academic table of celebration. It is all too easy to forget how truly
special the concept of commencement is—as a ceremonial means of marking a point
of achievement and as a kind of secular sacrament for re-affirming a sense of
community. Or, in the case of MALAS,
something even more intimate and meaningful than community: a sense of
family.
Which brings me to Number 2: Offer advice to people who deserve advice:
MALAS graduates: it is crucial to bear in mind today that this
commencement—your commencement—is not strictly about you. And it’s not about your faculty either. Or
even our amazing Godfather, Professor Nericcio. . . .
It’s about your relation to something that is far, far larger than all
of that—and yet extremely intimate at the same time. Yes, this commencement, like any good
community send-off, is a means for signaling your accomplishments as an
individual. But it is also a way of
dramatizing the meaning of those accomplishments, a way of illuminating them by
placing them within a broader context. In this case, that context is your MALAS
family: a family that has sustained you and will continue to sustain you in
ways that you will not fully realize or appreciate until long after this day is
done and you’ve moved on, literally or figuratively, towards yet another new horizon
and a fresh set of experiences, people, places, and ideas.
So how should you approach this commencement? This celebration of You and your connections
to those with whom you’ve traveled this path?
What to do? How to act? What to say? What to Think? How to Feel? Have you been wondering about such
questions? Perhaps you’ve even figured
out some of your own answers. And
perhaps some of those answers might even be right. . . .
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Remember the key to successful research: always consult the best sources
first. Find out what wisdom they offer,
and then make your decisions accordingly.
We know our sources: Michel Foucault, one of the most talented and
accomplished thinkers of our time Even now, almost 30 years after his death, he
remains the most cited of all scholars in the humanities, by far. And Carlos Fuentes, one of the most talented
and accomplished writers of our time: now, almost exactly one year removed from
his death, he remains a most powerful touchstone and inspiration for those of
us who conceive of our work scholars and teachers as a form of creative
expression: as a form of art that inextricably links imagination and pedagogy,
aesthetics and scholarship.
What they would tell you, I think, if they happened to make an
appearance at your MALAS graduation party, is that you cannot lead your
life—you cannot do the work you wish to do—without a little bit of madness and
a little bit of delinquency. Because if
you have just a little bit of madness about you, now and then, and you are a
little bit delinquent, from time to time, then you are not leading your
life in accordance with the normal expectations for how one should think, feel,
and act. You are, in other words,
deviating from the standard course that most people would call the right way to
go.
Foucault spoke of this in an interview he gave just a few months before
his death. He reminded us that madness
is its own form of knowledge, its own means of asking and answering questions
that others might not otherwise pursue. And that the same is true for
delinquency: t means not always following the blueprint that is handed to you. In fact, he called himself a kind of delinquent
because he chose not to be “encased in ideology”—meaning he chose not to be
defined entirely by the norms and conventions that he himself did not have the
chance to interrogate, analyze, and accept or reject. To be clear: Foucault is not talking about
pointless rebellion or resistance solely for the sake of resistance. What he wants is a serious interplay of
questions and answers in which you have a right to “remain unconvinced” “to
perceive a contradiction” “to require
more information” “to point out faulty reasoning” and to recognize yourself as
both possessing authority yet never become subservient to authority
itself. (references and quotes from
“Polemics, Politics, and Problematizations: An Interview with Michel Foucault” conducted
by Paul Rabinow, 1984; See Essential Works of Foucault, vol. 1
“Ethics”, trans. Lydia Davis, The New Press, 1998)
In this sense, Foucault is on precisely the same page, literally and
figuratively, as our other source of wisdom: Carlos Fuentes. Here is a brief quote from Fuentes’
autobiographical philosophical collection of essays entitled: This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life: Fuentes writes, “"In the university,
everyone can be right, but nobody has the power to be right by force, and
nobody has the force to insist upon one single way of perceiving what is or is
not right."
There is a certain elegance and economy to Fuentes’s assertion: he
suggests that you must be just a little bit mad and a little bit delinquent to
insist that everyone can be right, but that there is no single way of
perceiving what does or does not count as right.
What matters most for both Foucault and Fuentes is not the knowledge or
the art or the truth in and of themselves but rather the way in which knowledge
or art or truth are determined and re-determined by individual perception.
Which brings me to Number 3: Congratulate the people who deserve to be
congratulated:
So congratulations and thanks to each of you—students, family, friends,
professors, each of you has already shown yourself to be possessed of just a
touch of madness and just a dollop of delinquency—else you would not be part of
the MALAS family.
Congratulations in particular to: Sean, Trevor, Stephanie, Jennifer,
Victor, Yadira, Leticia, Malinda, Allison, Diane, Sophia, Jim, Marla,
Francisco, Richard, Sharon, Caleb, Tashi, Jonathan, Jenny, Siobhan, and
Richard.
Now, for Rule Number Four: the phrase you’ve all been waiting so
patiently to hear. . . “in conclusion.” And
in conclusion, I’m going to leave you with a quote that I think epitomizes the
wonderful spirit of the MALAS program.
So if Foucault and Fuentes should happen to put in a supernatural
appearance at your graduation party, you’ll have something to offer them (in
addition to a nice cold drink!). The
quote is from T.H. White’s Once and
Future King, and it is part of a scene in which the wizard Merlin is
advising the young Arthur about how to overcome his melancholy:
“’The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and
blow, ‘is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your
anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins,
you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil
lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it them—to
learn. Learn why the world wags and what
wags it. That is the only thing which
the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or
distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to
learn—pure science, the only purity there is.
You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three,
literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a million lifetimes in
biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics.’” (from Book 1, Chapt. 1)
And, after learning all of that, MALAS graduates, the pay-off is not
only a recipe for happiness. . . but also the fact that you can then start all
over again. For there is always more
you’ll want to learn.
Thank you.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
MALAS 25th Anniversary Commencement featuring the 1st Annual Foucault/Fuentes Lecture in Cultural Studies | Paul Ryan Scheider, Purdue University
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This year our commencement will feature our 1st Michel Foucault/Carlos Fuentes Lecture on Cultural Studies--Professor Ryan Schneider, from Purdue University will treat us to a presentation entitled: "Madness and Delinquency. . . or, What Would You Do if Carlos Fuentes and Michel Foucault Showed Up at Your MALAS Graduation Party? "
MALAS Commencement is on Sunday, 10am, on the SDSU main campus in West Commons 220--no tickets are necessary and MALAS MAs need not feel the need to wear their graduation robes (though if you have them, why not strut your academic finery!???). Feel free to bring, friends, family, and (best yet) prospective folks you think might like to be part of the MALAS experience.
More on our first Foucault/Fuentes speaker:
Ryan Schneider holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Duke. He specializes in nineteenth-century American and African American literature with particular emphasis on Transcendentalism, Critical Race Theory, and intellectual history. His current research focuses on Cognitive Literary Studies, and his book, The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois: Emotional Dimensions of Race and Reform, was published in 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance series.
Professor Schneider’s articles have appeared in American Transcendental Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, and edited collections including No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader, (Duke University Press), and Boys Don’t Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S., (Columbia University Press). He also has contributed essays to The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States and W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia. He currently is working on a book that examines the role of Transcendentalism in the construction and consolidation of various dimensions of ethnic identity in antebellum New England.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
NEW MALAS FALL 2013 CLASS... NEUROTEXTS with Dr. Jonathan Ewell
We begin with readings from Descartes, Montaigne, and the Romantic poets, and then venture into 20th-century perspectives through works by Alan Türing and Daniel Dennett to show how advances in our understandings of neurophysiology and computer-based artificial intelligence have fundamentally changed the terms of the mind-body problem, changing in turn the way we view ourselves and our physical and mental being. The second unit “Signifying brains,” looks at how the mind represents the world and also how the mind represents itself. We’ll explore representations of the mind in literature and popular nonfiction, including Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness style in Mrs. Dalloway, neural representations in contemporary science fiction, and a selection of narrative case histories from neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Throughout this second unit, too, we’ll be studying a selection of recent scholarship that has attempted to bring cognitive science to our understanding of fiction, literature, and the arts.
MALAS Commencement Information, Spring 2013 | The 1st Annual Michel Foucault/Carlos Fuentes Commencement Lecture, May 19 @ 10am | Feature Lecture: Ryan Schneider, Purdue University
Here's more MALAS INFO from an email sent to the program:
MALAS Familia! Friends, Students,
Alumni and Faculty of the Master of Arts
in Liberal Arts and Sciences,
It gives me great pleasure to announce
Madness and Delinquency. . . or, What Would You
that all 12 of our MALAS Comprehensive
Exam takers have PASSED their final
hurdle and will be graduating at Commencement,
May 19, 2013 @ 10am in West Commons 220.
Please make plans to attend with friends and family
as MALAS brings our 25th Anniversary year to a
close with our largest graduating class ever!
Here is the official list of MALAS graduate
students being heralded at commencement--
I have placed an asterisk next to the group
of twelve that just passed their exam:
| *Sean Lindsay Armijo |
| Trevor T Auser *Stephanie Bobp |
| *Jennifer Anne Carter |
| *Victor Fabian Delgadillo |
| Yadira Diaz |
| *Leticia Gomez |
| Malinda Hunter Hinesley |
| Allison Josephine Hooker |
| *Diane Alexandra Becker Hunt |
| *Sophia Nabil Jacoub |
| *James Loren Johnson |
| Marla Carissa Laguardia |
| Francisco A. Miramontes |
| *Richard Grant Muir |
| *Sharon Lynn Payne |
| Caleb James Rainey |
| *Thupten Tashi |
| Jonathan Areola Valdez |
| Jenny Mae Weisenborn |
| Siobhan Theresa White |
| *Richard James Whitehead 21 MAs for 21 extraordinary agents of interdisciplinary and cultural studies--this is the largest MALAS graduation cohort in the program's history. Remember, our commencement will feature our 1st Michel Foucault/Carlos Fuentes Lecture on Cultural Studies--Professor Ryan Schneider, from Purdue University, will treat us to a presentation entitled: |
Do if Carlos Fuentes and Michel Foucault Showed
Up at Your MALAS Graduation Party?
MALAS Commencement is on Sunday, 10am,
in West Commons 220--no tickets are necessary
and MALAS MAs need not feel the need to wear
their graduation robes (though if you have them, why
not strut your academic finery!???). Feel free to bring, friends,
family, and (best yet) prospective folks you think
might like to be part of the MALAS experience.
This is a renaissance year for MALAS. I am in
debt to the College of Arts and Letters for its
ongoing support of MALAS. I am in debt as well
to the MALAS Faculty Advisory Cohort--including
its newest member Roy Whitaker, Lecturer, Religious
Studies, for their guidance and counsel during
the year. My warm thanks to: Huma Ahmed-Ghosh,
Professor and Chair, Women's Studies; Stuart C. Aitken,
Professor and Chair, Geography; Peter Atterton, Professor,
Philosophy; James Gerber, Professor, Economics; Seth Mallios,
Professor and Chair, Anthropology; Vincent Martin, Professor,
Spanish and Portuguese; Professor, English and Comparative
Literature, Chicana/o Studies, and Latin American Studies;
Harry Polkinhorn,Professor, English and Comparative Literature;
Director, SDSU Press; Stephen Colston, Associate Professor, History,
and Adjunct Faculty, American Indian Studies and Chicana/o Studies;
D. J. Hopkins, Associate Professor, Director of the School of Theatre,
Television, and Film; David Kamper, Associate Professor and Chair,
American Indian Studies; Ghada Osman, Associate Professor and Chair,
Linguistics; Joseph Andrew Smith, Associate Professor, Classics
and Humanities; Edward J. Blum, Associate Professor, History;
Roberto D. Hernández, Assistant Professor, Chicana/o Studies;
Yetta Howard Assistant Professor, English & Comparative Literature;
Amy Schmitz Weiss, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and
Media Studies, Jonathan Ewell, Lecturer, English & CompLit and MALAS;
and the aforementioned Roy Whitaker, Lecturer, Religious Studies
and MALAS.
Yours in MALAS,
William A. Nericcio
Director, MALAS
ps: you are also invited to our final MALAS Monthly of the
academic year at the Blind Lady Ale House in Normal Heights!
Monday, April 29, 2013
MALAS Co-Sponsors Talk by Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Professor of History in the Chicano/a Latino/a Transnational Studies Field Group at Pitzer College
Please join us today for a talk by Dr. Suyapa Portillo Villeda, professor of history in the Chicano/a Latino/a Transnational Studies field group at Pitzer College. She has been documenting abuses of LGBTTI people in her native country of Honduras since 2006.
The coup d'etat in Honduras in June 2009 brought about state teror and increased repression against everyone in resistance to the coup, and especially to the more vulnerable sectors such as the organized Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Transvestite, and Intersex community. Since the coup, there have been over 200 murders, of those 99 have been LGBTTI individuals. Dr. Portilla will be presenting today on LGBTTI resistance in Post-Coup Honduras.
Date: TODAY (April 30)
Time: 2pm, reception to follow
Location: AL 101
This event is hosted by: The Center for Latin American Studies, MALAS, the Department of Women's Studies, and Chicana and Chicano Studies.
We hope to see you there!
The coup d'etat in Honduras in June 2009 brought about state teror and increased repression against everyone in resistance to the coup, and especially to the more vulnerable sectors such as the organized Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Transvestite, and Intersex community. Since the coup, there have been over 200 murders, of those 99 have been LGBTTI individuals. Dr. Portilla will be presenting today on LGBTTI resistance in Post-Coup Honduras.
Date: TODAY (April 30)
Time: 2pm, reception to follow
Location: AL 101
This event is hosted by: The Center for Latin American Studies, MALAS, the Department of Women's Studies, and Chicana and Chicano Studies.
We hope to see you there!
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
What: Workshop in American Religious History (WARh) When: Thursday, March 21, 11:30-1:30 Where: San Diego State University, Arts and Letters Building, room 524
Workshop in American Religious History (WARh) is pleased
to welcome Guy Emerson Mount (University of Chicago) and
Sarah Azaransky (University of San Diego) to discuss a chapter
from Azaransky’s The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and
American Democratic Faith. Widely praised, one reviewer writes of
The Dream of Freedom: “Azaransky's study is one of those books that
makes me wish I could re-write my previous works - not just because
Murray is such a fascinating subject, but also because Azaranksy
does such a nice and succinct job of interrogating her life, writings,
ideas, and perspectives.”
What: Workshop in American Religious History (WARh)
When: Thursday, March 21, 11:30-1:30
Where: San Diego State University, Arts and Letters Building, room 524
Contact: Edward J. Blum eblum@mail.sdsu.edu for chapter to be discussed
Pizza will be provided – but only for those who contact
eblum@mail.sdsu.edu to RSVP
Co-sponsored by MALAS and the Department of History at SDSU.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
MALAS, The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences at San Diego State University, Featured in SDSU Daily Aztec Feature Article
Click the image below to enlarge or read the story by Eric Dobko here: http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2013/03/malas-program-offers-unconventional-learning/
Friday, January 11, 2013
Spring 2013 Classes to Add to Your Roster of Intellectual Treats! Vampires! Freud!!!
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
NEW MALAS Collaboration with Religious Studies @ SDSU: GOD AFTER THE HOLCAUST
update: January 11, 2013..... some bad news: the Department of Religious Studies and MALAS have been asked to close this class for Spring 2013 due to low enrollment; we will try again soon in the future....
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