MALAS Co-sponsors CULTURE CLASH at San Diego State University, October 15, 2019

MALAS Co-sponsors CULTURE CLASH at San Diego State University, October 15, 2019

MALAS is with AGLSP in Washington DC for #aglsp19

SDSU MALAS Proudly Co-Sponsors the AGLSP International Conference in Washington DC | MALAS is also a special sponsor of the Plenary Panel, Saturday Morning, October 12, 2019 featuring Denis Provencher, Nikki Lane, and Jesse Crane-Seeber

MALAS Proudly Co-Sponsors the AGLSP International Conference in Washington DC | MALAS is also a special sponsor of the Plenary Panel, Saturday Morning, October 12, 2019 featuring Denis Provencher, Nikki Lane, and Jesse Crane-Seeber

Wow! Plenary panel info for Saturday morning--now replete with groovy bios!https://t.co/I2iG110efs pic.twitter.com/3MxQLqWm5p

— AGLSP (@AglspC) October 9, 2019

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MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Proudly Salutes the Department of Chicana/o Studies, SDSU, with Warm Wishes on Their 50th Anniversary--With Culture Clash

MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Proudly Salutes the Department of Chicana/o Studies, SDSU, with Warm Wishes on Their 50th Anniversary--With Culture Clash

Yes! Culture Clash is back at SDSU with locos Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza checking in with their unique traveling comedy with a heart circus of amazingness! More information here.

Or check out these posters below--click them to see them SUPERSIZE!

 

MALAS Social Hour Tomorrow!

 

MALAS Social Hour Tomorrow! 
Thursday October 3, 2019

Greetings MALASheads, Faculty, staff, graduate students and alumni are invited to our first MALAS Social Hour of the semester--this is a great chance to meet and chat with your colleagues and professors in an informal setting. While the intellectual dimension of graduate school life is apparent (think about the three-five books you have to read this week), the social dimension is no less important and no less vital as you learn to engage and share ideas at a higher level.

2:30 to 4:15, patio at EUREKA restaurant right
across from the Presby Aztec Student Union!

https://eurekarestaurantgroup.com/locations/san-diego-state/​

A Big Happy Birthday to MALAS -- We Are Celebrating 32 Years of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies at San Diego State University

New MALAS Seminar, Fall 2019, with Raechel Dumas, Associate Professor of Classics & Humanities, SDSU | Animal Humanities #animalhumanities

Animal Humanities
MALAS 600B or HUM 580
Dr. Raechel Dumas
Associate Professor, Classics & Humanities

What would an "inhumanities" look like? This course challenges the anthropocentric scope of "the humanities" through the study of texts and contexts in which nonhuman animals feature as central speakers, actors, and subjects of inquiry. We will explore how writers, artists, theorists, philosophers, ethicists, and various cultural institutions have sustained and/or disputed the human/animal binary.

In doing so, we will consider what it might mean to enlarge the scope of "the humanities" to acknowledge the subjectivity of nonhuman animals not only in an academic context, but also for the futures of our arts, ethics, politics, economics, social relationships, and environment.

MALAS-600B

02

22245

ANIMAL HUMANITIES

3.0

Seminar

1600-1840

M

AL-422

R. Dumas

2/5

Footnotes: 03 , ZL

New MALAS Fall 2019 Seminar! Professor Drew Thomases's ALIENS AND RELIGION

ALIENS AND RELIGION

We are in the age of aliens. In literature and movies, on television and the internet, we see images of extraterrestrials everywhere--little green men, tentacled blobs, terrifying creatures with claws and fangs. Aliens fill up our imaginations, urging us to ask and wonder if we're really alone in the cosmos. But whether they're real or not--whether we're alone or not--aliens are here to stay. At least in our minds. That is especially evident in the realm of religion, where countless groups have developed systems of beliefs and practices with UFOS and aliens at the forefront. This class explores these groups, the aliens they worship, as well as the imaginaries that we, on planet earth, have created about life among the stars.

MALAS-600D

01

22247

ALIENS AND RELIGION

3.0

Seminar

1600-1840

W

HH-210

D. THOMASES

5/8

Footnotes: 08 , NC , ZL

What do MALAS Graduate Students do with their Interdisciplinary Studies MAs? Some of them go on to become future Professors! Introducing John Rubio, PhD candidate, American Studies, The University of Iowa!

MALAS Graduate Student Ivan Fernandez Writes the Lead Story on Gustavo Dudamel in the New Issue of FLAUNT MAGAZINE

Visual Composing with MALAS @SDSU--Next-Generation Cultural Studies Open to all Graduate Students and Advanced Undergraduates @SDSU!!!

New Fall 2019 MALAS Seminar: New historical novel of Latin America with Professor Mario Martín Flores

Fall 2019
MALAS 600A / SPAN 755
New Historical Novel 
of Latin America
Professor Jose Mario Martín Flores 

We will spend our time this semester critically interrogating the foundational moments of Latin American history throughout the study of the new historical novels proposed: 

- The encounture between two worlds (Europe + Amerindia)  in El arpa y la sombra by A. Carpentier.

- The Mexican colonial times in  Duerme by C. Boullosa.

- The political emancipation of Latin America from the Spanish empire in El general en su laberinto by G. García Márquez.

- The European interventionism in Latin America and the new 20^th century in Noticias del Imperio by Fernando del Paso.

- Finally, the repression estrategies of theLatin American dictatorships during the last half of the 20^th century in Cola de lagartija by Luisa Valenzuela.

The student will apply different theoretical approaches and different historiographic perspectives to the analysis of the novels selected.

  

BIOGRAPHY

José Mario Martín-Flores, Ph.D., 

University of California, Irvine

Professor of Spanish
Graduate Adviser
Email: jmartinf@sdsu.edu
Office: AL-129
Phone: 619-594-4796

BA& MA in Educational Administration, Guadalajara, Mexico.
MA & PHD in Spanish, University of California Irvine.

Research interest mainly focuses on Mexican and border cultures, Literature of Baja California, 19th century Mexican narratives, new historical novel of Latin America. His current book addresses the Mexican novel of the last diaspora. Author of five volumes of poetry published in Argentina, Spain, Mexico and the US and two more collections of poetry and short stories in print. Graduate Adviser and Faculty Leader of Spanish abroad program in Merida.

 

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MALAS Graduate Student Leesa Brockman Presents IAGS 2019/Cambodia | The International Association of Genocide Scholars