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Thursday, June 30, 2022
New MALAS Course for Fall 2022
Sunday, April 24, 2022
SDSU MALAS LECTURE SERIES! The [Mexican-] American Revolution With Myriam Gurba and Alex Espinosa
Something wickedly cool coming to SDSU this week! The [Mexican-] American Revolution -- a mini-lecture series from @sdsumalas @SDSUPress, @sdsu IRA funding (Instructionally Related Activities Fund) ... #mextasy at #sdsu
— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) April 24, 2022
Featuring Mexy superheroes @lesbrains + @alex_esp pic.twitter.com/BpFYsieIJr
Monday, February 28, 2022
Art Department and MALAS @ SDSU Professor Kim Stringfellow Opens a New Exhibition at UNLV
MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences at SDSU collaborating professor, Kim Stringfellow, has a dazzling...
Posted by William Nericcio on Monday, February 28, 2022
Friday, February 25, 2022
MALAS and SDSU Press Along with the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park Present : CARLOS SOLORIO, Beyond Transfronterizo Lens, A Cultural Photo Exhibit
Photographer and cinematographer Carlos Solorio, MALAS Alum and SDSU Press contributing artist, in a one man photography show at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
MALAS in Association with SDSU Press and the AGLSP: Publishing and the Humanities, A Streaming Lecture Event ...
Save the date! Monday, March 21 at 6pm CST -- The 21st Century Labyrinth: Humanities Degrees and Publishing Careers...
Posted by Amy Danzer on Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Friday, February 18, 2022
Unessays! MALAS Graduate Student Work Showcased!
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From: Kristal Bivona <kbivona@sdsu.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:04 PM
Subject: flyer for student art exhibition
To: William Nericcio <memo@sdsu.edu>
Subject: flyer for student art exhibition
To: William Nericcio <memo@sdsu.edu>
Hey there,
Now that we're back on campus, I planned this event for the students from MALAS 600d / ANTH 529 / BRAZ 496 last semester to show their final projects. It's open to all and the flyer is attached. Please come by if you're around and share with the other MALAS students. Thanks!
Abrazos,
Kristal Bivona, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies
Lecturer, College of Arts and Letters
San Diego State University
Pronouns: she/ela/ella
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
How to Prepare Sharing Your Work at an Academic Conference: MALAS's Carson Poole on her AGLSP 2021 Conference Experience
by Carson Poole
2nd Year MALAS Graduate Student, SDSU
I believe I was the only student from SDSU in attendance, with Dr. Nericcio acting as my panel’s moderator. The topics addressed in the panels were diverse, entertaining, and very well thought out. Since it was a Liberal Studies conference, the topics for presentations were across the map: several people presented on music analysis or music history, others presented on business theory, and some presentations were on literature.
My experience was really smooth and stress-free for being my first time presenting at a conference. I recorded my material and had a live (Zoom) Q&A with other panelists after my video was played. The Q&A made me nervous initially, because I wasn’t sure if anyone would ask me an “over my head” kind of question, but the other panelists were very kind, respectful, and open to discussion.
Over the course of the three-day conference, I learned a lot about topics well outside of my own expertise, which made my academic-nerd heart sing. The panels transitioned smoothly, with breaks in between. Everything ran without any major hitches, save for a few accidentally muted mics. The challenges of a Zoom conference are very different than an in-person one, so I can’t give much in the way of advice on public speaking in front of other people in a conference hall, but if you are confident in your material then the speaking part will come easier.
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For an in-person conference like this year’s will be, I think recording it beforehand might be something worth doing as it helps to fine-tune the content of the speech.
If you’re thinking of applying, go for it! The experience was a very rewarding one for me and I think it would be the same for you.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
New Spring 2022 MALAS Seminar with Professor Andrés Aguilar! Community Activism Through Arts Practice!
New Spring 2022 MALAS Seminar with Professor Andres Aguilar!
Community Activism Through Arts Practice!
More info here: https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/schedule/sectiondetails?scheduleNumber=22285&period=20222&admin_unit=R
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New Spring 2022 MALAS Seminar: Parábolas ópticas / Optical Parables : Latin American/Latinx Literature, Art, Photography, & Cinema with Professor Bill Nericcio
New Spring 2022 MALAS Seminar: Parábolas ópticas / Optical Parables : Latin American/Latinx Literature, Art, Photography, & Cinema with Professor Bill Nericcio
Note that the course can be taken in three "flavors" depending on what program you are with (or your curricular needs) at SDSU:
Comparative Literature 594 | MALAS 600A | LATAM 580
Parábolas ópticas | Optical Parables
Latin American and Latinx Lit, Art, Photography & Cinema
9:30am to-10:45 T/TH | NE-271 Professor William Nericcio
This is a Comparative Literature class, a MALAS seminar, and a Latin American Studies class, but it should appeal to any and all folks who are curious about the literatures and cultures of the Americas working their magic both north and south of the U.S./Mexico border).
This dialectic between the deeply intellectual and the comedic will run through our class as we probe texts that are literary, photographic, painted, filmed, streaming, and more.
No expertise in Latin American or Latinx (Chicana/o/x, Boriqua/o/x, etc) literature or culture is expected or presumed nor should anyone worry if they’ve never studied film, photography, graphic narrative, or art at the collegiate level. The only requirement or prerequisite for this class is curiosity and a little drop of imagination!
The final lineup of works is still a little in flux. Readings / Screenings / Art include works by Alfonso Cuarón (y tu Mamá tambien), Myriam Gurba (pictured below), Hector Ortega, Gabriel García Márquez, Flor Garduño, Junot Diaz, Cristina Rivera Garza, Raoul Peck, Gilbert Hernandez, Tina Modotti, Orson Welles (!), Alex Espinoza, yours truly, Salvador Plascencia, and other surprises!
Saturday, January 1, 2022
New MALAS Seminar Spring 2022 -- Meso American Ceramics with Carlos Figueroa-Beltran
MALAS 600
MESOAMERICAN CERAMICS
This course examines the iconography, context, and function of the visual arts of the Mesoamerican world, with the idea of developing works of art inspired by the Mesoamerican civilizations from pre-contact times to the present.
Through this study, we hope to inspire a new work of art for the campus, created by students from both Latin American Studies and the Ceramics Area in the School of Art and Design, discussing issues of appropriation and representation as we explore ancient works as inspiration for a contemporary work of art.
My name is Carlos Figueroa-Beltran. I work at the Center for Latin American Studies as a lecturer and graduate advisor. My academic background varies from archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, intercultural studies, and environmental sciences. As an archaeologist, I have excavated several sites in Mesoamerica, such as Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan (the ancient capital of the Aztec empire).
Carlos Figueroa-Beltran
MALAS 600C/LATAM 580
MESOAMERICAN CERAMICS is a course that explores the cross-section of art, archaeology, and ethnohistory through the study of the ceramics of Mesoamerica, a vast territory that spanned from Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico to El Salvador.
This course examines the iconography, context, and function of the visual arts of the Mesoamerican world, with the idea of developing works of art inspired by the Mesoamerican civilizations from pre-contact times to the present.
Through this study, we hope to inspire a new work of art for the campus, created by students from both Latin American Studies and the Ceramics Area in the School of Art and Design, discussing issues of appropriation and representation as we explore ancient works as inspiration for a contemporary work of art.
My name is Carlos Figueroa-Beltran. I work at the Center for Latin American Studies as a lecturer and graduate advisor. My academic background varies from archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, intercultural studies, and environmental sciences. As an archaeologist, I have excavated several sites in Mesoamerica, such as Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan (the ancient capital of the Aztec empire).
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
MALAS PUBLIC LECTURE (vaxxed and masked!) : Darius Gainer, Public Lecture on BLACK REPRESENTATION IN THE WORLD OF ANIMATION | SDSU Main Campus, GMCS 333 at 11am, Tuesday December 7, 2021.
Help us spread the word! This coming Tuesday something wickedly good our way cometh! Darius Gainer, Public Lecture (vaxxed and masked), SDSU Main Campus, GMCS 333 at 11am, Tuesday December 7, 2021. Thx to my partner in crimes literary & semiotic, Frederick Luis Aldama for initiating this friendship/collaboration! Thx again to John Jennings and Tim Fielder for the book blurbs and to Stanford W. Carpenter for the moving intro/preface. Pick up a copy of BLACK REPRESENTATION IN THE WORLD OF ANIMATION here: amatlcomix.sdsu.edu or here https://amzn.to/3EhQlwS
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Monday, November 15, 2021
A MALAS Special Lecture! In Conjunction with COMICS@SDSU: The Asian-American Artist and the Post-Racial Mountain-as-Molehill Professor Ralph Clare, English, Boise State University Thursday November 18, 2021
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The Asian-American Artist and the Post-Racial Mountain-as-Molehill
Professor Ralph Clare, English, Boise State University
Thursday November 18, 2021 11-12:15 GMCS 333
The author of recent books on David Foster Wallace and Postmodern Fiction and Film, Professor Ralph Clare returns to SDSU (he’s an alum of our undergraduate BA in English and Comparative Literature) from the wilds of Idaho where he works as an Associate Professor of English. His lecture today, focuses on Adrian Tomine’s striking graphic novel SHORTCOMINGS, some of Tomine’s earlier works published in OPTIC NERVE, and the poetry of Langston Hughes—in particular "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” Dr. Clare's lecture will include commentary on the supposedly "post-racial age" and the challenges and opportunities that poses for writers / artists of color—and particularly for Tomine, who is working in an industry with a somewhat anemic diversity, "alternative" though it is!
Ralph Clare is Associate Professor of English at Boise State University, specializing in post-45 American literature. He is the author of Fictions Inc.: The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2014) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace (Cambridge UP, 2018). His latest book project, Metaffective Fiction: Structuring Feeling in Contemporary American Literature, explores the role of emotion and affect in post-postmodern fiction and the neoliberal era in works by David Foster Wallace, Salvador Plascencia, Sheila Heti, Dave Eggers, and Ben Lerner, among others.
Education: Ph.D., English Literature, Stony Brook University (SUNY, Stony Brook); M.F.A., Creative Writing (Fiction), California State University, Long Beach; M.A., English Literature, California State University, Long Beach; B.A., English Literature, San Diego State University. Recent Publications: The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace (Cambridge UP, 2018) Fictions Inc.: The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture (Rutgers University, 2014).
A Public Lecture for Vaxxed and Masked Members of the SDSU Community Brought to you by the fine folks at Comics@SDSU, Amatl Comix, SDSU Press, MALAS & The Cool Kids of English 157 Psychedelic Mirrors!
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