Collaborative Edges

Aeternum Press: Peruvian Dark Fantasy/Fiction (Spanish)

iCollaborate — Wed, 27 May 2020 08:00:00 +0000

Aeternum Press is a Peruvian independent literary publishing house that specializes in dark fantasy/fiction (literatura oscura), a genre that welcomes works of horror fiction and dystopic science fiction. In this Zoom-podcast, we talked with Tania Huerta, Aeternum’s Editor in Chief, and editorial team members Luis Bravo and Kristina Ramos, about their editorial initiative, projects, and myths about authors of dark fantasy/fiction. Aeternum Press’s publications are available in digital edition and can be downloaded from its digital platform Lektu. This podcast has been conducted in Spanish.

Episode 24: Comics and Graphic Narratives from Latin America

iCollaborate — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:30:00 +0000

Since 2019, the MSU Comics Forum is a multi-day, annual event for scholars, creators, and fans of the comics medium. In this podcast, we talk with Brittany Tullis, Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies at Saint Ambrose University, and María Fernanda Díaz-Basteris, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Cornell College, who present their recent work on Latin American visual cultures, literary studies, comics and graphic narratives in this year’s Comics Forum.

Episode 23: Latinx Music and Political Action

iCollaborate — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000

One of the features of the MSU Latinx Film Festival is music as a vehicle for political action. These day, we’ll enjoy the live performance of RicanStruction, a musical journey through the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and other regions of Latin America with its significant Afro-Hispanic presence. We’ll also enjoy “Singing our way to freedom” a film that chronicles the life and music of Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez, César Chávez’s favorite musician. In this podcast, Scott Boehm, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of the MSU Latinx Film Festival, interviews Osvaldo Ozzie Rivera, educator, activist, musician, and Director of RicanStruction, and filmmaker Paul Espinosa, Director of “Singing our way to freedom.”

Visit : https://msulatinxfilmfestival.com/

Episode 22: “Lulú en el jardín”: an experimental documentary on LGBTQ+ issues

iCollaborate — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Featured in the 2nd edition of the MSU Latinx Film Festival, “Lulú en el jardín” is an experimental documentary project that explores the personal narrative and historical events surrounding the institutionalization of José Luis Benavides’s Latina lesbian mother in the 1970s. In this podcast, Alejandra Márquez Guajardo, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean at Michigan State University, and José Luis Benavides, artist, writer, educator, and Director of “Lulú en el Jardín,” talk about the film, LGBTQ+ issues, and a very personal story.

Visit : https://msulatinxfilmfestival.com

Episode 21 - MSU Latinx Film Festival 2020

iCollaborate — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Website
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Episode 20 - Writing and Performing Violence in Latin America

iCollaborate — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This podcast brings us back to projects related to memory, activism, and archives in the Spanish-speaking world and Latin America. Our two most recent Ph.D.s in Hispanic Cultural Studies at MSU Andrew Bentley ('2019) and Osvaldo Sandoval ('2019) visited our studio to talk about violence in contemporary Latin American and Spanish literature and performing arts. Bentley and Sandoval give us a glimpse into their doctoral projects, why they decided to work on violence and trauma in contemporary writing, performance and material culture in Postwar Guatemala, Spain and the Southern Cone respectively. This podcast continues the conversation we had with the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo's episode.

Episode 19 - Passing, Identity and Self-Representation

iCollaborate — Thu, 02 May 2019 15:06:00 +0000

MSU professors Catherine Ryu, Japanese and Korean Studies, and Kirsten Fermaglich, History and Jewish Studies continue the conversation about the notions of passing, identity and (self) representation, across diverse languages and cultures. In December 2018, apropos “Passing” in Russian cinema, we talked about Zainichi Koreans who would like to pass as Japanese. Professor Ryu shared her understanding of Passing as “an authorized movement between and through different identity categories that are not assigned to you." How has our learning community experience about "passing" this year expanded or opened new possibilities for our own research and pedagogical approaches to global identities?

Episode 18 - (Spanish) Juan Acevedo: Peruvian Comics and Politics

iCollaborate — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:04:00 +0000

and presenter in the 2019 symposium of the MSU Graphic Narratives Network. Juan, Bruno Takahashi, MSU professor of Journalism, and Claudia Berríos-Campos, a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Cultural Studies at MSU share their views about and experiences with comics and cartoons, and their impact in Peruvian and Latin American readers. Special appearance of "El Cuy" (the guinea pig), the most renown comic character created by Acevedo and widely read in the Spanish-speaking world: https://elcuy.wordpress.com/ While at MSU, Juan was interviewed by Wayka News.

Episode 17 - (Spanish) Mayra Santos Febres: Conjuros and Festival de la Palabra

iCollaborate — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:31:00 +0000

Gracias a una invitación de la iniciativa Womxn of Color en Michigan State University, conversamos con la escritora puertorriqueña Mayra Santos Febres acerca del acto de crear y escribir, magia, conjuros, la historia de nuestros nombres y de nuestras jornadas como impulsos creativos. Novelista, poeta y ensayista con más de 25 libros publicados, varios premios en su haber, y profesora en la division de Humanidades de la U de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Mayra se especializa en literatura africana, caribeña y feminista. Es además la directora ejecutiva del “Festival de la Palabra,” el festival literario anual más grande del Caribe.

Episode 16 - Digital Analysis of Early Modern Captive Letters/Portugal & Spain

iCollaborate — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:29:00 +0000

This is our third podcast on DH projects in the Spanish and, on this occasion, we talk also about Portuguese epistolary writings. Leila Vieira, Doctoral candidate in the Studies in the Portuguese Speaking World Program at the Ohio State University shares with us her textual analysis of 23 letters by early modern Spanish and Portuguese captives by means of digital archives (P.S. Post Scriptum) and visualization tools such as https://voyant-tools.org/

Episode 15 - (Spanish) Borderlands Archives Cartographies & #TornApart/#Separados

iCollaborate — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:28:00 +0000

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Episode 14 - Postwar Guatemala's Digital Archives: GAM

iCollaborate — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:05:00 +0000

Alex Galarza and Mariana Ramírez speak about Postwar Guatemala’s Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo Digital Archive. At Haverford College, Alex leads the development of the GAM Digital Archive. Mariana has been involved with GAM digitization project since fall of 2017 and sees her work as an important way to promote historical memory. For more information, visit: http://ds.haverford.edu/gam-archive/index

Episode 13 - Passing to the Other's Side in Russian Film

iCollaborate — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:45:00 +0000

Catherine Ryu, Camelia Suleiman, and Jason Merrill talk about the notion of “passing” in Zainichi cultural production, Arab culture, and Russian cinema. Tied to ideas of racial, ethnic, and cultural identity, “passing” takes place when an individual of a racial/ethnic group is accepted as a member of a group different from their own. In this context Prisoner of the Mountains (1996), the story of two Russian soldiers who are held prisoners by their enemies during the Chechen war offers an example of “passing” in Russian film.

Episode 12 - (English) Taiwanese Cinema: "Dear Ex"

iCollaborate — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:30:00 +0000

Welcome to our podcast about 2018 cinematic success “Dear Ex.” Tze-lan Sang and Catherine Ryu hold a lively conversation with Filmmaker Chih-yen Hsu, one of the two Co-Directors of “Dear Ex” along with Mag Hsu. Winner of Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor, and Best Actress at the 2018 Taipei Film Festival; nominated to 8 Golden Horse Awards, and Official Selection at the 2018 Asian Pop-Up Cinema, “Dear Ex” delves into the lives of Song Zheng-yuan, his wife (and later widow) San-lian, their teenage son Cheng-xi, and Zheng-yuan’s lover Jay. Gender roles, sexual identity, motherhood, communication, and love are some of the themes we discuss in this podcast.

Episode 12 - (Chinese) Taiwanese Cinema: "Dear Ex"

iCollaborate — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:07:00 +0000

Welcome to our first podcast in a language other than English! Tze-lan Sang, Taiwanese Filmmaker Chih-yen Hsu, and Sophia Wong Boccio, Executive Director of Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Chicago) joined us to talk about Taiwanese cinema and “誰先愛上他的,” film co-directed by Chih-yen Hsu and Mag Hsu.

Episode 11 - Legacies of the Enlightenment

iCollaborate — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:04:00 +0000

“Legacies of the Enlightenment” is a research initiative jointly developed by faculty and graduate students from MSU and Penn State University. Valentina Denzel and Ellen McCallum join us today to talk about this collaborative initiative, why studying the Enlightenment matters today, and their forthcoming interdisciplinary workshop.

Episode 10 - Puppet Power

iCollaborate — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Between May 14 and September 14, 2018, Pia Banzhaf and Steve Baibak, organized the exhibit “Panoply of Puppets” in collaboration with the MSU Museum. Puppets from different parts of the world were featured. In this podcast, Banzhaf and Baibak talk about the power of puppets and how they integrate them into their projects and, in collaboration with MSU Abrams Planetarium, their classes. Visit: http://kaleidoscopia.ca/

Episode 9 - Locating Muslim Cinema(s)

iCollaborate — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

In April 2018, Michigan State University held the Muslim Studies Program 11th Annual Conference and Film Fest with a special focus on “Locating Muslim Cinema(s): The Politics of Cultures and Identity.” MSU faculty Camelia Suleiman, Marc Bernstein, and Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai talk about the festival, films “The Nightingale’s Prayer” (Egypt 1959), “Close Up” (Iran 1990), and “Firaaq” (India 2008), and how 60 years of Muslim cinema(s) contribute to our understanding of Muslim cultures and society.

Episode 8- Picturing Others: Photography, Representation, and Identification

iCollaborate — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:53:00 +0000

Mary Vogl (Colorado State University), Candace Keller (Michigan State University), and Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (host) share their approaches to study indigenous photographic practices from Morocco, Mali, and Perú. Who were/are their viewers? for whom and why did/do they take photographs? what agendas are activated when building representations of others and themselves? How did these photographers and the subjects they photographed want to be represented? For more information: www.picturingothers.com

Episode 7 - Picturing Others: Indigenous Photography and Archive

iCollaborate — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:52:00 +0000

Jorge Coronado (Northwestern University), Laura Smith (Michigan State University) and Erika Nimis (University of Quebec, Montréal) share their reasons to study indigenous photographers of Perú, the United States and Mali and the construction of photographic archives by native people of these nations. The construction and preservation of photographic archives bring the stories of indigenous peoples and their (self)representations to the center of interdisciplinary studies. For more information: www.picturingothers.com

Episode 6 - Migration Studies and the Humanist Perspective

iCollaborate — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:48:00 +0000

What does the censorship of bilingualism signal about how we construct our world? Is popular culture depicting or misrepresenting migration communities? How are the refugee crises presented in social media? Evelyn Alsultany, Madelaine Hron, Ana Celia Zentella, and Miguel Cabañas, guest presenters and organizer of this symposium meet to talk about human rights and refugees including their right to practice their religions, use their language, and retain their own features. Humanities research in these areas can inform the law and transform the policy to create a conversation on the impact of migration policy on the human experience.

Episode 5 - What Happens to a Dream Deferred

iCollaborate — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

What Happens to a Dream Deferred is an intimate portrait of a day in the life of José Adrián Badillo Carlos and Osvaldo Sandoval, two DREAMers who are graduate students at Michigan State University. Scott Boehm, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Film Director, and Peter Johnston, Cinematographer and Film Editor, join José Adrián and Osvaldo to talk about the making of this short film and the impact on their lives after the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. The film was first released at the MSU Latinx Film Festival.

Episode 4 - Latinx Film Festival: 40 years of Mexican-American music

iCollaborate — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:18:00 +0000

A conversation with Charlie Vela and Ronnie Garza, directors of As I Walk Through the Valley, and Scott Boehm, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Global Studies at Michigan State University and Director of the MSU Latinx Film Festival. Featured at the MSU Latinx Film Festival, As I Walk Through the Valley is the first comprehensive look at rock music in the Rio Grande Valley. Vela, Garza, and Boehm talk about documenting 40 years of musical history and Mexican-American culture.

Episode 3 - Blurring Boundaries

iCollaborate — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:27:00 +0000

Who are ‘we’ and who is the ‘other’? This is a question that has become increasingly complex in late modern times due to the effects of globalization. In the Arabic world, another force is driving this question. Guests Camelia Suleiman, Marc Bernstein, and Safoi Babana-Hampton talked with us about this force and its effects in the Arabic world across and beyond the Mediterranean. See also Blurring Boundaries. A Global Perspective Symposium

Episode 2 - The Language of Self and Italian Cinema

iCollaborate — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Philosophy, aesthetics and post-realist media productions have unseated conventional politics, blurring boundaries between fiction and documentation, the self and the Other, autobiography and biography. Italian cinema had identified subjects of the global Italian world to convey the changing positions of the director and the viewer. Guests: Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Italian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, in conversation with Joseph Francese, Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University.

Episode 1 - African Arts and Photography

iCollaborate — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:48:22 +0000

The West African country of Mali has long been home to a creative community of photographers. Since 2011 the Archive of Malian Photography addresses the preservation, cataloging, and digitization of works by renowned Malian photographers. Guests: Malick Sitou and Youssouf Sakaly in conversation with Candace Keller, Associate Professor of African Art History and Visual Culture at Michigan State University.