LASA 2015: PUERTO RICO

May 28

Latin American Studies Association 2015

Cuerpos impropios: mediaciones humanas y no-humanas en algunos textos hoy

en Subjetividades precarias: Mexico en la era del neoliberalismo tardío

541 // SEC - LASA Section Presentation - Thursday, 6:00pm - 7:45pm, San Cristobal C
Subjetividades precarias: Mexico en la era del neoliberalismo 
tardío 
Sponsor: Mexico
Chair: José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, University of HoustonDe la poesía de la violencia a la poesía de la intersubjetividad: José 
Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, University of HoustonLiterature and Expropriation: Samuel A Steinberg, University of 
Southern California 
Cuerpos impropios: mediaciones humanas y no-humanas en algunos textos de hoy: Cristina Rivera Garza, University of California/San Diego 
Discapacidad y el sector informal: “no les compres y desaparecen”: Susan J Antebi, University of Toronto 
Máquinas de precarización: afectos y violencias de la cultura neoliberal: Ignacio M Sánchez Prado, Washington University/St. Louis 


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May 29

Latin American Studies Association 2015

809 // INV - Workshop - Friday, 4:00pm - 5:45pm, San Cristobal C
Invited Session - Precariedad y política de lo íntimo en la 
literatura contemporánea 
Sponsor: LST Literary Studies: Contemporary
Session Organizer: Estelle C Tarica, University of California/Berkeley
Presenters: Cristina Rivera Garza, University of California/San Diego 
Guillermo F Rebollo-Gil, Universidad del Este Sergio Chejfec, New York University 

¡ALLÁ NOS VEMOS!

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Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza speaking to a panel at the 2015 LéaLA Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles

Credit: 

Betto Arcos

Cristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer and professor who has developed her career on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Her novels in Spanish have won literary awards in Mexico, and she’s taught writing both in Mexico and the United States.

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So she knows what it’s like to work and write in both Spanish and English. Producer Betto Arcos caught up with her at LéaLA, the Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles, and asked her what it's like being a published author in two languages, and how living on both sides of the border has affected her work. Here’s an edited transcript of their conversation.

Cristina Rivera Garza: I'm a Mexican author who's been living in the United States for the last 25, 26 years. I’m a Norteña in Mexico, I was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. This is the city on the other side of the border from Brownsville, Texas. And I've been living in San Diego, California, for a number of years on the other extreme of the border as well.

You know, most of my creative work, I've been publishing that in Spanish. Most of my academic work, I've published in English. And for a while that kind of division worked quite well. But for the last 7 years I've been teaching in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of California-San Diego, and I've been teaching in English mostly. No, not mostly, only. And so that difference, the fact that I saw myself as a Mexican author writing in Spanish and as a continental academic writing in English — all of that was somewhat subverted by this experience. Obviously, I've been here for such a long time that I've been writing also in English, things that I’ve decided not to publish. But that might be changing in the near future.

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EL ESTADO DE LA CULTURA 
12. CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

Para pensar en común la situación y las tareas del arte y la cultura, circulamos un cuestionario entre doce escritores, artistas, críticos, editores y académicos. La última en responder es Cristina Rivera Garza (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, 1964), profesora en University of California, San Diego, y autora de una amplia obra que incluye, entre sus títulos más recientes, la novela El mal de la taiga (2012) y el ensayo Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación (2013).

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MAYO

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May 7, 2015

University of California, Irvine.

2:00 pm

Writing No One Will See Me Cry: Behind the Writer´s Studio

Social Science Tower Room 318

6:00 pm

Archives and Ethnographies in Documentary Writing: From No One Will See Me Cry to What We Can Do For Each Other

Physical Sciences Classroom Building, Room 140

Link here.

The Emotional Terrain of Chicano-Latino Studies event

UC Illuminations; Chancellor´s Art and Culture Initiative

Department of Chicano-Latino Studies

University of California-Irvine

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May 13, 2015

Cal Poly Pomona, California

3:00-4:30

Translating, transducting, transliving: a Critical Dialogue with Cheyla Samuelson and Jen Hofer

Link here

CLA Heritage Room

Latino Scholars and Lingua Franca event

English and Foreign Languages; Cesar Chavez Center for Higher Education

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May 16, 2015

Léala: Feria del libro en español, Los Ángeles, California

Escribir en español y en inglés desde los Estados Unidos

(con Fran Ilich and Marco Antonio Huerta)

16:00-16:50

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May 28

Latin American Studies Association 2015

Cuerpos impropios: mediaciones humanas y no-humanas en algunos textos hoy

en Subjetividades precarias: Mexico en la era del neoliberalismo tardío

541 // SEC - LASA Section Presentation - Thursday, 6:00pm - 7:45pm, San Cristobal C
Subjetividades precarias: Mexico en la era del neoliberalismo
tardío
Sponsor: Mexico
Chair: José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, University of Houston
De la poesía de la violencia a la poesía de la intersubjetividad: José
Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, University of Houston
Literature and Expropriation: Samuel A Steinberg, University of
Southern California
Cuerpos impropios: mediaciones humanas y no-humanas en algunos textos de hoy: Cristina Rivera Garza, University of California/San Diego
Discapacidad y el sector informal: “no les compres y desaparecen”: Susan J Antebi, University of Toronto
Máquinas de precarización: afectos y violencias de la cultura neoliberal: Ignacio M Sánchez Prado, Washington University/St. Louis 


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May 29

Latin American Studies Association 2015

809 // INV - Workshop - Friday, 4:00pm - 5:45pm, San Cristobal C
Invited Session - Precariedad y política de lo íntimo en la
literatura contemporánea
Sponsor: LST Literary Studies: Contemporary
Session Organizer: Estelle C Tarica, University of California/Berkeley
Presenters: Cristina Rivera Garza, University of California/San Diego
Guillermo F Rebollo-Gil, Universidad del Este Sergio Chejfec, New York University 


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