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Book Celebration and Conversation: Asaltos al escenario: Humor, género e historia en el teatro de Sabina Berman
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 4:15 pm
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
Light refreshments will be served.
Hispanic Studies is hosting a public presentation in English of the book Asaltos al escenario: Humor, género e historia en el teatro de Sabina Berman (Assaulting the Stage: Humor, Gender, and History in the Theater of Sabina Berman) written by Priscilla Meléndez.
Sabina Berman (1955) is a well-known Mexican-Jewish writer who has penned novels, poetry, plays (for which she has received the most prestigious theater awards in Mexico), and is also a cultural icon through her television interview programs, among them, Largo aliento. In Asaltos al escenario Meléndez explores the way in which Berman (1955) confronts the history of her country and brings to the theater its social and political crises by means of humor, gender, and history. Through an analysis of eight works (seven plays and one film script), Meléndez focuses on Berman’s capacity to create dramatic worlds in which humor coexists and simultaneously collides with the sublime, uncovering at the same time the pleasure and the pain that run through the sociohistorical reality of an individual or a country, as well as through theatrical fiction itself. Berman’s theater carries out its critical project through the theatricalization of historical figures such as Hernán Cortés, Molière and Racine, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Pancho Villa, Leon Trotski, and events and concepts such as the conquest of Mexico, the Inquisition, the Mexican Revolution, the assassination of Trotski, machismo, feminicides, and narcotrafficking. In addition to the Preface and Introduction, the book is divided into two parts:
Part 1: Humor, Caricature, and Sex on the World’s Stage: From Colonial Suffering to Revolutionary “Pleasure”
Part 2: Mexican Historical Crises and the Culture of Death: From the Inquisition to Drug Trafficking
We will be joined by Professors Jacqueline Bixler from Virginia Tech (Editor of the journal Latin American Theatre Review) and Gail Bulman from Syracuse University, who will be participating in this book presentation. We are certain that the Trinity community will benefit from the discussion of this book centered on the theater of Sabina Berman. |
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Spanish Film Thursdays Presents
Location: SEABURY 130
TIME: 4:30
Light refreshments will be served.
October 5
Argentina 1985 (Argentina, 2022)
Directed by Santiago Mitre Starring: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani,
Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski
‘Argentina, 1985’ is inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo in their David-vs-Goliath battle to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship.
November 2
La Celestina (Spain, 1996)
Directed by Gerardo Vera
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Juan Diego Botto, Maribel Verdú,
Terele Pávez, Jordi Mollà
The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto’s servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance.
December 7
La jaula de oro (México, 2013)
Directed by Diego Quemada-Díez Starring: Brandon López
Juan, Sara, and Samuel, three teenagers from the slums of Guatemala, travel to the United States in search of a better life. Traveling together in freight trains and walking on railroad tracks, they soon have to face an odyssey that will change their lives forever.
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STUDY ABROAD!
Orientation with Prof. Claudio González Chiaramonte
Director of the Buenos Aires/Uruguay Middlebury Program
Friday, September, 22, 2023
12:00pm-1:00pm
Seabury 215
Find out detailed information about the Spanish Study Abroad Middlebury Program in Buenos Aires and Uruguay
- Buenos Aires- Tango & Identity (Middlebury Program & UBA-Facultad de Filosofía y Letras)
- Buenos Aires Public Health (UCA & UBA-Facultad de Ciencias Sociales)
- Montevideo- Neuroscience (Univ. de la República-Facultad de Psicología & ORT University
- Montevideo- Architecture (Universidad ORT Uruguay)
Pizza, cookies and refreshments will be served |