New lecture series opens with Oct. 9 international forum on language, border issues
(Oct. 4, 2001)--The UTSA Literary and Cultural Studies Lecture Series opens with the forum "Languages and Identities on the Border" at 6:30 p.m., Oct. 9 at the Downtown Campus Buena Vista Room 1.338. The interdisciplinary series begins its inaugural year with the theme "Why Humanities Now?" The Oct. 9 event is the first of two forums focusing on issues of language, with the second scheduled for Spring 2002.
At the Oct. 9 forum, guest lecturers Maria Elena Ramos Tovar and Kati Pletsch de Garcia will join UTSA English professor Norma Cantu in an exploration of the "border" as a real and conceptual tool in the study of language and identity. Sonia Saldivar-Hull, UTSA's newest English faculty member, will serve as moderator. The interdisciplinary event was initiated by Kent Wilkinson, communication department, and Bridget Drinka, English, classics and philosophy department.
Ramos Tovar, Universidad de Monterrey, will speak on "Women and Culture on the Border: A Mexican Perspective." Pletsch de Garcia, Texas A&M University, will speak on "Codeswitching: Language Use and Language Attitudes in a U.S./Mexico Border Community." Cantu's lecture is titled "Spanglish? Tex Mex? Chicano Spanish? Chicano English?--The Many Languages of Literature on the U.S./Mexico Border."
On Nov. 16 at the Downtown Campus, the series will turn to the pathbreaking work of UC Berkeley ethnic studies chair Jose David Saldivar, author of the book Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies. Saldivar will speak on "Border Thinking and the Relocation of Chicano/a Narrative."
The events are free and open to the public. The series is funded by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. For more information call (210) 458-5351.
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