Spanish Department

Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo brings her internationally known “Minimum Monument” event to Middlebury. With help from students, faculty, staff and members of the Middlebury community, she will install 300+ ice sculptures (little men and women) outside Davis Library. And then we will leave them to melt… or will we? A visual metaphor for climate change, Azevedo’s work challenges the traditional meaning of the public monument: “in the place of the hero, the anonym; in the place of the solidity of the stone, the ephemeral process of the ice.” A community event not to be missed.

Iván Thays will discuss the process of writing his 2008 novel, updating this with current information about this writing practice. In this novel, a white middle-class character travels from Lima, the capital of Peru, to Ayacucho, a rural region in the Andes where widespread human rights violations occurred during the bloody internal conflict (1980-1997) between the Peruvian government and insurgent organizations such as the People’s Guerrilla Army (armed wing of the Shining Path) and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

Alejandro Kelly Hopfenblatt (Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET)

Alonso Cueto, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, will deliver a talk about his forthcoming historical novel (yet untitled) about the famous actress and entertainer María Micaela Villegas y Hurtado de Mendoza, known as La Perricholi, arguably the most famous Peruvian woman of the 18th century. Villegas y Hurtado de Mendoza was known for being the mistress of the Peruvian Viceroy Manuel de Amat y Juniet, but in his novel Cueto attempts to provide a nuanced portrait of this figure in order to shed light on Colonial life in Peru. Cueto’s novel will be released in mid 2019. Dr.

Using the sciences with the humanities: Middlebury students’ participation in a Maya-led language revitalization effort in Guatemala.

Information session for two teaching opportunities during winter term January 2019. Teach English in El Triunfo, Ecuador or in Nosara, Costa Rica. Come find out more information about each program from interns from previous years and information on how to apply.

Mario Siddhartha Portugal Ramirez will discuss the main findings of his ethnographic research in Ecuador during 2015 and 2016. He argues that women healers provide a particular urban folk medicine that acts in a gray zone of the intercultural health in Ecuador. This zone is a space where women are reproducing and transmitting their traditional knowledge, recovering the meaning of interculturality though an open confrontation of state policies, and most important: giving hope to many people that cannot afford health care in the city. Mr.

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Latin American Stories of Resistance: A Literary Reading” by Gloria Estela González Zenteno, professor of Spanish, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 2/18 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.