n “East in the West: Orientalism in Latin America” (in English)

ThursdAy, NOvEmbEr 6, 20086:30 Pm Gore hall 304

silvia Nagy-Zekmi, villanova university

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi is professor of Hispanic and Cultural Studies and the director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University in Philadelphia. Her books include Paralelismos transatlanticos: poscolonialidad y narrativa femenina en América Latina y Africa del Norte (1996). She has edited several volumes including Moros en la costa: orientalismo en Latinoamérica (Vervuert/ Iberoamericana, 2008), Paradoxical Citizenship: Eduard Said (2006, 2008), Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973 (2005 Arthur Whitaker Prize), Le Maghreb Poscolonial (2003). She is currently working on a manuscript titled The Poscolonial Condition: Representations of Nationhood, Ethnicity and Identity in Latin America (forthcoming in Rodopi, Amsterdam) and is co-editing two volumes with Chantal Zabus, Perennial Empire and Empire Building Yesterday and Tomorrow.

n “El concepto de limpieza/pureza en la cultura hispanoamericana: de los jabones a los paños sacros- siglos XvI–XX” (in Spanish)

TuEsdAy, NOvEmbEr 25, 20086:30 Pm Gore hall 304

Ana maría huerta Jaramillo, benemérita universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Ana María Huerta Jaramillo is professor of history at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Alonso Diego Pliego. She has published extensively and given conferences in Europe and Latin America about the colonial world, archives and women’s voices, and the history of medicine in colonial times. Among her most important works are La historia de cada día (2002) and Lavanderas en el tiempo (2003).

These conferences were made possible thanks to the generous funding from:n Latin American Studies Programn Department of Foreign Languages and Literaturesn Department of Political Science and International Relationsn Department of Historyn Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

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