Workshop Series Fall 2019
- The Workshop Series features emerging and established writers from the Spanish speaking world.
- It constitutes an aesthetic manifesto in progress
- All events are free and open to the community
For registration and materials: agendauh.ece@gmail.com
03.06// Cristian Alarcón
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 3553 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 444
Topic: Periodismo Performático
About Cristian Alarcón
Cristian Alarcón is a Chilean author and journalist whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone and other publications. He teaches at the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New
Latin American Journalism and is Director of Revista Anfibia. One of his books, Dance for Me When I Die will be published next April (Duke Press, 2019).
03.28// Pablo Brescia
5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: 3553 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
Topic: ¿Cómo terminar una obra? Reescrituras, apropiaciones, intertextos
About Pablo Brescia
Pablo Brescia was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in the United States since 1986.
He is professor of Spanish and Teaches Latin American literature, film, and culture
at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Borges. Cinco especulaciones (2015) and La derrota de lo real (2017), among others.
04.04// Selva Almada - Conference
5:00pm
Location: 6500 Main St., Rice University
Sewall Hall - 309
Topic: Leer y escribir: de dónde sale una escritora
About Selva Almada
Selva Almada, 1973, Argentina. She is the author of Chicas muertas (2014), and El
desapego es una manera de querernos (2015), among others. Her work had been translated
to French, German, Portugues, Dutch and Turkish. In June 2019 her novel The Wind That
Lays Waste will be published in English.
04.05// Selva Almada - Workshop
12:00pm-6:00pm
Location: 3553 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 207
Topic: Notas sobre la vida doméstica. Escritura al borde de la página
About Selva Almada
Selva Almada, 1973, Argentina. She is the author of Chicas muertas (2014), and El
desapego es una manera de querernos (2015), among others. Her work had been translated
to French, German, Portugues, Dutch and Turkish. In June 2019 her novel The Wind That
Lays Waste will be published in English.