Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
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Investigating art and politics in urban space.
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
7M ago
Modernity, the Search for Meaning, and the Spanish Streetcar Experience in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Madrid: Clarín, Galdós and Pardo Bazán
Using three Spanish short stories set in Madrid, Benito Pérez Galdós’s “La novela en el tranvía” (1871), Clarín’s “Doña Berta” (1892), and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “En tranvía” (1901), this article speaks to the alienating experience of everyday life in the city. Attention is paid to the movement of streetcars in Madrid and how this movement reflects a defining characteristic of modernity, the search for meaning after the industrial revoluti ..read more
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
4y ago
Anarchist Socialism in Early 20th-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Anarchist Socialism in Early 20th Century Spain is the first English translation of and critical introduction to Ideario, a collection of newspaper and journal articles written by Spanish anarchist Ricardo Mella. Given that Mella is virtually unknown to the English-speaking world, this book provides readers access to his extensive body of work about Spain, human nature, and a world increasingly dominated by capitalism. Suitable for both the general public interested in learni ..read more
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
4y ago
Webinar
‘Stay Home Without a Home’.
The Right to Housing in COVID-19 Lockdown Times
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020
Time: 11 a.m (EDT, New York City); 12 a.m. (UTC-3, Rio de Janeiro); 4 p.m (WEST, Lisbon); 5 p.m (CEST, Barcelona and Turin); 6 p.m. (EEST, Beirut)
Duration: 1h15
Event in partnership with the project HOPES: HOusing PErspectives and Struggle (FCT, PTDC/GES-URB/28826/2017), and the CIES-ISCTE-IUL Monthly Seminar on Social Movements and Political Action
Zoom:
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/vJcvcOipqzMiDdltmn3EEp5KC2kuCEorNg
Con ..read more
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
4y ago
Dear people affected by the crisis,
dear people in solidarity,
hello to all, who are concerned about the political and social trends
and developments in face of the Covid-19 pandemia,
Not long ago, Coview: social and political covid-19 Watchgroup was
founded, an initiative to respond to the political and social impact of
COVID-19 and the accompanying measures – digitally and on-site. By now
over 200 people are connected in Coview via a decentralized,
non-hierarchical horizontal organizational structure. For more Infos
about basic principles check out https://coview.info/statement-grun ..read more
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
4y ago
This is a picture of C Squat yesterday. The first floor is the Museum of Reclaimed Space ..read more
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
4y ago
helena torres
For those of you who read English, here is one of the wonderful publications of Christian Alonso, curator and researcher, about how the world changes interact with art practice and the thinking of art. The book articles were developed from papers presented at the two international symposiums Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art that took place in Barcelona organized by the research group AGI (Art, Globalization, Interculturality, (University of Barcelona) and hosted in the MACBA’s Auditorium on December 1, 2016 and February 21, 2018. I was honored to be invited and to publ ..read more
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
4y ago
More information about the M.A. in Spanish and Hispanic Studies at NIU can be found here.
To apply, you will need to do the following:
1) fill out the online form
2) write a statement of purpose
3) send transcripts
4) ask two former professors to send letters of recommendation
5) take the GRE
6) send a 12-16 page writing sample in Spanish (an analysis of a novel, short story, poem, etc.)
The application deadline for Fall 2020 is April 1. If you are interested in being a Graduate Teaching Assistant, the deadline is March 1.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Stephen Vilaseca, Dir ..read more
Dr. Stephen Luis Vilaseca
5y ago
An interdisciplinary conference
16th-18th September 2019
St John’s College, Cambridge
Paper proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary conference on ‘Encounters: the coincidence of space, time, and subjectivity’. This conference will bring into dialogue a range of disciplines to explore ways in which space and time interact, how they are socially formed or experienced, how they are culturally represented, and what this may say about subjectivity and perceptions of identity.
The conference offers an exciting opportunity for encounters between geographers, historians, philosophers, anthrop ..read more