Aileen El-Kadi, Ph.D. - Faculty - University of Texas at El Paso

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2012 Invited by Alfaguara/Santillana Publisher at Los Angeles Book Fair LéaLA to
present book Sam no es mi tio with Diego Fonseca (co-editor) and Mario
Bellatin. (11 to 13 of May)
2011 Vida y Resistencia en la Frontera Norte. (October 20, 21, 22) panel entitled:
“Sexualidad, Violencia y Estudios Culturales”. Ciudad Juárez en el Entramado
Mundial – Colegio de La Frontera Norte. COLEF. Sponsored by Dirección
Regional Noroeste Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. (Invited speaker)
2011 Invited to teach a graduate course for the University of Massachusetts at
Dartmouth 18th Annual Summer Program in Portuguese. Director
Christopher Larkosh. Course entitled: Urban Violence in Contemporary
Brazilian Literature and Culture. (From July 5 to August 4)
2010 Second Brazilian Literary Festival at Georgetown University. Sponsored by the
Embassy of Brazil at Washington DC.
2010 FLIP (Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, invited as
interviewer at “Jogo de Ideias” by Itaú Cultural (Brazil). Interviewed Flavio
Carneiro, Brazilian Writer, on his latest book of essays The Feigned Reader.
2009 Brazilian Literary Networks. “The Brazilian Initiative” at University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Invited speaker at the panel “On Literary Translation”
2009 Invited speaker at “Encontros de Interrogação” sponsored by Itaú Cultural –
São Paulo, Brazil. Panel entitled: “Debate: O Espaço da Tradução ou Como o
Ofício de Traduzir Irrompe na Criação e Como a Criação se Insinua no Ato de
Traduzir”, with: Allison Entrekin, Paulo Henriques Britto and Walter Costa.
2009 Invited lecturer at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis,
Brazil. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão – Pós-Graduação em Estudos da
Tradução. Paper entitled “Conotação e contextualização cultural no processo
de tradução literária.” Directors: Walter Costa and Andreia Guerini.
2009 Lecture for “The Disappeared exhibition.” The Rubin Center, the Centennial
Museum and the Union Gallery here on the UTEP campus. Lecture title: “The
Burned Society: Brazilian Dictatorship in Cildo Meireles' Art.”
2009 Invited hostess at the “70 th Anniversary of the Exile of the Spanish Civil
War”, Lecture and testimonials by the Spanish Civil War Refugees. Sponsored
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