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Nicole T. Hughes, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, was awarded honorable mention for the RSA’s William Nelson Prize for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during 2023 for her article "Fiestas Fit for a King: Contested Symbolic Regimes of Power in New Spain." Read the announcement here: https://www.rsa.org/news/665090/Award--Prize-Winners.htm

Prof. Nicole Hughes' article, “Set in Stone: Jesuit Martyrdom at Land and Sea in Sixteenth-Century Brazil” was published by Colonial Latin American Review in July of 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205216

This piece explores how Jesuit missionaries in Brazil wanted adversaries to slay them in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith), a traditional requirement for martyrdom. The article argues that while the Soldiers of Christ found that their evangelical work remained on land, the sea’s narrative tropes suited the requirements for martyrdom best. To construct their case for Jesuit martyrs in Brazil, they subverted an age-old poetic landscape and constructed a fluid literary cartography.

Nicole Hughes, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University, researches the early modern world with a special focus on New Spain (Mexico) and Brazil in the sixteenth century.

FRENCH 291: Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema (FRENCH 391)
Prof. Cécile Alduy, Winter 2022, Tuesdays, 1:30 - 4:30 pm PST

Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to . Women as archetypes, icons, images, or as agents and subjects. Emphasis on filmic analysis: framing, point of view, narrative, camera work as ways to convey meaning. Themes include: sexualization and desire; diversity and intersectionality in films; new theories of the female gaze; gender, ethnicity, and class.



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"Island, Archive, Além-mar: The Insular Mechanics of Portuguese Expansion" talk by Lexie Cook, Getty Research Fellow. October 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM PDT on Zoom. Open to all. In English. Conversa em Português a seguir. Part of ILAC 218, COMPLIT 214 with Prof. Nicole T. Hughes. Sponsored by the DLCL and ILAC. Contact [email protected] for the Zoom link. Stanford University

SLAVIC 123: Getting the Picture: Photojournalism in Russia and the U.S. (AMSTUD 123, COMM 123, REES 223, SLAVIC 323)
Prof. Katherine Reischl

The vast majority of photographs printed and consumed around the world appeared on the pages of magazines and newspapers. These pictures were almost always heavily edited, presented in carefully devised sequences, and printed alongside text.

Through firsthand visual analysis of the picture presses of yesteryear, this course considers the ongoing meaning, circulation, and power of images as they shape a worldview in Russia as well as the US.

In looking at points of contact between two world powers, we will cover the works of a wide array of authors, photographers, photojournalists and photographed celebrities (Lev Tolstoy, Margaret Bourke-White, Russian satirists Ilf and Petrov, John Steinbeck and Richard Capa, and many others). We will explore the relationship between photojournalistic practice of the past with that of our present, from the printed page to digital media, as well as the ethical quandaries posed by the camera¿s intervention into/shaping of modern history. No knowledge of Russian is required.

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DLCL 205/305: Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists | Quinn Dombrowski | T/TH 1:30 - 2:50 PT, 3-5 units

What happens when you start a project that's bigger than you can do alone? How do you keep things moving while collaborating with people who have different priorities and incentives? This class will cover the theory and application of project management, drawing on examples from digital humanities projects.

We'll put these ideas to use by running a simulation of a project that starts at the beginning of the pandemic, in the style of a tabletop role-playing game. You'll also develop a detailed set of project management documents for a project that's meaningful for you, real, or imaginary. No technical or role-playing game experience required!

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ILAC 218: Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature (COMPLIT 214, COMPLIT 314A, ILAC 318)
Prof. Nicole Hughes

This course takes students on a journey through tales of getting lost in the Portuguese and Spanish empires. We will read harrowing stories of being caught adrift at sea and mystical interpretations of island desertion.

The course begins with sea-dominated stories of Portuguese voyages to Asia, Africa, and Brazil then turns to how the Amazon and the sertão, or backlands, became a driving force of Brazilian literature. Official historians, poets, and novelists imbued the ocean and the backlands with romanticism, yet these spaces were the backdrop to slavery and conquest.

Instead of approaching shipwreck and captivity narratives as eyewitness testimonies, as many have, we will consider how they produced 'the sea' and 'the wilderness' as poetic constructions in Western literature while also offering glimpses of the 'darker side' of Iberian expansion.

Taught in English with all texts offered both in English and the original Portuguese or Spanish. Optional guest lectures in Portuguese.

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Attention undergraduates: Come live in Stanford’s At Home Abroad House next year!

Applications accepted until June 23.

AHA House will be an intellectual and cultural crossroads where students will engage in trans-cultural learning and acquire the tools necessary to confront the complexity of our contemporary world. We welcome any and all students interested in exploring languages and cultures beyond the English-speaking world.

Through activities including film series, seminars, cooking classes, language tables, off-campus outings, and meetings with faculty and scholars from all over the world, residents will have a chance to broaden their worldview.

Learn more: https://stanford.io/2RWzzR1

📚ILAC 126: Latin American Art and Literature: 100 Years of Modernisms (ARTHIST 293A)✨ Instructor Cristian Soler

We will explore some of the most important Latin American artists and artistic movements of the last century. We will appreciate and discuss artworks across different media like painting, sculpture, performance, or installations coupled with different literary texts.

The artistic movements may include: Antropofagia (Brazil), Mexican Muralism, Tropicalia (Brazil), and Latin American Pop Art. Some of the artists that we will focus on are: Xul Solar (Argentina), Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Cecilia Vicuña (Chile), Adán Vallecillo (Honduras), Allora & Calzadilla (US/Cuba), and Tania Bruguera (Cuba). We will discuss their visual artworks alongside short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Leonora Carrington, Julio Cortázar, Clarice Lispector, and Ted Chiang. Some guiding questions will be: What is art? What is Latin America? And what we talk about when we talk about Latin American art?

Discussions and assignments in Spanish.

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📣Undergraduates: Come live in Stanford’s At Home Abroad House next year! AHA House will be a vibrant, diverse community that offers students an opportunity to explore languages and cultures beyond the English-speaking world.

Learn more on our website: https://stanford.io/2RWzzR1

The Department of French and Italian presents: The 2021 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture
"On the Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces": A tribute to Michel Serres by Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Professor of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of Political Science, Stanford University).

Friday, May 14, 2021 at 9:30 am PDT
RSVP at https://bit.ly/3fRtuig

At once a mathematician, a philosopher, and a poet, Michel Serres was the Blaise Pascal of the 20th century. Like Pascal, he did not conceal the dread he felt before an infinite universe where “the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” Pascal’s quest for a center was thwarted not by lack of what he sought, but by overabundance: we navigate a desacralized space in which each point is equally central and, for that very reason, none is.

But that is only true of this world from which God has taken leave. Here cosmology is simply an entryway into a much broader quest: the search for something that could serve as a privileged vantage point, a center of gravity or fulcrum, an origin or reference point for human reason, history, action, and salvation.

Whether their goal was mastering the world around us (Descartes), determining the place of our destiny (Pascal), or achieving universal knowledge (Leibniz), the great philosophers of the classical age all posed the question of the existence of what T. S. Eliot called a “still point of the turning world.”

How Michel Serres approached that quest will be the focus of this lecture.

🎬📚SLAVIC 147 Modern Russian Literature and Culture: The Age of War and Revolution (SLAVIC 347), Prof. Yuliya Ilchuk

"We are breaking with the past, because we cannot accept its hypotheses. We ourselves are creating our own hypotheses anew and only upon them, as in our inventions, can we build our new life and new worldview." - Lyubov Popova

What makes Russian modernist culture part of a larger European avant-garde movement and special phenomenon simultaneously? This course introduces students to the main literary, visual, and aesthetic trends in Russian modernism from the Revolution to WWII through literature, film, artistic avant-garde, and theory.



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ILAC 242: Poetry Workshop in Spanish
Dr. Cintia Santana
Latin American and Spanish poetry approached through elements of craft. Assignments are creative in nature; no previous creative writing experience is required.

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