The fall 2018 Madrid Study Group marked Colgate´s bicentennial year with banner unfurled atop the Torre de la Vela at the Alhambra, during a weekend excursion to Granada in November. The excursion included guided tours of the Cathedral and Capilla Real, the Alhambra complex, and other key sites in Granada.
The piece, entitled, “Who said what? Translated messages and language interpreters in three texts by Javier Marías and Almudena Grandes” has been selected for a special issue that examines topics and concepts in literary translation.
Professor Plata published an article on Francisco de Quevedo in a festschrift honoring Professor Arellano of the University of Navarra (and F’00 Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colgate). Additionally, Professor Plata was guest editor of the 2018 issue of the journal La Perinola, devoted to the art of caricature in Quevedo. The volume contains 16 peer-reviewed essays by scholars from Spain, Switzerland, Italy, France, Chile and the US.
In April, Professor Plata participated in an international conference in Pamplona (Spain) where he spoke on the performances of Calderón’s allegorical play Life is Dream. In May, he participated in an international conference in Cusco (Peru), where he spoke on the perinola (a predecessor to the teetotum) and its development from the Viceroyalty of Peru to Spain, and back to Latin America.
Thursday, October 18 at 7:00 p.m, Palace Theater, Hamilton
In Danced Translations of Hamilton, a multimedia dance performance, Visiting Assistant Professor Amanda Lee investigates the meaning and responsibility of community through the experiences of 3 generations of Hamilton women. While Hamilton, NY is shaped by its unique geographical location, many of the community’s concerns are universal. Professor Lee staged a prototype of this show at the international Festival Off d’Avignon in July 2018.
https://hamiltontheaterdocuments.wordpress.com/portfolio/danced-translations-of-hamilton/
http://www.avignonleoff.com/programme/2018/lee-amanda-mes18/
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amanda Lee is Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Women’s Studies at Colgate University. In 2018, she choreographed and performed in the international Festival Off d’Avignon in France, and earned her Certification from the American Ballet Theatre in the National Training Curriculum, Levels I-III.
While at Colgate she staged a dramatic reading of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, featuring a reconstruction of the “Dance of the Seven Veils.” Previously, she has performed in works by Leverage Dance Theatre under the direction of Dianna Barrios, Common Thread Contemporary Dance under the direction of Jennifer Medina, the Slaughter Project under the direction of Cecil Slaughter, and Missouri Ballet Theatre under the direction of Adam Sage. Ever expanding her movement horizons, she also performed with experimental performance artist Thomas Brady and aerial dance choreographer Monica Newsam at SATORI in St. Louis, Missouri. She trained in ballet and modern dance at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Washington University in St. Louis, as well as the Center of Creative Arts (COCA), attending summer intensives at the Martha Graham School and the Big Muddy Dance Company. Her article “The Romantic Ballet and the Nineteenth-Century Poetic Imagination,” out in Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, vol. 39.1, won the 2017 Center for European Studies First Article Prize.
The beginning of the semester has marked the opening of Casa Italia at the WM Keck Center for Language Study.
In conversations with the Italian faculty and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian Intern Giuseppe Grispino proposed the idea of Casa Italia to promote the study of Italian here at Colgate. Besides the Tuesday Table of Babel at Frank Dining Hall, Casa Italia integrates and supports the elementary and intermediate language courses offered at Colgate. Casa Italia aims to bring together and connect students and faculty interested in learning or practicing Italian. At Casa Italia we organize peer-tutoring sessions and support students through the whole learning process. Students also have the possibility to watch movies, TV programs, read newspapers and magazines in the original. In other words, being in Casa Italia feels like being in Italy away from Italy.
Casa Italia is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at the Keck Center when classes are in session.
Mondays from 4.30 pm to 5.30pm.
Wednesdays from 8pm to 10pm.
Thursdays from 2pm to 5pm.
Learning Italian has never been easier!
Benvenuti a Casa Italia!
Welcome to Casa Italia!
