Literature and Linguistics

2017 May 12

SPACES OF CONFRONTATION. III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

(All day)

Location: 

Barker Ctr, Kresge Foundation Room, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

Transatlantic culture often presents itself as a narrative of encounter and dialogue that transcend the limits of the local. However, the trace of colonialism, the living memory of exile, and an uneven distribution of economic, political, and symbolic power haunts transatlantic imagination. This conference aims to explore the many ways in which antagonisms, uneasy pluralism, and tense negotiations of difference overdetermine sites of Transatlantic cultural practices.... Read more about SPACES OF CONFRONTATION. III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

2016 Nov 04

Interpreting the Dramatic Characters of Calderón

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

RCC Main Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA

A founding member and the director of the Compañía delabarca, Nuria Alkorta has been professor of Interpretation at the Royal School of Advanced Dramatic Art in Madrid since 1999. She launched her teaching career in 1996 in Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, where she developed courses on the Spanish language, studied through classic dramatic texts.... Read more about Interpreting the Dramatic Characters of Calderón

2016 May 06

A Quest for the Truth about a Chivalric Monster: an Analysis of two Opposite Literary Portraits of King Richard III

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

RCC Seminar Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

RCC is pleased to announce this talk organized by Prof. Francisco Prado-Vilar, RCC Fellow and Scientific Director of the Santiago Cathedral Project, featuring Iago Boán Francis, PhD Candidate, in the Department of English and German Philology at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.... Read more about A Quest for the Truth about a Chivalric Monster: an Analysis of two Opposite Literary Portraits of King Richard III

2016 Mar 03
2016 Mar 30

Así Habló Penelope

6:30pm

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

Tino Villanueva se dio a conocer como poeta con el poemario, Hay otra voz poems (1972), un título bilingüe, puesto que escribe tanto en español como en inglés.  Hasta la fecha lleva editados siete poemarios, entre ellos Scene from the Movie GIANT (1993), ganador del Premio al Libro...

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2015 Oct 31

V Workshop. Thiasos: Early-career Working Group in Classics

10:00am to 2:00pm

Location: 

Boylston Hall 237. Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

RCC is pleased to advertise this session of the ongoing seminar by "Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics." The group includes faculty and affiliated postdoctoral fellows at the department of the Classics at Harvard University and Bard College.

As part of this session, participants will discuss papers that have been pre-circulated in advance.

Participants:

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2015 Nov 12

Poetry at the RCC

6:00pm

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

Pita. Book coverRCC is pleased to announce this poetry reading by Juana Rosa Pita on the occasion of the presentation of her book Puentes y plegarias (2015).

The author will read poems from Puentes y plegarias ...

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