I start this Monday my first Coursera course: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry.
It will be interesting to see the differences between moocs and free online courses.
In addition, i feel excited about rethinking the poetry by Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wilbur, Frank O´Hara or the poets in Harlem Renaissance, just to say.
La semana que viene estaré participando en el Simposio North and South Geographical and Cultural Perspectives on European Modernity (Umeå University, Sweden).
El título de mi charla es «From Rubén Darío to Acid House Kings. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spanish-Swedish Cultural Imaginary», y se basa en los materiales que estoy analizando en el blog Xenografías hispano-suecas.
Acabo de poner en beta un proyecto llamado «Xenografías hispano-suecas», en el que investigar sobre la representación de lo hispánico y lo escandinavo en diferentes ámbitos culturales.
Es posible que una primera presentación de conclusiones la haga en el congreso Xenografías. La representación de los extranjeros en la literatura, los libros de viajes y otros discursos (Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, septiembre, 2011)
In August i will be in Roskilde, Denmark, participating at the NorLit 2011, a multi-lingual conference organized by The Nordic Association for Comparative Literature (NorLit).
The aim of the conference is both to focus on «literature and politics» in a historical perspective and to examine the variety of political and social dimensions in contemporary literature. That´s why i´m going to publish this year a paper about Spanish artistic utopias in the XXth Century.
I was this morning at Digital Art Center (DAC) in Kista (Stockholm) involved in the #IdeaCampKista 2010. Sharing, Networking, Matchmaking.
I could take part a few minutes in the «Pitch your project!» section, talking about «I don´t need your user´s guide. Switching from Ikea to Facebook Model in Education». Being there was exciting because both DAC and the event were really very innovative places to be.