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Collaborative Edges

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Welcome to Collaborative Edges, an audio portal to showcase conversations on collaborative initiatives across disciplines, language programs and cultural studies at Michigan State University. We invite you to listen to these conversations in which we provide examples on how to break down traditional language and disciplinary boundaries and to foster creativity and new ways of understanding languages around the world, the societies where they are spoken, and the cultures they shape.

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Episodes

  1. Aeternum Press: Peruvian Dark Fantasy/Fiction (Spanish)

    Aeternum Press is a Peruvian independent literary publishing house that specializes in dark fantasy/fiction (literatura oscura), a genre that welcomes works of horror fiction and dystopic science fiction. In this Zoom-podcast, we talked with Tania Huerta, Aeternum’s Editor in Chief, and editorial...

  2. Episode 24: Comics and Graphic Narratives from Latin America

    Since 2019, the MSU Comics Forum is a multi-day, annual event for scholars, creators, and fans of the comics medium. In this podcast, we talk with Brittany Tullis, Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies at Saint Ambrose University, and María Fernanda Díaz-Basteris…

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  3. Episode 23: Latinx Music and Political Action

    One of the features of the MSU Latinx Film Festival is music as a vehicle for political action. These day, we’ll enjoy the live performance of RicanStruction, a musical journey through the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and other regions of Latin America with its significant Afro-Hispanic presence....

  4. Episode 22: “Lulú en el jardín”: an experimental documentary on LGBTQ+ issues

    Featured in the 2nd edition of the MSU Latinx Film Festival, “Lulú en el jardín” is an experimental documentary project that explores the personal narrative and historical events surrounding the institutionalization of José Luis Benavides’s Latina lesbian mother in the 1970s. In this podcast,...

  5. Episode 21 - MSU Latinx Film Festival 2020

    Website https://msulatinxfilmfestival.com Social Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW3NOqspHGr0ex90rlWBR1A/videos https://www.instagram.com/msulxff/ https://twitter.com/MSULxFF https://www.facebook.com/MSULatinxFilmFestival/

  6. Episode 20 - Writing and Performing Violence in Latin America

    This podcast brings us back to projects related to memory, activism, and archives in the Spanish-speaking world and Latin America. Our two most recent Ph.D.s in Hispanic Cultural Studies at MSU Andrew Bentley ('2019) and Osvaldo Sandoval ('2019) visited our studio to talk about violence in...

  7. Episode 19 - Passing, Identity and Self-Representation

    MSU professors Catherine Ryu, Japanese and Korean Studies, and Kirsten Fermaglich, History and Jewish Studies continue the conversation about the notions of passing, identity and (self) representation, across diverse languages and cultures. In December 2018, apropos “Passing” in Russian cinema…

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  8. Episode 18 - (Spanish) Juan Acevedo: Peruvian Comics and Politics

    and presenter in the 2019 symposium of the MSU Graphic Narratives Network. Juan, Bruno Takahashi, MSU professor of Journalism, and Claudia Berríos-Campos, a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Cultural Studies at MSU share their views about and experiences with comics and cartoons, and their impact in...

  9. Episode 17 - (Spanish) Mayra Santos Febres: Conjuros and Festival de la Palabra

    Gracias a una invitación de la iniciativa Womxn of Color en Michigan State University, conversamos con la escritora puertorriqueña Mayra Santos Febres acerca del acto de crear y escribir, magia, conjuros, la historia de nuestros nombres y de nuestras jornadas como impulsos creativos. Novelista,...

  10. Episode 16 - Digital Analysis of Early Modern Captive Letters/Portugal & Spain

    This is our third podcast on DH projects in the Spanish and, on this occasion, we talk also about Portuguese epistolary writings. Leila Vieira, Doctoral candidate in the Studies in the Portuguese Speaking World Program at the Ohio State University shares with us her textual analysis of 23 letters...

  11. Episode 15 - (Spanish) Borderlands Archives Cartographies & #TornApart/#Separados

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  12. Episode 14 - Postwar Guatemala's Digital Archives: GAM

    Alex Galarza and Mariana Ramírez speak about Postwar Guatemala’s Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo Digital Archive. At Haverford College, Alex leads the development of the GAM Digital Archive. Mariana has been involved with GAM digitization project since fall of 2017 and sees her work as an important way to...

  13. Episode 13 - Passing to the Other's Side in Russian Film

    Catherine Ryu, Camelia Suleiman, and Jason Merrill talk about the notion of “passing” in Zainichi cultural production, Arab culture, and Russian cinema. Tied to ideas of racial, ethnic, and cultural identity, “passing” takes place when an individual of a racial/ethnic group is accepted as a…

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  14. Episode 12 - (English) Taiwanese Cinema: "Dear Ex"

    Welcome to our podcast about 2018 cinematic success “Dear Ex.” Tze-lan Sang and Catherine Ryu hold a lively conversation with Filmmaker Chih-yen Hsu, one of the two Co-Directors of “Dear Ex” along with Mag Hsu. Winner of Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor, and Best Actress at the 2018 Taipei Film...

  15. Episode 12 - (Chinese) Taiwanese Cinema: "Dear Ex"

    Welcome to our first podcast in a language other than English! Tze-lan Sang, Taiwanese Filmmaker Chih-yen Hsu, and Sophia Wong Boccio, Executive Director of Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Chicago) joined us to talk about Taiwanese cinema and “誰先愛上他的,” film co-directed by Chih-yen Hsu and Mag Hsu.

  16. Episode 11 - Legacies of the Enlightenment

    “Legacies of the Enlightenment” is a research initiative jointly developed by faculty and graduate students from MSU and Penn State University. Valentina Denzel and Ellen McCallum join us today to talk about this collaborative initiative, why studying the Enlightenment matters today, and their...

  17. Episode 10 - Puppet Power

    Between May 14 and September 14, 2018, Pia Banzhaf and Steve Baibak, organized the exhibit “Panoply of Puppets” in collaboration with the MSU Museum. Puppets from different parts of the world were featured. In this podcast, Banzhaf and Baibak talk about the power of puppets and how they integrate...

  18. Episode 9 - Locating Muslim Cinema(s)

    In April 2018, Michigan State University held the Muslim Studies Program 11th Annual Conference and Film Fest with a special focus on “Locating Muslim Cinema(s): The Politics of Cultures and Identity.” MSU faculty Camelia Suleiman, Marc Bernstein, and Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai talk about the...

  19. Episode 8- Picturing Others: Photography, Representation, and Identification

    Mary Vogl (Colorado State University), Candace Keller (Michigan State University), and Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (host) share their approaches to study indigenous photographic practices from Morocco, Mali, and Perú. Who were/are their viewers? for whom and why did/do they take photographs? what agendas...

  20. Episode 7 - Picturing Others: Indigenous Photography and Archive

    Jorge Coronado (Northwestern University), Laura Smith (Michigan State University) and Erika Nimis (University of Quebec, Montréal) share their reasons to study indigenous photographers of Perú, the United States and Mali and the construction of photographic archives by native people of these...

  21. Episode 6 - Migration Studies and the Humanist Perspective

    What does the censorship of bilingualism signal about how we construct our world? Is popular culture depicting or misrepresenting migration communities? How are the refugee crises presented in social media? Evelyn Alsultany, Madelaine Hron, Ana Celia Zentella, and Miguel Cabañas, guest presenters...

  22. Episode 5 - What Happens to a Dream Deferred

    What Happens to a Dream Deferred is an intimate portrait of a day in the life of José Adrián Badillo Carlos and Osvaldo Sandoval, two DREAMers who are graduate students at Michigan State University. Scott Boehm, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Film Director, and Peter Johnston, Cinematographer...

  23. Episode 4 - Latinx Film Festival: 40 years of Mexican-American music

    A conversation with Charlie Vela and Ronnie Garza, directors of As I Walk Through the Valley, and Scott Boehm, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Global Studies at Michigan State University and Director of the MSU Latinx Film Festival. Featured at the MSU Latinx Film Festival, As I Walk Through…

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  24. Episode 3 - Blurring Boundaries

    Who are ‘we’ and who is the ‘other’? This is a question that has become increasingly complex in late modern times due to the effects of globalization. In the Arabic world, another force is driving this question. Guests Camelia Suleiman, Marc Bernstein, and Safoi Babana-Hampton talked with us…

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  25. Episode 2 - The Language of Self and Italian Cinema

    Philosophy, aesthetics and post-realist media productions have unseated conventional politics, blurring boundaries between fiction and documentation, the self and the Other, autobiography and biography. Italian cinema had identified subjects of the global Italian world to convey the changing...

  26. Episode 1 - African Arts and Photography

    The West African country of Mali has long been home to a creative community of photographers. Since 2011 the Archive of Malian Photography addresses the preservation, cataloging, and digitization of works by renowned Malian photographers. Guests: Malick Sitou and Youssouf Sakaly in conversation...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to Collaborative Edges, an audio portal to showcase conversations on collaborative initiatives across disciplines, language programs and cultural studies at Michigan State University. We invite you to listen to these conversations in which we provide examples on how to break down traditional language and disciplinary boundaries and to foster creativity and new ways of understanding languages around the world, the societies where they are spoken, and the cultures they shape.

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