A series of talks and panels on the current state and future directions of Queer Studies
Queer Pasts: In Search of Lourdes Casal's 'Ana Veldford'
March 29th, 2006
5pm
754 Schermerhorn Extension
featuring
Frances Negron-Muntaner, Asst. Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University,
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Associate
Professor, University of Pennsylvania,
Ana Maria Dopico, Associate Professor, New York University,
and Anna Veltfort, artist and
muse
on the 30th anniversary of Cuban poet Lourdes
Casal's founding text "For Ana Veldford"
Lourdes Casal (1938-1981) was a pivotal figure in Cuban-American culture and politics. As an activist, she was instrumental in building bridges between Cuba and the exile community at a time where such interventions were life-threatening. As a writer, she is the author of "For Ana Veldford," a foundational poem in Cuban, Cuban-American and Latino literature for its imagining of diasporic subjectivity beyond national and exile politics.
In this panel, the scholars and artists will comment on Lourdes Casal's career and context, as well as the relationship between gays, lesbians, and the state through the discovery of Anna Veltfort's story, an American woman caught between the fires of lesbian desire and the Cuban revolution.
as part of Women's History Month
cosponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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