Colloquium
¡Gracias a la vida! Celebrating Violeta Parra

A colloquium celebrating Violeta Parra's career
Friday, March 2, 2018
2:00 PM - 5:30 PMLydeen Library
4302 Rolfe Hall West
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095


2:00pm Introductory Remarks
Verónica Cortínez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Center for Southern Cone Studies
Steve Loza, Department of Ethnomusicology
Director, UCLA Center for Latino Arts
2:15pm Keynote speech
Juan Pablo González, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile
“Violeta Parra: Creator of Worlds and Songs”
3:15pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Ericka Verba, Cal State LA
“‘I, the Ugliest Woman in the World’: Violeta Parra and the Gendered Contours of her Performance”
4:00pm David Spener, Trinity University, Texas
“Honoring Violeta Parra the Day She Took Flight: Preserving Collective Memories and Reaffirming Shared Identities”
4:30pm Coffee Break
4:45pm Screening of Mimbre
(Sergio Bravo, 1957; Music Violeta Parra)
5:00pm Music by Violeta Parra performed by Chilean musicians
Arrangements by composer Sergio Torres-Letelier
5:30pm Reception
Cost: Free & Open to the Public
Download File: Coloquio-Violeta-Parra-qo-gfc.pdf
Sponsor(s): UCLA Center for Southern Cone Studies, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Center for Latino Arts , The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Latin American Studies, Cal State LA