Past Events

2011

November 27-28, 2011 - Guadalajara
Guadalajara Bookfair (FIL) :
November 27, 6 p.m., Carmen Boullosa will be at SALÓN DE LA POESÍA
Salón VIP de Tequila Herradura, Planta Alta, Expo Guadalajara

November 28th, 17:30, Berlín en tiempos brillantes: tres autores, tres perspectivas: Monika Maron, Wladimir Kaminer, Adam Soboczynski. Modera: Carmen Boullosa.
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara

October 14, 2011 - San Francisco
LITQUAKE @ The Center for the Art of Translation
6 pm, Tres, 130 Townsend Street, San Francisco CA

October 8, 2011 - Xalapa, Veracruz Mexico
HAY Festival, Xalapa
Vidas Literarias: Sergio Ramírez, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón y Carmen Boullosa, con Juan Cruz. Gala del Libero Favorito.

September 14, 2011 - University of Maryland
Writers Here and Now, Philip Levine & Carmen Boullosa
Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall
5:30, informal talk at the Writer´s House)

April 29 - May 1 2011, Los Angeles
LéaLA Bookfair

March 31, 2011 - CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
Conversation between Carmen and Cuban author Leonardo Padura at the Bildner Center's International Cuba Symposium "Cuba Futures: Past and Present"
City University of New York Graduate Center's Recital Hall
Thursday March 31, 5:45-6:30.

March 25, 2011 - University of Passau, Germany
Session on Carmen's work , at the 18th Deutscher Hispanistentag, Congresso de la Associación Alemana de Hispanistas.
The largest such conference in the German-speaking world with more than 300 presentations on Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries. The theme this year is ["Realität - Virtualität - Repräsentation"]"reality - virtual reality - representation"

Carmen's session:
Título: Cuerpos extra/ordinarios como interfaz de fuerzas materiales y simbólicas Lingüística constrastiva de los medios
Direccion Adriana Lopez Labourdette, Claudia Gronemann, Cornelia Sieber, Ramona Schropf, Raul Sanchez Prieto

9.00 – 9.45 Carmen Boullosa : Cuerpos extra/ordinarios
9.45 – 10.30 Cornelia Ruhe: Despues de la batalla. Cervantes, Carmen Boullosa y el cuerpo nacional

March 7-11, 2011 - Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
1st. International Congress - Intellectual Experience of Women in the XXI Sigli
Juarez Esq Av Eje Central, Centro Histórico
Foto: Saúl Castillo Program
congresomujeres.com
Escritoras hacen llamado para frenar violencia de género - La Crónica de Hoy
Mujeres intelectuales reflexionan sobre la literatura y la violencia - El Universal

Sept-Jan 2011 - El Museo, New York City
Carmen is Chief Advisor to a major museum exhibition:
Nueva York 1613-1945, at El Museo
www.nuevayork-exhibition.org
1230 5th Ave (at 104th st)
Presented in collaboration with the New-York Historical Society, this intriguing exhibition reveals the powerful role that Latinos and Spanish-speaking countries have played over three centuries to help shape New York into the most culturally vibrant city in the world. Art works, documents, printed books, artifacts, an installation by Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell, and a documentary by Ric Burns all serve as testaments to this dynamic history.

“Notes on Writing in Spanish in New York,” in Nueva York 1613-1945 Exhibit catalog
Carmen Boullosa, edited by Edward Sullivan. Scala (2010).

Roosevelt’s “Iron Claws”
In 1904, shortly after the Spanish-Cuban-American War brought U.S. expansionism to Spanish America, Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío addressed this angry poem to President Theodore Roosevelt.
Listen to poet David Gonzalez read the poem in English (mp3)
Listen to Carmen read the poem in Spanish (mp3)

2010

November 3rd, 2010 - CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
New York City and the Spanish-Speaking World: Cultural Connections
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mike Wallace will moderate a multi-media evening that explores the impact on New York City, over the last two centuries, of cultural producers from the Spanish-speaking world, and vice versa. The presenters will discuss and display developments in: Latin American literature – Carmen Boullosa (CCNY); film – Jim Fernández (NYU); music – Juan Flores (NYU); Spanish literature – Regina Galasso (BMCC); and Spanish and Latin-American art – Edward Sullivan (NYU).
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street

September 29, 2010 - Fordham University, New York City
Reading Carlos Monsiváis in New York
Carlos Monsiváis was one of Mexico’s most important public intellectuals. For more than 40 years, he served as an indispensable chronicler of Mexican arts, culture and politics. When he died on June 19, 2010, he left an enormous legacy as a writer, critic and patron of popular arts. This homage to Monsiváis will feature a round table discussion with Rafael Barajas “El Fisgón” (Cartoonist for La Jornada), Jean Franco (Professor Emeritus, Columbia University), Rubén Gallo (Professor, Princeton University), Carmen Boullosa (New York-based Mexican Writer).
This presentation is co-sponsored by Fordham University’s Latin American and Latino Studies Institute (LALSI), Lincoln Center Campus.

August 28, 2010 12pm - Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Boullosa´s Amado Nervo, lecture at Sala Adamo Boari

June 2-6, 2010 - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Libera a Palabra
pdf

2009

Feb 14-21, 2009 - Granada, Nicaragua
Festival Internacional de Poesía

October 11-15, 2009 - France
La septième édition Belles Latinas a marque un tournant dans l’histoire de ce festival littéraire. La nouvelle formule propose en plus de la présence, dans des lieux insolites et conviviaux, des écrivains venus d’Amérique latine, un accompagnement de lectures et de musiques. Ces rencontres organisées dans une vingtaine de grandes villes en France ont séduit les spectateurs de plus en plus nombreux. Le bilan 2008 est très encourageant.
Lyon: October 11, L'Opera de Lyon.
Nantes: October 12 and 13, Université de Nantes 3.
Rennes: October 14, Université de Rennes 2.
Paris: October 15th, Instituto Cultural de México
Dossier (pdf)
http://www.espaces-latinos.org/Belles-programme.php

October 9th, 10th – Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
Beyond the Nation in Twenty-First Century Latin American Literature and Criticism.

Poster (pdf)

August 29 – Teatro Juárez, Guanajuato México
Iberoamerican Dialogues Celebrating the Bicentennial, "Founding Novel", at the Fifth Meeting of the Bicentennial Group.

June 20-22, 2009 - Norfolk
Worlds in Translation, a celebration of contemporary writing in translation from China, India & Mexico Saturday June 20
June Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library, The Forum, Norwich with Carmen Boullosa, Psiche Hughes, Ambai and Lakshmi Holmström
5.00pm: Launch Event and Reading
Monday June 22
Cromer Library, Prince of Wales Road, Cromer with Carmen Boullosa, Psiche Hughes, Philip Hughes and Amanda Hopkinson
6.00pm: Translation workshop
Advance Booking essential (Maria Pavledis 01263 512850)
7.45pm: Reading and discussion featuring Leaving Tabasco (Grove Atlantic)

June 12, 2009 - Berne University
Keynote speaker at ASÍ HABLAN Y E SCRIBEN LAS MUJERES ESCRIBEN
Instituto de Lingüística y Literaturas Hispánicas Länggassstrasse 49 CH-3012 Bern
Program

May 23 and 24 - Gijón, Spain
XII SALÓN DEL LIBRO IBEROAMERICAN

May 21 - New York City
The Life and Work of Roberto Bolaño
Jonathan Lethem, Javier Calvo and Carmen Boullosa on Roberto Bolaño
McNally Jackson Bookstore
7:00pm - 8:00pm 52 Prince St. b/t Lafayette & Mulberry (map)

March 28, 2009 - Mexico City
-Launch party for El complot de los Románticos (view flyer)
-Reading of Carmen's short storyEl fantasma y el poeta by the National Company Theater of Mexico (view flyer)

March 13, 2009 – Paris, France
Salon du Livre de Paris
Carmen Boullosa est née à Mexico en 1954. Dramaturge, romancière, nouvelliste et poète. Elle a reçu le Prix Xavier Villaurrutia 1989 pour Antes, La Salvaja et Papeles irresponsables; le Prix Anna Seghers 1997, décerné par l’Académie des Arts de Berlin, pour l’ensemble de son œuvre; le Prix du roman Café Gijón 2008 pour El complot de los románticos.
Porte de Versailles Pavillion 1

February, 2009 – Nicaragua
Festival de Poesía de Granada

January, 2009 – El Vedado, Cuba
Juror at at the Prize Casa de las Américas

January, 2009 – Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Cartagena, la ciudad imaginada por todos a través de la ficción de Gabo, es un lugar mágico para una fiesta; especialmente para una fiesta en la cual participan algunos de los mejores escritores del mundo. Aquí, cada minuto es un enriquecedor regalo para la imaginación y el disfrute. Acompáñanos compartiendo nuevas historias, ideas, buena comida y tanto baile, risa y vida como puedas soportar. Estás invitado.
Programme

2008

November 20, 7 pm – Americas Society, New York City
ReviewMagazine Launch Party
Issue 77: Latin American Immigration and Culture
An evening of readings by contemporary authors Alvaro Enrigue and Naief Yehya, preceded by comments from Carmen Boullosa, Guest Creative Editor
680 Park Avenue (map)
more about this event
interview with Carmen on NY1 television

November 7th, 7 pm – King Juan Carlos Center, New York City
LIVE THEATER: A Festival of Staged Readings.
Including a reading of the play MY VERSION OF THE FACTS, by Carmen Boullosa, Directed by Germán Baruffi, at the King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South (map)

October 4 – Guanajuato, Mexico
Coloquio Cervantino Internacional

October 6, 6 p.m – CUNY, New York City
"Mexican Eyes: America Seen from the South."
Lectrue at The Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway # 7 (map)

September 27 – Aguascalientes, Mexico
Aguascalientes Bookfair

September 24 – FCE, Mexico
Book party for "The Virgin and the Violin"
with Jorge Volpi, Julieta García and María Aura
Librería Octavio Paz, Fondo de Cultura Económica

July 1st, 12:00 pm – Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid
Announcement of launch of Carmen's new novel, The Virgin and the Violin

May 20th – El Museo del Barrio, New York City
El Museo calender of events
In a program for the Museo's Dialogues Between Latino Authors series, Carmen will hold a conversation with Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin America's leading novelists and author of La Fiesta del Chivo (2000); Lucho Llosa, Peruvian filmmaker and director of the film adaptation of the novel; and Isabella Rossellini, who stars in the film; about the novel, its impact on contemporary Latin American literature and its adaptation to the big screen.
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, New York City (map)

May 26 – Mexican Embassy, Rome
La Parola e il Confine
Allucinata e Selvaggia
Mexican embassy, Via Spallanzani 16 (map)

May 1, 3:00-4:30 pm – CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
"Personal Narrative and Public Consciousness"
Panel with Carmen Boullosa, Mexico, & Horatio Castallanos Moya, El Salvador
PEN World Voices Conference
CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Theatre, 365 Fifth Avenue (map)
Free and open to the public.

April 26, 10:15 am – Columbia University, New York City
"New York's Spanish-language Literary Traditions" talk
@ "IBERIA & THE AMERICAS: Contacts and Migrations" conference.

March 29th, 3:30 – Greenwich Village, New York City
Enclave, 1-year anniversary reading
Kenny’s Castaways ,157 Bleecker Street (map)

March 13th– CUNY, New York City
Se Busca Varón, aventurero pero melancólico
para compartir una vida de novela

February 26th – Casa de America, Madrid
"Ante lo inesperado y lo imprevisto: la crónica". Con Teodosio Fernández y Esperanza López Parada. (Webcast)

2007

December 13th, 6:00 – Cafebrería La Pausa, Mexico
El fantasma y el poeta de Carmen Boullosa. La autora sostendrá un diálogo en torno al libro y otros temas con Jaun Villoro.

December 8th, – Library oF Congress, Washington D.C.,
Kislak Pirates Symposium. (Webcast)

October 12th-15th – Armenia, Colombia
Three day discussion of literary and social issues by writers from all over Latin America

October 7th – Princeton University, New Jersey
Inaugural lecture to launch the exhibition, The Workshop of Popular Graphic Arts

October 17th – Mexico City
Iberoamericana Editorial - Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft invites the public to the presentation of a new book, Narrar historia(s). La ficcionalización de temas históricos por las escritoras mexicanas Elena Garro, Rosa Beltrán y Carmen Boullosa. It will be presented by Lucía Melgar Palacios and Anna Juliet Reid in the Librería Octavio Paz del Fondo de Cultura Económica, Col. Chimalistac, Delegación Alvaro Obregón, 01070 México D.F. Carmen Boullosa can't be there, but it´s open to the public.

October 19th – Instituto Cervantes, New York City
Talk on El Velázquez de París

October 24th-26th – Santiago, Chile
Homage to the great Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday

November 29th – Guadalajara, Mexico
21st International Guadalajara Book Fair
Round table celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Siruela Publishing House

2006

December 7th-8th – Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Symposium on pirates and corsairs in the Americas in history and literature

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