{"id":22566,"date":"2021-03-23T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=22566"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:14:48","slug":"sembe-presents-at-nemla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2021\/03\/23\/sembe-presents-at-nemla\/","title":{"rendered":"Sembe Presents at NeMLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent conference of the Northeast Modern Lnaguage Association (NeMLA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/karina-sembe\/\">Karina Sembe<\/a>, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language &amp; Literatures program, presented two papers and also chaired a discussion panel.<\/p>\n<p>Karina&#8217;s two papers were titled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Violence, Masculinity, &amp; Vernacular Empiricism in Cidade de Deus&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Natural Man &amp; the New Negro: Reclaiming\/Erasing the Subhuman in Modernist Manifestos&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Karina tells us of her experience at the conference:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;All three sessions went great! I especially appreciated the lively discussion after the panel I chaired, &#8220;Black Experience in the White Gaze: Framing Afro-Latin American Identity in XIX-XX Centuries&#8221;, where we discussed the types of mediation at work in constructing Hemispheric blackness and how they affect personal and collective diasporic identities. I was excited to see all the brilliant proposals from professors, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral fellows all over the country that come from a wide range of disciplines and yet tackle very similar issues, largely in quite nuanced ways.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent conference of the Northeast Modern Lnaguage Association (NeMLA), Karina Sembe, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language &amp; Literatures program, presented two papers and also chaired a discussion panel. Karina&#8217;s two papers were titled: &#8220;Violence, Masculinity, &amp; Vernacular Empiricism in Cidade de Deus&#8221; &#8220;The Natural Man &amp; the New Negro: Reclaiming\/Erasing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":22568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22570,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions\/22570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}