Wednesday, February 6, 2008

9th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship Lecture by Lois Parkinson Zamora

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University is pleased to announce a public lecture by Lois Parkinson Zamora, Professor of Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of Houston, the recipient of the 9th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, for her book The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Zamora will present a lecture entitled “The Baroque Self: Frida Kahlo and Gabriel García Márquez,” on Wednesday, 13February 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in the Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Zamora’s research uncovers the transnational influences on Baroque art in the New World to determine how those relationships influence contemporary narratives and form points of resistance to European colonization. Latin American artists create a discourse of “counterconquest” that Zamora terms the “New World Baroque,” a hybrid form combining the diverse influences of indigenous, African, and European cultures in an effort to challenge the hegemony of Catholic and monarchical ideologies.

The Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship was endowed in 2000 by Melbern G. Glasscock, Texas A&M University Class of '59, in honor of his wife. The Glasscocks have made numerous gifts to Texas A&M University. In July 2002 they generously endowed the Center for Humanities Research, which was renamed in Mr. Glasscock’s honor.

The Book Prize is chosen by a committee of two humanities scholars from Texas A&M and one from another university. This year’s committee was Suzanne Poirier (Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago), David McWhirter (Department of English, Texas A&M University), and Cynthia Werner (Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University).

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.