Winter Quarter 2003-04 News
CLAS Art Exhibit
CLAS alum Kristina Stevens is displaying her paintings at Bolivar House until 6 March. Stevens worked as the Communications and Editorial Assistant at CLAS and coordinated the Stanford Working Group on Central America. She received a Master's in Latin American Studies upon completing a Master's project, an online educational program on Central American art, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. "Expressions of Central America" was a collaboration with the InCorpore Cultural Association, a network of Central American artists and sociologists and the Stanford School of Education.
Ms. Stevens' art embraces the crossroads between the regional and the universal. It depicts what is unique to Latin America and what is collective, binding all peoples across the world.
We encourage anyone interested to drop by and see Ms. Stevens' work during CLAS business hours. For more information online, please visit http://www.aboutfaces.biz.
Pablo Neruda Centennial Project Update
CLAS alum and visiting scholar Mark Eisner has been hard at work on a book of translations of Pablo Neruda's poetry. The book, slated to be published in April of 2004 by City Lights, is part of a larger project that marks the centennial of the poet's birth in 2004.
Updates:
Christopher Merrill's interview on Neruda on BBC's "The World"
The volume was recently referenced in a San Francisco
Chronicle review of another book of Neruda translations.
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the complete article
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a recent Stanford article about the project
Eisner has written ten of the book's translations. He spoke about poetry, the art of translation, and his contributions to the Centennial Project at a CLAS brown bag lunch last winter. He is also involved in the making of a documentary film to complement the publication of the book. More information on the documentary.
To find our more about the project, contact Mark Eisner at eizmarcos2@hotmail.com or write to:
The Pablo Neruda Centennial Project
1250 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94110
www.nerudadoc.org