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BOLE, 3 de octubre. Happy fall, everyone! I hope to
see many of you at WAFLT next weekend. If you still
need information on WAFLT, please see:
http://www.k12.wa.us/WaLang/01falconf.asp
I. NATIONAL SPANISH EXAMS UPDATE
II. CONFERENCE ON BUNUEL'S FILMS W/ FREE CLOCK HOURS!
III. WECOL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISITICS -
IV. Bronx's CASA DEL SOL Photo Gallery
V. Mexican Managers' Perception of Cultural
Competence: A review-summary by Jay Adams-Feuer
I. NATIONAL SPANISH EXAMS UPDATE
The NSE Brochures were sent last week by bulk mail
from the National
Office so you should be getting one soon. This booklet
provides all the
information you need regarding the National Spanish
Examination. If you
would like to participate this year, please contact
Oriana Cadman at
ocadman@kalama.com and she will send you the necessary
forms.
II. CONFERENCE ON BUNUEL'S FILMS W/ FREE CLOCK HOURS!
"The Liberating Eye: The Cinema of Luis Bunuel,"
Saturday, November 10: 9:00-5:00, Kane Hall 210.
University of Washington,
Seattle.
Sponsored by The Center for West European Studies and
the Simpson Center for
the Humanities.
A limited number of travel grants are available to
Washington State K-12 and
non-UW college/university faculty attending this
workshop. Contact the
Center for West European Studies for more information
at: (206) 543-1675 or
cwesd@u.washington.edu
Several distinguished film and literary critics--Peter
Evans of the
University of London, Marsha Kinder of the University
of Southern
California, Jean Franco of Columbia University, and
Kathleen Murphy of
Cinema Seattle-- will present papers on varous aspects
of Bunuel's films.
The conference will be free and open to the public,
and will be followed by
a reception from 5-7 pm at the Simpson Center. In
connection with the conference, the
Grand Illusion Theatre will be screening two Bunuel
films, "The Criminal
Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz" and "Illusion Travels
by Streetcar," on
November 9-15. For further information on the
conference, films and related
course, please see the Cinema Studies web page or the
Spanish and Portuguese
Studies web page: http://depts.washington.edu/cinstud/
/
http://depts.washington.edu/spanport
Seven free clock hours available for K-12 teachers.
Please contact the Center for Spanish for
pre-registration at: 206-2216571 /
spnrectr@u.washington.edu
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
THE LIBERATING EYE: THE CINEMA OF LUIS BUNUEL
University of Washington
Kane Hall 210
Saturday, November 10
9:00-9:30
coffee
9:30-10:00
welcoming remarks and remarks by Dr. Victoria Munoz
Richart
(President,Cascadia Community College)
10:00-11:00
Peter Evans, U of London
Necrophilia in Bunuel
11:00-12:00
Jean Franco, Columbia U
The Seduction of the Margins:
Rethinking Los olvidados
12:00-2:00
lunch break
2:00-3:00
Marsha Kinder, USC
Hot Spots, Avatars and Narrative Fields Forever: More
on Bunuel's Legacy for
Database Narratives and Games
3:00-4:00
Kathleen Murphy, Cinema Seattle
The Stylistics of Sado-Masochism:
Reflections on Luis Bunuel's Tristana, Belle de jour
and That Obscure Object
of Desire in Light of Josef von Sternberg's The Devil
Is a Woman and Alfred
Hitchcock's Marnie
4:00-5:00
Round table discussion
5:00-7:00
Reception, Simpson Center (Communications 206)
III. WECOL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS
This conference at the UW will have a wide variety of
presentations, several of which are about Spanish
linguistics. For more information and to see the
preliminary program,
When: 26th through 28th October, 2001
Where: University of Washington, Seattle
e-mail: wecol@u.washington.edu
phone (Department of Linguistics): (206) 543-2046
fax (Department of Linguistics): (206) 685-7978
IV. Bronx's CASA DEL SOL Photo Gallery
Ejlat Feuer, a prize-winning photographer for the New
York Times and an independent photo artist, now has
his site up with his photos of Bronx's CASA DEL SOL
featured. Photos of
his documenting gardens of reclamation by Dominican
immigrants are on permanent
display at New York City's MUSEO DEL BARRIO. He is
very involved in the artistic documentation
and photographing of the peoples of Puerto Rican,
Cuban and Dominican descent.
You can find his latest work on his new web site
http://www.ejlat.com.
V. Mexican Managers' Perception of Cultural
Competence: A review-summary by Jay Adams-Feuer
Uber Grosse, Christine. "Mexican Managers' Perception
of Cultural Competence." Foreign Language Annals 34.4
(2001): 334-340.
This article, by Christine Uber Grosse of Thunderbird,
the American Graduate School of International
Management, is notable because of its relevancy to the
ACTFL interconnected goal areas of communication,
cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities.
All five of the famous "C's" come into play,
particularly communication, cultures, and comparisons.
Uber Grosse conducted a survey of 47 Mexican managers
in a business communication class and asked them for
advice to American business people on how to smooth
commercial contacts in their country. The author
points out that international executives readily admit
that cross-cultural misunderstandings routinely cost
them and their companies dearly in terms of lost
business opportunities, and that therefore, the
information communicated by the managers in the areas
of building business relationships, attitudes towards
time, family and religious values, communication
patterns and government-business relations are worth
considering. A bare-bones summary of the advice
follows:
1. Take care to build the personal relationships
Mexicans see as necessary precursors to doing
business: go to bars, sporting events, restaurants and
clubs with Mexican business people. Make sure your
attitude is genuine, or they will notice.
2. Be more flexible and remember that in Mexico
people
have a more relaxed attitude towards time. Forty-five
minutes is an acceptable waiting time if you are on
time for a meeting. Mexican people place greater
value on family and personal time and see earning
money as a means to an end, not an end in itself.
3. Invite Mexican business people to your home to
meet
your family, and share your values respectfully. Very
often Mexicans see work and friendship as inextricably
linked and don't compartmentalize jobs, friendships,
and family like Americans can. Religion is a very
important part of Mexican life, and the country is 90%
Catholic.
4. Communication tends to be indirect. We tend
to cut
to the chase and tell the unadorned truth, whereas
gentleness and face-saving tend to rank high on the
Mexican value system. In addition, formality,
especially with superiors, is the norm. It is not
pretentious, but rather a mark of respect.
5. Government is much more involved in Mexican
commerce than it is in the U.S. Red tape and
corruption are to be expected, and outrage doesn't
help.
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Steven Green, President, sslgrn@aol.com
Ricardo Chama, Eastern V.P., cheetah101@earthlink.net
Paloma Borreguero, NW V.P., paloma@u.washington.edu
Oriana Cadman, SW V.P., ocadman@kalama.com
Alexandra Porter, Treasurer, dporter@universityprep.org
Deby Holmberg, Secretary, Debykholmberg@cs.com
WATSP web page: http://aatsp.20m.com