{"id":1591,"date":"2022-04-01T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:23:32","slug":"on-failure-a-contemporary-reflection-on-the-heart-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/2022\/04\/01\/on-failure-a-contemporary-reflection-on-the-heart-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Failure: A Contemporary Reflection on the Heart of Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4>There is an upcoming program sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkeforum.org\/\">Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>This event is part of the Clarke Forum\u2019s semester theme, Failure, and will take place on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 7:00 P.M. in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Ana Merino from University of Iowa will provide\u00a0a literary reflection on the different ways the notion of failure has been a creative space. Merino will examine the life of Miguel de Cervantes and his universal character, Don Quixote, then move to the twentieth century, the tragedy of exile in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and the fragility of poets confronting pain and fear in challenging times.<\/h4>\n<h4>Biography (provided by the speaker)<\/h4>\n<div>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/spanish-portuguese.uiowa.edu\/people\/ana-merino\">Ana Merino<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>is an award-winning writer and a professor of Spanish creative writing and cultural studies at the University of Iowa, where she founded the Spanish MFA. She has written extensive criticism on comics and graphic novels. She has authored two academic books:<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><em>El c\u00f3mic hisp\u00e1nico<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><em>Diez ensayos para pensar el c\u00f3mic<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and a monograph on Chris Ware. Merino has curated five comic book exhibitions and edited several volumes on the topic. She was a member of the ICAF (International Comic Arts Forum) Executive Committee from 2001\u20132011 and a directors board founder member at The Center for Cartoon Studies from 2004\u20132014.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/files\/2022\/04\/Ana-Merino-Picture-scaled-e1645477028724-150x150-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/files\/2022\/04\/Ana-Merino-Picture-scaled-e1645477028724-150x150-1.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an upcoming program sponsored by the\u00a0Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.\u00a0This event is part of the Clarke Forum\u2019s semester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4094,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}