2nd Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies April 13th-15th, 2017
Northwestern U | UIC | Uchicago
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Thursday, Harris Hall 108 Friday, University Hall 201 / University Hall 122 Saturday, Kresge Hall 1515 / Crowe 1132
THURSDAY, APRIL 13TH, 2017 3:00-4:45pm Registration Place: Harris Hall 108 5:00-5:15pm Welcome to the second Chicago Graduate Conference Presenting: Jorge Coronado, Northwestern University José Delpino and Iván Pérez (Event Organizers), Northwestern University Place: Harris Hall 108. Refreshments will be served! 5:15-6:20pm Keynote presentation: Ariadna Castellarnau Presiding: Isaías Fanlo, The University of Chicago Place: Harris Hall 108. Refreshments will be served.
From Northwestern University this event is co-sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Program in Latin American and Caribbean studies and The Latino & Latina Studies Program”. From UIC this event is co-sponsored by the The Institute of the Humanities, the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, the Department of English and the Graduate Student Council”. From UChicago this event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Division Graduate Council, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Harris School of Public Policy, the Graduate Council, the Center for the Study of Race,Politics and Culture, the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, The Franke Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Romance Languages”.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 14TH, 2017
7:30-8:30am Registration and Breakfast Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) 8:30-9:30am PANEL 1: Saberes y cartografías de la nación Eduardo Leão, The University of Chicago, “Inglês de Sousa’s 19th Century Amazon: History, Geography and Legend” Miguel Rosas Buendía, Brown University, “Aislamiento, ciencias naturales y especulación en Cartas de Amambay y otros textos sobre el Paraguay de Lucio Mansilla” Carlos G. Halaburda, Northwestern University, “Mal y nación: Diseminación y contagio en el melodrama latinoamericano, 1841-1907” Moderator: César Braga-Pinto, Northwestern University Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) 9:30-10:00am Coffee break Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) and University Hall 122 10:00-11:20am PANEL 2: Re/visiones del México moderno Radmila Stefkova, University of California - Santa Barbara, “Return of the Mexican Comic: Contemporary Graphic Novels Are Rewriting History” Enrique Macari Luján, The University of Chicago, “La ciudad y el deseo: economía de la pasión en algunas crónicas de Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera” Daniela Gutiérrez Flores, The University of Chicago, “El paisaje de José María
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Velasco y la construcción del México moderno” Marina Popea, University of Oxford - Lincoln College, “La Revista Azul, traducción y cambios ideo-estéticos en el contexto mexicano finisecular” Moderator: Alejandra Uslenghi, Northwestern University Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) 11:20-12:30pm Lunch Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) 12:30-1:30pm [TWO DIFFERENT ROOMS] PANEL 3: El dinero y sus discursos en Latinoamérica Luis Medina Cordova, King’s College London, “Del Feriado Bancario a la Nación: Finacial Crisis and a Renewed Imaginary for the Contemporary Ecuadorian Nation” Zorimar Rivera Montes, Northwestern University, “Macha Colón: cuerpo, crisis, y utopía en Puerto Rico” Nicolás Sánchez, Duke University, “Struggles over the Minted-City: The Paper-Money Debate in nineteenth-century Colombia” Moderator: Harris Feinsod, Northwestern University Place: University Hall 122 PANEL 4: Perspectivas enfrentadas: Representaciones indisciplinadas de la mujer Agustina Bullrich, The State University of New York - Stony Brook, “Cómo cambiar el amor: Beth Moysés y el arte de performance contra la violencia machista” Kelly Kreutz, Fulbright ETA Side Project 2016, “O conto Machadiano: Representação da figura feminina” Jill Quarles, University of Illinois at Chicago, “‘Estas tales no son mujeres’: Reading early modern feminism in Lope de Vega’s La dama boba and María de Zayas’ La traición en la amistad” Moderator: Yaniré Márquez, University of Illinois at Chicago Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room)
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1:40-2:40pm PANEL 5: Adolescencia y sexualidad a fines del siglo XIX Alicia Nuñez, Northwestern University, “El niño voyeur y el narrador nostálgico: La infancia en las obras de Soledad Acosta” Catalina Rodríguez, Northwestern University, “Deseos entre mujeres y masculinización en Soledad Acosta” Minwook Oh, Northwestern University, “Una actriz huérfana: Por donde se sube al cielo de Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera” Moderator: Nathalie Bouzaglo, Northwestern University Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) 2:40-3:00pm Coffee break Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) 3:00-4:20pm PANEL 6: Locas, trans y otras subjetividades queer Alejandro Castro, New York University, “Apuntes sobre la vergüenza a partir de un poema de Árbol que crece torcido, de Rafael Castillo Zapata” Joshua G. Ortiz Baco, University of Texas at Austin, “Yo fui hecho en el mar: reescritura caribeña en La mucama de Omicunlé” Isaías Fanlo, The University of Chicago, “La pluma y la letra: Jaime Manrique, la autobiografía queer literaria y la comunidad intergeneracional en los Eminent Maricones” Leonardo Gil Gómez, Northwestern University, “Bernardo Arias Trujillo: apuntes para una tradición de la literatura queer en Colombia” Moderator: Aarón Aguilar, Northwestern University Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room) 5:00-6:30pm Keynote presentation: Fabio Durão, "Critical Theory: Made in Brazil". Presiding: César Braga-Pinto, Northwestern University Place: University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room)
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SATURDAY, APRIL 15TH, 2017 8:00-8:30am Breakfast Place: Kresge Hall 1515 or Kresge Hall 1525 (ask organizers) 8:40-10:00am PANEL 7: Modernidad y prácticas estéticas contemporáneas Luiza Morena Zanchi, University of Illinois at Chicago, “The Transgressive Star: Deciphering Desire in Lispector’s A Hora da Estrela” Rodrigo Serapiao Batalha, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) / Princeton University, “Amálgamas musicais e a academia na contemporaneidade” André Goldfeder, Universidade de São Paulo / Princeton University, “Para ver a voz. Duas cenas liminares na arte contemporânea brasileira” Andrés Obando, University of Pittsburgh, “Guía del turista Neo-barroco” Moderador: Isabela Fraga, The University of Chicago University Place: Kresge Hall 1515
10:00-10:30am Coffee break Place: Kresge Hall 1515 and Crowe 1132 10:30-11:30pm [TWO DIFFERENT ROOMS] PANEL 8: Idas y vueltas en tres tradiciones literarias Aline Xavier de Araujo, Indiana University - Bloomington, “Machado de Assis e a arte das transições” Christopher William Andrejcik, Pennsylvania State University, “Martín Fierro: Man of Free Will or Melancholic Conformist?” Ana Báez, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Improper Grounds: Antonio Jose Ponte’s El libro perdido (2002)” Moderador: Juanita Calvo, University of Illinois at Chicago Place: Kresge Hall 1515
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PANEL 9: Testimonios de la novela contemporánea John William Kennedy, University of Pittsburgh, “Central American Postmodernity: Fictive Boundaries in Ethnographic and Archival Material” Felipe Costa Neves, Northwestern University, “El sujeto contemporáneo, las memorias colectivas y el legado: una lectura de la novela brasileña Diário da Queda, de Michel Laub” Lily Frusciante, Northwestern University, “Intersecting Crimes: Reading Luis Sepúlveda’s La sombra de lo que fuimos as Crime Fiction and Testimony” Moderator: Prof. Lucille Kerr, Northwestern University Place: Crowe 1132
11:40-12:40pm PANEL 10: Memoria política de España Judit Fuente Cuesta, Michigan State University, “Afecto, violencia y olvido: la celebridad Carmen Maura legitima el poder político de la Transición Española en ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (Pedro Almodóvar, 1984)” Matthew Beeber, Northwestern University, “Los Poetas del Mundo: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Spanish Civil War Poetry Anthology” Manuel Olmedo Gobante, The University of Chicago, “Grandeza y nada: memoria y olvido en un soneto de Cervantes” Moderator: Amalia Cantisán, University of Illinois at Chicago Place: Kresge Hall 1515 12:40-1:40pm Lunch Place: Kresge Hall 1525
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1:40-3:00pm PANEL 11: Soberanías y mediaciones del cuerpo Thomas Matusiak, Princeton University, “Losing Our Heads: Javier Téllez and the Architecture of Spectatorship” Emily Rangel, Ohio State University , “Libres pero presos: La rutina como auto-gestión de la vida en la serie Cárcel o Infierno” Miguel Domínguez, Princeton University, “Hacia una política del deseo en tres filmes latinoamericanos” Pedro Varguillas, Northwestern University, “Decolonizando la Revolución Bolivariana: poder obedencial, poder constituyente y la encarnación de la política” Moderator: Laura Colaneri, The University of Chicago Place: Kresge Hall 1515 3:00-3:20pm Coffee break Place: Kresge Hall 1515 3:20-4:40pm PANEL 12: Espacios en “blanco”, comunidades políticas alternativas Fábio Salem Daie, Universidade de São Paulo / Princeton University, “Cidade, Anti-cidade: Negação e utopia nos confins da modernidade” Vincenzo Cammarata, King’s College London, “Spiritualism and Decolonisation in Angolan Literature” Iván Andrés Espinosa Orozco, Georgetown University, “La historia busca una voz: Silencio, sonido y agencia en La ruidosa marcha de los mudos” Moderator: Óscar Campo Becerra, University of Illinois at Chicago Place: Kresge Hall 1515
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5:00-6:30pm Keynote presentation: Florencia Garramuño, Universidad de San Andrés/CONICET, “El rumor de una batalla. Sobre las derivas de un arte y una crítica mutantes” Presenting: Alejandra Uslenghi, Northwestern University Place: Kresge Hall 1515 Closing remarks: Iván Pérez and José Delpino, Northwestern University Place: Kresge Hall 1515
From Northwestern University, this event is co-sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Program in Latin American and Caribbean studies and The Latino & Latina Studies Program”. From UIC, this event is co-sponsored by the The Institute of the Humanities, the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, the Department of English and the Graduate Student Council”. From UChicago, this event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Division Graduate Council, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Harris School of Public Policy, the Graduate Council, the Center for the Study of Race,Politics and Culture, the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, The Franke Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Romance Languages”.
