Violence and Desire: Performance and Movements
Event sponsored by the Latin American Graduate Organization (LAGO), the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Organization
FRIDAY – November 14, 2008
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Welcome and Registration (Lavin-Bernick Center, 2nd Floor)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
PANEL 1 – Transatlantic Movements (LBC, Race Room)
Moderator: Prof. Laura Bass
Regan Boxwell (University of Texas at Austin): “Changing the Subject: The fictionalization of the colonial past in Rosario Aguilar’s La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies”
Mirzam Handal (Tulane University): “Mourning for Chocolate: Widows in 17th century Spain”Antonio Rueda (Tulane University): “El Comandante Albrecht von Wallenstein según Calderón de la Barca: verdad y poesía en El prodigio de Alemania”
PANEL 2 – Sexuality and Performance (LBC, Rechler Room)
Moderator: Luciana Monteiro
Kurt Hofer (Tulane University): “The limits of masculinity: Desire, abstinence, and impotency”
Matthew Austin (Tulane University): “Love lost: The influence of literary eroticism on gender expectations”
Hilary Smith (Tulane University): “El despertar social y político de la mujer burguesa en Despierta, mi bien, despierta de Claribel Alegría”
3:30pm – 5:00pm
PANEL 3 – Representation of Maginalized Groups (LBC, Race Room)
Moderator: Prof. Christopher Dunn
Asligul Berktay (Tulane University): “A Brazilian Frontier Slave Society: The Case of Minas Gerais during the Século de Ouro”
Elise Dietrich (Tulane University): “Alegoria Nacional: Visualizations of a Nascent Brazilian Republic in ‘Revista Illustrada’”
Claudia Happel (University of Florida): “¿Enseñar para vivir? ¡Enseñar a vivir!: Contextualización del problema de la educación indígena presentado en Amauta”
Timothy Lebeau (Tulane University): “Images of the Cuban black militia: posing critical challenges to Cuban authority, history, religion”
PANEL 4 – Security, Immigration and the State (LBC, Rechler Room)
Moderator: Prof. Anthony Pereira
Marcelle Beaulieu (Tulane University): “Hijos Ausentes: Mexican Emigration Policy”
Bradley Hentschel (Tulane University): “Gangs and Government: Mano Dura in El Salvador”
F. Forrest Maldonado (University of Texas at Austin): “Suppressing the Specter of the PRI’s Impossibility: Hegemonic Practice in Octavio Paz’s Postdata”
Médar Serrata (University of Texas at Austin): “En busca de la Ciudad Eterna: Joaquín Balaguer y la Matanza de Haitianos”
5:00pm – 7:00pm
PACHANGA (Jones Hall Patio)
Featuring Music by E.O.E.
7:30pm – 9:00pm
EPHNIKO (Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium)
Not only an artist, EPHNIKO is a researcher and documentarian that created and produced an audio-video feature on Latin American Hip-Hop
SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 15, 2008
8:45am – 9:30am
Breakfast (LBC, Stibbs Conference Room)
9:30am – 10:15am
Hometown lecture by Prof. Idelber Avelar (LBC, Stibbs Conference Room)
Title: “Strategies and representations of masculinity in contemporary Brazilian fiction”
10:30am – 12:00pm
PANEL 5 – Violence and Nation (Jones Hall 100)
Moderator: Prof. Fernando Rivera-Díaz
Rocío del Aguila (University of Texas at Austin): “Violentando la nación: movilidad racial y deseo sexual en Herencia de Clorinda Matto de Turner”
Karla González (University of Texas at Austin): “Conflictos de raza y clase en The Squatter and the Don: una reestructuración”
Caroline Thomson (Tulane University): “La deconstrucción del sentido y el deseo destructor que queda atrás en En busca de Klingsor de Jorge Volpi”
Alejandra Zambrano (University of Texas at Austin): “Cosificación, violencia y el nacimiento de la subjetividad indígena en Huasipungo de Jorge Icaza”
PANEL 6 – Guns, Drugs, and Colombia (LBC, Race Room)
Moderator: Prof. Martín Mendoza
Aaron Lorenz (Tulane University): “Virgen de los sicarios and Rosario Tijeras: The critical reception and construction of the new "post-boom" Colombian literature”
Felipe Martínez (New York University): “Alfredo Molano y Arturo Cova: geografía evanescente y agencia intelectual”
Moises Park (University of California Davis) (Travel Grant Assistance Awardee):
“La novela Mambrú: La aparición de cuerpos y la desaparición de cadáveres en la memoria del Batallón Colombia en la Guerra de Corea”
Carolina Rueda (University of Pittsburgh): “Deseo, exceso y narco-posmodernidad en el cine: El Colombian Dream”
PANEL 7 – Indigenous and Subaltern Identities (LBC, Rechler Room)
Moderator: Prof. Maureen Shea
Kristen Austin (Tulane University): “Breaking the Mold: Strong Female Characters in Jose Maria Arguedas Todas las Sangres”
Joseph Pierce (University of Texas at Austin): “The role of marginalized bodies in Lucio Victorio Mansilla’s Excursión a los indios ranqueles”
Becky Thompson (University of Texas at Austin): “The (Im)possibility of Representation: Mediating Indigenous National Identities Through Peruvian Literature”
Ramsey Tracy (Tulane University): ““Con naranja y Chile”: Gastronomía y antropofagia en la narrativa oral contemporánea de la Guerra de Castas de Yucatán”
12:00pm – 1:30pm
PANEL 8 – Violence and Cultural Production (LBC, Race Room)
Moderator: Prof. Antonio Gómez
Ángel Díaz (Emory University): “La violencia que no cesa: memoria traumática y violencia en la lírica de Octavio Paz”
Gabriel Eljaiek (Emory University): “Exceso y pánico: Temas y variaciones en torno a Jodorowsky y Copi en cinco cuadros”
Fernando Esquivel (Emory University): “Epistolario del secuestro: violencia y comunicación en la correspondencia de Ingrid Betancourt”
Omar Granados (Emory University): ““¿Dónde diablos jugarán?”: Realismo sucio, violencia y niñez en Pedro Juan Gutiérrez”
Erika Almenara (University of Wisconsin): “Violence and Memory in Alonso Cueto's La hora azul”
PANEL 9 – Constructing the Other (LBC, Rechler Room)
Moderator: Prof. Justin Wolfe
Drew Blanchard (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee): “Judgment, Politics, Violence, & Imagination in Elizabeth Bishop’s “Questions of Travel””
Paulo Henríquez Feest (University of Oregon): “Construcción literaria de la violencia en Facundo, El Zarco, Martín Fierro y Doña Bárbara”
Katharina Kniess (Tulane University): “La perspectiva etnográfica en El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier”
1:30pm – 2:30pm
LUNCH (Lavin-Bernick Center, LBC)
2:30pm – 4:00pm
PANEL 10 – Violence and Artistic Representation (LBC, Race Room)
Moderator: Prof. Edie Wolfe
Erin Boxwell (University of California Los Angeles): “Making Men: The Fabrication of Masculinity Through Aztec Warrior Training”
Megan Debin (University of California Los Angeles): “Violence and Masculinity in the Work of Einar and Jamex De La Torre: From Aztec Warriors to Luchadores”
Ryan Johnson (Kent State University): “The Compound Gallery of Desire”
Vanessa Raabe (University of California Los Angeles): “A Remaking of the World: The Embodiment of Masculine Subjectivity in Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib”
PANEL 11 – Desire and the Body (LBC, Rechler Room)
Moderator: Alejandra Sánchez
Alejandra Sánchez (Tulane University): “Rose-m-berg: Via-crucis del reciclaje y estupor en los cuerpos: modus operandi de la violencia y marginalidad”
Maisha Mitchell (Georgetown University): “La fruta del amor frustrado: El amor en las vidas de los hombres militares en De amor y de sombra”
Timothy Murphy (University of California Davis): “Caçando Os Bofe: embedded violence and bodily performance within and beyond the mall”
Burke White (University of Texas at Austin): “Los Burdeles del Boom: Violencia y Deseo Mimético entre los Hombres”
4:00pm – 4:45pm
Young Writers (LBC, Stibbs Conference Room)
Alex Castro & Iván Medina Castro
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Keynote speaker: John Beverley (Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium)
Title: “Rethinking the Question of Armed Struggle in Latin America”
6:30pm – 7:30pm
RECEPTION (Woldenberg Hall) |
