LALISA 2016

Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies Association

Program

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Friday

8:00-9:00 Registration, program pick-up, and breakfast (GRAY LOUNGE)

9:00-9:15 Diego Alonso (Reed College), Opening Remarks (GRAY LOUNGE)

9:30-10:50 Session I

Panel 1: PAB 320

JORGE LUIS BORGES: LABYRINTHS OF TIME

Moderator: Hugo Moreno (Lewis and Clark College)

Matías Borg Oviedo (Cornell University), "Escritos para una experiencia futura: la estética clásica del último Borges"

Clay Loftus Wilwol (Reed College), "Redimir el pasado: Entender el proyecto histórico en Evaristo Carriego a través de una lectura de Walter Benjamin"

Hugo Moreno (Lewis and Clark College), "The Idea of "Bad" Infinity in Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths"

Panel 2: PAB 104

LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION IN CENTRAL AMERICA

Moderator: Yolanda A. Doub (California State University, Fresno)

Yolanda A. Doub (California State University, Fresno), "Roque Dalton's Forgotten Novel: Displacement and Coming of Age in the Salvadoran Revolution"

Robert Baah (Seattle Pacific University), "Decontextualization and Recontextualization: Temporal Movements in Ernesto Cardenal's Salmos"

Panel 3: GCC "C" & "D"

DON QUIXOTE

Moderator: Harry Vélez (University of Puget Sound)

María M. Carrión (Emory University), "'Til Death Did Him Part. Don Quijote's Romance of Purgatory (I, 19-20 and II, 22-24)"

Harry Vélez (University of Puget Sound), "Historia de un asno laureado: De remediis utriusque fortunae e ironía cervantina en el capítulo 55 de la segunda parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha"

11:00-12:30 Session II

Panel 4: PAB 104

IMMIGRATION AND IDENTITY

Moderator: Marisela Fleites-Lear (Green River College)

Anabel López Salinas (Portland State University), "The role of identity among indigenous Mexican immigrants"

Constantin C. Icleanu (University of Kentucky), "The Invisible Subtitles of Spanish Immigration Shorts: You Are Welcome, but I Would Rather You Had Not Come"

Marisela Fleites-Lear (Green River College), "Miamiando: Cuban-American Teenage Identity in the Time of Elián in Jennine Capó's Make Your Home Amongst Strangers"

Panel 5: GCC "C" & "D"

PADURA'S PHANTOMS

Moderator: Gina Hermann (University of Oregon)

Lanie Millar (University of Oregon), "Tracing the margins of empire in Leonardo Padura's El hombre que amaba a los perros"

Freddy O. Vilches (Lewis and Clark College), "Desencanto y desamparo en el Neopolicial Paduriano"

Gina Hermann (University of Oregon), Padura, Losey and Trotsky, "Left Noir"

Panel 6: PAB 320

IMAGING CONTEMPORARY SPAIN: MEMORY, TERROR, AND CRISIS

Moderator: Mónica López Lerma (Reed College)

Cristina Moreiras-Menor (University of Michigan), "The Betraying Gaze: Image and Legacy in Agustín Villaronga's Pa Negre"

Germán Labrador Méndez (Princeton University), "Crisestesias ibéricas: figuras de la crisis y temporalidad de excepción en la Europa periférica"

Mónica López Lerma (Reed College), "Justice between Terror and the Law"

Panel 7: WINCH

SOCCER, MEMORY, AND NATION

Moderator: Iñaki Gonzalo (University of Oregon)

Erin Gallo (University of Oregon), "The Old Boys' Club de Cuervos"

Zach Bigalke (University of Oregon), "From Foreign Curiosity to National Obsession: Soccer, Immigration, and Politics in Argentina from Mitre to Yrigoyen"

Iñaki Gonzalo (University of Oregon), "El partido de sus vidas: Narrativas de la nación en La gran familia española (2013)"

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:40-2:50

PAB 320

Julio Premat (Université de Paris VIII)

REPETICIÓN, ORIGINALIDAD, TRADICIÓN: ¿CUÁL ES EL TIEMPO DE LA LITERATURA ACTUAL?

Introduced by Diego Alonso (Reed College)

3:00-4:45 Session III

Panel 8: GCC "C" & "D"

DERECHOS UNIVERSALES EN LA LITERATURA

Moderator: Rigoberto Guevara (University of Nebraska)

Miguel Ángel Albújar Escuredo (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), "La dificultad pragmática de legislar derechos naturales en el Nuevo Mundo"

Omar Fernando Forero (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), "Los derechos de los hijos: heredad, parricidio y fratricidio en el Cristo de espaldas de Eduardo Caballero Calderón"

Alicia Herraiz-Gutiérrez (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), "Los antiderechos y el vacío en torno a la elección del cónyugue. Exaltación y sátira del amor como mecanismo de negociación en Los empeños de una casa (1692) de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"

Rigoberto Guevara (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), "Un estudio de la poética modernista: preocupación por los derechos del ser humano durante el crucero de los siglos XIX y XX"

Panel 9: WINCH

ENTRE DOS FRONTERAS: EXPERIENCIAS DE LA (TRANS)MIGRACIÓN EN MÉXICO

Moderator: Josefa Lago Graña (University of Puget Sound)

Austin Daly (Pacific Lutheran University), "La humanidad detrás de la máscara: Las caras del capitalismo deshumanizante"

Erin Bensinger (Kalamazoo College), "Testimonios complicados: Subvirtiendo el género para contar historias diferentes"

Kendra Saathoff (Pacific Lutheran University), "Los migrantes llevan más que sus bolsas: La fortificación de las fronteras y de las identidades de los migrantes centroamericanos"

Suzanne Eiffert (University of Puget Sound), "El lenguaje de la migración: El proceso de criminalización y deshumanización a través de las palabras"

Panel 10: PAB 320

MEMORY AND TESTIMONY

Moderator: Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon)

Natalia Ruiz-Rubio (Eastern Washington University), "La articulación cinematográfica de la memoria en El edificio de los chilenos (2010) de Macarena Aguiló"

Diego Alonso (Reed College), "Rodolfo Walsh y los espejismos de la historia"

Bárbara Caballero (U.B.A. / Reed College), "Los relatos de la memoria: Una lectura de La casa de los conejos de Laura Alcoba"

Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon), "Time and Testimony: Elena Poniatowska's Crónica and Social Memory of the 1985 Mexican Earthquake"

Panel 11: PAB 104

GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Moderator: Paqui Paredes (Western Washington University)

Kathleen H. Connolly (Western Oregon University), "Marina Mayoral y Robert Mapplethorpe: Intertextualidad y masculinidad en 'La belleza del ébano' y Black Males"

Maureen Tobin Stanley (University of Minnesota Duluth), "Tragedy, Sacrifice and Liquidity in Director Carlos Vermut's 2014 Magical Girl"

Megan Sheldon (University of Puget Sound), "Positioning Otherness in Spanish Queer Travel Narrative: A Close Reading of Illy Nes' El lago rosa (2004)"

Paqui Paredes (Western Washington University), "1900-1930: El cuplé y ¿la nueva mujer?"

4:45-5:30 Cocktail Reception (GRAY LOUNGE)

Saturday

8:00-9:00 Breakfast (GRAY LOUNGE)

9:10-10:50 Session I

Panel 12: PAB 104

MOVILIZANDO EL PASADO: INSURGENCIA Y MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES EN LAS PRODUCCIONES CULTURALES DE LOS SIGLOS XX Y XXI

Moderator: Tatiana Arguello (University of Puget Sound)

María Ximena Postigo G. (Vassar College), "Para sembrar en el dolor la memoria colectiva contra la violencia. Una aproximación a los cuerpos femeninos en las Antígonas de Teresa Ralli y Patricia Ariza"

Matías Beverinotti (University of Michigan), "La deconstrucción del cuerpo de lo político en Las aventuras de los bustos de Eva de Carlos Gamerro"

Arne Romanowski (University of Pittsburgh), "La música fusión - raíz dominicana: forjando una dominicanidad multicultural e inclusiva"

Tatiana Arguello (University of Puget Sound), "Militancia desde la muerte: poesía, archivo y necropolítica en Roque Dalton y Víctor Cartagena"

Panel 13: PAB 131

EXILE

Moderator: Elías Ronick (Portland State University)

Elena Delgado-Vázquez (University of Oregon), Memoria y exilio: La "conciencia testimonial" de María Zambrano

Emmy Herland (University of Washington), "The Phantasm in Black: Haunted Historiography in Carmen Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás"

Eva Serfozo (University of Oregon), "Continuity and Change in Discourses on Memory in Post-Francoist Spain: El Impostor by Javier Cercas"

Elías Ronick (Portland State University), "El paisaje y el entorno implacables a principios de la época de posguerra en España: la derrota, la nostalgia, y el silencio teatral en Caracremada"

Panel 14: PAB 332

AESTHETICS AND POLITICS

Moderator: Juan Carlos Toledano (Lewis and Clark College)

Daniel Duford (Reed College), "Intersecciones: Truth and Consequences in Curating Cross Cultural Contemporary Art"

Gustavo Quintero (Cornell University), "Crushed Promises and Eternal Pasts: The Cuban Messianism in Gutiérrez Alea and Antonio José Ponte"

Juan Carlos Toledano (Lewis and Clark College), "A Very Terrestrial Grandmother. Daína Chaviano's Science Fiction Oeuvre"

Suria Ceja Vázquez (University of Puget Sound), "La onda," evocación al conflicto histórico en Pasto verde"

Panel 15: PAB 320

PHOTOGRAPHY

Moderator: Pedro García-Caro (University of Oregon)

Curtis Wasson (Quest University Canada), "Seeing the Hispano-Moroccan War (1859-60): Sketches, Photography, and Lithography"

Sebastián López Vergara (University of Washington), "Distracting the Eye: Ethnographic Photography in Chile and Mexico at the Turn of the 20th Century"

Brendan Lanctot (University of Puget Sound), "El registro fotográfico de Juan Fuentes y la captura del poder del Estado en el siglo XIX"

Pedro García-Caro (University of Oregon), "The Time of the Mine: Stills and Extraction in the Graphic Work of David Maawad and Sebastião Salgado"

11:00-12:20 Session II

Panel 16 (PAB 332)

ANDEAN WORLD

Moderator: David T. Garrett (Reed College)

Carlos Vargas-Salgado (Whitman College), "La danza popular andina como artefacto de la memoria de la violencia: el caso de Ayacucho, Perú"

David T. Garrett (Reed College), "Subaltern Space-Time in the Habsburg Andean Highlands"

Panel 17: PAB 320

MEMORY, HEROISM, AND EXILE

Moderator: Elizabeth Drumm (Reed College)

Enrique Cortés (Portland State University), "Heroísmo socialista y marxismo-nietzschiano en España aparta de mí este cáliz"

Alice McAdams (University of Michigan), "'Más Mía Cuanto Más Lejana': Luis Cernuda's Nostalgic Poetry of Exile"

Elizabeth Drumm (Reed College), "Valle-Inclán's 'Armonia de contrarios' as a Figure of Bergsonian Duration"

Panel 18: PAB 131

TEXT AND IMAGE

Moderator: Josefa Lago Graña (University of Puget Sound)

Janis Breckenridge (Whitman College), "Braiding Intertextual Strands: "La casa del sol naciente" and El arte de volar"

Jenna Stanley (Whitman College), "Reading Between the Lines: Visual Conceits in "La casa del sol naciente" and El arte de volar"

Josefa Lago Graña (University of Puget Sound), "El tiempo (in)finito de Cien años de soledad y la persistencia de sus hormigas"

Panel 19: PAB 104

TICKING AWAY: THE TEMPORALITIES OF HISTORY AND VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICA (1)

Moderator: Marcelino Viera (Michigan Technological University)

Alejandro Quin (University of Utah), "A la espera del cataclismo: Walter Benjamin según García Márquez"

Federico Pous (Elon University), La potencialidad política de la novedad. Dilemas teóricos en torno a las temporalidades subyacentes de la historia"

Marcelino Viera (Michigan Technological University), "La experiencia de la tragedia, sólo los creyentes tienen 'tiempo.' La política del nihilismo en La ciénaga (2001) de Lucrecia Martel"

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:40-2:50

PAB 320

María Ochoa (Columbia University)

THE INDIGENOUS MUSICAL ARCHIVE: BETWEEN THE TIME OF MYTH AND AUDIOVISUAL TIME

Introduced by Morgan Luker (Reed College)

3:00-4:20 Session III

Panel 20: PAB 332

BAROQUE TEMPORALITY

Moderator: Ariadna García-Bryce (Reed College)

Crystal Chemris (University of Oregon / Kansas State University), "Góngora and the Times of the Giants"

Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon), "Deseando veros presto contentos en la otra vida: The Alternate Temporality of the Valedictory Mode"

Ariadna García-Bryce (Reed College), "Sacred and Profane Temporalities in Absolutist Spain"

Panel 21: PAB 131

NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND PEDAGOGY

Moderator: Roberto Madero (Rowan University)

Robert Sanders (Portland State University), "Open Access Textbooks and Curricular Evolution: A Case Study in Intermediate Spanish Literature Courses and Cultural Studies"

Mayra Bottaro (University of Oregon), "Waiting to happen": precarious life, anticipation, and affective temporalities"

Roberto Madero (Rowan University), "Sombra de Varela: Obra inédita de Sarmiento"

Panel 22: PAB 104

TICKING AWAY: THE TEMPORALITIES OF HISTORY AND VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICA (2)

Moderator: Christian Kroll (Reed College)

Manuel Chinchilla (Sewanee: University of the South), "Running and stalling through Mexico City: Güeros and the Aesthetics of Time-Wasting"

Sharon Larisch (Reed College), "Potentiality and the Crime Scene: Roberto Bolaño's "Los personajes fatales"

Christian Kroll (Reed College), "Time to Care: Precarity and the Political in Drug- and Immigration-related Violence"

Panel 23: PAB 320

TANGO AND HIP HOP

Moderator: Morgan Luker (Reed College)

Charlie Hankin (Princeton University), "Un-silencing the Present: Latin American Hip Hop as an Antidote to Presentism"

Victoria Fortuna (Reed College), "Tango and Mourning on the Contemporary Dance Stage"

Morgan Luker (Reed College), "Siete: Text, Voice, Music, Genre, History, Politics, and Time in the Work of Juan 'Tata' Cedrón"

4:30-5:40

PAB 320

Julia Bryan-Wilson (U.C. Berkeley)

MARKING TIME, UNMAKING MEMORY

Introduced by Elizabeth Drumm (Reed College)