“En Route: Journeys of the Body and the Soul in Iberian and Latin

“En Route: Journeys of the Body and the Soul in Iberian
and Latin American Literatures”
The University of Chicago
October 12-13, 2012
Raúl Lara Torrez, Viaje imaginario de Don Estanislao (2002). Private collection.
Special thanks to the family of the artist.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
This event is co-sponsored by The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Division of the
Humanities, the Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the
Department of History, the Department of English, the Center for Latin American Studies, the
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and
Culture, the University of Chicago Student Government, the Humanities Division Graduate
Students Council, the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Western Mediterranean Cultures
Workshop.
Friday, October 12
8:30-9:00
Continental Breakfast and Registration (Franke Institute)*
9:00-9:30
Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Coleman, President of the Spanish Graduate Students Committee
Mario Santana, Spanish Graduate Adviser, University of Chicago
9:45-10:45
Panel 1: Spaniards in America and Africa: Travel, Exile and Cultural
Reflections in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Cinema
Panel chair: Mario Santana, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and
the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago
9:45-10:05
“Embarked Poetry: Hispanic Solidarity in Rafael Alberti’s 13 bandas y 48
estrellas”
Carolina Beltrán, University of California at Los Angeles
10:05-10:25
“13 Kilometers: The Cultural Abyss between Spain and Morocco in Chus
Gutiérrez’s Retorno a Hansala”
Novia Pagone, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:25-10:45
Discussion
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:30 Panel 2: Twentieth-Century Reflections on Early Modern Voyages
Panel chair: Juan Camilo Acevedo, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
11:15-11:35
“El cuerpo inteligente en La tejedora de coronas de Germán Espinosa”
Sebastián Pineda Buitrago, Colegio de México, México
11:35-11:55
“Adamastor, Galactus, and the Oblivion of the Cape of Tempests”
Max Seawright, Harvard University
11:55-12:15
“Viajando a Australia: un patrimonio histórico on-line”
Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé, Arizona State University
12:15-12:30
Discussion
11:15-12:30 Panel 3: Social and Literary Mobility in Mexico (Special Collections
Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Emilio Kourí, Professor of History, Romance Languages and
Literatures, and the College; Chair, Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures; Director, Katz Center for Mexican Studies, University of
Chicago
11:15-11:35
“On a Road to Nowhere: Normalizing Journalistic Production and Squelching
Social Mobility in the Porfirian Public Sphere”
Kevin Anzzolin, University of Chicago
11:35-11:55
“Movimientos y viajes como conceptos de reconocimiento en Algunas nubes de
Paco Ignacio Taibo II”
Carlos Villegas-Castañeda, Michigan State University
11:55-12:15
“Home to Paradise: Images of Exile and Return in Early Mexican Film”
Alfredo Muñoz Alarcón, Kingsborough Community College
12:15-12:30
Discussion
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:45
Panel 4: Transatlantic Exchanges: Distance, Nostalgia and Nationalism
Panel chair: Novia Pagone, Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago
1:30-1:50
“El gíbaro (1849): Un viaje de regreso a la patria lejana”
Tania Carrasquillo Hernández, University of Iowa
1:50-2:10
“Viaje modernista y propuesta estética en Crónicas de Roma de Abraham
Valdelomar”
Miguel Rosas Buendia, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:10-2:30
“El piano y la quina: objetos en tránsito en La otra raya del tigre”
Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez, South Dakota State University
2:30-2:45
Discussion
1:30-2:45
Panel 5: Travel Experience and Narrative: The Generic Limits of
Travel Literature (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Felipe E. Rojas, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50
“La Chanca: entre la narrativa de viajes y la crítica social”
Magdalena Romero-Córdoba, Fashion Institute of Technology
1:50-2:10
“Sueño y viaje interrumpidos en la Estación de Navegantes”
Bladimir Víquez, Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, Panamá
2:10-2:30
“El viaje travesti de Pedro Lemebel”
Erika Almenara, University of Michigan
2:30-2:45
Discussion
2:45-3:00
Break
3:00-4:15
Panel 6: Displaced Bodies in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Panel chair: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Latin American
Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of
Gender and Sexuality, Center for Race, Politics and Culture, University of
Chicago
3:00-3:20
“El hombre/mujer, el ángel/demonio. Cuerpo, misterio e inquietud en Sirena
Selena vestida de pena”
Guillermo Severiche, Louisiana State University
3:20-3:40
“Ficciones de la errancia”
Juan Francisco Marguch, University of Pittsburgh
3:40-4:00
“De la victimización a la agencia: viaje y vida desnuda en Lorde de João Gilberto
Noll y Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit”
Jerónimo Duarte Riascos, Harvard University
4:00-4:15
Discussion
3:00-4:00
Panel 7: Traveling Icons and Shifting Religious Identities in the Early
Modern Period (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Miguel Martínez, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and
the College, University of Chicago
3:00-3:20
“Mediterranean Travel, Captivity, and Visual Culture in Gómez de Losada’s
Escuela de trabajos”
Catherine Infante, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:20-3:40
“An Ekphrastic War: The Journey of the Image of Saint James to the New World”
Katrina Powers, University of Chicago
3:40-4:00
Discussion
4:15-4:30
Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address
Sylvia Molloy
(Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, and Creative Writing, Albert
Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at New York University)
“Towards a Poetics of Displacement: Latin American Literature and the
Voyage Home”
Presented by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Latin American
Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality, Center for Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago
End of Day 1
Saturday, October 13
9:00-9:30
Breakfast
9:30-10:45
Panel 8: Education on the Road: Bildungsroman as Travel Narrative
Panel chair: Anna Proffit, Spanish Instructor, Wright College
9:30-9:50
“Muindinga’s Journey: The Road(s) out of Terra Sonâmbula”
Satty Flaherty-Echeverría, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
9:50-10:10
“Desengaño de Carlitos: consecuencias en el proceso de modernización de
México en Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco”
Roberto García Delgado, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
10:10-10:35
Discussion
10:35-11:00
Break
11:00-12:15 Panel 9: Women’s Journeys: Agency and Identity
Panel chair: Monserrat Lunati, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Cardiff
University; 2012-2013 Joan Coromines Visiting Chair of Catalan Studies,
University of Chicago
11:00-11:20
“Idas y Vueltas: Self-Definition as Spatial Practice in the Work of María Luisa
Bombal”
Camilla Sutherland, University College London, England
11:20-11:40
“Peregrinaciones y luchas sociales: la escritura como crítica en las novelas
sudamericanas de Flora Tristán y Juana Manuela Gorriti”
Seth Roberts, University of Alabama
11:40-12:00
“Actividad versus pasividad: el espacio, la palabra y la muerte en La furia y otros
cuentos de Silvina Ocampo”
Raisa Gorgojo Iglesias, Miami University
12:00-12:15
Discussion
11:00-12:15 Panel 10: Travel and the Early Modern Hispanic Empire: War,
Politics and Explorations (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: James Nemiroff, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
11:00-11:20
“Spanish Travel and Identity in Medieval and Renaissance Warring”
David M. Reher, University of Chicago
11:20-11:40
“Parodia y religiosidad en ‘A la entrada del Duque de Medina en Cádiz’ de
Cervantes”
Jesús Botello, University of Delaware
11:40-12:15
Discussion
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:45
Panel 11: Medieval and Early Modern Frontiers of Gender, Sexuality
and Language
Panel chair: Martha Lilia Tenorio Trillo, Professor-Researcher, El Colegio de
México; Visiting Professor of Hispanic Literature, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50
“Feminizing the Frontier Warrior in the Poema de mío Cid: Honorius III and the
Legacy of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar’s Journey from Burgos to Valencia”
Eric Graf, Wesleyan University
1:50-2:10
“‘Hemos visto un mal tan fiero’: Sexual Confusion in Lope de Vega’s El gallardo
catalán”
Felipe E. Rojas, University of Chicago
2:10-2:30
“Anamorphosis of the Baroque Poetic Body in Luis de Góngora’s Las Soledades”
Guinevere W. Allen, Stanford University
2:30-2:45
Discussion
1:30-2:30
Panel 12: Travel and Memory: Revisiting the Latin American
Dictatorial Period (Regenstein Library Room 207)***
Panel chair: Viviana Hong, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50
“Los viajes de la memoria en Apenas diez, de Marisa Silva Schultze”
Eva Palma Zúñiga, University of Minnesota
1:50-2:10
“108 Cuchillo de palo: Politics of Fear and State Violence on the Gay
Community during the Last Paraguayan Dictatorship”
Rafaela Fiore Urízar, California Lutheran University
2:10-2:30
Discussion
2:45-3:00
Break
3:00-4:15
Panel 13: Cervantine Journeys
Panel chair: Frederick de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service
Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative
Literature, University of Chicago
3:00-3:20
“Voyage between Worlds Imaginary and Real: El coloquio de los perros and Don
Quijote”
Timothy J. Ambrose, Indiana University Southwest
3:20-3:40
“Facial Marks and Heavenly Journeys in the Spanish Picaresque”
Álvaro Molina, University of California at Los Angeles
3:40-4:00
“La ruta de una ‘revolución truncada’ en La ilustre fregona: entre el cambio y el
determinismo del sujeto moderno”
Pedro A. Aguilera-Mellado, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
4:00-4:15
Discussion
4:15-4:30
Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address
Marina S. Brownlee
(Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, and
Comparative Literature at Princeton University)
“Experimental Architecture: Cervantine Curiosity and the English Stage”
Presented by Frederick de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service
Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature,
University of Chicago
6:00
Closure of the Conference and Reception at the Smart Museum****
* Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place at the Franke Institute for the
Humanities.
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (Hyde Park University Campus in the Regenstein Library)
** Special Collections Seminar Room
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (Inside the Regenstein Library on the 1st floor)
*** Regenstein Library Room 207
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (On the 2nd floor of the Regenstein Library)
**** Smart Museum of Art
5550 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago
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