The students of the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York will hold the Twelfth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference on March 23rd and 24th, 2007.

Submissions are invited on all periods and areas of Iberian, Spanish-American, Hispanic/Latino, Luso-Brazilian literatures, as well as any area of Hispanic Linguistics.  Papers may be presented in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Reading time of final papers will be limited to 20 minutes.   Please send an abstract of not more than 300 words to lljournal@gc.cuny.edu by January 31st, 2007.  Include in the email your name, title of the presentation, phone number and academic affiliation.

The selected papers may be submitted for publication in LL Journal, an online publication dedicated to the promotion of research related to the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian worlds.  For more information you may visit: http://lljournal.gc.cuny.edu.

You may also contact us at:

Twelfth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
The Graduate School and University Center – CUNY
Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
Room 4116
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Fax 212.817.1522
Email: lljournal@gc.cuny.edu

 

Program

Twelfth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference

In Memory of Professor René Garay

Friday, March 23

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Registration / Breakfast – Room 5414

10:00 – 11:40 AM – Room 5409

The Cuban Identity: Race, Gender and Exile

Moderator: Rolando Perez

1. Wan Sonya Tang. Yale University.
   Pida y recibirá: palabra, poder y fiesta en Écue-Yamba-O de Alejo Carpentier
2. Stephanie Howard. St. John´s University. La mulatez como eje de la identidad: una relectura de “Mulata” por Nicolás Guillén
3. Kimberly Pritchard. Ph. D. program in Theatre, The Graduate Center. Performing Pedro Pan: Composing Cuba from Exodus through Exile.
4. Mabel Cuesta. Baruch College.
   Narrativa cubana. Una lectura desde los imaginarios femeninos. Siglo XXI o Ahora que los mapas cambiaron de color.

12:00 – 1:20 PM – Room 5409

Migrations: Voices Linking Cultures

Moderator: Clayton McCarl

1. Raquel Vega Duran. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. La tragedia de víctimas e invasores: desenlaces antagónicos de travesías marítimas
2. Wendy Blauman. The Graduate Center, CUNY.
   Language and Border Crossings in Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salomé

3. Samuel Byrd. Ph. D. program in Anthropology, The Graduate Center. The Narcocorrido and the State.

1:20 – 2:30 PM

Lunch Break. Dining Commons 8^th floor

2:30 – 4:10 PM – Room 5409

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Sociolinguistics: Norm and Variation

Moderator: Laura Villa

1. Marisol Garrido. University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Language attitude in Mexico: Perceptions of Young Speakers on Spanish Diphthongization
2. Carolina Barrera Tobón. The Graduate Center, CUNY. La perseverancia y la flexión verbal en /s/: Explicaciones funcionales para el uso variable del pronombre sujeto tú en el español de Nueva York.

3. Vítor Meirinho. The Graduate Center, CUNY. A (sócio)linguística política e a actual norma do português do Brasil.

4. Juan Valdez. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Oui, Compai, multilingual matters in Samaná: a synchronic-diachronic survey.

4:20- 5:40 PM – Room 5409

Luso-Brazilian Literatures of the Twentieth Century

Moderator: Marcos Wasem

1. Graça Corrêa. Ph. D. program in Theatre, The Graduate Center. ‘Evil’ Victims and ‘Good’ Villains: Political Melodrama in Bernardo Santareno’s The Promise.
2. Michele Cristine Kettner. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Estandarte Armorial no Regionalismo Nordestino.
3. Regina Castro Chaudhry. The Graduate Center, CUNY. A Retórica do Fantástico: Murilo Rubião e Jorge Luis Borges, Um Caso Comparativo

6:00 PM

Closing Session – Room, Martin E. Segal Theatre

Professor Lidia Santos

Brazil Under Women’s Gaze:  Contemporary Fiction.

Words in honor of Professor René Garay.

7:30 PM

Dinner – Reception – Room 4116

Saturday, March 24.

10:00 – 10:20 AM

Registration / Breakfast – Room 5414

10:20 – 12:40 AM – Room 5409

New Approaches to Peninsular Golden Age

Moderator: David Rodríguez Solas

1. Marta Albalá. The Graduate Center, CUNY.
   Comedia: término y concepto a finales del siglo XV.
2. Mónica Carrera.The Graduate Center, CUNY. 
   Zaide, padre de pobres.
3. Carmen Valenzuela Cervantes. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Pasamonte. Más reflexiones sobre los pasos de este personaje imposible por el Quijote.

Break: 10 MIN.

4. Miguel Martínez. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Tradittores: Tres Traducciones Castellanas De Os Lusíadas Y La Anexión Filipina De Portugal.
5. Clayton McCarl. The Graduate Center, CUNY. An Indigenous Sculptor on the Spanish Stage: Calderón’s rewriting of Francisco Tito Yupanqui in La Aurora en Copacabana

12:40 – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:10 PM – Room 5409

Contemporary Literature: Spain and Latin America

Moderator: Luis Villamia

1. Susana Bardavio. The Graduate Center, CUNY. El último proyecto crítico de Emilia Pardo Bazán: La literatura francesa moderna. El Decadentismo.

2. Claudia Salazar. New York University. Subjetividad y Nación en la narrativa autobiográfica de Mario Vargas Llosa y José Maria Arguedas.

3. David Rodríguez Solás. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Perspectivas urbanas en La verdad sobre el caso Savolta, de Eduardo Mendoza.
4. Marcos Wasem. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Perlongher y la poética neobarroca.

3:20 – 4:40 PM – Room 5409

(Re)Writing: Remembering in the Arts

Moderator: Constanza López Baquero

1. Alexandra Florence Falek. New York University. Literary Memory, Cultural Memory: Recent Fiction from Uruguay.

2. Daniel Arroyo-Rodríguez. University of Michigan. MIL atracos contra el capital.
3. Jessica Lynam. Western Michigan University. Capricious Memory: Nostalgia, Sense-making and the Collective in Novels by García Márquez and Eugenides.

4:40 PM

Reception – Room 5414

Conference Coordinator:

Constanza López Baquero.

Conference Organizing Committee:

Berenice Darwich, Tim Fujioka, Clayton McCarl, Vanessa Pintado, Laura Villa, Marcos Wasem.

Collaborators:

Susana Bardavio, Susana Castillo, Hyon Kim, Miguel Martínez, Ana María Mero, David Rodríguez Solas, Rafael Rodríguez, Astrid Roldán and Mélida Sánchez.

Special Thanks to:

Doctoral Students’Council, Provost Linda Edwards, Prof. Lía Schwartz, Prof. Elena Martínez, Prof. Lidia Santos, Prof. Giuseppe Di Scipio, Prof. William Scherzer, Prof. Juan Carlos Mercado, Prof. Raquel Chan Rodríguez, Ms. Anna Santiago, the editorial team of LLJournal, the Departments of Romance Languages at Hunter College, Brooklyn College, City College and Baruch College, and the students from the Ph.D. program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages.

Image Design:

Marcos Wasem.

Photo:

Hyon Kim.