All dates, times, and locations are subject to change.
Wednesday-November 2, 2011
4:00pm
212 Dartmouth Hall
El efecto independentista / The Independence Effect
(jueves 27 a sábado 29 de octubre, 2011)
Schedule and Session Topics
Thursday, Oct. 27
Keynote and Welcome Remarks– 5:30 pm
Rockefeller 3
José M del Pino, Chair, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese; Adrian W. Randolph, Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities; Mary Louise Pratt (New York University): "The Futurology of Independence"
Friday, Oct. 28
Haldeman 041
Panel I, 9am-10:45 Independence in History
Tracy Devine Guzmán (University of Miami): "Eu Quero Mocotó!: Interrogating Independence in Authoritarian Brazil"Jennifer French (Williams College): "Between Two Fires: Intergenerational Trauma in Paraguayan History and Literature"Jossiana Arroyo (University of Texas, Austin): "On Techné: Writing the Grammar of the Americas"
Moderator: Israel Reyes
Panel II, 11am-12:45 The Independence Effect on Thought: Philosophy and Critical Theory
José Ignacio López Soria (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería –UNI–, Perú): "El efecto de la independencia en la filosofía y el pensamiento crítico"Beatriz Pastor (Dartmouth College): ["Independencia: Apuntes para una cartografía"]Alejandro Oscar Gómez (Center of Argentine Macroeconomic Studies Universtiy –CEMA–, Buenos Aires): "José del Valle: An Intellectual Leader of the Guatemalan Independence"
Moderator: Beatriz Pastor
Lunch 1pm-2:20
Featured Lecture, 2:30 pm-3:30
Carlos Malamud (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED-Spain): "Historia y política: la ulitización de los Bicentenarios"
Panel III, 3:45pm-5:30 Nation States: Independence and Modernity/ies
Aníbal González (Yale Univeristy): "Razón y sentimiento en la escritura gestual de Simón Rodríguez"Laura G. Gutiérrez (University of Arizona): "1810 into Cinema & Cinema in 1910: El Centenario, Modernity and Visual Culture in Mexico"J. Andrew Brown (Washington University in St. Louis): "Chile's Weird Independence"
Saturday, Oct. 29
Haldeman 041
Panel IV, 9am-10:45 Independence in Cultural Movements
Marshall Eakin (Vanderbilt University): "Independence, Mythmaking, and National IdentityRaúl Bueno (Dartmouth College): "En torno al sentido de ideologías independentistas"Álvaro Kaempfer (Gettysburgh College): "1808-1814: ciudadanía, representatividad y globalización"
Moderator: Rodolfo A. Franconi
Panel V, 11am-12:45 Independence, Power and Ideology
Beatriz González Stephan (Rice University): Las viruelas de la Revolución Haitiana: pánicos y silencios en la intelectualidad venezolana (siglo xix). Pedro Ángel Palou (Dartmouth College): "La culpa es de las élites, poder e ideología en los primeros años de la Independencia mexicana"José Lara (Georgetown University): "The Return of the Maya: The Importance of the Copán Ruins in the Construction of the Honduran Nation"
Moderator: Pedro Ángel Palou
Lunch 1-2:30
Panel VI, 2:30pm-4:15 Independence, Subalternity and Globalization.
Juan Aranzadi (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, España): "El efecto independentista en los indígenas americanos y los esclavos africanos"Hernán Fernández-Meardi (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay): "La figura de los grupos subalternos en la constitución de las identidades nacionales"Lucas Savino (Huron University College): "From "dueños del país" to "un puñado de salvajes." The place of the indigenous subaltern in the independence movements of the Southern Cone"
Moderator: Raúl Bueno
Closing Remarks – 4:30pm
Rebecca Biron (Dartmouth College)
Orozco Murals. A Visit Guided by Mary Coffey (Dartmouth College), 5:00-6:30pm
Farewell Words by Provost Carol Folt (Dartmouth College)
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"Retranslating Poetic Texts: Garcilaso, Góngora, and Quevedo After Analogical Form"
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
4:00pm
206 Dartmouth Hall
Professor Racz is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at Long Island University-Brooklyn, Vice President of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and Review Editor for Translation Review. Primarily a poetry translator with a special interest in meter and rhyme, Professor Racz has published translations of the Spanish Golden Age Classics Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Penguin Classics, 2006) and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega (Yale University Press, 2010). Rigmaroles, Racz's translation of El señor de las patrañas by the contemporary Spanish playwright Jaime Salom, appeared in his edited volume Three Comedies (University Press of Colorado, 2005). Racz has also translated Reasons for Writing Poetry, a personal anthology of works by the contemporary Peruvian poetry Eduardo Chirinos (Salt Publishing, 2011). His critical study, Approaches to Translating Poetry, is due out in 2012.
Ana Merino Associate Professor of Spanish Creative Writing and Cultural Studies at the University of Iowa
"Surrealist Intertextualities in Max's 'Bardin' "
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
4:00 PM
212 Dartmouth Hall
This presentation travels through the artistic mind of Spanish Artist Max, and his character Bardin, in an effort to show a way to perceive and connect cultural influences in comics.
General Editor of Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert - Iberoamericana Vervuert Publishing Corp - Madrid, Frankfurt and Orlando
La historia de la edición como historia cultural y científica: Publicaciones académicas hoy
4:00 p.m.
212 Dartmouth Hall
"Dinámicas del Arte de Cruzar/Dynamics of the Art of Crossing"
4:00 pm
212 Dartmouth Hall
Professor Yvette Sánchez received her PhD from the University of Basel in 1987, with a dissertation on "Private Religiosity in Recent Hispanic Caribbean Narratives". She was visiting professor at the Université de Nancy (2000-2001), and since 2004 has been a Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Yvette has published several books, has written numerous journal papers and articles, and, has participated in many conference presentations. Her most recent books are entitled Poéticas del fracaso (2009) and Fehler im System. Irrtum, Defizit und Katastrophe als Faktoren kultureller Produktivitat (2008). Yvette is currently working on Hispanic Cultures in the U.S., the idea of failure in literature and on Enrique Vila-Matas.
Poet in New York/New York in a Poet: Federico García Lorca
Presented by: Christopher Maurer, Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages, Boston University
Professor Maurer writes about Spanish poetry from Garcilaso to the so-called Generación del 27. Three of his major research interests are biography, textual criticism, and poetry's relations with music and painting. He is also a distinguished editor and a successful translator.
Professor Hélio de Seixas Guimarães from the Universidade de São Paulo will present:
"Machado de Assis, autor de si mesmo"
This lecture will analyze a writing by Machado de Assis, published in a newspaper column in 1895, in order to present an important procedure in Machado de Assis' poetics: the radical realativization of any possible system of thinking or belief.
Dr. Hélio Guimarães is a professor at the Department of Brazilian Literature at Universidade de São Paulo, USP, and an expert on Machado the Assis. He is the author of OS LEITORES DE MACHADO DE ASSIS: O ROMANCE MACHADIANO E O PUBLICO DE LITERATURA NO SÉCULO 19, and the editor of the book "A OLHOS VISTOS: UMA ICONOGRAFIA DE MACHADO DE ASSIS" among several articles on 19th century Brazilian literature.
This Lecture Will Be Given In Portuguese
David R. Castillo, Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Dept of Romance Languages and Literatures at SUNY, Buffalo
Baro que Bodies Exposed: Kinship and Terror in Zayas' Desengaños
David Castillo is professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at SUNY, Buffalo. He is the author of two studies on Spanish early modern literature and culture, entitled Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities (2010) and (A)wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque (2001). He is also co-author of Construcción de identidades en la primera modernidad española (1994) and co-editor of two volumes: Reason and its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World (2006) and Spectacle and Topophilia: Reading Early (and Post-) Modern Hispanic Cultures (forthcoming 2011).
In this talk Castillo will focus on the (porno)graphic dimension of Zayas' Desengaños amorosos. He looks at Zayas' representation of violated and tortured feminine bodies in connection with baroque aesthetics, and simultaneously with gothic horror/terror. His claim is that the characteristically Zayesque close up of the body inside out can be theorized as an anamorphic image of the aristocratic body in baroque Spain.
Dinner and conversation with our two distinguished Writers in Residence:
Spanish novelist Laura Freixas, and Mexican novelist Pedro Ángel Palou
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
4:00 p.m., 212 Dartmouth Hall
"Consideraciones sobre el tropiezo"
Spanish writer José Ángel González Sainz (Soria, 1956) lives between Trieste (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain). He is the author of numerous critical essays on Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Stig Dagerman, H. M. Enzensberger, Claudio Magris, María Zambrano, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Carmen Martín Gaite, among other writers of international reknown. He is also the founder and former director (1988-2002) of the prestigious Spanish periodical Archipiélago: Cuadernos de Crítica de la Cultura. As a writer, he is the author of four novels and many short stories. His last book to date is entitled Ojos que no ven (Barcelona, Anagrama, 2010) on the physical and emotional violences caused by terrorism in the Basque Country. In 1995, he received the XIII Premio Herralde de Novela and in 2006 the XXV Premio de las Letras de Castilla y León. He has also beautifully translated Claudio Magris into Spanish.
