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UNA’S LECTURENovember 12, 2015

7 pm, 315 Wheeler Hall

BORGES AND POST-POP POPULISM

Beatriz Sarlo, Cultural Critic and Una’s Lecturer

SYMPOSIUM

November 13-14, 2015 8:45 am – 6 pm, 220 Stephens Hall

A symposium in honor of Professor Francine Masiello presented in

collaboration with the Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and

Comparative Literature

Townsend Center for the Humanities

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Christine Arce is assistant professor at the University of Miami. She works on issues of race, gender, and non-Western epistemologies in the cultural production of Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

Leonor Arfuch is professor of social sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, where she works on subjectivity and identity formation in narrative and the media.

Munia Bhaumik is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Emory. Currently, she is completing a book titled An Unacknowledged Actor: The Figure and Trace of the Noncitizen. 

Mayra Bottaro is assistant professor at the University of Oregon. She has worked on transatlantic temporalities and is currently writing on technology and materialism in the nineteenth century.

Carmen Boullosa is a Mexican writer. The author of seventeen novels—her most recent is Texas (2013)—and five poetry collections, Boullosa divides her time between Mexico City and New York.

Arturo Dávila Sanchez is professor of Spanish and Mexican-Latin American Studies at Laney College. He is poet laureate of Mexico and Spain, where three of his volumes were awarded international prizes. Anna Deeny Morales teaches at Georgetown. She has recently translated Mercedes Roffé and Raúl Zurita, and is currently working on a book, Sound Dissent: Essays on Poetry and Translation.

Diamela Eltit, Distinguished Global Professor in Creative Writing at NYU, is one of Chile’s most important novelists and a lucid commentator on art and politics. Her most recent novel is Fuerzas especiales (2013).

Rocio Ferreira is associate professor at DePaul University with work on nineteenth-century women’s writing and contemporary Peru. Her forthcoming book is Del Salón Literario a la Cocina ecléctica.

Myrna García-Calderón is associate professor at Syracuse University. She is author of Lecturas desde el fragmento (1998) and Espacios de la memoria en el Caribe hispánico insular y sus diásporas (2012).

Victor Goldgel-Carballo is associate professor at UW-Madison where he studies nineteenth-century Latin American literature, visual culture, and race. He is the author of Cuando lo nuevo conquistó América (2013).

Andrea Jeftanovic is professor at the Universidad de Santiago in Chile. She is the author of two novels, several volumes of short fiction and crónicas. She also has published books of literary criticism.

Robert Kaufman teaches comparative literature and is co-director of the Program in Critical Theory at Berkeley. His book, Negative Romanticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats, Shelley, and Modern Poetry, is forthcoming from Cornell.

Gwen Kirkpatrick is professor at Georgetown and Chair of Spanish and Portuguese. Kirkpatrick is the author of six books and perhaps best known for The Dissonant Legacies of Modernismo.

Francisco Leal is an accomplished poet and associate professor at Colorado State University. Leal’s books of poetry include Vecindario, Insectos, Naturalismo, Cortezas, Cortina de humo, and Mundos/Carne.

Tom McEnany is assistant professor at Cornell. He works on literature and media. His book, Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas is currently under review.

Sarah Moody is assistant professor at Alabama. She works on modernismo and women’s writing in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin America. Her current book examines gendered aesthetics in Hispanic-American modernismo.

Raquel Olea is a feminist activist and professor emerita at the University of Santiago. She is the author of many books on women and politics in literature, among them Como traje de fiesta (on the poetry of Mistral).

Juan Carlos Pereda Failache, an Uruguayan who works in Mexico, is professor emeritus of philosophy at the UNAM. He is the author of ten books and critical reflections on epistemology and ethics.

Mercedes Roffé is one of Argentina’s leading poets. Widely published in the Spanish-speaking world, she is founder of Ediciones Pen Press. Her most recent book is Carcaj (2014). Sergio Waisman is professor at George Washington University. He is the author of Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery, the novel Leaving (Irse), and the translator of Ricardo Piglia.

Sarah Wells is assistant professor at UW-Madison. She is the author of Media Laboratories: Late Modernism in South America (forthcoming) and co-editor of Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema (2015).

SYMPOSIUM 220 Stephens Hall

November 14, 2015 8:45 am Introductions Christine Arce, University of Miami Ignacio Navarrete, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 9-10:45 am The Late 19th Century and the Project of Nuestra América Sarah Moody, University of Alabama          New Readings in the Archive: Culture and Politics of the Other Fin de siglo Rocío Ferreira, De Paul University         Ollas con pluma y tinta: cartografías pan /americanas en Cocina ecléctica (1890) de Juana Manuela Gorriti Munia Bhaumik, Emory University        América as Trope and Concept: Sarmiento, Melville, and Martí Mayra Bottaro, University of Oregon          (Dis)continuous Measures: Temporality and Media in the Dialectic of Civilization and Barbarism Moderator: Estelle Tarica, University of California, Berkeley BREAK 11 am-12:45 pm Sounds of North / South Dialogues and Cultural Politics  Sarah Wells, University of Wisconsin, Madison Lateness and the Art of Transition Tom McEnaney, Cornell University An Irish History of Distortion in Argentina: Tape Recording in Rodolfo Walsh, Eduardo Costa, Rock Nacional Sergio Waisman, George Washington University Translation Theory and Practice, North and South Anna Deeny Morales, Georgetown University  Sound Dissent Moderator: Julie Ward, University of Oklahoma LUNCH 2-3:30 pm Precarious Citizenship and the Work of Art Myrna García-Calderón, Syracuse University Miradas precarias desde el Caribe Victor Goldgel-Carballo, University of Wisconsin, Madison  The Reappropriation of Poverty: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Argentina Christine Arce, University of Miami Zapatismo as a Transitional Art Moderator: Fabian Banga, Berkeley City College BREAK 4-5:00 pm Poetry Readings  Introduced by Emilie Bergmann, University of California, Berkeley  Arturo Dávila, Mexico Francisco Leal, Chile Mercedes Roffé, Argentina  Anna Deeny Morales, Translation  5-6:00 pm Reception

November 13, 2015 8:45 am Introductions Teresa Stojkov, Townsend Center for the Humanities Anthony J. Cascardi, Dean of Arts & Humanities 9-10:30 am Session 1 Juan Carlos Pereda Failache, professor emeritus, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM Treating Violence through Poetry Robert Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley Piketty y la poesía (o, ¡maldita economía!) In English Moderator: Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez, University of Texas at Austin BREAK 10:45 am-12:15 pm Session 2 Carmen Boullosa, novelist and poet Antigone in México Leonor Arfuch, Universidad de Buenos Aires Memory, Testimonio, Auto-fiction. Childhood Narratives under Dictatorship Moderator: Sarah Schoellkopf, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley LUNCH 1:30-3:00 pm Session 3 Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University What is a Man Now? The Fiction of Alejandro Zambra Andrea Jeftanovic, Universidad de Santiago de Chile  Imaginación y olvido en algunos ejercicios de memoria en literatura y cine latinoamericano reciente Raquel Olea, professor emerita, Universidad de Santiago de Chile Las memorias de La Memoria.  Desplazamientos y localizaciones del recuerdo en la narrativa actual de Chile Moderator: Victor Goldgel-Carballo, University of Wisconsin, Madison BREAK 4:15 pm Session 4 Introduced by Myrna García-Calderón, Syracuse University  Diamela Eltit, novelist Francine Masiello: Poéticas, políticas, estéticas 5:00 pm   Francine Masiello

Lineas Existentes I, 2006, by Andrés Waissman