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International Conference Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Renewal,
Newcastle University 24-26 June
24 June
1-2pm Welcome & Registration
Conference Registration through this link:
http://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=9&catid=54&prodid
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Mapping Crises in Spain. Past and Present. (2-3:30pm) Percy Building room G.05
Chair: Dr. Jorge Catalá Carrasco
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Prof. Carles Feixa (Universitat de Lleida): ‘The Indignant Pilgrim: Narratives of the 15M
Movement in Spain or Youth and youth policies in Spain in times of austerity’
Dr. Alejandro Quiroga (Universidad de Alcalá): ‘Glory narratives and portraits of misery.
Football, identities and economic crisis in Spain’
Dr. Óscar Salgado Suárez (Birkbeck, University of London): ‘Una parábola de la (No)
Transición: Los Encargados (2012) de Sierra y Galindo’
3.30pm-4pm tea & coffee to be served in the Courtyard Lounge.
Plenary talk: Prof. Jean Franco (Columbia University)
4pm (room 2.21 Research Beehive, Old Library Building) Title: Gore capitalism and the undoing of the Mexican post-revolutionary
state and its culture.
[Launching of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at
Newcastle University]
5:30pm Wine & canapés and exhibit of work by graphic artist in residence
Javier de Isusi.
7pm Dinner at Blackfriars* [*for CLACS members and paper presenters]
25 June
Representation and Crisis in the Arts (9-10:20am) Percy Building room G.05
Chair: Dr. Nick Morgan
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Dr. Jesús Martínez Oliva (Universidad de Murcia): ‘España no va bien. Imágenes para una
época de crisis’
Dr. Carmina Gustrán Loscos (Universidad de Zaragoza): ‘Portrait of a Young Spanish
Democracy: On History, Theatre and Crisis’
Bárbara Fernández Melleda (University of Edinburgh): ‘Walls Drawing Oppression: The Use
of Graffiti in Bobby Sands desfallece sobre el muro (1983) by Carmen Berenguer’
10:20-10:30am tea & coffee
Marketing and Memorialising Crisis (10:30-11:50pm) Percy Building room G.05
Chair: Dr. Philippa Page
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Barbara Castillo B. (University of Bristol): ‘Beautiful Landscaping: The Representation of the
Late Chilean Post-Dictatorship Period in the soap operas Iorana and La Fiera’
Dr. Claudia Sandberg (University of Southampton): ‘East German Films As Chilean Cultural
Memory: Resistance and Surprise’
Montserrat Iniesta (Universitat de Lleida): ‘Listen, Franco! Limits and paradoxes of
museums as places of commemoration’
Lunch 11:50-1:00pm
Narratives of Identity in Crisis (1:00-2:35pm) Percy Building room G.05
Chair: Dr. Jorge Catalá Carrasco
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Inés Corujo Martín (Georgetown University): ‘Building National Spanish Culture in
Television: The Historical Fiction Series Isabel’
Diana Bataglia (University of Leeds): ‘Leonardo Padura’s fiction: narrating Cuban identities
in a context of societal crisis’
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Dr Daniel Mourenza (University of Leeds): ‘Crisis and Critique: Representations of the
Spanish Financial Crisis in the Graphic Humour of El Roto’
Pilar Heredia (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina): ‘Nippur de Lagash: entre el
mito popular y el mito editorial. El caso del héroe en la historieta argentina de los 80 y 90’
The consequences of Crisis (2:35-4:05pm) Percy Building room G.05
Chair: Dr. Pablo Valdivia
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Dr. Manuel de la Fuente (Universitat de València): ‘Cine y crisis: representaciones fílmicas
del desahucio de vivienda en el cine norteamericano y español’
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Elvira Calatayud Estevan (Universitat de València): ‘La figura del emigrante en el cine
español’
Montse Ferres (Newcastle University): ‘Urban Agriculture in the neoliberal city. Food
Growing Spaces in UK’s disadvantaged areas’
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4:05-4:15pm tea & coffee
Alternative Narratives & Practices in Latin America (4:15-6pm) Percy Building
room G.05 - Chair: Dr. Patricia Oliart
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Dr Caroline Hodges (Bournemouth University): ‘From margins to mainstream: the cultural
revival of ‘Chicha’ as ‘grafica popular’ in Lima, Peru’
Iberia Pérez González (University of Essex): ‘Trama: Artists’ Initiatives and the Politics of
Autogestión in Contemporary Argentina’
Dr. Dolors Palau Sampio (Universitat de València): ‘Alternative narratives of crisis:
investigative and literary journalism as a challenge’
Dr. Adriana Churampi (Universtiy of Leiden): ‘Colouring modern Peru’
BREAK 6-6:30pm
6:30-8:30pm Screening of documentary José Ricardo Morales. De mar a mar.
Introduced by Dr. Pablo Valdivia (Amsterdam University) and Dr. Jorge Catalá-Carrasco
(Newcastle University). Tyneside cinema (The Gallery) 10 - 12 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle
Upon Tyne NE1 6QG
26 June
Language & Crisis in Latin America (9-11am) Core Conference Building room 2.26
Chair: Dr. Josep Cru
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Jazmín Karola Rico García and David Alejandro Vázquez Estrada (Universidad Autónoma de
Querétaro): ‘Language and identity among Ñäñho from Santiago Mexquititlán, a proposal to
socialize the language and knowledge of grandparents’
Dr. Benedicte Pivot (Université Catholique de Lyon): ‘When cultural narratives and
linguistics revitalization is the only way to “keep being” in time of crisis : the example of the
rama people of Nicaragua’
Dr. Pedro Ovio Plaza-Martinez (PROEIB Andes UMSS): ‘El Quechua en Acción’
Angela Uribe (Newcastle University): ‘Revalorization of Indigenous Cultures: Education and
Languages in Cauca, Colombia’
11-11:15 coffee&tea
Final Round Table (11:15-12:15pm) Core Conference Building room 2.26
Prof. Jean Franco, Prof. Carles Feixa, Dr. Patricia Oliart, Dr. Pablo Valdivia and Dr.
Jorge Catalá-Carrasco (chair)
Lunch 12:15-1:15pm and conference closure
Conference supported by:
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies (CLACS)
School of Modern Languages (Newcastle
University)