1. Ciencia

10th Annual Conference on Latin American, Spanish & Luso-Brazilian Literature
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
Wednesday, October 22th
5:30-7:00 PM
Movie exhibition: 7 DÍAS EN LA HABANA. Meacham Auditorium at the Student Union
Screenwriter: Leonardo Padura Fuentes y Lucía López Coll
Thursday, October 23th
8:00-8:30 AM
Registration
8:45-9:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction
9:00-9:30 AM
Tierra Tinta’s Founders and Past Presidents Recognitions
9:30-11:00 AM
SESSION I
11:00-12:00 AM
SESSION II
1:30-2:30 PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DR. BEATRIZ CORTEZ
2:30-3:30 PM
SESSION III
Marginalized Voices in Latin American and Caribbean Literature
2:30-3:30 PM
SESSION IV
Memory, History, and Violence in Hispanic Literature and Film
3:40-4:30 PM
LA NOVELA NEGRA LATINOAMERICANA: Interview with Leonardo
Padura Fuentes
4:30-5:30 PM
WORKSHOP WITH TIERRA TINTA’S FOUNDERS ROUND TABLE
6:30-8:30 PM
CONFERENCE BANQUET
Friday, October 24th
Tierra Tinta’s Beginnings: The Founders Ten Years After:
XIX-XX Century Literature in Latin America and Spain
Tierra Tinta’s Beginnings. The Founders Ten Years After:
Contemporary Latin American Film
(Simultaneous Sessions)
9:00-10:30 AM
SESSION V
Tradition and Modernity in Latin-American Literature XIX-XX
Century
9:00-10:30 AM
SESSION VI
Nación en conflicto: crisis de identidad ante nuestra historia en
la novela y teatro peninsular
10:40-12:10 PM
SESSION VII
Crime, Politics, and Power in Latin-American Novel
10:40-12:10 PM
SESSION VIII
Capitalism and Violence: The New Reality in Latin-American Fiction
2:00-3:00 PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: LEONARDO PADURA FUENTES
3:10-4:40 AM
SESSION IX
4:40-5:40 PM
WORKSHOP WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Subjectivity and Materialism in Literature
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Thursday, October 23th
Scholars and Associates Rooms
Oklahoma memorial Union
900 Asp Avenue, Norman, OK 73019
8:00-8:30 AM
Registration
SCHOLARS ROOM:
8:45-9:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Nancy LaGreca, Chair of MLLL
9:00-9:30
Tierra Tinta’s Founders and Past Presidents Recognitions
SESSION I
Tierra Tinta’s Beginnings. The Founders Ten Years After: XIX-XX Century
Literature in Latin America and Spain
Chaired by: Dr. José Juan Colín, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
9:30-10:00 AM
El tema del incesto en La familia de Alvareda de Fernán Caballero.
Wendy Colomb
10:00-10:30 AM
Máquinas del tiempo: los documentos coloniales y su poder para materializar objetos
del pasado.
Dr. A. Margarita Peraza-Rugeley
HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY
10:30-11:00 AM
La mujer en la novella Noli me tangere de José Rizal.
Dr. Huei Lan Yen
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
SESSION II
Tierra Tinta’s Beginnings. The Founders Ten Years After: Contemporary Latin
American Film
Chaired by: Dr. José Juan Colín, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
11:00-11:30 AM
El papel femenino en el cine mexicano de la ciencia ficción
Dr. Samuel Manickam
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
11:30-12:00 AM
Comedian as Postmodern Narrator in John Leguizamo’s Spic-O-Rama
Dr. Jaime Cruz-Ortiz
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
12:00-1:30 PM
LUNCH BREAK
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1:30-2:30 PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DR. BEATRIZ CORTEZ
California State University, Northridge
“Overflowing Fiction: Narratives of Violence and Memory in Central America”
Introduction by María Acevedo
**SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS **
SCHOLARS ROOM:
SESSION III
Marginalized Voices in Latin American and Caribbean Literature
Chaired by: Martha Galván Mandujano, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
2:30-3:00 PM
El saber y el poder en el texto mediatizado de Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me
nació la conciencia.
Betina Arellano
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
3:00-3:30 PM
Subalternidad e identidad en Reyita de Daisy Rubiera Castillo y en Biografía de un
cimarrón.
Natalia Martínez Bulova
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
3:30-3:40
COFFEE BREAK
ASSOCIATES ROOM:
SESSION IV
Memory, History, and Violence in Hispanic Literature and Film
Chaired by: Arní Álvarez, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
2:30-3:00 PM
La batalla de Chile y La estrategia del caracol: las cámaras cinematográficas que
exhortan a la expropiación de la violencia política.
Nelson Augusto Torres Mesa
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
3:00-3:30 PM
Memoria e historia en las crónicas de viajes.
Dr. Tugba G. Sevin
SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
3:30-3:40 PM
COFFEE BREAK
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3:40-4:30 PM
LA NOVELA NEGRA LATINOAMERICANA: Interview with Leonardo
Padura Fuentes
Conducted by: Christina Miller and María Acevedo
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
4:30-5:30 PM
WORKSHOP WITH TIERRA TINTA’S FOUNDERS:
Huei Lan Yen
Jaime Cruz-Ortiz
Samuel Manickam
6:30-8:30 PM
Margarita Peraza-Rugeley
Wendy Colomb
CONFERENCE BANQUET
Interurban Restaurant
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Friday, October 24th
Scholars Room and Heritage Room
Oklahoma memorial Union
900 Asp Avenue, Norman, OK 73019
**SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS **
SCHOLARS ROOM:
SESION V
Tradition and Modernity in Latin-American Literature XIX-XX Century
Chaired by: Miriam Romero, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
9:00-9:30 AM
El eterno retorno en “Una flor amarilla” de Julio Cortázar
Dr. Diana Ramírez
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
9:30-10:00 AM
Framing History, Guarding Memory: Photography as an Interpretive tool in Cien
años de soledad.
Krista Weirich
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
10:00-10:30 AM
Entre tradición y modernidad: Reivindicación de la paternidad en Ismaelillo.
Radmila Stefkova
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
10:30-10:40
COFFEE BREAK
ASSOCIATES ROOM:
SESSION VI
Nación en conflicto: crisis de identidad ante nuestra historia en la novela y teatro
peninsular
Chaired by: Dr. Jorge Avilés
9:00-9:30 AM
La necesidad de un corpus literario de la memoria: Dialogismo y corporalidad en Si te
dicen que caí de Juan Marsé.
Deirdre Murphy
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
9:30-10:00 AM
La narración de una independencia: mujer, familia y sociedad en el discurso de una
nueva nación.
Dr. Esther Sánchez Couto
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
10:00-10:30 AM
Limpia, brilla y da sabor: metáforas culinarias de un genocidio.
Dr. Jorge Avilés
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
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10:30-10:40 AM
COFFEE BREAK
SCHOLARS ROOM:
SESSION VII
Crime, Politics, and Power in Latin-American Novel
Chaired by: Dr. A. Margarita Peraza-Rugeley, HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY
10:40-11:10 AM
Silenciadores de posguerra: Violencia y masculinidad en Baile con serpientes
Dr. Patricia Catoira
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY
11:10-11:40 AM
Mario Conde: Ontogenia y Filogenia de una desesperanza inducida
Trilce Ruiz
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
11:40-12:10 PM
El infierno: el vergel edénico evolutivo del narco mexicano.
Jesús Ángel González
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
ASSOCIATES ROOM:
SESSION VIII
Capitalism and Violence: The New Reality in Latin-American Fiction
Chaired by: Rodrigo Figueroa, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
10:40-11:10 AM
On the Other Side of the Looking Glass: The Uncontainable Spaces of João Paulo
Cuenca’s The Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident.
Cynthia Martínez
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
11:10-11:40 AM
Espacios de clandestinidad y traición en En el filo de Marco Antonio Flores.
Dr. William Clary
UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS
11:40-12:10 PM
Canto anti-épico de la violencia capitalista.
Iván Iglesias
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY
12:10-1:45 PM
LUNCH BREAK
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2:00-3:00 PM
3:00-3:10
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “THE DIVINE BREATH OF LIFE: CREATING A
CHARACTER”
LEONARDO PADURA FUENTES
Introduced by María Acevedo, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
COFFEE BREAK
SCHOLARS ROOM:
SESSION IX
Subjectivity and Materialism in Literature
Chaired by: Juan Gabaldón, THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
3:10-3:40 PM
Arte, Écfrasis, y Subjetividad: Complejidad visual.
Cynthia Salas
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
3:40-4:10 PM
Writing and Reading the Dead: A Historical Materialist Approach to Literary Corpses.
Tamara Mitchell
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON
4:10-4:40 PM
Rara Unicuidad: las letras y la frontera.
Juan Antonio González-Cantú
Texas Southmost College
4:40-5:40 PM
WORKSHOP WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Beatriz Cortez, Leonardo Padura Fuentes and Lucía López Coll
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Special Thanks
Special thanks are given to the following colleges, departments, offices, and organizations for their
sponsorship and support in making the 10th Annual Tierra Tinta Conference a resounding success. Without
them the conference would not be possible:
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College of Arts and Sciences
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International Studies-Latin American Department (Center for the Americas)
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Student Alumni Association
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SGA Union Catering
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Provost Office
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Graduate College
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Modern Languages
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Latino Student Life
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Student Affairs
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T.W. Adam Distinguished Alumni Lecture Program
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