Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, nuestro Key Note Speaker

                 Este 2012 tendremos el honor de contar con el escritor colombiano 

                 Darío Jaramillo Agudelo

Darío Jaramillo Agudelo nació en Santa Rosa de Osos (Antioquia, Colombia) en 1947. Poeta, novelista y ensayista, Jaramillo Agudelo ha publicado siete libros de poesía, un libro de prosa poética, una autobiografía y siete novelas. Asimismo, ha sido editor de varias antologías de poesía y de compilaciones con sus prólogos. Entre otras actividades, Jaramillo Agudelo colaboró en la década de los setenta con el grupo poético colombiano denominado “Una Generación desencantada”, fue miembro de los consejos de redacción de la revista de poesía Golpe de Dados y ha desempeñado importantes cargos culturales en organismos estatales en su país. Entre otros reconocimientos por su obra se encuentran el Premio Nacional de Poesía de Colombia por su poemario Tratado de retórica en 1978 y el Premio de Novela Corta José María de Pereda por su novela Historia de Simona en el 2010. 

Call for Papers

University of California, Riverside ● Department of Hispanic Studies  ●  900 University Dr., HMNSS building #2401 ●  Riverside, CA 92521

Call for Papers

6^th Annual Hispanic Studies UCR Graduate Student Conference

Tales of the Borderland: 
Crossing physical and Textual Borders in the Hispanic World

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Darío Jaramillo Agudelo

The graduate students of the department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside invite individual papers or panels for our conference  “Tales of the Borderland: Crossing Physical and Textual Borders in the Hispanic World” being held on Saturday, April 21, 2012. 

The notion of the “border” has become increasingly relevant within the transatlantic dialogue in the world of Hispanic literature. Besides the physical connotation commonly associated with the border— as a geopolitical frontier between states—this conference aims to challenge this traditional definition by understanding “border” as a critical, flexible line crossed by discourses, themes, practices or individuals. Within our current information age, where digital technologies have erased previous geographical divisions, it seems necessary to examine the overlapping, links, connections, or transgressions that problematize our representation of traditional themes, artistic expression and mediatic platforms, that connect and trespass the Hispanic world.

This conference will be open to all graduate students and professors interested in literary creation coming from the Iberian Peninsula, the Caribbean and Latin America. Due to the interdisciplinary approach that this conference proposes, the presentations will cover (but will be not limited to) the following fields: literature, linguistics, historical perspectives, transatlantic studies, performance studies, film and video, Chicano/a studies, ethnic and indigenous studies, religious studies, gender studies and queer studies.

Part of these discourses include, but are not limited to: textual genre interaction (hybrid novel, prose and poetry), fluctuating sexual and racial divisions, psychological dichotomies (the notion of normality), political divisions, arts cutting through literary aesthetics, film and other visual media embedded in the written discourse, technological remediation of written texts, and other mediatic and transmedia productions.

Submission Information:

Language(s): English, Spanish or Portuguese

Format of abstract: Microsoft Word (*.doc/ *.docx). Not to exceed 250 words in length

Paper format: Presentations should not exceed eight pages (20 minutes reading length)

Abstract deadline: Sunday, March 24, 2012 (include: name, title, affiliation & email)

Abstracts and questions: ucrhispanics@gmail.com

6th Annual Conference, 2012!!

Tales of the Borderland: 

Crossing Physical and Textual Borders in the Hispanic World 

6th Annual Graduate Student Conference... April 2012...

Programa 2011

Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos

5to Congreso anual de estudiantes de postgrado: 

Dialogando con la literatura: 
Convergencia mediática y su expresión escrita 


16 de abril de 2011
HUB conference rooms 260 and 265

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7: 45 - 8:20 Desayuno e inscripción 

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8:20 - 8:30 Bienvenida y apertura 

• Dr. David Herzberger, Chair, Hispanic Studies Department 
• Enrique Salas Durazo, Ph.D. Candidate and President of Fifth Annual UCR Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference 

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8:30 - 9:45

Sesión I: Surcando las fronteras de la realidad, la locura y la identidad en la imaginación latinoamericana
Moderador: Dr. Raymond L. Williams

• Lacy Schauwecker, USC. "Crossing Borders: Identity as Identification in Gloria Anzaldúa and Jaques Derrida" 
• Enrique Salas Durazo, UCR. "El detective infrarrealista y la narrativa indicial: apariencia y realidad en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño" 
• Julio Enriquez, UCR. "Imágenes de la locura (y la prostitución) 100 años después: Un análisis comparativo entre Santa de Federico Gamboa y Nadie me verá llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza" 

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Receso de 15 minutos 
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10:00 - 11:15

Sesión II: (Re)creación del espacio urbano: imágenes de la ciudad contemporánea en la literatura y el cine
Moderador: Dr. Alessandro Fornazzari

• Erja Vettenranta, CUNY. "'Algo huele a podrido en esa casa': La condición postmoderna y el espacio urbano en La comunidad de Álex de la Iglesia'"
• Madgalena Romero Córdoba, CUNY. "La ciudad onírica de Cazador en el alba. Creación del espacio urbano" 
• Brian Fox, UCR. "La mirada subversiva, la mirada del espectador y la mirada normativa endos filmes uruguayos: Plata quemada y Whisky" 

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Receso de 15 minutos

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11:30 - 12: 45 

Sesión III: Tema y variaciones: Transmutación de la literatura al cine y la música 
Moderador: Dra. Marta Hernández-Salván

• Dr. Jesús Payán, UCLA. "Aproximación del significado de la música clásica en la producción poética de Gerardo Diego" 
• Luz María Landeros, UCR. "Cine y música... evasión: Análisis de la estructura musical y cinematográfica en Invierno en Lisboa de Antonio Muñoz Molina" 

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12:45 - 1:45   ALMUERZO

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1: 45 - 3:00 

Ponente principal: Mario Bellatin 

"Los cien mil libros de Bellatin" 

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Receso de 15 minutos 

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3:15 - 4:30

Sesión IV: La digitalización del arte: cine y literatura inmersos en la tecnología 
Moderador: Dra. Freya Schiwy 

• Lucía Reinaga, Duke. "Qué pena tu status: tensiones entre la comedia romántica y el reality show en Qué pena tu vida, de Nicolás López" 
• Alexandra Saum-Pascual, UCR. "Revolución en la Red. La precariedad como estética en la era de la información mediática en Desalmados: una serie de muerte" 
• Richard Hunt, UCR. "Transmedia Sampling in Junot Díaz' The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" 

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Receso de 15 minutos 

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4:45 - 6:00

Sesión V: Desilusión, trauma y muerte en la literatura y el cine 
Moderador: Dra. Marina Pianca

• Rebecca Ellson, Pepperdine University. "A Comparative Analysis of Oppositional Utopia in Two Works by Elena Poniatowska" 
• Jennifer Borton, UCR. "La muerte como instrumento que une el pasado con el presente: un análisis psicoanalítico del trauma en la novela moderna Pedro Páramo" 
• Rachel Neff, UCR. "Veneno como venganza: un intento fracasado en Cría Cuervos y El verano de la señora Forbes" 

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6:00 - 6:10 CLAUSURA 

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Maravilloso Mario

We are pleased to inform that writer MARIO BELLATÍN will be our KEYNOTE SPEAKER at April's conference!

The Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín (born July 23, 1960, Mexico City, Mexico) has emerged in recent years as one of the leading voices in Latin American experimental fiction. As an active member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores since 1999, some of his most important works are Flores (2000, for which he won the Xavier Villaurrutia 2001 award), Shiki Nagaoka: una actriz de ficción (2001), La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuán (2001),  Jacobo el mutante (2002), Perros héroes (2003), Underwood modelo portátil 1915 (2005) y Biografía ilustrada de Mishima (2009). In 2001 he founded the Escuela Dinámica de Escritores, which he still directs today. In 2002 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation made him a fellow for his innovative work in the field of written fiction, and in 2008 he was awarded the National Book Award, sponsored by the Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán, for his novel El gran vidrio (2007).  

¡Bienvenidos!

Welcome to the 5th Annual UCR Graduate Student Conference!!

The graduate students of the department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside invite individual papers or panels for our conference "Dialogando con la literatura: convergencia mediática y su expresión escrita," being held on Saturday, April 16, 2011.

The impact of technology and new media in everyday life is changing the ways in which literary expression is being produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and  the Iberian Peninsula. However, the influence of interdisciplinary arts is not a novelty as we can track the presence of musical aesthetics and rhythm in classical poetry and the novel. In addition, technical developments in plastic arts, such as photography, clearly reshaped some of the most important realist works. Nowadays, technology has abandoned the private realm and can be found in public speech as well as day to day practices, changing our environment and ecology. There are various discourses that examine how these technologies are being reflected in art creating intimate expressions in writing. Part of these discourses include, but are not limited to:

Music influence in written structures

Plastic arts reshaped into literary aesthetics

Film and other visual media embedded in the written discourse

E-writing and hypertext novel 

Mediatic and transmedia productions 

We encourage panels or papers related to linguistics, literature, transatlantic studies, performance studies, film and video, Chicano/a studies, ethnic and indigenous studies, religious studies, gender studies and queer studies. Papers may use an interdisciplinary approach to the arts, issues of gender, and conceptions of identity. Presentations can be in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Abstracts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx/ .doc) and should not exceed 250 words in length. The e-mail. should include the title of the presentation, the name and institutional affiliation, and phone number. Presentations should not exceed eight pages (20 minutes in reading length).

Abstracts and questions may be sent by e-mail to:
ucrhispanics@gmail.com

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, February 11, 2011

Committee members: Enrique Salas Durazo (President), Luz María Landeros, Alexandra Saum-Pascual, Karen Pérez, Noé Ruvalcaba, Suria Ceja and Brian Fox (Treasures)