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The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of EIre and the UK 2013

The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK 2013 will take place in the Moore Institute on the 28^th and 29^th of June. The plenary speakers are Professor Bill Richardson, Head of the Spanish Department at NUI Galway, who will give a lecture entitled: “The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation”; Dr. Chris Harris from the University of Liverpool who will deliver a talk on “Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?”; and Clare Murphy who will speak on ‘Storytelling in South America’.

Dr. Mel Boland of the Spanish Department in NUI, Galway will also be launching his recent publication, Displacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) during the conference on Friday, 28 June 2013 in The Moore Institute.

For further information about the conference you may refer to the following Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/202983149775588/, or alternatively: http://hispanic-conference.com

 

 

Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK, 2013 Programme

Day 1: Friday, 28 June, 2013

Time	Event	Location
08.30-09.15	Registration	Moore Institute Seminar Room
9.15-9.30	Conference Opening by Dr. Lillis O Laoire and Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy	Moore Institute Seminar Room
9.30-10.30	Plenary: Prof. Bill Richardson(NUI Galway)   Title: ‘The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation’	Moore institute Seminar Room   Introduced by Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy
10.30-10.45	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
10.45-11.45	Panel 1: Translations   Owen Harrington Fernández (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Indexing Identity in Translation: Character Idiolect and Sociolect in the Spanish Translation of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’’   Dr. Patricia Holmes (NUI Galway) Title: ‘César Aira: innovation and experimentation in process and narrative’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Begoña Sangrador-Vegas
11.45-12.00	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
12.00.13.30	Panel 2: Spanish Historiography   Mark McKinty (Queens’ University Belfast) Title: ‘Origen y progresos: Nicolás Fernández de Moratín’sCarta histórica as the start of the modern bullfighting debate’   Francis Kelly (University College Cork) Title: ‘Tales of a Knight Errant or Universal Soldier of Golden Age Spain?’   Antonio Rojas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Title: ‘The Spanish Golden Age, Baroque and Góngora’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Ivan Kenny
13.30-15.00	Lunch	An Bhialann
15.00-16.00	Plenary: Clare Muireann Murphy   Title: ‘Storytelling y cuentos; the power of words’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Dr. Kate Quinn
16.15-16.30	Tea/ Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
16.30-17.30	Panel 3: The Arts of Storytelling   Kate Dunn (University of Edinburgh) Title: ‘How can the Poem Testify? Speaking and the Unspeaking in Alicia Partnoy’sVenganza de la manzana’   Diletta Panero (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Generational Storytelling in Chilean Narrative: Isabel Allende and Marta Blanco’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Dr. Niamh McNamara
18.00-19.00	Book Launch Dr Mel Boland of NUI Galway will launchDisplacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) (2013)	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Introduced by Dr. Chris Harris

 

The conference dinner will take place at 20.00 in Viña Mara, 19 Middle St, Galway.

 

 

 

Day 2: Saturday, 29 June, 2013

Time	Event	Location
9.30-10.30	Panel 1: Southern Cone Narratives   Dr. David Conlon (NUI Galway) Title: ‘The Trauma of Nature inZama by Antonio Di Benedetto’   Céire Broderick (NUI Galway) ‘Negotiating the Fragments in Gustavo Frías’ Tres nombres para Catalina: la doña de Campofrío’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Jennie Galvin
10.30-10.45	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
10.45-12.15	Panel 2: Analysing Spanish Visual Media   Mirna Vohnsen (University College Dublin) Title: ‘The Metamorphis of the Jewish Character in Argentine Cinema’   Ivan Kenny (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Images of Entropy in The Exterminating Angel by LuisBuñuel’   Ruth Miriam Cereceda Gaton (BISC Queen’s University) Title: ‘Marinero en tierra: análisis de la cultura marinera del norte de España en la obra y la persona del pintor Eduardo Sanz fraile’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Diletta Panero
12.15-12.30	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
12.30-13.30	Panel 3: Historical Memory and Contemporary Spain   Imogen Bloomfield (University of Hull) Title: ‘Spain’s (Un)Dead Children: A Haunting Presence in Historical Memory’   Aisling O’Connor (University of Limerick) Title: ‘A postgenerational perspective on Republican women and Spain’s stolen babies: Benjamín Prado’s Mala gente que camina (2006)’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Owen Harrington-Fernández
13.30-15.00	Lunch	37 West
15.00-16.00	Plenary: Dr. Chris Harris (University of Liverpool)   Title: ‘Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Prof. Bill Richardson
16.00-16.15	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
16.15-17.45	Panel 4: Representations of Violence, Gender Roles and Drug trafficking in Popular Culture in Mexico and the Borderlands   Dr. Niamh McNamara (University College Cork) Title: ‘Drugs, Violence and Ambiguity: Breaking Bad on the U.S. – Mexico border’   Jennie Galvin (NUI Galway) Title: ‘El Movimiento Alterado: narrating a world of gender hierarchies, drugs and violence’   Dr. Yolanda Reyes (University College Dublin) Title: ‘Hypermasculinity, Violence and the re-enacted “Macho” in XXI Century Mexican Cinema’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Céire Broderick
17.45-18.30	Round table discussion and conference close	Moore Institute Seminar Room