viernes, 6 de marzo de 2015

Insect Collage

 

Conference: “Intercultural Dialogues and Crossings among the East, the Americas, and the Iberian Peninsula”


 
 
José Clemente Orozco, Table of Universal Brotherhood, from the 1931 New School mural cycle, A Call to Revolution, courtesy of The New School Art Collection. 

                7th Conference on East-West Intercultural Relations  


“Intercultural Dialogues and Crossings among the East, the Americas, and the Iberian Peninsula” 

DATE:            March 26-27, 2015

LOCATION: Johnson/Kaplan Hall, Orozco Room (718), Klein

Conference Room (510), Eugene Lang College, The     

New School for Liberal Arts, 66 W 12th St, New

York, NY 10011


 

Thursday, March 26

Panel 1    Chair Ignacio López-Calvo (UC Merced)

10:00-11:30                                                                                                   Orozco Room

Kathleen E Davis (Tulane)—“Reformulating a National Character: China in Blasco Ibañez’s La vuelta al mundo de un novelista.”

Axel Gasquet (U Blaise Pascal)—“Los viajes de Fredi Guthmann por las islas del Pacífico, China y la India: testimonios, correspondencias y fotografías.”

Adriana Vega Mackler (UCONN)—“East, West, North and South Bound: Multiple Directions in Kazumi-Stahl’s Flores de un solo día 

Panel 2    Kristina Escondo (Otterbein University)

10:00-11:30                                                                                             Klein Conference Room

Yeon-Soo Kim (Rutgers)—“Culture from ‘Roots’ to ‘Routes’: Japanese Fascination with Flamenco in the Age of Globalization”

Melissa Fitch (U of Arizona)—“KPop and Social Activism in Chile”

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (NYU/Gulf U)—“Kool and Kawai”
 

Panel 3    Chair Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes (Baylor U)

11:40-1:10                                                                                                       Orozco Room

Kristina Escondo (Otterbein University)—“Leaving las perlas del mar:  Expression of Exile and Loss in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s ‘Al Partir” and José Rizal’s ‘Mi último adiós.”

Roberto Fuertes (Midwestern State University)—“El costumbrismo filipino de la época colonial”

Koichi Hagimoto (Wellesley C.)—“Writings on the Island in Southeast Asia and the  Caribbean” 
 

Panel 4    Chair Axel Gasquet (U Blaise Pascal)

11:40-1:10                                                                                      Klein Conference Room

Nelson Orringer (UCONN)—“Deep Song as Agglutination of East and West in Falla and Lorca”

David R George (Bates College)—“The Zarzuela Yellowed Up”

Stephanie Fetta (Syracuse University)—“Asians in the Chicano Corrido”
 

1:10-2:10 Lunch  

2:10-2:30 Tour of Orozco Room by Curator  

Panel 5    Chair Nelson Orringer (UCONN)

2:30-4:00                                                                                                         Orozco Room

Ceyda Elgül (Bogacizi U/New School)—“Better Late than Never: The Turkish Translations of Jorge Luis Borges”

Adriana Rodríguez (Universidad Veracruzana)—“Otros, los mismos.  Traducción y creación”

Mariela Wong (College of Mount Saint Vincent)—“That Arabic Story Known as Don Quixote de la Mancha"
 

Panel 6    Chair Melissa Fitch (U of Arizona)

2:30-4:00                                                                                        Klein Conference Room

Ángela M González-Echeverry (Lake Erie College)—“Sayonara: Memorias del deseo en La novia oscura de Laura Restrepo”

Janelle Gondar (Yale University)—“Crossings in Andrea Lisboa’s Rakushisha

Jennifer Monti (UCLA)—“Prostitución, esclavitud e idealización del Oriente en El último azul de Carme Riera”
 

                                   Keynote Speaker: Mexican author Carmen Boullosa
"Crucé el estrecho de Bering y bailé el jarabe de la China-Poblana".

4:00-5:30                                                                                                         Orozco Room


Friday, March 27

Panel  7    Chair Juan de Castro (Eugene Lang College)

10:00-11:30                                                                                                     Orozco Room

Viviana Plotnik (Oglethorpe U)—“La mujer asiática en Pablo Neruda.  El caso de Josie Bliss”

Seth Jacobowitz (Yale)—“O Japones, A Japonesa: Japonisme, Women Impressionists  and Brazilian Modernist Anita Malfatti”

Aurelio Asiain (Kansai Gadai):—“Japón en Octavio Paz: Octavio Paz en Japón
 

Panel 8    Chair Svetlana Tyutina (Florida Politechnic)

10:00-11:30                                                                                    Klein Conference Room

Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes (Baylor)—“Preocupación étnica y contraste ideológico en Gaijin  Caminho de Liberdade, de la cineasta nipo-brasileña Tizuka Yamazaki”

Doreen O’Connor-Gómez (Whittier C)—“Genderlessness and treatment of the “other" in Tomándote by Isabel Gardela”

Mary Kate Donovan (Stony Brook U)—“Cinema, Hollywood and Orientalism in the Work of Juan Marsé”
 

Panel  9    Chair Alán José (Wake Forest)

11:40-1:10                                                                                                       Orozco Room

Svetlana Tyutina (Florida Politechnic)—”Orientalism and Americanism in Gómara’s Crónica de los corsarios Barbarroja and Historia general de las Indias

Adela Pineda (Boston U)—“Displacements of Orientalism in Fin-de-siècle Mexico”

Hichem Iassouani (U of Mouloud Mammeri)—“Exoticizing the Orien(al): Storyteller in John Barth’s Dunyazadiad” 

Panel  10    Chair Nicholas Birns (C of New Rochelle)

11:40-1:10                                                                                      Klein Conference Room

Joshua Batts (Columbia)—“Spurning Gifts and Rejecting Taxes: The San Juan Bautista in Acapulco 1616-1617”

Michelle Har Kim (Independent Scholar)—“Inductions of China Mary and la china poblana”

Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral (U de Buenos Aires)—“Transatlantic Patterns of Mashrabiya”
 

1:10-2:10 Lunch
 

Panel  11    Chair Doreen O’Connor-Gómez (Whittier C) 

2:10-3:40                                                                                                         Orozco Room

Nicholas Birns  (C of New Rochelle)—“Fernando Iwasaki and Alberto Gerchunoff”

Rasha Abboudy (U of Cairo)—“Lo árabe en el relato Argentino”

Min Suk Kim (UT Austin)—“¿Nuevo orientalismo latinoamericano? La Ola Coreana en América Latina”
 

Panel 12    Chair Viviana Plotnik (Oglethorpe U)

2:10-3:40                                                                                                         Klein Conference Room

Nohma Ben Ayad (U Mohammed V)—“Marruecos en el imaginario latinoamericano”

Víctor Hugo Fuertes (U Pontificia Bolivariana)—“Japón y Brasil Narrativas de Frontera.”

Alexandra Ortiz Wallner (Freie Universität Berlin)—“Por una cronología cultural propia: viajeros latinoamericanos en India”

 

Panel 13    Chair Ignacio López-Calvo (U of California, Merced)

3:50-6:40                                                                                                         Orozco Room

Julia Kushigian (Conneticut C)—“Orientalism, Hispanic Orientalism, and Self-Orientalism in Cuba’s Chinatown Narratives”

Laura Torres-Rodríguez (NYU)—“Edward Said y los estudios latinoamericanos”

Araceli Tinajero (CUNY)—“A los orientalistas”

Alán José (Wake Forest)—“The Orient Starts at 6: How Have Rocked Latin American Infants”

Amy Christine Obermeyer (NYU)—“The Japonista en El País del Sol: The appearance of Japan in the crónicas de José Juan Tablada” 

Panel  14    Chair Gorica Majstorovic (Richard Stockton College)

3:50-6:40                                                                                        Klein Conference Room

John Handal (Rutgers)—“The Palestinians of Latin America”

Mauricio Duarte (Gulf U)—“HispanTV: Breaking the Paradigm. Streaming in Spanish from Tehran”

Carlos Andrés (Cal State U Stanislauss)—“El conflicto Oriente-Occidente en el episodiode Ricote y en el contexto de la España de principios del s. XVII”

Gorica Majstorovic (Richard Stockton College)—“Morocco, Galicia and the Atlantic Arlt”  

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Publication

If presenters are interested, they are encouraged to submit their papers to our academic journal, Transmodernity.  Please check the link below or contact Ignacio López-Calvo for more details. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Production of the Luso-Hispanic World http://escholarship.org/uc/ssha_transmodernity 

Organizing Committee: Ignacio López-Calvo (University of California, Merced) and Juan de Castro (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York)




 

 

 

 

 


           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

jueves, 5 de marzo de 2015

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