11th Annual Ohio State University Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
April 18-19, 2008
"(RE)Defining Indentities in Moments of Transition"Sponsored by:
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at OSU
OSU College of Humanities
Center for Latin American Studies
Kirwan Institute
The Department of Linguistics at OSU
Organizing Committee
Ian Tippets & Petra Rozell
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Registration
4:00pm-4:30pm
Location: Hagerty Hall (HH) 255, second floor
Campus Map: http://www.osu.edu/map/index.php
Opening Ceremony
5:00pm-6:00pm
Introductory words: Dr. Fernando Unzueta, Chair of The Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Plenary Speaker
Linguistics: Dr. Richard Cameron, The University of Illinois at Chicago
"Growing Up and Aging as Transitional Paths of Variationist Gender Expressions"
Location: HH180
Reception
6:15pm-7:30pm
Location: HH 255, second floor
Movie Screening
7:30pm- 10:30pm
Princesas (2005) dir. Fernando Leòn de Aranoa
Introductory words: Dr. Ana Del Sarto
Discussion: Dr. Ana del Sarto and Dr. Maurice E. Stevens
Location: HH180
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Registration and Breakfast
8:30am- 9:15am
Location HH255, second floor
Multimedia Presentation (HH056)
"Stories Written on the Bodies: (Re)defining Identities"
by MarìaTeresa Beltràn-Aponte
ongoing from 9:00am until 7:00pm
Session 1
9:15am-10:50am 1-1 (HH 259) Dialectology
"Toward Another Reconsideration of the Old Spanish Imperfect;
A Look into Iberian Minority Languages"
Jason R. Robinson & Michael J. Ferreira, Georgetown University
"Identity, Language and the Early Brazilian Republic"
Michael J. Ferreira and Maria Cristobalina Moreno, Georgetown University
"Nuevas realizaciones de /n/, /r/ y /λ/ en el español quiteño"
Nina Moreno & Inma Taboada, University of Illinois at Chicago
1-2
(HH 255)
Within or Without: Reconfiguring Spaces of Cultural Identity
Session Chair: Dr. Ulises J. Zevallos-Aguilar, OSU
"La utilizaciòn del cuerpo de la mujer en dos novelas hispanoamericanas"
Guillermo Martìnez Sotelo, University Of Arizona
"Narrating Structures of Feeling: Testimonial Representations of Undocumted Mexican (Im)migrants in the United States"
Megan Thornton, University of Kansas
"Dreaming in Cuban: Navigating Spaces of Cultural Identity"
Dr. Mica Howe, Murray State University
"Huèspedes anfitriones y otras transfiguraciones: La crisis de hospitalidad en la literatura cubana"
Omar Granados, Emory University
1-3
(HH 251)
Written on the Body: Feminine Iconography and the Construction of Tonantzin/ Guadalupe
Session Chair: Dr. Maureen Ahern, OSU
"La influencia del discurso medieval religioso en la cultura indìgena: Las narrativas de milagros y los tlamahuizolli en el Nican Mopohua"
Alondra Pacheco, OSU
"Mèxico corporal: Geografìa y mestizaje en la figura de Tonantzin/Guadalupe"
Elizabeth Bell, OSU
"La mujer que se bifurca en dos: El cuerpo femenino y la naciòn mexicana"
Lynn Healy, OSU
1-4
(HH351)
Rupturas de estètica e identidad
Session Chair: Dr. Stephen Summerhill, OSU
"Jaime Cortesão e Vicente Sàenz, dois intelectuais estrangeiros profundamente impactados na Repùblica Espanhola em 1937? "
Grant Moss, OSU
"La voz de la transgresion en la cuentìstica de Roberto Arlt"
Yeon Mi Lee, UC Los Angeles
"Estètica e identidad para un nuevo milenio: Rio fugitivo, la perversa inflaciòn"
Alex Salinas, Stony Brook University
"Novelas ejemplares: autoborradura del lenguaje y de la identidad"
Dr. Elena Rodriguez-Guridi, Moyne College
1-5
(HH359)
Cono Sur: Redefiniciòn del Archivo Nacional en la narrativa post autoritaria
Session Chair: Fernando Blanco, Kenyon College
"El exilio voluntario: La construcciòn/disoluciòn de las identidades mùltiples en Luisa Futoransky"
Edward Littlefield, Kenyon College
"Tensiones en la escritura del trauma: Representacion versus experiencia en 'El Niño Proletario' de Osvaldo Lamborghini"
Audrey Kaem, Kenyon College
"Ghettos, gobierno y el sueño de Hollywood: Espacios urbanos y la crisis de la esfera pùblica en 'La Esquina es mi Corazòn'"
Grace Rosenthal, Kenyon College
Plenary Session
11:00am- 12:00pm
Introductory Words: Dr. Maureen Ahern
Plenary Speaker
Literatures and Cultures: Dr. Rocìo Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University
"Connecting Colonialities: Overlooked Paths in Current Colonial Latin American Studies"
Location: HH 180
Break 12:00pm-1:00pm
Session 2
1:00pm-2:40pm
2-1
(HH259)
Syntax
"Spanish Lexical Borrowing in the Chamorro Tense, Aspect and Mood System"
Pilar Chamorro, OSU
"Syntactic Features as Identity Markers: The Case of Clitic Positioning in Western Romance Subordinate Clause"
Francisco Fernàndez Rubiera & Michael J. Ferreira, Georgetown University
"Adjectives in FocP in the DP in Spanish"
Inma Taboada, University of Illinois at Chicago
2-2
(HH255)
Imàgenes que extienden la identidad Latinoamericana: Cine Transnacional (Nicaraqua), Cine Barroco (Mexico), Anti-road Movie (Brasil) y Cine Digital (Bolivia)
Session Chair: Dr. Richard Gordon, OSU
"Una construcciòn cinematogràfica transnacional: Alsino y el còndor y la abertura de la ciudad cinematogràfica nicaragüense"
Stacy Lutsch, The University of Kansas
"Un concierto màs barroco: Intertextualidad e identidad cultural en Barroco de Paul Leduc"
Lina Aguirre, OSU
"The Anti-Road Movie: The Roadless Journey and Exploration of a Twentieth-Century Iracema"
James Ashford, OSU
"Representaciones de clase, raza y gènero en un Cine Latinoamericano de atracciones digitales"
Mariana Lacunza, OSU
2-3
(HH251)
Imaginarios de la marginalidad: video y la novela de la chilena Diamela Eltit
Session Chair: Dr. Bernardita Llanos, Denison University
"Vigilance and Dictatorship in Los vigilantes by Diamela Eltit"
Diana Dixon, Denison University "Cinematografìa y Malestar en el video El Padre Mìo"
Mònica Aldana, Denison University
"El padre mìo y su familia maldita"
Ryan Ahlrich, Denison University
"Lumpèrica: La teatralizaciòn del estado"
Janine Waranowicz, Denison Universiy
2-4
(HH351)
"Progresso" y desencanto: ¿La crisis del sujeto globalizado?
Session Chair: Dr. Abril Trigo, OSU
"Vìas a la agencia: neoliberalismo, subjetivaciòn y resistencia en Aires de familia"
Chris Kark, ASU
"Low-Tech Cyborgs: Guillermo Gòmez Peña, Gerardo Horacio Porcayo y la ciencia ficciòn post-mexicana"
Hernàn Manuel Garcìa, University of Kansas
"La humanidad de Kafka: la construcciòn ètica de la identidad en Sefarad de Antonio Muñoz Molina"
Javier Garcìa Montes, UIC
"Hacia una polìtica posfranquista en Asesinato en el Comitè Central de Manuel Vàsquez Montalbàn: Carvalho, capitalismo y consumismo"
Wilson J. Melòn, Boston College
Session 3
2:50pm-4:30pm
3-1
(HH 259)
Pragmatics
"The Role of Agentivity in Spanish "Se" Constructions"
Juliana de la Mora, OSU
"Focalizing ser ('to be') structure in Colombian Spanish"
Catalina Mèndez Vallejo, Indiana University
"Prosody and Discourse Accessibility: The Case of Sentential Negation in Brazilian Portuguese"
Meghan Armstrong, OSU
3-2
(HH255) Mitificaciòn y edificaciòn de la naciòn: El sujeto polìtico en Bolivia, Brasil y España
Session Chair: Dr. Hiram Josè Irizarry Osorio, OSU
"La necesidad de afirmar la existencia: Naciòn y descolonizaciòn en el cine boliviano postdictatorial"
Diego Mattos-Vazualdo, OSU
"El desplante neorromàntico de Alex de la Iglesia en el contexto finisecular"
Alejandro A. Ramìrez, The University of Arizona
"Expanding Bakhtin's Dialog: Writing the Nation in Alencar's O Guaranì"
Dr. Michael Sawyer, University of Central Missouri
"El paleto cosmopolita: La redefiniciòn de la identidad española unos minutos antes de olvidar la Transiciòn"
àlvaro Fernàndez, Stony Brook University
3-3
(HH251)
Gender Performativity: The Amphibious, the Ambiguous and the Ephebic
Session Chair: Dr. Laura Podalsky
"Verbal Rhetoric v. Visual Rhetoric: The Mixed Progress of Cuban Women in Posters"
Elisa Shoenberger, UW Madison
"Estetizaciòn efèbica de Helena en De sobremesa, de Josè Asunciòn Silva"
Marina Sonia Carrasco-Perezagua, SUNY
"La Desheredada de Galdòs y la Bovary de Flaubert a travès del espejo de las ilusiones perdidas"
Raùl Diego Rivera Hernandez, OSU
3-4
(HH351)
From Narration of Colonization to Colonial Fantasy Discourses
Session Chair: Dr. Lùcia Helena Costigan
"La identidad como constructo en Del amor y otros demonios de Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
Olga Siguenza Ponce, ASU
"'Felling Mahogany Trees' in Zee Edgell's novel Time and The River: Narrativizing the Double Traumatization of the African Slavein British Honduras"
Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmàn, Ohio University
"The Musumè in the Dai-Nippon of Wenceslau de Moraes: A Bridge to the Colonial Identity of a fin-de-siècle romantic and the nation of Portugal"
Timothy Gaster, The University of Chicago
"Presentaciòn del sujeto negro y la esclavitud en tres filmes cubanos de 1968 hasta 1979: Pasos para la (re)construcciòn de una identidad cubana"
Evelyn Silva, OSU
3-5
(HH359)
Modernidad, espacio y sujeto femenino durante el Porfiriato: Tres lecturas para "Nadie me vera llorar" de C. Rivera Garza
Session Chair: Fernando Blanco, Kenyon College
"Efectos del discurso de la Modernidad en el sanatorio de La Castañeda: La locura como identidad en los espacios urbanos"
Rachael Greenberg, Kenyon College
"Characteristics of Post Modernism in 'Nadie me verà llorar'"
Katie Crowell, Kenyon College
"Mejor dime còmo se convierte uno en una loca: La memoria familiar de la Locura."
Marta Gregory, Kenyon College
Coffee Break 4:30pm-4:40pm
Session 4
4:40pm-6:20pm
4-1
(HH259)
Acquisition
"Assessing Spanish-speaking English Language Learners for Specific Language Impairment"
Angela Bruce & Mari Guerra, OSU
"Portuguese Heritage Learners and the Use of Didactic Materials in Portuguese Community Schools"
Sìlvia Belo Oliveira, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
"Prosody and Comprehension in Reading Ambiguous Sentences Aloud: A Crosslinguistic Production Study"
Anouschka Bergmann, Meghan Armstrong & Kristine Maday, OSU
4-2
(HH255)
Between Censorship and Corpus Delicti: Narcotics, 'Sicarios' and Sexual Deviancy
Session Chair: MarìaTeresa Beltràn-Aponte, OSU
"Literatura y narcotràfico en Hijos de la nieve (2000) de Josè Libardo Porras"
Alberto Fonseca, University of Kansas
"Re-definiendo la identidad del sicario en el contexto de la globalizaciòn"
Maricarmen Leòn, University of Pittsburg
"El cuerpo del delito: la censura de Rubem Fonseca y Manuel Puig"
Martin Sueldo, ASU
"The Interpellations of the 'I' and 'You' in Before Night Falls and Gay Asylum Law"
Sunny Bjerk, NYU
"Os sert˜es de Euclides da Cunha: books, critics & the school of time"
Sandra Erickson, Vanderbilt University
4-3
(HH251)
Resistance and Agency Through Sound and Style
Session Chair: Dr. Daniel Avorgbedor, OSU
"Aspects of Brazilian Cultural Identity: From Tropicalismo to Cê and Fabricando Tom Zè"
Camila Esposel Alvahydo, University of Georgia
"The State's Use of Hip Hop in Nation Building: the cases of Brazil and Cuba"
David McLaughlin, OSU
"Rap, Renewal, and Resistance: Reconstructing and Deconstructing the Official Guayaquilian Identity"
Alysa Handelsman
"Re-thinking the Artistic Identity of Octavio Paz: A Musical Analysis of 'Concierto en el jardìn'"
Sarah Finley, Converse College
Wine & Cheese Reception
7:30pm
Location: George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue
Index of Participants
Aguirre, Lina, 2-2
Ahern, Maureen, Plenary Session, 1-3
Ahlrich, Ryan, 2-3
Aldana, Mònica, 2-3
Armstrong, Meghan, 3-1, 4-1
Ashford, James, 2-2
Avorgbedor, Daniel, 4-3
Bell, Elizabeth, 1-3
Belo Oliveira, Sìlvia, 4-1
Beltràn-Aponte, MarìaTeresa, Multimedia & 4-2
Bergmann, Anouschka, 4-1
Bjerk, Sunny, 4-2
Blanco, Fernando, 1-5, 3-5
Bruce, Angela, 4-1
Cameron, Richard, Opening Ceremony
Carrasco-Perezagua, Marina Sonia, 3-3
Chamorro, Pilar, 2-1
Costigan, Lùcia Helena, 3-4
Crowell, Katie, 3-5
Cruz-Guzmàn, Marlena De La
Dixon, Diana, 2-3
Erickson, Sandra, 4-2
Esposel Alvahydo, Camila, 4-3
Fernàndez, àlvaro, 3-2
Fernàndez Rubiera, Francisco, 2-1
Ferreira, Michael J., 1-1, 2-1
Finley, Sarah, 4-3
Fonseca, Alberto, 4-2
Garcìa, Hernàn Manuel, 2-4
Garcìa Montes, Javier, 2-4
Gaster, Timothy, 3-4
Gordon, Richard, 2-2
Granados, Omar, 1-2
Greenberg, Rachel, 3-5
Gregory, Marta, 3-5
Guerra, Mari, 4-1
Handelsman, Alyssa 4-3
Healy, Lynn, 1-3
Howe, Mica, 1-2
Irizarry Osorio, Hiram Josè, 3-2
Kark, Chris, 2-4
Keam, Audrey, 1-5
Lacunza, Mariana, 2-2
Lee, Yeon Mi, 1-4
Leòn, Maricarmen, 4-2
Littlefield, Edward, 1-5
Llanos, Bernardita, 2-3
Lutsch, Stacy, 2-2
McLaughlin, David, 4-3
Maday, Kristine, 4-1
Mattos-Vazualdo, 3-2
Melòn, Wilson J., 2-4
Mèndez Vallejo, Catalina, 3-1
Mora, Juliana de la, 3-1
Moreno, Maria Cristobalina, 1-1
Moreno, Nina, 1-1
Moss, Grant, 1-4
Pacheco, Alondra, 1-3
Podalsky, Laura, 3-3
Quispe-Agnoli, Rocìo, Plenary Session
Ramìrez, Alejandro A., 3-2
Rivera Hernandez, Raùl Diego, 3-3
Robinson, Jason R., 1-1
Rodriguez-Guridi, Elena, 1-4
Rosenthal, Grace, 1-5
Salinas, Alex, 1-4
Sarto, Ana Del, Movie Screening
Sawyer, Michael, 3-2
Schoenberg, Elisa, 3-3
Siguenza Ponce, Olga, 3-4
Silva, Evelyn, 3-4
Sotelo, Guillermo Martìnez, 1-2
Sueldo, Martin, 4-2
Stevens, Maurice, Movie Screening
Summerhill, Stephen, 1-4
Thornton, Megan, 1-2
Toboada, Inma, 1-1, 2-1
Trigo, Abril, 2-4
Unzueta, Fernando, Opening Ceremony
Waranowicz, Janine, 2-3
Zevallos-Aguilar, Ulises J., 1-2
