“En Route: Journeys of the Body and the Soul in Iberian

and Latin American Literatures”

The University of Chicago October 12-13, 2012

Raúl Lara Torrez, Viaje imaginario de Don Estanislao (2002). Private collection. Special thanks to the family of the artist.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

This event is co-sponsored by The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Division of the Humanities, the Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of History, the Department of English, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the University of Chicago Student Government, the Humanities Division Graduate Students Council, the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Western Mediterranean Cultures Workshop.

Friday, October 12 8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast and Registration (Franke Institute)* 9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks Jeffrey Coleman, President of the Spanish Graduate Students Committee Mario Santana, Spanish Graduate Adviser, University of Chicago 9:45-10:45 Panel 1: Spaniards in America and Africa: Travel, Exile and Cultural

Reflections in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Cinema Panel chair: Mario Santana, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago

9:45-10:05 “Embarked Poetry: Hispanic Solidarity in Rafael Alberti’s 13 bandas y 48

estrellas” Carolina Beltrán, University of California at Los Angeles 10:05-10:25 “13 Kilometers: The Cultural Abyss between Spain and Morocco in Chus

Gutiérrez’s Retorno a Hansala” Novia Pagone, University of Illinois at Chicago 10:25-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:15 Break 11:15-12:30 Panel 2: Twentieth-Century Reflections on Early Modern Voyages

Panel chair: Juan Camilo Acevedo, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago

11:15-11:35 “El cuerpo inteligente en La tejedora de coronas de Germán Espinosa” Sebastián Pineda Buitrago, Colegio de México, México 11:35-11:55 “Adamastor, Galactus, and the Oblivion of the Cape of Tempests” Max Seawright, Harvard University 11:55-12:15 “Viajando a Australia: un patrimonio histórico on-line” Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé, Arizona State University 12:15-12:30 Discussion 11:15-12:30 Panel 3: Social and Literary Mobility in Mexico (Special Collections

Seminar Room) Panel chair: Emilio Kourí, Professor of History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College; Chair, Department of Romance Languages and

Literatures; Director, Katz Center for Mexican Studies, University of Chicago

11:15-11:35 “On a Road to Nowhere: Normalizing Journalistic Production and Squelching

Social Mobility in the Porfirian Public Sphere” Kevin Anzzolin, University of Chicago 11:35-11:55 “Movimientos y viajes como conceptos de reconocimiento en Algunas nubes de

Paco Ignacio Taibo II” Carlos Villegas-Castañeda, Michigan State University 11:55-12:15 “Home to Paradise: Images of Exile and Return in Early Mexican Film”

Alfredo Muñoz Alarcón, Kingsborough Community College 12:15-12:30 Discussion 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:45 Panel 4: Transatlantic Exchanges: Distance, Nostalgia and Nationalism

Panel chair: Novia Pagone, Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago

1:30-1:50 “El gíbaro (1849): Un viaje de regreso a la patria lejana” Tania Carrasquillo Hernández, University of Iowa 1:50-2:10 “Viaje modernista y propuesta estética en Crónicas de Roma de Abraham

Valdelomar” Miguel Rosas Buendia, University of Illinois at Chicago 2:10-2:30 “El piano y la quina: objetos en tránsito en La otra raya del tigre” Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez, South Dakota State University 2:30-2:45 Discussion 1:30-2:45 Panel 5: Travel Experience and Narrative: The Generic Limits of

Travel Literature (Special Collections Seminar Room) Panel chair: Felipe E. Rojas, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago

1:30-1:50 “La Chanca: entre la narrativa de viajes y la crítica social” Magdalena Romero-Córdoba, Fashion Institute of Technology 1:50-2:10 “Sueño y viaje interrumpidos en la Estación de Navegantes” Bladimir Víquez, Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, Panamá 2:10-2:30 “El viaje travesti de Pedro Lemebel”

Erika Almenara, University of Michigan 2:30-2:45 Discussion 2:45-3:00 Break 3:00-4:15 Panel 6: Displaced Bodies in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Panel chair: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Center for Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago

3:00-3:20 “El hombre/mujer, el ángel/demonio. Cuerpo, misterio e inquietud en Sirena

Selena vestida de pena” Guillermo Severiche, Louisiana State University 3:20-3:40 “Ficciones de la errancia” Juan Francisco Marguch, University of Pittsburgh 3:40-4:00 “De la victimización a la agencia: viaje y vida desnuda en Lorde de João Gilberto

Noll y Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit” Jerónimo Duarte Riascos, Harvard University 4:00-4:15 Discussion 3:00-4:00 Panel 7: Traveling Icons and Shifting Religious Identities in the Early

Modern Period (Special Collections Seminar Room) Panel chair: Miguel Martínez, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and the College, University of Chicago

3:00-3:20 “Mediterranean Travel, Captivity, and Visual Culture in Gómez de Losada’s

Escuela de trabajos” Catherine Infante, University of Wisconsin-Madison 3:20-3:40 “An Ekphrastic War: The Journey of the Image of Saint James to the New World” Katrina Powers, University of Chicago 3:40-4:00 Discussion 4:15-4:30 Break

4:30-6:00 Keynote Address

Sylvia Molloy (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, and Creative Writing, Albert

Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at New York University)

“Towards a Poetics of Displacement: Latin American Literature and the Voyage Home”

Presented by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and

Sexuality, Center for Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago End of Day 1

Saturday, October 13 9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-10:45 Panel 8: Education on the Road: Bildungsroman as Travel Narrative

Panel chair: Anna Proffit, Spanish Instructor, Wright College

9:30-9:50 “Muindinga’s Journey: The Road(s) out of Terra Sonâmbula” Satty Flaherty-Echeverría, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 9:50-10:10 “Desengaño de Carlitos: consecuencias en el proceso de modernización de

México en Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco” Roberto García Delgado, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 10:10-10:35 Discussion 10:35-11:00 Break 11:00-12:15 Panel 9: Women’s Journeys: Agency and Identity

Panel chair: Monserrat Lunati, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Cardiff University; 2012-2013 Joan Coromines Visiting Chair of Catalan Studies, University of Chicago

11:00-11:20 “Idas y Vueltas: Self-Definition as Spatial Practice in the Work of María Luisa

Bombal” Camilla Sutherland, University College London, England 11:20-11:40 “Peregrinaciones y luchas sociales: la escritura como crítica en las novelas

sudamericanas de Flora Tristán y Juana Manuela Gorriti” Seth Roberts, University of Alabama 11:40-12:00 “Actividad versus pasividad: el espacio, la palabra y la muerte en La furia y otros

cuentos de Silvina Ocampo” Raisa Gorgojo Iglesias, Miami University

12:00-12:15 Discussion 11:00-12:15 Panel 10: Travel and the Early Modern Hispanic Empire: War,

Politics and Explorations (Special Collections Seminar Room) Panel chair: James Nemiroff, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago

11:00-11:20 “Spanish Travel and Identity in Medieval and Renaissance Warring” David M. Reher, University of Chicago

11:20-11:40 “Parodia y religiosidad en ‘A la entrada del Duque de Medina en Cádiz’ de

Cervantes” Jesús Botello, University of Delaware

11:40-12:15 Discussion 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:45 Panel 11: Medieval and Early Modern Frontiers of Gender, Sexuality

and Language Panel chair: Martha Lilia Tenorio Trillo, Professor-Researcher, El Colegio de México; Visiting Professor of Hispanic Literature, University of Chicago

1:30-1:50 “Feminizing the Frontier Warrior in the Poema de mío Cid: Honorius III and the

Legacy of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar’s Journey from Burgos to Valencia” Eric Graf, Wesleyan University 1:50-2:10 “‘Hemos visto un mal tan fiero’: Sexual Confusion in Lope de Vega’s El gallardo

catalán” Felipe E. Rojas, University of Chicago 2:10-2:30 “Anamorphosis of the Baroque Poetic Body in Luis de Góngora’s Las Soledades”

Guinevere W. Allen, Stanford University 2:30-2:45 Discussion 1:30-2:30 Panel 12: Travel and Memory: Revisiting the Latin American

Dictatorial Period (Regenstein Library Room 207)*** Panel chair: Viviana Hong, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago

1:30-1:50 “Los viajes de la memoria en Apenas diez, de Marisa Silva Schultze” Eva Palma Zúñiga, University of Minnesota 1:50-2:10 “108 Cuchillo de palo: Politics of Fear and State Violence on the Gay

Community during the Last Paraguayan Dictatorship” Rafaela Fiore Urízar, California Lutheran University 2:10-2:30 Discussion 2:45-3:00 Break 3:00-4:15 Panel 13: Cervantine Journeys

Panel chair: Frederick de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

3:00-3:20 “Voyage between Worlds Imaginary and Real: El coloquio de los perros and Don

Quijote” Timothy J. Ambrose, Indiana University Southwest 3:20-3:40 “Facial Marks and Heavenly Journeys in the Spanish Picaresque” Álvaro Molina, University of California at Los Angeles 3:40-4:00 “La ruta de una ‘revolución truncada’ en La ilustre fregona: entre el cambio y el

determinismo del sujeto moderno” Pedro A. Aguilera-Mellado, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 4:00-4:15 Discussion 4:15-4:30 Break 4:30-6:00 Keynote Address

Marina S. Brownlee (Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, and

Comparative Literature at Princeton University)

“Experimental Architecture: Cervantine Curiosity and the English Stage”

Presented by Frederick de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

6:00 Closure of the Conference and Reception at the Smart Museum**** * Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (Hyde Park University Campus in the Regenstein Library) ** Special Collections Seminar Room 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (Inside the Regenstein Library on the 1st floor)

*** Regenstein Library Room 207 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (On the 2nd floor of the Regenstein Library) **** Smart Museum of Art 5550 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago Persons with disabilities who feel they may need assistance should contact the Conference Organizing Committee at enrouteconference2012@gmail.com. Please give us 48 hours notice to facilitate accommodations.