Special Guests - College of Arts and Sciences

Special Guests - College of Arts and Sciences

2015 Conference on Transatlantic Studies
Intersections of Memory and Violence in the Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian World
Organizers
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández
Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez
Special Acknowledgments
The organizers of the 2015 Conference on Transatlantic Studies wish to
thank the institutions and people who have made this event possible through
grants, technical assistance and administrative support.
We are grateful for the support of our colleagues in the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. We would also like to acknowledge the
generous support of the professors, instructors, and graduate students of the
Spanish Program.
We are particularly grateful toward Nicholas Vazsonyi, Jorge Camacho, Lisa
Martin-Stuart, David Britt, Isis Sadek, Andrew Rajca, Terri Lucas, Dee Dee
Cronise, Catherine Moring, Julia Luján, Hugo Pascual Bordón, Benjamín García
Egea, Jinmei Chen, Gabrielle Kuenzli, Alejandro García Lemos, Britt Hunt,
Margarito Asiain, Carol Papaletsos and Dre López.
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The 2015 Conference on Transatlantic Studies is funded by
The University of South Carolina
Office of the Provost
Office of the Vice President for Research
Office of the Dean College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Spanish Program
Latin American Studies Program
Department of Theatre and Dance
and
Palmetto Luna Arts
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Special Guests
Dr. Sebastiaan Faber is Professor of Hispanic
Studies at Oberlin College, where he directs the
Center for Languages and Cultures and chairs the
Latin American Studies program. He has published
some seventy articles on Spanish and Latin
American literature and culture, is the author
of Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish
Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975 (Vanderbilt,
2002) and Anglo-American Hispanists and the
Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and
Discipline (Palgrave, 2008), and has coedited Contra el olvido. El exilio expañol en Estados
Unidos (U de Alcalá, 2009). Since 2010 he serves as
the Chair of the Board of Governors of the
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
Dr. Susana Draper is Associate Professor of
Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
She is the author of Ciudad posletrada y tiempos
lúmpenes: crítica cultural y nihilismo en la cultura de
fin de siglo (Montevideo, Amuleto 2009)
and Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in
Latin America (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). She is
currently
working
on
two
book
manuscripts: Experiments in Freedom and Cognitive
Democracy in 1968 Mexico and Dual power, motley
societies, and the turn to the commons (René
Zavaleta Mercado and Raquel Gutiérrez).
Photo: Sabrina Casirolli
Daniel Brittany Chávez is a two-spirit
performance artist-militant intellectual and
activist currently based in San Cristóbal de las
Casas, Chiapas, México. Daniel is a Doctoral
Candidate
in
communication
studies
(performance studies) at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Core Troupe Member
of La Pocha Nostra. He has performed and taught
in the United States, México, Canada, Costa Rica,
Spain, The Netherlands, among others. Daniel's
written work has appeared in Text and
Performance Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, No
More Potlucks, Calle 14: Revista de Investigación
en el Campo de Arte, Liminalities: A Journal of
Performance Studies, among others. For more,
please visit: www.brittanydchavez.org
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In partnership with the 2015 Transatlantic Conference
Palmetto Luna Arts presents the art exhibit
How did you feel about aggressions, bullying, marginalization, assault, exile,
migration, rejection and prejudice? How have we coped with racial tensions,
political repression, gender bias and irrational attacks? How do we survive on a
daily basis the pain of living in a world filled with violence, disdain, inequality
and negligence? Furthermore, what is the role of artists who have lived within a
thicket of tensions, in a world that prefers to ignore this generalized violence
and ostracize itself in the individual comfort of the internet, social media and
reality shows? And overall, how do we remember, overcome and cope with
violence?
“Violenta – Memoria” constructs a multifaceted perspective in its approach to
the intersection of these two issues through the lenses of three different artists,
Michaela Pilar Brown, Diana Farfán, and Eliana Pérez. Some of these approaches
are blunt or literal, while others make a more subtle use of metaphors and
nuances.
What are your memories about violence?
Curated by Alejandro García Lemos.
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Participant Artists
Michaela Pilar Brown
is an image and
object maker. She studied sculpture and art
history at Howard University, though she has
always been a maker of things. Born in Bangor,
Maine and raised in Denver, Colorado, she cut her
teeth in the halls of a museum where her mother
worked as a security guard. As a practicing artist
and curator she has been immersed in the culture
of objects, their making and interpretation ever
since.
Her current art practice focuses on cultural hierarchies relating to beauty, and
how race and history play into these caste systems. She explores issues of
identity and notions of otherness as defined in American standards of beauty
using a combination of performance and staged photography, and is interested
in the politics of the body with respect to race and gender.
www.Michaelapilarbrown.com
Diana Farfán Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Diana
Farfán is a full-time studio artist. She received her BFA
in Bogotá at the National University of Colombia in
1999, and her MFA in Ceramics at the University of
South Carolina in 2010. Diana, who now lives and works
in Greenville, SC, also studied at the University of
Anchorage, AK, and at the Tainan National University of
the Arts in Taiwan as exchange student.
Diana’s work has been shown and won numerous awards such as Best in Show
at Workhouse Clay National 2014 in Lorton, VA; 2nd Prize in Flat Out Under
Pressure 2014 at Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC; Artisphere’s
Emerging Artist Award 2013, Greenville, SC; Outstanding Thesis Award Winner
at University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC (2010); Best in Show in 52nd
Annual Department of Art Student Show at University of South Carolina in
Columbia, SC (2008).
www.dianafarfan.com
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Eliana Pérez is a Colombian artist based in New York City. She studied Fine
Arts and Printmaking at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia and
Bookmaking at Cooper Union in New York City. Eliana is an associated artist of
the Brooklyn Artists Alliance, an artist-run collective dedicated to exhibiting,
distributing and publishing innovative artist books as an art form.
Her latest exhibitions include “Hunted” Institute of Fine arts, New York
University, New York, N.Y. 2014, “Migration Narratives” Pelham Art Center,
Pelham, N.Y. 2014, “Diamond Leaves” Houston Printing Museum, Houston, TX
2014, “Diamond Leaves” Beijing China 2013. Her drawings have been published
in The NY Times, NY times Book Review, Poetry Magazine and have been
selected for publication in the American Illustration anthologies.
www.elianaperez.com
Alejandro García-Lemos
is
a visual artist based between
Columbia, SC and Atlanta, GA. He
holds an MA in Latin American and
Caribbean Studies from Florida
International University in Miami,
and a BA in Graphic Design from the
School of Arts at the National
University in Bogotá, Colombia. As an artist and curator his work has focused on
social issues, mostly on aspects of immigration, sexuality, biculturalism, religion
and community. Alejandro is a member of the National Association of Latino
Arts and Culture (NALAC), as well as the founder of Palmetto & LUNA a nonprofit organization promoting Latino Arts and Cultures in South Carolina. Over
the past 15 years, Alejandro has tangentially worked as curator for solo and
group shows in alternative spaces including the Friday Cottage Art Space in
Columbia, SC.
www.garcialemos.com
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Program
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THURSDAY, MARCH 26
4- 6 pm
Registration. Department of Languages, Literatures, and
Cultures. 1620 College Street. Welsh Humanities Office
Building, office 706. Columbia, SC 29208
6:15 pm
Opening Ceremony. (University of South Carolina. Gambrell
Hall 153).
-Welcome and opening remarks: Dr. Nicholas Vazsonyi, Chair of
the Department Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Dr.
Jorge Camacho, Spanish Program Director.
-Dr. Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández & Dr. Mercedes Lopez
Rodriguez, Conference Co-chairs.
6:30 pm Inaugural Plenary Talk.
-Professor Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin College). “From ¿Por qué
no te callas? to ¡Claro que podemos!: Transatlantic Relations in
a Post-post-Franco Spain”
8:00 pm Opening Reception.
-“Violenta/Memoria.” Friday Cottage
Henderson St. Columbia, SC, 29201
Art
Space
1830
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FRIDAY, MARCH 27
All events for the day will be hosted at Inn at USC Wyndham Garden
1619 Pendleton Street Columbia, SC 29201
8:30 – 10: 15am
Panel 1. Retablos transatlánticos de la memoria
Moderator: Jorge Camacho
Carolina Room A
-Katrina M. Heil, East Tennessee State University. “Treating PTSD
with Tragic Catharsis: Historical Memory in Usigli’s Corona de
sombra and Buero Vallejo’s El sueño de la razón”
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-Kelliann Flores, Suffolk County Community College. “The
Performance of Local Memory: Castro Pacheco’s Hall of History
Murals”
-Maidelin Rodríguez, University of Miami. “Restaurar es volver a
vivir: revisión y transformación del yo a través de la memoria en El
pájaro de la felicidad”
-Isabel Gómez Sobrino, East Tennessee State University.
“Memoria, poesía y canción: los autorretratos de Antonio
Machado y José Martí en las voces de Pablo Milanés y Joan Manuel
Serrat”
Panel 2. Dominación y represión en planteamientos narrativos, teatrales y
visuales en torno a las dictaduras argentina, chilena y española
Moderator: Andrew Rajca
Carolina Room B
-Stephanie Orozco, University of South Carolina. “La violencia
estatal en el Teatro Abierto argentino”
-Hugo Pascual Bordón, University of South Carolina.
“Representaciones de la violencia antes, durante y después de la
dictadura chilena en Roberto Bolaño, Pedro Lemebel y Pablo
Larraín”
-Benjamín García Egea, University of South Carolina. “La
hegemonía masculina como memoria del franquismo en las
novelas de Petra Delicado”
-Benjamín Rodríguez, University of South Carolina “Pasado
olvidado y futuro ambivalente: Arte carnavalesco y
posmodernismo en Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño"
10: 30am - 12: 15pm
Panel 3. Raza, discurso colonial y memoria
Moderator: Jorge Camacho
Carolina Room A
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-Cristina Díaz, Maestría en Letras Portuguesas UNAM. “A Mercy y
Casa Grande & Senzala: perspectivas éticas y estéticas sobre el
esclavismo”
-Jorge Camacho, University of South Carolina. “La memoria de
Haití: el miedo como concepto originario de la nación”
-Jennifer Slobodian, University of South Carolina. “A Female Take
on the Colonizing Gaze: Representing the Other on Film in Brava
gente brasileira and También la lluvia”
-Olga Ríos, St. Joseph’s College-Patchogue, NY. “Con la hebilla en la
mano: Defying Colonial Discourse in What Killed Marcelo Lucero?
by playwright Margarita Espada”
-Patricia Arroyo Calderón, Ohio State University.
“Crónicas de
la Conquista, testimonio ocular y violencia epistémica: un
martirologio americano y el problema de la agencia en la Brevísima
relación de la destrucción de las Indias”
Panel 4. Exilios y retornos
Moderator: Diego Mattos Vazualdo
Carolina Room B
-David A. Messenger, University of Wyoming. “Exile, Rights and
Democracy: Making Memory in Contemporary Catalonia”
-Kyle Lawton, Tulane University. “Dialogues in Exile:
Representations of Spanish Identity from Mexico, France and the
Peninsula”
-Seth Roberts, The University of Alabama. “To Return is to Awaken
from a Long Dream: Exile and Repatriation in Gaspar Pedro
González’s El retorno de los mayas”
LUNCH 12:15- 2: 00pm
2:00- 3:45pm
Panel 5. Repensando dictadura y post dictadura en Suramérica: memoria,
derechos humanos y representación
Moderator: Isis Sadek
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Carolina Room A
-Andrew C. Rajca, University of South Carolina. “Undoing the
Ethical Fusion of Memory and Human Rights in Postdictatorial
Culture”
-Rocío Zalba, Columbia College. “La deshumanización y la memoria
en la Argentina del siglo XXI”
-William R. Benner, Tulane University. “Betrayal and Redemption in
the Film Los rubios (2003) by Albertina Carri”
-Andrés Alberto Masi, Universidad Católica de Cuyo, Argentina.
“Transiciones hacia regímenes democráticos. La influencia política
de las fuerzas armadas sobre el liderazgo presidencial de Raúl
Alfonsín (1983-1989)”
Panel 6. Memorias rotas: Trauma, dolor y exilio de la Guerra Civil Española
Moderator: Francisco J. Sánchez
Carolina Room B
-Adina Pascalau, The University of Alabama. “Unidos en el dolor:
pasos hacia la reconciliación nacional en El lápiz del carpintero”
-Shelly Hines-Brooks, The University of Alabama. “Selección de
recuerdos desde el exilio: Una memoria exiliada en El corazón
helado”
-Betsy Brooks Poole, Lee University. “Forever Marked: Scars and
the Human Body as Problematic Archives of Memory in Felipe
Matarranz’s Manuscrito de un superviviente”
-Ana Corbalán, The University of Alabama. “Ética y estética de la
memoria femenina desde el exilio”
4:00-5:45pm
Panel 7. Intersecciones entre visualidades y textualidades en la
construcción de la memoria
Moderator: Paul Malovrh
Carolina Room A
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-Anna Shilova, SUNY, Stony Brook. “Textually Embodied Violence in
P. Almodóvar and A. G. Iñárritu”
-María Mabrey, University of South Carolina. “La tiranía del poder,
sujeción femenina y la posguerra española en Agustí Villaronga, Pa
negre”
-Matthew Fehskens, East Tennessee State University. “The Looking
Glass of the Atlantic: The Poetic Self-Portrait on Both Coasts of
Hispanic Modernism”
-Raquel Anido, Clemson University. “Música y literatura: El caso de
Carmen Martín Gaite”
6:00- 7:30 PM Plenary Session:
Uncomfortable Voices, Improper Places: Towards the Future of
Memory Studies...
Dr. Susana Draper (Princeton University)
Carolina Room
SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH
All events for the day will be hosted at Inn at USC Wyndham Garden
1619 Pendleton Street Columbia, SC 29201
9: 00- 10:45am
Panel 8. Otra maldita ponencia sobre memoria histórica
Moderator: Francisco J. Sánchez
Carolina Room A
-Nuño Castellanos Díez, University of Georgia, Athens. “Los
españoles que liberaron París. Los surcos del azar de Paco Roca.
Memoria histórica y arte secuencial”
-Manuel Pinto Barragán, University of Georgia, Athens. “El poeta y
el recuerdo: recuperación de la memoria histórica a través de la
poesía”
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-David
Martínez,
University
of
“Multiperspectivismo en El vano ayer”
Georgia,
Athens.
-Jaume Antuñano San Luis, University of Georgia, Athens. “La
represión del tardofranquismo en Salvador de Manuel Huerga”
Panel 9. Memorias entre el horror y la transgresión
Moderator: Patricia Arroyo Calderón
Carolina Room B
-Adrianne Woods, University of South Carolina. “Fairy Tales and
Testimonies: Jorge Volpi’s Oscuro bosque oscuro”
-Andrea Lemire, Dutch Fork High School. “Family violence and
horror highlights PTSD in post-war Spain in El secreto de Elisa by
Adelaida García Morales”
-Antonio Bentivegna, Ohio State University. “Memorias,
trasgresión y censura en La familia de Pascual Duarte de Camilo
José Cela”
-Ángela Martín Pérez, University of Connecticut. “Dos caras de la
bohemia madrileña”
11:00am- 12: 45pm
Panel 10. Géneros de enunciación de la memoria: novela negra, novela
gráfica y ciencia ficción
Moderator: José Eduardo Cornelio
Carolina Room A
-Elena Adell, University of North Carolina, Asheville. “Novela negra
y novela histórica: la imaginación dialógica de Leonardo Padura”
-Diego Espiña Barros, University of St. Francis. “El día que mi padre
comenzó a hablar. La representación de la memoria traumática de
la Guerra Civil Española en Un largo silencio de Miguel Gallardo”
-Juan David Cruz, University of South Carolina. “Cold War Paranoia
and Terror of the Alien in The Americas: Watchmen and El
Eternauta”
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-Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Georgia State University. “The Lash!
Race, Revisionism, and Nostalgia in Brazilian History”
LUNCH 12:45- 2-30pm
3:00- 5:00pm
Panel 11. Las imágenes de la memoria
Moderator: Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández
Carolina Room A
-Betina Kaplan, University of Georgia. “Memorias interactivas y
transformaciones fotográficas: del ensayo fotográfico al esténcil en
Argentina”
-Cristiane Lira, University of Georgia. “O intervalo transformador e
o caso da memória (in)domesticada em Que bom te ver viva”
-Leda Carolina Lozier, University of Georgia. “Hacia una
interpretación visual del testimonio sobre la tortura en Nunca
estuve sola de Nidia Díaz”
-Marcela Reales Visbal, University of Georgia. “Animación 2D y
stop-motion: Estrategias de enunciación en Los rubios (2003) y El
edificio de los chilenos (2010)”
Panel 12. Del archivo a los muros: la inscripción pública de la memoria
Moderator: Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez
Carolina Room B
-Jeremy Patterson, University of South Carolina. “El género de la
crónica y la violencia del narcotráfico en México”
-José Eduardo Cornelio, Georgetown University. “Ficciones
inefables: Violencia, archivo y poéticas de lo indecible en tres
novelas latinoamericanas contemporáneas”
-Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez, University of South Carolina.
“Entrando al archivo por la puerta de atrás: el archivo judicial
como estrategia de ladinización en El Material Humano de Rodrigo
Rey Rosa”
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-Diego Mattos Vazualdo, Saint Michael’s College. “Proyectos de
imaginario en la línea de fuego: la nación boliviana en tres diarios
de campaña”
-Whitney Anne Waites, University of Arizona. “Anti-FIFA Graffiti of
São Paulo: Protest or Perpetuation?”
6:15pm Gathering in the lobby of the Hotel USC Wyndham Garden
6:30pm Shuttles to the Lab Theatre depart
7pm
Performance at The Lab Theatre
De eso no se habla Remix by Daniel Brittany Chavez.
Booker T. Washington Building, 1400 Wheat St. Columbia,
SC,29208
"De Eso No Se Habla Remix" is a performance/action art piece that
contends with feminicide and transicide violence in an era of state
terror in México. Using the body, sound, space, and materials, and
movement, the performance asks, "how can we make the lives of
those murdered present through politicizing what we see as 'the'
body?"
This performance includes adult content such as nudity and
symbolic violence.
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