26th SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
26th Annual Symposium
The Symposium Committee is pleased to provide you with a preliminary program for the 26th Annual
Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture at
the University of Arizona. Join us to celebrate the merging of cultures and languages in one of the US’s oldest
multicultural landscapes on Feb 25th, 26th and 27th at the Arizona Historical Society. For any questions or
further information, please feel free to contact us at
[email protected]
DAY
TIMES
08:00
8:30am09:55am
10:10am11:55am
12:00pm1pm
1pm2:00pm
2:30pm4:00pm
Location: AHS BOARDROOM
Thursday Feb 25th
Location: AHS :DISCOVERY CLASSROOM
Breakfast (served on site)
Memory and Othering Panel
(Moderator: Brenda Lara)
1. Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, City University of New
York. Un ritmo que emigra: la escena de la bachata
dominicana en Puerto Rico
2. Leslie O’Toole, University of Arizona.
Dias de los Muertos celebrations: the case of Tucson’s All
Soul’s Procession.
3. Marilou Trahan-Thomassin, McGill University. Helen
Bannerman and Little Black Sambo (1899): A legacy of
Othering and the dehumanization of the black subject in
Canada through children’s literature.
Phonetics Panel
(Moderator: Dr. Miquel Simonet):
1.Marta Ramirez and Miquel Simonet,
University of Arizona. The Catalan /ʎ / -/ʒ
/contrast: Neutralization and automatic
imitation.
2.Yamile Diaz, Joseph Casillas and Miquel
Simonet, University of Arizona. Acoustics of
coronal stops in Spanish-English bilingual
speech.
3.Joseph Casillas.University of Arizona.
Learning to hear-fine phonetic detail:
perception of Spanish stops in a stateside
immersion context.
Social commentary: poetry and music of Latin America
(Moderator: Xochitl Montaño)
1. Juan Leal-Ugalde, University of Michigan. Poesía y
política en Chile: Raúl Zurita y Cecilia Vicuña desde la
dictadura a la transición Democrática.
2. Elisabeth Blin, University of Arizona. Linguistics and
ramifications of the Tropicalia movement in 21st Century
Brazil: Musicúpula, a creation of Rogerio Duarte.
3. Whitney Waites, University of Arizona. Traumatic
Memory and La higuera,
Lunch (not provided)
Round Table (AHS Discorvery classroom):
Bridging the gaps between language policy and the language our students speak.
Phonology Panel
(Moderator: Dr. Sonia Colina)
1.Claire Julia Lozano,University of Arizona.
Diminutive -ico/a in Colombian Spanish.
Digital Humanities Panel
(Moderator: Dr. Melissa Fitch):
1.Hannah Collins, University of Arizona. The Chilean
Spectacle 2.0: Participatory Culture and Soltera otra vez
2.Tasha Campbell, University of Arizona. Un
pez, dos peces: Some Observations on Plural
Marking by Spanish Heritage Learners and
Learners of Spanish as a Second Language
3.Damian Yukio Romero Diaz, University of
Arizona.The need for variation: Rhotics in
Mexican Spanish Male Gay Speech.
5:456:50pm
7:30 to
8:30pm.
DAY
TIMES
8am
8:30am10:30am
10:40am12:00am
12:00pm1pm
2. Adolfo Bejar, University of Arizona. Slow Food y
Latinoamérica: capital culinario en las comunidades
electrónicas.
3. Xochilt Montaño, University of Arizona. Viral Disability.
Keynote speaker William Nericcio, San Diego State University, presents:
Toxic "Mexican" Digital Mannequins, Viral HisPANIC Stereotypes, and Contagious, Smartphoneborne Hate: Existential Conundrums for Latinas/os on the Brink of 21st Century Mextasy in the Age
of the Digital Humanities
Introduction by Dr. Melissa Fitch
(University of Arizona Campus, ILC 150)
Welcoming Gala
With a special preview of Borderland’s Theater play Barrio Stories.
Location: AHS BOARDROOM
Friday Feb 26th
Location: AHS :DISCOVERY CLASSROOM
Breakfast (served on site)
Language, Identity and accommodation
(Moderator: Miriam Rodriguez)
1.James Musselman, UCSB. How Cosmic Race
overwhelmed 300 languages.
2. Andres Acosta, Karolina Palma y Pablo
Paz.Universidad de Sonora. Identidad y
producción lingüística en las comunidades gays
de México.
3. Damian Yukio Romero Diaz and Courtney
Cannon, University of Arizona. Use of English in
Sociolinguistic Interviews Among Bilinguals and
Accommodation to Interviewer’s L1.
4. Kristin I. Helland, Ph.D. University of
Arizona. Multilingual code-switching as a
counter-discursive strategy in Junot Diaz’ novel
“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Cyborgs, Monsters, and Bodies Panel
(Moderator: Anaïs Garcia)
1. Zachary Tutlane. “Facing the Other: The
Ethics of Interspecies Encounters in
Contemporary Art”
2. Manuel Martín Barros, University of
Arizona. La España salvaje: La
deshumanización del hombre en Luna de lobos.
Representations of Powerful or Heroic Women in
Medieval Iberia
(Moderator: Dr. Richard Kinkade)
1. Taiko Haessler. University of Colorado,Boulder.
Crowned on Earth and in Heaven: The reign of the SaintQueen, Isabel of Aragon.
2. Catalina Rodriguez. Sisters in Power: The Visigoth
Heritage of Teresa de Cartagena, Leonor López de
Córdoba and Constanza de Castilla
3. Claudia Nazario, University of Arizona. El feminismo
de María de Zayas y Sotomayor en la zona de convivencia
Condición urbana de la comunidad MexicanaAmericana en el Sudoeste de los Estados Unidos y la
literatura de Aarón Michael Morales
(Moderator: Dr. Lillian Gorman)
1. Crescencio López-González. Utah State University,
Acumulación por desposesión: un análisis de la condición
urbana de la comunidad mexicana americana en el
Sudoeste de los Estados Unidos
2. Andrew Baldwin. Utah State University. La tragedia
en “Kindness”: Símbolos de la realidad chicana en
Drowning Tucson por Aarón Michael Morales.
3. Aarón Wyatt.Utah State University. Atrapada en un
vórtice: un análisis de “Rainbow” de Aarón Michael
Morales
Lunch (not provided)
1:00pm3:00pm
L2 and L3 Instruction
(Moderator: Andrea HerreraDulcet)
1. Hope Anderson, University of Arizona. A
Website as Co-Teacher: Trends in Hybrid Basic
Spanish Courses.
2.Adriana Picoral, University of Arizona..
Internet memes as authentic material in a
Portuguese as L3 classroom.
3. Mariia Khorosheva. Univeristy of Arizona. A
Comparative Study of Two Writing classes:
Teaching Approaches and Influence on Students’
Writing Development
Gender, Sexuality & Representation Panel
3:00pm5:00pm
Critical Language approaches to L2 and
Heritage pedagogies (Moderator: Dr. Lillian
Gorman)
1.Stephanie Brock Gonzales and Andrea
Herrera Dulcet, University of Arizona. Critical
pedagogy approaches to teaching the
Subjunctive mood for Spanish Heritage
Language Learners.
2.Joseph Kern, University of Arizona.
Problematizing the Standard Language
Ideology in the Spanish Classroom.
3. Zamara Graciela González Pérez,Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México. Adquisición de
la lengua escrita en alumnos bilingües inglésespañol en Tijuana
Transmedia and Latino Social Causes Panel
(Moderator: Dr. Nicole Keating)
1. Julio Barrenzuela. Woodbury University. The Salsa
Ambassador.
2. Phil Gibbons.Woodbury University. Some Very Famous
People: Che Guevara.
3. Monique Lyons. Woodbury University. My Survivor
Village.
4. Waleska Santiago. Woodbury University. Sweet
Venom.
5:15pm6:15pm
DAY
TIMES
08:00
08:30-9:30
(Moderator: Xochitl Montaño):
1. Emily Hammett. Texas State University. “Amor,
curiosidad, prozac y dudas” por Lucia Extebarria: Un
cuento de la transición de la mujer en España.
2. Oscar Rivera. University of California, Riverside. La
mirada activa del sujeto intersexual puede crearcambios
de las definiciones rígidas de sexo y género
3.Yanara Friedland, University of Arizona South,.Clarice
Lispector and The Law of The Living.
Keynote speaker Jennifer Leeman, George Mason University presents:
The racialization of Spanish in the discursive representation of US Latin@s.
Introduction by Anna Carvalhox
(AHS Discovery Classroom)
Location: AHS BOARDROOM
Sat Feb 27th
Location: AHS DISCOVERY CLASSROOM
Breakfast (served on site)
Round Table (AHS Discovery Classroom):
Gender Neutrality in Languages that Require Gender
9:40-11:40
12pm-1pm
1pm
Language Contact and Variation Panel
(Moderator: Dr. Ana Carvalho).
1.Thomas Lewis. Tulane University.
Avoiding dusty death: Sustained Spanish
salience in a Puerto Rican Community in the
American Mid-West.
2.Cassandra Knaff. University of Texas at
Austin. Institutional Indexicality:
Ethnolinguistic stereotypes in the linguistic
landscape of Austin Texas.
3.Amanda Snell, University of Arizona.
Codeswitching in a Bilingual Protestant
Church in South Tucson.
4.Miriam Rodriguez, University of Arizona.
Discourse marker “este” in Southern Arizona
and Northern Mexico, Analysis from both
sides of the border.
Resistance and Trauma Panel
(Moderator: Dr. Anita Huizar)
1. Raul Montejano Serrano.University of Arizona. Efectos
colaterales de la acumulación flexible de capital y actos
resistencia urbana en Los lunes al sol de Fernando León
de Aranoa
2. Brigette Walters, University of Arizona. Dragging
Memory out of the Grave:
Posthumously Performing the Dictator in Spain and Chile.
3. Leah Arreguín, University of Arizona. Internal
Colonialism in Three Chicano Plays from the 1960s.
4. Kaela, Werchniak, University of Arizona. The Conquest
of Mexico; Historical Inaccuracies Represented and
Corrected through Artwork.
WORKSHOP (AHS Discovery room)
The symposium is over! Thanks you to all of you, your participation made it possible!