Leonor Arfuch is professor of social sciences at the University of
Buenos Aires, where she works on subjectivity and identity formation
in narrative and the media.
Munia Bhaumik is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at
Emory. Currently, she is completing a book titled An Unacknowledged
Actor: The Figure and Trace of the Noncitizen. Mayra Bottaro is assistant professor at the University of Oregon.
She has worked on transatlantic temporalities and is currently writing
on technology and materialism in the nineteenth century.
Carmen Boullosa is a Mexican writer. The author of seventeen
novels—her most recent is Texas (2013)—and five poetry collections,
Boullosa divides her time between Mexico City and New York.
Arturo Dávila Sanchez is professor of Spanish and Mexican-Latin
American Studies at Laney College. He is poet laureate of Mexico and
Spain, where three of his volumes were awarded international prizes.
Anna Deeny Morales teaches at Georgetown. She has recently
translated Mercedes Roffé and Raúl Zurita, and is currently working
on a book, Sound Dissent: Essays on Poetry and Translation.
Diamela Eltit, Distinguished Global Professor in Creative Writing
at NYU, is one of Chile’s most important novelists and a lucid
commentator on art and politics. Her most recent novel is Fuerzas
especiales (2013).
Rocio Ferreira is associate professor at DePaul University with work
on nineteenth-century women’s writing and contemporary Peru. Her
forthcoming book is Del Salón Literario a la Cocina ecléctica.
Myrna García-Calderón is associate professor at Syracuse
University. She is author of Lecturas desde el fragmento (1998)
and Espacios de la memoria en el Caribe hispánico insular y sus
diásporas (2012).
Victor Goldgel-Carballo is associate professor at UW-Madison
where he studies nineteenth-century Latin American literature,
visual culture, and race. He is the author of Cuando lo nuevo conquistó
América (2013).
Andrea Jeftanovic is professor at the Universidad de Santiago in
Chile. She is the author of two novels, several volumes of short fiction
and crónicas. She also has published books of literary criticism.
Robert Kaufman teaches comparative literature and is co-director
of the Program in Critical Theory at Berkeley. His book, Negative
Romanticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats, Shelley, and Modern Poetry, is
forthcoming from Cornell.
Gwen Kirkpatrick is professor at Georgetown and Chair of Spanish
and Portuguese. Kirkpatrick is the author of six books and perhaps best
known for The Dissonant Legacies of Modernismo.
Francisco Leal is an accomplished poet and associate professor
at Colorado State University. Leal’s books of poetry include
Vecindario, Insectos, Naturalismo, Cortezas, Cortina de humo,
and Mundos/Carne.
Tom McEnany is assistant professor at Cornell. He works on
literature and media. His book, Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and
the New Neighborhood of the Americas is currently under review.
Sarah Moody is assistant professor at Alabama. She works on
modernismo and women’s writing in nineteenth and early twentiethcentury Latin America. Her current book examines gendered aesthetics
in Hispanic-American modernismo.
Raquel Olea is a feminist activist and professor emerita at the
University of Santiago. She is the author of many books on women and
politics in literature, among them Como traje de fiesta (on the poetry of
Mistral).
Juan Carlos Pereda Failache, an Uruguayan who works in
Mexico, is professor emeritus of philosophy at the UNAM. He is the
author of ten books and critical reflections on epistemology and ethics.
Mercedes Roffé is one of Argentina’s leading poets. Widely
published in the Spanish-speaking world, she is founder of Ediciones
Pen Press. Her most recent book is Carcaj (2014).
Sergio Waisman is professor at George Washington University. He
is the author of Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery,
the novel Leaving (Irse), and the translator of Ricardo Piglia.
Sarah Wells is assistant professor at UW-Madison. She is the author
of Media Laboratories: Late Modernism in South America (forthcoming)
and co-editor of Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction
Cinema (2015).
Transeuntes IV (detail) 2004, by Andrés Waissman
Christine Arce is assistant professor at the University of Miami. She
works on issues of race, gender, and non-Western epistemologies in the
cultural production of Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
CULTURE AND POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA
ANOTHER ART OF TRANSITION?
PARTICIPANTS
UNA’S LECTURE
November 12, 2015
7 pm, 315 Wheeler Hall
BORGES AND
POST-POP POPULISM
Beatriz Sarlo, Cultural Critic and
Una’s Lecturer
SYMPOSIUM
November 13-14, 2015
8:45 am – 6 pm, 220 Stephens Hall
A symposium in honor of Professor
Francine Masiello presented in
collaboration with the Departments
of Spanish & Portuguese and
Comparative Literature
Townsend Center
for the Humanities
SYMPOSIUM 220 Stephens Hall
November 13, 2015
November 14, 2015
8:45 am Introductions
8:45 am Introductions
Teresa Stojkov, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Christine Arce, University of Miami
Anthony J. Cascardi, Dean of Arts & Humanities
Ignacio Navarrete, Chair, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese
9-10:30 am Session 1
Juan Carlos Pereda Failache, professor emeritus, Instituto
de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM
Treating Violence through Poetry
Robert Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley
Piketty y la poesía (o, ¡maldita economía!)
In English
Moderator: Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez, University of
Texas at Austin
BREAK
10:45 am-12:15 pm Session 2
Carmen Boullosa, novelist and poet
Antigone in México
Leonor Arfuch, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Memory, Testimonio, Auto-fiction. Childhood Narratives under
Dictatorship
Moderator: Sarah Schoellkopf, Ph.D., University of
California, Berkeley
LUNCH
1:30-3:00 pm Session 3
Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University
What is a Man Now? The Fiction of Alejandro Zambra
Andrea Jeftanovic, Universidad de Santiago de Chile Imaginación y olvido en algunos ejercicios de memoria en
literatura y cine latinoamericano reciente
Raquel Olea, professor emerita, Universidad de Santiago
de Chile
Las memorias de La Memoria. Desplazamientos y localizaciones del recuerdo en la narrativa
actual de Chile
​ -10:45 am The Late 19th Century and the Project
9
of Nuestra América
Sarah Moody, University of Alabama New Readings in the Archive: Culture and Politics of the
Other Fin de siglo
Rocío Ferreira, De Paul University Ollas con pluma y tinta: cartografías pan /americanas en
Cocina ecléctica (1890) de Juana Manuela Gorriti
Munia Bhaumik, Emory University América as Trope and Concept: Sarmiento, Melville, and
Martí
Mayra Bottaro, University of Oregon (Dis)continuous Measures: Temporality and Media in the
Dialectic of Civilization and Barbarism
Moderator: Estelle Tarica, University of California,
Berkeley
BREAK
11 am-12:45 pm Sounds of North / South Dialogues and
Cultural Politics Sarah Wells, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lateness and the Art of Transition
Tom McEnaney, Cornell University
An Irish History of Distortion in Argentina: Tape Recording in
Rodolfo Walsh, Eduardo Costa, Rock Nacional
Sergio Waisman, George Washington University
Translation Theory and Practice, North and South
Anna Deeny Morales, Georgetown University Sound Dissent
Moderator: Julie Ward, University of Oklahoma
LUNCH
Moderator: Victor Goldgel-Carballo, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
2-3:30 pm Precarious Citizenship and the Work of Art
BREAK
Myrna García-Calderón, Syracuse University
Miradas precarias desde el Caribe
Introduced by Myrna García-Calderón, Syracuse
University Victor Goldgel-Carballo, University of Wisconsin,
Madison The Reappropriation of Poverty: Culture and Politics in
Contemporary Argentina
Diamela Eltit, novelist
Francine Masiello: Poéticas, políticas, estéticas
Christine Arce, University of Miami
Zapatismo as a Transitional Art
4:15 pm Session 4
5:00 pm Francine Masiello
Moderator: Fabian Banga, Berkeley City College
BREAK
4-5:00 pm Poetry Readings Introduced by Emilie Bergmann, University of California,
Berkeley Arturo Dávila, Mexico
Francisco Leal, Chile
Mercedes Roffé, Argentina​ Anna Deeny Morales, Translation Lineas Existentes I, 2006, by Andrés Waissman
5-6:00 pm Reception