“I” denotes the speaker is planning to attend in person. “O” denotes online participation.
A PDF of the program can be accessed here.
All times listed are in CT.
Day 1 – Friday March 3, 2023
Main Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 956 8067 1934
(Backup Zoom Link & Meeting ID: 924 4860 7417)
Welcome Reception
9:00-10:00am
| Dr. Ellen W. Sapega, Chair of the Spanish and Portuguese Department and Kaleidoscope Organizing Committee Co-Chairs |
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Session Block 1
10:00-11:15am
| Latin American Resistance: Art and Children’s Narratives |
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| “Futuro da nação: Censura e literatura infantil nas ditaduras argentina e brasileira” Taís Xavier Carvalho (O, Indiana University-Bloomington) |
| “El testimonio infantil como estrategia de autoafirmación y resistencia: representaciones de agencia de niñas y niños migrantes en Yo tuve un sueño (2018), de Juan Pablo Villalobos” Oana Delia Alexan Katz (O, Northwestern University) |
| “Dictatorship and repressed sexuality in «Blokes», by Lemebel and Rivas” Arcadio Bolaños (I, University of California-Davis) |
Session Block 2
11:30-12:45pm
| Latin American: Junctions and (Dis)Agreements |
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| “Agosto: la novela policíaco como cartografía criminal de las grandes urbes latinoamericanas” Susan Peñuela (O, Arizona State University) |
| “Syncretism in the afro-yoruba cultures in bahia-brazil: The candombe example, 1830-1930” Vitalis Nwashindu (I, UW-Milwaukee) |
| “Trayectorias narco-empresariales en Si me querés, quereme transa, de Cristian Alarcón” Elizabeth Massena (I, University of California-Irvine) |
| Break for lunch (provided in Memorial Union) 11:45-2:00pm |
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Session Block 3
2:00-3:15pm
| Cultural Studies: Cinema, Performance, and Testimony |
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| “Curating Disruption: Reflections on feminist film archiving from Peru” Gabriela Yepes-Rossel (I, UW-Madison) |
| “Auqa Chileno from Paucartambo: Performing In-betweeness for Mamacha Carmen” Andrea del Pilar Guzmán Giura (I, UW-Madison) |
| “Ethics and Esthetics of Refusal: listening to a Black mother’s voice in 20th century Cuba” Sarah Agou (O, University of Oregon) |
Session Block 4
3:30-4:45pm
| Linguistics in Navigation |
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| “Multiple Ways to Cross a Bridge: The Acquisition of Manner-Path Encoding by Brazilian Portuguese-English bilinguals” Jean Costa Silva (O, University of Georgia) |
| “Colombian Spanish Intonation: A comparison between Colombian Caribbean Spanish intonation in cities and towns” Estefania Galindo Navarro (I, UW-Madison) |
| “Memojis and Facial Cues to Lexical Prominence in L2 Spanish” Sebastian Leal-Arenas (O, University of Pittsburg) |
Keynote of Latin America Literature
5:00-6:30pm
| “Bartolina Sisa as Montage: Images of Indigenous Isurgency in the Andes” Dr. Tara Daly (Marquette University) |
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Day 2 – Saturday March 4, 2023
Main Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 988 1164 7208
(Backup Zoom Link & Meeting ID: 949 1022 8266)
Session Block 1
10:00-11:15am
| Of Monsters and Knights in Latin America |
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| “Anormalidades teratológicas familiares: génesis del monstruo en Pelea de gallos de María Fernanda Ampuero” Jordi Vargas (O, Arizona State Univeristy) |
| “La humanización monstruosa: Borges y la lectura empática en La casa de Asterión” Nikolas King (I, Ohio State University) |
| “The cavelier in rusted iron armor” Rocío González-Espresati Clement (I, UW-Madison) |
Keynote of Early Modern Literature
11:30-12:45pm
| “En torno al autor y su imagen, Quevedo” Dr. Pedro Ruiz Pérez (University of Córdoba) |
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| Break for lunch (provided in Memorial Union) 11:45-2:00pm |
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Session Block 2
2:00-3:15am
| Argentina and Peru: First Half of the 20th Century |
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| “Memoria multidireccional y danza en Chungui: horror sin lágrimas de Felipe Degregori” Carlos Torres Astocondor (I, University of California-Davis) |
| “Culpa y vergüenza en el cine de las sobrinas y los hijos: Alejandro Cárdenas, Teresa Arredondo e Isaac Ernesto Ruiz Velazco” María Claudia Huerta (O, University of California-Davis) |
| “Commemorative Palimpsests in Post-Authoritarian Argentina: The Case of ESMA” Emily Nelsen (I, University of California-Davis) |
Session Block 3
3:30-4:45pm
| Decoloniality: Borders and Indigenous Studies |
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| “On the documentation of San Sebastián Coatán Chuj” Seaira Lett (O, University of Georgia) |
| “Border crossers: Migration as a Permanent Border Crossing and Writing as a Form of Healing in the Memoir The Distance Between Us” Silvia Álvarez Trujillo (I, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) |
| “Provocaciones transculturadas: Nuevas expresiones del arte indígena en Latinoamérica” Pablo Pastore (I, UW-Madison) |
Keynote of Linguistics
5:00-6:30pm
| “Understanding the neurocognition of adult-learned langauge: Context, knowledge, and learners” Dr. Kara Morgan-Short (University of Illinois-Chicago) |
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Closing Reception
7:00-10:00pm
| Closing Reception at Fluno Center Monona Room, 8th floor (Room 819) 601 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53715 Food and beverages provided |
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