Virtual Kaleidoscope

Welcome to Kaleidoscope 2021 online! We are excited for you to join us on zoom. The conference will use the same zoom link across panels and keynotes on both days.

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Kaleidoscope Program

“I” denotes the speaker is planning to attend in person, “O” denotes online participation. Presentation modalities may change.

Friday, October 8, 2021

Note: Click on each panel to find more information about each presentation ☟

  • Ellen W. Sapega, Chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese (I)
  • David J. Hildner, Professor Emeritus (O)
  • Co-Chairs: Felipe Moraga, Luke Urbain, L. Fernando-Vázquez (I)
  • Jacob Wilkenfield (O, Northwestern University), “Wrestling with Religion in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) and Moacyr Scliar’s Os Deuses de Raquel [The Gods of Raquel] (1975)”
  •  Mariana Oliveira (O, UW-Madison), “Brazil meets Cape Verde in the poetry of Jorge Barbosa”
  • Arcadio Bolaños (I, UC-Davis), “Uprooted affection in ‘El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve’, by García Márquez”
  • Moderator: Levi Cross (I, UW-Madison)
  • María Hernández González (O, University of Florida), “La identidad cultural mexicana a través de la violencia en Cartucho de Nellie Campobello”
  • Edgar Ulloa Lujan (O, Georgetown University), “La ‘Estética Narco-orientalista’ en el cine mexicano desde 1920 hasta nuestros días: la representación cinematográfica estereotipada y negativa del chivo expiatorio en el mundo del narcotráfico”
  • Sabina Madrid-Malloy (I, UW-Madison), “Remembering and Reclaiming Humanity in Violeta Luna’s Requiem Series”
  • Moderator:  L. Fernando Vázquez (I, UW-Madison)
  • Rachelle Wilson (O, UW-Madison), “Species Loneliness: the deconstruction of self, nature and employment in post – 2008 Spain”
  • Romy Yanahí Cerón Canché (O, University of Arizona), “Subjetividad indígena y privatización del agua en sus territorios”
  • Jamie de Moya-Cotter (I, UW-Madison), “Andean Futures: Interspecies Place-Making and Slow Violence in Óscar Catacora’s Wiñaypacha
  • Moderator: Pablo Pastore (I, UW-Madison)
  • Mónica Vega González (O, University of Indiana, Bloomington), “Reconstruyendo el espacio en movimiento: una apuesta creativa para expandir el concepto de Latinidad
  • Analiz Faife Casas (O, University of Florida), “Un rizoma latinoamericano: la mujer indígena”
  • Ariel Arjona (O, University of Minnesota Twin Cities), “Ontología del ser revolucionario en Cuba desde 1959”
  • Moderator: Pedro de Jesús Gonzales Durán (UW-Madison)

Yomaira C. Figueroa (O), Associate Professor of Global Diaspora Studies, Michigan State University, “Decolonizing Diasporas & Reading Afro-Atlantics in Relation”

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Note: Click on each panel to find more information about each presentation ☟

  • Carlos Andrés Rojas (I, UW-Madison), “Computerized Pronunciation Training of Spanish Rhotics”
  • Erwin Lares (I, UW-Madison), “Loss of Aspectual Features in Idiomatic Phrases”
  • Moderator: ​​Álex Lara (I, UW-Madison)

Patrícia Amaral (O), Associate Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington, “Fake Facts and True Feats in the History of Spanish and Portuguese”

  • McKenna Middleton (O, University of California Irvine), “The Maternal Repertoire in Mercé Rodoreda’s La Plaza del Diamante
  • Ana María Tudela Martínez (I, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), “Las que se atrevieron: Some Examples of the Internalization of the Exiled Sentiment”
  • Jenny Jeong (I, UW-Madison),  “Querying Motherhood: Cornelia’s Breastfeeding Scene in Cervantes’ La Señora Cornelia
  • Moderator: Sabina Madrid-Malloy (I, UW-Madison)
  • Brayan Serratos (O, Vanderbilt University), “La transculturación de la iconografía en los manuscritos mexicanos: la reproducción del guerrero vencido a través de varios documentos precolombinos y textos coloniales”
  • Rudy Pradenas (O, University of Michigan), “Francisco de Vitoria y el origen del gobierno. Teología, derecho y desarraigo en el Nuevo Mundo”
  • Matías Larramendi-Salvat (I, University of Michigan), “La acumulación primitiva en las colonias americanas: una breve conversación entre De Acosta y Marx”
  • Moderator: Denise Castillo (I, UW-Madison)
  • Alexander Korte (O, University of Minnesota Twin Cities), “A Foot on Both Shores: Renegades and Religion in Cervantine captivity tales”
  • Mark Radomski (O, UW-Madison), “El río Guadalquivir como protagonista central en el Recibimiento que hizo la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de Sevilla a la C.R.M. del rey D. Felipe II
  • John Giblin (I, UW-Madison), “Picaresque Actors: Linguistic Self-Fashioning in El viaje entretenido by Agustín de Rojas Villandrando”
  • Jorge Hernández (I, UW-Madison), “Subjetividad e individualidad en el “estudiado descuido” epistolar de Garcilaso de la Vega”
  • Moderator: Jenny Jeong (I, UW-Madison)

Enrique García Santo-Tomás (O), Professor of Early Modern Spanish Literature, University of Michigan, “Comunidad y origen en Madrid llorando (1691) de Francisco Santos”

7:00-10:00pm CT: Reception in Fluno Center (Greek Multicultural Room, 8th Floor)

601 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715-1035

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