Brújula presents:

Critical Encounters and Textual Production in Latin America

An Interdisciplinary Conference at UC Davis
May 21-22, 2004

Brújula announces its first conference sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, the Department of Spanish and Classics, Graduate Studies, the Chicana Latina Research Center, and the Department of Native American Studies, at the University of California, Davis. “Brújula: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Encounter and Textual Production in Latin America” will be held in the Hemispheric Institute’s conference room, on May 21-22, 2004.

In accordance with the goals of the journal, Brújula, this conference intends to provide an interdisciplinary forum on encounter and its manifestations throughout history, literature, visual arts, politics, and culture in Latin America. The conference will open on the 21st with the projection of the short film La milpa, presented by its director Patricia Riggen. The scheduled panels are: “Revisiting Colonial America,” “Indigenous Ethnoscapes: Redefining Gender and Identity,” and “National Projects and Borderland Transgressions.” The presenters in the panels are international and local young scholars.

Program

Friday, May 21
At the C. N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall

4:10 pm - 5:50 pm
Presentation of La Milpa (2002) by Filmmaker Patricia Riggen

4:10 pm - 4:30 pm
Introduction by Stefano Varese and Patricia Riggen

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Showing of the film

5:00 pm - 5:50 pm
Comments by Sergio de la Mora, Fernando Socorro, and Amanda Morales, followed by open discussion

5:50 pm
Welcoming Reception—in the Hart Hall patio

Saturday, May 22
All events in the HIA Conference Room, 5214 Social Sciences and Humanities Building

9:15 am - 10:10 am
Keynote Speaker: Emilio Bejel, Chair, Department of Spanish & Classics, UC Davis
"El cuerpo y la diáspora en la política cubana"

10:10-10:30 am
Coffee break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Session 1, REVISITING COLONIAL AMERICA:

“Historias de la Conquista: los proyectos narrativos de Carlos Fuentes en El Naranjo y de Rosario Aguilar en La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies"
Isabel Anievas-Gamallo, San Joaquin Delta College

“Algunas reconsideraciones en torno a la expulsión de los jesuitas de México”
Eva María St. Clair, Universidad de Alicante (Spain)/UC Davis

"Elizabeth Bishop as Tour Guide to Brazil"
Marit J. MacArthur, UC Davis

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch break

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Session 2, INDIGENOUS ETHNOSCAPES: REDEFINING GENDER AND IDENTITY:

"Questioning Authenticity and Politics: A Comparative View of Indigenous Performances in Local and Global Stages"
Sylvia Escárcega, DePaul University

“Making a Difference: Mothers, Wives and Daughters in Zapotec Culture”
Dina Fachin, UC Davis

“Indigenous/Mestizo Identities and Performance in ChangingCcontexts: Urban Aymaras in Local and Global Contexts”
Rodolfo Meyer, UC Davis

3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Session 3, NATIONAL PROJECTS AND BORDERLAND TRANSGRESSIONS:

“Una mancha en la faz de la nación: los indígenas en la obra de Mario Vargas Llosa”
María Mercedes Ortiz, University of Iowa

“Vanished Presence: Encountering Disappearance in the Work of Doris Salcedo"
Elizabeth Adan, University of California, Santa Barbara

"La construcción de una nación cubana y los límites del discurso religioso en José Martí,"
Francisco Peña, UC Davis

“The Case of Emergent Cultural Innovation: A Transcultured, Border-Crossing Traveler”
Tony Ruiz, University of Washington/University of California San Diego

5:10 pm - 6: 00 pm
Showing of the short film Family Portrait (2004) by Patricia Riggen

Brújula gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Department of Spanish and Classics, UC Davis Division of Graduate Studies, Chicana Latina Research Center, and the Department of Native American Studies.

Click here for directions to the event locations and Conference hotel.