18th Colloquium Final Program
18th Colloquium Final Program
18th Colloquium Final Program
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Presented by
http://www.coloquiout.org
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We enthusiastically thank our sponsors, whose generous support
and contributions have enabled this colloquium:
Last but not least, we want to thank the members of the Graduate Student
Organization of our department for their support.
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She has also published nearly 100 articles and reviews, mostly in refereed
journals, and is frequently called on for invited lectures and distinguished
lecturer appointments in the US, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
With the theater troupe Teatrotaller, she has been honored to participate in
invited theater performances in various regional universities in the
northeast USA, as well as in Mexico, Belgium, and Canada.
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Prof. Castillo’s address will discuss the short story “Tijeretazos,” published
by Lina Meruane in Se habla español. Voces latinas en USA (2000). We are
deeply grateful to the author for allowing us the distribution of her short
story to our participants.
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Round Table
Guest Speaker:
Professor Alan West-Durán
Northeastern University
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In light of the 30th anniversary of Virgilio Piñera's death and the recent
death of Cintio Vitier on October, this round table will reflect on the
contrasting careers and legacies of these two Cuban intellectuals whose
early work is associated with the Revista Orígenes (1944-1956). Although
both Piñera and Vitier were key contributors to José Lezama Lima's
influential journal, their poetic sensibilities and cultural theories clashed
severely and eventually helped polarize and split the Orígenes project.
Piñera's and Vitier's feud continued in dueling essays and poems
throughout the 1950s (in José Rodríguez Feo's "antiorigenista" journal
Ciclón) and into the 1960s and 70s (in Cabrera Infante's Lunes de Revolución
cultural magazine, among other publications). Piñera and Vitier have
remained antagonistic literary icons in Cuba up to this day. This legendary
battle-of-the-poets has deeply impacted most of the cultural policy and the
work of various generations of writers that have emerged throughout the
Cuban Revolution.
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Alan West-Durán was born in Cuba and grew up in Puerto Rico. He is the
author of Dar nombres a la lluvia/Finding Voices in the Rain, which won the
Latino Literature Prize for Poetry (1996), as well as a book of essays, Tropics
of History: Cuba Imagined (1997). He worked on the Caribbean segment of
the first CD-ROM on Latinos in the United States (1995) and the first
scholarly CD-ROM on Caribbean literature: Literature of the Spanish
Caribbean to 1900 (1998) jointly with Antonio Benítez-Rojo. He has
translated works by Alejo Carpentier, Rosario Ferré, Nelly Richard, and
Luisa Capetillo, and is the editor-in-chief of two reference works, African
Caribbeans: A Reference Guide (2003) and Latino and Latina Writers (2004).
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Round Table
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Special Lecture
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18th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Texas at Austin
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Welcome Remarks
Professor Nicolas Shumway
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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Round Table
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Keynote Address
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Open Mic
7:30 – 10:00 pm
Gabriel’s Café (AT&T Conference Center @ UT)
1900 University Ave., Austin TX
(two blocks south from Benedict)
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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Lunch Break
12:30 – 1:20 pm | Benedict Hall (Room 2.102)
Lunch Provided
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Round Table
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Special Lecture
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La Poderosa Media Project Presents
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Panel 23 | A reconstrução da identidade e da memória na África e no
Brasil
3:50 – 4:50 pm | Chicano Culture Room (Texas Union 4.206)
Moderator: Prof. Omoniyi Afolabi
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Keynote Address
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Dinner banquet
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