Transnationa(list) Mexico: Displacement, Migration, and Mobility
St. Mary’s Hall - Multipurpose Room
September 25-26, 2015
Sponsored by:
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The College of Arts and Humanities
9:30 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
10:00-11:30 Panel I: Transnational Literature
Oswaldo Estrada (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Cruces fronterizos y exilios de identidad en la literatura mexicana transnacional
José Ramón Ruisánchez (The University of Houston): Los justos, otra vez: una relectura de 2666
Pedro Ángel Palou (Tufts University): Fuentes, the Fate of a Public Intellectual in Times of Neoliberalism
11:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel II: Cultural Fluidity
Brian Price (Brigham Young University): Rasquache Fields Forever: La Santa Cecilia’s Migrant Beatles Cover
Manuel Gutiérrez Silva (Rice University): Aesthetics in Transit: Post-Revolutionary Mexican Art Writing and the Cross-Border Circulation of Visual Culture (Invited)
Craig Epplin (Portland State University): Mobility as Experiment
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 Panel III: Transnational Visual Culture
Stuart Day (The University of Kansas): Mexican Teatreros Who Shape Society
Shelley Garrigan (North Carolina State University): Mexican Jews, or Jewish Mexicans: Border Crossings in the Mexican Documentary Genre
Cynthia Steele (The University of Washington): Transnational Flows in Perils of the Soul (1961) by Calixta Guiteras Holmes and in Laberintos de la memoria (2007) by Guita Schyfter
5:30-6:45 Keynote Lecture
Rebecca Biron (Dartmouth College): Transnational(ist) Mexico: Migrant Meanings
7:00-9:00 Dinner and Concert by Pável Urquiza
9:00-10:30 Panel IV: Ideology and Space
Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis): El sublime objeto de la hegemonía: La ideología mexicana más allá de la identidad
Horacio Legrás (The University of California, Irvine): Disputes in Architectonic Design: From Colonialism to the Construction of the UNAM
Debra Castillo (Cornell University): Tag Text: Fran Ilich's Urban Landscapes
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Panel V: The Politics of Representation
Jaime Marroquín (Western Oregon University): Utopias from Greater Mexico: the Mexican Revolution as transnational political imagination
Rafael Acosta (The University of Kansas): Me dicen el más loco: Navegando discursos de legitimidad del bandidaje contemporáneo
Susan Antebi (The University of Toronto): Provisional Vulnerabilities: Revisiting Los hijos de Sánchez in the Neoliberal Era
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Panel VI: Sex, Gender, and Migration
Juan Rojo (Lafayette College): Get In and Get Out: Mexico, the U.S., and Transnational Sex
Analisa Taylor (The University of Oregon): Truth, Beauty, and Transnational Responsibility in Non-fictional Mexico
Valentina Napolitano (The University of Toronto): Enwalled and En-skinned: Catholicism and Gendered Transnational Migration in Rome.
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-5:30 Panel VII: Violence and the State
Aurelia Gómez (Haverford College): Nación, revolución y los discursos testimoniales de la guerrilla en México
Oswaldo Zavala (The College of Staten Island): La narconarrativa mexicana después de Ayotzinapa
Tamara Williams (Pacific Lutheran University): The State as Void: Exchange in Sara Uribe’s Antígona González
Gareth Williams (The University of Michigan): Paramilitarism, Stasis, and the Question of the Mexican Civil War
5:30 Concluding Remarks
5:45 Shuttle to dinner in Washington, DC
9:15 Return shuttle to College Park Marriott