This international Conference includes three keynote addresses by two Full Professors and a professional author: • Sophia MCCLENNEN, Pennsylvania State University: “Life in the Red Zone, Or the Geographies of Neoliberalism” • José Ángel ASCUNCE ARRIETA, University of Deusto, San Sebastián: “Exilio y emigración: Conceptos y vivencias para la reflexión” • Belén GOPEGUI, Spanish writer: “Lenguaje y poder”
The second part of the Conference comprises individual presentations in 70 concurrent panels, both in English and Spanish, by scholars and graduate students of Hispanic studies from universities in the USA, Europe and Latin America. The presentations will deal with the literatures of Spain and Latin America of all periods, many of them from a transatlantic perspective. Among the panels are:
Latin American History and (Mis)Remembering, Border Stories, Rethinking Latin American Female Discourse, Contemporary Women’s Narrative in Spain, African Migration to Spain, Global Productions: Transnationalism and Latin America, Trafficking I - Straits, Sex, Texts, Discourses and Redemption in Spanish Medieval Culture, Hybridity and Identity in Junot Díaz, Transnational Latino Identity, Teaching Spanish in the 21st Century, In the Margins of Mexico’s Imagined Communities; Identity, Representation and Intellectuals in Afro-Latin American Literature.
All the keynote addresses, presentations and panels will be open to the public. For more details, please check the program in the Conference web site: http://www.unl.edu/modlang/content/machl.shtml
Co-Sponsors: Research Council, Convocations Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Film Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latino and Latin American Studies, Judaic Studies, Teaching, Learning and Teaching Education, Global Studies, English, History, Political Science, 19th-Century Studies Program, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Sociology.
