READING
FEAR:
REPRESENTATIONS OF
FEAR
IN
ROMANCE
LITERATURES
Program
of Events
last updated 11/7/07
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Thursday, Nov.
8
Registration
2:00-4:00 pm (EMU-Rogue)
Welcome and Opening
remarks by Barbara Altmann (Head of Romance Languages) and Marian Friestad
(Vice Provost for Graduate Studies)
4:30-5:00 pm (Gerlinger Lounge)
Reception
5:30 pm (Gerlinger Lounge)
Musical Performance by Heliane and John
Friday, Nov. 9
Registration and Coffee
8:30-11:00 am (EMU-Rogue)
Session 1 (EMU)
9:30-11:00 am
Panel #1 (Alsea/Coquille)
"Women Confronting Fear"
1. Marcelo Mejía -Pérez (University of California, Santa
Barbara) "Nuevos espacios, nuevas identidades: Superación
del miedo y reconfiguración de la identidad en La viuda de María
Luisa Puga
2. Marilén Loyola (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "El dolor
de la palabra: Aprendiendo a/al ser en Pasos bajo el agua de Alicia Kozameh"
3. Paulo Henríquez Feest (University of Oregon) "Women Beyond
Fear: Sor Juana de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gómez Avellaneda y Emilia
Pardo Bazán"
Panel #2 (Metolious/Owyhee)
"Pre-hispanic and Colonial Fear"
1. María Teresa Grillo (University of British Columbia) "Tener
miedo al miedo. Las representaciones del valor y del miedo en la Crónica
Mexicana de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc"
2. Luis G. Portugal T. (University of Oregon) "El diablo en los sermones
y la pintura barroca andina. Una lectura de textos creados durante la
colonia para la evangelización o "extirpación de idolatrías"
Keynote address
11:30-12:30 pm (Gerlinger Lounge)
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford)
"Triumph over Fear: a Politics of Memory"
Reception and Light
Lunch
12:30-1:30 pm (Gerlinger Lounge)
Session 2
1:45-3:15 pm (EMU-Metolius/Owyhee)
"Religion and
Fear"
1. Jaime Peña (University of Oregon) "La transfiguración
mítica de la realidad y la violencia terrorista: Los universos
paralelos de Rosa Cuchillo"
2. Eric Luttrell (University of Oregon) "Tangible Damnation- Augustine's
City of God and the Cognitive Science of Religious Terror"
3. Stéphanie Walsh (University of Toronto) "La peur, la répression
et, enfin, le silence dans les Enfants du Sabbat et Le Diable en personne"
Session 3
3:30-5:00 pm (EMU)
Panel #1 (Metolius/Owyhee)
"Fear of the Passage of Time"
1. Mat Foust (University of Oregon) "Experience as a Prelude to Disaster:
American Philosophy and the Fear of Death"
2. Rebecca Morris (Bucknell University) "The Fear of the Adult in
the Story of a Child: The Search for the Father in A Wrinkle in Time"
Panel #2 (Alsea/Coquille)
"Fear and Humor"
1. Moshe Rachmuth (University of Oregon) "Fear of Taking Action in
Manzoni and Svevo"
2. Yossa Vidal Collados (University of Oregon) "La risa del miedo:
Humor Gráfico en Chile durante el tiempo de la dictadura"
3. Nicolino Applauso (University of Oregon) "Laughing at Fear and
the Fearful: Fear and the Ridiculous in Dante's Comedia"
Keynote address
5:30- 6:30 pm (Gerlinger Lounge)
Lino Pertile (Harvard)
"Uses of Fear from Dante to Primo Levi"
Saturday, Nov.
10
Registration and Coffee
8:30-11:00 am (EMU-Ballroom Foyer)
Session 4
9:30- 11:00 (EMU-Gumwood)
"Memory and Post-dictatorships"
1. Frida A. Oswald (University of California, Riverside) "Ruptura
del miedo: Memoria y testimonio"
2. Patrick Moneyang (University of Oregon) " Postcolonie et terreur:
une réedition de l'histoire? "
Session 5
11:15- 12:45 pm (EMU-Maple)
"Socialization and Sexual Identity"
1. Ricardo Montoya (University of Western Ontario) "The Fear of Adapting
Novels with Homosexuality Themes in Latin American filmmaking: The Case
of Francisco Lombardi's adaptation of Jaime Bayly's Novel No se lo digas
a nadie"
2. Ramon A. Fonkoué (University of Oregon) "Subversive Writing
and Resistance to Phallo(go)centrism in Nicole Brossard's Works"
Session 6
2:30- 4:00 pm (EMU)
Panel #1 (Maple)
"The Construction of Fear and Power"
1. Oana Cimpean (Louisiana State University) "The Spanish Civil War:
The Construction of the Fascist Hero in Drieu La Rochelle's Gilles"
2. Leah Pesola (University of Iowa) "Towards a Spatial Politics of
Paranoia: Architecturalised Subjectivity in Racine's Phèdre and
Britannicus"
3. Silvia Baage (University of Maryland, College Park) " Le role
de la radio dans La folie et la mort de Ken Brugul "
Panel #2 (Gumwood)
"Texts, Contexts and Fear"
1. Tania Zampini (McGill University) "Acedia: Tracing Fear and Social
Paralysis in Petrarch and Ficino"
2. Megan Kelly (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "Tragado
por la ciudad: El ansia urbana y el individuo en La desheredada"
Keynote address
4:15- 5:15 pm (Gerlinger Lounge)
Mabel Moraña (Washington University in St. Louis)
"The Sublime Object of Desire and the Tongues of Fear in Latin American
Narrative"
Reception (Gerlinger
Lounge)
5:30- 7:30 pm
Poetry Reading
Musical Performances
by:
- Nobuko Wingard:
"Nebbie"
- Alexis Smith: "Non
Dichiarato", "Da qualche parte siamo venuti"
- Evlyn Gould: "Cuando
el rey Nimrod", "Adio querida"
Sponsored by:
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
The Oregon Humanities Center
The Department of Romance Languages
The Department of English
The Office of the President
The Graduate School
The Latin American Studies Program
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences
The European Studies Program
The Department of Philosophy
The Program in Comparative Literature
The Women´s and Gender Studies and the Center for the Study of Women
in Society
The Department of Religious Studies
Organizing Committee: Nicolino Applauso, Blanca Aranda, Sonja S. Burrows,
Olivier Clarinval, Lisa DiGiovanni, Ramon A. Fonkoué, Ana Paulina
Mross, Virginia Piper, Luis G. Portugal, Jamie Richards
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