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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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