International Conference

BODIES IN TRANSIT: VIOLENCE,

CONFLICT, HEALING

8-9 October 2015

University of Huelva

‘Bodies in Transit’ Coordinated

Projects FFI2013-47789-C2-1-P &

FFI2013-47789-C2-2-P

Financiado:

Aula de Grados de la Facultad de Humanidades

Organiza:

Colabora:

Máster en Género, Identidad y Ciudadanía

Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitario

en Estudios Interdisciplinares de Género

Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitario

en Lenguas y Culturas

Más información:

www.bodiesintransitproject.com

Doctoral Seminar

PROGRAM

Wednesday 7 October 19:00-20:30 General Meeting

Members of ‘Bodies in Transit’ Coordinated Projects only

Thursday 8 October

9:00 Opening Remarks/Bienvenida

Pilar Cuder-Domínguez/Belén Martín Lucas 9:30-11:00 Towards the Posthuman

Chair: Belén Martín-Lucas

“Manipulated Bodies and Vulnerability in Popular Science Fiction Cinema” Rocío Carrasco (Universidad de Huelva)

“‘The Amazing Thing about the Miracle is not that No one’s Dying, It's not that the Human Race has Become Immortal. It's that it Happened to Everyone at the Same Time.’ Transiting Bodies in Torchwood – Miracle Day (2011)” Rubén Jarazo Álvarez (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

“Bodies in Transit, from Postfeminist Assimilation to Feminist Hybridity” Belén Martín-Lucas (Universidade de Vigo)

11:00-11:30 Break/Descanso 11:30-14:00 Atlantic Passages

Chair: Mar Gallego

“Linkages: Transatlantic Poetic Imagination and the Black Body from Phillis Wheatley to Patience Agbabi” Manuela Coppola (Università della Calabria)

“Cartographies of Struggle and Survival: Mapping the Black Female Body across the Diaspora”

Silvia Castro Borrego (Universidad de Málaga)

“‘O, You Happy Free Women, Hear a Poor Bond-woman!’: Slavery Legacy and Female Counterdiscourse in Jacobs and Morrison” Mar Gallego (Universidad de Huelva)

"‘The Black [Sexualized] Body in Transit. Venus Noire or Sara Baartman on the Screen’"

María Frías Rudolphi (Universidade da Coruña) 14:00-15:30 Lunch/Almuerzo 15:30-17:00 Docile Bodies

Chair: Beatriz Domínguez García

“Performing the Magdalen Body: Corporeality and Engagement in Irish Visual Art” Auxiliadora Pérez Vides (Universidad de Huelva)

“Bodies in Transit: Poverty, Prostitution and the Neo-Victorian in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)” María Isabel Romero (Universidad de Málaga)

“Atkinson’s Life After Life: Re-Living the Past, Re-Ordering the Future” Beatriz Domínguez García (Universidad de Huelva)

17:00-17:30 Break/Descanso 17:30-19:30 Corporalidad y violencia

Chair: Rosa García Gutiérrez

“Expiación y fundación: los cuerpos desnudos de Frida Kahlo” Rosa García Gutiérrez (Universidad de Huelva)

“¿Nuevos cuerpos, cuerpos reciclados? La propuesta de cuerpo en papel, sombras y sexo a partir de un best seller” Julián Vázquez Robles (IFS – CCHS – CSIC Madrid)

“Violencia política, corporalidad y resistencia: Juana Doña, Lidia Falcón y Lola Canales” Cinta Ramblado-Minero (University of Limerick)

“Letras escarlata: reivindicación del cuerpo femenino y transgresión en la literatura gallega contemporánea” Mª Teresa Bermúdez Montes (Universidade de Vigo)

Friday 9 October 9:30-11:00 (M)othering

Chair: Antonia Navarro Tejero

“Women, Mothers and Failing Men: Filming East Timor” David Callahan (Universidade de Aveiro)

“Neglectful Motherhood in Dorothy Nelson’s In Night’s City” Mª Elena Jaime de Pablos (Universidad de Almería)

“Childbirth and Power in India: The Dai Subaltern Values Her Work” Antonia Navarro Tejero (Universidad de Córdoba)

11:00-11:30 Break/Descanso 11:30-13:00 Trauma, Memory, Forgetting

Chair: John Havelda

“Merlinda Bobis's Fish-Hair Woman: Bodies That Tell Ephemeral but Paradoxically Unforgettable Stories” Dolores Herrero (Universidad de Zaragoza)

“My Voice is an Open Wound: Violence and Trauma in Latino and Caribbean Literature in the U.S. in Edwidge Danticat and Daniel Alarcón” Cinta Mesa González (Universidad de Huelva)

“Toppling the Propaganda: Contemporary Art and the Invasion of Iraq”

John Havelda (Universidade de Coimbra) 13:00-13:15 Break/Descanso 13:15-14:15 Queer Connections

Chair: Carolina Núñez-Puente

“Queering Muslim Diasporas” Alberto Fernández Carbajal (University of Leicester)

“From the Difference of Feminist Posthumanism to Queer Affective Coalitions” Carolina Núñez-Puente (Universidade da Coruña)

14:15-15:30 Lunch 15:30-17:00 Migrations and Ethics

Chair: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

“Women’s Bodies and the Ethical Discourses of Migration” Liam Connell (University of Brighton)

“Blogging, Hair-braiding and Identity: Representations of Race and Gender in Adichie’s Americanah” Margarida Pereira Martins (CEAUL/ULICES)

“Memorializing Black Canadian History: Bodies and Transits” Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (Universidad de Huelva)

17:00-17:30 Break/Descanso 17:30-19:00 (Post-) Imperial Ties

Chair: James Procter

“‘In Transit between Suffering and Extinction: Animals and Humans in Walton Ford’s Post-Imperial Painting’” Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes)

“Metal Affect/Alien Bodies” Alex Casper (Anglia Ruskin University)

“Bodies of Evidence, Disembodied Voices and the Diasporic Archive: West Indian Radio Literature, 1939-1968” James Procter (Newcastle University)

19:00 Closing Remarks

Mar Gallego