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Mexican Itineraries for the Twenty-First Century: (Re)locating Literature, Culture and the Nation

Oct. 10-12, 2012

Organized by The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, October 10

Opening Event “From Comala to Santa Teresa: Mexican Literature of the New Century” Writer Juan Villoro in Conversation Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York 211-215 E. 49th St. 7:00 pm

THURSDAY, October 11

All events take place at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Martin Segal Theater

Registration and coffee 9:00 am -10:00 am

First Session: Mexico Seen from the Outside 10:00 am – 11:20 am

• Ryan Long, University of Oklahoma: “México lindo y querido: Territories of

Presence and Absence in Roberto Bolaño’s Poetics” • Manuel Broncano, Texas A&M International: “‘Hell, there’s No God in

Mexico’: Cormac McCarthy’s Mexican Representations”

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• Sarah Pollack, College of Staten Island, CUNY: “The Tradditore in the North: The Politics of Mexican Narrative in Translation in the U.S.”

Second Session: Cinema, Television and the Crisis of Representation 11:30 am – 12:50 pm

• Pedro Ángel Palou, Tufts University: “Por qué es imposible filmar Pedro

Páramo. Juan Rulfo y la crisis del proyecto nacional” • Debra Castillo, Cornell University: “Rasquache Mockumentary: Alex Rivera’s

‘Why cybraceros?’” • Irma Cantú, Texas A&M International: “Las chicas del cartel: panorámica de la

narco-representación del sujeto femenino en la TV mexicana” LUNCH BREAK 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Third Session: Of Detectives and Narcos 3:00 pm – 4:20 pm

• Juan de Dios Vázquez, New York University: “The Zetas’ Writing Lesson” • Pablo Piccato, Columbia University: “The Truth About Detective Novels:

Readers, Justice and Crime in Mexico in the Middle Decades of the Twentieth Century”

• Froylán Enciso, State University of New York, Stony Brook: “El origen del narco según la intelectualidad sinaloense”

Fourth session: Imaginaries of Violence in Art, Cinema and Television 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

• Paul Julian Smith, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Historias de la violencia televisiva: Drenaje profundo (Azteca, 2010) Gritos de muerte y libertad (Televisa, 2010)”.

• Patricia Torres San Martín, Universidad de Guadalajara: “Cultura fílmica, experiencia cinematográfica y su relación con las propuestas fílmicas contemporáneas”

• Rubén Gallo, Princeton University: “Teresa Margolles’s Installations, Mexico, and Violence”

KEYNOTE CONFERENCE: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Mauricio Tenorio, University of Chicago

FRIDAY, October 12

All events take place at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Martin Segal Theater

Registration and coffee 9:00-10:00 am

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First Session: The (Mexican) Century of Intellectuals 10:00 am – 11:20 am

• Viviane Mahieux, University of California at Irvine: “El coleccionista del pasado. Héctor de Mauleón y el archivo hecho crónica”

• Adela Pineda, Boston University: “Intellectuals and the Changing Politics of Mexico’s Revolutionary Past”

• Rafael Lemus, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Intelectuales 2012: elecciones, redes sociales y opinión en México”

Second Session: Verses and Tradition 11:30 am – 12:50 pm

• Tamara Williams, Pacific Lutheran University: “Invocaciones, letanías, trailers

góticos y vampiros: La ética y el imaginario poético en la patria espeluznante” • José Ramón Ruisánchez, University of Houston: “Las palabras y las cosas:

Fabio Morábito” • Oswaldo Estrada, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “Versos que hacen

historia: Daniel Sada y el corrido de Rosita Alvírez” LUNCH BREAK: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Third Session: Visual Operations and the Real 3:00 pm – 4:20 pm

• Manuel Gutiérrez, Rice University: “La mirada ‘desmoderna’: El mito de Ulises y las artes visuales en la obra de Roger Bartra”

• Horacio Legrás, University of California at Irvine: “Las artes de reproducción mecánica ante la ausencia de lo real”

• Susan Antebi, University of Toronto “Accounting for Disability in Mexico: Teletón and the Infantilization of Capital”

Fourth session: Rethinking Mexican Studies 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

• Samuel Steinberg, University of Southern California: “Post-Politics and Impopular Critique in Octavio Paz”

• Oswaldo Zavala, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Post-Narco Analytics: The Mexican State and the Power Logics of Drug Trade”

• Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University at St. Louis: “El impasse liberal: mexicanismo, identidad y orden simbólico”

KEYNOTE CONFERENCE: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Maarten Van Delden, University of California at Los Angeles: “Izquierda y derecha en el debate intelectual mexicano”

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CLOSING RECEPTION 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages Lounge, Rm. 4.116 The Graduate Center, CUNY

Conference Organizing Committee

• Magdalena Perkowska, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY

• Araceli Tinajero, City College & The Graduate Center, CUNY

• Paul Julian Smith, The Graduate Center, CUNY

• María Lebedev, The Graduate Center, CUNY

• Rafael Lemus, The Graduate Center, CUNY

• José del Valle, The Graduate Center, CUNY

• Oswaldo Zavala, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY

With the Generous Support of:

• The Graduate Center, CUNY: The Ph.D Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian

Literatures and Languages

• Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York

• The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York

• Baruch College, CUNY: The Paul André Feit Memorial Fund and The Globus Lecture Series

• The College of Staten Island, CUNY: The Certificate in Latin American,

Caribbean and Latino Studies; the Department of World Languages and Literatures; and the International Studies Program

• Hunter College, CUNY: Department of Romance Languages

• City College of New York, CUNY: Department of Foreign Languages and

Literatures