Insisting onModernity

Visions and Revisions in the Luso-Hispanic World

10TH GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCEDEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

April 18th and 19th, 20139:30 am-6:30 pm

Royce Hall 306

Diego Rivera. El hombre controlador del universo

Brown’s interests focus on issues of technology, science, global popular culture and Latin American cultural identity. He is the author of Cyborgs in Latin America (2010), and Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative (2005). Currently, he is working on a project that examines the aesthetics of sampling and mashups in recent Latin American narrative.

J. Andrew Brown Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Romance Language & Literature at Washington University in St. Louis

Koike specializes in the areas of Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Second Language Acquisition, particularly in the context of interaction. Her research centers on pragmatics as co-constructed in dialogue between native speakers of Spanish or Portuguese, and between adult language learners and native speakers. Her most recent major work is the co-edited volume Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in Functions and Contexts.

Dale Koike Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of Texas at Austin

Gallo is the author of Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (2010), an essay about Freud’s fantasies about Mexico. He has also published Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (2005), an essay about the Mexican avant-garde’s fascination with machines, and two other books about Mexico City’s visual culture. He is currently at work on a new book on Marcel Proust’s Latin Americans.

Rubén Gallo Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Princeton University

Location Royce Hall 306

Organizing Committee Ann Aly Bailey, Elizabeth Warren, Francesca Gambini, Julio Puente García, JyEun Son, Kaitlin Collins, Rafael Ramírez Mendoza, Willivaldo Delgadillo

Sponsored byUCLA Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities BoardUCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese UCLA Graduate Students AssociationUCLA Latin American Institute

Contacthttp://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/spgrconf/prt/Home.htmluclaspconference2013@gmail.com

Thursday, Apr i l 18th9:00-9:30 am - Breakfast

9:30 am - Opening remarksRandal Johnson Distinguished Professor & Chair | Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA

9:45-11:20 am - Panel 1: MODERN LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS

Kaitlin Collins (UCLA). “¡Habla La Raza! A study of Chicano English intonation”

Chase Wesley Raymond (UCLA). “The Epistemics of Culture-Brokering in the Interpreter-Mediated Medical Visit”

Hyunjee Yoon (University of Texas at Austin). “The interaction between HLS and L2L: A study on the use of Spanish subjunctive mood”

Ann Aly Bailey (UCLA). “Learner sensitivity to L2 phonetic features: How perceptual development can inform pedagogy”

11:20-11:30 am - Break

11:30-12:30 pm - Keynote SpeakerDALE KOIKE (University of Texas at Austin). “Changing Frames in Native Speaker and Learner Talk”

12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch break

1:30-2:45 pm - Panel 2: (POS)MODERNIDAD Y CIENCIA FICCIÓN

Lisa Locascio (University of Southern California). “'The Urban Geography of the Soul': Exile and Identity at Home in Roberto Bolaño’s Blanes”

Ezekiel Trautenberg (UCLA). “Memorias del horroroso Chile: el congelado presente de la pos-dictadura en Caja negra de Álvaro Bisama”

David Contreras (UC Irvine). “El estridentismo y el cyberpunk: una desmodernidad mexicana”

2:45-3:00 pm - Break

3:00-4:15 pm - Panel 3: MODERNIDAD EN LA PENÍNSULA

Kyle Lawton (Tulane University). “Diálogos con la nacionalidad: El caso de Mudarra en El moro expósito”

Juan Jesús Payán (UCLA). “Notas para una reformulación de lo fantástico desde la periferia: el caso decimonónico español”

Jared S. White (UC Irvine). “From Above, Looking Down: The Modernist Origins of the esperpento in Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s Los cuernos de don Friolera”

4:15-4:30 pm - Break

4:30-5:00 pm - UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Journals Presentations: Mester and Párrafo

5:00-6:00 pm - Keynote speakerJ. ANDREW BROWN (Washington University in St. Louis). “Remixing Latin America”

F r iday, Apr i l 19th9:30-10:00 am - Breakfast

10:00-11:15 am - Panel 4: SUBJETIVIDADES MODERNAS

Elizabeth Garcia-Guajardo (University of Texas at Austin). “Secular Spirituality: Integrating Spirit and Matter in Prose Works by Amado Nervo”

Benjamin H. Cluff (UC Irvine). “Deciphering Deserted Streets in the Modern Metropolis: The poet-flâneur in Borges's Fervor de Buenos Aires and Villaurrutia's Nostalgia de la muerte”

Cheri Robinson (UCLA). “The Home versus the Cell Block: Imprison-ment Narratives in Revueltas and Onetti”

11:15-11:30 am - Break

11:30 am-12:45 pm - Panel 5: LOS SONIDOS DE LA MODERNIDAD

Arno Argueta (University of Texas at Austin). “Con voz propia: La construcción de una audiotopía maya”

Natalia Bieletto-Bueno (UCLA). “Las carpas de barriada: La lucha por el control del espacio sonoro en la Ciudad de México en los años 1920s”

Michael Arnold (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities). “Daniel Alonso Mallén: A Case Study in Twenty-First-Century Indie Neofla-menco Hybrid Artistry”

12:45-2:00 pm - Lunch break

2:00-3:15 pm - Panel 6: MODERNIDAD EN EL CARIBE

Rafael Ramírez Mendoza (UCLA). “La modernidad como femme fatale en Amistad funesta de José Martí”

Sarah Quesada (Stanford University). “El corpus poético de un Caribe nerudiano”

Magda Matuskova (UCLA). “La plantación y la Revolución: el papel de la plantación en la obra de Reinaldo Arenas: La vieja Rosa, El Central y Arturo, la estrella más brillante”

3:15-3:30 pm - Break

3:30-4:45 pm - Panel 7: NACIÓN Y MODERNIDAD

Brenda Becerra-Anderson (University of Wisconsin-Madison). “Eduarda Mansilla and Sarmiento's journeys of modernity in the United States”

Daniela MacGregor Sevilla (University of Texas at Austin). “Vasconcelos’s Odyssey: The Fears of a Ulises Criollo (1935) and the Progress of National Identity”

Carolina Beltrán (UCLA). “Injun jinete and indio chauffeur: The Foreign, the Autochthonous and the Dialectical in Mariátegui’s ‘La civilización y el caballo’”

4:45-5:00 pm - Break

5:00-6:00 pm - Keynote speaker RUBÉN GALLO (Princeton University). “Los latino-americanos de Marcel Proust: vanguardias insólitas”

6:00 pm - Closing remarksMaarten van Delden Professor | Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA

6:30 pm - Reception