Relocations and Translated Identities:
Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the
Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Worlds

February 16-17, 2006
14th Annual University of New Mexico
Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with generous support from:

Office of the President, UNM
College of Arts and Sciences, UNM
Spanish Resource Center / Centro Español de Recursos, UNM
Center for Regional Studies, UNM
Latin American and Iberian Institute, UNM
Feminist Research Institute, UNM
Tey Diana Rebolledo
Spanish Colonial Research Center, National Park Service & UNM
Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, UNM
Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies, UNM
Department of Foreign Language and Literatures, UNM
International Studies Institute, UNM
El Centro de la Raza, UNM Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce

Keynote Speaker:
Frances Aparicio
"Cultural Twins and National Others"

Conference Program

Thursday, February 16, 8:00-8:30, Ortega 322 (Lounge)
Registration and Coffee

Thursday, February 16, 8:30-9:45, Ortega 335
Panel 1: Perspectivas de la globalización en la literatura y cultura latinoamericanas: I
Moderator: Ricardo Moreira

    • "Performing (post) Structures of Class in Diablo guardián”
      Angela Marino Segura
      University of New Mexico

    • "Diaspora and the Post-Modern Subject: Violetta’s (De) Construction of Identity in Xavier Velasco’s Diablo guardián”
      Kiley Guyton
      University of New Mexico

    • "Cultura de consumo, influência social e comportamento em La noche es virgen (1997) de Jaime Bayly”
      Ricardo Antônio Moreira
      University of New Mexico

Thursday, February 16, 8:30-9:45, Ortega 435
Panel 2: History, the Church, and Migration in the Northern Frontier
Moderator: Miguel López Lozano UNM

    • “Exilic Displacement and Return: Battles of Ethnic Signification in La Conquistadora”
      Ellen McCracken
      University of California Santa Barbara

    • “‘Today, I take pen in hand to relate some impressions of America’: Spanish Carmelite Narratives of Migration, Exile and Diaspora in early Arizona, 1912-1929.”
      Dolores Rivas Bahti
      University of Arizona

    • "Presente! Father Luis Olivares and the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles--a Study of Faith, Ethnic Identity, and Ecumenism”
      Mario T. Garcia
      University of California Santa Barbara

Thursday, February 16, 10:00-11:15, Ortega 335
Panel 3: Caribbean Diasporic Lives
Moderator: Teresa Dovalpage, University of New Mexico

    • "Domestic Violence in Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Pérez: La ‘Pasión’ de Rebecca”
      Melba I. Amador
      University of New Mexico

    • "Memory and Masquerade: The Performance of Exile in José Triana's La fiesta”
      Isabel Carolina Caballero
      Regis University

    • Sex Travelers: Jineteras and Tourists in Recent Cuban Fiction
      Patricia Catoira
      Montana State University-Bozeman

Thursday, February 16, 10:00-11:15, Ortega 435
Panel 4: Mexico y la dislocación: La encrucijada de la globalización
Moderator: Olga Ríos-Soria, University of New Mexico

    • “Mujeres en tránsito, identidad femenina en el cine mexicano de los noventas"
      Claudia Montoya
      Midwestern State University

    • "Identities in-between: Los fronterizos y la frontera en El jardín del Edén de María Novaro”
      Consuelo Navarro
      Virginia State University

    • “La autopista de los no-sueños: Viaje y nostalgia en Rainbows at Seven Eleven de Luis Arturo Ramos”
      Leila Lehnen
      University of New Mexico

Thursday, February 16, 11:30-11:45, Ortega 335
WELCOME

Thursday, February 16, 1:00-2:30, Ortega 435
Panel 5: The Making and Remaking of History through Narratives of Travel
Moderator:

    • "Viajeros, héroes y mártires. Los relatos de viajes científicos en Argentina y la imaginaciÓn de la nación moderna”
      Leila Gomez
      University of Colorado, Boulder

    • "Viajeros ingleses e historias americanas: nuevas construcciones del mito patagónico”
      Sandra Garabano
      University of Texas, El Paso

    • "Una interrogación sobre el viaje del descubrimiento: Colombina descubierta de Alicia Freilich”
      Marcela J. Pardes
      Temple University

    • "Sobre aquella otra lengua del ridículo: el capítulo canadiense de Sirena Selena vestida de pena "
      Juan Pablo Rivera
      Harvard University

Thursday, February 16, 1:00-2:30, Ortega 335
Panel 6: Diáspora y Migración en la vida y obra de Elena Garro
Moderator: Patricia Rosas Lopategui, University of New Mexico

    • “Una historia de ostracismo, entre el escándalo y la vida privada”
      Martha Santillán
      Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    • "La ficcionalización del exilio en 'Andamos huyendo Lola’”
      Robert K. Anderson
      Brigham Young University

    • “Expatriadas internas en Los recuerdos del porvenir de Elena Garro”
      Jorge Estrada
      University of New Mexico

    • “El exilio en la obra Sócrates y los gatos de Elena Garro”
      Josie Bortz
      Appalachian State University

Thursday, February 16, 2:45-4:00, Ortega 435
Panel 7: Identities in Recent Latin American Theater: Borrowed, Globalized, and in Crisis
Moderator: Sarah M. Misemer, Texas A&M University

    • “Borrowed Identities: Performing the Dominican Diaspora"
      Camilla Stevens
      Rutgers University

    • “‘Serena danza del olvido’ de Héctor Levy Daniel: Escenas dislocadas de la Argentina de postdictadura”
      Paola Hernández
      University of Wisconsin-Madison

    • “Still in Crisis? Gabriel Peveroni’s El hueco (tribus urbanas)”
      Sarah M. Misemer
      Texas A&M University

Thursday, February 16, 2:45-4:00, Ortega 335
Panel 8: Indigenous Cultural Negotiations in Urban Migration and Globalization
Moderator: María Dolores Gonzales, University of New Mexico

    • "En busca del nuevo El Dorado: El éxodo andino en la literatura peruana”
      Ismael P. Márquez
      University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

    • “Reading Music to Locate Culture: The Negotiation of Identity in Indo-Spanish America”
      Robert A. Neustadt
      Northern Arizona University

    • “Earth-centered Resistance: Lila Downs and the Tree of Life”
      Colleen Kattau
      Cortland College

Thursday, February 16, 4:15-5:30, Ortega 435
Panel 9: Trans/Des/identidades en la poesía de exilio: Paraguay y Cuba
Moderator: Jesús J. Barquet

    • “‘Nada es lo mismo, ni lo será mañana': Alienación y nostalgia en Destierro y atardecer"
      José F. Bañuelos
      University of New Mexico

    • “Lectura comentada de Naufragios”
      Jesús J. Barquet
      New Mexico State University

    • “Lectura comentada de Movimientos metálicos para juguetes abandonados”
      Carlota Caulfield
      Mills College

Thursday, February 16, 4:15-5:30, Ortega 335
Panel 10: Perspectivas de la globalización en la literatura y cultura latinoamericanas: II
Moderator: Susana Rivera, University of New Mexico

    • "In Search of Gardel’s Guitar: Representing the Transhispanic Musical Nation"
      Gerard Dapena
      Macalester College

    • “`Death’ of the Family in a Postmodern World: Reconstruction of the Self through Consumption in Xavier Velasco’s Diablo guardián (2003)”
      Angélica Sánchez-Clark
      University of New Mexico

    • "Mundo can: Globalización y violencia en Amores perros”
      Jeremy L. Lehnen
      University of New Mexico

Friday, February 17, 8:00-8:30, Ortega 322 (Lounge)
Registration and Coffee

Friday, February 17, 8:30-9:45, Ortega 435
Panel 11: Crónicas y épicas de comunidad y encuentro transatlántico: Siglos XVI y XVII
Moderator: Sara Vicuña-Guengerich, University of New Mexico

    • "La triple comunidad en las Relaciones de Chimalpahin”
      Valerie Benoist
      Grinnell College

    • "Pilgrimage and Liberty in Early Creole Epics: From Allegorical Displacement and Migration in El Peregrino Indiano to a Literal Migrant
      Community in the History of New Mexico"
      Pedro Cebollero
      University of Missouri

    • "Ocupar la tierra que ‘jamás cristianos pies pisaron’: poesía épica y geografía en las fronteras del imperio español americano"
      Celia López-Chávez
      University of New Mexico

Friday, February 17, 8:30-9:45, Ortega 335
Panel 12: Female Displacement and Self-Definition
Moderator: Héctor Contreras, University of New Mexico

    • “California Dreaming in the Nineteenth-Century: Reinvented Identities in Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune”
      Sharon L. Reeves
      Queensborough Community College (CUNY)

    • "Las migraciones internas de Claribel Alegría: El ir y venir en Saudades y Soltando amarras”
      Nury Nuila-Stevens
      Saint Meinrad School of Theology

    • "Mujer, identidad y nación en Madre que estás en los cielos de Pablo Simonetti”
      Andrea Parada
      State University of New York, Brockport

Friday, February 17, 10:00-11:15, Ortega 435
Panel 13: Roots Lost, Found and Recreated
Moderator: Ime Kerlee, University of New Mexico

    • "China and Peru in the Short Stories of the Chinese-Peruvian Writer Siu Kam Wen"
      Jenny Lin-Martínez
      Queensborough Community College (CUNY)

    • “La pérdida de las raíces y del arraigo en dos novelas de Marco Tulio Aguilera”
      Peter G. Broad
      Indiana University of Pennsylvania

    • "From the Main Land to the Island: Transnational Displacements and Symbolic Return to the Hispanic Caribbean"
      Sonia Rey-Montejo
      University of Colorado

Friday, February 17, 10:00-11:15, Ortega 335
Panel 14: Jewish Diasporic Identities in Argentina and Cuba
Moderator: Kimberle S. López

    • "The Perceptions of History and Her-Story in Por el cielo y más allá (2000) (Cap al cel obert) (1999)”
      Emilio Ramón
      Siena College

    • “An Argentine in Paris: Alicia Dujovne Ortiz from Exile to Immigrant”
      Kimberle López
      University of New Mexico

Friday, February 17, 11:30-12:15, Ortega 335
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
"Cultural Twins and National Others"
Frances Aparicio
University of Illinois, Chicago

Friday, February 17, 12:15-1:00, Ortega 322 Lounge
Lunch

Friday, February 17, 1:00-2:30, Ortega 435
Panel 15: Discourses of Identity of the Relocated Subject
Moderator: Judy Maloof, University of New Mexico

    • "Literary Relocations: Transnational Dimensions of Multicultural Interaction in the Fiction of Junot Díaz and Sandra Cisneros”
      Steve Bell
      University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

    • "En las oscuras fronteras de dos casas letradas: ‘El entierro de un hijo pródigo’ en Down These Mean Streets”
      Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz
      University of New México

Friday, February 17, 1:00-2:30, Ortega 435
Panel 16: Maroons, Jongueiros, Garífunas, Intelectuals & the Dislocations of Culture
Moderator: Paul Firbas, Princeton University

    • "The Place of Maroons in Colonial Geographies: Law, History and Poetry”
      Paul Firbas
      Princeton University

    • "Garifuna Music, Cultural History & Global Intellectual Production, 1847-2005”
      Michael Stone
      Princeton University

    • "Palenque Pictures: Reflections on the Place of Maroon Societies in Gutiérrez Alea’s La última cena (1976) and Carlos Diegues’ Quilombo (1984)”
      Dylon Robbins
      Princeton University

    • “Words in Alternative Locations: ‘Jongos’ and the Shift from Folklorism to Cultural History in Brazil”
      Pedro Monteiro
      Princeton University

Friday, February 17, 2:45-4:00, Ortega 435
Panel 17: Nineteenth-Century Ideological Travel Writing
Moderator: Jeremy Lehnen, University of New Mexico

    • “Spanish Women Travel Writers and the End of the Spanish Empire in America”
      Jennifer Jenkins Wood
      Scripps College

    • "The Western Canal and the Dread Torrent: José María Heredia as Travel Writer”
      Frederick Luciani
      Colgate University

    • “Ghosts in the Representational Machine: Geographical and Ideological Itineraries in 19th-Century Travelogues Regarding Peru”
      Shannon Butler
      Marshall University

Friday, February 17, 2:45-4:00, Ortega 335
Panel 18: The Experience of Exile in Argentine Literature
Moderator: Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico

    • "Liminality and Translations in Latin America’s Southern Cone Exile Literature"
      Michelle Wilson
      University of Nevada

    • “Figuras de la autobiografía en Maldición eterna a quién lea estas páginas (1980) de Manuel Puig”
      María Inés Cisterna Gold
      University of Massachusetts, Boston

    • "Alternative Perspectives: Memory, Exile, and Creativity in Luisa Valenzuela’s La travesía”
      Erica Yozell
      Moravian College

Friday, February 17, 4:15-5:30, Ortega 435
Panel 19: Languages of Displacement and Alterity: Camerún, Brazil and Puerto Rico
Moderator: Margo Milleret, University of New Mexico

    • De Camerún a Galicia: el discurso contestatario de Calela sen Saída de Víctor Omgbá
      María P. Tajes
      William Patterson University

    • “Calunga: An Afro-Brazilian Speench of the Triângulo Mineiro”
      Steven Byrd
      University of Texas at Austin

Friday, February 17, 4:15-5:30, Ortega 335
Panel 20: East and West in the Mediterranean
Moderator: Charles Patterson, University of New Mexico

    • "Hispano-Arabism, an Alternative to Global Neo-Orientalist Discourses”
      Carl Jubran
      University of San Diego

    • "Disembodied Voices and Voicing Bodies”
      Emily Knudson-Vilaseca
      University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Friday, February 17
Dinner
7:00 pm

Sadie’s Cocinita
6230 Fourth Street NW
(Bus leaves the Plaza Inn at 6:30 pm)

Dance:
¡ Wateke de SAN VALENTÍN !
9:00 pm – 1:00 am
(with Free Salsa Lessons from 8 to 9)
at
Salón Fantasía
4909 McLeod
Con el grupo super-salsero: Son Como Son



For questions please contact:

Kathryn McKnight and Miguel López

at: spanconf@unm.edu

Conference Website: http://www.unm.edu/~spanport/news/spanconf.htm