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THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009

12:00 - 1:30  REGISTRATION AND LIGHT LUNCH

Foreign Languages Building
Qualia Room
1:30 - 1:40  WELCOME
Daniel Hopkins
10th Annual Céfiro Conference Co-Organizer
 
Dr. Frederick Suppe
Chair, The Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Texas Tech University
1:45 - 2:35  SESSION I

            20TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE

            Análisis de la Narración, Focalización, e Interlocución
            en la Novela Gazapo de Gustavo Sainz

            Dr. Mario Beruvides
            Texas Tech University

Lituma en los Andes: Optimismo escondido

                        Becky Thompson
                        University of Texas at Austin

            Chair:  Dr. Genaro J. Pérez

2:40 - 3:45  SESSION II

            HYBRID CULTURES IN LATIN AMERICA AND
            THE UNITED STATES

            La evolución del Teatro Ritual Caribeño

                        Jonathan Deen
                        Texas Tech University

            Qué assimilated, yo soy asimilao: Understanding
            Hispanic identity in the United States

                        David Durán
                        Texas Tech University

            Chair:  Dr. George Cole

4:00 - 5:00  SESSION III

            MUSIC OF SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA

            Issues of Interpretation: Developing a Performance of
            Ibn Baq
ī/Al-A'mà's Adir la-nā 'akwāb

                        Laura Joiner
                        Texas Tech University

            Perfomance by Afro-Cuban ensemble

                        Ian Rollins, Leader
                        Texas Tech University

            Chair:  Ian Rollins

5:00  WELCOME RECEPTION AND TOUR OF
SOUTHWEST COLLECTIONS

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2009

10:30 - 11:45 SESSION IV

            PORTUGUESE LITERATURE

            Prospero and Caliban: A dystopian look at the
            generational gaps in the "free" Angola of Quem me
            dera ser onda

                        Mario Morera
                        Texas Tech University

            There is no other land, there is no other life but this: Fé
            e natureza adversa em As Vinhas da Ira e Os
            Flagelados do Vento Leste

                        Erin Phillips
                        Texas Tech University

            O outro "feminino"--Espaços subversivos em "O
            pescador cego" de Mia Couto

                        Brenda Adcock
                        Texas Tech University

            Chair:  Dr. António Ladeira

12:00 - 1:3 LUNCH BREAK

1:35 - 2:45  KEYNOTE ADDRESS

            A New Hybrid World: Crossing Cultures with the
            Portuguese
in Asia, Africa, and Brazil

                        Dr. Kenneth David Jackson
                        Yale University

2:50 - 3:55  SESSION V

            EN TORNO A LA LITERATURA
            LATINOAMERICANA

            Asalto a la historia oficial en la literatura
           
centroamericana
contemporánea: algunas reflexiones

                        Dr. José Juan Colín
                        University
of Oklahoma

            El lector cómplice en la 'novela negra' de Marco
            Denevi

                        Christina Miller
                        University of Oklahoma

            Simbología y redención: tres arquetipos femeninos en
            La casa verde de Mario Vargas Llosa

                        Yolani Martínez-Hyde
                        University of Okalhoma

            Chair:  Dr. José Juan Colín

4:00-4:30  A SELECTION OF POEMS AS READ BY THE
AUTHOR HIMSELF

            Nelson Suárez
            Arizona State University

6:00  CONFERENCE BANQUET AT ORLANDO'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2009

10:00 - 10:50  SESSION VI

            20TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN POETRY

            Confluencia, heterogeneidad y síntesis poética en
            Labranda de Roger Santibáñez

                        Dr. José Olascoaga
                        Texas Tech University

            La época del haikú en José Juan Tablada y Ezra
            Pound

                        Nelson Suárez
                        Arizona State
University

            Chair:  Dr. Julián Pérez

10:50 - 11:40  SESSION V

            SPANISH LITERATURE

            El cosmopolitismo de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Las
            Amé
ricas y la modernidad

                        Dr. Carmen Parrón
                        Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

            El Celoso Extremeño

                        Kristen Rock
                        University of Colorado, Boulder

            El modelo patriarcal de mujer y la identidad femenina
            en Entre visillos: ¿Imposición o voluntad personal?

                        Vanessa Rodríguez-García
                        University of Colorado, Boulder

            Chair:  Dr. Janet Pérez

11:40 - 1:0 LUNCH BREAK

1:05 - 2:00  SESSION VIII

            ESTUDIOS CULTURALES

            El imperio de los caballos: El sudoeste español
            durante
y después de los españoles

                        Maria O'Connell
                        Texas Tech University

            Meaningful Space, Meaningful Place: Conceptualizing
            the Role of Sacred Space in the Formation of Mexican
            American Cultural Identity, 1935-1980

                        Maggie Elmore
                        Texas Tech University

            Chair:  Dr. Jorge Zamora

2:00 - 3:00  SESSION IX

            PORTUGUESE LITERATURE

            Esperando o Príncipe (Des)encantado: Ilusões e
            desilusões
em Os Flagelados do Vento Leste de
            Manuel Lopes

                        Cheri Grissom
                        Texas Tech University

            Reconhecimento e ruptura da estrutura patriarcal na
           
autobiografia Mulher no espelho de Helena Parente
            Cunha

                        Christopher Wright
                        Texas Tech University

6:00  RECEPTION AT DR. SUPPE'S HOUSE
          (Dinner and Drinks provided)
 


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