Sickening Discourses: Bodies, Diseases, and Violence in the

16th Tropos Conference - Michigan State University
16th TROPOS Conference
Sickening Discourses:
Bodies, Diseases, and Violence in
the Romance World
21st - 22nd October 2016
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16th Tropos Conference - Michigan State University
Dear Participants,
Welcome to our 16th TROPOS Conference! We are glad that you will be
joining us for this year’s conference “ Sickening Discourses: Bodies,
Diseases, and Violence in the Romance World ”. This conference
was made possible by the hard work and dedication of many who have
volunteered their vision, time, and energy. Please thank these people when
you see them around during the next few days.
We would like to recognize the hard work and leadership of the
GSA/Tropos Executive Committee, the guidance and support from our
advisor Professor Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Dr. Douglas Noverr, Chairperson
of the Romance and Classical Studies Department, and Leann Dalimonte,
Graduate Secretary. We would also like to thank faculty and graduate
students at the department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan
State University for their support and sponsorship, as well as the Center for
Latin American Studies and Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at
MSU.
Our appreciation also goes to our speakers, moderators, professors, fellow
students, volunteers and participants for their great collaboration.
José Adrián Badillo Carlos
Co-Chair
[email protected]
Claudia Berríos-Campos
Treasurer
[email protected]
Osvaldo Sandoval
Co-Chair
[email protected]
Jonathan Montalvo
Secretary
[email protected]
Thank You · Muchas gracias · Merci beaucoup
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16 th TROPOS Conference Program
Friday October 21, 2016
Friday 21, 9:30-10:30 AM: Welcome and Check-in
Wells Hall – B, first floor
Coffee service
10:15-10:30: 16th Tropos Conference – Opening remarks by
Dr. Douglas Noverr, Chairperson, Romance and Classical Studies
Friday 21, 10:30-12:00 PM: Opening Event: Round Table and Discussion
“OnCruelModernity:AconversationwithJeanFranco"
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Miguel Cabañas, Associate Professor of Spanish, Michigan State
University.
Participants:
José A. Badillo Carlos
Andrew Bentley
Claudia Berríos-Campos
Osvaldo Sandoval
Friday 21, 12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch – On your own
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Friday 21, 1:15-2:30 PM
Panel 001: “España: síntomas de una nación fragmentada”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Nancy Marino, Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Michigan State
University
• Politics in the Middle Age: The Catholic Monarchs and the Edict of Expulsion.
Alberto Fernández, Western Michigan University
• Sufrid conmigo mis penas!: la angustia como un motivo para la unidad nacional
en la Comedieta de Ponça del Marqués de Santillana.
Zachary Severs, Central Michigan University
• Síntomas de una nación enferma: Presagio de la guerra civil española en
Fortunata y Jacinta .
Charles Moulding, Michigan State University
Friday 21, 1:15-2:30 PM
Panel 002: “Cuerpo, violencia y consumo en la producción cultural contemporánea”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Claudia Berríos-Campos, PhD Student, Michigan State
University
• Concepción de una violencia silenciosa: su origen capitalista y representación en
la cuentística de Julio Ramón Ribeyro.
Karen García Escorcia, University of Wisconsin Madison
• La Quimera de la discapacidad en la Expedición de Callado.
Isaac Giménez, University of California Los Angeles
• FanFiction y el tópico del síndrome de Estocolmo en la novela romántica juvenil.
Virginia Marcos Barcena, Western Michigan University
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Friday 21, 2:45-3:30 PM
Panel 003: “Cuerpos enfermos y sexualidad en América Latina”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Julio Cesar Paredes, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
• AIDS writing in Caio Fernando Abreu and Néstor Perlongher: Shame, visibility,
and concealment.
Gustavo Vargas, University of Pittsburgh
• Resistir la enfermedad: Poesida (1996) de Abigael Bohórquez y Farmacotopía
(2014) de Óscar David López. Momentos cuir del cuerpo abyecto en la poesía
mexicana.
César Cañedo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Friday 21, 3:45 - 4:15 PM
Poetry reading and performance: Rastro cuir by Cesar Cañedo, Mexico
Location: TBD
This presentation consists of a reading of poems and the performative experience in
poetic texts. Its goal is to demonstrate the ways of sensing the body in poetry while
listening to the poetic voice as a subject of expression.
Friday 21, 4:30-5:45 PM
“Semiotic Violences of Zika, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Mosquito”
Keynote presentation by – Dr. Adriana Garriga López, Associate Professor
of Anthropology and Performance, Kalamazoo College
Location: TBD
Friday 21, 7:30-9:00 PM
Welcome Reception - “Cheese and Wine”
Location: Professor Rocío Quispe-Agnoli’s home
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Address and directions will be provided during the conference
Conference Program
Saturday October 22, 2016
Saturday October 22nd, 8:15-9:00 AM
Check-In / Breakfast
Coffee, refreshments and pastries
Saturday October 22nd, 9:15-10:30 AM
Panel 005: “From Sade to Current French Politics of Gender and Sexuality:
Questioning Normativity”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Valentina Denzel, Assistant Professor of French, Michigan State
University
• Comment Sade peut-il être féministe
Andisheh Ghaderi, Michigan State University
• La Manif Pour Tous: A Radical Conservative Shift in French Politics?
Sophie Brunau-Zaragoza, Brown University
• Marquis by Topor et Xhonneux : A Sadean and surrealist puppet show
Virginie Jubeau, Université François Rabelais
Panel 006: “Terror urbano y violencia normalizada en la producción cultural hispánica
contemporánea”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Miguel A. Cabañas, Associate Professor of Spanish, Michigan
State University
• La mediatización de los encobijados en Balas de plata: un discurso de control
biopolítico.
Andrew Holzman, Western Michigan University
• La muerte como arte desesperado en Pecado (2016) de Laura Restrepo
Andrea Carrillo, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Precariedad, control y violencia a partir del choque social y urbano en La Zona
de Rodrigo Plá.
José Badillo-Carlos, Michigan State University
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Saturday October 22nd, 10:45- 12:00 PM
Panel 007: “Patologías corpóreas en el Caribe”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Jonathan Montalvo, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
• Inscripciones de la homosexualidad criminalizada: Reinaldo Arenas, Carlos Varo
y la escritura queer ante la ley
Mauricio Pulecio, University of Pittsburgh
• Cuerpos/sujetos violentados en dos producciones culturales puertorriqueñas
Xavier A. Jiménez-Cuba, Michigan State University
• Hacia un Bareback (T)sex(t)ual: Ficción y corporalidad en el proyecto culturalliterario del VIH/SIDA en Puerto Rico
Josué David Ku Gallegos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Panel 008: “Representaciones literarias del trauma histórico en el mundo hispano”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Scott Bohem, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Michigan State
University
• Violencia genera resistencia. Un ejemplo de dignidad en Las Trece Rosas
Alba Fernández Fernández, Western Michigan University
• La recuperación de la memoria histórica de tiempos traumáticos en la novela
negra: un análisis del "asesino del baño de ácido" en Corpus delicti de Andreu
Martín
Isaac Veysey-White, Western Michigan University
Saturday October 22nd, 12:15-1:15 PM
Lunch provided by GSA/Tropos
Location: International Center, Michigan State University
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Saturday October 22nd, 1:30-2:45 PM
Title: TBA
Keynote presentation by Dr. Jean Franco, Professor Emerita of English
and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Saturday October 22nd, 3:00-4:15 PM
Panel 009: “Sujeto femenino, discursos pedagógicos y la construcción de la nación”
Location: TBD
Session Chair: Giovanni Salazar, PhD Student, Michigan State University
• ¿Infancia o nación enferma? Dos aristas recurrentes y en pugna en el discurso
de la costarricense Carmen Lyra
Laura Romero-Quintana, Michigan State University
• El rol femenino en Aeropuertos de Alberto Fuguet: Repensando “La maestra
rural”
Sandra Chang Raak, Western Michigan University
• Como agua para chocolate: Cocinando emociones y saboreando una revolución
Nour Seblini, Wayne State University
Saturday October 22nd, 4:30-6:00 PM
Title: TBA
Performance by Dr. Adriana Garriga-López
Location: TBD
6:00 PM: 16th TROPOS Conference Closing remarks
by Professor Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
Location: Same as performance
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