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(des)articulaciones is a biennial conference organized by the Graduate Students of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh that invites students and professors across disciplines to reflect on Latin American aesthetic production from alternate points of enunciation. This event provides graduate students with a forum in which they can gain valuable experience sharing their work, receiving feedback from colleagues, and expanding their research. With an interdisciplinary approach, (des)articulaciones 2013 Ebbs, Flows and Limits: Dialogues and Cultural Productions from the Periphery invites creative reflections on the possibility of many Others (and various Selves), and the examination of continuous cultural flows from and between so-called peripheries. Our purpose is to continue a reflection of Latin America vis--vis various contacts with peripheral Others and their epistemological relationship to the West, in acknowledgement of a radical heterogeneity. (des)articulaciones is possible with the generous support of University of Pittsburgh programs, faculty, staff, and students.

SPONSORS Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Center for Latin American Studies The Office of the Provost Humanities Center Cultural Studies Program The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, EMBA Worldwide and Center for Executive Education. Womens Studies Program Global Studies Center

GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Augustn Abreu Dayana Fraile Jairo Hoyos Juliana Enciso Kayla Paulk Hernn Medina Tatiana Argello

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Elizabeth Conforti Lucy DiStazio Monika L. Losagio

Special Thanks to: Jerome Branche Daniel Balderston Juan Duchesne-Winter Christine Kush Elizabeth Monasterios Erika Braga Gonzalo Lamana John Beverley Aurea Sotomayor Jennifer Roethlein Poster Design: Aaron Tarr

Ebbs, Flows and Limits: Dialogues and Cultural Productions from the Periphery

Graduate Students Symposium 4th Biennial (des)articulaciones

P r o g r a m
FRIDAY, 25 October 2013
University of Pittsburgh Mellon Financial Corporation Hall Alumni HallFifth Floor

Registration and Breakfast

8.00 a.m. 8.45 a.m.

Introduction 8.45 a.m. 9.15 a.m.

(Room 532)

Introduction Opening Remarks

Kathleen Musante Director of the Center for Latin America Studies Jerome Branche Director of Graduate Studies Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Hernn Medina 4th Biennial (des)articulaciones Graduate Student Symposium Committee

8.45 a.m. 9.15 a.m.

9.15 a.m. 11.00 a.m. Session 1

9.15 a.m. 11.00 a.m.

Production Culture: Interregional, Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Dialogues

(Room 532)

Moderator: Fernando Iturralde University of Pittsburgh

Devorando la edicin, o el montaje como monstruosidad en la teora cinematogrfica de Jos Revueltas. Felipe Pruneda SentesUniversity of Pittsburgh Ruina, escritura y memoria en La Fiesta Vigilada de Antonio Jos Ponte: o qu se siente ser el ltimo habitante de una Habana abandonada Gustavo QuinteroCornell University Cultura y subjetividad: Enrique Tbara y la mediacin el informalismo cataln y el nacionalismo ecuatoriano Porter O'NeillGeorgetown University A travs del estrecho: Inmigracin marroqu en la narrativa espaola contempornea Bronislava GreskovicovaUniversidad Autnoma de MadridReal Colegio Complutense at Harvard University Discussants: Alex LefterUniversity of Pittsburgh Gerardo MuozPrinceton University

Morning Coffee Break

11.00 a.m. 11.15 a.m. 11.15 a.m. 1.00 p.m.

Session 2
11.15 a.m. 1.00 p.m.

Dispersion of the Periphery: Cultures and Literatures in Exile

(Room 531)

Moderator: Leonardo Solano University of Pittsburgh

El exilio como desencuentro: como Gombrowicz y Cortzar no se conocieron Ernest HartwellHarvard University A Hidden Continuum: Modern and Postmodern Puerto Rican Poetics in the Work of William Carlos Williams and Manuel Abreu Adorno Ivn PrezUniversidad de Puerto Rico, Ro Piedras

Mito y memoria en Nuestra seora de las nubes, obra de teatro de Arstides Vargas Agustn Abreu CornelioUniversity of Pittsburgh Comments: Juan Duchesne-Winter Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh

Session 3
11.15 a.m. 1.00 p.m.

Other Epistemologies: Local/Localized Knowledge in the Face of Universal Knowledge (Room 532)

Moderator: Gustavo Quintero University of Pittsburgh

We Do Not See What They See: Spanish Imperial Discourse and Entheogens in the Americas Melissa FrostUniversity of Virginia Re-writing the Ocean Blue: Expressions of Knowledge and Power in the Works of Jose Joaquin Palma and Isabelo de los Reyes Kristina EscondoOhio State University Permanencia del llanto (1965): Jacques Viau Renaud y el pensamiento fronterizo Rubn Gonzlez JimnezState University of New York at Stony Brook La identidad nominal e histrica del indio en Fausto Reinaga Alberto D. Rivera VacaUniversidad de Knoxville Comments: Gonzalo Lamana Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh

Lunch Break
(Provided)

1.00 p.m. 2.15 p.m. 2.15 p.m. 4.00 p.m.

Session 4
2.15 p.m. 4.00 p.m.

Symbolic Representations from the Margin: Aesthetics and Discourses from or beyond Latin American Geopolitical Limits
(Room 532)

Moderator: Emma Freeman University of Pittsburgh

El Nomos del norte: la crtica como desarticulacin de la narcoliteratura mexicana Heriberto M. YpezUniversity of California, Berkeley Negotiation of State Power in Daniel Munozs El Pantera: Noir Aesthetics and Mexican Bandit/ Hero Sam CannonUniversity of Texas, Austin Teresa Margolles and El Pozolero del Teos Narco-Necro Aesthetic Practice Jonathan GomezNew York University De la ciudad moderna a la ciudad global del narcotrfico en Hotel DF de Guillermo Fadanelli Thelma Jimnez-AngladaUniversity of Chicago Discussants: Enrique ChacnHispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh Felipe Pruneda SentesFilm Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Afternoon Coffee Break

4.00 p.m. 4.15 p.m. 4.15 p.m. 6.00 p.m.

Session 5
4.15 pm. 6.00 pm.

Art, Cultural Production and Discourses via Peripheral Images (Room 532)

Moderator: Pedro Salas University of Pittsburgh

El tropo del bandido en la pelcula de Luis Estrada, El infierno. La figura del bandido en la produccin cultural mexicana contempornea Derek BeaudryUniversity of Pennsylvania

La fiesta del nuevo monstruo: Literatura y juventud en Hctor Libertella. Patricio OrellanaNew York University An Unrepentant Reminder: Roberto Bolao as a Phantasmagoric Chilean Subject Ruth Rubio Rodriguez University of Texas, Austin. La esttica y el ideario punk en Rodrigo D. No futuro Dayana FraileUniversity of Pittsburgh Discussant: Sam CannonUniversity of Texas, Austin Session 6
4.15 p.m. 6.00 p.m.

New Negotiations of the Other: Genders and Sexualities

(Room 531)

Moderator: Mauricio Pulecio University of Pittsburgh

Ritual sacrificial en Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos-Febres Vernica Dvila EllisUniversity of Florida Embodied Knowledge, Empowered Knowledge: Conceio Evaristos Corporeal Epistemology Anne GuarneraUniversity of Virginia Os centros s me interesan nas lavadoras: Ex-centrics in En vas de extincin by Mara Reimndez and A intervencin by Teresa Moure Neil AndersonThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Discussant: Bronislava GreskovicovaUniversidad Autnoma de MadridReal Colegio Complutense at Harvard University

Break

6.00 p.m. 6.15 p.m. 6.15 p.m. 7.45 p.m.

Special Session 7
6.15 p.m. 7.45 p.m.

Round Table Conversation:

(Room 532) Critical Journals: Outside the Teaching Machine

Moderator: Leopoldo Tablante Loyola University, New Orleans Special Guests: Bolivian Studies JournalRevista de Estudios Bolivianos Elizabeth Monasterios and Martha MantillaCo-Editors boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture John BeverleyEditorial Board Catedral Tomada Csar ZamoranoEditor in Chief Hotel AbismoPuerto Rico Crtica Escrituras Aurea SotomayorEditor La Mariposa Mundial. Revista de Literatura Rodolfo Ortiz O.Director Revista IberoamericanaInstituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Juan Duchesne WinterDirector de Publicaciones Variaciones Borges Sebastian UrliEditorial Assistant Maria Julia RossiEditorial Assistant

Reception
7.45 p.m. 9.00 p.m. Bridges Lounge Wyhdham Pittsburgh University Center Hotel

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SATURDAY, 26 October
Mellon Financial Corporation Hall Alumni HallFifth Floor University of Pittsburgh

Registration and Breakfast

8.15 a.m. 9.00 a.m. 9.00 a.m. 10.45 a.m.

Session 8
9.00 a.m. 10.45 a.m.

Latin-American Infrapolitics: Subjects, Hegemony and Culture from Below Room 531
Moderator: Thelma Jimnez-Anglada University of Chicago

Ex-communion letrada: Illegible inscriptions in the Latin American 19th century (logography, graffiti and tattoos) Emmanuel VelayosNew York University Beyond Testimonio: an infrapolitical reading of Manuela la Mexicana (1968) Gerardo MuozPrinceton University Migration in Infrapolitical Frame Pablo Dominguez GalbraithPrinceton University Discussants: Juliana EncisoUniversity of Pittsburgh Gustavo Quintero Cornell University

Morning Coffee Break

10.45 a.m. 11.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. 12.45 p.m.

Session 9
11.00 a.m. 12.45 p.m.

Machines, War Devices, Violence and Political Conflicts (Room 531)

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Adis Ayacucho: hacia una memoria desmarginalizadora de la guerra interna en el Per Giosu AlagnaUniversity of Wisconsin Honduras: a System of Hegemonic Powers and Underlying Social Resistance Yaser RoblesUniversity at Albany (SUNY) El soldado desconocido de Salomn de la Selva: Escritura de dolor y salvacin ante los efectos nocivos de una modernidad blica. Tatiana Argello VargasUniversity of Pittsburgh Discussant: Rubn Gonzlez JimnezState University of New York at Stony Brook Session 10
11.00 a.m. 12.45 p.m.

In Between Space, Nation and Other Imagined Geographies (Room 532)

Moderator: Daniel Giraldo University of Pittsburgh

El Caribe y la Amrica Latina de Alexis de Tocqueville Leopoldo TablanteLoyola University, New Orleans La repblica decretada: estado de excepcin en Simn Bolvar Dafne Duchesne SotomayorNew York University Modernidad y subjetividad en el espacio pblico y privado en la crnica El Joven de Salvador Novo y Os amantes de Rubem Braga Veronica TorresOhio State University Las imgenes de la comida mexicana en el discurso de la cultura nacional Mnica VallinGeorgetown University Discussant: Emmanuel VelayosNew York University Session 11
11.00 a.m. 12.45 p.m.

Amerindian Studies in Dialogue: Narratives between Tradition and Contemporaneity (Room 528)

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Una lectura anrquico-capitalista de Juan Prez Jolote, biografa de un Tzotzil: construyendo un espacio contemporneo dentro de una estructura social tradicional. Marisol Soto Rodriguez University of Minnesota - Twin cities Almha La Vengadora: protagonista de la Neo-vanguardia altea Irina Soto-MejiaOhio State University Tambin la lluvia (2010): Divulgando el debate de la Modernidad en Amrica Latina Jorge MancillasArizona State University Comments: Elizabeth Monasterios Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh

Lunch Break
(on your own)

1.00 p.m. 2.45 p.m. 2.45 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

Session 12
2.45 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

New Paradigms: Literature and Literary Theory (Room 532)

Moderator: Agustin Abreu Cornelio University of Pittsburgh

Towards a Theory of the Latin American Short Story Tavid MulderUniversity of Brown Presencia de narrativas anti-mimticas en el cuento hispanoamericano contemporneo. Dos casos: El Rayo Macoy de Rafael Ramrez Heredia, y El paseo internacional del perverso de Hctor Libertella Arturo JimnezArizona State University Dos cronistas latinoamericanos en pases perifricos del Sur Global: Martn Caparrs y Natalia Aguirre Zimerman Maria Roco Pichon RivireNew York Univeristy

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Discussant: Ernest HartwellHarvard University

Afternoon Coffee Break

4.30 p.m. 5.00 p.m. 5.00 p.m. 6.45 p.m.

Session 13
5.00 p.m. 6.45 p.m.

Poetics and Practices within the Production of Literature (Room 528)

Moderator: Miriam Baechle University of Pittsburgh

El huso en el centro del universo: el entrelazamiento cuntico en la poesa visual de Cecilia Vicua Vera Jones ColemanArizona State University De los neologismos en torno a Sal Yurkievich: la escritura urobrica Sergio Diaz-LunaUniversity of California, Davis Estercilia Simanca Pushaina: tejer una escritura del objeto Jairo HoyosUniversity of Pittsburgh Discussant: Arturo JimnezArizona State University Session 14
5.00 p.m. 6.45 p.m.

Fiction & Non-Fiction: Epilogue for the New Monsters? (Room 531)
Moderator: Alex Lefter University of Pittsburgh

En los mrgenes: formas de cuestionar lo normal en Flores, de Mario Bellatin Liliana ColanziCornell University La cartografa invisible de Cmo viajar sin ver de Andrs Neuman Denise KripperGeorgetown University

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Los Otros en las novelas de Juan Filloy de la dcada de 1930 Sonia TejadaCity University of New York Abrir la ventana para que entre el desierto: hospitalidad y comunidades vulnerables en Los Detectives Salvajes de Roberto Bolao Mara Jos NaviaGeorgetown University Discussant Hernan MedinaUniversity of Pittsburgh

Break

6.45 p.m. 7.00 p.m. 7.00 p.m. 8.15 p.m.

Keynote Address Alumni HallRoom 532

7.00 p.m. 8.15 p.m. Introduction by: Juan Duchesne-Winter Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh

Caribe underground: cine y poesa de Guilln Landrin Julio Ramos Professor Emeritus University of California, Berkeley Universidad Andina Simn Bolvar.

DINNER
LOWER LOUNGE WILLIAM PITT UNION University of Pittsburgh