Conference Information (Open to KU alumni, faculty, students, researchers, and staff)
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Kansas will host a two-day Hispanism conference in celebration of its centennial anniversary on October 17 and 18, 2019.
Centennial Symposium Program
Download program here.
Thursday, October 17
Keynote, sessions and film screening will take place in the Kansas Union.
9:00 - 9:30 AM Coffee and Snacks in Woodruff Auditorium
9:30 - 11:00 AM Keynote in Woodruff Auditorium with Jill Robbins, Professor Emerita - University of California, “Poetry and Affect in Times of Crisis”
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Session 1
Centennial Room
Panel 1 - KU Alumni: Professional Trajectories and Lived Learning
Moderator: M. Chris Mohn
John F. Schwaller, University at Albany “KU and Three Generations of Hispanophiles in Kansas”
José R. Ballesteros and María Ximena Postigo Guzmán, St. Mary's College of Maryland, “Teaching Subjects of Change: Language and Culture as Subversive Praxis”
English Room
Panel 2 - Peripheries of Race and Gender
Moderator: Laura Senio Blair
Mar Soria, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Mulatos embetunados, mulatas sexi y el nuevo Don Juan: Imaginarios imperiales finiseculares en La perla cubana (1890)”
Ariadna N. Tenorio L., University of Kansas, “Bocafloja, tres espiritualidades y un cuerpo: cómo aprender a ser negro e indígena en México”
Dana Meredith, University of Kansas, “Stepping Back to Move Forward: Historical Fiction and Mexican Masculinity in Ángeles Mastretta’s Arráncame la vidaand Mal
de amores”
Alicia Rico, University of Nevada Las Vegas, “Al amor es hambre y Mantis: Dos Propuestas Culinarias”
Pine Room
Panel 3 - Cultural Competencies, Telenovelas and Technology
Moderator: Katya Soll
Gregory A. Robinson, Emporia State University, “The Hybrid Model: Reconsidering Technology Across Modern Languages: Impacting Our Language Instruction”
Olga Catalina Castillo Robles, Emporia State University, “Effective and Efficient Technology for Second Language Acquisition”
Jorge José Brítez Aveiro, Emporia State University, “The Role of IT Tools and Virtual Reality in Foreign Language Teaching”
Eunice Azucena Sandoval Román, Emporia State University, “Assessment Variation for the Semester Long-Team Based Telenovela Project”
Rachel Spaulding, Emporia State University, “The 5 C’s and the Telenovela”
1:30- 3:00 PM Session 2
Centennial Room
Panel 4 - Roundtable Discussion: Jayhawks in Academic Leadership: Responding to the Crisis in Languages and the Liberal Arts
Moderator: Sarah M. Misemer
Erin Finzer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Sarah M. Misemer, Texas A&M University
M. Chris Mohn, Fort Hayes State University
Pine Room
Panel 5 - An Homage to Robert Spires: Spirals on Time and Telling Stories
Moderator: Jessica Folkart
Nathan Richardson, University of Texas San Antonio
“Modes of Evil and Ethics in La familia de Pascual Duarte, or Dialogue with a
Young Bob Spires”
Jessica Folkart, Virginia Tech
“Time, Identity, Grief: Insights from Cristina Fernández Cubas's ‘La nueva vida’”
Nina L. Molinaro, University of Colorado Boulder
“So Much Time and So Little Time: Ethics, Alterity, Spirals, and Robert Spires”
3:30 - 5:00 PM Film Screening followed by Q&A in Woodruff Auditorium
Nancy Morejón: Paisajes célebres (52 minutes) with Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, University of Missouri
Friday, October 18
Sessions will take place in Wescoe Hall. Hands-on Workshop and Closing Remarks will take place at the Spencer Research Library.
8:30 - 9:00 AM Coffee and Snacks in Seminar Room 2600
9:00 - 10:30 AM Session 3
French and Italian Conference Room 2050
Panel 6 - An Homage to Robert Spires: Spirals on Space and Telling Stories
Moderator: Jessica Folkart
Juli Highfill, University of Michigan
“From Spain to Kansas: Don Henry and the Anti-fascist Student Movement at the University of Kansas during the Spanish Civil War”
Catherine (Katy) Bourland Ross, Southwestern University
“Baby Space: Narrating Infertility in Spain”
Maryanne L. Leone, Assumption College
“Crises in Environmental, (Sub)Urban, and Social Spaces: An Ecocritical Reading of Sara Mesa’s Un incendio invisible (2017)”
Wescoe Auditorium Room 3140 (No drinks or food allowed)
Panel 7 - New Pedagogies in Language Learning: Transdisciplinary Methodologies
Moderator: Eunice Azucena Sandoval Román
Laura Senio Blair, Southwestern University, “One Hundred Years of Solitude and Hispanism: Bringing Gabriel García Márquez to Kansas and Beyond”
Chris Schulenburg, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, “Bones Talk: Colombian Literature Fictionalizing Criminal Justice in the 21st Century University”
Katya Soll, Baker University, “Beyond the Page: Teaching Literature Students to Read Like Theatre Majors”
Maria Akrabova, Metropolitan State University of Denver, “Un fantasma recorre los intersticios del texto: el idealismo cínico de El materialismo histéricode Xavier
Velasco”
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session 4
Wescoe Auditorium Room 3139 (No drinks or food allowed)
Panel 8 - Las subversiones del istmo: Cuatro acercamientos a la literatura centroamericana
Moderator: Raymond Williams
María Daniela Granja Núñez, University of Cincinnati, “Las dementes y (des)agradables figuras de Roberto Castillo: un estudio semiótico”
Tomás Emilio Arce, University of Cincinnati, “Denuncia social y posmodernidad en Ya nadie llora por mí y El cielo llora por mí de Sergio Ramírez Mercado”
Marcel Jaentschke, University of Missouri-Columbia, “De las transgresiones de ‘Viqui’ al Black Sandino de June Beer: Discursos caribeños en Trágame tierra de
Lizándro Chavez Alfaro"
Victor Vimos, University of Cincinnati, “Cantos de Vida y Esperanza: experiencia y conciencia en movimiento hacia lo sagrado en Rubén Darío”
French and Italian Conference Room 2050
Panel 9 - Roundtable Discussion: Ciencia, tecnología y literatura hispanoamericana
Moderator: Ignacio Carvajal
José Palacios, Northwest Missouri State University
Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí, University of Kansas
Zachary Glassett, University of Kansas
2:00 - 3:30 PM Session 5
Wescoe Auditorium Room 3139 (No drinks or food allowed)
Panel 10 - Social Protest, Alternative Presents: The Literary and the Visual from Spanish Post-Civil War to the 15-M
Moderator: Nina L. Molinaro
Michael D. Thomas, Baylor University, “Social Protest Via Narrative Appropriation and Adaptation: Re-Thinking the Historiography of the Spanish Post-Civil War Novel”
David Campbell, University of Michigan, “The Alternative Present: Defamiliarized Signification in Buñuel’s Cet obscure objet du désir”
Arturo Meijide, St. Ambrose University, “Cómics para los tiempos de crisis: el 15-M y la narrativa gráfica española”
Wescoe Auditorium Room 3140 (No drinks or food allowed)
Panel 11 - Violencia y periferia: Narrativas liminales latinoamericanas del siglo XIX al XXI
Moderator: Marcela Risso
Verónica Pérez-Picasso, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Violencia como un mecanismo contra la hegemonía familiar e instituciones
gubernamentales por la protagonista del guión Otilia Raudade Dana Rotberg”
Martín Mulligan, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Corridos enfermos, estéticas de necropolíticas en México”
Eduardo Antonio Medina, University of Missouri-Columbia, “El pensamiento de Camus en la obra de Carlos Martínez Rivas y Charles Bukowski”
3:45 - 5:15 PM Session 6
Wescoe Auditorium Room 3139 (No drinks or food allowed)
Panel 12 - Panhispanic Journeys: Traveling Archives and Transnational Narratives
Moderator: Arturo Meijide
Miguel González-Abellás, Washburn University, “Adiós Toto: An Overview of the Depiction of Kansas in Spanish-Language Literature During the 20thCentury”
Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “La mirada colonial en Viaje a Chinade Enrique Gaspar”
Marcela Risso, University of Kansas, “Moving Through European Modernity(ies) in Memorias inéditas by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda”
Laurie Garriga, Boston University, “Juan Ramón Jiménez Archive in Puerto Rico”
Wescoe Auditorium Room 3140 (No drinks or food allowed)
Panel 13 - Textual Bodies and Competing Claims to Space
Moderator: M. Emilia Barbosa
Manuel Roberto Escobar Cajamarca, Universidad Central Colombia, “Narrativas de la masculinidad de combatientes en el conflicto armado de Colombia.
¿Colonialidad de las identidades regionales?”
M. Emilia Barbosa, Missouri University of Science and Technology, “Resilience, Community, and Healing in Naciendoby Las Poderosas Teatro Guatemala”
Peter Haysom, University of Nottingham, “The Lady of the North: Regional Geography and Sexual Politics in Agustina Bessa-Luís’s A Sibilia”
Julio César Aguilar, Baylor University, “El lirismo esquizofrénico en la poesía de Ángel Escobar”
French and Italian Conference Room 2050
Panel 14 - Historical Versionings and Polyphonies in Colonial Narratives and
Contemporary Film
Moderator: Raymond Williams
Iván R. Reyna, University of Missouri-Columbia, “El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega y La Guerra de los Encomenderos: un conflicto de lealtades”
Manuel F. Medina, University of Louisville, “Sin salir del armario: deseo homo-erótico en Feriado de Diego Araújo”
Juan Manuel Zuluaga Robledo, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Tanta gentede Memo Ánjel: Travesía de sujetos desplazados para fundar un pueblo antioqueño en
el proyecto de nación colombiana en el siglo XIX”
Spencer Research Library Room 326 (1450 Poplar Ln. Lawrence, KS 66045)
Hands-on workshop of Stirling Cervantes Collection with Rachel Schmidt, University of Calgary (Max capacity 30 people)
5:30 - 6:30 PM Coffee and Closing Remarks with Luciano Tosta in Spencer Research Library - North Wing, “Portuguese and Spanish: Challenges and Successes from the KU experience”
Updated: October 14, 2019
Danny J. Anderson became Trinity’s 19th president in May 2015, after serving 27 years as a faculty member, administrator, and dean at the University of Kansas. A native Texan, Anderson began his academic career in 1985 at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a bachelor of arts in Spanish from Austin College (Sherman, Texas), and a master’s and doctorate in Spanish at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS). He joined the Kansas faculty in 1988 as an assistant professor in Spanish and was named a full professor in 2003. An award-winning teacher, he received the ING Award for Teaching Excellence; a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence; and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers.
