http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:34:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saturday, April 21st, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Light Lunch provided for the first 35 participants) ADPCL Round Table – The Art of Writing Successful Grant Proposals Session Organizers: Caroline D. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania State University & Corinne Scheiner, Colorado College This session, sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2007/03/adpcl-round-table-%e2%80%93-the-art-of-writing-successful-grant-proposals/ Seminar Organizer: José Pascual Buxó Affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Email: pbuxo@axtel.net Description: Es notoria la decisiva influencia de Petrarca en la formación de la cultura literaria del Renacimiento español, en particular la de sus obras en lengua vulgar (toscana) y más concretamente de sus Trionfi. Esta serie de "visiones" ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2007/01/petraca-en-la-america-virreinal/ Seminar Organizer: Zahid Chaudhary Affiliation: Princeton University Email: zrc@princeton.edu Description: Papers for this Topic Stream A Friday, April 20th, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Subjects in Transit: Migrations, Homes, and Belonging Chair: Zahid Chaudhary Title: Airports, gas stations, parking lots and highways: I Am Only Private In Public Author: Maria Berns Affiliation: University of Texas at El Paso Email: ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/migration-violence-and-spectacle-in-the-cultural-sphere/ Seminar Organizer: Steve Buttes Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago Email: sbutte2@uic.edu Description: Papers for this Topic Stream B Saturday, April 21st, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Chair: Steve Buttes Title: Citas(+)instantáneas: la fotografía como traducción y transgresión en "Las babas del diablo" de Julio Cortázar Author: Ivonne Saed Affiliation: Email: isaed@comcast.net Title: Fantasizing the Feminine: Sex ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/changing-the-name-of-the-game-language-translation-and-gender/ Seminar Organizer: Mrinalini Chakravorty Affiliation: University of Virginia Email: mc5je@virginia.edu Description: This seminar will consider emergent questions about the poetics, politics, and practices of representation within a wide array of texts and contexts related to the Middle East. Assuming with Said that the epistemologies and imaginative geographies of Orientalism continue to ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/neo-orientalisms-representing-the-middle-east/ Seminar Organizer: Steve Buttes Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago Email: sbutte2@uic.edu Description: One of the most salient features of modern Southern Cone literature highlighted by critics is the way in which it seeks to represent and engage with the real. Whether it is addressing changes brought on by modernization, creating ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/formal-considerations-violence-ofagainst-representing-the-real/ Seminar Organizer: Nataly Tcherepashenets Affiliation: SUNY, Empire State College Email: Nataly.Tcherepashenets@esc.edu Description: Papers for this Topic Stream A Saturday, April 21st, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Chair: Nataly Tcherepashenets Title: Becoming our own Devils: A Study of Violence and Redemption Author: Kristen Roney Affiliation: Gainesville State College Email: kroney@gsc.edu Title: Love and Death in Louisa May Alcott's Sensationalist ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/gifts-or-poison-love-death-and-creativity-in-a-transatlantic-context/ Friday, April 20th, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Genesis of Comparative Literature: A Mexican Tributary Djelal Kadir Penn State University Moderator: David Damrosch, Columbia University Respondents: Daniel Chamberlain, Queens University, Canada Federico Patán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston Enrique Pérez Castillo, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/the-genesis-of-comparative-literature-a-mexican-tributary-stream-c-friday/ Seminar Organizer: Randy Cota & Simona Livescu Affiliation: Rutgers University, UCLA Email: randyrene@excite.com, slivescu@ucla.edu Description: Papers for this Topic Stream A Friday, April 20th, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Chair: Simona Livescu Title: "The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time": The Disappearance of Temporality in the Age of the ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/between-past-and-future-present-global-problematics/ Seminar Organizer: Leila Neti Affiliation: Occidental College Email: lneti@oxy.edu Description: This panel explores the role of power in the interplay between subjectivity and subjection, particularly with regard to questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Drawing upon a wide range of scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the panel ... http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/2006/12/beyond-subjection-gender-and-power/