Ninth International Conference

University of New Mexico, October 23-25, 2014

Conference Program


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

9:30am–12:00pm

APSA Executive Committee Meeting —Ortega Hall 335

10:00am-5pm

Registration — Ortega Hall Third Floor Lounge

2:00pm–3:30pm

1A. Roundtable: Portuguese, Brazilian and Afro-Lusophone Studies at the Crossroads: Challenges and Possibilities
Ortega Hall 335
Organizer and Moderator: Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown University

  • Margo Milleret, University of New Mexico
  • Victor Mendes, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
  • Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick
  • Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown University

1B. From Ndongo and Matamba to Bahia and Rio: Imagining Cultural, Racial, and Religious Boundaries in the Portuguese Empire
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Organizer and Moderator: Kathryn McKnight, University of New Mexico

  • Celina Cavalcanti-Bennett, University of New Mexico: The Borders and Double Consciousness of Queen Njinga
  • Viviane Ferreira de Faria, University of New Mexico: The Four Facets of a Gregorian Empire: Reading Gregório de Mattos e Guerra’s Poetry from an Analogical Perspective
  • Rachel Spaulding, University of New Mexico: The Boundary Between Religious Servant and Religious Sycophant: A Reading of Biblical Typology in a Letter from Early Modern Brazil’s Rosa María Egipçíaca

1C. Portuguese-American Women: Mothers, Housewives or Conniving Whores, Is That It?
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Organizer and Moderator: Luis Gonçalves, Princeton University

  • Célia Carmen Cordeiro, University of Texas at Austin: “The Open Door: Transcultural and (Post)colonial Geographies in Luso-American Female Imaginaries”
  • Millicent Borges Accardi, Fulbright Scholar: “Rewriting the Paper Skirt: Whores, Lesbians, and Madonnas”
  • Luis Gonçalves, Princeton University: “The Male Fiction of Female Fiction: Male Ideas of the Portuguese-American Feminine in Land of Milk and Money by Anthony Barcellos”

1D. Fora do cânone: Fracassos e insucessos na cultura brasileira
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Organizer and Moderator: Luca Bacchini, University of Bologna

  • Severino J. Albuquerque, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Carreiras falhas, insucessos memoráveis, lamúrias regionais: A sombra do fracasso no teatro brasileiro”
  • Kathryn M. Sanchez, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Dzi Croquettes in Gay Paris: Short-lived Success or Misconstrued Failure?”
  • Luca Bacchini, University of Bologna, Italy: “Fracassos imprescindíveis. Sergio Bardotti e a reescritura da música brasileira”

1E. Language, History, and Angolanidade
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Organizer: Irene de Amaral, Rhode Island College; Moderator: Robert Simon, Kennesaw State University

  • Robert Simon, Kennesaw State University” “Language and A Nação: The Portuguese Language and Angolan National Identity Through the Poetry of Ana Paula Tavares and Luís Kandjimbo”
  • Emanuelle Santos, University of Warwick: “Contemporary African Literatures Written in Portuguese: At the Border between Nation and State”
  • Jared Hendrickson, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “Convivência and Contradiction in A cidade e a infância: A Reading of Early Luandino”
3:45pm–5:15pm

2A. Aesthetics, Identity and Intercultural Relations in Lusophone Cultures
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Moderator: Fernando Arenas, University of Michigan

  • Fernando Arenas, University of Michigan: “Lisbon Stories: Migration and Intercultural Relations among Africans, Brazilians, and Portuguese”
  • Vanessa Ceia, New York University: “Bodies at the Limit: Space, Waste and Identity in the Contemporary Portuguese Cinema”

2B. Oral/Aural Resonances: Sensorial Translations in Brazilian Literature I
Ortega Hall 335
Organizers and Moderators: Marília Librandi-Rocha, Stanford University and Sérgio Bairon, USP

  • Anna Marshall, Stanford University: “Kissing the Cockroach: Rethinking Intercourse through Materialism and The Passion According to G.H.: Erotic Interactions of Human Protagonists with Non-Human Counterparts”
  • Elena Dancu, Stanford University: “Translating Sound and Silence in Galáxias
  • Ami Schiess, Stanford University: “Adventures in Unbordered Writing: Translating the Poetic Prose and Mythical International of Sidney Rocha”

2C. Disavowed Boundaries: Race, Whiteness, and Portuguese & Spanish Colonialism
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Organizer: Patricia Schor, Utrecht University; Moderator: Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick

  • Manuela Mourão, Old Dominion University: “The Necessity of Whiteness:” Revisiting Portuguese Racial Identity in a Postcolonial Context”
  • Patricia Schor, Utrecht University: “Dis-covering Race in the Postempire: The Analogies Camp / Colony & Jew / Black”
  • Jerome Branche, University of Pittsburgh: “(Post)Colonial Arrival and Alienation: Revisiting Zamora Loboch’s El prisionero de la Gran Vía

2D. The Meanings of Justice in Contemporary Cultural Production
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Moderator: Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico

  • Fiorella Vera-Adrianzen, University of New Mexico: “Justiça transicional e atores sociais: Aproximações teóricas ao surgimento de produções culturais no processo da justiça de transição”
  • Rebecca J. Atencio, Tulane University: “Allegories of Impunity: Memories of the Military Dictatorship and the Question of Justice in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction”
  • Diego Bustos, University of New Mexico: “Faceless Perpetrators, Omnipresent State: Two Versions of the State of Exception”
  • Julia Youngs, University of New Mexico: “The “Garantia da Lei e Ordem” and the Rolezinhos”
5:45pm–7:15pm

CONFERENCE OPENING AND PLENARY SESSION

Welcome Remarks: Paulo de Medeiros (APSA President), Leila Lehnen (Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, University of New Mexico), Anthony Cárdenas (Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico), Dean Mark Peceny (Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS I: José Luiz Passos, UCLA: “Traição” — Kiva Auditorium

7:15pm–8:30pm
RECEPTION: Willard Room of the Zimmerman Library


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

8:30am-5pm

Registration — Ortega Hall Third Floor Lounge

9:00am–10:30am

3A. Round-Table: Portuguese Studies: The Next Ten Years
Organizer and Moderator: Vincent Barletta, Stanford University
Ortega Hall 335

  • Josiah Blackmore, Harvard University
  • Pedro Schacht Pereira, Ohio State University
  • Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

3B. The Politics of Ethnic Place-Making in Fado, Samba, Rap and Funk
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Moderator: Kimberly DaCosta Holton

  • Kimberly DaCosta Holton: “The Politics of Ethnic Place-making in US Fado Poetry”
  • Hilary Marie Johnson: “Ninguém Fica Parado: Social Inclusion in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas (Rap and Funk)”

3C. O Encontro das Artes I: Diálogos sobre adaptações fílmicas e televisivas
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Organizer: Fernanda Guida, University of Georgia; Moderator: Rodolfo Franconi, Dartmouth College

  • Frans Weiser, University of Georgia: “From Prison to the Pen: (Re)Appropriating Graciliano Ramos in Literature and Film”
  • Fernanda Guida, University of Georgia: “O interfluxo midiático e narratológico na adaptação de Benjamin
  • Rodolfo A. Franconi, Dartmouth College: “Eça em brasileiro? As minisséries O Primo Basílio e Os Maias

3D. Os limites, as fronteiras e os espaços fronteiriços em Almada Negreiros
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Organizer and Moderator: Tania Martuscelli, University of Colorado-Boulder

  • Sílvia Laureano Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: “Almada entre as palavras e o palco”
  • Pedro Freitas e Simão Palmeirim Costa, Universidade de Lisboa: “Almada na fronteira da geometria e da arte”
  • Tania Martuscelli, University of Colorado Boulder: “O espaço entre Almada e Mário-Henrique Leiria”
  • Bruno Silva Rodrigues, University of Oxford: “Almada explorando os confins da imagem e da narrativa”

3E. New Meanings of Democracy in Brazilian Culture and Society
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Organizer and Moderator: Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico

  • Emanuelle K F Oliveira-Monte, Vanderbilt University: “E se Obama fosse brasileiro? Debates on Democracy and Racial Representations In Brazil Today”
  • Neoshia Roemer, University of New Mexico: “Fetishizing and Commodifying Poverty in Brazil: Tourism in the Favela”
  • Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico: “Plotting New Cultural Actors: Social Engagement and Conflict in Tramas Urbanas
10:45am–12:15pm

4A. Oral/Aural Resonances: Sensorial Translations in Brazilian Literature II
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Organizers and Moderators: Marília Librandi-Rocha, Stanford University and Sérgio Bairon, USP

  • Victoria Saramago, Stanford University: “O olho torto: Vision Deprivation and Auditory Perception in Graciliano Ramos’ Work”
  • Marília Librandi-Rocha, Stanford University: “Conconversa e Babel em ‘O recado do morro’”
  • Sérgio Bairon, University of São Paulo: “Produção partilhada do conhecimento: A literatura como música”

4B. Approaches to Teaching Language and Literature
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Moderator: Nicola Trowbridge Cooney, Princeton University

  • Nicola Trowbridge Cooney, Princeton University: “Making the Leap: Border Crossings in the Classroom”
  • Gláucia Silva, UMass Dartmouth: “Gender Assignment and Agreement Among Heritage and Foreign Learners of Portuguese”
  • Blair Bateman, Brigham Young University: “Communication and Other C’s: A Study of What Portuguese Instructors Want in a Textbook”

4C. O encontro das artes II: Diálogos sobre música e a diversidade cultural
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Organizer: Fernanda Guida, University of Georgia; Moderator: Dário Borim, UMass Dartmouth

  • Joshua A Enslen, West Point: “Graphs, Maps and Palm Trees: The Associative Literary Network of Gonçalves Dias’ “Canção do Exílio”
  • Sara Lucena, University of Georgia: “Confluências da música e literatura: Os mares de Bethânia e de Sophia”
  • Débora Ferreira, Utah Valley University: “Rio’s Trilha Sonora”

4D. Cultural Production from the Outsiders of the Outsiders: A Social Commentary of Brazil’s Urban Spaces
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Organizer and Moderator: Juliana Todescan, University of New Mexico

  • Aja Roberts, University of New Mexico: “Indignação através do humor: Uma alegoria das contradições nacionais em Ilhas das Flores
  • Andy Barrientos, University of New Mexico: “The Landfill as a Figurative Purgatory in the Telenovela Avenida Brasil: The Relegation of Marginalized Beings in Modern Brazil”
  • Vanessa Cornwall, University of New Mexico: “If You Market It, They Will Come: Favela Tourism and Brazil’s Mega Events”

4E. Revisitando a literatura portuguesa: A participação efetiva e afetiva do leitor
Ortega Hall 335
Organizer and Moderator: Sílvia Cabral-Teresa, Brown University

  • Sílvia Cabral-Teresa, Brown University: “(Des)afortunadas: O papel das emoções negativas em “A noite das mulheres cantoras”
  • Leonor Simas-Almeida, Brown University: “Configurações de poder e da sua ausência nas Lisboa e Luanda emergentes n’ Os Cus de Judas
  • Marcos Cerdeira, Brown University: “A empatia ética de As Naus de António Lobo Antunes”
  • Patrícia Ferreira, Brown University: “Entre séculos e minutos: Reflexão em torno das personagens de A noite das mulheres cantoras
12:15pm–2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00pm–3:30pm

5A. Fronteiras movediças na ficção de Machado de Assis
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Organizers and Moderators: Marta de Senna, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa and Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University

  • Marcelo Diego, Princeton University: “Espelhos de Napoleões: Delírios bonapartistas em La Chartreuse de Parme de Stendhal e Quincas Borba de Machado de Assis”
  • Paul Dixon, Purdue University: “Fronteiras transatlânticas: Quincas Borba e o discurso do vencedor”
  • Marta de Senna, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa: “Fronteiras atenuadas: Sanidade e loucura na ficção de Machado de Assis”
  • Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University: “Tudo quieto e patriarcal: Uma reflexão sobre o rumor em Casa velha

5B. Transgressões e performances: Perfis femininos na literatura brasileira
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Organizer: Cristiane Barbosa de Lira, University of Georgia; Moderator: Susan Quinlan, University of Georgia

  • Viviane Alves, University of Georgia: “A transformação da mulher na obra Lua nua de Leilah Assumpção”
  • Juliano Saccomani, University of Georgia: “Pelo buraco da fechadura: A mulher adúltera no teatro de Nelson Rodrigues”
  • Cecília Rodrigues, University of Georgia: “Identities in Transit: Reconstructing Subjectivity in Tatiana Salem Levy’s A chave de casa (2007)”
  • Cristiane Lira, University of Georgia: “Militante? Guerrilheira? As (in)definições das personagens Lia em As meninas de Lygia Fagundes Telles e Ela em Em câmera lenta de Renato Tapajós”

5C. Kaleidoscopic Poetry
Ortega Hall 335
Moderator: Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos, Georgetown University

  • Xingyue Zhou, UC Santa Barbara: “Linguaviagem: Crossing Word Boundaries with the Portmanteau of Augusto de Campos”
  • Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos, Georgetown University: “Poesia práxis: A indústria d(n)a palavra de Mário Chamie”
  • Laura Cesarco Eglin, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Limites transpostos entre a vida e a morte em Da morte. Odes mínimas de Hilda Hilst”
  • M. Luci Moreira, College of Charleston: “Poemas nascidos sob fogo e sangue: Revisitando Costa Andrade”

5D. Film Framing Social Justice
Zimmerman Library – Frank Waters Room
Organizer and Moderator: Jeremy Lehnen, University of New Mexico

  • Jeremy Lehnen, University of New Mexico: “Claudia Wonder and the Politics of (In)Visibility”
  • Marguerite Itamar Harrison, Smith College: “On the Impossibility of Dialogue: Framing Justice in Maria Augusta Ramos’ Documentary Films”
  • Samuel Johnson, University of New Mexico: “Oligarchy and Urban Anxieties: Fear and Isolation in O som ao redor
  • Marina Todeschini, University of New Mexico: “Urban Spaces and the Social Isolation in Neighboring Sounds

5E. Urban Spaces
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Moderator: Kátia da Costa Bezerra, University of Arizona

  • Kátia da Costa Bezerra, University of Arizona: “Políticas públicas e espaço urbano: Revisitando o mapa da cidade”
  • Eliseo Jacob, Howard University: “Literary Subversion: Reinterpretations of Urban Spaces in São Paulo through Postesia”
  • Marcelo Tadeu Schincariol, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Por uma outra noção de ecologia: A representação da natureza em Carolina Maria de Jesus e em Ademiro Alves de Sousa, o Sacolinha”
  • Dora Nunes Gago, University of Macau: “Indícios de Ouro Preto e outras cidades brasileiras em Miguel Torga e Vitorino Nemésio: fronteiras entre a identidade e a alteridade”

5F. Fernando Pessoa, Antonio Botto e Jorge de Sena
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Moderator: Anna M. Klobucka, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

  • Chenxi Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “A precessão do mapa o sonho como simulacro no Livro do desassossego
  • Anna M. Klobucka, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: “António Botto e Fernando Pessoa: Retrato de uma relação revisitada”
  • Pedro Lopes de Almeida, University of California, Santa Barbara: “Floating Subjects: Jorge de Sena, Fernando Pessoa, and the Concept of Literary Criticism: New Perspectives on the Meaning of Close Reading”
3:45pm–5:15pm

6A. Occupying Transitional Spaces: Fiction and Social Commentary in Contemporary Brazil
Zimmerman Library – Frank Waters Room
Organizer: Margo Milleret, University of New Mexico

  • Willyam Thums, University of New Mexico: “O Bildungsroman problemático da contemporaneidade: Os ecos da modernidade líquida em A maçã envenenada
  • Juliana Clark, University of New Mexico: “Lost in the Margins: A Literary Analysis of the Periphery and the State”

6B. Postcolonial Perceptions
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Moderator: Deolinda M Adão, University of California Berkeley/ California State University at San José

  • Deolinda M Adão, University of California Berkeley/ SJSU: “Shattered Borders: Territorialization and Identity Construction”
  • Peter Maurits, University of Munich: “Global Ghost Stories?: The Ghost Genre in a World of World Literature”

6C. Round-Table: Portuguese in the Community
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Organizer and Moderator: Megwen Loveless, Princeton University

  • Clémence Jouet-Pastré, Harvard University
  • Megwen Loveless, Princeton University

6D. Narrativas sem fronteiras
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Organizers and Moderators: Renato Cordeiro Gomes, PUC-Rio and Beatriz Resende, UFRJ

  • Wander Melo Miranda, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: “Literatura e biopolítica”
  • Eneida Leal Cunha, PUC-Rio: “O outro foco, o fogo e as máscaras”
  • Sérgio Araujo de Sá, Universidade de Brasília: “Brasília não existe: As possibilidades de narrar a cidade artificial”
  • Renato Cordeiro Gomes, PUC-Rio: “O nômade e a geografia: Espaços rarefeitos na literatura e na ficção midiática brasileira”

6E. Race, Ethnicity, and Alternative Geographies of Rio de Janeiro
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Organizers and Moderators: Lorraine Leu, The University of Texas at Austin, and Bruno Carvalho, Princeton University

  • Sonia Roncador, The University of Texas at Austin: “Rio’s Multicultural Slums and the Problem of the Poor White Trash in Fin-de-siècle Brazil”
  • Lorraine Leu, The University of Texas at Austin: “Defiant Geographies: Race, Ethnicity, and Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro”
  • Bruno Carvalho, Princeton University: “A Praça Onze era uma festa: Cartografias letradas da cultura popular carioca durante a “Era Vargas””
5:45pm–7:15pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS II: Ana Luísa Amaral
Resisting the Inconsistency of the World: Of New Portuguese Letters — Kiva Auditorium

7:15pm–8:30pm

RECEPTION — Ortega Hall third floor


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

9:00am-12pm

Registration — Ortega Hall, Third Floor Lounge

9:00am–10:30am

7A. Geotextuality and the Reinterpretation of Brasil
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Organizer and Moderator: Isadora Grevan de Carvalho, Oberlin College, Co-organizer: Thayse Lima (Brown University)

  • Isadora Grevan de Carvalho, Oberlin College: “The Specter of Gender and Foreigner as a Skin Border in Nelson Rodrigues’s Anti-Nelson Rodrigues and Pedro Almodóvar’s La piel que habito”
  • Benjamin Legg, Brown University: “Crônicas “Da outra América” e de um outro Freyre”
  • Thayse Lima, Brown University: “Translating Latin America: Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz and the Trans-Creation of Blanco”
  • Marcelo F. Lotufo, Brown University: “Literary Criticism and Nation Building in Nineteenth Century Brazil and Argentina”

7B. Clarice Lispector and Eliane Brum: Infancy, Disabilities, Psalms
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Moderator: Nicola Gavioli, Florida International University

  1. Luciana Namorato, Indiana University “’Isto não é um lamento’: A iminência da morte e os sentidos do amanhã em Um sopro de vida, de Clarice Lispector”
  2. Nicola Gavioli, Florida International University: “Bioethics, Literature, and Anxiety: Eliane Brum’s Uma duas”
  3. David Mittelman, Brown University: “’Não há paixão sofrida em dor e amor a que não se siga uma alleluia’: Clarice Lispector, Psalmist”

7C. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature in Mozambique and Angola
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Moderator: Fernando Beleza, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

  • Sandra I. Sousa, The University of Iowa: “João Paulo Borges Coelho e as contradições do pós-colonialismo: Uma análise de A crónica da Rua 513.2
  • Fernando Beleza, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: “O lustro da tradição viril:” Masculinity and Postcolonial Politics in Mia Couto’s O outro pé da sereia
  • Serena J. Rivera, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: “Children and the Performance of Power in Manuel Rui’s Quem me dera ser onda and Luís Bernardo Honwana’s Nós matámos o cão-tinhoso

7D. Escrita e cinema: fronteiras e intersecções no cinema português contemporâneo (Pedro Costa, João César Monteiro, Manoel de Oliveira, Manuel Mozos)
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Organizer and Moderator: Clara Rowland, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas/Universidade de Lisboa

  • João Ribeirete, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas/Universidade de Lisboa: “Escrever devagar a morte em Non, ou a vã glória de mandar, de Manoel de Oliveira”
  • Estela Vieira, Indiana University: “Cinematic Walls: Pedro Costa and the Margins of Realism”
  • Clara Rowland, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas/Universidade de Lisboa: “Fantasmas da escrita: Inscrição, impressão e imagem no cinema de Pedro Costa e Manoel de Oliveira”

7E. Margins at the Center: Narratives and Migration
Ortega Hall 335
Moderator: Cecily Raynor, Georgetown University

  • Cecily Raynor, Georgetown University: “Geographies, Intersections and Language in Mar paraguayo by Wilson Bueno”
  • Mira Kohl, Tulane University: “Un pedacito de Bolivia:” Performing Bolivian National Ethnicity in São Paulo”
10:45am–12:15pm

8A. Reading/Writing the Estado da Índia
Ortega Hall 335
Moderator: Bruno Carvalho

  • Vincent Barletta, Stanford University: “Aquela cativa:” Camões, Rhythm, and the Blackness of Love”
  • Josiah Blackmore, Harvard University: “The Terraqueous Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo”
  • Carmen Nocentelli, University of New Mexico: “Abominable Matters:” Portuguese India and the Making of Domestic Heterosexuality”
  • Onésimo T. Almeida, Brown University: “O papel do mito do Preste João nos descobrimentos portugueses – uma revisitação”

8B. Brazilian Film Production
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Moderator: Ines Dias, UCLA

  • Ines Dias, UCLA: “Political Boundaries in Brazilian Cinema Novo”
  • Carla A da Silva, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign: “Olhos azuis: New Borders in a Post-September 11th Brazilian Film”
  • Charles St-Georges Denison University: “It’s All in the Blood: Zé do Caixão and the Boundaries of Social Subjectivity”
  • Marinês Andrea Kunz, Universidade Feevale: “Violência urbana na literatura e no cinema: Um ensaio”

8C. Round-Table: Da divisão à unidade: Vozes ameríndias no projeto interamericanista
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Organizer and Moderator: Márcio Bahia, Vanderbilt University

  • Earl Fitz, Vanderbilt University
  • Márcio Bahia, Vanderbilt University

8D. Outside/Inside Cultural Interaction
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Moderator: Gregory Scruggs, Columbia University

  • Gregory Scruggs, Columbia University: “Welcome to the Brazilian Caribbean”
  • Mónica Ayala-Martínez, Denison University: “Brazil Reads Cuba: Fernando Morais’ Reading of Cuban History in Os últimos soldados da Guerra Fria”
  • Jose I. Suarez, University of Northern Colorado: “Colonialism and Hybridity in Macanese Fiction”
  • Bruno Gonçalo Nogueira Sales, University of Georgia: “Entre a vida e a morte: Sucessos e desaires espaços-temporais em Não é meia noite quem quer de António Lobo Antunes”

8E. 21st Century Brazilian Fiction and Performance
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Moderator: Krista Brune, University of California, Berkeley

  • Francesca Ferrono, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “On Grace Passo and the Subversion of Theatrical Performance”
  • Christopher T. Lewis, University of Utah: “Stranger than Fiction: Writing Transmodern Identity in Bernardo Carvalho’s O sol se põe em São Paulo”
  • Krista Brune, University of California, Berkeley: “Nuno Ramos: On the Borders of Materiality and Language”
12:15pm–2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00pm–3:30pm

9A. Amerindian, Amazonian and Arab Cosmopolitan Frontiers
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 3
Moderator: Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta, The University of Kansas

  • Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta, The University of Kansas: “Assis Brasil’s Rewriting of the Inquisition in Breviário das Terras do Brasil”
  • Brianna Medeiros, Brown University: “Crossing Cultural and Linguistic Borders in Relato de um certo oriente”

9B. Non-Human and Ecological Borders
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Moderator: Victor Mendes, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

  • Adam Demaray, Tulane University: “More or Less Animal: Expanded Consciousness and the Loss of Self in João Guimarães Rosa’s “Meu tio, o iauaretê” and Julio Cortázar’s Axolotl”
  • Patricia Vieira, Georgetown University: The Phytophilic Poesis of Manoel de Barros”
  • Susana Antunes, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: “Corsino Fortes e Pedro da Silveira: O mundo unido por ilhas”
  • Victor Mendes, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: “Introdução aos animais de Fernando Pessoa”

9C. Breaking the Frame: Narrativas fronteiriças
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Moderator: Dário Borim Jr., University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

  • Dário Borim Jr., University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: “Plugada no dia-a-dia: A crônica no século XXI”
  • Juracy Assmann Saraiva, Universidade Feevale: “Mobilidade de fronteiras em textos ficcionais de Machado de Assis”

9D. Ditadura e Representação Ficcional
Zimmerman Library – Frank Waters Room
Moderator: Marcela Lopes da Silva, University of New Mexico

  • Antonio Kleber Gomes, University of New Mexico: “O alheamento da responsabilidade no “Passeio noturno” de Rubem Fonseca”
  • Marcela Lopes da Silva, University of New Mexico: “Eneida de Moraes: Ditadura brasileira do ponto de vista feminino”

9E. Identity & Transgression: Angola & Brazil
Ortega Hall 335
Organizer and Moderator: Sophia Beal, University of Minnesota

  • Sophia Beal, University of Minnesota: “Brazilian Escape Artists”
  • Rex P. Nielson, Brigham Young University: “Marginalized Masculinity in Clarice Lispector’s “O jantar” and Lygia Fagundes Telles’s “Eu era mudo e só”
  • Ana Catarina Teixeira, Emory University: “O compromisso político e ideológico de Pepetela em “As cinco vidas de Teresa”

9F. Gender, Women, Queer Studies
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Moderator: Marta Dantas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

  • Rachel ten Haaf, University of Michigan: “Undoing Feminine Boundaries: The Work of Helena Almeida”
  • Daniel da Silva, Columbia University: “National Drag – Carmen Miranda and the Queer Orientation of Tropicália”
  • Millicent Borges Accardi, Fulbright Scholar: “The Shifting Borderlines of Feminism: Readings Inspired by The Three Marias”
3:45pm–5:15pm

10A. Tribute to Jon Tolman
Ortega Hall 335
Organizer: Margo Milleret

10B. Fora das fronteiras: Mundialização e auto-ficção no Brasil
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 2
Moderator: Marília Scaff Rocha Ribeiro, Michigan State University

  • Anderson Luís Nunes da Mata, Universidade de Brasília: “O direito de cruzar a fronteira: Cosmopolitismo e pobreza na literatura brasileira contemporânea”
  • Lígia Bezerra , Spelman College: “Between Kurt Cobain and Immaculate Ilibagiza: Mass Culture in Michel Laub’s A maçã envenenada”
  • Marília Scaff Rocha Ribeiro, Michigan State University: “O romance contra o romance? Interseções entre discursos literários e não-literários na literatura brasileira contemporânea”

10C. Portuguese Language Crossroads: Ensino de literatura, leitura, e língua
Ortega Hall 124 – Language Learning Center – Lab 1
Moderator: Robert Moser, University of Georgia

  • Andréa de Castro Melloni, Princeton University: “Azul Corvo: “categoria mole”, sensação, e a experiência da leitura em sala de aula”
  • Viviane Gontijo, Harvard University: “O ensino de leitura em aulas de português para estrangeiros: O professor, suas atitudes, crenças e conhecimento prático”
  • Robert Moser, University of Georgia: “The History of the Portuguese Language: Course Development by the Museu da Língua Portuguesa and UGA”

10D. Dialogues Across the Colonial and Imperial Borders
Ortega Hall 313 – Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference Room
Moderator: Xiaoxi Zhang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  • Xiaoxi Zhang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities: “Dialogues at the Border: Gendered Alterity in Boosco Deleitoso”
  • Ann Helen Wainer, Florida Atlantic University: “Expanding Borders: How America’s First Jewish Settlers Originated From Portugal’s Colonies in Brazil”
  • Anna Mester, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: “As fronteiras porosas da prisão: A descolonização incompleta em Virgem Margarida de Licínio Azevedo e Tarrafal de Pedro Costa”
  • Alma Gottlieb, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign: “Passover, African Style: (Re-)Exploring History, (Re-)Forging Identity at a Joint Seder among Cape Verdeans and Jews in Boston”
5:30pm–6:00pm
Presentation by FLAD Representative Michael Baum — Kiva Auditorium

6:00pm–7:00pm
General Meeting of APSA Members — Kiva Auditorium