Friday, April 13, 2018
9:15am – 5:15pm
Buchanan Penthouse
Everyone is invited to our fourth annual symposium, featuring presentations, posters, and videos of current research from MA and PhD students.
PROGRAM
9:00-9:10: Coffee and Croissants
9:10-9:15: Welcome by Joël Castonguay-Bélanger (for the Department)
9:15-9:20 Opening remarks by Jon Beasley-Murray (for the Research Committee)
9:20-10:50: Panel I: Philosophy and the European Body Politic
- Niall Mann, “Rousseau, Simon, and the Opacity of Enlightenment”
- Luca Oluic, “El sueño europeo de Juan Donoso y Jaime Balmes: una Unión política y religiosa”
- Olga Albarrán, “(Pro)Creación: Discursos sobre la maternidad en la narrativa contemporánea”
Comments: Raúl Alvarez Moreno, Kim Beauchesne, María Adelaida Escobar Trujillo
10:50-11:00: Break and screening of videos
11:00-12:30: Panel II: Moving Literature Across Continents and Languages
- Han Fei, “De l’écriture migrante québécoise au roman contemporain français: l’imaginaire contemporain du mouvement et de la mobilité”
- Liza Bolen, “Que révèle la sensorialité chez certains écrivains migrants au Québec?”
- Xana Menéndez, “La casa de la fuerza de Angélica Liddell, un nuevo paradigma violento como crítica a la violencia”
Comments: Jon Beasley-Murray, Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, Alessandra Santos
12:30-1:35: Lunch (in departmental lounge, 7th floor, Buchanan Tower)
1:35-2:15: Poster presentations
2:15-3:45: Panel III: Fictions, Fables, and Subjectivity
- Upasana Thakkar, “Parody and testimonio in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez and El asco”
- Pooja Booluck, “Les deux Taureaux et une Grenoüille: Une lecture”
- Magali Blanc, “Les multiples facettes du « je » dans le roman contemporain français”
Comments: Gloria Onyeoziri, Bill Winder, Nancy Frelick
3:45-4:00: Break (with coffee)
4:00-5:00: Panel IV: Extraction Culture
- Marcos Moscoso, “Ficciones de la mujer y la naturaleza en el tiempo de la extracción del caucho”
- Juan Felipe Hernández, “Mining and Writing in Mid-Twentieth Century Chile”
Comments: Brianne Orr Alvarez, Ralph Sarkonak
5:00-5:15: Closing remarks and discussion led by André Lamontagne (for the Graduate Studies Committee)
Presentation of prizes
5:15- Adjourn to Koerner’s Pub
For more details, contact Jon Beasley-Murray (jon.beasley-murray@ubc.ca) or Marisol Fernández (mariasol.fernandez@ubc.ca).
http://blogs.ubc.ca/fhisresearch/graduate-student-symposium/
