Register for the 6th annual Graduate Student Symposium by UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS), which will be held in person!
The Symposium is an opportunity for MA and PhD students to share their research presentations, posters, and videos with the wider community.
Program:
12:00-1:00 pm
- Lunch and Opening Remarks by Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar
1:00-2:30 pm
- Session 1: “De oralidades y escrituras” moderated by Dr. Tamara Mitchell
- Pamela Zamora, “Ética multisensorial en El mal de la taiga (2012) de Cristina Rivera Garza”
- Samuel Aguayo, “El carnaval en el acto de hablar: oralidad ficticia y espectáculo en Tres tristes tigres, de Guillermo Cabrera Infante” (on Zoom)
- José Ricardo García Martínez, “Labor and Narration in Las conversaciones (2007) by César Aira.
2:30-2:45 pm
- Coffee Break
2:45-4:00 pm
- Session 2: “Liminal Spaces, Visual Approaches” moderated by Dr. Patrick Moran
- Mary Cook, “Oceania and the anti-utopia”
- Jennifer Nagtegaal, “Of Blobs and Lines: Tracing the Art-Comics-Museum Relationship in Max’s La línea (2019”
- Daniel Orizaga, “Renau en Futuro. Hacia un frente popular gráfico” (Pecha-Kucha, on Zoom)
4:00-4:15 pm
- Coffee Break and Snacks
4:15-5:30 pm
- Session 3: “Gender and the Norm” moderated by Dr. Kim Beauchesne
- Nancy Jean Ross, “Cartas a Ricardo: The Repositioning of Motherhood”
- Nick Bartlett, “Deconstructing the Norm: Medieval Travel Literature through the Lens of Queer Theory”
- Liliana Castañeda, “La construcción cinematográfica del mundo muerte en X500 (2016) de Juan Andrés Arango” (Pecha-Kucha)
5:30-5:45 pm
- Closing Remarks by Dr. Patrick Moran
6:00 pm
- Drinks at Koerner’s Pub!
