19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society: States of Hospitality
Thursday, April 18, 2024
8:30a – 11a
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME (Coffman Union, Mississippi Room)
11:15a – 12:30p
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE WORK OF MERCÈ RODOREDA (CMU, 321)
Collin S. Diver, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: “Post-Human Possibilities in Mercè Rodoreda’s Fiction”
Daisy Isabelle Towers, University of Leeds: “The Renarration of Mercè Rodoreda: Authorship in Exile”
Katie Reneslacis, Harvard University: “Wartime Hospitalities: Unexpected Occupancies in Mercè Rodoreda’s La plaça del diamant”
LEGITIMACY AND BELONGING IN RECENT CATALAN AUDIOVISUAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA (CMU, 324)
Lucia Filipova, Princeton University: “Welcome to the Catalan Family: Language, Race, and National Identity in the Television Series Benvinguts a la família”
David Cortés Ferrández, Washington University: “Authenticity Ideologies in Catalan Independentist Movement through Gabriel Rufián’s Twitter Answers”
Laura Caballero Rabanal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “La gestió del dol a través del cinema i la literatura: un diàleg entre Estiu 1993 i Notes on Grief mitjançant el video-assaig”
12:30p – 1:45p
LUNCH BREAK
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF CATALAN REVIEW (CMU, Campus Club)
2p – 3:15p
WELCOMING FAIRIES, PRINCESSES AND BUGS: DRAWING THE MYTHICAL SPACE IN BARCELONA’S BELLE
EPOQUE (CMU, 321)
Òscar Ferrer i Bech, Stanford University: “Welcoming Lady-Bugs: Liliana or Apeles Mestres’ Search of the Sacred World”
Jessica Youngji Ryu, Stanford University: “Welcoming the Unwelcomed: Feminine Figures in Catalan Post-Modernist Paintings”
Sergio Martínez Rey, Stanford University: “Welcoming Fairies: Female Attraction and Mythical Constructions in Barcelona’s Private Balls Invitations at the Turn of the Century”
MEASURED GENEALOGIES AND REFUSED INHERITANCES IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA (CMU, 324)
Albert Lloret, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “El somriure de les pedres: espai sense genealogia del Rector de Vallfogona a J.V. Foix”
Henry Berlin, University of Buffalo: “Change, Exchange, and Measure in the Maldit: Jordi de Sant Jordi’s Lo canviador”
Núria Silleras-Fernandez, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Repensar la cultura catalana: Renaixement, decadència i traducció”
3:15p - 3:30p
COFFEE BREAK
3:30p - 5p
KEYNOTE SPEECH (CMU, 321)
Jaume Aurell, Universidad de Navarra: “From the Annals de Ripoll to Notícia de Catalunya: Is There Continuity in Catalan Historical Literature?”
5:15p – 6:45p
WELCOME RECEPTION (CMU, 321)
Friday, April 19, 2024
8:30a – 9a
REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST (Coffman Memorial Union, 321)
9a – 10:15a
TOURISM, CRISIS, AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE POLITICAL (CMU, 321)
Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin College; David R. George, Bates College: “Welcoming l’Arxiduc on Stage: José Carlos Llop’s La nit de Catalina Homar and Carme Riera’s Les darreres paraules”
Laura Menéndez Gorina, Stanford University: “What’s in a Home? Margarita Andreu, Carme Garcia, and Aurora Bertrana or How Catalan Women Travelers Reshaped Modernity in Spain”
Anna Casas Aguilar, University of British Columbia: “Turistes i crisis personals: escenaris literaris de la precarietat”
THE AESTHETICS OF HOSPITALITY IN CATALAN AUDIOVISUAL AND DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION
(CMU, 324)
Robert Casas Roigé, Hood College: “En terreny inhòspit: ficció audiovisual catalana i apropiació cultural en les macroplataformes digitals”
Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: “Famílies hostilms, comunitats d’ hospitalitat (una anàlisi comparativa de l’estrany en el cinema documental català post-crisi)”
Caitlin Quintenz, Carthage College: “States of Hospitality and Aesthetics of Activist Documentary Film in the Work of Xavier Artigas and Xapo Ortega”
Alexandra Mira Alonso, Georgetown University: "Aspectes i personatges de Barcelona de Carles Barba (1964): souvenir irònic de la dissidència”
10:30a – 12p
EXILE, IDENTITY AND THE RECOVERY OF THE PAST (CMU, 321)
Enrique Muñoz-Mantas, University of Florida: “Cartes entre dues exiliades en Lo color més blau (1982): La identitat híbrida de l’exiliada interior”
Adam Singh, Indiana University: “Dismangling Spanish Supremacy: Avel·li Artís-Gener’s Inversion of the Conquest in Paraules d’Opòton el vell”
Irene Quintana i Gispert, Universitat de Girona: “De l’experiència al relat de l’experiència: la literatura de l’exili de Teresa Pàmies”
James Locke, Hood College: “(Un)Earthing Historical Memory: Archaeology and Exhumations in Contemporary Spain”
LINGUISTIC TRANSFORMATIONS AND POLICY IN CONTEMPORARY CATALONIA (CMU, 324)
Elga Cremades, Universitat de les Illes Balears: “Psych Nominals in Catalan: A Classification Proposal”
James Ramsburg, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: “Social, Structural, and Spatial Dynamics of Language Contact: Mapping the Emerging Lexicons of Catalan-Spanish Bilingual Youth in Mallorca”
Bel Olid, University of Chicago: “Benvingudis totis, o no. El lloc del neomorfema no-binari a les classes de català com a llengua Addicional”
Robert Vann, Western Michigan University: “Miquel Ferreres and Satirical Historiography at la UB”
12:30p – 1:45p
LUNCH BREAK
MEETING OF THE NACS BOARD (CMU, 323)
1:45p – 2:45p
BIOPOLITICAL CONTINUITIES AND DISRUPTIONS (CMU, 321)
Àngel Quintana, Universitat de Girona: “De la pandemia oblidada a la pandemia hipervisualitzada”
Benjamin Fraser, University of Arizona: “Down Syndrome Culture”
CATALAN NATIONALISM AND THE PRACTICE OF THE EVERYDAY (CMU, 324)
Luis Cortreguera, University of Kansas: “Antoni Estruch’s Corpus de Sang (1907) and Banal Nationalism”
Eloi Grasset, University of California, Santa Barbara: “Producte, territori i nació: l’ús polític de la cuina popular a Catalunya (1981-1982)”
3p – 4:15p
KEYNOTE SPEECH (CMU, 321)
Bob Davidson, University of Toronto: “Boadas”
4:30p – 6p
PRESENTATION OF ESPE PONS’S PHOTOGRAPHY AND DISCUSSION OF WORK (CMU, AUDITORIUM)
Ofelia Ferrán, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: “TBD”
Lourdes Manyé, Furman University: “Absència i presència: la narrativa visual de la memòria als fotollibres d’Espe Pons”
Espe Pons: Respondent
7:30p—9p
OPTIONAL MEET-UP (TBD)
Saturday, April 20, 2024
8a – 8:30a
BREAKFAST (Coffman Memorial Union, 321)
8:45a - 10a
REDISCOVERING MARXIST PERSPECTIVES IN CATALONIA (CMU, 321)
Noel Blanc-Mourelle, University of Chicago: “Pierre Vilar and the Marxist Redefinition of Nationalism”
Katryn Evinson, Columbia University: “Aesthetics of Protest and the Disavowal of Labor in Barcelona’s Anti-globalization Movement”
Becquer Seguín, Johns Hopkins University: “Marx, Catalonia, and Spain’s Uneven Democratization”
THE POLITICAL, THEATRICAL, AND PEDAGOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF TRANSLATION (CMU, 324)
Laura Vilardell, Northern Illinois University: “The Mission and Legacy of Joan Gili Through the Lens of Post-Colonial Studies and Sociology”
Patrizio Rigobon, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: “Italian Translations of Guimerà's theatre: Ferdinando Fontana, Enrico Golisciani, A.Campagna and Gilberto Beccari.”
Aina Obis Monné, Harvard University; Maria Dolors Cañada Pujols, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Gemma Andújar Moreno, Universitat Pompeu Fabra: "Written Feedback in Texts Translated by University Students”
10:15a – 11:30a
LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND THE SACRED IN EARLY MODERNITY (CMU, 321)
Marta Vicente, University of Kansas: “El diable parla català: Identitat catalana en la edat moderna”
Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Hofstra University: “La llengua dels sermons a les terres catalanoparlants: El Concili de Trent i el castellà antic de Tubal”
Sara Gardner & Michelle Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: “Exercising the Erotic: Jewish, Muslim and Christian Sex Magic and Medicine from the Crown of Aragon and Catalunya”
SPATIAL CONTESTATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CATALONIA (CMU, 324)
Edgar Illas, Indiana University: “Catalan Natural Wine: A Hyperpolitics of the Earth U”
Nick Phillps, Grinnell College: “Crime on the Edge: Valencia as Contested Periphery in Silvestre Vilaplana’s Suburbis del paradís”
Olga Sendra Ferrer, Wesleyan University: “Through a New Lens: Framing Photography and Feminism in Pilar Aymerich’s work”
11:45a -12:45p
NACS ASSEMBLY (CMU, 321)
1p – 2:15p
RUPTURES OF THE RURAL IN CATALAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION (CMU, 321)
Maria Dasca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra: “Una lectura del Tríptic de la terra (2020) de Mercè Ibarz”
Kelly Moore, University of Virginia: “Failedamniotechnics in Mikel Gurrea’s Suro (2022)”
Sarah Thomas, Brown University: “Landscapes of Crisis: Gender, Interiority and Rurality in Recent Catalan Cinema”
REFLECTIONS ON THE ETHICS OF HOSPITALITY (CMU, 324)
Erma Nezirevic, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: “(Un)welcome Acts: Representations of Rape in Encara hi ha algú al bosc”
Jennifer Duprey, Rutgers University, Newark: “How to Leave in a Broken World? From Hospitality to Poli-ethics”
Fátima Fernandes da Silva, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle: “Hospitality and Hostipitality along the French Journey of a Catalan refugee: Journal d’un réfugié Catalan, de Roc D’Almenara”
2:30p – 3:45p
PRESENTATIONS OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS (CMU, 321)
4p – 5:15p
KEYNOTE SPEECH (CMU, 321)
Simona Škrabec, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: "Humboldt's Parrot. In Praise of Translation."
5:30p – 7:30p
CLOSING RECEPTION & 2024 NACS AWARD (Campus Club, West Wing)
