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Friday April 10, 2015 - Opening


3:00-4:30 Registration and Reception MKNA 103
4:30-5:00 Opening Remarks   MKNA 103
5:00 Informal Happy Hour Secret Bar

Saturday April 11, 2015 - Conference


9:00-9:30 Coffee and Registration  
9:30-10:45

Panel 1 – Visual Communities and Strategies 

Chair: Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz – University of Colorado at Boulder

Evolución de la revista Grecia a través de su portada

Alejandro Méndez Betancor – University of Colorado at Boulder

Atravesando la crisis: El realismo experimental en La soledad de Jaime Rosales

Iñaki Gonzalo – University of Oregon

La palestera como escena: una propuesta de análisis teatral para los cuentos de Andrés Neuman

María Fernanda Iwasaki – University of Colorado at Boulder

La toma panorámica en el cine de Carlos Reygadas

Dustin Dill – University of Colorado at Boulder

HLMS 181
 

Panel 2 – Linguistics I

Chair: Javier Rivas – University of Colorado at Boulder

La producción del OD en el español oral: un estudio basado en el uso

Desirée Ramírez – University of Colorado at Boulder

La transitividad en el español: Un estudio basado en el discurso

Jessika Muñoz – University of Colorado at Boulder

El dequeísmo en Español: Un análisis sociolingüístico basado en el uso

Jeremy Rud – University of Colorado at Boulder

HLMS 191
 

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:15

Panel 3 – Production and the Performance of Spirituality

Chair: Núria Silleras-Fernandez – University of Colorado at Boulder

The indio ladino as a representative of an Andean Catholicism in Juan Pérez Bocanegra and Guman Poma

Alexander M. Cárdenas – University of Colorado at Boulder

Pious Hierarchy and the Circulation of Emotions in Ricardo León’s El amor de los amores

Gillian Cleary – University of Colorado at Boulder

The Vibrant Life of a Tomb: The Material Self-Fashioning of Isabel of Aragon

Taiko Maria Haessler – University of Colorado at Boulder

HLMS 181
 

Panel 4 – Linguistics II 

Chair: Lucinda Soltero-González – University of Colorado at Boulder

Effects of Japanese Moraic Patterns of Syllable Duration on L2 French

Bridget McFadden – University of Colorado at Boulder

The effects of Guided Pre-task Planning on L2 Spanish Written Production

Angela Donate – Georgetown University

The L2 acquisition of Spanish information structure: The case of postverbal subjects

Ariel Zach – Georgetown University

HLMS 191
 

 Panel 5 – Testimony: Self-Conscious Production

 Chair: Mary Long – University of Colorado at Boulder

“Do you have the balls to really win this fight or don’t you?”: The Mediated Testimony of Elvia Alvarado

Allison Glover – University of Colorado at Boulder

El viaje como escritura poética en Los detectives salvajes (1998) de Roberto Bolaño

Niki Tito – University of Colorado at Boulder

Ficción y testimonio en dos novelas colombianas de sicarios. El pelaíto que no duró nada (1991) y Sangre ajena (2000)

Carlos-Germán van der Linde – University of Colorado at Boulder

HLMS 185

 12:15-1:30 Lunch, HLMS 201

1:30-3:00 Keynote Address HLMS 201

 

3:00-4:15

Panel 6 - The Landscape of Production

Chair: Julio Baena – University of Colorado at Boulder

The Ultimate Other: Negotiating the foreign through representations of women’s bodies in the Cancionero de Estúñiga

Hollie Allen – University of Colorado at Boulder

The Disordered Wildman: "Real" versus perceived monsters in Lope de Vega’s theater

Harrison Meadows – University of Colorado at Boulder

The Jungle and the Crisis of Writing in La vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera

Javier Muñoz – University of Colorado at Boulder

HLMS 181
 

Panel 7 – Linguistics III

Chair: Esther Brown – University of Colorado at Boulder

¿Se anda gramaticalizando?: El verbo andar con gerundio como construcción auxiliar

Jesús Villalpando-Quiñónez – University of Colorado at Boulder

Las perífrasis venir + gerundio en español contemporáneo: un caso de subjetividad

Stefanie Ramos Bierge – University of Colorado at Boulder

Lexical frequency effect on the low nasal vowel /ã/ in Brazilian Portuguese

Luciana Marques – University of Colorado at Boulder

HLMS 191

4:15-4:30 Break

4:30-5:45

Panel 8 – Communities of Revolution and Resistance

Chair: Andrés Prieto – University of Colorado at Boulder

Trip to Ayacucho: Political Violence, Melodrama, and Literary Circulation in Abril Rojo by Santiago Roncagliolo, La Hora Azul by Alonso Cueto, and Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro by Ivan Thays

José Miguel Herbozo – University of Colorado at Boulder

Entre el cáos y el orden en La fiesta del Chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa

Ivan Segovia – Sandiego State University

Ángel Guerra: Revolucionario, enamorado y santo

Mariana Segovia – California State University at San Marcos

HLMS 181
 

Panel 9 – Places and Stages in Modern Peruvian Poetry 

Chair: Peter Elmore – University of Colorado at Boulder

Martín Adán compositor: problematización de los límites de la música y la poesía en Travesía de Extramares

Claudia Becerra – Brown University

Mitos colectivos y relato personal en “Crónica de Lima” de Antonio Cisneros

Miluska Benavides – University of Colorado at Boulder

Modernidad, tecnología y mundo andino en Antipoemas Junín de Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián

Miguel Rosas Buendía – Brown University

HLMS 191

  6:00   Closing Remarks  HLMS 201