CU Graduate Student Conference, 2013
McKenna Languages Building, CU Boulder
Schedule of Conference Proceedings

Friday, April 5

6:00- 6:30 pm           Meet and Greet with Snacks

6:30 pm                     Kickoff Round Table Discussion (Rose Room)

7:30-8:00 pm            Meet and Greet with Snacks

Saturday, April 6

9:00 am                     Coffee and light breakfast

(Panel 1) History, Identity, and Recovery: The Place of the Past in Spanish and Latin-American Literatures
9:30-10:45 am 

Rubi Sánchez: “La palabra como zafa: Masculinidad, Nacionalidad y Fukú en The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao de Junot Díaz”

Valentina Iturbe-LaGrave: “Camila O’Gorman: Emblema de la cultura autoritaria argentina”

Juan G. Oyervides: “Hacia otra España: expresiones de malestar, guerra y nación”

Faculty Respondent: Dr. Juan Herrero-Senés
Student Respondent: Laura Lesta García

(Panel 2) Language Loss, Recovery, and Cultural Recuperation in Linguistics
11:00-12:15 pm

Meredith Butterton: “Cebuano Field Project: Discovering Grammar through Language Recovery”

Alexander McAllister: “Recovery in a bilingual code-switching situation” Emily Everett: “Loss of semantic meaning with Diminutives”

Faculty Respondent: Dr. Esther Brown
Student Respondent: Jonathan Steuck

12:15-1:30 pm - Lunch

(Panel 3) Trauma, Violence, and Relapse in the Humanities and Sociology
1:30-2:45  pm

Amanda Tyler: “Violence as a Site of Intersectionality: Native American Women and Trauma”

Raquel Castro: “Literature as counter-spell: Mourning the Past in The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Jose M. Herbozo “Interminable Recovery and Relapse: Political Violence and Identity in La vida doble by Arturo Fontaine”

Faculty Respondent: Dr. Mary Long
Student Respondent: Laura Cesarco Eglin

(Panel 4) Language as Ailment, Language as Cure in Contemporary Spanish and Mexican Literature
3:00-4:15 pm

Octavio Zaragoza: “Narrando en el umbral de la muerte: El caso de Canción de tumba de Julián Herbert”

Javier Muñoz: “La ironía como estrategia para intervenir en el trauma en “Lo que dijo el mayordomo” de Javier Marías”

Carlos Germán van der Linde “Narco-novela Mexicana. Una aproximación a la narco- estética de Élmer Mendoza y Yuri Herrera”

Faculty Respondent: Dr. Juan Pablo Dabove
Student Respondent: Ximena Keogh

Round Table Discussion led by Professor Nina Molinaro
4:30-5:15 pm