FRIDAY, NOV. 10

9:30-10:45am:

1.Postmemory and Politics in Recent Latin American Cinema
Laia Quilez Esteve, Universidad Rovira i Virgili: Posmodernidad y posmemoria en el nuevo documental argentina
Andrea Marinescu
, University of Michigan: Young Women Directors in Chile
Ramona Lagos, University of South Carolina: Decoding Machuca and Cinematic Homologies

2.Spanish Silents
Susan Larson, University of Kentucky: Nemesio M. Sobrevila's Cine Retaguardia
David George, Bates College: Cinematizing the Crowd: Celebrity and Spectatorship in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and Max André's Sangre y arena (1916)
Leigh Mercer, University of Washington: The Incoherence of Modernity: Segundo de Chomón's Una excursión incoherente

3.Cine con tetas
Barbara Zecchi, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: The Feminization of Cinematic Violence
Margarita Pillado, Grinnell College: Cinematic Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Women's Cinema
Raquel Anido, John Hopkins University: Locating Bodies in Spanish Women's Cinema
María Cami-Vela, University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Spanish Female Directors Filming in English

11:00 am-12:15:

4. Contact Zones: Immigration
Daniela Flesler, SUNY Stony Brook: The Journalist as Hero: Modern Spain, Backward Others and the Ethnographic Performance
Liz Horne, Cornell University: Apuros y retrasos: los tiempos de xenofobia en Bolivia
María del Carmen Rodríguez Fernández, Universidad de Oviedo: Los recuerdos de la madre tierra: las islas del Caribe en el cine español contemporáneo

5.New New Latin American Cinemas
Wara Saavedra Montaño, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Globalización y nuevas modernidades del cine boliviano
Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, University of Michigan: Nuevos realismos y nuevas políticas (cine chileno hoy)
Nicole Sigl, University College Cork: On the Road to Redemption: Liminality and Identity in Carlos Reygadas's Battle in Heaven

6. Historical Avant-gardes
Guy Wood, Oregon State University: Pistolazos pedagógicos: Libertad sexual y modernidad en Un perro andaluz
Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin College: Guernica en la pantalla: referente histórico y representación de vanguardias
Carmen Arocena Badillos, Universidad del País Vasco: La casa "Costus" o la influencia de la movida madrileña en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar

LUNCH

1:45- 3:00 p.m.

7.Geographies of Capital in Recent Spanish Film
Malcolm Compitello, University of Arizona: Urban Fortunes or the Rise of Rent: Álex de la Iglesia and the Art of Consumption
Rosi Song, Bryn Mawr College: Visualizando relaciones de género y capital en el cine español: españolas en el extranjero y extranjeras en España
Jorge Mari, North Carolina State University: Los nuevos españoles no fuman: americanización/ antiamericanismo y cultura corporativa en el cine español desde los años 70
William Nichols, Georgia State University: Guiris and Grúas: Critiquing the Torremolinos Imaginary in Spanish Film

8. Urban Nightmares
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste
, Georgia State University: From Rodrigo to Rosario: Birth and Rise of the Sicaresque
Charlotte Gleghorn, University of Liverpool: "Parece un pulpo con miles de tentáculos": The Cinematic Modernity of Buenos Aires in Vagón fumador (Verónica Chen, 2001)
Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, University of Colorado, Boulder: Bad Mother: The Urban Nightmare in Los olvidados, Pixote and Cidade de Deus

9. Industry and Industry
Ann Davies, University of Newcastle: Industrial Decay and Frustrated Desire in Daniel Calparsoro's Basque Trilogy
Mar Binimelis Adell, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/ Universidad de Vic: Cercando lo diverso: sobre la identidad y la otredad en las coproducciones cinematográficas hispanoamericanas
Mark Allinson, University of Leicester: Modernity Meets Nostalgia: Film Trailers or the Future as Seen from the Past

3:15-4:30 pm:

10.Reinas: Gendered Constructions of Modernity. Queerness, Transnationalism and Glamour
Zuzana Pick, Carleton University: La Félix Returns Home. Spectacle, Glamour and Modernity in La escondida (Roberto Galvadón, Mexico, 1956)
Sergio de la Mora, University of California, Davis: The (Mis)adventures of la Reina del Mariarchi: Lucha Reyes and Queer Mexican Cultural Nationalism
José A. Sánchez Mosquera, University of Ottawa: Sara, Sarita, Sara: the Construction of Femininity as Modernity in Sara Montiel's persona

11.Authorship and Modernity
Jo Evans, University College, University of London: Working with 'the Others': Almenábar and the Anxiety of Influence
Tom Deveny, McDaniel College: Álex de la Iglesia: auteur?
Miren Gabantxo, Universidad de Mondragón: Género, clase y modernidad en Jorge Grau: Su expresión en Historia de una chica sola

12. Bodies in History
Tatjana Pavlovic, Tulane University: Alegorizing the Body Politic: Masculinity and History in El jardín de las delicias and Carne trémula
Gustavo Subero, Coventry University: Fearing the Trannies or Filmic Phobia of Transvestism in Latino Cinema
Steve Marsh, University of South Carolina: Double Binds: The Dissident Modernity of Eloy de la Iglesia

6:00-9:00 p.m.
Keynote Address and Reception
Paulo Antonio Paranaguá, title TBA
CUNY Grad Center Skylight Room
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St., New York City

 

SATURDAY, NOV. 11


9:30-10:45 am:

13.Frustrated Modernities: Subverting the Lens of history
Julie Jones, University of New Orleans: Beyond the Pale: The Hispanic Presence in Buñuel's Later French Films
Kirsten Strayer, University of Pittsburgh: The Anarchy of Time: Grotesque Figures and Critical History in Luis Alcoriza's Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos)
Ignacio López Vicuña, University of Vermont: Multiple Memory and Cultural Heterogeneity in Raúl Ruiz's Palomita blanca

14. Vision machines
Abigail Loxham, University of Cambridge: Tactile Vision: Inhabiting Cinematic Space in En construcción
Josetxo Cerdán, Universitat Rovira I Virgili: Reflejos (tardíos) de modernidad/Destellos (transnacionales) de posmodernidad: El documental español del siglo XXI
Ignacio Infante, Rutgers University: Sex and the Luminous Interface: The Digital 'Vision Machine' in Julio Medem's Lucía y el sexo

15. I Found it at the Movies: Cinematic Constructions of Identity
Joanne Hershfield, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Hollywood Movie Stars and 'la chica moderna' in 1930s Mexican Film Culture
Gerard Dapena, Macalester College: Becoming American: Paradigms of Modernization in Aquí hay petróleo (1955)
Alberto Mira, Oxford Brookes University: Learning to Be Gay: The Role of Film Cultures in the Transition from the 'Homosexual' to the 'Gay' Paradigms in Spain

11:00 am-12:15 pm:

16.Technologies of sound and vision
Kathleen Newman, University of Iowa: Beyond Peripheral Modernity: Silent and Early Sound Latin American Cinema and Transnational Film Theory
Illa Carrillo Rodríguez, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne: Beyond Tango Music and Radio: Luis Saslavsky's Representation of Argentine Modernity in La fuga
E. Segre, University of Cambridge: Modernizing the Archaic Trace in Mexican Cinematography: Agustín Jiménez's Experiments in Form in Luis Buñuel's El bruto (1952)

17. Mexican Modernities: Recent Mexican Cinema
Kerry Hegarty, Emory University: Agarrando "la Onda": Mexican Youth Culture on Film
Lisa Amor Petrov, University of Wiscosin, Madison: Chilango Aggravations, Stress Release and the Politics of 'Light' Urban Comedies
Claire Lindsay, University College, University of London: Mobility and Modernity in María Novaro's Sin dejar huella.

18. Looking Forward and Back: Genealogies of Spanish Film Comedy
Jo Labanyi, New York University: Comedies for After a War: Escapism and Conservative Modernity
Catherine Simpson, University of Richmond: 'Esas son tu pan de mañana': Tourism, Seduction and Masculinity in the 'Destape' Contact Zone
Miguel Fernández Labayen, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Modernidades, modernismos y modernos: Constantes culturales en la comedia española

LUNCH

1:45-3:00 pm

19.Gendered Rites of Passage
Susan Martin-Marquez, Rutgers University: Coloniality and the Trappings of Modernity in Viridiana and La mano en la trampa
Deborah Martin, University of Cambridge: Gender, Space and Violence in Margarita Martínez and Scott Dalton´s La sierra
Nekane E. Zubiaur Gorozika, Universidad del País Vasco: De Mur Oti a Almodóvar: El itinerario liberador de un ama de casa española
Maria Donapetry, Pomona College: Las chicas y el tríptico posmoedrno en el cine latino: Luminarias

20. On the Road (to Modernity)
Gilberto Blasini, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Riding Modernity or the Generic Articulation of Road Movies in Latin America
David Wilt, University of Maryland: Stay on the Farm!: Perils of Migration in Mexican Cinema
Jorge Pérez, University of Kansas: Highway to Heaven: Mobility, Modernity and Spanishness in Sor Citroen

21. The City in Shadow and Light
Currie Thompson, Gettysburg College: Two Takes on Gender in Argentine Film Noir
Suso Rodríguez Blanco, St. Clare's, Oxford: Ramón Salazar on Madrid
Marina Carrasco Perezagua, SUNY Stony Brook: Redefiniciones de identidades en la obra de Benito Zambrano: El barrio, gozne hacia la modernidad

3:15-4:30 pm:

22.Ghosts, Memories, Ruins
Patricia Keller, University of Michigan: Where the Ghost of History Roams: Modernity, Tradition, and Landscapes of Untimeliness in Carlos Saura's Los golfos
Antonio Gómez L.-Quiñones, Dartmouth College: La calle rota y el pueblo perdido: Paisajes de la modernidad en El cielo gira y En construcción
Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College, CUNY: Espacios urbanos de memoria: En la ciudad sin límites y Para que no me olvides

23.Television in Spain: Beyond la caja tonta
Paul Julian Smith, University of Cambridge: Modernization, Urbanization and Television in Spain
Robin Fiddian, University of Oxford: Modernity and the Death of the 'Auteur': Authorial Politics in Carmen y la libertad (1995)
Isabel Estrada, Barnard College/Columbia University: La recuperación de la memoria en el documental televisivo: epistemología en 'Les fosses del silenci' (2003)

24.Itineraries of Modernity in Almodóvar
José del Pino, Dartmouth College: Ir a la ciudad y Volver al pueblo: El nuevo paradigma cultural del cine de Pedro Almodóvar
Alejandro Varderi, Manhattan Community College, CUNY: Ciudad y memoria: El Madrid de Pedro Almodóvar
Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, New York University: Trailing the World Auteur: From Pedro Almodóvar to 'Almodóvar'

25. Border Crossings or Mov[i]es beyond Borders
Alison Frahauer, Saint Xavier University: Leon Ichaso and the Cinema of Exile
Angel Custodio Gómez González, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Flamenco, cine y género: El concepto de modernidad en las representaciones flamencas de Carmen Amaya en el cine de Hollywood
Adrián Pérez Melgosa, SUNY Stony Brook: Remakes and Revisions: Managing the Postcolonial Liminality of Hispanics in Hollywood and Latino Films