The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies presents…
(Re)Telling: Adaptation, Translation, Transformation
Thea’s Lounge, Thea Koerner House
October 23-24, 2015
This year’s theme is “(Re)Telling: Adaptation, Translation, Transformation,” and we are now accepting submissions of abstracts in English, French, and Spanish of papers that address this theme.
For more information, visit the conference website.
Friday October 23, 2015
9:30am-11:30am: Panel One: Relecturas, reescrituras y re-vistas de la literatura argentina. Chair: Rita De Grandis
- Andrés Camilo Torres Estrada (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), “Borges, relecturas críticas de la historia”
- Fabricio Tocco (UBC), “Reescrituras del detective privado desde la narrativa argentina contemporánea: las novelas policiales de Claudia Piñeiro”
- Tyson Eschelle (University of Texas, Austin), “The last revista re-vista? Screenification of a Popular Theatrical Format in Estrellas de Buenos Aires”
1-3pm: Panel Three: Transformaciones en América latina. Chair: Jon Beasley-Murray
- Camillo Castillo-Rojo (UBC), “Vista desde una acera: autoficción como proceso de creación”
- Upasana Thakkar (UBC), “Contemporary Narratives of Central America – Are they Parodying Testimonio as a Genre?”
- Axel Perez Trujillo (University of Alberta), “The Rewriting of Border Cartographies: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Geobiography of the Borderlands”
- Karuna Warrier (McGill), “The Unreachable Truth: The Controversial Re-Telling and Reconstruction of Events in Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres Tristes Tigres“
4-5:30pm: Keynote lecture: Barbara Havercroft (University of Toronto), “Narrating Wounds: Trauma and Transformation in Contemporary Women’s Autobiographical Texts”
Saturday October 24, 2015
10:45am-12:15pm: Panel Five: Reescrituras en la literatura y cine española. Chair: Raúl Álvarez-Moreno
- Olga Albarran Caselles (UBC), “Escritura y maternidad”
- Gianluca Oluić (UBC), “Bandos de Castilla de Ramón López Soler: una novela ecléctica del siglo XIX”
- Raya Polyak (UBC), “La construcción de la españolidad en dos obras cervantinas”