CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

 

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

All presentations will be held at the Chancellor’s Conference Room (Kolligian Library 232)

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

7:30-8.00  Reception

8:00-8:30  Welcome remarks by Dean Hans Bjornsson and Chancellor Steve Kang

 

Panel 1. CULTURAL PRODUCTION BY AND ABOUT ASIANS IN PERU

Chair: Michael Barba (UC Merced)

8:30-9:00  Debra Lee-DiStefano (Southeast Missouri State University) “Identity Confusion in Siu Kam Wen’s ‘La conversión de Uei Kong’”

9:00-9:30  Rebecca Tsurumi (Independent Scholar) “Images of the Japanese in the Modern Nisei Poetry of Peru”

9:30-10:00  Ignacio López-Calvo (UC Merced) “Building the nation from the outside: Flexible citizenship, American war propaganda, and the birth of anti-Japanese hysteria in Peru”

10:00-10:30  Raquel Ackerman (Cal State L.A.) “La representación del chino en el campesinado peruano”

 

Panel 2. FILMOGRAPHIC ORIENTALISM

Chair:  Debra Lee-DiStefano (Southeast Missouri State University)

10:30-11:00  Marilyn Millar (Tulane University) “Zafira, drama orientalista de un poeta-esclavo cubano”

11:00-11:30  Francisco Morán (Southern Methodist University) “Las cabezas trocadas: orientación y desorientación del imaginario del velo”

11:30-12:00  Michael Barba (UC Merced) “Far Beyond the Stars: Orientalism and Star Trek Deep Space Nine

 

 

12:00-1:00  LUNCH BREAK

Nikkei Student Union’s Taiko group (traditional Japanese drumming)

Persian Student Association’s Traditional Persian dance

 

1:00-2:00  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 

Renowned Cuban American novelist Cristina García “Imagining History: Cristina Garcia’s Monkey Hunting.”  (funded by UCM’s Center for Research in the Humanities and the Arts)

 

Panel 3. THE CHINESE DIASPORA IN CUBA

Chair:  Rebecca Tsurumi (Independent Scholar)

2:00-2:30  Paula Park (University of Texas, Austin) “Staging Absence: Severo Sarduy’s fictive Orientalism in De donde son los cantantes”

2:30-3:00  Teresa Rinaldi (University of North Texas) “El oráculo como estructura de la novela Como un mensajero tuyo”  

 

Panel 4. THE FAR AND NEAR EAST IN CENTRAL AMERICA

Chair:  Paula Park (University of Texas, Austin)

3:00-3:30  Huei Lan Yen (University of Oklahoma) “Redefinición de la identidad cultural en las obras del chino-panameño Eustorgio Chong Ruiz”

3:30-4:00  Robin Maria DeLugan (UC Merced) “‘Turcos’ and ‘Chinos’ in El Salvador: ‘foreign’ ethnics, racial hierarchy, and the ambivalence of national belonging”

 

Panel 5. LATIN AMERICAN ORIENTALIMS I

Chair:  Arturo Dávila (UC Berkeley)

4:00-4:30  Héctor Hoyos (Stanford University) “Con Artists, Acrobats, and Neighbors: Three Visions of the Orient in Contemporary Latin American Fiction”

4:30-5:00  Blanc, Mario A (CSU Sacramento) “La reciente novela de Gabriel García Márquez y Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia”

5:00-5:30  Alán José (UC Berkeley) “Why you cannot read Farabeuf: The Refinements of Torture and the Aesthetics of Evil”

 

Panel 6. LATIN AMERICAN ORIENTALIMS II

Chair:  Alán José (UC Berkeley)

5:30-6:00  Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes (Baylor U) “La herencia árabe en la obra del escritor brasileño Raduan Nassar”

6:00-6:30  Roberto Fuertes (Midwestern State U) “La configuración cultural de Filipinas en el siglo XVI. Interrelaciones con Hispanoamérica”

6:30-7:00  Moisés Park (UC Davis) “Second-hand Orientalism in Kiltro”

 

 

 

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SATURDAY, APRIL 25

7:30-8.00  Reception

 

Panel 7. SPANISH ORIENTALISMS I

Chair:  Juan de Castro (Eugene Lang College)

8:00-8:30  Robert Richmond Ellis (Occidental College) “Representations of East and Southeast Asia in Spanish writings from the colonial period”

8:30-9:00  Maria A. Castro-Sethness (Claremont McKenna College) “Separation and Displacement in Francisco Pradilla’s La rendición de Granada (1882): An Orientalist Vision”

 

Panel 8. SPANISH ORIENTALISMS II

Chair:  José Ignacio Suárez (University of Northern Colorado)

9:00-9:30  Juan de Castro (Eugene Lang College) “Latin American Theory and Don Quixote: Zoraida’s Conversion as Transculturation and/or Hybridity”

9:30-10:00  Alicia Ramos Jordán (UC Merced) “La Alhambra como metáfora común”

10:00-10:30  Nicolás Alemán (UC Riverside) “La expulsión de judíos y musulmanes en el Quijote”

 

Panel 9. EUROPEAN ORIENTALISM

Chair:  Maria A. Castro-Sethness (Claremont McKenna Collage)

10:30-11:00  Camila Pastor (UCLA) “The Nights as Living Narrative: Transgressing the Boundaries of the Textual Tradition”

11:00-11:30  José Ignacio Suárez (University of Northern Colorado) “Orientalism in Portuguese Literature: Eça de Queirós and Fernando Pessoa”

11:30-12:00  Meyda Yegenoglu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey, and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, NY) “Orientalism in the New European Imaginary and The Discourse of Cultural Difference”

 

12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

Muslim Student Association. Slide show/multimedia presentation

Ballet Folklórico. Traditional Mexican dances

 

1:00-2:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Wilfrid Miampika. “Poéticas poscoloniales y representaciones fronterizas: de las diásporas al ‘Todo-Mundo.’” Literary critic from Congo and professor of Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid) (Funded by The Program of Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities; Dr. Cristián H. Ricci, supervisor)

 

Panel 10. AFRICAN AND SPANISH ORIENTALISM

Chair:  Camila Pastor (UCLA)

2:00-2:30  Cristián Ricci (UC Merced)  “The liminal designation of Equatorial Guinea literature in the 21st Century”

2:30-3:00  Pilar Valero-Costa (CSU Fullerton) "María Zambrano: luminaria de oriente en occidente"

 

Panel 11. U.S. ORIENTALISM

Chair:  Cristián Ricci (UC Merced)  

3:00-3:30  Malgorzata Skorek (UC Merced) “Portrayal of Asian Americans in U.S. magazine advertisements”

3:30-4:00  Jacob Dorman (University of Kansas) “Black Orientalism: African American Jews, Muslims and Other Chosen People from Slavery to the Harlem Renaissance”

4:00-4:30  Alex Lubin (University of New Mexico) “The Black Mediterranean”

4:30-5:00  Stephanie Fetta (University of California, Irvine) “Next to the Mexicano, the Filipino in Alfredo Vea’s The Silver Cloud Café”

 

 

Panel 12. SELF-ORIENTALIZATION

Chair:  Malgorzata Skorek (UC Merced)

5:00-5:30  Meredith Oda (University of Chicago) “Assimilating Orientals: Japantown in Cold War San Francisco.”

5:30-6:00  Marco Valesi (UC Merced) “El exotismo occidental de Twelve Girls Band”

 

Panel 13. ORIENTALIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA

Chair:  Meredith Oda (University of Chicago)

6:00-6:30  Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa (CSU Fullerton) "Los silencios en el haikai tabladiano"

6:30-7:00  Carlos Bazúa (UC Merced) “The National Geographic’s orientalization of the Maya”

 

 

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