Other Iberias: A Symposium on Comparative Iberian Studies

Sponsors: University of California Humanities Research Institute; UC Davis Humanities Institute; Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Davis

Free and open to the public

Opening Remarks (9-9:15 am)

Session I (9:15-10:45 am): Theorizing Iberia and Iberian Studies

(Moderator: Kayce Davis)

Silvia Bermúdez (UCSB): “Del hispanismo a los estudios ibéricos: reconfigurar modelos representativos e interpretativos”

Roberta Lee Johnson (Kansas/UCLA): “Iberian Feminisms.”

Viola Miglio (UCSB) and Xabier Irujo (University of Nevada-Reno): “Constructing Basque Identity Abroad: Education and Language”

Gonzalo Navajas (UCI): “¿Qué historia? La narración de la nación (¿española?) en la textualidad escrita y visual contemporánea”

Cristián Ricci (UCM): “Hacia una poética paterista: el caso del escritor hispanomarroquí Abderrahman El Fathi”

Session II (11 am-12:45 pm): Ongoing Research in Comparative Iberian Studies

(Moderator: Daniela Suárez)

Marta Altisent (UCD): “La mirada recíproca Cataluña/Castilla en el modernismo: El caso de Santiago Rusiñol”

Emilie Bergmann (UCB): “Alfonso X, García Lorca, and a Ballad Tradition: ‘La nodriza del rey’”

Harvey Sharrer (UCSB): “Bio-bibliographical Databases of the Corpora of Medieval Vernacular Iberian Texts: PhiloBiblon from 1987 to 2012 and Beyond”

Parissa Tadrissi (Sonoma State University): “Digital Design: Littera et Artificium in Galician, Catalan, and Castilian Youth Literature”

Robert Patrick Newcomb (UCD): “Iberian Anguish: Unamuno’s Influence on Miguel Torga”

Keynote Address (1-2:30 pm):

(Introduction: Emily Kuffner)

John Dagenais (UCLA), “‘Perdió Almanzor ell atamor’: Hybridity and Diaspora in Medieval Iberian Literature”

Session III (4-5:30 pm): Roundtable – Comparative Iberian Studies: State of the Field

(Moderator: Daniel Herrera Cepero)

Closing Remarks (5:30-5:45 pm)