WISPS XI ANNUAL CONFERENCE, in collaboration with Women in German Studies (WIGS):

FRIENDSHIP AND CROSS-CULTURAL CO-OPERATION

Swansea University, 12-13 November 2010

PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 12TH NOVEMBER

Registration and coffee, 11.30-12.15

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND ALL PARALLEL SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN SINGLETON ABBEY (CAMPUS MAP REF.2)

PARALLEL SESSION 1 / PARALLEL SESSION 2
12.15 - 13.15 / Cross-Cultural Dynamics / The Social & Corporeal Body
12.15-12.45 / Patricia O’Byrne (Dublin City), ‘The Novels of Sección Femenina writer Ánglese Villarta Tuñón: vehicles for Falangist ideology?’ / Sarah Bowskill (Swansea) & Jane Lavery (Southampton), ‘The Representation of the Body in the Work of Multimedia Artists Regina José Galindo & Gabriela León’
12.45-13.15 / Yolanda Reyes (NUI Galway), ‘El laberinto del Fauno: sincretismo de género entre el imaginario mexicano y español, en el umbral de una nueva femineidad’ / Ryan Prout (Cardiff), ‘Old Wives Tales or Medical Pluralism? Reading Women’s Somatic Trauma in Claudia Llosa’s La teta asustada (2009)
13.15 – 13.45 / Lunch Break / Lunch Break
13.45 - 15.45 / Women’s Friendship & Relationships / Gender, Space and Journeys
13.45-14.15 / Caragh Wells (Bristol), ‘The Concept of Friendship in Carmen Laforet’s Nada and La isla y los demonios’ / Anna Vives (Leicester), ‘Real & Imaginary Cityscapes in the Catalan Avant-garde: An Aesthetic Approach to Gender Perceptions’
14.15-14.45 / Ana Raquel Fernandes (ULICES), ‘Friendship in Contemporary Short Fiction by Portuguese Women Writers’ / Silvia Grassi (Cardiff), ‘Shifting Gender & Cultural Identity’
14.45-15.15 / Jennifer Wood (NUI Maynooth), ‘‘Mujeres dinámicas’: The Creative Friendship of Concha Méndez & Maruja Mallo’ / Ann Davies (Newcastle), ‘Crime, Scene, Investigation: Women, Detection and the City’
15.15-15.45 / María José Blanco (IGRS), ‘Women Together are not Women Alone: Women’s Friendship in Spanish Contemporary Literature’ / Sara Brandellero (Leeds), ‘Landscapes of Memory & Oblivion in Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo’
15.45 - 16.00 / Tea/Coffee Break / Tea/Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00 / Roundtable:
Cultural Festivals in the Luso-Hispanic World / Sarah Bowskill (Swansea), Par Kumaraswami (Manchester), Niamh Thornton (Ulster)
Time tbc / WISPS/WIGS Dinner (venue tbc)

SATURDAY 13TH NOVEMBER

Registration, 8.45 - 9.10

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND ALL PARALLEL SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE JAMES CALLAGHAN BUILDING (CAMPUS MAP REF.4)

PARALLEL SESSION 1 / PARALLEL SESSION 2
9.10 - 10.40 / Friendship and Cross-Cultural Dynamics / Literary and Cinematic Production of German Émigrés in Latin America
9.10-9.40 / Kirsty Hooper (Liverpool), ‘Rachel Challice (1857-1909): Friendship and Cross-Cultural Co-operation in turn-of the-century England, Spain and Germany’ / Alison McClean (Independent), ‘From Bauhaus to Barrio: Hannes Meyer and his Libro Negro in Mexico’
9.40-10.10 / Helen Finch (Leeds), ‘Representations of genderqueer friendship in the works of Ravic Strubel’s “Fremd gehen”’ / Lesley Wylie (Leicester), ‘Testimony and fiction in Vicki Baum’s ‘Death of an Indian’’
10.10-10.40 / Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham), ‘The Quest for Ingeborg B.: Christa Wolf’s Leibhaftig as homage to Ingeborg Bachmann’ / Claudia Sandberg (Southampton), ‘Lived Experience as Unmediated Cultural Performance. Peter Lilienthal’s La Insurrección/Der Aufstand/The Uprising (1980)’
10.40 - 11.00 / Tea/Coffee Break / Tea/Coffee Break
11.00 - 13.00 / Migration, Subalternity and Exile / Memory, Dialogue and Debate
11.00-11.30 / Daniela Omlor (St Andrews), ‘The Poetics of Exile in the works of Hilde Domin and Angelina Muñiz Huberman’ / Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University College Dublin), ‘Cultural Memory Debates in Contemporary Spain: International Influences’
11.30-12.00 / María Liñeira (Oxford), ‘Pigging in Germany: A Play on Male Migrant Subalternity?’ / Beate Müller (Newcastle), ‘Giving a Voice to the Silenced: Adults Writing Children’s Diaries During the Holocaust’
12.00-12.30 / María Pilar Rodríguez (Deusto), ‘Vente a Alemania, Pepe and Poniente: Stereotyping and Otherness in Past and Present Immigration Films’ / Sara Jones (Bristol), ‘Vergessen werde und will ich die zwei Jahre meines Lebens nie, Verarbeiten :ja !’ Victim Forums as Remembering Communities’
12.30-13.00 / Brigid Haines (Swansea), ‘Return from the Archipelago: Herta Müller’s Atemschaukel’ / Meesha Nehru (Nottingham), ‘Virtual Public Spaces: The Role of the Cuban Blogosphere’
13.00 -14.00 / Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 / Keynote Lecture:
'Women on the Verge of a Cultural Breakthrough: German Hispanism, Translation and Gender in the Nineteenth Century' / Professor Carol Tully
Bangor University
15.00 - 15.45 / AGM
15.45 / End of Conference