REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 1 NOVEMBER 2015
The Association will hold its third annual conference on 12-13 November 2015, at York St John University, in the heart of York (http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/about/visitor-information.aspx)
The conference programme is attached below.
Registration for the conference is now open. To access the online shop please go to http://store.yorksj.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=7&catid=4&prodid=397
Please note that accommodation is not included in conference registration. For information on local hotels and B&Bs, please visit:
http://www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk/york-st-john-university/ (University Postcode Y031 7EX)
http://www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk/north-yorkshire/york/ (York Town/City Page)
If you have any questions please contact Victoria Carpenter ([log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]). Looking forward to seeing you in Derby in November!
Victoria Carpenter
LALSA Founder
LALSA 2015 Conference Programme
Thursday, 12 November – Temple Hall
10:30 – 11:00 Arrival and registration
11:00 – 12:30 Session 1
• ‘Datos biográficos’: Testimonio and the Prefatorial Poem in Alicia Partnoy’s Venganza de la manzana (1992)
Kate Dunn, University of Edinburgh
• Una tercera lectura: the cinematic reader and the cult of virility in Manuel Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña
Amit Thakkar, University of Lancaster
• Bergson in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes: Time, Memory and Identity
Sheldon Penn, University of Leicester
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Session 2
• A Borgesian Reading Reaching beyond Literature: Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote in Leonardo Sciascia’s L’affaire Moro
Clara Martinez, University of Edinburgh
• Apropiaciones de Woolf en escritoras de América Latina
Lourdes Parra, University of Leeds
• Concrete Poets in Brazil and the UK
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação, CLAS, University of Cambridge
• Integrating Literature in the Content Based Language Classes
María F. Muradás Casas, University of York
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 3
• Mexico’s Literary Heritage: Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution (1915-2015)
Chris Harris, University of Liverpool
• ‘Y el olor de la sangre manchaba el aire’: Tlatelolco 1521 and 1968 in José Emilio Pacheco’s ‘Lectura de los “Cantares Mexicanos”’
Victoria Carpenter, York St John University
• Mexican Crime Fiction and the Investigative Journalist
Charlotte Lange, University of Stirling
17:30 – 18:15 Keynote presentation
The New Lyric: Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Argentina
Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
18:15 – 19:00 Wine reception
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (Holgate Dining Hall)
Friday, 13 November – Quad South 111
9:30 – 11:30 Session 4
• ‘En el comienzo fue la guerra’: Argentine Identity Myths through a Post-Malvinas Prism
Catriona McAllister, Brunel University
• The ‘Gestured Narrative’ – Contact and Conflict Zones in Isabel Allende’s Cuentos de Eva Luna
Mel Boland, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Looking (at the) Violent: Witnessing, Investigation and Accountability in Bolaño’s 2666 Julianne Pachico, University of East Anglia
• Los relatos fantásticos de Adolfo Bioy Casares: Esas grietas que revelan nuestra perplejidad ante el mundo
Jesús Rodero, University of Strathclyde
11:30 – 12:00 Break and relocate to DeGrey 125
12:00 – 13:30 Session 5
• Pirates and Pirate Novels in Latin America
Pascale Baker, University of Edinburgh
• Globalization from Below: Latin American Cardboard Publishers, Social Movement(s) and the Construction of Collective Identity
Lucy Bell, University of Surrey
• Writing The Real and Poetic Worlds of César Vallejo
Bob Britton, University of Sheffield
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
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