April 8th, 2022 (All times are in CDT)
All sessions will be presented in a hybrid format through Zoom. Please email us for more details. *Subject to changes* 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & Coffee table Brazos Room (215) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM | Welcome & Opening Session Dr. Mark Sheridan, Dean of the Graduate School Dr. Carmen Pereira, Chair of CMLL Veronica Cora-Castillo, Céfiro President Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 1st Panel: El entremés de los Mirones 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM | Corporalidad y materialidad textil en El entremés de los Mirones Dakota Tucker (Texas Tech University), Cristina Hernández Oliver (Texas Tech University), and Missael Duarte Somoza (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 2nd Panel: Afrodiasporic Literatures 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM | Limpiezas y hechizos en Los negros brujos (1909) de Fernando Ortiz desde la concepción de suciedad de Mary Douglas Iván Díez de la Pava (University of Florida) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM | ¿Cómo se expresa la diáspora boricua? El caso del Nuyorican Poets Café Piero Visconte (University of Texas at Austin) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM | Coffee break Brazos Room (215) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 3rd Panel: Modernizing the Old Gold 11:20 AM – 12:00 PM | El coloquio de los perros Yazarei Bazaldua (Texas Tech University) Yesica Amaya (Texas Tech University) Dr. John Beusterien (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch Break 4th Panel: Feminist Literatures 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | A Revision of Natural History in Canto yo y la montaña baila by Irene Solà Andrew Cosper (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM | Agencia en las mujeres del Baztán: el mito de las mujeres montañesas Sonia Loza (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 2:40 PM – 3:00 PM | Los límites entre lo femenino y lo masculino en El Quijote y La fuerza del destino: un análisis de los personajes Claudia Jerónima y Leonora Marcus Guilherme Valadares (Texas Tech University) & Nicolas Spencer (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 5th Panel: Identity, Growth, and Resistance: Ecocritical Perspectives on Chicana Writers 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Fluid Identities in the Poetry of Emmy Pérez Omar González (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | Capital, biopoder y resistencia en las obras Wrath of Grapes 1986 Pesticide Poisonings of Grape Workers, Sun Mad, and Under the Feet of Jesus Marcus Guilherme Valadares (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM | El proceso de aprendizaje de los personajes de Viramontes dentro del espacio urbano versus el espacio rural Nicolas Spencer (Texas Tech University) Caprock Room (216) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Coffee break Brazos Room (215) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Keynote Speaker Dr. Anna M. Nogar (The University of New Mexico) "Unearthing Lost Voices of the Southwest: Revealing History through the Public Humanities." CMLL Room 105 Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Building Zoom will be streamed live via Facebook |
April 9th, 2022 (All times are in CDT)
All sessions will be presented in a hybrid format through Zoom. Please email us for more details. *Subject to changes* 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM | Registration & Coffee table Brazos Room (215) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 1st Panel: Voces latinxs alternativas 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM | El barrio, espacio social y visibilidad cultural: barrioización y barriología en El Hoyo de Mario Suárez Jorge A. Hernández Jr. (University of New Mexico) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM | Para una relectura de la obra periodística de Enriqueta Vasquez Alessio Piras (University of New Mexico) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM | Inláak’ech in the Works of Isaac Carrillo Can: Revisiting ‘cultural logic’ for Contemporary Maya Literature Zachary Brandner (Texas Tech University) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM | The Violence of Mainstream Environmentalism and the Advocacy against Injustice in Chicanx Literature Mia Clapp (Texas Tech University) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 2nd Panel: Professionalization Workshop 10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | You Need to Publish! Where to Start Dr. John Beusterien (Texas Tech University) Dr. Britta Anderson (Texas Tech University) Dr. Sara Spurgeon (Texas Tech University) Ian Barba, M.S. (Texas Tech University) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch Break 3rd Panel: Bilingualism and language teaching 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Origen, naturaleza y evolución de los préstamos del inglés en el español contemporáneo: un análisis a través del estudio de corpus Marina Sartor (Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM | La salud bucodental y ocular en la clase de Español de la Medicina: una propuesta didáctica Dr. Maria Kouti (St. Ambrose University) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 2:40 PM -3:00 PM | Defining, explaining, and justifying Spanish heritage language classes Lydia Ferris (Texas Tech University) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 4th Panel: Portuguese-Spanish Bilingual Speakers 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM | Portuguese-Spanish Bilingual Speakers and the Use of Demonstrative Pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese Kory Apodoca Cordova (University of New Mexico) Fátima Dutra (University of New Mexico) Letícia Rinaldi (University of New Mexico) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 5th Panel: Postcolonial Languages, Culture, and Thought 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM | Reflections about the Brazilian Postcolonial Periphery: An Exploration of the Black Diaspora, Racial Democracy, and Carnaval Larissa Bougleux (University of Texas at Austin) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM | El pensamiento sin lenguaje verbal en el ser humano Nazita Fazlkhah (University of Florida) Traditions Room (233) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd Floor 4:20 PM – 4:30 PM | Coffee break Brazos Room (215) Student Union Building (SUB) 2nd floor 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Keynote Speaker Dr. Sandro Sessarego (University of Texas at Austin) “Language Awareness & Linguistic Activism in Bolivia: How Afro-Yungueño May Become a ‘Language’”. Escondido Theater (001) in the Student Union Building (SUB) Basement 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Dinner Reception Matador Room (227) at the Student Union Building |