10th Annual Romance Languages and Literatures Graduate Students Association Virtual Conference

4:30pm    Keynote Address   

"Deceleration. On Cinema and Its Futures"

Dr. Patricia Keller, Cornell University
To be followed by a Q&A and Reception

8:30-10:00am   Session 1

"Looking to Women:  In the Streets and on the Screen"

Panel in English.  Moderator, Neil Gablenz

• Abhipsa Chakraborty. “Be like the Shaheen Bagh women”: Street Protest in the year of the Pandemic””
• Shaohua Shi. “Gaze on Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

10:30-12:00pm   Session II

"Looking to Expressions: Verbal and Visual Communication in Spain and Latin America""

Panel in English.  Moderator, Jamison Wezelis

• Alex Bakke.  “Filling in Gaps: The use of Spanish discourse markers amongst Catalan and Spanish Bilinguals”
• Martín Ruiz-Mendoza. “Painting in Times of Emergency: The Aesthetics of Resilience in Contemporary Latin America”
• Valentina Marulanda. “Capitalism and Environmental Crisis: Sci-fi Topic, Real Life Problem”

1:00-2:30pm   Session III

Session III.a. "Looking to the Void: Utopias and Nothingness"

Panel in French.  Moderator, Neil Gablenz

• Seifollah Ramezani. “The spatiality and spatial otherness of utopia: All utopias lead to a void”
• Marie Dufay. “De la creation à la représentation du rien dans En attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett “

Session III.b. "Looking to Possibilities: Digital Spaces"

Panel in English and Spanish.  Moderator, Alex Bakke

• Matías B. Oviedo. “Divination, Forecasting, and Speculation in Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s La máquina utópica”
• Fiordaliza Ippolito. “Mediations and Hypermediations: The Impact of Digital Platforms in Society”

3:00-4:15pm   Session IV

""Looking to Literature: The Page as Space""

Panel in English.  Moderator, Marie Dufay

• Théo Ricardo. “A Space for Disgust and Haunting in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart”
• Jason C Grant. “The Lisibilité of Urban Space: The Problem of Knowing Cities from Modiano to Nuit Debout”
• Samantha Schifano. “Reinterpreting Medusa: Using Dream theory to read Hélène Cixous Le rire de la Méduse”

4:30-5:30pm  Roundtable Discussion and Closing Remarks

"Looking to the Future: Utopias and New Spaces"

• Dr. Patricia Keller (Keynote Speaker, Cornell University)
• Dr. Fernanda Negrete (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)
• Dr. Margarita Vargas (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)
• Dr. Laura Chiesa (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)

Thank you to the following groups for their co-sponsorship and collaboration: The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The Graduate Student Association.

RLL GSA Officers:

Matthew Skrzypczyk- President, Neil Gablenz- Vice President, Samantha Schiffano- Treasurer
Neil Gablenz- Secretary, Valentina Marulanda- Board of Directors Senator, Marie Dufay -Board of Directors Senator

Conference Organizers:

Matthew Skrzypczyk, Neil Gablenz, Samantha Sciffano, Valentina Marulanda, Marie Dufay, Théo Ricardo, Jamison Wezelis, Jenna Reiner