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(Re)Writing History : Text as monument to memory

(Re)Writing History : Text as monument to memory

Publié le par Alexandre Gefen (Source : Robert SAPP)

15th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

(Re)Writing History: Text as Monument to Memory

Papers or panels on all aspects of literature in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and Comparative Literature will be considered. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Deadline for submission of abstracts is December 20, 2008.

Abstracts are limited to 250 words and may be submitted online only. For abstract submissions, last year's program, and further information, visit our website at: http://ccrl.colloquia.com and see the "Submit a Proposal" link in the top left corner of this page for further instructions.

Exceptional papers by both graduate students and professors will be considered for publication in Romance Notes

 

Inquiries:

Spanish: María del Carmen Caña Jiménez, canajime@email.unc.edu

French: Robert Sapp, rsapp@email.unc.edu

Italian: Cale LaSalata, lasalata@email.unc.edu

Portuguese: TBA

 

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:Esther Bendahan

 

She is a Jewish Spanish writer. She has published several novels such as Soñar con Hispania in 2000, Deshojando alcachofas in 2005 and Déjalo, ya volveremos in 2006. She received the "Premio Tigre" in 2007 for her last novel La Cara de Marte published that same year. She has also published short stories in different newspapers such as "La Razón" (2005),"Progresa-Prensa regional" (2006), "Cinco Días" (2006) and magazines such as "Revista Ñ" (2006). Esther Bendahan is also the director of the cultural radio program "Casa Sefarad-Israel" and director and host of the Spanish TV program "Shalom". She has worked at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. She is currently working on writing the script for a documentary on the relationship between exile and memory; and a program on Sephardic culture in Istanbul.

 

 

 

Régine Robin

 

She is Professor Emerita at l'Université du Québec à Montréal. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard in 1988, visiting professor at l'École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales de Paris in 1989 and in the Department of Sociology at NYU in 1991, a member of L'UER at l'Université de Paris III in 1995, visiting scholar at the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard in 2003. She was awarded the Prix du Gouverneur général from Canada in 1987 for her work Le Réalisme socialiste:une esthétique impossible (Paris, Payot, 1986), the "Prix Jacques-Rousseau" from the French-Canadian Association for the advancement of science, "le Prix Spirale" for her work Le Golem de l'écriture in 1999 as well as "Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal", for her book Berlin Chantiers in 2001. She has recently published La Mémoire Saturée (Stock 2003). She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

 

Robert Viscusi

 

He has published the novel Astoria (Guernica, 1995; American Book Award, 1996), the long poem An Oration Upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus (VIA Folios, 1993), a poetry collection entitled A New Geography of Time (Guernica, 2004), a critical history entitled Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (SUNY Press, 2006), and numerous essays on Italian American literature and culture. Viscusi is Broeklundian Professor and executive officer of the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, where he teaches American and Italian American literature. He is president of the Italian American writers association and has held fellowships from the NEH and the Calandra Italian American institute. Among his awards are the "Pietro Di Donato" and "John Fante Award" of the New York State Order Sons of Italy (2006) and the "Premio Speciale per la Critica of the Fondazione Giuseppe Acerbi" (Castel Goffredo Mantovano, 2008).

 

 

Special Spotlight Presentation:

Gioconda Belli

Born in Managua, Nicaragua, Gioconda Belli, known for her sensual poems that celebrate the feminine, continues the poetic tradition of her country. Taking stance against the Somoza regime, her poetry adopts an insurgent tone. After the "Sandinista" revolution, Belli explores her own narrative writings with the 1988 novel La mujer habitada which has been translated into more than eleven languages. Her narrative work includes Sofía de los Presagios (1990), Waslala (1996), the children's book El Taller de las Mariposas (1994) and the autobiographical El país bajo mi piel (2001), and El pergamino de la seducción (2005). Her most recent novel, El infinito en la palma de la mano (2008) won the "Premio Biblioteca Breve de la Editorial Seix Barral" in Spain. Her poetic work includes Sobre la grama (1972), Línea de fuego (1978) Truenos y arco iris (1982) De la costilla de Eva (1987), Apogeo (1994), Mi íntima multitud (2003) y Fuego soy apartado y espada puesta lejos (2007). Belli won the "Premio Mariano Fiallos Gil de la UNAN" in 1972, the "Premio Casa de las Américas" in 1978, the "Premio Anna Seghers" in 2003, the "Premio Generación del 27" in Spain for her book of poems Mi íntima multitud, in 2007 she won the "Premio Internacional de Poesía Ciudad de Melilla."