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Midwest Iberian Studies Group Conference

April 11 - April 13, 2013
5:00PM - 6:00PM
311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Ave and 180 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd

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Add to Calendar 2013-04-11 17:00:00 2013-04-13 18:00:00 Midwest Iberian Studies Group Conference Thursday, Apr 11 - Room 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Ave, from 5:00-8:30 pmFriday, Apr 12 - Ohio Union Senate Room, 1739 N. High St, from 9:00-8:00 pmSaturday, Apr 13 - Room 180 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd, from 9:30 am - 8:00 pm[printable flyer]Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University.  He specializes in modern European literatures and cultures with an emphasis on the Spanish and Catalan traditions. He is Director of the Catalan Observatory at Stanford and serves as Director of the Iberian Studies Program, housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute.Professor Resina is most recently the author of Del Hispanismo a los Estudios Ibéricos. Una propuesta federativa para el ámbito cultural. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2009. In this book he lays out the rationale for the overcoming of Hispanic Studies by a new discipline of Iberian Studies by contending that the field's response to the crisis of the Humanities should not lie either in the retrenchment into the national philological traditions or in a vague cultural studies deprived of evaluative principles and oblivious of cultural history. Another recent publication is Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image (Stanford UP, 2008). This book traces the development of Barcelona's modern image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. Ana Paula Ferreira is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota.  Her research focuses on Portuguese,  Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures; Race and Post/Colonial Studies; Women (Writers), Feminisms, and Nation; and Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction and Ethics. In 2012 she co-authored an article “Maria Isabel Barreno e a Subversão do Senso Comum do Género" published in Avanços em Literatura e Cultura Portuguesas. Século XX.  In 2011 she authored three publications appearing in Garrett’s Travels Revisited. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, A Cultura Portuguesa no Divã, and Journal of Romance Studies.Sponsored by the Iberian Studies Working Group of the Humanities Institute, College of Arts and Sciences,  DISCO, Film Studies, Department of Comparative Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Portugal's Instituto Camoes. 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Ave and 180 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd Humanities Institute huminst@osu.edu America/New_York public

Thursday, Apr 11 - Room 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Ave, from 5:00-8:30 pm

Friday, Apr 12 - Ohio Union Senate Room, 1739 N. High St, from 9:00-8:00 pm

Saturday, Apr 13 - Room 180 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd, from 9:30 am - 8:00 pm

[printable flyer]

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University.  He specializes in modern European literatures and cultures with an emphasis on the Spanish and Catalan traditions. He is Director of the Catalan Observatory at Stanford and serves as Director of the Iberian Studies Program, housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute.Joan Ramon Resina

Professor Resina is most recently the author of Del Hispanismo a los Estudios Ibéricos. Una propuesta federativa para el ámbito cultural. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2009. In this book he lays out the rationale for the overcoming of Hispanic Studies by a new discipline of Iberian Studies by contending that the field's response to the crisis of the Humanities should not lie either in the retrenchment into the national philological traditions or in a vague cultural studies deprived of evaluative principles and oblivious of cultural history. Another recent publication is Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image (Stanford UP, 2008). This book traces the development of Barcelona's modern image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues.

 

Ana Paula Ferreira is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota.  Her research focuses on Ana Paula FerreiraPortuguese,  Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures; Race and Post/Colonial Studies; Women (Writers), Feminisms, and Nation; and Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction and Ethics. In 2012 she co-authored an article “Maria Isabel Barreno e a Subversão do Senso Comum do Género" published in Avanços em Literatura e Cultura Portuguesas. Século XX.  In 2011 she authored three publications appearing in Garrett’s Travels Revisited. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, A Cultura Portuguesa no Divã, and Journal of Romance Studies.

Sponsored by the Iberian Studies Working Group of the Humanities Institute, College of Arts and Sciences,  DISCO, Film Studies, Department of Comparative Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Portugal's Instituto Camoes.