Karla Patricia Aguilar Velásquez presented the paper “El reconocimiento de los otros: la paz como revisión de la historia en La cola de la serpiente, de Leonardo Padura” at VIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Medellín Negro "La paz como ideal individual o acuerdo social" (September 2017). In the past academic year, her activities also included reporting for the Ibero-American Canal Cultura on the Hay Festival Literary Meeting, held in Cartagena, Colombia. As a result of this coverage you can find online interviews with writers Alberto Fuguet, Ana María Machado, Jonathan Shaw and Leonardo Padura. Excerpts from the interview with Padura were also published in the journal Visitas al Patio N° 10, with the title Leonardo Padura: “The discourse of the nation cannot be made with one voice.” She also moderated the conversation on Spanish crime novels between the writers Alicia Giménez Bartlet and Carlos Zanón, at the Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia (January 2018).
Nuria Alcaide García presented the paper entitled “‘'No Sex, no Future’: la adquisición del género gramatical en español por alumnos estonios” at the conference 2nd International Conference on New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching (May 2018), organized by PETALL and University of Granada, Spain.
Shirley Anghel presented “A Troubling Harmony: Race and Novelistic Form in Cervantes’ ‘The Captive's Tale’” at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures (October 2017). She also organized the panel “Migrations in Contemporary Spanish Culture” at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures (October 2017).
Francesca Dennstedt organized the panel Queer Female Bodies in Mexican Cultural Production for LASA-Latin American Studies Association 2018. She presented the paper “‘Take Magic Mushrooms with Muxe Maravilha’: temporalidades cuir a través de Guadalupe y Carmín tropical.” She co-founded and is currently co-president of the Association of Gender Minority and Women Graduate Students (GeMWGS) at Washington University in St. Louis.
Yamile Ferreira presented “Intertextualidad y poética en Esperando a Rodó de Carlos Maggi” at the XII Coloquio Internacional de Teatro in Montevideo (December 2017).
Olivia Lott’s translations of Colombian poetry have mostly recently appeared in (or are forthcoming from) Brooklyn Rail In Translation, Empty Mirror, Spoon River Poetry Review, Waxwing, and World Literature Today. She published a review of tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez (trans. Katherine M. Hedeen) with Stanford University's Mantis and contributed several micro-reviews on poetry in translation to the Kenyon Review Online. This November, she will present on two panels at the 2018 American Literary Translators Association Conference: “Creating Coalitions: The Politics of Co-Translation” and “Don't Wait for Tenure to Translate: Building Platforms for Literary Translation Within the Academy,” the latter of which she organized.
Gabriella Martin presented the paper “(Pseudo)Translation as Rebirth: Spanish Civil War Exiles in Mexico” at the Northeast MLA Conference (Pittsburgh, April 2018), as well as “A Return from Exile? Routes between Catalonia and Mexico in the Work of Jordi Soler” at the Latin American Studies Association congress (Barcelona, May 2018). She also participated as a delegate at the British Centre for Literary Translation’s Summer School in Translation and Creative Writing (University of East Anglia, July 2018), and will present on the panel "Getting Basque and Catalan Literature Out There" at the American Literary Translators Association conference in October 2018.
Jonatán Martín Gómez was Chair and Organizer of the panel Imaginarios tecnológicos del siglo XXI: ciencia ficción, distopía y ucronía en la narrativa hispánica contemporánea together with José Patricio Sullivan and presented “Recalibrando los circuitos de la máquina: imaginarios tecnológicos y distópicos en la narrativa hispánica del siglo XXI at XXXVI International Congress of Latin American Studies Association (May 2018). He also presented “Las visiones de otro mundo: cyborgs, identidades posthumanas y espacios distópicos en Iris de Edmundo Paz Soldán” at LVI International Congress of Americanists (July 2017).
Lauris McQuoid-Greason organized and presented in a sponsored panel for the Southern Cone Section of the 2018 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (May 2018). She presented “Mario Levrero: Staged Failure of the Neoliberal ‘Self’ and the Performative Negotiation of Autonomy” in the panel titled “Between Resistance and Complicity: Media, Aesthetics, Market and Politics in the Southern Cone.” She also presented the paper “Subversive Bodily Ethics in Lina Meruane’s Fruta podrida (2007) and Sangre en el ojo (2012)” at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures(October 2017).
Emma Merrigan organized and presented in a panel titled “Untidy Bodies, Untidy Borders: Productive Dis-Order in Latin(x) America” at the 2018 LASA conference in Barcelona. She also conducted archival research at the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami for her dissertation project. Finally, working with her colleagues, Emma co-founded and is currently serving as treasurer for the Gender Minority and Women Graduate Student Association (GeMWGS).
Jose Salinas Valdivia presented “Magia y divina voz’”. Industria cultural, afecto y cultura nacional. La escena folklórica andina en Argentina (1942-1946) at the 2017 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures (August 2017) and “Fausto Burgos. Indigenismo, modernidad y folklore en el noroeste argentino” at the Latin American Studies Association Conference LASA 2018. Barcelona, Spain. (May 2018)
Carmen Toro participated in the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, as part of the panel “History, Fiction, and Historical Fiction II” with a paper titled “The Inquisition in Democratic Spain: History, Fiction, and Myth in El hereje by Miguel Delibes”. She also organized the panel “Children in Iberian and Latin American Cultures” for the 2017 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (MACHL), were she presented a paper titled “Raza, colonialismo e infancia en Celia de Elena Fortún”.
Jose Salinas Valdivia presented “Lo propio americano. Lo andino en la Revista Americana de Buenos Aires (1929-1939)” at the Interdisciplinary Conference Thinking Andean Studies (University of Pennsylvania, February 2017) and “Traducciones fiebres y revoluciones. La experiencia literaria del Grupo Narración en China” at the 8th Congreso Internacional de Peruanistas en el Extranjero (University of Ottawa, March 2017). At the 2017 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures at Washington University he will present “‘Quena, charango y bombo'. Folklore y colaboraciones musicales entre los Andes y Argentina.”
Carmen Toro presented “The Inquisition in Democratic Spain: History, Fiction, and Myth in El hereje by Miguel Delibes” at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association Conference. For the 2017 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures she organized the panel “Niños en las culturas ibéricas y latinoamericanas” and is presenting a paper titled “El mundo inquieto de Celia: de la década de 1920 a la de 1950.”
Rodrigo Viqueira presented “Representaciones en disputa: los intelectuales afrouruguayos y sus lecturas sobre el negrismo (1928-1936)” at the Second Symposium of the Latin American Studies Association Southern Cone Studies section in Montevideo (July 2017). He also presented “La disputa por la representación: la prensa afrouruguaya ante la cultura de masas en los años veinte y treinta del siglo XX” at the II Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República (Montevideo, november 2017).
Pablo Zavala presented “Border Hauntings: The Spectropolitics of the Juárez Feminicides in FX’s ‘The Bridge’ (2013-14)” at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in May 2018 in Barcelona, Spain; “Marking Modernity: The Aesthetics of (Un)Sanitized Bodies in El Universal Ilustrado, 1917-1925” at the XXIV Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference in April 2018 in Irvine, CA; and “Avant-Garde Imagery: Estridentismo and Visual Culture in Post-Revolutionary Mexico” at the Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures (MACHL) in October 2017 in St. Louis, MO.
