Program
All conference events will take place in in the sixth-floor parlor of the Central Library (702 Planetarium Pl., Arlington TX 76010)
Thursday, March 23rd
9:00-9:30 AM Breakfast and Registration
9:30-9:40 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ignacio Ruiz Pérez, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, UTA
9:40-10:50 AM Panel 1 – Survival, Engagement, and Creation
Moderator: Yana Payusova, Art and History Department, UTA
“Art on Abortion” Lisa Clayton, Art and History Department, UTA
“Cultural Sustainability of Indigenous Communities in Latin America” Yanina Blanco, Art and History Department, UTA
“The fountain of life” Shuang Gou, Art and History Department, UTA
10:50-11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Panel 2 – Iberian Iterations and Digital Fabrication: Re-envisioning Cultures
Moderator: Amy Austin, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
Panelists: Amy Austin, Department of Modern Languages, UTA, Morgan Chivers, FabLab Librarian, UTA, Perla Vargas, FabLab Coordinator, UTA, Emily González, Department of Modern Languages, and International Business, UTA
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch break
1:00-2:20 PM Panel 3 – Poetry Reading, Conversation, and Book Signing with Dr. Ignacio Ruiz Pérez, author of Isles of Firm Ground (Deep Vellum, 2022)
Moderator: Natalia Trigo, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
English translation reader: Andrea Varela, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
2:20-2:30 PM Break
2:30-3:50 PM Panel 4 – Revolution and Russian Literature
Moderator: Lonny Harrison, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Chernyshevsky: The Grandfather of the Russian Revolution” Zachery Minshall, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Devils’ Presents a 19th Century Generational Rift” Le’ Stevion Harris, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Terrorism and the Revolutionary Persona in Late Imperial Russia” Lonny Harrison, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“A Chain of Islands: The Mind, Body, and Spirit Transformed in The Gulag Archipelago” Taylor Franklin, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
3:50-4:00 PM Break
4:00-5:20 PM Panel 5 – Digital Humanities and the History of Spanish: New Methods for World Encounters
Moderator: Sonia Kania, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Preserving the Orthography of Old Spanish for a New World of Users” Ayleen Gálvez and Kevin Turcios, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Chronicles of the Indies and The Art of Bookmaking: Printing Methods of the Early 16th century” Sofía Fernández and Santiago Vázquez, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“The Art of Philology and La historia general y natural de las Indias” Carla Hernández and Julia Velázquez, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Naming the New Reality of the Americas: The Art of Lexical Creation” Andrea Varela and Rafael Pacheco, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
Friday, March 24th
8:45-9:00 AM Registration
9:00-10:00 AM Panel 6 – Global discourses in cultural, artistic and sociopolitical expressions
Moderator: Christopher Conway, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Imagining (in) Don Quixote: Constructing Meaning and Shaping Interpretation through Illustration” Ryan Prendergast, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Rochester
“Life Drawings: Dany Laferrière’s Autoportrait de Paris avec Chat (2018) ” Antoinette Sol, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Why a New Regime Type Has Put Cuba in a Major Humanitarian Crisis” Eddy Kham, School of Architecture, UTA
10:00-10:10 AM Break
10:10-10:50 AM Panel 7 – From Original to Translation
Moderator: Alicia Rueda-Acedo, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Title to be Announced” –Alicia Rueda-Acedo, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Cinderella becomes Cenicienta, An Academic Translation” David Hervás, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
10:50-11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Panel 8 – Words, Power, and Solace
Moderator: Laura Kopchick, Department of English, UTA
“La poesía como un instrumento transformador” Julio Aguilar, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Baylor University “Untitled” Natalia Trigo, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
“Nature and the World Around Us” Nga Nguyen, Department of English, UTA
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch & Keynote Address: “Cultural Catalysts: Alternative Economies of Literature” by Will Evans
Moderator: Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez, Department of Modern Languages, UTA
Will Evans is an award-winning publisher, writer, translator, bookstore owner, and literary arts advocate. In 2013, he moved to Dallas and founded Deep Vellum, a nonprofit publishing house, bookstore, and literary arts center, dedicated to bringing the world into conversation through literature by publishing the world’s vital stories by underrepresented writers, and cultivating a lifelong love of reading through creative programming and outspoken advocacy for the literary arts. He was awarded CLMP’s Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing in 2019 and was admitted to the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022. He received BA degrees in History and Russian Literature from Emory University, and an MA in Russian Culture from Duke University. A native of Wilmington, North Carolina, he lives in Dallas with his native Texan wife and two 10th-generation Texan children.
1:00-1:15 PM Closing Remarks
Ignacio Ruiz Pérez, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, UTA
Our conference will take place on March 23 and 24, 2023 on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington. Please come back in February of 2023 to see our program of panels, writers, and artists!
If you have questions about Cultural Constructions please reach out to Christopher Conway at conway [-at-] uta.edu