- This event has passed.
(Re)Mapping Galician Studies in North America: A Breakthrough Symposium
May 2, 2014 - May 3, 2014
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Milwaukee is pleased to announce the “(Re)Mapping Galician Studies in North America: A Breakthrough Symposium”, to be held May 2-3, 2014 on the UW-Milwaukee Campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This Symposium will offer a meeting point to facilitate the exchange of critical ideas and (inter)disciplinary proposals on the present and future of Galician Studies in North American academia.
Overview
At a time when scientific disciplines tend progressively to a higher degree of specialization, it is becoming more and more complex to set up an effective and interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars from different fields in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. This Symposium, organized by the Galician Studies Research Group at UW-Milwaukee, would like to offer a meeting point to facilitate the exchange of critical ideas and (inter)disciplinary proposals on the present and future of Galician Studies in North American academia. We therefore propose a space to discuss, through a reflective look at the field itself, topics such as:
- The development, presence, and recent achievements of Galician Studies in North America, including Language & Literature and the Humanities, as well as the Social Sciences. An effort will be made to critically evaluate a broad range of proposals, in order to clarify goals and processes, discuss (post)national approaches, and/or establish bridges with similar debates, contemporary or not, in parallel settings such as Catalonia, Quebec, or Ireland.
- The intellectual and strategic paths to be designed and explored to promote more efficiently Galician Studies in North America through concrete tasks and goals.
- The historiography and discourses on this field within North American academia, addressing, from a positive perspective, the potential contribution that the Galician national debate could make to current cultural and sociopolitical issues.
Keynote Speakers
- Thomas Harrington, Associate Professor, Trinity College
- Sharon Roseman, Professor, Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Organizing Committee
- Benita Sampedro (Hofstra)
- Gabriel Rei-Doval (Chair)
- José A. Losada (UWM/CUNY, Co-chair)
- Iria Basoa Calvo
- Isabel Méndez Santalla
- Katie Ginsbach
- Paula Rodríguez Abruñeiras
- Sabela Juan Taborda
- Vera Vázquez López
Funding for the Symposium
Major funding for this Symposium has been provided by the Xunta de Galicia (Secretaría Xeral de Política Lingüística and Secretaría Xeral de Cultura).
Additional funds for this event have been provided by:
- UWM Office of Research
- UWM Department of Anthropology
- Instituto Cervantes
- UWM College of Letters and Science
- UWM Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- UWM Center for International Education
- UWM Center for Celtic Studies
- UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- UWM Center for 21st Century Studies
- UWM Department of Linguistics
- UWM Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
- UWM Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature
Schedule
Friday, May 2 2014
Session | Time |
---|---|
Registration and Coffee | 8:15-9:00am |
Welcome
|
9:00-9:45 |
Session 1, Iberian and Transatlantic Studies
|
9:45-11:15 |
Session 2, Linguistics
|
11:30-13:00 |
Lunch | 13:00-14:00 |
Session 3, Cultural, Queer, and Ethnographic Studies
|
14:00-15:30 |
Session 4, Camiño de Santiago
|
15:45-17:15 |
Keynote Speaker
|
17:30-18:10 |
Saturday, May 3 2014
Session | Time |
---|---|
Session 5, Discussing the Literary Canon
|
9:00-10:45 |
Session 6, Critical Theory
|
11:00-12:30 |
Lunch | 12:30-13:30 |
Session 7, Programatic Needs and the Curriculum
|
13:30-15:00 |
Keynote Speaker
|
15:15-15:55 |
Concluding Remarks*Bilingual Poetry Galician/ English: Claudio Rodríguez Fer (via skype) / Kathleen March: 17:15-17:45 *Business meeting, Galician Studies Association of North America: 17:45-18:30 *Dinner: 19:00 |
16:50-17:15 |