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10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference

Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies (FHIS)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Hybrid Format
October 26-27th, 2023

Impending Catastrophes through the Ages: Literature and the Arts in the Context of Doom

*All presentations are scheduled according to Pacific Time (PT)*

Rooms: Buchanan Tower 726 (BuTo 726) for hybrid panels Buchanan Tower 831 (BuTo 831) for screening virtual panels

Thursday October 26

9:00-9:30 am (PT)* Breakfast / Registration (Buchanan Tower 726)
9:30-10:00 am Opening Remarks (Buchanan Tower 726)
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09
10:00-11:30 am Buchanan Tower 831
Panel 1a: Dystopian Landscapes and Catastrophes
Chair: Dr. Isabella Huberman
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67030242955?pwd=aHlnTzRiOUp1WW13dllTRmZLM3psUT09

  • Chloé Persillet (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), “L'Univers sans l'homme: Paysages et esthétiques de la catastrophe du romantisme à nos jours” (online)
  • Daniel Rudy Hiller (Université Nationale Autonome du Mexique), “Catastrophe et savoir dans L’homme apparaît à l’Holocène de Max Frisch” (online)
  • Adil Boudiab (Independent Researcher) “Regard dystopique sur l’intelligence artificielle dans la science-fiction brussolienne, Vu en coupe d’une ville malade comme exemple” (online)

Buchanan Tower 726
Panel 1b: Societal Impact of Literary Forms
Chair: Dr. Nancy Frelick
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61524397397?pwd=SXRpeVltRkdaRFpvU2FPb2thb2xiUT09

  • Ankita Ganguly (Jawaharlal Nehru University), “Religion and Catastrophe: Negotiations of Literature and the Idea of the Secular Critique” (online)
  • Oscar Valle (UC Riverside), “The De-Naturalization of Allegory” (in-person)
11:30-11:45 am Coffee Break
11:45-1:15 pm Buchanan Tower 726
Panel 2: Political Violence and Trauma in Hispanic Literatures
Chair: Dr. Tamara Mitchell
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09

  • Jennifer Nagtegaal (University of British Columbia), “Crisis with a Capital “C”: Reading Aleix Saló’s Españistán (2011) as Animated Journalism in Spain’s Comic Public Sphere” (in-person)
  • Pamela Zamora Quesada (University of British Columbia), “Literary Listening to the Human Rights Archive in Central American Fiction” (in-person)
  • Rigoberto Gutiérrez Piñón (University of Washington), “Apocalypse Again: A Palimpsest of Trauma in Bernardo Esquica’s “La otra noche de Tlatelolco” (in-person)
1:15-2:15 pm Lunch
2:15-3:45 pm Buchanan Tower 726
Panel 3: Relieving Female Trauma Through Fiction
Chair: Dr. Anna Casas
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09

  • Dora Ahearn-Wood (Indiana University Bloomington), “Collisions and Crises of Personal and Collective Trauma in Todo sobre nosotras and Tu lengua en mi boca” (online)
  • Carolina Cassese de Vasconcellos Serelle (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais), “Societal crises and the female condition: a comparative analysis between two dystopian short stories” (online)
  • Kathryn Houston (University of British Columbia), “Herd Mentality: The Horror of Belonging in Augustina Bazterrica’s Cadáver exquisito” (in-person)
3:45-4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 pm Buchanan Tower 726
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09

Speaker: Dr. Amanda M. Smith (Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz)

“Fluvial Forms of Care after the Colombian Peace Accords: The Magdalena River as Tomb and Teacher”

Followed by Q&A

Friday October 27

9-10 am (PT) Breakfast (Buchanan Tower 726)
10:00-11:30 am Buchanan Tower 831
Panel 4a: Ecological Crises in Literature
Chair: Dr. Antje Ziethen
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69079224227?pwd=Z2pxb0dHR05PTFdtRXVsT3IyZkpTQT09

  • Fabiola Obame (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), “Entre intuitions scientifiques et prémonitions: les lanceurs d’alertes face aux crises écologiques” (online)
  • Aka Adjé Justin (Université Félix Houphouët Boigny de Cocody), “Altération et destruction de la nature dans Colline de Jean Giono” (online)
  • Tariq Oukhadda (Université Moulay Ismail), “Narrer le désastre: Agadir de Khaïr-eddine ou le séisme du texte” (online)
  • Djoher Sadoun (Université d’Alger), “Les représentations cycloniques : du châtiment à la rédemption dans l’œuvre de Gisèle Pineau” (online)

Buchanan Tower 726
4b: Intimate Memories and Laughter
Chair: Dr. Patrick Moran
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66737811930?pwd=RkRxK3pCdVNKQkNZVXpFTTdMQ3R5Zz09

  • Julia Wahl (Independent Researcher), “La catastrophe naturelle dans Atlantides et In memoriam de Jean-René Lemoine: une écriture de l’intime” (online)
  • Shadi Rezaei (University of British Columbia), “Mémoires individuelles et collectives formées par des événements catastrophiques” (in-person)
11:30-11:45 am Coffee Break
11:45-1:15 pm BuchananTower 726
Panel 5: Impending Catastrophes and the Body
Chair: Dr. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09

  • Manuela Mohr (Université de Strasbourg), “Les explocréateurs: penser les catastrophes passées et à venir par texte, image et son” (online)
  • Anne Lempicki (Université de Lille), "Désastres des corps et de l'espace dans les créations de la Compagnie belge Peeping Tom (l'exemple de Triptych, 2020)" (online)
  • Damien Mougeot (CY Cergy Paris Université & Université Laval), “La poésie, un baume face à l'Apocalypse” (online)
1:15-2:15 pm Lunch
2:15-3:45 pm Buchanan Tower 726
Panel 6: Art in the Face of Natural Disasters
Chair: Dr. Katharina Piechocki
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09

  • Stacy Olive Jarvis (University of Birmingham), “Disasters through the years” (online)
  • Miranda Carroll (University of Victoria), “How seven nights at Carnegie Hall presupposed Catastrophe: The Klondike Goldrush and Performance” (online)
  • Khedidja Chergui (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Bouzaréah of Algiers), “The Symbolism of Ecological Violence in African Oral Tradition” (online)
  • Nassima Terki (Université de M’hamed Bougarra), “Disaster through Poetry - Ticrad on the Body are Ticard the Land: The 2021 Wildfires in Kabylia” (online)
3:45- 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 pm Buchanan Tower 726
Panel 7: Latin American Narrations of Ecological and Political Violence
Chair: Dr. Kim Beauchesne
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09

  • Julian Marcel Balademira-Celorrio (The Ohio State University), “Caimanes y mosaicos: memoria cultural, censura y espacios apocalípticos en el cómic cubano del siglo XXI” (in-person)
  • Patricio Robles (University of British Columbia), “Mobilizing Disgust: Affective Reactions to the "Rural Turn" in Argentine Literature” (in-person)
5:30-5:45 pm Closing Remarks
Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68688400300?pwd=M0FwZWs3b2VjSTlSTGMwUjY2V0l5QT09