A Two-Part Conference
Munich, June 2015
Berkeley, March 2016
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
March 3
10:00 – 10:15am: Coffee
10:15 – 10:30am: Introduction and Welcome—Ignacio Navarrete, UC Berkeley
10:30am – 12:30pm: Women, Writing and Costumbrismo
Lars Schneider, LM-UM
“Out of time? Remarks on Fernán Caballero’s Clemencia” Zavalza
David Klein, LM-UM
“Keeping reality at bay, Leading Women Astray – Costumbrista Tradition and Female Character Development in Emilia Pardo Bazán”
Ana Mateos, LM-UM
“Domesticating the empire: Gender and imperialism in Las españolas, americanas y lusitanas pintadas por si mismas”
Moderator: Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee
March 4
9:00 – 10:15am: Costumbrista Aesthetic
Martina Bengert, LM-UM
“Panoramic Collections. Costumbrista Writing between Mimesis and Diegesis”
Bernhard Teuber, LM-UM
“Retratando la sociedad virreinal de la Nueva España – Elementos costumbristas en el teatro de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”
Moderator: Elena Fernández
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45am: Costumbrismo, Slavery and Travel
Elisabeth Kruse, LM-UM
“J.M. Rugendas: un pintor costumbrista bávaro en diálogo intermedial con la literatura de la Generación de 1837“
Daniel Graziadei, LM-UM
“Misunderstanding Customs? On the Depiction of Slavery and Maroonage in the Expanded Caribbean”
Moderator: Holly Jackson
LUNCH
12:45 – 2:00pm: Costumbrismo Returns?
Michael Rössner, LM-UM
“Translations of the “Gaucho”: From Ethnography to Theatre, from Realms of Memory to Mascot”
Hermann Doetsch, LM-UM
“Steady States and States of Exception: Cybernetics and Biopolitics of the Everyday in Mexican Cinema”
Moderator: Azucena Hernández