SECCLL PANELS 2009

SECCLL page

 (FINAL LIST of PANELS)

 (03/23/09)

REGISTRATION

Registration and all sessions held at Nessmith-Lane Building

09:00 am. - 04:30 pm.

Thursday Morning             Thursday Afternoon     Friday Morning                 Friday Afternoon

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Thursday, March 26

MORNING SESSIONS

9:00 – 11:30

I.     FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE I: Haunted Authors

 

Organized by David Seaman, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Babacar Mboup, Valdosta State University

 

1.     Summoning the Ancients: The Role of Carthage in Modern Tunisian Literature

Debbie Barnard, Tennessee Tech University

 

2.     Une rélecture de Caligula et Le Malentendu à la lumière des essais hilosophiques  d’Albert Camus

Babacar Mboup, Valdosta State University

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

3.     Personnage et espace dans l’univers romanesque de J.G. Leclézio

Ikanga Ngozi Tchomba, Baton Rouge Community College

 

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II.            GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: Narrativa y poesía de la conquista en Hispanoamérica

 

Organized and Chaired by Doralina A. Martinez-Conde, Georgia Southern University

 

1.     Las mujeres de los episodios intercalados en La Araucana: sus vínculos con la literatura clásica y sus conexiones con las mujeres varoniles del Siglo de Oro

Bridget Blanchard, M.A. in Spanish Graduate Student, Georgia Southern University

 

2.   La literatura bucólica en La Araucana de Alonso de Ercilla

      Brígida Ramos, M.A. in Spanish Graduate Student, Georgia Southern University

 

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

3.     Hernán Cortés: Erudito, Conquistador y Príncipe Maquiavélico

Jessica Todd, M.A. in Spanish Graduate Student, Georgia Southern University

 

4.     Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca como obra picaresca

Jessica Wren Wilson, M.A in Spanish Graduate Student, Georgia Southern University.

 

5.     Los Comentarios Reales del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Patria, identidad e historia

Ana Goldstein, M.A. in Spanish Graduate Student, Georgia Southern University

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III.           COLONIAL & POST-COLONIAL STUDIES I: Persuasión en el discurso colonialista

 

Organized by Dolores Rangel and Doralina Martínez-Conde, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Charles B. Moore, Gardner-Webb University

 

1.     Historia de la Nueva México,  el último gran poema épico mexicano y el primero estadounidense o Las maravillas que ocurren cuando no se respeta mucho el canon

Pedro Cebollero, Auburn University

 

2.     Lo que hay en esta tierra:  The Itinerary and Discourses of Landscape in Baltasar de Obregón´s Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva España  (1584)

Rebecca Carte, Georgia College & State University

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

 

3.     Conquista y crítica: Hernando de Soto y el arte del vituperatio de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo en la Historia general y natural de Las Indias

Charles B. Moore, Gardner-Webb University

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IV.          MINORITIES & MULTICULTURAL ISSUES I: Immigration:  Approaches, Interpretations and Misconceptions

 

Organized by Dolores Rangel and Doralina Martínez-Conde, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Dolores Rangel, Georgia Southern University

 

1.   Hispanics in the US and politics:  Classroom implications and possible future trends

      J. Fernando Palacios, Mercer University

 

2.     El moro: presencia amenazante en la España cristiana

Gracia Roldán, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

 

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Thursday, March 26

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

1:30 – 4:30

V.           PENINSULAR STUDIES I: Twentieth Century Poetry

 

Organized by Leticia McGrath, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Efraín Garza, University of Northern Colorado

 

1.     El vínculo profano-divino en El pasajero de Valle Inclán

Efraín Garza, University of Northern Colorado

 

2.     The Paradigm Shift and the Evolution toward Postmodernism in Contemporary Peninsular Poetry

Robert Simon, Kennesaw State University

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

 

3.     Untando el fin: El tránsito en su huella de Alfonso Carreño

Louis Bourne, Georgia College and State University

 

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VI.          HISPANIC WOMEN WRITERS I: The Impact of Testimonial Discourses as Narratives: The Collective within the Community

           

            Organized by Linda Collins, Georgia Southern University

Gracia Roldán, Armstrong Atlantic State University

 

1.     Narrativa de Gioconda Belli de 1970-2001: La conmemoración del trabajo heroico, la representación del yo colectivo y el énfasis al otro en La mujer habitada (1988), Sofia de los presagios (1990), Waslala (1996), y El pais bajo mi piel (2001)

Karen Pollard, University of Georgia

 

2.     Balun Canan and Aves sin Nidos: Una comparación del tratamiento de las mujeres y los indígenas

Maria Salgado-Donahue, Georgia Southern University

 

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

 

VII.         PENINSULAR STUDIES II: The Social Repercussions of Gender & Immigration in Conflictive Hispanic Societies

 

            Organized and Chaired by Linda Collins, Georgia Southern University

 

3.     La sociedad española vista a través del prisma cinematográfico de Pedro Almodóvar

      Frederic Leveziel, Augusta State University

 

 

4.   Cosmofobia, Note for a Portrait of Spanish Society in the Immigration Debate

      Elisabeth Rodriguez, University of Cincinnati Clermont College

 

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VIII.       LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE I: Etnicidad, Ecología y Literatura

 

Organized by Dolores Rangel and Doralina Martínez-Conde, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Walter Rojas, Erskine College

 

1.     Quo vadis munde?  Entre mercantilismo y ecocrítica en las novelas Mamita Yunai de Carlos Luis Fallas y La loca de Gandoca de Anacristina Rossi

Walter Rojas, Erskine College

 

2.     Guerra permanente contra la naturaleza: estudio ecocrítico sobre la novela Amor en la Línea Vieja de Walter Rojas Pérez

Uliana Gancea, Erskine College

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

3.     Negrismo, culturas nacionales e Hispanoamérica

Arturo Ortiz, Lenoir-Rhyne University

 

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IX.          PENINSULAR STUDIES III: SEVENTEENTH & NINETEENTH CENTURY PROSE: Fashioning Identity

 

Organized and Chaired by Michael McGrath, Georgia Southern University

 

1.     Exemplarity in the novellas of María de Zayas

Eric Kartchner, Georgia Southern University

 

2.     El honor villano, los roles de género y la estratificación social en Peribañez y el Comendador de Ocaña y Fuenteovejuna

Zoila Clark, Florida International University

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

 

3.     Casadla con su igual: Generational Differences Involving Old Christians and Moriscos in Don Quijote II

Mark Groundland, Tennessee Tech University

 

THURSDAY

EVENING

 

 

Welcoming Reception

 

Center for Wildlife Education and the Lamar Q. Ball Jr. Raptor Center.

 

Special Presentations

 

Birds of Prey Show & Demonstration

 

&

 

Musical Group

Jean Paul and Dominique Carton

 

The multi-talented French husband and wife duo of Jean-Paul and Dominique Carton will play their blend of Appalachian, French, Canadian and Cajun "old time" music.

 

 

 

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Friday, March 27

MORNING SESSIONS

9:00 – 11:30

 

X.           LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE II: Tiempo, historia y sociedad:  Posibilidades en la literatura mexicana y nicaragüense contemporánea

 

Organized by Dolores Rangel and Doralina Martínez-Conde, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Patricia G. Montenegro, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

 

1.   Los múltiples géneros literarios y la historia en Los periodistas de Vicente Leñero

      Patricia G. Montenegro, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

 

 

2.   De la novela a la pantalla grande: Arráncame la vida de Ángeles Mastretta

      Audrey García, Kennesaw State University

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

 

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XI.          PENINSULAR STUDIES IV: NINETEENTH & TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSE: Toward a Definition of Spanish Society

 

Organized by Leticia McGrath, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Frederic Leveziel, Augusta State University

 

1.   Making Memories: Benjamín Pradós Restoration of the Past in Mala gente que camina

      Catherine Nelson, Nebraska Wesleyan University

 

2.   El hidalgo en Armando Palacio ValdesJosé

      Darren Broome, Gordon College

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

 

3.     Homofobia, discurso latente de marginalidad en la literatura española contemporánea

      Mónica Florez, University of Alabama

 

4.   Talentos y secretos de los personajes en algunos cuentos de Carmen Riera

      Osvaldo Parrilla, Lander University

 

5.   La complejidad del concepto de la mujer española de la posguerra en la obra de Manuel Mantero

                  M. Aurora Álvarez Andreu (Thorgerson), The University of Georgia

 

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XII.         STUDY ABROAD I: Learning Here and Abroad

 

            Organized by Linda Collins, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by Carolyn Allen Anderson, Capella University

 

1.     The use of Karaoke in the learning of foreign languages, a promising tool

Manuel Galofaro, Hofstra University

 

2.     An investigation into the adaptability of the communicative language teaching method for students of English in Japan.

Mizuki Mazzota, Georgia State University

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

3.     Networking and Study Abroad.

Robert G. Barnes, Bowling Green State University

 

4.     Cultural Excursions: More than just a 'cultural experience'

Abi D. Ellis, Georgia Southern University

 

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XIII.       FOREIGN LANGUAGES & BUSINESS I: Globalization and What It Does to Latin America

Organized and Chaired by Bryce McDonald, Southern Polytechnic State University

 

1.     Globalization and What It Does to Latin America

Bryce McDonald, Southern Polytechnic State University

 

2.     Globalization and What It Does to Latin America

      Aleksey Avila Vila, Southern Polytechnic State University

Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30

 

XIV.      LITERARY CRITICISM I: Text Mining Spanish Poetry

 

Organized and Chaired by Bernice Nuhfer-Halten, Southern Polytechnic State University

 

1.     Panel Participants: Bernice Nuhfer-Halten

Venu Dasigi

Orlando Karam

Aléksey Ávila Vilá (Student)

All from Southern Polytechnic State University

 

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LUNCHEON

(11:30 - 1:00)

 

Multi-Purpose Room 1601

Nessmith-Lane Building.

 

Welcoming

Dr. Eric Kartchner

GSU Department of Foreign Languages, Chair

 

Introductions

Dr. Jorge W. Suazo

 

Keynote Introduction

Dr. Clara Krug

Georgia Southern University

 

Keynote Speaker 2009

6th. Annual SECCLL Meeting

Marva Barnett

University of Virginia

 

Presentation:

 

My Love Affair with Victor Hugo, or, The Power of Literature

 

 

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Friday, March 27

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

1:30 – 4:30

XV.        TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION I: Texts, Translations, and Expectations

 

            Organized by Clara Krug, Georgia Southern University

            Chaired by Robert G. Barnes, Bowling Green State University

 

             1.  Using Translation as a Capstone Project in a Language Major

                  Marian Rothstein, Carthage Collage

 

            2.   Tres cursos, tres caminos puentes hacia la literatura

                  Natacha Laguardia-Carrillo, Queens University of Charlotte

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

 

3.     Exploring the Corridor of Shame: A Quantitative Study of the Perceived Professional Development Needs of Foreign Language Teachers Employed in Rural School

Districts within the State of South Carolina
Carolyn Allen Anderson and Carolyn B.H. Rogers, Capella University

 

4.   Shock and Awe Satire: Teaching Visual Rhetoric in a Digital Context

                  Nat Hardy, Savannah State University

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XVI.      GENDER AND WOMEN STUDIES I: The Use of the Spiritual, The Cosmos, and Transformation of the Body as Affirmations of Female Subjectivity

 

            Organized by Linda Collins, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by M. Aurora Álvarez Andreu (Thorgerson), The University of Georgia

 

1.     Hilos conductors en la narrativa de Espido Freire

Lydia Masanet, Mercer University

 

2.     The Importance of community in It Begins with Tears by Opal Palmer Adisa

Edward Timothy Wallington, Florida international University

 

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

 

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XVII.     LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE III:  Latin American Theatre of Innovation and Social Protest: The Best of Elon University's Senior Presentations (El teatro latinoamericano de innovación y protesta social: Lo mejor de las presentaciones de los estudiantes de último año de la Universidad Elon)

 

Organized and Chaired by Donna Van Bodegraven, Elon University

 

1.     La comedia como plataforma para la protesta social: Un estudio comparativo de El cepillo de dientes e Historia de un hombre que se convirtió en perro

Kiersten Dittrich, Elon University

 

2.     Comunicación sin palabras y palabras que no comunican: Un análisis de Estudio en blanco y negro, Los invasores y Decir sí

                  Rebecca Watts, Elon University

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

 

3.     Los abusos de poder y las injusticias políticas en Guatemala y Colombia: Los casos de El corazón del espantapájaros y La maestra

Whitney Hood, Elon University

 

4.     El poder desde abajo: Una mirada a la revolución social de clases desde abajo hacia arriba en Los invasores y El delantal blanco

Christine Walton, Elon University

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XVIII.    SPECIAL TOPICS I: Autobiografía, Sexualidad, Biculturalismo y Violencia:  Narrativa y Cine Hispanoamericano

 

Organized by Dolores Rangel and Doralina Martínez-Conde, Georgia Southern University

Chaired by J. Fernando Palacios, Mercer University

 

1.     Antes de que anochezca de Reinaldo Arenas:  Intersecciones discursivas entre realidad y ficción”

María Antonia Deal, Paine College

 

2.     José María Arguedas:  Perú profundo, el Nuevo hombre y sexualidad Proscrita

Manuel Rilo, Jacksonville State University

Coffee Break

02:30 – 03:00

 

3.     Gaze of the Outsider/Insider:  US Latino authors writing of Latin America

Amrita Das, University of North Carolina – Wilmington

 

4.     The Connection of Music and Violence in the Films Rodrigo D, La vendedora de Rosas and La virgen de los sicarios

Eduardo Pacheco, Jacksonville State University

 

CLOSING

 

 

We’ll see you next year!

 

7th. Annual SECCLL Conference

April 1 - 2, 2010

 

 

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