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International Symposium/Simposio Internacional
Text, Context and Post-text: Perspectives on the Literary Work of Luisa Valenzuela/
Texto, Contexto y Post-texto: Aproximaciones a la obra literaria de Luisa Valenzuela
20 – 21 November 2008
University of Vienna
Campus Aula
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 19 November
Eve of Symposium
18:00 hrs. Performance by Actress María Héguiz: “Luisa Valenzuela: Mujeres y tango” (“Luisa Valenzuela: Women and Tango”) based on works by Luisa Valenzuela
LAI-Europasaal, Instituto Austriaco para América Latina
(Österreichisches Lateinamerika-Institut, Türkenstrasse 25, 1090 Vienna)
Thursday, 20 November
Campus Aula
AAKH Hof 1, Spitalgasse 2 / Alserstrasse 4, University of Vienna
8:30 hrs. Registration
9:30- 10:30 hrs. Inaugural Session
Welcome: Dr. María Teresa Lichem
Opening Remarks: Dr. Franz Römer, Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
Introduction of Luisa Valenzuela: Dr. Gwendolyn Díaz
Inaugural Speech by Luisa Valenzuela: Por escrito. La aventura en 20 libros
(In Spanish. English translation available).
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45 hrs. Session I - The Text in Translation
“La circulación de la obra valenzueliana entre idiomas y culturas: traducciones al inglés, alemán, portugués e italiano” (“The Circulation of Luisa Valenzuela´s Work Within Languages and Cultures: Translations into English, German, Portuguese and Italian”)
Erna Pfeiffer, University of Graz, Austria (Chair)
”Simetrías-Simmetrie: percibir un mundo a través de las palabras” (“Simmetries-Simmetrie: To Perceive a World Through Words”)
Stefania Savoia, Translator into Italian, Palermo, Italy
11:45-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 hrs. Session II - The Text in Political Context
“La dimensión Política de los cuentos de Luisa Valenzuela” (“The Political Dimension of Valenzuela´s Stories”).
Karl Kohut, Katholische Universität-Eichstätt-Ingolstädt, (Chair)
“Umbilicales: Punto cero para una contra-hystoria” (“Umbilical: Ground Cero For a Counter-Hystory”)
Rike Bolte, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
13:00-14:15 hrs. Lunch: Albert Schweitzer Haus Cafe Lounge
Schwarzspanierstraße 13, 1090 Wien
14:30-16:00 hrs. Session III - Contextualizing Space and Place
“Sacred, Profane and Quantic Space in the Narratives of Luisa Valenzuela”
Gwendolyn Díaz, St. Mary´s University, USA (Chair)
“Writing (and Erasing) with the Body: Two Stories by Luisa Valenzuela”
Sharon Magnarelli, Quinnipiac University, USA
“Espacios poéticos y urbanos en los poemas de Luisa Valenzuela” (“Poetic and Urban Spaces in the Poems of Luisa Valenzuela”)
Miriam Balboa Echeverría, Texas State University, USA
16:00-16.15 hrs. Coffee break
16:15-17:30 hrs. Session IV - Gender and the Textualization of Language
“New Cartographies of Language: Luisa Valenzuela’s Writing Journey”
(Nuevas cartografías del lenguaje: La travesía de la escritura de Luisa Valenzuela)
María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem, University of Vienna (Chair)
“Luisa Valenzuela Takes the Path of the Moon”
Amy Kaminsky, Dept. of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, USA
19:00 hrs. Public Reading by the author Luisa Valenzuela
Bilingual – Spanish/German
Moderator: Prof Erna Pfeiffer
Austrian Society for Literature, Palais Wilczek, Herrengasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Followed by a reception offered by the Embassy of Argentina.
Friday, 21 November
Campus Aula, University of Vienna
09:00-10:30 hrs. Session V - Of Fairy Tales and ‘Other’ Tales
“Integración de dos aspectos de la psiquis femenina en ‘La densidad de palabras’, de Valenzuela” (Integration of Two Aspects of Female Psyche in Valenzuela´s ‘La densidad de las palabras’ ”)
Marianella Collette, Ryerson University, Canada
“Luisa Valenzuela: Revisionist Mythmaker” (“Luisa Valenzuela: Mitóloga revisionista”)
Debra Andrist, San Houston State University, USA (Chair)
“Simetrías posmodernas y máquinas eficaces en la narrativa de Luisa Valenzuela”
(“Postmodern Symmetries and Effective Machines in the Narrative of Luisa Valenzuela”)
Fernando Burgos, University of Memphis, USA
10:30-11:00 hrs. Coffee break
11:00-12:30 hrs. Session VI - From the Dark Side of Desire
“El juego de la escritura: Luisa Valenzuela, ‘una escritora de morbosa imaginación’ ”
(“The Game of Writing: Luisa Valenzuela, ‘A writer of morbid imagination’ ”)
Patricia González, Smith College, USA (Chair)
“¿El diario a diario? Los deseos oscuros y los otros. Cuadernos de Nueva York de Luisa Valenzuela” (“¿Daily Diary? Los deseos oscuros y los otros. Cuadernos de Nueva York by Luisa Valenzuela ”)
María Cecilia Graña, Università degli studi di Verona, Italy
“Dobles equívocos o fijación de solipsismo: Los deseos oscuros y los otros”
“Equivocal doubles or Fixation of Solipsism: Los deseos oscuros y los otros”
Ester Gimbernat González, University of Northern Colorado, USA
12:30-14:00 hrs. Lunch: Universitäts Bräuhaus. Campus Altes KH 1 Hof/ Alser Strasse 4
12:30- 13:15 hrs. Side event: “Students Meet the Author”
Campus Aula
14:00-15:30 hrs. Session VII - The Semiotics of Desire and Other Such Animals
“The Psychosomatic Text: Re-reading Psychoanalysis and Semiotics Como en la guerra”
(“El texto psicosomático: una relectura del uso de psicoanálisis y semiótica Como en la guerra”)
Geoffrey Kantaris, Cambridge University, UK (Chair)
“El bestiario de Luisa Valenzuela: Una taxonomía poética” (“Luisa Valenzuela´s Bestiary: A Poetic Taxonomy”)
Florinda Goldberg, University of Jerusalem, Israel
“Quiero ver el mar en Hay que sonreir de Luisa Valenzuela” (“I Want to See the Sea in Hay que sonreir by Luisa Valenzuela”)
Ana María Da Costa Toscano, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
15:30-15:45 hrs. Coffee break
15:45-17:00 hrs. Session VIII - Re-Reading Textual Poetics
“Luisa Valenzuela: la mirada revulsiva y el envés del lenguaje” (“Luisa Valenzuela: The Repulsive Gaze and the Underside of Language”)
María José Bruña Bragado, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Chair)
“La ‘escena de enunciación’ en la obra de Luisa Valenzuela: relaciones polémicas con los discursos dominantes y construcción de una identidad enunciativa”. Thérèse Courau, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, France
17:00-17:30 hrs. Closing Remarks by Luisa Valenzuela
20:00 hrs. Closing Banquet
In a typical Viennese “Heuriger” or Wine Tasting Tavern “Heuriger Zimmermann” in the suburbs of Vienna. Ambrustgasse 5, 1190. (Public transportation available)
Spanish and English are the official languages of the Symposium. Titles in English correspond to papers in English; papers with Spanish titles will be read in Spanish. The discussion will be in both languages.