Wednesday

Moore Hall 258

Coffee, tea & pastries

Moore Hall 257

Stories of Survival & the Post-heroic Journey

Marta Frago, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
“A Band of Brothers in the Andes: Society of the Snow by J.A. Bayona”

Lucian Georgescu, Universitatea de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică, Romania
“The Non-hero’s Journey”

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What Drives the Narrative? Celebrity, Music & Philosophy

Marta Miquel-Baldellou, Universidad de Lleida, Spain
“I am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: The Cinema Star as Antihero”

Julen Carreño Aguado, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain
“‘Kaintuck’ Harry: A Reading of Fordian Heroism in the Newly Recovered Silent Western The Scarlet Drop (1918)”

Pablo Quiñonero Pertusa, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
“The Mandalorian’s Way through Music: An Approach from Audiovisual Poetics”

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Heroic Stories: Myth, Society & Nation 

Fernando Gil, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
“Los mitos vascos: la construcción histórica-literaria del Norte de España”

Isabella Leibrandt, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
“¿Cuándo es un héroe un héroe? Empatía y carisma en la lectura literaria y su importancia para la recepción del héroe”

Carlos Gámez, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
“Los héroes en el jardín de la Isla”

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Heroes & Villains: From Comics to the Supernatural 

María Ruiz, José María Lavin & Arnau Vilaró, Universidad Internacional de Valencia, Spain
“Harley Quinn & the Monomyth: Going Back Over the Heroine's Path”

András Lénárt, University of Szeged, Hungary
“The Multiple Perspectives of Heroism in Juan of the Dead (2010)”   

José Francisco Guzmán Moviglia, Universidad Austral, Argentina
“From Medieval to Postmodern: The Case of the Hero Archetype in the Tradition of the Beowulf Myth”

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21st-Century Takes on 20th-Century Heroines 

María Isabel Menéndez-Menéndez, Universidad de Burgos, Spain
“Heroínas por la justicia y la libertad: activismo feminista durante la Transición española en Las buenas compañías (Silvia Munt, 2023)”

Pablo Úrbez, Universidad Villanueva, Spain
“La condición heroica de Karen Blixen en las obras audiovisuales Karen, Pagten y Drømmeren. Un caso de estudio del biopic literario”

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In Depth with Hollywood Director, Jim McBride
(Breathless, 1983; The Big Easy, 1986; Great Balls of Fire, 1989)
Moderators: Louis Bousquet & Didier Lenglare

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Place & Public in the Construction of the Heroic

Kalilinoe Detwiler, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“Indigenous Story Literacies in Film: Place-based Film Analysis to Activate Audience Participation in Meaning-making”

Gemma Cubero del Barrio, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“Ella es el Matador (She Is the Matador): Reframing the Heroic Memory of Women through Film”

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Heroic Intersections: Poetry & Exhibit

Nicole McCuaig, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
“The Heroic Modernist as Idoc: A Transmedia Evolution Combining Biographical Components of Documentary with the Experimental Outcomes of Gallery Exhibition to Create an Interactive Digital Archive of Australian Poet and Author Ronald McCuaig”

Joseph Stanton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Emeritus
“Moving Pictures: Poems on Movies”

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Reflections of War: Heroes & the Post-heroic 

Anna-Marie Janssen van Vuuren, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
“Re-presenting the Hero: The Anti-hero as Social Carriers of Ideology in South African Anglo-Boer War Drama Series”

Ruth Gutiérrez Delgado, Universidad de Navarra, Spain/Fulbright Scholar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“War-Film Heroes in the Pacific: Tragedy and Epic in the Shaping of Memories from the Day of Infamy to the Surrender of Japan”

Didier Lenglare, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“The Legacy of Jean-Marie Tjibaou and the Reconstruction of an Inclusive New Caledonia Today”

Anikó Imre, University of Southern California, USA
“The Right Heroes: Historical Worldbuilding in the Illiberal Semi-Peripheries”