VARIAR, DESVIAR, QUEBRAR
UC Berkeley Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Student Conference - April 11-12th, 2025
Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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The UC Berkeley Spanish and Portuguese Department graduate research conference– VARIAR, DESVIAR, QUEBRAR— will be held on Friday, April 11th and Saturday, April 12th, 2025.
This two-day symposium organized and held by the graduate students of the Spanish & Portuguese Department of UC Berkeley looks to convene folks thinking and working from and beyond the areas and fields of Spanish and Portuguese Languages, Cultures, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Thinking against the insistent forces of homogenization, commensurability, and annihilation, we have invited proposals that think with and across questions of variation, branching-off, detouring, bankruptcy and extraction, breaking-with, or breaking-of. The schedule may be found below.
Please contact calspanportconference@gmail.com with any questions, or the organizers personally at lseeley@berkeley.edu ; coral_murphy@berkeley.edu ; and annaknall@berkeley.edu .
Friday, April 11th
Panel 1 - Language Variation and Pedagogies - Friday, 11:00-12:00pm
Discussant: Prof. Justin Davidson (UCB) – Fully Virtual, Screened in S&P Library
● Angélica González & Ana Orega (UC Davis, virtual) - Linguistic Rights Empowerment and
Social Justice: Integrating Plain Language, Legal Design and Critical Language Awareness in Spanish Heritage Language Teaching
● Luis Solorzano Sosa (Southern Illinois University, virtual) - Navigating Linguistic Variation: K’iche’ -L1 Learners Acquiring English as a Third Language
Panel 2 - Práticas de vivência - Friday, 1:00-2:30pm
Discussant: Prof. Daylet Domínguez (UCB) – Fully In-Person
● Carlos Torres Astocondor (UC Davis) - Otros mundos son posibles: antagonismos ontológicos en “Yaimanco” (1934) de Fernando Romero
● Camila Campos Costa (George Mason University) - The Brazilian Social Fabric in Rosana Paulino’s The Sewing of Memory Exhibition
● Rebeca Ponce Ochoa (University of Kentucky) - Las mujeres afroperuanas y la brujería como símbolo del material cultural de Lima
Panel 3 - Stones, Horses, and Other Beings - Friday, 2:30-4:00pm
Discussant: Prof. Alex Saum-Pascual (UCB); Liam Seeley (UCB G2) – Hybrid
● Paulette Rosales (SUNY Stony Brook) - El espectáculo del simulacro. Corporalidades desgarradas, corporalidades fisuradas
● Chloe Mauvis (UC Berkeley, virtual) - Legs of Stone, Arms of Flesh: Tired Stone in Latin American Perspective
● Leigh Houck (UC Davis) - Making-kin and Making-man: The Human-Equine Relationship in Graciliano Ramos’ Vidas secas (1938)
/ / One-hour break before keynote presentation
Keynote: Prof. Justin Perez, UC Santa Cruz - 5:00-6:15pm,
“Excess and the Ontological Politics of Queer and Trans Worlds in Amazonian Peru,” followed by reception (pupusas!).
Saturday, April 12th
/ / Breakfast foods & coffee will be provided throughout the morning.
Panel 1 - The Visual Archive - Saturday, 8:00-9:30am
Discussant: Prof. Estelle Tarica (UCB) – Hybrid
● Camila A. Micán Rondón (University of Kansas, virtual) - Consumo colonial: historias de exterminio y resistencia
● Varun Biddanda (Georgetown, virtual) - Bollywood in Lima: A Case Study
● Daniela Calvache (University of Kentucky) - Mexican ex-votos and abjection
Panel 2 - Peninsular ‘Complexes’ - Saturday 9:30-11:30am
Discussant: Anahit Manoukian (UCB G7) - In Person
● Anita Rescia (SUNY Stony Brook) - El sueño del hijo perfecto en La tía Tula (1964) y Mi hija Hildegart (1977)
● Diego Puente Juarez (University of Kentucky) - La psiquiatría española decimonónica en La desheredada (1881) de Benito Pérez Galdós
● Javier Cataño G. (University of Maryland College Park, virtual) - Narrative Multiplicities in Matilde Cherner’s María Magdalena (1880): A Case of Naturalist Deviation
● Lydia Carrascal Cuadrado (University of Kentucky) - Resistiendo el silencio: la danza como voz y memoria en rojos de Miquel Barcelona
/ / Break for lunch (not provided)
Panel 3 - The Author’s Fictions - Saturday 1:00-2:00pm
Discussant: Emiliano Arizmendi-Castilla (UCB G1) – Hybrid
● Jesús Ponte Bernal (University of Kentucky) - Alteración de la realidad colonial ecuatoguineana a través de la visión peninsular de Luz Gabás en Palmeras en la nieve.
● Eddy Rafael Santiago Huamani (Indiana Bloomington, virtual) - Vida y muerte: Los ideales colectivos frente a la corrupción individualista en La Muerte de Artemio Cruz
Panel 4 - Bodies’ In/sight - Saturday 2:00-3:30pm
Discussant: Coral del Mar Murphy (UCB G1) & Liam Seeley (UCB G2) – In Person
● Ana Ponce Castañeda (Michigan State University) - Entre Locas y Brujas: Monstruosidad, Transgresión y Resistencia en El Lugar sin Límites (1966) y Temporada de Huracanes (2017).
● Alejandro Múnera (UC Berkeley) - %#;@!*$:#;.@!: Censorship, Pornography, and the Movimento de Arte Pornô during Brazil’s Democratic Opening
● Ryan Kachnowski (Michigan State University) - Breaking Heteronormative Structures: Queer Urbanism Through Pedro Lemebel
Proposal topics may address, but are certainly not limited to:
● Critical Race Studies
● Disability Studies
● Queer and Sexuality Studies
● Indigenous Studies
● Afro-Diasporic Studies
● Migration, Displacement and Exile
● Decoloniality / Post-coloniality
● Colonial Studies
● Literary theory or history of literatures
● Media/Film/Performance Studies
● Environmental Humanities, Black & Indigenous Ecologies
● Ontology and Epistemological Incommensurability
● New Media and Digital Humanities
● Movements
● Visuality and Visual Infrastructures
● Latin American Historiographies
● Material Cultures
● Gender and Women's* Studies
● Ethics and Positionality
● Archives, Bodies, Methodologies
● Applied Linguistics
● Bilingualism
● Codeswitching/Translanguaging
● Dialectology
● Discourse and Pragmatics
● Ethnography
● Historical and Comparative Linguistics
● Language Acquisition
● Language Attitudes
● Language Contact
● Language Policy
● Linguistic Anthropology
● Linguistic Variation
● Minority and endangered languages
● Morphology
● Phonetics and Phonology
● Psycholinguistics
● Semantics
● Sociolinguistics
● Syntax
● Translation Studies
UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people.
UC Berkeley fica no território de xučyun, a terra ancestral e não cedida do povo Ohlone, de língua Chochenyo.
UC Berkeley se encuentra en el territorio de xučyun, la tierra ancestral y no cedida del pueblo Ohlone de habla chochenyo.
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