Conference Program

Film Screening 

(Cosford Cinema, Memorial Building, Ste. 225)

"Saint Judy" (Biographical Drama, 2018)

Moderator: Rose Accilien

Opening Remarks 

(Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room, 115) 

Dr. Logan Connors, Chair 

Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

University of Miami

Rose Accilien, Ph.D. Student

Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

University of Miami

Keynote Address 

(Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room, 115) 

Speaker: Dr. Amelia Tseng (American University)

Crossing Borders: A Raciomultilingual Perspective on Language in the Americas

30 min — Keynote Presentation

15 min — Q&A

Session I

Migration, Language, and Identity

(Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room, 115) 

Moderator: Albin Aichberger, University of Miami

1. “Trazando voces atlánticas: Prácticas lingüísticas e identidad en la migración gallega de Cuba a Estados Unidos”, Estibaliz Santamaría Cadaval, Florida International University

2. “Language Ideologies and Spanish Language Acquisition Among Non-Heritage Learners”, Mariam Nadirashvili, UC Riverside

3. “Lenguas en contacto: poder, identidad y prácticas lingüísticas en el desplazamiento migratorio latinoamericano”, Vanesa Moya, Florida International University

4. “«How Chinese are you?» – when language meets identity”, Hsu-Te Cheng and Alex Gish, Emory University - The Hotchkiss School

Session II

Race, Nation, Mobility, and Legal Frameworks

(Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room, 115) 

Moderator: Mónica Baró Sánchez, University of Miami

1. “Migration, Language, and Legal Comprehension: Understanding Miranda Rights Among Formerly Incarcerated L1 Mexican Spanish Speakers”, Leigh Anne Benzaia, University of Utah

2. “Frames and Contrasts in Cultural Identity Related to Whiteness in French and American English”, Nazarov Waldemar and Theo Aiolfi, Université Bourgogne Europe - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

3. “Finding Hope in Adversity: The Venezuelan Diaspora as an Untapped Resource and Example of Resiliency for Host Countries”, Michel Pinard

4. “Mountain Jewish immigrants in the United States: Social and linguistic predictors of proficiency in endangered Juhuri”, Ronald Shabtaev, Bar-Ilan University

Keynote Address

(Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room, 115) 

Speaker: Dr. Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (University of Miami)

Toward a Portolan Exegesis: Shipwrecks as Decolonial Metaphor in La Pecera (Puerto Rico) and Land of Love and Drowning (U.S. Virgin Islands)

30 min — Keynote Presentation

15 min — Q&A

Session III

Literature, Culture, and Artistic Representations of Diaspora and Exile

(Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room, 115) 

Moderator: Linet Hernández Moredo, University of Miami

1. “Spatial, Linguistic, and Spiritual Migration in Gerald Vizenor’s Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart”, Rachel Northrop, University of Miami

2. “Glosando el «exilio total». Lenguajes, ideologías y esquizofrenia en Boarding Home de Guillermo Rosales”, Beatriz Martínez Abreu, University of Miami

3. “Heterosexualidad obligatoria en casa. La diáspora y la supresión de la sexualidad en el exilio en Latin Moon in Manhattan (1992) y Fiebre tropical (2020)”, Andrés Mauricio Obando-Taborda, Purdue University

4. “It Is Not Just Nostalgia: Trauma and Cuban Exile in Ana Menéndez’s Short Story In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd”, Mónica Baró Sánchez, University of Miami

Closing Remarks

Final reflections and acknowledgements 

Mónica Baró Sánchez, Ph.D. Student

Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

University of Miami

(Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, Seminar Room, 115) 

Final reflections and acknowledgements by the Organizing Committee