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13th Annual SPGSA Conference

Weapons of Social Justice:

Reinvention through Language, Literature and Culture

*Luis F. Avils (Spanish Linguistics)*Maricela Becerra (Mexican Literature)*

*Kristal Bivona (Brazilian Literature)*Isaac Gimnez (Brazilian Literature)*
*Alexandra Lawn (Portuguese Linguistics)* Gemma Repiso Piugdelliura
(Catalan Language & Culture)* Tania Varela (Medieval Spanish Literature)*

Keynote Speakers
Nicola Gavioli, PhD - Florida International University
Covadonga Lamar Prieto, PhD - UC Riverside

INFORMATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dr. Hctor H. Caldern, Professor and SP Chair
Dr. Kevin Terraciano, LAI Director
Dr. Vernica Cortnez, CSCS Director
Dr. Karin Nielsen, CBS Director
Dr. Rubn Hernndez-Len, CMS Director
Dr. Covadonga Lamar Prieto, UCR

ROYCE HALL
314

Dr. Nicola Gavioli, FUI

UCLA Graduate Student Association/CPC
Ms.Elizabeth Warren, SPGSA President
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Ms. Esther Claudio
Mr. Ezekiel Trautenberg
Conference Planning Committee
Panelist Presenters

April 21, 2016, 8 AM-6 PM | Royce Hall 314

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Sponsored by: USAC-GSA, Latin American Institute,

Center for Mexican Studies, Center for Southern Cone
Studies, Center for Brazilian Studies

CONFERENCE KEY NOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Covadonga Lamar Prieto, UCR

Covadonga Lamar Prieto specializes in
Sociolinguistics of the Spanish in the US. Her
corpus-based research deals with Historical Spanish
in California, with a focus on language change,
dialectology and bilingualism. She is currently
working on a book length project on the
sociolinguistic situation of Spanish in NineteenthCentury California. As she is also interested in the
contemporary consequences of historical language
contact, she leads two young projects, both UCRfunded: Emotional Bilingualism and Siri and the
Hispanounidenses.
Emotional Bilingualism is a collaborative
interdisciplinary project (Spanish/Psychology/
Sociology/English) that examines how Spanishspeaking children from the Riverside community learn to verbalize negative
emotions, especially when joining a school setting mostly in English. Siri and
Hispanounidenses is a Digital Humanities project that seeks to understand
how voice-recognition applications respond to different dialects of Spanish
(Spain, Mexico, US). I analyze the impact on our understanding of US Spanish
and its speakers of Siris interpretations.
Besides being a Linguist, Covadonga is a Colonialist. She specializes in
Colonial Mexico and the cultural production of the first Criollos: how these
Criollos defined their new transatlantic identity, and the way they used to

Dr. Nicola Gavioli, FIU

Nicola Gavioli is an Assistant Professor of
Portuguese at Florida International
University (Miami, Florida). He holds a PhD in
Hispanic Languages and Literatures (with emphasis
in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies) from the
University of California Santa Barbara (2011).
Among his research interests: the Brazilian Novel;
Ethics, Human Rights and Literature; Witness
Literature; Disability Studies, and Brazilian
Documentary. On these topics he has published
articles in academic journals in the United States
and in Brazil. He is currently co-editing a book
with Professor Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho
tentatively titled Activist Writing: Ethics and
Literature in Contemporary Brazil. The project is a
collection of thought-provoking essays for an English
speaking audience focusing on human rights violation, violence, and
catastrophe in contemporary Brazilian literature. This book aims to highlight
(and reinforce) the relevance of humanities, and of literature in particular, in
rethinking Brazilian social policies in a global context. From discourses on
trauma, human rights, and the representations of violence and forms of the
subaltern in Brazil, the book honors the role literature plays in countering (and
complicating) dominant political and technocratic messaging. The articulation
of diverse literary genres (from novels to graphic novels, from poetry to
crnicas) and theoretical frameworks such as postcolonial, gender and queer
studies, cultural studies, literature and other media, carves new space for the
emergence of an original Brazilian thought.

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8:30-9:30 AM

Check-in & Breakfast

Royce 314

3:45-4:00 PM

Coffee Break

Royce 314

9:30-9:40 AM

Welcome:
Dr. Hector Caldern (SP Chair)
Elizabeth Warren (SPGSA President)
Luis Avils (Conference chair)

4:00-5:15 PM

Bridging the GAP: Community & students

Moderator: Isaac Gimnez & Kristal
Bivona(UCLA)
Undercommons
UAW
IDEAS de UCLA
MEChA de UCLA
African Student Union

Royce 314

5:15-6:15 PM

Keynote Address
Dr. Nicoli Gavioli, FIU

Royce 314

6:30 PM

Closing Reception

Royce 314

Royce 314

PANEL 1: Interdisciplinary approaches to current issues in

Latin America
Moderator: Esther Claudio (UCLA)
A Legacy of Authoritarianism: 1968 and the
Tlatelolco Massacre | Alissa Dori (UCLA)

9:45-11:00 AM

Las violencias del no reconocimiento. Los lmites del

discurso moderno occidental y la cosmovisin andina
como propuesta en la novela Rosa Cuchillo. | Claudia
Berrios-Campos (Michigan State University)

Royce 314

Mexican femicide: a lasting effect of Spanish

Colonization | Jessica L. Snchez (UCLA)
The representation of empregadas domsticas in
recent Brazilian films | Natssia Guedes Alves Hott
(UCLA)

11:00-11:15 AM

Coffee Break

Royce 314

PANEL 2: New approaches: The Caribbean, Central & South

America
Moderator:Maricela Becerra (UCLA)
(Des)urbanidad santiaguina: Fracaso generacional en
la estructura citadina del cuento Pelando a Roco de
Alberto Fuguet | Paula Thomas (UCLA)

11:15AM12:30 PM

Dear ezra, who knows what cadence is? Anglica

Freitas e a nova poesia brasileira | Patricia Lino
(UCSB)

Royce 314

La deshumanizacin del cul en Los Chinos de

Alfonso Hernndez Cat y Chino olvidado de
Antonio Ortega | Tania Varela (UCLA)
Redefinicin de la mujer en las obras de Gioconda
Belli: Una mujer nueva? | Taloo Riazi (UCSB)

12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch (NOT PROVIDED)

CAMPUS

1:30-2:30 PM

Keynote Address
Dr. Covadonga Lamar Prieto, UCR

Royce 314

PANEL 3: Ms all del Laboratorio: estudios sobre la lengua

Moderator: Luis Avils(UCLA)
Gallego o galego? - Atrapado en un purgatorio
lingstico |Allie Lawn (UCLA)

2:30-3:45 PM

Spanish Heritage Speakers linguistic autobiographies:

a site for negotiation of reflexive and social identity |
Gemma Repiso-Piugelliura (UCLA)
La nueva palabra es escribir en lenguas indgenas para
luchar. A propsito de Natalio Hernndez, Juan Regino
y Feliciano Snchez Chan | Osiris Anibal Gmez
(UCSB)
Language Prestige and Utility in the Multilingual
Signage of Southeast LA | Jhonni Carr (UCLA)

Royce 314