This conference will meet in person following safety protocols. A Zoom preconference Virtual Panel will be also held on September 22, 3:00pm (CDT). Please visit the tab for more information.
Friday, September 24
8:30: Breakfast
9-9:30: Introductions by Eric Calderwood and Elena L. Delgado (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
9:30-10:30: Keynote speaker, Jo Labanyi (New York University), “History as Male Moral Failure: Readings of the Not So Glorious Past in Spanish Cinema of the Early Franco Period.” Introduction by Elena L. Delgado (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:00: Panel 1, National Imaginaries and National Communities. Chair: Rob Rushing (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Elizabeth Warren (U of Utah), “The Carnivalization of Iberian History in Carles Mira’s Con el culo al aire”
Carles Ferrando Valero (Bowling Green State U), “The Ceremonial Recurrence of History in Ventura Pons’s Barcelona (un mapa)”
Rachel Ten Haaf (U of Arkansas). “The Spectre of the Spectacle in Saltimbancos (1951)”
12:00-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:45: Panel 2, Medievalisms. Chair: Eleonora Stoppino (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Emily Francomano (Georgetown University), “Neomedievalism and Historical Memory in El Ministerio del Tiempo”
Eric Calderwood (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Al-Andalus and Contemporary Arabic-Language Television Drama”
Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College), “Convivencia Triumphant in La catedral del mar on TV”
2:45-3:00: Coffee break
3:00-4:00: Panel 3, The Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. Chair: Eric Calderwood (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Christina Civantos (U of Miami), “Moors Past and Present: Boabdil in Spanish Television’s Réquiem por Granada”
Zainab Cheema (Florida Gulf Coast U), “Tiempos de Guerra: The Erotics of Border-Crossing in Spain’s Moroccan Coloniality”
Saturday, September 25
9:00: Breakfast
9:30-10:30: Keynote speaker: Duncan Wheeler (U of Leeds), “Cervantes in Cinema: Don Quixote on the Silver Screen.” Introduction by Javier Irigoyen-García (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:00: Panel 4, The Golden Age on Screen. Chair: Marcus Keller (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Miguel Martínez (U of Chicago), “To Keep the Past Unfinished. La Peste (2018) and the Futures of the Golden Age”
Manuel Olmedo (U of Arkansas), “‘No queda sino batirnos’: The Portrait of Quevedo as a Swordsman in Spanish Film and TV”
Javier Irigoyen-García (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Moriscos on Screen: Historicizing Racial Representations”
12:00-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:30: Panel 5, Imperial Histories and Imperial Imaginaries. Chair: Joyce Tolliver (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Aritz Regoyo (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “The Defense of La conquista through Conquistadores: Adventum (2017)”
Eduardo Ledesma (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Pre-Conquest Cinema: Pictographic Codices and Experimental Visions in Return to Aztlan (Mexico, 1991)”
2:30-2:45: Coffee break
2:45-4:00: Panel 6, Archives, Documents, and the Forms of Memory. Chair: Carolyn Fornoff (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chad Leahy (U of Denver), “Visualizing the Spanish Possession of Jerusalem: Franco, NO-DO, Historical Invention, and the Exposición de Tierra Santa (1954)”
Elena Cueto Asín (Bowdoin College), “Myth/Memories of Miseries and Cosmopolitanism: Carta a Eva and Arde Madrid”
Joyce Tolliver and Lizara García-Angulo (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Mario/Elisa vs. Elisa y Marcela: 1901, Netflix-Style”
4:00-4:15: Coffee Break
4:15-5:15: Keynote speaker, Steven Marsh (U of Illinois at Chicago), “The Spectral Subversion of History in the Films of Pedro Costa and Rita Azevedo Gomes.” Introduction by Eduardo Ledesma (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
