Fall 2005 Conference

Narrating the Past:
(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating History

28-29 October, 13:00

Student Center, Salón de Anexo

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

PROGRAMME

Friday 28 October

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13:00-13:20: Coffee and Registration

13:20-13:30: Welcoming Remarks

13:30-14:50 Panel A

1. Mary Leonard (UPR Mayagüez), ATo Narrate the Past: The Uses of Fiction/The Uses of Nonfiction@

2. Darrell G. Fike (Valdosta State University), ARemembering a Dream: a Dream of Memory@

3. Christopher Powers (UPR Mayagüez), APortending Toni Morrison@

15:00-16:00 Panel B

1. Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas (UPR Mayagüez), "Raíces eternas: The documentary film as a project/ion of Puerto Rican historiography"

2. Jamil Khader (Stetson University) AReclaiming the Memory of the 1948 Palestinian Catastrophe: The Politics of Forgetting, Everyday Terror and Gender In the Documentary Film, >Paradise Lost=@

16:10-17:10 Panel C

1. Sonia Werner (New York University), AHistorical Fictions and Fictional Histories: Problems in Narrating the Past@

2. Nickolas Haydock (UPR Mayagüez), AThe Truth of Women and the Truth about Troy: History and Misogyny from Homer to Ridley Scott@

19:00: Historical Character Costume Reception (Location TBA)

Saturday 29 October

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13:00-13:20: Coffee and Registration

13:20-13:30: Presidential Address

13:30-14:50 Panel A

1. Matthew O. Cleveland (St. Cloud State University), ATruth versus Knowledge: (Re)Interpreting the Traumatic Memory of Chappaquiddick in Joyce Carol Otes= Black Water@

2. Robert Miltner (Kent State University), AMasks, Mirrors, and Memories: Rane Arroyo=s Hungry Ghost: The Ponce de Leon Poems@

3. Libe Garcia (University of Zaragoza), ATales of Sound and Fury: Women in Merlinda=s Bobis=s White Turtle@

15:00-16:00 Panel B

2. Sinikka Grant (SUNY at Buffalo), APersonal Memory and Public History: Composition of a Black Witch=s Life@

3. Tatiana Tagirova (UPR Rio Piedras), AJamaican Beginnings and World Travels of Claude McKay: A Search for Justice and Equality@

16:10-17:10 Panel C

1. Don Walicek (UPR Rio Piedras), AStories that Save Themsleves: Notes on Fieldwork in Antigua@

2. Dorsia Smith (UPR Rio Piedras), AA Violent Homeland@

Directions to conference site: To get to UPR-Mayagüez take Carr. 2 to Km. 153 and turn onto Calle Post where it intersects with Carr. 2, at the Western Bank fountain. At the main gate make a right (on Avenida Laureles) and ask the guard for a temporary parking permit. The Student Center will be the second building on your left.

The Spring conference will be held at UPR-Mayagüez, in the third week of March 2006. The topic is “Secrets and Lies.”

Send proposals (250 words) to cea_caribbeanchapter@ hotmail.com by 12 January 2006. Proposals may be sent as part of a text message, not as an attachment. Visit our website for updated information:

http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm

Special thanks to outgoing CEA-CC Co-Presidents Nandita Batra and Nickolas Haydock. We would also like to thank José Irizarry (Former Director, Dept. of English) and the English Department graduate students for their help, as well as Kathy Jorge for her secretarial assistance.

Office Bearers 2005-2007: Vartan P. Messier, President; Nandita Batra, Secretary; Stéphane Pillet, Treasurer; Thea Leticia Mateu, Site Executive; José Jiménez Justiniano, Promotions Executive.

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