College English Association
Caribbean Chapter
Transgression and Taboo
Spring Conference 2005
25-26 February
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Program for CEA-CC Spring 2005 Conference
“Transgression and Taboo”
Friday 25 February - Student Center, Salon de Anexo, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Coffee and Registration: 12:15-12:45 pm
Welcoming Remarks: 12:45-1:00 pm
Panel A : 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. Moderator: Thea Leticia Mateu
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (UPR-Mayagüez):"Mimetic Desire and Family Happiness in Balasko's French Twist"
Veronica Crichlow (UPR-Rio Piedras): “Running Down These Mean Streets and Sex: Bending Masculinity in Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets and Miguel Pinero's Short Eye"
Panel B: 2:15-3:15: Moderator: Kevin Carroll
Agnes Nicholas - (UPR-Mayagüez): “To Speak or Not to Speak Creole: The Attempt to Prohibit the Speaking of French Creole on the island of Dominica”
Trimiko C. Melancon - (University of Massachusetts Amherst) "The Dialectics of Transgression and Belonging: Individuality and Socio-Communal Activism in Alice Walker's Meridian”
Panel C: 3:30-5:00 pm: Moderator: José Jiménez
Vartan P. Messier - (InterAmerican University-Aguadilla): “The Erotic and the Pornographic: Towards a Definition of ‘pure’ Transgression in Georges Bataille's Erotism"
Steven Helmling (Univ. of Delaware) "Adorno's Taboos"
Richard Middleton-Kaplan (Harper College, Illinois): “Tattoos and Other Taboos in Melville's Typee”
5:00 pm Location TBA. Refreshments. Hors d’œuvres provided by CEA-CC.
Saturday 26 February, Student Center, Salon de Anexo, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Coffee 8:30-8:45 am
Panel D: 8:45-10:15 Moderator: José Irizarry
Ileana Cortes-Santiago (UPR-Rio Piedras): The Woman-Healer in Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun
Dorsía Smith (UPR-Rio Piedras): “Turning a Blind Eye: Homosexuality in Caribbean Literature”
Nereida Prado - (UPR-Rio Piedras) “Brother/Sister Incest in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale: From Transgression to Transcendence”
Administrative Meeting: 10:15-10:30 Moderator: José Irizarry
Panel E: 10:30-12:00 Moderator: Vartan Messier
Thea Leticia Mateu (UPR-Mayagüez): “Subversive Vaginas in the Twenty-First Century”
Peterson Toscano: “Talking Trash in the Homo No Mo' Halfway House--Looking at Language and Life in the Ex-Gay Movement”
1:00 Lunch in Rincón. Location TBA. Hors d’œuvres provided by CEA-CC.
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.
CCEA Officers 2004-2005
Co-Presidents: Nandita Batra and Nick Haydock
Treasurer: Vartan P. Messier
Spring 2005 Acting Vice Presidents
Vartan P. Messier and José Irizarry
For information on the Fall 2005 conference visit our site for updated information: http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm
Special thanks to CEA-CC Student Representatives Kevin Carroll, José Jiménez, Thea Leticia Mateu, and Magdalena Ruby for their help. Thanks are also due to José Irizarry, Director of the Department of English, and to Kathy Jorge and Alexandra Galvan for their secretarial assistance.