Events – Research in Ethnic American Literature

I International Series on Hospitality and Migration: “Hospitality Today”

Program:

June 27, 2023

The Ethics of Hospitality

10.00 – 10:45. Dr. Cristina Alsina Rísquez. “Unwelcoming Homes: Leaving Home as the Foundation of a New Ethics.”

11:00 – 11:45. Dr. Luisa Ma González Rodríguez. “Bordering Processes, Inhospitable Policies, and the production of Precarity and Vulnerability in The Visitor.”

12:00 – 12:45. Dr. Cristina Garrigós González. “Who is the Host of the House? Migrant Care Workers and Alzheimer’s Disease.”

13:00 – 13:45. Dr. Manuel Aguirre Daban. “Betwixt Home and Host: A Shortcoming in some Sociological and Anthropological Approaches to the Problem of Migration
which a Textual and Liminalist Approach May Help Redress.”

Mobile Hospitality

17:00 – 17:45. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl. “From Hospitality to Solidarity: Engaged
Citizenship and the Role of the Translator in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children
Archive” (online).

18:00 – 18:45. Dr. Ewa Antoszek. “Challenging Hostipitality: Selected Examples of the U.S.-Mexico Border Artivism.”

June 28, 2023

Unsuspected Welcomes

10:00 – 10:45. Dr. Patricia San José Rico. “Welcoming while unwelcome: Hospitality from and among outcasts in Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Cafe and Toni Morrison’s Paradise.”

11:00 – 11:45. Dr. Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan. “Stateless Americans: Tramps, Vagrants and Hobos.”

12:00 – 12:45. Dr. Amanda Gerke. “Allegories of Othering and Linguistic Landscapes of Hospitality in Guillermo del Toro’s Monster Films.”

Estranged Hospitality

17:00 – 17:45. Dr. Paula Barba Guerrero. “Hosts as Occupiers: The Anatomy of Otherness in N.K. Jemisin’s ‘Walking Awake.’”

18:00 – 18:45. Dr. Parisa Delshad. “Beyond the ‘City’s’ Affective Knowledge: Behrouz Boochani’s Statements From the Heart.”

19:00 – 19:45. Dr. Marta Bernabéu Lorenzo. “Re-Imagining Past and Future Hospitality on Screen: Turning to the Wilderness in Taboo (2017-) and Maniac (2018).”

June 29, 2023

Postgraduate Perspectives on Hospitality Today

17:00 – 17:45. Carla Abella Rodríguez. “Inhospitable Encounters: Anti-Blackness in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Fiction.”

18:00 – 18:45. Cristina Martín Hernández. “Politics of Encounter: Re-Imagining Hospitality from a Feminist Border Perspective.”

19:00 – 19:45. Beatriz Hermida Ramos. “Narrating the Other: Hostile Spaces in Arkady Martine’s Teixcalaan Duology.”

>> Additional event:

June 5, 2023

12:00 – 12:45. Kimberly Nguyễn. “The White Space of Language: Exploring Marginalized Identity through Poetry.”

Seminar details:

Contact: discursosypoetica@usal.es

Organized by: Research project “Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach VI” (Ref. PID2019-108754GB-I00 – MCIN-AEI) in collaboration with the recognized research group “Discursos y poética de la (post)modernidad” (USAL), and funded by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Salamanca.

Director: Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo.

Event coordinator: Paula Barba Guerrero.

English Department. Universidad de Salamanca.

Registration:

Attendance is free, but registration is required if you wish to receive an official certificate of attendance.

Register here: http://vaporetto.usal.es/preactform/detalleCurso?codigo_curso=5823&ano_academico=2023&convocatoria=1

The series is a hybrid event, so all lectures will also be held on Zoom. The link will be provided to all registered participants via email. For further queries, please contact
paulabarbaguerrero@usal.es

Practical information:

Available soon.