OSUHALLS is an annual symposium on Hispanic and Lusophone Literary and Cultural Studies. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and many different aspects of literature and cultures in the Luso-Hispanic speaking world.
Schedule
Friday, March 21, 2025
8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks: John Grinstead - Hagerty Hall 180
9 - 10 AM Session 1: Terror in the Andes: Analyses of Exploitation and Death in the Context of Peru (HH159)
- Nicolás Aguía Betancourt: Fratricidio y acumulación primitiva en Todas las sangres, de José María Arguedas
- Anthony Pearce: Regimes of (In)visibility: Sendero Luminoso and the Photograph
10 - 10:45 Session 2: Against the Top Together: Collective Challenges to Hegemonic Trends in Mexico and Guatemala (HH159)
- Robert Barnes: Literary and Artistic Challenges to Neoliberalism in Guatemala
- Eddy Rafael Santiago Huamani: Life And Death: Collective Ideals versus Individualistic Corruption in La Muerte de Artemio
11:00 - 12:15 PM Session 3: Lenguajes Literarios y Transformación en la Literatura Española (HH159)
- Alberto Custodio Romero Vallejo: El prosaísmo de Francisco Gregorio de Salas en el Observatorio rústico (1772-1774)
- Marina Ortega López: El agua y la mujer en la La flor del agua y Paquita, de Carolina Coronado: Un acercamiento a la autoconsciencia de la mujer escritora en el contexto decimononico
- Flor de María Vila Azabache: El lenguaje literario como herramienta de transformacion en Niebla v Los Intereses creados
1:15 - 2:15 Keynote speaker: Matthew J. Marr, "Homing in on Immovable Property and the Emotive in Spanish Motion Pictures of the Twenty-First Century" (HH206)
2:15 - 3:15 Session 4: Brazilian Cultural Expressions: Identity and Embodiment Through Arts, Language, and History (HH159)
- Andre Felipe: Brazilian Body Percussion: Connection between music and language through informal and oral delivery approaches
- Fadul Moura: Luto e história na poesia brasileira contemporânea
3:30 - 4:30 Session 5: O canto lá do meio do mar: heróis e monstros sagrados entre Aruanda e Luanda (HH159)
- Dr. Isis Barra Costa
- Maria Vitoria de Rezende Grisi
Saturday, March 22, 2025
9 - 10 AM Session 6: Asociación de Escritores de Ohio - Poesía (HH259)
- Angeles Casasola
- Juan Armando Rojas
10 - 11 AM Session 7: Asociación de Escritores de Ohio - Prosa (HH259)
- Lorena Brown
- Silvia Rodriguez
- Robinson Lizano
11:15 - 12:15 Keynote speaker: Bruna Dantas Lobato "Why translate Brazilian Literature" (ML100)
1 - 2 PM Session 8: Cultural Identity and Resistance in Brazilian Arts: Regional Aesthetics, Language, and Narrative Representation (HH259)
- Rob Lassche: Por uma estética gaúcha: Paisagem e identidade regional em Paixão de Gaúcho (1957) e Anahy de las Misiones (1997)
- Mohamed Gabal: Naming characters in the postcolonial land struggle: Onomastics and Ancestral Memory in Torto Arado
- Andraya Yearwood: "Samba'o na cara da sociedade:" A Quare Linguistic Account or Brazilian Portuguese
2 - 3 PM Creative Writing Open Mic (HH259)
3:15 - 4 Session 9: Dimensões da Escravidão na Literatura Brasileira (HH259)
- Jean Carlos Carniel: Reconfigurações do gótico em O nó do diabo: o horror da escravidão e suas reminiscências na sociedade brasileira
- César Santos: O impacto geográfico na literatura abolicionista brasileira do século
4 - 5:30 Session 10: Cinema and Post-Violence: Spanish-Language Film in Dialogue with Memory, Identity, and Social Transformation (HH259)
- Dr. Laura Podalsky: The Scale of the Human in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
- Nikolas King: La autorrepresentación contradictoria: Cine en primera persona en Los rubiosy loaos son mis nilos
- Lanie Kannamnael: reminist Keeresentaton or reminicee ane sexuali violence in Documentary Film
- Nathan McBride: Spanish Film, Desarrollismo, and the Automobile
Keynote Speakers
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Matthew J. Marr
Mariana Eva Pérez
