Los días 2, 3 y 4 de Octubre se celebrará en la Merced el 16 Congreso Internacional “Culture & Power”, centrado este año en el tema “Espacios”, organizado por la organización de estudios culturales IBACS y el departamento de Inglés de la Universidad de Murcia.
Este congreso busca responder a la importancia creciente del espacio, desde su relevancia en conflictos sociales al papel que juega dentro de la literatura, pasando también por su relación con series de televisión, películas y otros medios audiovisuales.
Conferencias
- George McKay, (U Salford) “Polemic Space, Protest, and the Garden”
- John Storey (U Sunderland) “Spaces for Intimacy”
- Jane Rendell (Bartlett School of Architecture-UCL) “From Critical Spatial Practice to Site-Writing”
- Chris Weedon (Cardiff U) “Space and the Politics of Memory”
Paneles
1- Outer Space: Science Fiction I
- Bill Phillips (U Barcelona) “Space in Science Fiction”
- Sara Martín Alegre (U Autónoma Barcelona), ““Space Opera Beyond Space: Iain M. Banks’s The Hydrogen Sonata (and the Politics of Subliming)”
- Jimena Escudero Pérez (U Oviedo) “Exploring Outer Space: The case of Moon”
- José Manuel Sala (U Murcia), “Spatiality and Memory in Black Mirror”
2- Gender, Sexuality and Space
- Ana Moya (U Barcelona) “Neo-Feminism and the Female Cosmopolitan Subject in Meyer’s The Holiday (2006)”
- Cornelia Waechter (U of Paderborn), “Queering Prison Space in HBO’s Television Series OZ”
- Isabel Castelao-Gómez (UNED) “Feminist Geographies, the Gender of Displacement, and Women’s Border Poetics”
- Teresa Gómez Reus (U Alicante) “Spaces that matter: The Ambulance Car in Women’s Narratives of the First World War”
3- Outer Space: Science Fiction II
- Rocío Carrasco (U Huelva), “Fluid Identities in the Space of Science Fiction”
- Isabel Morales (U Camilo José Cela) “A Journey Through the World of Fantasy and Sexuality in Joanna Russ’sKittatiny: A Tale of Magic”
- Rubén Jarazo, “Sex on board! Sex, gender and space in Doctor Who (2004-2013)”
- Angel Mateos Aparicio (U Castilla-La Mancha) “‘Perfect Cities, Permanent Hells’: The Ideological Coordinates of Urban Space in Postmodern Science Fiction”
4- Geographies of Convergence and Disjunction
- Carolina Sánchez Palencia (U Sevilla), “’The Tropics Make it Difficult to Mope’: The Imaginative Geography of Alexander Payne’s The Descendants (2011)”
- Alicia Riquelme Ballesta (U Murcia), “Fictional Spaces for Post-Human Identities”
- Anne Louise Kiss (U Potsdam) “The Diegetic Room in the Series Der Forellenhof (Germany 1965-66) and Xanadu(France 2011): Spatial Representation of the Functionality and Dysfunctionality of the Family Myth, the ‘Whole House’”
- Gerardo Rodríguez (U Granada), “Community and space in Janet Frame’s The Carpathians”
5-Investigating (Non-)Place
- Chamee Yang (Seoul National U), “An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Café as a Non-Place”
- Isabel García Conesa (U Politécnica-Cartagena) and David Juan Rubio (U Politécnica-Cartagena) “Tony Morrison’s Struggle for Black Identity”
- Roman Horak (U of Applied Arts-Vienna), “Notes on the Street. Space, Place and Metaphor”
6- Thick / Thin Spaces
- Radhouan ben Amara (U of Washington) “The Desert in Eastern and Western Literatures”
- Nerea Calvillo (C+ arquitectos/U Alicante) “Dust Space”
- Teresa Almeida and Rita Rodrigues, “An intrusive look into the inner space of matter”
7- Space and National Identities
- G. Kentak Son (King’s College, London) “Land as a Space for Discursive Loyalty: on the Public Sphere and Geographical Immobility During China’s Modernisation (1866-1925)”
- Antonio Paoliello (U Edinburgh) “Defining Chineseness through Space and Language: the Case of Tiger Woohoo, a Sinophone Malaysian Film”
- Cândida Cadavez (Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies) “The imagined nation of Salazar: different spaces, same lesson”
- Margarita Navarro Pérez (UCAM) “(Re)Creating Media(ted) Englishness(es): Spacing Through Contemporary Television Comedies in England”
8- Remaking the Urban
- Wook Inn Paik (Seoul National University) “Changes of Chongyecheon Landscape : From the modernization place to the postmodern space”
- Rosie Ferries (U of Sunderland) “The Realities of Ethnic Life in Sunderland, UK”
- Miguel Mesa del Castillo (U of Alicante) “The Immaterial Factory and the Metropolitan Body: Toni Negri, Rem Koolhaas, and the Sociology of Associations”
9- Intimacies
- Elisa Hernández Pérez (U Valencia) “The Family Home as a rough ‘habitat’ in the television series The Wire: the examples of Namond Brice and Michael Lee“
- Manuela Ruiz (U Zaragoza) “The ‘Quest Physics Theory’: Space, Intimacy and Romance in Ryan Murphy’s Eat Love Pray and Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday”
- Amparo Lasén (U Complutense de Madrid) and Elena Casado Aparicio (U Complutense de Madrid) “Locating intimacies in digital media practices: Gendered Choreographies of Inhibition/Exhibition”
- Theodora Tsimpouki (U of Athens) “Dwelling and the House of the Collyer Brothers”
10- Spaces of Marginality and Abjection
- Eduardo Barros Grela (U Coruña) “Voices of Silenced Childhoods: Wandering and Decentering Spatialities in Contemporary Film”
- Férez Mora (U Murcia) “The Spaces of Madness in Dennis Cooper’s Narrative”
- Laura Torres Zúñiga (U Murcia) “Thresholds of Abjection: Identity and Space in Tennessee Williams’s Early Fiction”
- J. Rubén Valdés (U Oviedo) “Music, Space, Culture: Joy Division’s Positive Negative Spatiality”
11- Relocating Classic Literature
- María Luisa Pascual Garrido (U Córdoba) “Reconfiguring Prospero’s ‘Poor Cell’: The Island from Text to Screen”
- Mª Isabel Jiménez González (UCAM) “Inner and Outer Space in Edgar Allan Poe”
- Natalie Gómez Handford (Birzeit U-Palestine) “Park and the Garden as Spaces for Intimacy: Human Relationships in the Novels of Jane Austen”
- Margarita Rigal (U Castilla-La Mancha) y José Manuel Correoso (U Castilla-La Mancha) “Poe’s ‘Spaces’ and the TV Series The Following”
12 – Grounds of Surveillance and Control
- Ana Rull Suárez (UNED) “Pynchon’s Against the Day: Sociopolitical Suspicion and the Double Spaces of Espionage”
- David Edward Griffiths (U Cantabria) “Coercive Hospital Infrastructure in The Regeneration Trilogy”
- Chus Gutiérrez (U Murcia) “Space and Power in the narrative of W.B. Sebald and Thomas Bernhard”
- Angel Galdón Rodríguez (U Castilla-La Mancha) “Two spaces in dystopian society: the opposition between the metropolis and natural space”
13- Postcoloniality and Diasporas
- Felicity Hand (U Autónoma Barcelona), “Negotiating Spaces in the ‘Rainbow Nation’”
- Miquel Pomar Amer (U Manchester) “Intergenerational conflict and negotiation inZahid Hussain’s The Curry Mile(2006)”
- Juan Tarancón (U Zaragoza) “Framing La Raza: Space and Identity in Chicano Art”
- Dan Iulian Toader (Language Center-U Salamanca) “A space of cultural distinctions and divides. Rudolfo Anaya’sBless Me, Ultima”
14-Peripheries, Interstices: Out There/In Between
- Jorge Figueira (U Coimbra) and Rita Bastos (U Beira Interior), “Reinvented Spatialities: the representation of the African colonial space in the Portuguese cinema”
- Martyna Bryla (U Málaga) “Eastern Europe as a Liminal Space in the Life and Fiction of Philip Roth”
- Isabel Santaularia (U Lleida) “Communist Spaces in Contemporary Crime Fiction Written in English”
- Tomás Monterrey (U La Laguna) “Bridging the Canary Islands in Ewing Campbell’s Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments”
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