LEGACY OF CHILEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN POETRY: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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Day 1 of the Symposium: The Legacy of Chilean and Latin American Poetry
Full conference program available: https://georgetown.box.com/s/5yto7axe08sj3kmo8tdevnkh9k9imd6v
“The Legacy of Chilean and Latin American Poetry” brings together poets and literary scholars from Latin America and the United States to consider the dynamic emergence, development, and diversity of poetic forms throughout the Americas, with an emphasis on Chile. The symposium is also being presented to recognize Professor Gwen Kirkpatrick for her scholarship in the field of Latin American poetry, her contributions to the university and her profound dedication to her students.
PROGRAM
9:00 AM — WELCOME
Georgette Dorn, Chief, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress
Julio Fiol, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Chile
Anna Deeny Morales, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University
9:15 TO 10:25 — POETIC GENEALOGIES IN LATIN AMERICA
MODERATOR: FELIPE ESTEBAN TORO FRANCO, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Alvaro Kaempfer, Gettysburg College:
“Poesía, tradición cultural y razón pública en la crítica literaria de Andrés Bello”
Sarah Moody, University of Alabama:
“María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Delmira Agustini, and the Impossible Life and Legacy of the Woman Poet in Modernismo”
Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos, Georgetown University:
“Carlos Drummond de Andrade and the Flaming Tie of Neruda: Echoes of Canto general in A Rosa do Povo by CDA (1945)”
10:30 TO 12:30 — POETIC LANGUAGE
MODERATOR: VERONICA SALLES-REESE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Soledad Bianchi, Universidad de Chile:
“Bolaño, poeta: ‘He aprendido de los caminos donde me he extraviado’ ”
Rodrigo Cánovas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile:
“Poesía y performance en el texto Naciste pintada, de Carmen Berenguer, escrito desde el fin de siglo chileno”
Francine Masiello, University of California, Berkeley:
“poesía, paisaje, amistad”
Ana Inés Larre Borges, Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay:
“Dis/pares. Marosa di Giorgio versus Idea Vilariño”
2:00 TO 3:15 — POETRY, POLITICS, GENDER AND SEXUALITY
MODERATOR: GABRIEL VILLAROEL, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Francisco Leal, Colorado State University:
“Pablo Neruda, violador. Mujeres-estatuas en su poesía amorosa”
Miguel López, University of New Mexico:
“Marjorie Agosín and the Femicides”
María José Navia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile:
“’Amo las cosas que nunca tuve / con las otras que ya no tengo’: leyendo a Gabriela Mistral desde el inventario.”
3:30 TO 5:00 — THE LEGACY OF GWEN KIRKPATRICK FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND POETRY
MODERATOR: TANIA GENTIC, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Emilie Bergman, University of California, Berkeley:
“Snapshots, Afterimages and the Longvies: Gwen at Berkeley”
Enrique Cortez, Portland State University:
“Repensar la poesía más allá de las vanguardias: Lógica de la pregunta e historia literaria”
Rocío Ferreira, DePaul University
“Los años en UC Berkeley. La poesía latinoamericana según Gwen Kirkpatrick”
Laura Demaría, University of Maryland:
“El legado de Gwen Kirkpatrick”
5:15 TO 6:30 — POETRY READING
INTRODUCTIONS BY ANNA DEENY MORALES
Roberto Ibáñez Ricóuz
Vivaldo Santos
María José Navia
Francisco Leal
María Inés Zaldivar
Co-sponsored by the Hispanic Division and the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress, the Embassy of Chile, Georgetown University, the University of Maryland, George Washington University, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and the Universidad de Chile.
Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, James Madison Memorial Building
Free tickets available
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Friday, April 13, 2018 at 9:00am to 6:30pm
Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, James Madison Memorial Building 101 Independence Ave SE #lm634, Washington, DC 20540, USA