Poetics Of The Sayable: Framing Crisis And Conflict In Contemporary Spain
Confirmed keynote speakers:聽Dr David Becerra Mayor (Universidad Aut贸noma de Madrid); Dr Helena Buffery (University College Cork)
Organisers:聽Prof. Helena Migu茅lez-Carballeira (亚洲色吧); Dr Maite Usoz de la Fuente (University of Leicester).
Funding organisation:聽Institute of Modern Languages Research, Regional Conference Scheme
The aim of this interdisciplinary one-day conference is to consider how recent experiences of crisis and conflict in Spain have been culturally framed within the Spanish public sphere. A working premise is that the discourses of Spanish nationalism and unionism, intensified by the arrival into parliamentary politics of far-right parties, provide one such cultural frame (to use Butler鈥檚 term) for what is sayable.
Focusing on works published from 2010 onwards, we will consider the way in which cultural texts from the Peninsula have reflected crises and conflicts over the past decade; which narratives have been promoted, celebrated and institutionalised, and which have been disavowed, ignored or silenced.聽
Programme
Registration and Welcome
Chair: Helena Migu茅lez-Carballeira
An entomological look at the rural world:Les cuques[Bugs] (2020) by Juli脿 Guillamon -Mar铆a Dasca Batalla, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
El (falso) breve viaje al pa铆s del pueblo. Sobre intelectualidad y territorio-脌lex Matas Pons, Universitat de Barcelona.Online.
The Depiction and Politics of an Empty Spain:Un amor(2020) by Sara Mesa andContra la Espa帽a vac铆a(2021) by Sergio del Molino -Marta P茅rez-Carbonell, Colgate University.
鈥楨verybody Hates a Tourist鈥: La Espa帽a Rural as Theme Park -Gareth Wood, University College London.
Break
States of Flux: Staging Crisis 2008-2021 -Helena Buffery, University College Cork.
Break
Chair: Maite Usoz de la Fuente
La imaginaci贸n colonializada: la independencia de Catalunya y sus (im)posibilidades figurativas -J煤lia Ojeda Caba, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
The Spanish literary establishment vis-脿-vis the independence of Catalonia (On-line) -Jordi Larios, University of St Andrews.Online
Chair: Maite Usoz de la Fuente
What does empathy mean in the Basque context? Some remarks on Edurne Portela鈥檚El eco de los disparos (2016) -Gorka Mercero Altzugarai, University of Liverpool.
The Case for Comparatism -Christian Claesson, Lund University.
Break
Chair: Helena Migu茅lez-Carballeira
Crisis in the Courtroom: Progressive Politics and the Rule of Law in Spain Today -Steven Marsh, University of Illinois.
Poetics of the Unsayable: Subjectivity and Cynicism in Theorising Crisis -Alejandro Veiga-Exp贸sito, University of Warwick
La simbolizaci贸n de 鈥榣o real鈥 desde un inconsciente 鈥榦tro鈥: Literatura, ideolog铆a y explotaci贸n en Espa帽a post-15M 鈥揇avid Becerra, Universidad Aut贸noma de Madrid.
