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May 15–17, 2008
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada
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Conference Schedule
Thursday, May 15 — Crowley Student Union, Great Room (4th floor)
| 8:30–9:30 |
WELCOMING BREAKFAST |
| 9:30–10:00 |
Nerea Arruti - “On the Lightness of Being: The Conflict of Belonging in Basque Literature” |
| 10:00–10:30 |
Mario Santana- “On Visible and Invisible Languages: Bernardo Atxaga’s Soinujolearen semea in Translation” |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco - “Memory, Past, and Writing in the Global Scene: Bernardo Atxaga’s El hijo del acordeonista and Carme Riera’s La mitad del alma” |
| 11:00–11:15 |
BREAK |
| 11:15–11:45 |
Estibalitz Ezkerra- “Not Everybody Sings from the Motherland. Diasporic Basque Voices and Their Place in Basque Literature” |
| 11:45–12:15 |
Iban Zaldua - “Ocho decisiones cruciales (que el escritor vasco debe tomar)” (Eight Crucial Decisions (That a Basque Writer Is Obliged to Face)) |
| 12:15–1:30 |
LUNCH |
| 1:30–2:00 |
Luisa Elena Delgado - “The Astigmatic Eye and the Location of Minority Literatures” |
| 2:00–2:30 |
Rikardo Arregi - “Yo no sé quien es yo” (I Don’t Know Who ‘I’ Is) |
| 2:30–3:00 |
Xavier Pla - "Josep Pla: Localism, or A Complete Manner of Viewing the World" |
| 3:00–3:15 |
BREAK |
| 3:15–3:45 |
Aurelia Arcocha - “Escribir en lengua vasca y en francés en el espacio global: la experiencia de una hibridación” (Writing in Basque and in French in the Global Frame: The Experience of Hybridation) |
| 3:45–4:15 |
Review Session |
| 4:15 |
FREE TIME or VISIT TO PYRAMID LAKE |
| 7:30 |
DINNER |
Friday, May 16 — Crowley Student Union, Great Room (4th floor)
| 9:00–9:30 |
Joan Ramon Resina |
| 9:30–10:00 |
Luis Fernandez Cifuentes - “Charting National Territories: The Excursion Mode” |
| 10:00–10:30 |
Bernardo Atxaga - “The Cork and the Anchor” |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Mari Jose Olaziregi - “Old Nations, New Identities: Basque Literature and Its Others” |
| 11:00–11:15 |
BREAK |
| 11:15–11:45 |
Annabel Martin |
| 11:45–12:15 |
Mariasun Landa - “Identidad. Lengua. Creación. (Una visión autobiográfica)” (Identity, Language, Creation. (An Autobiographical Approach)) |
| 12:15–1:30 |
LUNCH |
| 1:30–2:00 |
Miren Agur Meabe - “Cinco razones para escribir en la lengua del barrio” (Five Reasons to Write in the Language of the Neighborhood) |
| 2:00–2:30 |
Teresa Vilaros - “D’un temps, d’una llengua: Salvador Espriu as a Marrano Writer” |
| 2:30–3:00 |
Michael Ugarte - “Exile, Dissemination, and Homogenization: The Case of Equatorial Guinea as the Space of a Minority Literature” |
| 3:00–3:15 |
BREAK |
| 3:15–3:30 |
Review Session |
| 3:30 |
FREE TIME or VISIT TO VIRGINIA CITY |
| 7:30 |
DINNER |
Saturday, May 17 — Crowley Student Union, Great Room (4th floor)
| 10:00–11:45 |
Literary Readings |
| 12:00 |
EXCURSION TO LAKE TAHOE / Lunch and Boat Tour |
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