08:00 – 09:30 Breakfast & check-in for participants (HL211)

09:30 - 10:00 Welcome remarks: LLL Chair: Dr. Stefano Giannini & RLC Chair: Giovanni Minicucci (HL207)

10:00 – 4:00 Posters Session (HL 2 floor)

Supervisor: Socorro González Koseki, Syracuse University

10:00 - 11:30 First Round of Panels

Panel I [Spanish Literature] HL214

“Bordes en movimiento: las convulsionadas fronteras en América Latina”

Chair: Cristina E. Pardo Porto, Syracuse University

● José Alfredo Romero Reyna, Syracuse University. "El retorno de algunos mexicanos que han vuelto a su país desde los Estados Unidos: quiénes son y por qué regresan”.

● Lorena M. Velásquez, Syracuse University. “Las voces de la itinerancia en la frontera colombo- venezolana: la representación de la subjetividad en Díptico de la Frontera y La sombra del comandante de Luis Mora Ballesteros”.

● Jhon G. Lindarte, Syracuse University. “La selva del Darién: la más mortal y difícil ruta migratoria de las Américas”.

Panel II [French Literature] HL105

“Société, Politique, Arts et Savoirs”

Chair: Camille Rollando, Syracuse University

● Marcin Janczak, University of Toronto. “Rose Mélie Rose – un (anti)conte de fée postmoderne au féminin”.

● Augustus Haines, New York University. “Seats of Power: Visualizing Fascist Bureaucracy in Melville’s L'armée des ombre.”

● Hugo Cantin, Syracuse University. “Les enfants naturels dans le théâtre de la Révolution: un enjeu civique et juridique”.

● Mackenzie Turner, University of Guelph. “Sociolinguistic Competencies of Second Language Learners: Lexical Variation Acquisition and Instruction amongst Learners of French as a Second Language.”

Panel III [Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Linguistics] HL111

“The various spheres of linguistics: Language as an Object of Study”

Chair: Joshua Baumgarten, Syracuse University

● Chiara Di Maio, Syracuse University. “V to T movement and T to C movement in Buranelo.”

● Karen E Murano, Middlebury College. “How to design a digital platform to cultivate proficiency and to prepare for proficiency tests (APPL, MOPI, STAMP, National WL Exams).”

● Nazita Fazlkhah, University of Florida. “Phonetics analysis of two Latin American dialects: Colombia and Ecuador.”

● Yuri Sibucks, Syracuse University. “English Front-vowels Acquisition by Brazilian Portuguese Speakers.”

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (HL211)

12:45 - 02:00 Second Round of Panels

Panel IV [French Literature] HL111

“La francophonie hors de France: littératures, cinéma et rapports à la langue”

Chair: Hugo Cantin, Syracuse University

● Lyna Ami Ali, Emory University. “Hyperviolent performative language in Linda Lê’s Cronos: a verbal “corps-à-corps” to dismantle tyranny?.”

● Joumana Kaloush, Syracuse University. “Identités multiples: la francophonie du Moyen-Orient”.

● Gala Patenkovik, University of Michigan. “Reading silence: Transmission of difficult knowledge in Maryse Condé’s Le cœur à rire et à pleurer”.

● Nima Keivan, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Making Sense of Cinematographic Repetition. The Portrait of the Civilizational Melancholy in A Hero (2021) by Asghar Farhadi.”

Panel V [Italian Literature and Linguistics] HL214

“Incontri tra letteratura e lingua: studio, traduzione e analisi”

Chair: Giovanni Minicucci, Syracuse University

● Derek A. Ginoris, Georgetown University. “Liveliness of Dialect Amongst Algheresi with a Low Competence in Dialect: Modern Perspectives on the Minority Language”.

● Teresiana Matarrese, California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo & Middlebury College. “Intraducibilità e omissioni della diaspora italiana: la traduzione italiana di En la Sangre di Eugenio Cambaceres”.

● Ugo Brisolese, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Pirandello’s I vecchi e i giovani: an unsuccessful generational dialectic”.

Panel VI [Spanish and Portuguese Literature] HL105

“Cuentos, poesía y el arte en manos de la mujer”

Chair: Ana Guerrero, Syracuse University

● Giada Mirelli, Indiana University. “Desolación: El trabajo teresiano de Gabriela Mistral”.

● Carmen Araujo, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Irene, peregrina, piedra preciosa: la preservación del cuerpo de la santa en La margarita del Tajo que dio nombre a Santarén”.

● Iván Díez De la Pava. University of Florida. “Las sustancias ecodélicas como dispositivos biotecnológicos catalizadores de una experiencia telúrica en La sincronía del tacto de Gabriela Damián Miravete”.

02:00 – 02:30 Coffee Break (HL 207)

02:30 – 03:45 Third Round of Panels

Panel VII [Italian Literature] HL211

Italia: terra di delicatezza e romanticismo femminile

Chair: Chiara Di Maio, Syracuse University

● Javier Rodriguez Diaz, Middlebury College. “Gli animali, le donne, e la via dell’emancipazione”.

● Annette Martinez Inesta, Universidad de Puerto Rico & Middlebury College. “I personaggi femminili di Dacia Maraini nel romanzo Donna in Guerra”.

Panel VIII [Spanish Literature] HL114

“Identidad en contraste: textos sobre origen y actualidad”

Chair: Dayana Maso-Hernandez, Syracuse University

● Lorena Piña Palacio, Purdue University. "El montero como novela fundacional de la nación dominicana".

● Matías Larramendi, University of Michigan. “José de Acosta a través de Marx, Marx a través de Lacan: el plus-de-gozar originario en las colonias americanas”.

● Nerisha De Nil Padilla Cruz, University of Albany (SUNY). “La ficcionalización de la mujer narco a través de los personajes de Teresa Mendoza y Rosario Tijeras”.

4:15 - 5:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER (HL500)

Dr. Ilka Kressner (University of Albany – SUNY)

"Immersive Epistemologies – Human Encounters with the Elements in Contemporary Latin American Cinema"

This presentation will explore portrayals of human interaction with the elements in contemporary Latin American cinema. While the four classic elements of air, water, earth and fire have been present as part of nature or the environment in Latin American art from the conquest to today, contemporary films zoom into our human interaction with the elemental in new and original forms.

Conclusion & remarks