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New Perspectives on Francophone and Hispanic Studies

June 5-7 2002

LATEST PROGRAMME 

Tues 4
Wed 5
Thurs 6
Fri 7
Sat 8

Morning

8-12.30

 

8-9 Late Registration

Biology Demonstration Room

9 - Opening and Keynote Address: Dr. Manuel Zapata Olivella

Arts Lecture Theatre

10 Coffee

Humanities Courtyard

10.30-12.30 Panel in Honour of Dr. Charles Hollingsworth: Theorizing Lit. and Identity

9 - 10.30 Panel: The Caribbean and Beyond I

10.30 Refreshments

11-12.30 Panel: Literature: Maryse

9 - 10.30 Panel: French Language

10.30 Refreshments

11-12.30 Panel: Linguistics

 
12.30-1.30 LUNCH             

Afternoon

1.30-5

Arrival of overseas participants

1.30-3.30 Panel: Culture

3.30 Refreshments

4-6 Panel: Literature: Venezuela

1.30 - 3 Panel: Pedagogy: National, Regional & Practical Approaches. Arts Lecture Theatre

3 Refreshments

4 - 6.30 Teachers Forum

Biology Demonstration Room

1.30-3 Panel: Literature: The Caribbean and Beyond II

3Refreshments

Departure of overseas participants

Evening

5-

 
   6.30 Reception hosted by Principal Sir Keith Hunte, Humanities Courtyard

6.30 Refreshments

7.30 Film Screening: Pièces d'Identités (Congo/Belgium, 1998; subtitled in Eng.)

Biology Demonstration Room

8 Closing Reception:

Humanities Courtyard

  

Activities will take place in the Biology Demonstration Room unless otherwise indicated - ask at the Front Desk.

Changes will be announced during sessions or posted on the door of the Biology Demonstration Room.

PANELS

Theorizing Literature and Identity - Wed 5, 10-12. Chair: C. Hollingsworth

1. Valero - Asincronía y desterritorialización, transculturación (Fernando Ortiz)

2. Szmetan - Aportes de las teorías lacanianas a la crítica bio-biográfica. La visión del otro y el uso del lenguaje.

3. Munro -  'Exile and Exoticism in René Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves'

4. Roberts - Deflecting the male gaze: the complexity of Caribbean identity as reflected in the poetry of Aída Cartagena Portalatín, Mayra Santos Febres and Jane King Hippolyte

Culture - Wed 5, 1.30-3.30 Chair: R. Meza Cepeda

1. Allsopp - Contribution of folk religions to Caribbean languages

2. Bruni - Crónica, novela y transcripción fílmica: la figura de Lope de Aguirre en Abel Posse y Werner Herzog.

3. Simpson - Emigración y literatura puertorriqueña

4. Molina - Sísifo e Ícaro, en tierras calientes. (Cercanías entre Mutis y el pintor Alejandro Obregón).  

Venezuela - Wed 5, 3.30-5 Chair: B. Arrieta de Meza

1. Pouchet - Venezuela's Past Renewed (in the works of Francisco Herrera Luque)

2. Cowie - El emigrante europeo en Venezuela a través de la narrativa de los '90

3. Mansoor - La presencia del padre en Mi padre el inmigrante de Vicente Gerbasi  (1913-1992)

4. Szmetan - El Modernismo en Manuel Rodríguez

Caribbean and Beyond I - Thurs 6, 9-10.30. Chair: R. Szmetan

1. Castriota - Issues and Imagery in Rulfo's El llano en llamas and Roumain's Gouverneur de la Rose

2. Mabana - The Reception of Aimé Césaire in the Congo.and Africa

3. Persico - Como agua para chocolate - a Caribbean novel

Maryse Condé - Thurs 6, 11-12.30. Chair: E. O'Callaghan

1. Samuels - The stages in the development of an ambiguous Feminist: Sexuality and Power as related tropes that complicate a feminist reading of the protagonist (I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem)

2. Morrison -  Genealogies Old and New: Maryse Condé revisits Africa

3. Grant - Re/visioning Caribbean Society: Maryse Condé's Use of Folklore in Celanire cou-coupe.

Pedagogy: National, Regional and Practical Approaches - Thurs 6, 1.30-3 Chair: A. McWatt

1. Luengo - Implementing Spanish in early childhood education in Tr. and Tob.: The UWI School Pilot Project

2. Badiola - A la caza del español en Barbados

3. Morrison and Mabana - Intercampus Theatre Festival: Prospects for new linkages

French Language - Fri 7, 9-10.30. Chair: C. Mabana

1. Carter - A call to action: Will French survive this time?

2. Farquhar - Introducing Le Touriste Averti, an activity to assist learners of French with the use

of prepositions before place names

3. Carter - New Technologies and Language Learning: Some considerations

Caribbean and Beyond II - Fri 7, 1.30-3. Chair: C. Hollingsworth

1. McWatt - De poderes, agüeros y amuletos en The Agüero Sisters

2. Craig - Cubanos, gusanos y mariposas: considerations on some recent chronicles of return to Cuba

3. Cowie - Discurso revolucionario en Los compañeros de Marco Antonio Flores y de Rolo Diez

Pedagogy: Linguistics - Fri 7, 11-12.30 Chair: N. Roberts

1. Meza - La psicolingüística como base para una metodología en la enseñanza de idiomas

2. Arrieta de Meza - Pertinencia de progs de maestría en lingüística en Venezuela

3. Duque - El empirismo psicoanalítico en el desarrollo de la competencia oral y escrita de una lengua extranjera

Teachers' Forum - Thurs 6, 4-6.30

1.Towards a Multimedia Approach to Language Teaching - P. Blackman, S. Hackett, M. Tuach, Barbados Language Centre, BCC

2.Presentation of Barbados Spanish Teachers' Forum website - J. Badiola and I. Craig (UWI)

3.Curriculum Development - J. Hinds, Harrison College and President of BALFT

4.Towards a Foreign Language Policy for the Caribbean - S. Hackett, Head of Barbados Language Centre, BCC

5.Open Forum

 
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