Tentative Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 27, 7:30 pm, Keene Center, Dauer Hall
- Opening Remarks, Jorge Ríos
Representative, HSBC Bank USA, Miami - Neil Sullivan
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Keynote address: George Yúdice
Champagne reception, music by Gilberto de Paz
Friday, October 28, McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall
- 9:30-10:30
El presente y futuro de la ciencia ficción en América Latina
Spanish American and Brazilian SF: A roundtable in Spanish and Portuguese by Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, and Andrea Bell (Libby Ginway, moderator) - Coffee break
- 10:45-11:55
Latin American Science Fiction and Literary History
Pablo Brescia, "Technology and the Anxiety of Progress in Latin America: A Case Study"
Luis Cano, "Science Fiction and Spanish American Modernismo"
Rachel Haywood Ferreira, "The Rediscovery of Early Science Fiction Texts"
(Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, discussant) - Lunch: Arredondo Room 12:15-1:30
- 1:55-3:45
The Politics of Latin America in Science Fiction
J. Andrew Brown, "Textual Hacking: Edmundo Paz-Soldán and US Cyberpunk"
Andrew Gordon, "Mexico and James Tiptree's 'The women men don't see'"
Fernando Reati, "Visiones del futuro en la ciencia ficción de la Argentina neoliberal, 1985-1999"
(Efrain Barradas, Andrés Avellaneda, discussants) - Coffee Break
- 4:00-5:15
Film and Media Roundtable on Science Fiction
Writer-filmmaker Alberto Fuguet speaks about SF and popular culture in Latin America, and Gustavo Mosquera discusses his two science fiction films (Martín Sorbille, moderator) - 6:30 Dinner Buffet (by invitation)
Short film by Alberto Fuguet, Las hormigas asesinas
Saturday, October 29
- 10:00am-11:30
Writer's workshop in Spanish
led by Edmundo Paz-Soldán,
The Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, "La Casita," 1504 West University Avenue
Open to the Gainesville community, prizes for best stories. Spanish speakers from the community and the university may participate. Final versions of stories to be sent to the RLL main office by Feb. 1. A panel of judges will notify the winners by March 1. - 1:00-3:00
Screening of film MOEBIUS, Hippodrome Theater, 25 SE 2nd Place
Open to the public
Presentation by the director, Gustavo Mosquera - 4:00-5:30
Book Signings at Goering's Bookstore, 3433 W. University Ave.
Paz-Soldán, Fuguet (fiction); Bell, Molina-Gavilán (editors of an anthology); Ginway, Brown (academic studies)
Participants
Symposium organizer
M. Elizabeth Ginway, Associate Professor of Portuguese, University of Florida
Keynote Speaker
George Yúdice, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University
Featured Writers and Filmmakers
- Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, Brazilian illustrator, author and critic of science fiction
- Alberto Fuguet, Chilean author and filmmaker
- Gustavo Mosquera, Argentinean filmmaker
- Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Bolivian author and Associate Professor at Cornell University
Invited speakers and participants
- Andrea Bell, Professor of Spanish at Hamline University in St. Paul
- Pablo Brescia, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of South Florida
- J. Andrew Brown, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis
- Luis Cano, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Andrew Gordon, Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida
- Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Iowa State University
- Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Associate Professor at Eckerd College
- Fernando O. Reati, Associate Professor of Spanish at Georgia State University
