Friday 1st June

9:00-9:30        Registration

9:30                Presentation by Professor Thomas Earle

10:00-11:00    Chair: Dr Jonathan Thacker (Merton College)

                       “The politics of Gender in the RSC’s Spanish Golden Age Season”

                       Kathleen Mountjoy (University of Oxford)

                       “A mulher na oratória do Padre António Vieira e na mundividência do Barroco ibérico”

Mª Isabel Morán Cabanas & José Eduardo Franco

(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela & Universidade de Lisboa)

11:00-11:30    Coffee

11:30-12:30    Chair: Professor Thomas Earle (St Peter’s College)

                       “Queering Camões: a recent literary experiment”

Frederico Lourenço  (Universidade de Lisboa)

12:30-14:00    Lunch Break

14:00-15:30    Chair: Miss María Liñeira (Centre for Galician Studies, The Queen’s College)

                   

                       “Cibrán e o engano da heterosexualidade presumida”

Carme Fernández Pérez-Sanjulián (Universidade da Coruña)

                       “Fascismo y virilidad: El hombre clásico en la propaganda fascista española”

Andreu Navarra Ordoño (Universitat de Barcelona)

                       “O punto de xénero e sexualidade no corpus literario de Manuel Rivas”

Isabel Castro-Vázquez (Towson University, USA)

15:30-16:00    Coffee

16:00-17:30    Chair: Dr Carles Gutiérrez-Sanfeliu (University of Oxford)

                       

                       “Cuerpo, destino y bisturí en Todo sobre mi madre (Almodóvar)”

María Donapetry (Pomona College,USA)

                       “Sueños y lágrimas: la masculinidad de Marcos en Hable con ella”

Robin Fiddian (Wadham College, Oxford)

19:00              Dinner at Exeter College

Saturday 2nd June

10:00-11:30     Chair: Dr Stephen Parkinson (Linacre College)

                        “Queering the queer turn: LGBT activism and outcomes in Portugal”

Ana Cristina Santos (Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds)

                        “Orgull revolucionari”

Jordi Mir Garcia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona)

                        “Cognitariado femenino en España: de la imagen a la carne”

Rosario Hernández Catalán (Universidad de Oviedo)

11:30-12:00    Coffee

12:00-13:00    Chair: Dr Claudia Pazos-Alonso (Wadham College)

                       “(Self) Discoveries and (Rough) Trade: Queer Portuguese identities and beyond in the work of Al Berto”

Mark Sabine (University of Nottingham)

13:00-14:30     Lunch Break   

14:30-15:30    Chair: Miss Laura Soler (University of Oxford)

                        “Maria-Mercè Marçal’s Terra de Mai: la consecución de una utopía”

Noèlia Diaz Vicedo (Queen Mary, University of London)

                        “A reading of Al Berto’s work: autobiography, fragmentation and homoerotic desire”

João Luis Monteiro Leal (St Peter’s, Oxford)

15:45-16:45    Chair: Dr Xon de Ros (Lady Margaret Hall)

                        “Terenci Moix o el arte de la maledicencia”

Carles Gutiérrez-Sanfeliu (University of Oxford)

                        “Homoerotisme, psicoanàlisi i malaltia: identitats patològiques en la narrativa catalana”

Mercè Picornell Belenguer & Margalida Pons Jaume

(Universitat de les Illes Balears)

17:00-17:30    Closing. Wine & Nibbles at Exeter College

                 

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Exeter College

1st-2nd June 2007

QUEER, QUEERER, QUEEREST: EVOLVING GENDER IDENTITIES IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

1st Call for Papers

Over the last few decades, we have witnessed a shift in attitudes towards gender identities. Spanish law in favour of gay marriage seems to be an epoch-making event, but the history of roles and stereotypes is drawn and redrawn in a spiral process. From the mediaeval Galician-Portuguese satires to Mário de Sá-Carneiro, from Lúcia Facco's work to Cernuda, from Tirant lo Blanc to Terenci Moix, from the linguistic strategies to name the otherness to the oxymoron between theory and praxis in the Sección Feminina; the peninsular cultures have been sharing an imagery as well as setting different ways of writing straight and writing queer. We all have, indeed, come along way, have we? But how do these identities fit into contemporary structures of power? How do they make themselves mainstream? And do they lose anything in the process?

The XII edition of the Forum for Iberian Studies invites scholars to assess the changes of gender identities within the context of Portuguese and Hispanic Studies. We welcome contributions from areas such as gender studies, queer theory, literary and cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, history, (socio)linguistics, amongst others.

Papers can be submitted in English or any of the romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula. Proposals for 20-minute papers should include a title and an abstract of about 300 words. Please mention any technical requirements and include your name, affiliation and contact details.