Programme

9.00 - Registration

9.30 - Welcome, Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, Conference organiser

9.40 - Empire, hegemony, consensus
Chair: Helena Miguélez-Carballeira

Aida Rodríguez Campesino (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): ‘Panamericanism vs. Hispanoamericanism: Imperial rhetoric in the 1920s’

Beñat Sarasola (University of the Basque Country): ‘Las fisuras del relato hegemónico de la memoria del PNV: la cuestión de la violencia’,

Bryan Cameron (University of Cambridge): ‘Documenting the populist rupture in (post)crisis Spain’

11.10 - Tea & Coffee

11.30 - Colonialities in music
Chair: David Miranda-Barreiro

Llorián García-Flórez (University of Oviedo): ‘Sounding the decolonial in contemporary Asturias’

Silvia Bermúdez (University of California-Santa Barbara): ‘The “Música mestiza” scene and identity in the city: Migrant connectivity practices in Barcelona’s El Raval’

Verónica Aranda (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): ‘La representación de la mujer gitana en la copla’

13.00 - Lunch break

14.00 - Cultural histories through the postcolonial/decolonial lens

Chair: Bryan Cameron

Bécquer Seguín (John Hopkins University): ‘Federico García Lorca and the Anti-Colonial Imagination’

Santiago Villajos (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): ‘Grotesque Aesthetics in Postcolonial Spain: the esperpento tradition and Cervantes’

Christian Claesson (Lund University) ‘Pluriliterary Spain’

15.30 - Tea & coffee break

16.00 - Torture in democratic Spain: memory, persistence and representation

Chair: Juan Albarrán Diego

Ignacio Mendiola (University of the Basque Country): ‘La inquietante supervivencia de la práctica político-punitiva de la tortura’

Javier Tebas (University of Barcelona): ‘El espacio oscuro de la tortura, el vacío ético de la impunidad’

Juan Albarrán Diego (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): ‘Tortura: invisibilidad y representación’’

18.00 - Keynote: artist/activist Daniela Ortiz
LR2, Pontio

20.00 - Conference Dinner, Kyffin Café Deli
29 High St, Bangor
                                   

9.00 - A Post-ETA Poetics?
Chair: Helena Miguélez-Carballeira

Eider Rodríguez Martín (University of the Basque Country): ‘Literatura y conflicto: la aportación de voces marginales en la construcción del relato hegemónico’

Ibon Egaña (University of the Basque Country): ‘El conflicto como lugar del consenso: literatura vasca reciente y violencia política’

Dilys Jones (University of Manchester): ‘For the collective, for themselves, or just forgetting it all? Self-critique and misplacement of Basque and Catalan narratives of identities in film’

10.30 - Tea & coffee break

11.00 - Colonialities in art, landscapes and the built environment

Chair: Amaia Elizalde Estenaga

Isaac Marrero Guillamón (Goldsmiths, University of London): ‘Truncated Modernities: Chillida, Tindaya, Fuerteventura’

Sarah Carmona (Université Pascual Paoli): ‘Dialéctica descolonial entre alteridad y exterioridad. El paradigma gitano a través de la colección museográfica del Prado’

Diego Barajas and Camilo García (Husos/IE School of Architecture and Design): ‘Urbanisms of Remittances, (re)productive houses in dispersion’

12.30 - Lunch break

13.30 - Keynote: Joseba Gabilondo (Michigan State University) Neoliberalism, globalization, and postcolonial studies in Spain

15.00 - Tea & Coffee break

15.30 - State, independence, (post-)conflict

Chair: Helena Miguélez-Carballeira

Amaia Elizalde Estenaga (University of the Basque Country) and Ismael Manterola Ispizua (University Bordeaux-Montaigne): ‘“Till they leave us alone”, not yet: arts as a weapon of resistance for Basque subaltern memories’

Maria Rodó de Zárate (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya): ‘Feminist perspectives on self-determination, state and nationhood in Catalonia’

16.30 - Closing remarks/ Future directions

20:00 - Dinner and drinks in Porthaethwy/Menai Bridge (Ynys Môn/Isle of Anglesey)