Crosing the Atlantic: Catalans in Mexico, 1939

Crosing the Atlantic: Catalans in Mexico, 1939
Date
Fri October 7th 2011, 9:00am - 6:30pm
Location
Terrace Room, Building 460 - Margaret
Jacks Hall

9:00-9:15 AM Opening Remarks by Mr.    Carlos Ponce Martinez , Consul General of Mexico in San Jose, CA

9:15-9:45 AM  Delores Pla Brugat  (INAH, Mexico): "Los refugiados catalones en Mexico. Identidades y pertenencias"

9:45-10:15 AM  Marti Sole r (FCE, Mexico): "Las ultimas revisitas del exilio catalan: Xaloc y ROC"

10:45-11:15 AM  Sebastain Faber  (Oberlin College): "Destierro e historia cultural. La critica lucidez del exilio catalan en Mexico"

12:00-1:45 PM Lunch

1:45-2:15 PM  Teresa Ferriz Roure  (UOC/CEFID-UAB): "Memoria y memorias del exilio catalan en internet.  Nuevos medios, nuevas mediaciones"

2:15-2:45 PM  Ilan Semo  (UNAM, Mexico): "Vicente Rojo y Alberto Gironella: Notas para la historia de La Ruptura"

2:45-3:15 PM  Joan Maria Pujals  (Former Minister of Culture and Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia): "La obra poetica de Ramon Xirau"

3:15-3:45 PM  Mireya Folch-Serra  (The University of Western Ontario): "The Identity of Exiles: Memories of an Imaginary Landscape"

4:45-5:45 PM Roundtable with  Ruben Gallo  (Princeton), Hector Hoyos (Stanford), and Ximena Briceno (Stanford ).  Moderated by Joan Ramon Resina (Stanford)

5:45 PM Closing Remarks by Marcela Junguito (Stanford)