A Graduate Conference
at Vanderbilt University
Race, Identity, and Nationality
February 25-26, 2005
at Vanderbilt University
Race, Identity, and Nationality
February 25-26, 2005
Friday's Keynote Address:
"Literary Imaginations of Haiti and the Revolution in Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó, el gran putas"
3:30-4:30 Furman Hall 114
Antonio Dwayne Tillis teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the African American Studies Program at Purdue University. His research includes literature and cultural development of the Spanish-speaking African Diaspora in Latin America, in particular Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, including comparative analysis between literature of the African American tradition and that of the Afro-Latin American tradition. Author of several articles, his book Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "Darkening" of Latin American Literature is forthcoming with Missouri this year, and he has another book accepted for publication on the poetic works of Dominican poet, Blas Jimenez.
"Literary Imaginations of Haiti and the Revolution in Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó, el gran putas"
3:30-4:30 Furman Hall 114
Antonio Dwayne Tillis teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the African American Studies Program at Purdue University. His research includes literature and cultural development of the Spanish-speaking African Diaspora in Latin America, in particular Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, including comparative analysis between literature of the African American tradition and that of the Afro-Latin American tradition. Author of several articles, his book Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "Darkening" of Latin American Literature is forthcoming with Missouri this year, and he has another book accepted for publication on the poetic works of Dominican poet, Blas Jimenez.
Saturday's Keynote Address:
"Race Against Time? Periodizing Race in the Middle Ages"
11:15-12:15 Furman Hall 114
Sharon Kinoshita teaches World Literature & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Cross Purposes: Cultural Contact and Feudal Crisis in Medieval French Literature (forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press) and is currently working on a book project entitled Paying Tribute: Tributary Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean.
"Race Against Time? Periodizing Race in the Middle Ages"
11:15-12:15 Furman Hall 114
Sharon Kinoshita teaches World Literature & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Cross Purposes: Cultural Contact and Feudal Crisis in Medieval French Literature (forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press) and is currently working on a book project entitled Paying Tribute: Tributary Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Conference Schedule
List of Participants - click on name to read abstract
Hotel Information
Map of the Vanderbilt University Campus (click on map to zoom)
All events will take place in Furman Hall, circled on the map. Public parking is available in Terrace Place and Wesley Place garages, marked in yellow on the map. Some street parking is available near campus.
List of Participants - click on name to read abstract
Hotel Information
Map of the Vanderbilt University Campus (click on map to zoom)
All events will take place in Furman Hall, circled on the map. Public parking is available in Terrace Place and Wesley Place garages, marked in yellow on the map. Some street parking is available near campus.
This conference is made possible by support from:
Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Sciences,
the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities,
the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese,
French and Italian, and German, and the
Program in African American Studies
Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Sciences,
the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities,
the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese,
French and Italian, and German, and the
Program in African American Studies