2015 Conference on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution (CSULA)
A two day conference on Azuela commemorates the first centenary of the publication of Los de abajo (1915), and aims to trace its narrative affiliation to 20th century narratives of the Mexican Revolution.
Friday, May 15, 2015 to Saturday, May 16, 20158:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Music Hall (CSULA)
5151 State University Drive (Building 1A)
Los Angeles, CA 90032
Mariano Azuela (Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, 1873-1952) was a medical doctor by profession and by mid-century one of Mexico’s leading writers. The author of novels, plays, biographies, and literary criticism, Azuela served as field doctor under Francisco Villa during the Mexican Revolution and, after Villa’s military defeat, published Los de abajo (The Underdogs) while in exile in El Paso, Texas. This conference on Azuela commemorates the first centenary of the publication of Los de abajo (1915), and aims to trace its narrative affiliation to twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, to narratives of the Mexican Revolution.
The program for the Conference on Mariano Azuela and the Mexican Revolution includes eight keynote and featured speakers representing Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Six sessions on various conference-related topics complete the conference program. To view the biographies and lecture abstracts of speakers and panelists click here. The 2015 Conference on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution is the result of a close collaboration of Mexican and U.S. faculty, and made possible by the Office of the President, the Gigi Gaucher-Morales Memorial Conference Series, the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Natural and Social Sciences, the Department of Chicano Studies, the Department of English, the Emeriti Association at Cal State L.A., and the joint sponsorship of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Latin American Institute (UCLA), and the Center for Mexican Studies (UCLA).
Click here for Official 2015 Conference on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution website
Conference Program
Friday, May 15
8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration
Music Hall (Cal State LA)
Roberto Cantú & Conference Co-Organizers Emily Acevedo (Cal State L.A.),
Georgina García Gutiérrez Vélez (UNAM), Rubén Quintero (Cal State L.A.),
and Maarten Van Delden (UCLA).
Welcome and Introduction
9:00-9:30 a.m. Plenary Session #1
Mariano Azuela:
Su narrativa y recepcion en la historia literaria de México
9:30-11:00 a.m. Moderator: Georgina García Gutiérrez Vélez,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Panelists:
1. “Mariano Azuela, la Novela de la Revolución y la Revolución Mexicana vistos por los Escritores Españoles”
Aurora Díez-Canedo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2. “Recepción de Mariano Azuela por parte de los Contemporáneos”
María de Lourdes Franco Bagnouls, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
3. “Experimentalismo y representación urbana en La Luciérnaga de Mariano Azuela”
Yanna Hadatty Mora, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
4. "Accidentes de tráfico. Itinerario de Mariano Azuela"
Fernando Curiel Defossé, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Featured Speaker #1: Niamh Thornton
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Title of Lecture:
"A Question of Taste: The Cinematic Adaptations of Los de Abajo"
Moderator: Louis R. Negrete
California State University, Los Angeles
12:00-1:00 p.m. Luncheon Break
1:00-2:00 p.m. Featured Speaker #2: Michael Nava
Novelist & Attorney,
California Supreme Court, San Francisco
Title of Lecture:
“Los Léperos: Attempting to Fictionally Reconstruct Racial Relationships
in the Twilight of the Porfiriato”
Moderator: Emily Acevedo
California State University, Los Angeles
2:00-3:30 p.m. Session #2
Mariano Azuela and the Narrative Cycle of the Mexican
Revolution
Moderator: Rubén Quintero, California State University, Los Angeles
Panelists:
1. “El último lector (2005) de David Toscana y la vigencia de Juan Rulfo en la creación de una narrativa regional mexicana en el Siglo XXI”
Julio Puente García, University of California, Los Angeles
2. “Jean-Luc Nancy’s Mythical Community in Carlos Fuentes’ Gringo viejo”
Jacqueline Zimmer, Louisiana State University
3. “Relearning the Revolution: The Contemporary Relevance of the Novela de la Revolución in the Classroom at San José State University”
Cheyla Samuelson, San José State University
4. “Los árboles no dejan ver el bosque: proceso dialéctico connotativo
ético de las palabras arriba-abajo en Los de debajo”
Yunsook Kim, Azusa Pacific University
3:35-4:30 p.m. Session #3
A Book Presentation:
The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel
Moderator: Roberto Cantú, California State University, Los Angeles
Presenters:
1. “The Farce of Lordship and Sovereignty in Terra Nostra: Fuentes’s Bataillean Burlesque of Hegel’s Dialectic”
Michael Abeyta, University of Colorado, Denver
2. “Del Boom al Boomerang: Carlos Fuentes y la Nueva Narrativa Mexicana”
Iliana Alcántar, Reed College, Oregon
3.“Carlos Fuentes y Diego Rivera: protagonistas creadores de dos ‘Renacimientos’”
Georgina García Gutiérrez Vélez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
4. “Coloquio del sueño y la razón en Terra Nostra”
Florence Olivier, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (CERC), France
5. “Hands-on Modernism: Touch and Gesture in Carlos Fuentes’s The Death of Artemio Cruz”
Maarten Van Delden, University of California, Los Angeles
4:45-6:00 p.m. Featured Speaker #3: Maarten Van Delden
University of California, Los Angeles
Title of Lecture:
"Carlos Fuentes:
Many Mexicos, Many Revolutions"
Moderator: Emily Acevedo
California State University, Los Angeles
Day 2: Saturday, May 16, 2015
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
9:00-10:00 a.m. Featured Speaker #4: Max Parra
University of California, San Diego
Title of Lecture:
"Fotografía y la literatura
de la Revolución Mexicana"
Moderator: Louis R. Negrete
California State University, Los Angeles
10:00-11:00 a.m. Featured Speaker #5: Heribert von Feilitzsch
Historian, 20th-Century German-Mexican Diplomatic Relations
Title of Lecture:
“Medical Doctor, Occultist, Revolutionary, Spy:
Arnold Krumm-Heller
and the Mexican Revolution”
Moderator: Rubén Quintero
California State University, Los Angeles
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Featured Speaker #6: Georgina García Gutiérrez Vélez
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Title of Lecture:
“La Crítica Literaria de Mariano Azuela”
Moderator: Maarten Van Delden
University of California, Los Angeles
12:00-1:00 p.m. Luncheon Break
1:00-2:00 p.m. Featured Speaker # 7: Dr. Florence Olivier
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
Title of Lecture:
"Épica en modo menor o guerrilla narrativa
en Cartucho, de Nellie Campobello"
Moderator: Deborah Conway de Prieto
California State University, Los Angeles
2:00-3:30 p.m. Mariano Azuela and the Mexican Revolution:
Narrative Representations of Colonialism, War, and Revolutionaries
Moderator: Emily Acevedo
California State University, Los Angeles
Panelists:
1. “The Tremendous Reality of Firing Squads”
Sophie Esch, Colorado State University
2.“Indigeneity and Colonialist Perspectives in the Novel of the Revolution”
Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga, Southern Oregon University
3. “The ‘Man-Beast’ and the Jaguar: Mariano Azuela, Martín Luis Guzmán and the Sovereign Beast in the Literary Representation of Pancho Villa”
Michael Abeyta, University of Colorado, Denver
4. “Ésta me cuadra y me la llevo:” el saqueo, el analfabetismo y las disposiciones estéticas en Los de abajo”
Amber Workman, Pepperdine University, California
3:45-4:50 p.m. Plenary Session #2
Mariano Azuela y Nellie Campobello
Moderator: Domnita Dumitrescu
California State University, Los Angeles
Panelists:
1. “La Revolución Mexicana a través de la lente/mirada femenina”
Iliana Alcántar, Reed College, Oregon
2. “Literary Revolution in the Borderlands: Mariano Azuela and the Mexican American Novel of the Mexican Revolution”
Yolanda Padilla, University of Washington, Bothell
3. “Dos perspectivas sobre los revolucionarios villistas: Mariano Azuela y Nellie Campobello”
Ute Seydel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
4:50-6:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Kristine Vanden Berghe
Université de Liège, Belgium
Mexicanistas de la Universidad de California
Title of Lecture:
“Postura y ethos de Nellie Campobello”
Moderator: Roberto Cantú
California State University, Los Angeles
Keynote and Featured Speakers:
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Kristine Vanden Berghe
Université de Liége, Belgium
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Georgina García Gutiérrez Vélez
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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Heribert von Feilitzsch
Historian, 20th-Century German-Mexican Diplomatic Relations
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Michael Nava
Novelist & Attorney,
California Supreme Court, San Francisco
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Dr. Florence Olivier
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
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Max Parra
University of California, San Diego
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Niamh Thornton
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Maarten van Delden
University of California, Los Angeles
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Roberto Cantu
(323) 343-2195
rcantu@calstatela.edu
Sponsor(s): Office of the President, the Gigi Gaucher-Morales Memorial Conference Series, the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Natural and Social Sciences, the Department of Chicano Studies, the Department of English, the Emeriti Association at Cal State L.A., and the joint sponsorship of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the Center for Mexican Studies (UCLA).