Crosing the Atlantic: Catalans in Mexico, 1939
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 (°®åú´«Ã½), and Ximena Briceno (°®åú´«Ã½ ). Moderated by Joan Ramon Resina (°®åú´«Ã½)
5:45 PM Closing Remarks by Marcela Junguito (°®åú´«Ã½)