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100 Years of the Mexican Revolution: Versions and Visions in Literature, Film, Art and Popular Culture

Wednesday, 1 September

20.30 - 22.00

Pre-conference film screening (Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff)
With an introduction by documentary filmmaker and researcher Gregorio C. Rocha (Archivia Films, Mexico City)
  • The Lost Reels of Pancho Villa (Mexico, 2003)
  • Surviving Fragments of 'The life of General Villa' (1914) and 'Liberty' (1916)
    (Preserved by the Library of Congress - Washington, DC)

Thursday, 2 September

9.30 - 10.00

Conference registration (Main Council Chamber, Main Building)

10.00 - 10.10

Opening/Welcome address
Prof Claire Gorrara, Deputy Head of Cardiff School of European Languages, Translation and Politics

Keynote
10.10 - 11.15

Leonard Folgarait (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Images and Imaginings of the Mexican Revolution: 100 Years and Counting"

11.15 - 12.15

Mark Millington (University of Nottingham, UK)
"With the Benefit of Hindsight? The View of the Revolution in José Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo"

Ana Cecilia Hornedo Marín (EHESS, France)
"José Clemente Orozco: Romanticismo y apolitismo postrevolucionario" [Spanish]

12.30 - 13.30

Buffet lunch (Main Council Chamber)

13.30 - 14.30

Sabine Schlickers (Bremen University, Germany)
"Pancho Villa en la pantalla: Pancho Villa y La Valentina (1958), Entre Pancho Villa y una
mujer desnuda (1995), And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)" [Spanish]

Niamh Thornton (University of Ulster, UK)
"Tracing Zapata on Film: Dreams, Nightmares, Realities"

Keynote
14.30 - 15.30

Rafael Barajas ‘El Fisgón’ (Mexico City)
"León de la Barra, la prensa y el linchamiento de Madero" [Spanish]

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee break (Main Council Chamber)

16.00 - 17.30

Juan Rojo (Lafayette College, USA)
"Representations of the Mexican Revolution in the Discourse of the 1968 Student Movement"

Atsumi Okada (Hokkaido University, Japan)
"Las estaciones del Metro como medios de comunicación: la representación de la Revolución mexicana para la formacion del Estado" [Spanish]

Francine A'Ness (Dartmouth College, USA)
"Mexico's Gran Ballet Folklórico Nacional and the 'Critical' Role of Performance in the Ongoing Dissemination of Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism"

19.00

Conference dinner (Cardiff University Refectory, Main Building)

Friday, 3 September

Keynote
9.30 - 10.30

Max Parra (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Dos apuntes sobre la narrativa de la Revolución mexicana" [Spanish]

10.30 - 11.30

Pascale Baker (University of Sheffield, UK)
"Los de abajo: New Readings for the Centenary of the Revolution"

Katharina Niemeyer (University of Cologne, Germany)
"La nueva novela de la Revolución mexicana: entre revisión y trivialización" [Spanish]

11.30 - 12.00

Coffee break (Main Council Chamber)

12.00 - 13.00

Adriana Ortega (Université de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
"La ley de Herodes: La deconstrucción del mito revolucionario como manifestación del malestar de la democracia mexicana de fines del siglo XX"[Spanish]

Tilmann Altenberg (Cardiff University, UK)
"How to Shoot a Shooting: Executions by Firing Squad in Films of the Mexican Revolution"

13.15 - 14.30

Buffet lunch (Main Council Chamber)

Keynote
14.30 - 15.30

Gregorio C. Rocha (Archivia Films, Mexico City)
"Ars combinatoria: Sor Juana, Kircher, Toscano and the Great Film Database of the Mexican Revolution" [English/Spanish]

15.30 - 16.00

Andrea Noble (Durham University, UK)
"The Tears of Pancho Villa"

16.00 - 16.30

Coffee break (Main Council Chamber)

16.30 - 17.30

Inke Gunia (Hamburg University, Germany)
"The Mexican Revolution narrated by an Italian: Valerio Evangelisti and his novel Il collare spezzato (2006) / El collar roto (2008)"

Sarah Bowskill (Swansea University, UK)
"The Representation of the Mexican Revolution in Consuelo Delgado's Yo también, Adelita or: Why Study Forgotten Texts?"

17.30

Close

20.00

Chill out (venue tbc)