Thinking About Diaspora: Latin American Jewish Writers and Filmmakers
Sunday, November 12
Stevenson College, Room 150
7 p.m.: Opening remarks and welcome
Murray Baumgarten, UCSC: "Thinking About Diaspora in Latin America: From Exile
from the Garden to Orfeu Negro and Modern Israel"
7:15 p.m.: Introduction of Guita Schyfter's Film, Novia que te Vea,
by Julianne Burton-Carvajal, UCSC
7:30 p.m.: Screening of Novia que te Vea (1992), followed by a conversation
with the director Guita Schyfter, Julianne Burton-Carvajal, and Warren Hoffman
Refreshments and informal conversation
Monday, November 13
Stevenson College, Silverman Conference Room
9:30-11:30 a.m.: Strangers at Home
- Norma Klahn: "Questioning Genealogies/Contesting Canons: Glantz' (Mis) Placed Kinships"
- M. Dascha Inciarte: "Rewriting Columbus: Carpentier, Fuentes, Menocal, and the Diasporic Imagination"
- Warren Hoffman: "Circling the Past: Memory and Mexicanidad in Guita Schyfter's Novia que te vea"
- Felicia Fahey: "Love and Silence: Reflections on Jewish Women's Writing in Mexico and Argentina"
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: Lunch
1-2:15 p.m.: Manuela Fingueret: "Writing Hija del Silencio: Exile,
Holocaust, Israel, and Argentinian Repression"
2:15-3:30 p.m.: Argentinean Explorations in a Jewish Homeland
- Zachary Baker, Stanford: "'G'vald, yidn, buena gente': Jevel Katz, Yiddish bard of the Rio de la Plata"
- Marta Morello-Frosch, UCSC: "Identity and Politics in Some Argentine Women Writers"
3:45-4:45 p.m.: Other Traditions
- Jacobo Sefami, UC Irvine, "From the Ruins of the Temple: Sephardim and Mizrachim Writing in Latin America"
- David Hirsch, UCLA: "Latin American Jewish Writing: A Bibliographical History"
- Misha Klein, UC Berkeley: "Cosmopolitans at Home: Jews and the Jewish Community in Sao Paulo, Brazil
5 p.m.: Refreshments
5:30-6:30 p.m.: Re-figuring Jewish Writing in the Latin American Diaspora
Roundtable discussion
- Aminadav Dyckman, Penn State
- Elizabeth Hadas, UNM Press
- Karen Tei Yamashita, UCSC
- Wlad Godzich, UCSC
