Friday, March 5

2:00 Welcome
Richard Herr (Spanish Studies Program)
Dru Dougherty (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

2:15-3:30 Women’s Writing in Political Contexts
Chair: Michael Iarocci (UC Berkeley)

Jo Labanyi (University of Southampton, UK )
"Romancing the Early Franco Regime: The Novelas Romanticas of Concha Linares Becerra and Luisa-María Linares"

Pilar Nieva de la Paz (CSIC, Madrid)
"Las escritoras españolas y su inserción en la sociedad literaria de la Transición política (1975-1982)" (in Spanish)

3:45-5:00 Catalan Women’s Writing
Chair: Emilie Bergmann (UC Berkeley)

Kathleen Glenn (Wake Forest University)
"The Discourse of Silence in Contemporary Peninsula Narrative"

Bradley Epps (Harvard)
"Moving in Tongues: Immigration and Language in Maria Barbal."

5:30 Talk by Soledad Puértolas
Author of El bandido doblemente armado (Premio Sésamo), Burdeos,
Queda la noche (Premio Planeta), and other works
“La vida oculta" (in Spanish)



Saturday, March 6

9:30-11:00 “New Women" of the Second Republic
Chair: Ignacio Navarrete (UC Berkeley)

Alda Blanco (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"El curioso exilio de María Martínez Sierra" (in Spanish)

Nicole Altamirano (UC Berkeley)
"Out of the Glass Niche and into the Swimming Pool: the Transformation of the Sirena in Concha Méndez's Surtidor: poesías"

Louise Johnson (University of Sheffield, UK)
"Women Writing on Physical Culture in Pre-Civil War Spain"

11:15 Talk by Clara Sánchez
Author of El misterio de todos los días, Desde el mirador, Ultimas
noticias del paraíso (Premio Alfaguara), and other works
“Un millón de luces" (in Spanish)

2:00-3:15 History and Memory
Chair: Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley)

Marta Altisent (UC Davis)
"Las geografías ficcionales de Nuria Amat" (in Spanish)

Sara Brenneis (UC Berkeley)
“Josefina Aldecoa’s Trilogy"

3:30-4:45 Family Ties in Women’s Writing
Chair: Kimberly Chisholm (UC Berkeley)

Geraldine Nichols (University of Florida)
"Reproducción, familia y futuro" (in Spanish)

Emilie Bergmann (UC Berkeley)
"Mothers and Daughters in Transition and Beyond"

5:15 Roundtable with authors and participants
Moderator, Michael Iarocci (UC Berkeley)



Sponsors: The Spanish Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of California, Berkeley.

Co-Sponsors: UC Berkeley Dean of Arts and Humanities and Townsend Center for the Humanities; the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the United States Universities; Spain’s Promoción del Libro; the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC; and the Consul-General of Spain in San Francisco