“Ibero-American Writers in the Era of Globalization,” Department of Spanish and
Portuguese with BTCS co-sponsorship.
Date:    March 7 to 10, 2007
Place:   Pyle Center
Organizer: Paula Di Dio

With the participation of prestigious figures from contemporary literature, the event “Ibero-American Writers in the Era of Globalization” will take place in Madison, WI from March 7th to 10th, 2007, organized by graduate students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This conference will serve as a forum to debate themes such as Violence and Literature in Latin America, Literature and Cinema, and Writing and Publishing in the Era of Globalization. The conference will also include graduate student presentations, activities with the community and a screening of Latin American cinema.

The writers in attendance will be Jorge Volpi, Cristina Rivera Garza and Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, from Mexico; Santiago Gamboa and Mario Mendoza, from Colombia; Edmundo Paz Soldán, from Bolivia; Mayra Santos Febres, from Puerto Rico; Marta Sanz, from Spain; and Pedro Mairal, from Argentina. Invited authors, whose work is among the most important that has been produced in the Spanish language in the last decade, will deliver lectures, and discuss their place and role as artists and intellectuals in post-national and globalized contexts. The fact that so many different countries are represented will allow several social and cultural issues crucial to contemporary Spain and Latin America, such as the relationship between cities, violence, sexuality, disease, the body, and migration, to be addressed from disparate national and cultural perspectives. For more information, visit http://spanport.lss.wisc.edu/encuentro/