Schedule

Saturday, 18th of June, 2005

9:30 - 10:30 am    Session 1

Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork: 'The Truth Commission in Guatemala: Do We Have a Right to Truth?'.

Peadar Kirby, Dublin City University: 'Civil Society in Central America: Reversing NGOisation?'.

10:30 am              Coffee

11:00 - 12:30       Session 2

Guest Speaker: Philip Swanson, University of Sheffield: 'Magical Realism and Children's Literature: Isabel Allende's Youth Trilogy'.

Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster: 'National Identity Inside and Out: Subcomandante Marcos and Guillermo Gómez Peña Play it for Real'.

Annette U. Flynn, University College Dublin: 'The Quest for God in the Poetry of Borges'.

12:30 pm              Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm     Session 3

Lorraine Kelly, Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork: 'Once días y algo más by Brianda Domecq: Resisting the Stockholm Syndrome'.

Alma Conway, Dublin Institute of Technology: 'The Reinvention of the Gothic: Carlos Fuentes' Inquieta compañía'.

Ana Cruz García, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork: 'Resistencia al olvido: una pugna contra la abyecto en Inés de Elena Garro'.

3:30 pm               Coffee

3:30 - 5:00 pm    Session 4

Kathy Powell, National University of Ireland, Galway: 'Inequalities in Mexico and Cuba: Responses and Challenges'.

Christiane Gernet, Dublin City University: 'The State, Global Norms and Gender Policies in Latin America'.

Alvaro Jaspe, University of Ulster: 'Cuba and the Spanish Civil War: Views from the Galician Immigrant Community'.

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