5th Annual Congress of the
Mediterranean Studies Association

Universidad de Granada
May 29 - June 1, 2002

Sponsored by:
· Mediterranean Studies Association
· Universidad de Granada
· University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
· Arizona State University, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
· University of Kansas

Wednesday, May 29, 2002
8:00 am - 1:30 pm Optional excursion to Alhambra and Granada

5:30 pm Registration, Aula Magna, Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales
6:00 pm Opening Session, Aula Magna
· Benjamin F. Taggie, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
· Carlos Sanchez, Associate Dean for International Relations, Faculty of Business, Universidad de Granada
· Angel Felices Lago, Director, Centro de Lenguas Modernas, Universidad de Granada
· Josean Garrués Irurzun, Universidad de Granada
· Richard W. Clement, University of Kansas
· Guy Mermier, University of Michigan
· Geraldo U. de Sousa, Xavier University
· Janos Bak, Central European University, Budapest

8:00 pm Reception hosted by the Rector, at the Hospital Real

Thursday, May 30
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration, Centro de Lenguas Modernas

9:00 - 11:00 am Centro de Lenguas Modernas
1A. Iberian History and Society
Chair: Josean Garrués Irurzun, Universidad de Granada
1. Alessandra Vannini, Università di Firenze, Italy, "Economías fascistas comparadas: España e Italia entre Guerra Civil y Conflicto Mundial (1936-1943)"
2. Josean Garrués Irurzun and Salvador Hernádez, Universidad de Granada, "Entrepreneur Networks in the North Mediterranean: The Case of Andalusia, 1886-1959"
3. María Isabel Rubio Escudero and Miguel Angel Rubio Gandia, Universidad de Granada, "El Indice de Adelanto Tecnológico (IAT) en los Estados Unidos y en los Países Mediterráneos de la Unión Europea"
4. María Isabel Rubio Escudero and Miguel Angel Rubio Gandia, Universidad de Granada, "The United Nations Human Development Index in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia"

1B. Arabic Influences and Contributions
Chair: Connie Scarborough, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
1. Connie Scarborough, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, "Alfonso X and Islam: Literature and Legal Status of Muslims"
2. Sahar Amer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "When She Wedded Her: The French and Arabic Traditions Compared and Contrasted"
3. Lorenzo Macagno, CEBRAP, São Paulo, Brazil, "Arab-phobia and Arab-philia in the Portuguese Colonial Imagination"
4. Daniel W. Gade, University of Vermont, Burlington, "Transmediterranean Contributions: Historic Reflections on Crops Introduced to Iberia from Africa"

1C. New Research in Early Modern Portuguese History
Chair: Francis A. Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara
1. Francis A. Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Murder, Mayhem and the Portuguese Titled Nobility, 1640-1760"
2. Bill Donovan, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, "Interest Groups in Eighteenth-Century Portugal: The Mesa do Bem Comum and Its Demise"
3. Fernanda Olival, Universidade de Evora, Portugal, "Serviços e Circuitos de Comunicação no Império Português (Século XVII)"
4. Tiago C. P. dos Reis Miranda, Centro de História da Cultura da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, "Uma Carta Escrita do Céu: São Francisco Xavier, S.J. (1506-1552), Correspondente de D. João V (1689-1750)"

1D. Questions of Identity in Contemporary Spanish Literature
Chair: Anjouli Janzon, New York University in Madrid, Spain
1. Francisca López, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, "Modernidad como seña de identidad de la mujer/nación española en los 90"
2. Anjouli Janzon, New York University in Madrid, Spain, "History Repeats Itself: The Other in Dins el darrer blau / En el último azul by Carme Riera"
3. Cristina Pérez, New York University in Madrid, Spain, "La otra generación del 27 a través del teatro (1927-1936)"

11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee break

11:30 - 1:30 pm Centro de Lenguas Modernas
2A. Architecture
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell
1. Zeynep Aktüre Siram, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, "Greek or Roman? Roman Period Theatres of the Iberian Peninsula and the Vitruvian Canon"
2. Tarek El-Akkad, American University in Cairo, Egypt, "Architecture in Seville and Islamic Design Influences"
3. Jody Brotherston, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, "Iberian Artifacts and Architecture: Arthur Byne's Surreptitious Legacy"

2B. Early Modern History
Chair: Daniel Crews, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg
1. Daniel Crews, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, "Spanish Diplomacy and the Mysterious Death of Cardinal Medici"
2. Katie Harris, Georgia State University, Atlanta, "'Tiénelos en grande estima, como libros de sus Santos': Granada's Municipal Council and the Lead Books of the Sacromonte"
3. Dwayne E. Carpenter, Boston College, Massachusetts, "Blasphemy in Stereo: Hebrew and Spanish Curses in the Libro del Alborayque"

2C. The Other Side of the Mediterranean
Chair: David Bergeron, University of Kansas, Lawrence
1. David E. Johnson, State University of New York at Buffalo, "The Mediterranean's Lost Childhood"
2. Howard Marchitello, Texas A&M University, College Station, "Western Europe and Its Eastern Mediterranean Other: Sabbatai Zevi and the Discourse of Imposture"
3. Geraldo U. de Sousa, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Shakespeare and the Phenomenology of Darkness"

2D. Immigration
Chair: Luiz Panhoca, Universidade de Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil
1. Gunther Dietz, Universidad de Granada, "The Moors Back on the Shore? The Impact of Circum-Mediterranean Migration on Regionalism and Identity Politics in Southern Spain"
2. Olga Maria Panhoca da Silva and Luiz Panhoca, Universidade de Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil, "Portuguese, Italians and Spanish Involved in the Violence in the City of São Paulo at the Beginning of the 20th Century"
3. Olga Maria Panhoca da Silva and Luiz Panhoca, Universidade de Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil, "Dying Far From Home: European Immigrants' Death due to Spanish Flu in the City of São Paulo"
4. Marcelo J. Borges, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, and Susana B. Torres, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Argentina, and Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco," Argentina, "From South to South: The Migration Experience of Algarvians and Andalusians in Patagonia, Argentina"

2E. Re-Mapping Mediterranean Cities and Spaces: North Meets South, East Meets West
Chair: Eyda M. Merediz, University of Maryland, College Park
1. Lourdes María Álvarez, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, "Knights in the Garden of Spain: Andalusian Nostalgia and the Question of Palestine"
2. Khaled Fahmy, New York University, "Where Have All the Arabs Gone? Some Critical Notes on the History and Historiography of Cosmopolitan Alexandria"
3. Silvia Bermúdez, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Travesías: España está/es al/el norte de África y el Caribe"

1:30 - 3:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

3:00 - 5:00 pm Centro de Lenguas Modernas
3A. Art History
Chair: Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas, Lawrence
1. Luis Afonso, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, "Illusive Borders: 'Mediterranean' Painting in Southwestern Iberia (c. 1450-1500)"
2. Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell, "Luisa Ignacia Roldán (1656-1700): First Sculptress of Spain"
3. Tina Waldeier Bizarro, Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, "Granadine Mythologies: Washington Irving, the Alhambra, and Medievalism"

3B. War and Peace in Granada: In Words and Deeds
Chair: Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts Boston
1. James F. Powers, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, "Twelfth-Century Municipal Frontier Policies Compared: Luso-Hispanic Iberia and Angevin-Capetian France"
2. Carmen Benito-Vessels, University of Maryland, College Park, "La antigüedad del castellano como argumento de superioridad política"
3. Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts Boston, "Castile and Granada at War and Peace: Christian-Muslim Relations in the 14th Century"

3C. Travel Literature
Chair: Judy Schaaf, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
1. Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College, Oakland, California, "The Mediterranean as a Tourist Destination, from Cicero to the Club Med"
2. María Antonia López-Burgos, Universidad de Granada, "The Way We Were: Granadinos as Seen by English and American Travelers in the Nineteenth Century"
3. Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, "George Borrow: Portugal/Spain; Sir Angus Fraser; More Research"

3D. Nationhood and Modernity
Chair: Mohamed-Salah Omri, University of Exeter, England
1. Mohamed-Salah Omri, University of Exeter, England, "Sleeping Beauty: Narratives of Nationhood in Occupied Tunisia"
2. Sadri Bensmail, Ecole d'architecture de Nancy, France, "Governance and the Territory in Algeria through History and Actuality"
3. Marek Dominik Peda, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, "The Projection of Basque National Identity after 1975"

5:00 - 5:30 pm Coffee break

5:30 - 7:30 pm Centro de Lenguas Modernas
4A. Artistic Pathways through the Centuries: The Mediterranean Peninsulas of Spain and Italy
Chair: Giose Rimanelli, State University of New York at Albany
1. Nancy D'Antuono, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, "Arcángelo Spagna: canónigo romano y refundidor de comedias áureas en el siglo XVII"
2. Francesco Cotticelli, University of Naples, Italy, "Spanish Repertoire and Neapolitan Theatre in the 17th Century"
3. Paologiovanni Maione, Conservatorio di Musica "Domenico Cimarosa," Avellino, Italy "Neapolitan Musicians in Spain in the 18th Century"
4. Sheryl Lynn Postman, University of Massachusetts Lowell, "Características italianas del stil nuovo en una obra de Miguel Delibes (siglo XX)"

4B. Comercio e Inversión en el Mediterráneo
Chair: Maria del Mar Holgado Molina, Universidad de Granada
1. Juliette Milgram Baleix, Universidad de Granada, "Does a Free Trade Area Favor an Optimum Currency Area? The Case of Tunisia and the European Union"
2. Maria del Mar Holgado Molina y Maria del Sol Ostos Rey, Universidad de Granada, "La asociación euromediterránea y la zona de libre comercio"
3. Juliette Milgram Baleix, Maria del Mar Holgado Molina, y Maria del Sol Ostos Rey, Universidad de Granada, "La deuda exterior y la inversión en Marruecos"

4C. Spanish Liberalism, Past and Present
Chair: David Ortiz, Jr., University of Arizona, Tucson
1. Ana Clara Guerrero, U.N.E.D., Madrid, Spain, "José Castillejo (1877-1945): Un liberal ante la guerra civil española"
2. Ángeles Lario González, U.N.E.D., Madrid, Spain, "El modelo liberal español"
3. Susana Sueiro Seoane, U.N.E.D., Madrid, Spain, "La crisis del sistema liberal español en el reinado de Alfonso XIII"
4. David Ortiz, Jr., University of Arizona, Tucson, "Marañón and the Second Republic - Frustrated Liberalism?"

4D. The Queens of Portugal
Chair: Tiago C. P. dos Reis Miranda, Centro de História da Cultura da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
1. Manuela Santos Silva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, "The Queens' Patrimony during the Middle Ages: The Portuguese Case"
2. Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, "The Powers and Revenue of the Portuguese Queens in Torres Vedras in the Middle Ages: A Case Study"
3. Maria Paula Marçal Lourenço, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, "The Portuguese Queen's Household in Modern Times: Patronage and Powers"

10:00 pm Depart for the Corpus Christi Fiesta

Friday, May 31, 2002
9:00 - 11:00 am Centro de Lenguas Modernas
5A. Art and Literature
Chair: William S. Monroe, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1. Joseph Agee, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, "Ortega y Gasset and His Mediterranean Roots"
2. Rebecca Leuchak, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, "Art in Time of Crisis, Then and Now: Spain/Manhatan"
3. Claudia de Oliveira, University of Bristol, England, "Modernism and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro: The Role of Photographic Production in the Illustrated Magazines Fon-Fon!, Selecta, and Para Todos!, 1900-1930"

5B. Portuguese History and Literature
Chair: Bill Donovan, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore
1. Christopher Lund, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, "The Literature of Portugal and of her Mediterranean Siblings: An Anonymous Seventeenth-Century Evaluation"
2. Frederick G. Williams, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, "Spain as Seen in the Writings of the Portuguese Writer Jorge de Sena"
3. Julião Soares Sousa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, "Amílcar Cabral: a aprendizagem política em Portugal e a formação do discurso de Revolta contra o colonialismo português"
4. Mustafah Dhada, Clark Atlanta University, Georgia, "Re-thinking Cabral as a Lived Experience"

5C. Alan Lomax in the Mediterranean
Chair: Judith R. Cohen, York University, Toronto, Canada
1. Goffredo Plastino, University of Newcastle, England, "'The happiest year of my life': Alan Lomax in Italy (1954-55)"
2. Anna Chairetakis, Association for Cultural Equity at Hunter College, New York, "Re-presenting the Research of Alan Lomax in Spain and Italy: The Challenges of Cultural and Temporal Mediation"
3. Ellen Harold, Association for Cultural Equity at Hunter College, New York, "Linguistic and Cultural Mediation from Oral Tradition to Print and Scholarly Tradition to the Public: Issues in Translating the Italian Treasury Series in the Alan Lomax Collection"
4. Judith R. Cohen, York University, Toronto, Canada, "The Alan Lomax Spain Recordings: Village Music of the 1950's and of Half a Century Later"

5D. 17th-Century Spanish Literature
Chair: Giulio Massano, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
1. R. John McCaw, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "Góngora, Lucretius, and the Epicurean Text"
2. J. Helí Hernández, University of Massachusetts Lowell, "Mendacity, Vagrancy, and Fraud in the Spanish Picaresque Novels: Medieval and Italian Sources"
3. Giulio Massano, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, "Italian 'Novellieri' and French 'Fabliaux' in Carlos García's La Desordenada Codicia"

5E. Pilgrimage and Spirituality
Chair: Ellen Longsworth, Merrimack College, Massachusetts
1. Chelo de Andrés Martínez, University of Plymouth, England, "Visions of Wealth: Leonor López de Córdoba's Spiritual Strategies (1360-1414?)"
2. Ellen Kosmer, Worcester State College, Massachusetts, "The Landscape of Pilgrimage: The Sacro Monte of Varallo, Italy and Bom Jesus at Braga, Portugal"
3. Alexandra Cuffel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, "'Compulsory' veneration of the Virgin in Medieval Literature from Spain to Egypt"
4. Ali Murat Yel, University of Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey, "Promessa de Joelhos: An Expression of Religious Emotion at Fátima"

11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee break

11:30 - 1:30 pm Centro de Lenguas Modernas
6A. Italian Art and Culture
Chair: Elizabeth Mathias, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York
1. Ellen Longsworth, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, "The Sculptures of San Sepolcro in Milan, North Italy's 'Sacri Monti,' and Related 'Living Sculpture'"
2. Elizabeth Mathias, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, "An Anthropology of Folk Art and Emotion in a Nineteenth-Century Italian Village"
3. Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, "Vernacular Painting in the Italian Alps: Visual Narrative and Sacralized Space"

6B. Spanish History
Chair: Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts Boston
1. Céline Dauverd, University of California at Los Angeles, "Naples as an Italo-Iberian Archetype: Don Pedro de Toledo's Sixteenth Century Urban Reforms"
2. Helen Hills, University of Manchester, England, "Gender, Spiritual Holiness and Nobility of Blood in Building 17th-Century Naples"
3. Edward Behrend-Martinez, University of Illinois-Chicago, "An Andalusian Attempt to Reform the Basque Clergy: Pedro de Lepe Dorantes, Bishop of Calahorra and La Calzada, 1686-1700"

6C. Philosophy and Poetry
Chair: Christos C. Evangeliou, Towson University, Towson, Maryland
1. Leonidas C. Bargeliotes, University of Athens, Greece, "Plato's Socrates as a Tragic Hero of Dialectics"
2. Catherine Collobert, University of Ottawa, Canada, "From Divine Inspiration to Divine Possession: The Art of Homer According to Plato"
3. Christos C. Evangeliou, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, "A Piece of Ancient Poetic Wisdom: Porphyry as Interpreter of Homer"
4. Linda Ardito, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, "Orpheus' Poetic Landscape"

6D. Literature and Culture
Chair: Ana Börger-Greco, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania
1. Robert C. Spires, University of Kansas, Lawrence, "Memorias melancólicas y dibujos humorísticos: el franquismo encarnado"
2. Monica Ayala-Martinez, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, "Ni ínsula ni península: Imposibilidad de una tradición cultural ibérica en la deficinición de la identidad cubana en Querido Primer Novio de Zoé Valdés"
3. Chester Mills, Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana, "Casaubon and Quijote: Eliot's Spanish Connection"
4. Celia M. Wallhead, Universidad de Granada, "Spain and the Mediterranean in the Middle Work of Salman Rushdie"

6E. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1. Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, "'For Tuna Fish and To See the Duke': The Tuna Fisheries in Southwestern Spain in the Eighteenth Century"
2. Gilbert Fernandez, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, "The Making of a Carlist General: The Formative Years of the Life and Career of Tomas de Zumalacarregui, 1788-1833"
3. Regina A. Mezei, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey, "Wearing the Bonaparte Mantle in Exile: The Political Life of Joseph Bonaparte During his American Sojourn (1815-1839)"
4. Karen Lemiski, Arizona State University, Tempe, "Sending a Letter to Byzantium: The Imperial Russian Mail Service to Mount Athos"

1:30 - 3:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

3:00 - 5:00 pm Centro de Lenguas Modernas
7A. Theatre, Dance and Film
Chair: Juan Francisco La Manna, State University of New York, Oswego
1. Ricardo Bigi de Aquino, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, "Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Reform in Goldoni's Il teatro comico and Moratin's La comedia nueva"
2. Ligia Pinheiro, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, "A Romantic Ballet in Spanish Style"
3. Sharon Cumberland, Seattle University, Washington, "The Two Antonios: Spanish Stereotypes in American Film"
4. Geoff Pingree, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, "Gender, Genre, and National Identity in the Cinema of Republican Spain"

7B. Medieval and Renaissance History
Chair: Jo Ann McNamara, Hunter College, New York City
1. William S. Monroe, Brown University, Rhode Island, "Invitation or Imitation: The Justification of Arnulf's Invasion of Italy in 895/896"
2. Bernard F. Reilly, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, "Swimming with the Sharks: The Count of Urgel and the Contest for Taifa of Zaragosa, 1134-1135"
3. Frances Luttikhuizen, University of Barcelona, Spain, "A Case of 16th-Century Industrial Espionage"
4. Lorraine C. Attreed, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, "Ship of Fools: Juana la Loca, Henry Tudor, and the Evolution of Anglo-Mediterranean Diplomacy"

7C. The Mediterranean Basin: Contemporary Issues I
Chair: Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College, Oakland, California
1. John Naylon, Keele University, England, "The Sahara Jumps the Mediterranean: Climatic Change and Water Shortage in Spain"
2. Ana Martinez Vela, Universidad de Granada, "English as an International Language in the Countries of the Mediterranean Area"
3. Belén Senés García, Universidad de Granada, "La cultura contable en el mediterráneo"

7D. Travel and Memoirs
Chair: María Antonia López-Burgos, Universidad de Granada
1. José Ruiz Mas, Centro Asociado de la U.N.E.D. de la Provincia de Jaén, Spain, "'Enosis' and British Travelers in Cyprus During the British Occupation (1878-1960)"
2. Patrícia Almarcegui, Universidad Internacional de Cataluña, Spain, "La fascinación del viaje a oriente (Viajeros a Egipto en el siglo XIX)"
3. Irma Velez, Paris, France, "Lectura y conciencia histórica en la legobiografía de María Zambrano"

5:00 - 5:30 pm Coffee break

5:30 - 7:30 pm Centro de Lenguas Modernas
8A. Gender Configurations
Chair: Nina Holmquist, Mequon, Wisconsin
1. Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, "The Sodomous Lions of Granada"
2. Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, "In Celestina's House: Visual Representations of the Go-Between in Fernando Rojas"
3. Viki Zavales, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, "Flirting with National Disaster: A Queer Reading of the Disappearance of García Lorca"

8B. The Iberian Paradigm for New World Martyrs and Saints
Chair: Daniel T. Reff, Ohio State University, Columbus
1. Maureen Ahern, Ohio State University, Columbus, "Iberian Martyrs in North Africa: Mediterranean Frontier Icons"
2. Daniel T. Reff, Ohio State University, Columbus, "Iberian Models and New World Saints"
3. Charlotte Gradie, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut, "The Jesuits and Rituals of Martyrdom"

8C. Power and Influence Exercised in the Less-than-Truckload Segment of the Motor-Carrier Industry in Spain
Chair: Nuria Hurtado Torres, Universidad de Granada
Nuria Hurtado Torres, Universidad de Granada
Guillermo Maraver Tarifa, Universidad de Granada
Enrique Rubio López, Universidad de Granada

8D. moved to 2E

8E. The Mediterranean Basin: Contemporary Issues II
Chair: John Naylon, Keele University, England
1. Jamil Brownson, California State University, Chico, "Emerging Challenges, Enduring Rhythms: Globalization and Mediterranean Futures"
2. Gökhan Bacik, University of Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey, "Re-inclusion of the Historical Other: Turkey and Europe in a New Era"
3. Med Bouzidi, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, "Population Policies in the Magreb"

9:00 pm Reception hosted by the MSA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Arizona State University, at the Carmen de la Victoria

Saturday, June 1, 2002
9:00 - 11:00 am Centro de Lenguas Modernas
9A. Iberia/Italia
Chair: Ria Mairead O'Foghludha, Whittier College, Whittier, California
1. Anne Dunlop, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, "Homage to Catalonia: Secular Painting, Spain, and the Steri Ceiling in Palermo"
2. Brian A. Curran, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, "Alexander Pontifex Maximus, Sacerdotus et Princeps Hispanus, Italicus, et Aegyptus: Dynasty, Mythology, and Universal Kingship in the Frescoes of the Borgia Apartment in the Vatican, 1492-1495"
3. Thomas Dandelet, University of California at Berkeley, "Spanish Imperial Strategies and the Italian Nobility: The Case of Philip II and Marc Antonio Colonna"

9B. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic and Back: Religious and Political Ties
Chair: Eyda M. Merediz, University of Maryland, College Park
1. María G. Marín Santiago, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, "Demons, Fear and Imagination: Transatlantic Crossings"
2. Eyda M. Merediz, University of Maryland, College Park, "Transatlantic Icons: Embodying Bartolomé de las Casas"
3. Beatriz Helena Domingues, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, "Iberian Americans in the Mediterranean Culture in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century"

9C. Prose of Modern Spain
Chair: Scott Dale, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1. Manuel Martínez, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, "Los ojos de Marcia: La mirada y el poder en La traición en la amistad de María de Zayas"
2. Scott Dale, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Asesinatos, violaciones y ex frailes: Luis Gutiérrez y su Cornelia Bororquia (1801)"
3. Manuel Hierro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "Viajando por el interior: Entre la indolencia, el desdén, la literatura y la política. La correspondencia entre Manuel Azaña y Cipriano de Rivas Cherif (1917-1930)"

9D. The African Presence in the Iberian Metropole and Empire: Food, Religion and Ritual
Chair: Gertrude Gonzales-de Allen, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
1. Dalila de Sousa Sheppard, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, "Beans, Greens, and Peas: Africa in the Food and Cuisine of Portugal"
2. Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, "Spanish Catholicism Revisioned: A Reading of Manuel Zapata Olivella's Chango"
3. Gertrude Gonzales-de Allen, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, "Recipe of a Life: Sediments of Afro-Iberian Culture in Caribbean Identity"

11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee break

11:30 - 1:30 pm Centro de Lenguas Modernas
10A. Medieval History and Literature
Chair: James D. Ryan, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York
1. Joan Dusa, Los Angeles, California, "The Dispute over 'Filioque' and the Entrance of the Turks into Europe"
2. Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, "Reconquest Readings of Proverbs"
3. William D. Phillips, Jr., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, "Environment and Epidemiology in Late Medieval Iberia"
4. Madeleine Jeay, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, "The War of Words in Catalan and Provençal Troubadour Poetry"

10B. 19th- and 20th-Century Iberian Culture
Chair: Diana Glad, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
1. Lisa Anne Abend, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, "The Anti-Clerical Ghost: Spiritism in Modern Spain"
2. Diana Glad, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, "Shifts of Meanings in the Sketches and Poetic Images of Federico García Lorca"
3. Andrew Samuel Walsh, Universidad de Granada, "Jaime Gil de Biedma: A Mediterranean Gentleman"

10C. From Spain to the Caribbean and Back: Transatlantic Identities
Chair and Discussant: Eyda M. Merediz, University of Maryland, College Park
1. Izaskun Alvarez Cuartero, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, "Ilustrados y románticos: cultura y poder en Cuba (1790-1840)"
2. Mercedes Rivas, University of Florida, Gainesville, "La intimidad en conflicto: Las cartas del desamor de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Rosario Castellanos y Quiela"
3. Efrain Barradas, University of Florida, Gainesville, "Del 'cursi' español al 'camp' caribeño"
4. Ana Serra, American University, Washington, DC, "De rojetes a libertadores: La revolución cubana en España"

10D. Language, Gender, and Existence
Chair: Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York
1. Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, "Women, Men, and Authority in Early Modern Portugal"
2. Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, "Questione della lingua in Renaissance Italy"
3. Joanna Courteau, Iowa State University, Ames, "Erasing National Borders: The Unifying Force of la nada"