WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 9:00-10:00 MAIN HALL REGISTRATION 10:00-10:30 PARANINFO OPENING CEREMONY 10:30-11:30 PARANINFO PLENARY LECTURE SCOTT SLOVIC (University of Idaho) “Singularity: Implications of the Arithmetic of Compassion for Ecocriticism” Chair: Luis Gustavo Girón Echevarría 11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK 12:00-13:30 PARANINFO SALÓN DE ACTOS AULA 6 PANEL 11— We are Where We Are, or, Are We Where PANEL 17. SESSION 1— Mirrors to the Human: Robots and Aliens PANEL 12— The (Natural) Borders of Identity: Rethinking Identity Boundaries in We are?: Space, Place and Human Nature in American American Literature Writing Chair: José Liste Noya Chair: María Ángeles Toda Iglesia Chair: Luisa María González Rodríguez (Universidad de Salamanca) (Universidade da Coruña) (Universidad de Sevilla) Ana María Manzanas Calvo (Universidad de Laura Domínguez Morante (Universidad de Sevilla) Lidia López Chicharro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Salamanca) “A Representation of the Human and the Other in the Animated Film Home “Zoraïde la Folle. Identity and Race in Kate Chopin's “La Belle Zoraïde” “The Struggle over Geography and the Immigrant’s (2015)” Claim to Space: Ernesto Quiñonez’s Chango’s Fire” Luisa María González Rodríguez (Universidad de Salamanca) Christian Hummelsund Voie (Mid-Sweden University) “Hostipitality, Alienation and the Poetics of Space in Piri Thomas’s Down These Martín Urdiales Shaw (Universidade de Vigo) “Welcome to the Chtorrocene: David Gerrold’s The War against the Chtorr as a Mean Streets” “'He was in no place and no place was in him': Edward Lens on the Anthropocene” Dahlberg’s Drifting Identities in Bottom Dogs (1930) Parisa Delshad (Universidad de Salamanca) and Flushing to Calvary (1932)” Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo “Identity Among the New Fiction by Iranian-American Authors” (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) Begoña Simal Rodríguez (Universidade da Coruña) “Simulacra, Unaware Robots, and Unconscious Humans in Philip K. Dick’s Fiction” “Time Beings, Space Beings: Ozeki’s Tale for the Globalized World” 13:30-15:00 WELCOME RECEPTION PROVISIONAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 PARANINFO SALÓN DE ACTOS AULA 6 15:00-16:30 PANEL 15. SESSION 1— “Live Deep and Suck out All the PANEL 22— Whose Lives Matter? in American Literature and Film PANEL 8— Rethinking Gender and Ethnicity: the Construction, Destruction and Marrow of Life”: Understanding Human Nature in H.D. Deconstruction of Boundaries in American Epistemologies Thoreau’s Literary Legacy Chair: Eulalia Piñero Gil Chair: Juliana Nalerio Chair: Minerva Campión (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) (Universidad de Valladolid) (Universidad Central, Bogotá) Julia Salmerón Cabañas (Universidad Autónoma de Carmen Indurain Eraso (Universidad Pública de Navarra) Pi-hua Ni (National Chiayi University, Taiwan) Madrid) “The Representation of Female American Underdogs in Christine Jeffs’ Sunshine “Re/Presenting the Absent Presence of Taiwanese Americans: On the Surfacing “Tracing a Literary and Intellectual Friendship: Louisa Cleaning” of Taiwanese American Literature” May Alcott Writing H.D. Thoreau” Isabel González Díaz (Universidad de La Laguna) Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević (University of Montenegro) Laura Arce Álvarez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) “Vulnerable, Liveable Lives: Transgender Representations in Elliott DeLine’s “Mapping the Deconstruction of an American Experience: Joy Harjo’s American “A Postmodern Reception of H.D. Thoreau’s Walden: Fiction” Life” the Construction of Literary Solitude in Paul Auster’s Fiction” Mirella Vallone (Università degli Studi di Perugia) Begoña Dorronsoro (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra) “Vulnerability, Grievability, and Caring in Arab American Poetry” “All Relations All Related: When Families, Genders and All Ways of Being(s) Eulalia Piñero Gil (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Exceed the Norm” “’Then, I say, Break the Law’: Contemporary Interpretations of H.D. Thoreau’s Social Criticism and Peaceful Resistance Poetics” 16:30-16:50 COFFEE BREAK PROVISIONAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 PARANINFO SALÓN DE ACTOS AULA 6 16:50-18:20 PANEL 10. SESSION 1— Amnesia: Memory Loss in PANEL 19— Transatlantic Human Natures PANEL 14. SESSION 1— Rethinking the Deprivation of Human Status: The Contemporary Culture Pursuit of Political and Social Rights in the USA Chair: Cristina Garrigós Chair: Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan Chair: Mª Luz Arroyo Vázquez (UNED, Madrid) (Universidad de Valladolid) (UNED, Madrid) Cristina Alsina Rísquez (Universitat de Barcelona) Beatriz González Moreno and Fernando González Moreno (Universidad de Susana Mª Jiménez Placer (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) “Language and Memory Loss in Don DeLillo's Falling Castilla-La Mancha) “Leaving the Ideology of White Male Supremacy Behind: Virginia Foster Durr's Man and Zero K” “When Frankenstein Disembarked in America: from Holst to Nino Carbe” Outside the Magic Circle” Thomas B. Byers (University of Louisville) Marta Gutiérrez Rodríguez (Universidad de Valladolid) Esther Álvarez López (Universidad de Oviedo) “Incidents in the Life of African American History: “Let's Play Magic: Witchcraft and Persecution in Fictional Salem and the North of “Making Presence, Talking Back: Slam Poetry and Performance as (Counter) Amnesia, Remembrance, and Rhetorical Exigence” Spain” Political Practice” Cristina Garrigós (UNED, Madrid) Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan (Universidad de Valladolid) Antonia Sagredo Santos (UNED, Madrid) “Understanding Human Identity in Franzen’s and “From Philosophy to Fiction: European and American Automatons” “Integration and Socio-Political Rights of Irish Immigrants in the USA” Ozeki’s Reflections on Alzheimer’s” PARANINFO SALÓN DE ACTOS AULA 6 AULA 10 18:20-19:45 PANEL 6. SESSION 1— Dickinson and Her Peers on PANEL 15. SESSION 2— “Live Deep and Suck out All PANEL 13— A New Man Emerges: Ecomasculinity PANEL 2— Soundscapes: Landscape and Music in the (Human) Nature the Marrow of Life”: Understanding Human Nature in Contemporary America American West in H.D. Thoreau’s Literary Legacy Chair: Jefferey Simons Chair: Eulalia Piñero Gil Chair: Ruben Cenamor Pons Chair: Ángel Chaparro Sainz (Universidad de Huelva) (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) (Universitat de Barcelona) (Universidad del País Vasco–Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Anders Olsson (Mid Sweden University) Michael Jonik (University of Sussex) Virginia Luzón Aguado (Universidad de Zaragoza) Ángel Chaparro Sainz (Universidad del País Vasco– “What Constitutes a Song? Whitman, Poetics and “‘Will you live?’: Thoreau’s Philosophical Letters” “The Film Star as Eco-warrior: Harrison Ford Saves Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Human Nature” the Planet (and this Time It is for Real)” “Country is about the City: Willy Vlautin’s Musical Noelia Hernando Real (Universidad Autónoma de Landscapes” Jefferey Simons (Universidad de Huelva) Madrid) Rubén Cenamor Pons (Universitat de Barcelona) “Dickinson’s Ornithology” “‘The World is All – a Moving Field’: Susan Glaspell’s “Ecology in the ‘Birth of Capitalism’: The Ecoman in Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo (Universidad del País Thoreauvian Influences on the Page and on the The Space Merchants” Vasco–Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Stage” “Singing the Frontera: Corridos on the Trump Muro” Ronald Milland (Independent Scholar) Agnese De Marchi (Università degli Studi, Trieste) “Living Deliberately: Reactivating the Social “A Freeway Running through the Yard: Highways, Conscience in Nature Writing” Songs and Identities” 20:30- GUIDED TOUR OF THE OLD TOWN MEETING POINT AT THE FACULTY OF LETTERS FOR THE BUS: MAIN HALL PROVISIONALMEETING POINT FOR THE VISIT: TOWN HALL ENTRANCE (AYUNTAMIENTO) THURSDAY, APRIL 6 PARANINFO SALÓN DE ACTOS AULA 6 AULA 10 09:00-10:30 PANEL 3— Nature and the Artificial: Skin, Clothes, PANEL 28— Miscellaneous Panel PANEL 29— Miscellaneous Panel PANEL 4— Understanding (Human) Nature in the and Food American West Chair: Cristina Maria Giorcelli Chair: Rodrigo Andrés Chair: Viorica Patea Chair: Jesús A. González (Università di Roma Tre) (Universitat de Barcelona) (Universidad de Salamanca) (Universidad de Cantabria) Cristina Maria Giorcelli (Università di Roma Tre) Ernesto Suárez Toste (Universidad de Castilla-La Carolina Núñez Puente (Universidade da Coruña) Maite Aperribay Bermejo (Universidad del País “Sheer Luxury: Kate Chopin's ‘A Pair of Silk Mancha) “Human Nature is Plural: Queering 'The Yellow Vasco–Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Stockings'“ “Voice, Metonymy, and Espionage Ethics in Let Us Wallpaper' through Film” “Cactus Blood: una lectura ecofeminista de la obra Now Praise Famous Men” de Corpi” Elisa Alaya Mallagray (Universidad Complutense de Sławomir Studniarz (University of Warmia and Mazury, Madrid) José Liste Noya (Universidade da Coruña) Poland) Macarena Garcia-Avello (Universidad de Cantabria) “Blanche Du Bois's Valise: A Renovation of Pandora's ”Human Nature Otherwise: Desire, Perversion and “The American Waste: A New Take on the Conquest of “The Construction of the West as Transnational Box?” Utopia in the Fiction of Samuel R. Delany” the West in Paul Auster’s Novel Travels in the Space in Latina Narratives” Scriptorium” Silvia Martínez Falquina (Universidad de Zaragoza) Lucas Andrés Martingano Prieto (Universidade da “Of Cannibals and Feasts: Transmodern Images of Coruña) Food and the Windigo in Contemporary Anishinaabe Social Violence and Environmental Issues in Ito Fiction” Romo’s El Puente/The Bridge” 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK + BOOK PRESENTATION (MAIN HALL) PROVISIONAL THURSDAY, APRIL 6 PARANINFO SALÓN DE ACTOS AULA 6 11:00-12:30 PANEL