Conference
& Past Events

Humphrey Forum
Hubert H Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue S. Minneapolis, MN, 55455

Thursday, October 3, 2019

9:00am Opening Remarks

Steven M. Manson, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, CLA, UMN

9:10am Welcoming Statement

Ana Forcinito, Ofelia Ferrán, Brian Engdahl, conference organizers

9:15am Session 1

Brian Engdahl, William L. Anderson Chair in PTSD Research, Adjunct and Research Professor in Neuroscience, Psychology, & Cognitive Sciences, UofM; Clinician Investigator, Minneapolis VA Health Care System
“Posttraumatic Stress Disorder throughout History: Driven to Discover Causes and New Treatments”

Janet Dubinsky, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UofM
“The Power of Neuroscience to Change Teacher Attitudes and Practice in Liberia”

Paul Armstrong, Professor of English, Brown University
“Neuroscience and Narrative”

Ileana Rodriguez, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
“Writing Affect: Trembling before Oneself and Others”

Q&A

11:50am Author Presentation

Laura Alcoba, Author, Translator, and Professor of Literature, University of Paris-Nanterre
‟‘El cuchillito de mango de asta’ o recordar desde el cuerpo”
(“The Little Knife with the Antler Handle’ or Remembering from the Body”)
*Presentation in Spanish with English translation

Lunch

1:45pm Session 2

Ana Forcinito, The Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair and Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, CLA, UofM
“Plasticity in Written and Audiovisual Narratives: Giving an Account of a Traumatic Past”

Claudia Bacci, Professor of Sociology and Researcher, University of Buenos Aires/National University of La Plata, Argentina
“Legados y memorias en las narrativas testimoniales de la Argentina postdictatorial”
(“Legacies and Memories in the Testimonial Narratives of Postdictatorship Argentina”)
*Presentation in Spanish with English translation

Yasuko Kase, Associate Professor, Program of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, University of the Ryukyus, Japan
“Trauma, Affect, and Kinship in Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life “

Q&A

3:45pm Session 3 (Part of the series “IAS Thursdays”)

Anna Miñarro, Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Spain
“Open Wounds, Closed Graves: What Is Told of the Spanish Horror, and How It Is Recounted”
*Presentation in Spanish with English translation

Emilio Silva, Spanish journalist, co-founder and President of the “Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica” (Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory”), Spain
“Víctimas del franquismo: de la insignificancia al significado”
(“The Victims of Francoism: From Insignificance to Significance”)
*Presentation in Spanish with English translation

Nora Domínguez, Professor of Literary Theory, Department of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Separación y co-afectividad en los relatos maternos. Literatura argentina y memoria”
(“Separation and Co-affectivity in Maternal Tales. Argentinian Literature and Memory”)
*Presentation in Spanish with English translation

Q&A

7:15pm Film screening (free and open to the public)

Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H Humphrey Center

Time Suspended

with the presence of Argentine award-winning director: Natalia Bruschtein

*Presentation in Spanish with English translation

Friday, October 4, 2019

9:00am Opening Remarks

Meredith McQuaid, Associate Vice President and Dean of International Programs, UofM

9:10am Welcoming Statement

Ana Forcinito, Ofelia Ferrán, Brian Engdahl, conference organizers

9:15am Session 1

Abigail Gewirtz, The John and Nancy Lindahl Leadership Professor in the Department of Family Social Science and the Institute of Child Development, and Director of the Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health, UofM
The Psychological Impact of Traumatic World Events on Children and Families”

Veronica Sveta, Aquí para Ti/Here for You: Youth Development Program, Hennepin County/ UofM
“The Border is Everywhere; Tales from a Local MN Provider working with Transnational Families, while Growing One of Her Own”

Francisco Ferrándiz, Researcher in Cultural Anthropology; Director of the Research Group on Politics of Memory, Memories of Violence at the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
“Unsculpting Totalitarianism: Questioning the Legacy of Franco in Fernando Sánchez Castillo’s Art”
* Presentation via Skype

Q&A

Break

11:20am Session 2

Michal Kobialka, The Paul W. Frenzel Professor in Liberal Arts, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, UofM
“Staging Difficult Pasts: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral Memories”

Francesc Torres, Spanish multimedia artist
“The Systemics of Destruction. Why Do Humans Behave Inhumanly?”

Q&A

Lunch

2:00pm Session 3

Terry Berkowitz, Professor Emeritus, Baruch College/City University of New York (CUNY); Visual artist, curator and graphic designer
“Art as Testimony: Chant for the Unsettled and the Malaya Lola Project”

Ofelia Ferrán, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, CLA, UofM
“Francesc Torres: The Performance of Trauma”

Q&A

Break

3:35 pm Session 4

Patrick McNamara, Associate Professor, Department of History, UofM
“Traumata and Historical Dissociation: Multiple Forms of Memory Confront the Past”

Alejandro Baer, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; Stephen C. Feinstein Chair and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, UofM
“The Trauma Metaphor. A Sociological Perspective”

Alejandra Oberti, Professor of Sociology and Researcher, University of Buenos Aires/National University of La Plata, Argentina
“La performance testimonial: dolor, reconocimiento y reparación”
(“The Testimonial Performance: Pain, Recognition, and Reparation”)
*Presentation in Spanish with English translation

Q&A

6:45pm Film screening (free and open to the public)

Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H Humphrey Center

The Silence of Others

with the presence of Spanish award-winning director: Almudena Carracedo

Sponsored by: Spanish and Portuguese Studies, CLA Office of the Dean, Institute for Advanced Study, Imagine Grant, GPS Alliance, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Institute for Global Studies, History Department, Department of Art, Human Rights Program, The Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport