(NO VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS OR PAPERS READ IN ABSENTIA ALLOWED)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
May 10
Time
Activities
9:00-9:30
Registration – Room P071
9:30-9:45
Welcome Speeches by Co-organizers:
Tahia Abdel Nasser (American U. in Cairo)
Ignacio López-Calvo (U. o California, Merced)
Room P071
Sullivan Lounge
10-11:30
Panel 1
ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Martín Camps (U. of the Pacific, USA)
Melissa Fitch (The University of Arizona, USA)
Performing India in Argentina: “India” by Silvia Gómez-Giusto
María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez (The University of Hong Kong, China)
East Asian migration to Spain and Latin America on the Screen
Hernando Cepeda Sánchez (U. Nacional de Colombia)
Through the Opium Smoke: Representations of China from New Granada
Maja Zawierzeniec (Wszechnica Polska U., Poland)
El encuentro de sabores y mestizaje culinario: las influencias asiáticas en la gastronomía mexicana
Panel 2
THE RACIALIZED OTHER FROM IMPERIAL RUSSIA TO THE MODERN U.S.
Chair: Axel Gasquet (U. Clermont Auvernia, France)
Yasmina Bakry (American U. in Cairo, Egypt)
Daughters and Fathers in Memoirs: Najla Said and Fatima Bhutto”
Malak Khaled Hosny (American U. in Cairo, Egypt)
“First-Generation Muslim Immigrants Written by First-Generation Muslim Immigrants: An Analysis of Ethnic Reinvention”
Laila Mottaweh (American U. in Cairo, Egypt)
“Literary Knowledge Production and the Racialized Other”
Nadya Siyam (American U. in Cairo, Egypt)
“Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin: The Gypsies (1827), Two Readings”
11:45-13:15
Panel 3
(SELF)REPRESENTATIONS OF ASIANS IN LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Melissa Fitch (The University of Arizona, USA)
Carlo Acevedo (U. of California, Merced, USA)
The Poem Behind the Mist: José Watanabe’s Hidden Haiku
Mauthes Barbara (U. de Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Rasgos del paisaje chino de montaña y agua en la poesía de José Watanabe: un intento de interpretación.
Martín Camps (U. of the Pacific, USA)
Representación de los chinos en Hotel Chinesca (2018) de José Salvador Ruiz y Ojos de lagarto (2009) de Bernardo Fernández: imaginarios de la literatura del noir-te o el dragón emplumado.
Salvador Marinaro (Fudan U., China)
Una sinografía colectiva: imaginarios chinos en las obras de Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares y Jorge Luis Borges
Panel 4
TRAVEL NARRATIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND EAST ASIA AND FILIPINO THEATER
Chair: Maja Zawierzeniec (Wszechnica Polska U., Poland)
Axel Gasquet (U. Clermont Auvernia, France)
Clichés, penumbras e intuiciones: testimonios literarios de viajeros argentinos en Egipto (1850-1930)
Ahlam Sbaihat (U. of Jordan)
Viajeros Occidentales en el Estado Safávida en el Siglo XVII
Roberto Fuertes-Manjón (Midwestern State U., USA)
Ciencia, imperialismo y proyectos civilizatorios: La visión de las Filipinas del naturalista alemán Fedor Jagor
Emmanuelle Sinardet (U. Paris Nanterre, France)
El género de la nación: masculinidades y filipinidad en el drama de Rosa Sevilla de Alvero, Prisionera de amor (1922)
13:15-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Panel 5
Chair: Carlo Acevedo (U. of California, Merced, USA)
ORIENTALISM, OCCIDENTALISM, AND DECOLONIALITY
Masaki Mori (U. of Georgia, USA)
An Occidentalist Critique in Japanese Popular Culture
Nuño Aguirre de Cárcer (U. Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Orientalismo de pacotilla. Severo Sarduy y las ensoñaciones del budismo:
parodia y trascendencia en Maitreya (1978)
Hebat-Allah A El Attar
(Cleveland State U.)
España: Egiptomanía y Orientalismo.
Mohammad Irfan (Ambedkar U. Delhi, India)
Social Reconstruction through Orientalism: Making of Arabic and Urdu’s Historical Genres.
Panel 6
Chair: Roberto Fuertes-Manjón (Midwestern State U., USA)
AFRICANS AND CHINESE IN SPANISH FLAMENCO, THEATER, AND PHILOSOPY
Mohamed Ahmed (Helwan U. Egypt)
El teatro español como arma de crítica a la política y la sociedad en el tema de la inmigración
Tania Arabelle Flores (Stanford U., USA)
El tronco negro de Faraón: Reconstructing the Place of Ancient Egypt in Flamenco Aesthetics
Sally Abdalla Wahdan (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
Egipto y la metáfora de la esfinge en el imaginario filosófico español: de Ortega y Gasset a María Zambrano
María-Dolores García-Borrón (Independent Scholar)
Coincidencias en obras del siglo XX del 话剧 (Hua Ju) de China y del teatro español
16-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
Room P071
Chair: Tahia Abdel Nasser
(American U. in Cairo)
Keynote: Steven Salaita
"Literary Criticism in a Time of Genocide."
American University in Cairo
19:00
Dinner paid by the conference
Restaurant:
May 11
Time
Activities
Room P071
Sullivan Lounge
9:00-10:30
Panel 7
ARAB MIGRATIONS IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Everton V. Machado (U. de Lisboa, Portugal)
José del Toro (San Francisco Community College)
Identidades migrantes: Reflexiones sobre voces contestatarias en Un país para morir (2019) de Abdellah Taia
Cristián H. Ricci (U. of California, Merced, USA)
Nadie salva a las rosas (2023) de Youssef El Maimouni: Una crítica social a través de la intriga
Heba Alaa El Din (Ain Shams U., Egypt)
Ilusiones y desilusiones: la voz femenina entre migración y desplazamiento en la narrativa hispanoamericana y árabe
Samar Khan (Jamia Millia Islamia, India/Freie U., Germany)
Writing Oneself from Afar: Exploring the ‘Decolonial’ in Chilean Neomahyar Literature.
Panel 8
PALESTINA, KUWAIT, AND VIEWS OF/FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
Chair: Duarte Drumond Braga (U. de Lisboa, Portugal)
Rehab Abdel Salam (Ain Shams U. Egypt)
Un detalle menor de Adanía Shibli: la cuestión palestina y las Epistemologías del Sur
Asmaa Badawy (American U. in Cairo, Egypt)
Epiphanies on “Terrorism” and the “Terrorist”
Mauricio Duarte (Gulf U. for Science and Technology, Kuwait)
Inclusión diferencial: Miradas fotográficas sobre el extranjero en el Golfo Arábigo
Mabel Orjuela Bowser (U, of California, Merced, USA)
Decoloniality in the cultural production of two indigenous authors from the Colombian Andes: Manuel Quintín Lame and Fredy Chikangana.
10:45-12:15
Panel 9
PORTUGUESE AND ITALIAN VIEWS OF EGYPT BLACK AFRICA
Chair: Cristián H. Ricci (U. of California, Merced, USA)
Duarte Drumond Braga (U. de Lisboa, Portugal)
Egypt in Modernist and Pre-Modernist Portuguese Poetry: the cases of Eugénio de Castro and Ângelo de Lima
Everton V. Machado (U. de Lisboa, Portugal)
Los portugueses y el Suez: del “Oriente doméstico” al sistema-mundo orientalista
Manfredo Gambino (U. degli Studi di Parma, Italy)
Red Italy in Black Africa: the Italian left involved in Portuguese decolonization in Mozambique
Panel 10
PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK TRANSNATIONAL PHILIPHINES
Axel Gasquet (U. Clermont Auvernia, France)
Chair: Emmanuelle Sinardet (U. Paris Nanterre, France)
Emmanuelle Sinardet (U. Paris Nanterre, France)
Presentation on MOOC on Spanish-language Philippine literature by DIGIPHILIT
12:15-14:00
Lunch Restaurant:
14:00-15:30
Room P071
Chair: Ignacio López-Calvo (U. o California, Merced)
Keynote: Ángela González Echeverry
Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST)
“Circuitos narrativos-rutas viajeras de oriente y occidente: el caso de la Reina de Saba”.
Concluding remarks
CALL FOR PAPERS
14th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations:
Egypt in the Western Imaginary and Other Luso-Hispanic-Eastern Exchanges
American University in Cairo, Egypt,
May 10-11, 2024.
Dear colleagues:
You are all invited to submit proposals to the 14th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations: "Egypt in the Western Imaginary and Other Luso-Hispanic-Eastern Exchanges,” which will take place at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, on May 10-11, 2024. Please find additional information in the attachments.
14th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations
Egypt in the Western Imaginary and Other Luso-Hispanic-Eastern Exchanges
WHEN: May 10-11, 2024
WHERE: American University in Cairo, New Cairo Campus
Format: The conference will be in-person only. There will be no virtual sessions
You are all invited to present papers in Spanish, Portuguese, or English devoted to the general topic of the conference, Egypt in the Western Imaginary and Other Luso-Hispanic-Eastern Exchanges, or to one of the following subthemes (the Committee may accept other subthemes related to the general theme of the conference):
• Egypt in the Western imaginary and the West in Egyptian imaginaries
• East-West cross-cultural relations
• Western travelers in the Middle East/Asia and Middle Eastern/Asian travelers in the West
• Palestine, Egypt, the East, and the West
• Filipino cultural production in Spanish
• (Self-)Orientalization of the Asian and Western imaginaries
• Exoticizing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian world
• Luso-Hispanic presence in the Middle East and Asia
• Archiving Middle Eastern and Asian narratives in the Americas and the Iberian world
• Consumption and reception of Asian cultural production (K-pop, Bollywood, etc.) in
the West
• Consumption and reception of Western cultural production in the Middle East and Asia
• Cultural production by authors of Asian and Arab descent in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula
• Middle Eastern and Asian presence in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Orientalism and self-orientalization in Asian-Latin American and Arabaç-Latin American cultural production
• Decolonial and Postcolonial connections between the cultural production
in Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and the Iberian world
• Images of the Luso-Hispanic world in Middle Eastern and Asian cultural production
• Images of Middle East and Asia in Luso-Hispanic literature and culture
• Translations of Middle Eastern and Asian texts in the West
• Translations of Western texts in the Middle East and Asia
• Latin American cultural production by authors of Middle Eastern and Asian descent
• Images of Egypt, the Middle East and Asia in the works of Latin American writers
• Eastern religions in the West
• Trans-Pacific Studies
• Travel narratives
• Exoticization and idealization of the Oriental “Other”
• Occidentalism
• Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Hispanic world
• Asian and Arab Diasporas in the Americas
• Chinatowns in the Americas
• Racialization of Jews in the Hispanic world
• Muslims in the Western imagination
CO-ORGANIZERS:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced, EE.UU. [email protected]
Dr. Tahia Abdel Nasser [email protected]
American University in Cairo
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Steven Salaita,
American University in Cairo
Dr. Ángela González Echeverry,
Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION PROPOSALS
The abstracts of the presentations must be sent by April 1 to:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced, EE.UU. [email protected]
Dr. Tahia Abdel Nasser [email protected]
American University in Cairo
During the conference, there will be a maximum of 20 minutes to present your paper (approximately 8 double-spaced pages in Times New Roman 12). Please make sure you do not go over the 20-minute limit.
Presentations must be in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
Abstracts must follow the following format:
Name, Last Name, Title, Institutional affiliation
Title of presentation
Abstract [200-400 words]
POSSIBLE PUBLICATION
Anthem Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, or the academic journal Transmodernity
REGISTRATION
Deadline: April 1, 2024. To pay online, please use this link:
https://commerce.cashnet.com/UCME324_W1
►USA/Asia: US$150
Graduate students: $125
►Europe: 130 euros
Graduate students: 110 euros
►Latin America and Africa: US$125
Graduate students: $100
If the website for online registration does not work, participants from the USA, can send a check signed to University of California Regents. The address is the following:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
SSHA University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road
Merced, CA. 95343
If the website doesn’t work for non-US participants, they can pay on-site at the conference to any of the two co-organizers.
Location:
The AUC campus is on Teseen St. (Road 90) in the Fifth Settlement, New Cairo. This is where Gate 1 (the Visitors' Gate) is located. Gates 4 and 5 are located on AUC Avenue, which is perpendicular to Teseen St. It is one area in New Cairo.
Transportation from Airport
It is best to go to the desk of the company called SIXT at the airport and book a London Cab to take you to New Cairo. The taxi ride costs around EGP 550 ($11).
Recommended Hotels:
Dusit Thani Hotel (near the campus)
Westin Hotel in New Cairo
Recommended Travel Agencies in Egypt and Places to Visit:
- Travco and Emeco Holidays. As for places, I would recommend:
- Pyramids in Giza
- Sakkara Pyramids
- Felucca on the Nile
- The Grand Egyptian Museum
- Khan El Khalili Market & Moaz Street in Islamic Cairo
- Citadel
- Ibn Tulun and Sultan Hassan Mosques
- Old Coptic Cairo
If you need a visa to travel to Egypt, this is the website:
https://visa2egypt.gov.eg/eVisa/Home;jsessionid=fph_Cd__g-pHyVzMqZL8uMgWr9eAy7SmvAGx8JNs.pp-ui-02?VISTK=OX4Y-CQW6-88CS-QHW3-EIE2-WTNN-6PW2-SGKC-TMYD-M62B-UXCW-PV9R-FJBS-37I1-8PKE-TKZC
US citizens can get a tourist visa at Cairo airport