PERU XIX Congress (English)
PERU XIX
INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL EXPOSITION UNIVERSAL AND VISUAL DISCOURSES IN THE PERUVIAN PRESS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Lima, July 7, 8 and 9, 2008
JustificationNineteenth century press (newspapers and magazines) holds in its pages a rich set of discoursive and visual manifestations which have not been fully studied by literary, artistic or historiographical studies. These texts and graphics provide the observation of sociocultural conflicts, the configuration of the political arena, and the gradual consolidation of written culture in the city of Lima and other cities. Tensions between the desire of the elite to install itself within the coordinates of Western modernity and its awareness of its peripheral position converge in this press. The creation of a new reading audience and democratic vocation by the nineteenth century press articulates itself with the waves of modernization which transformed the material culture, the sensibility and the patterns of sociability of the Peruvian society. This Colloquium attempts to contribute to the revaluation of these heterogeneous and valuable sources, and to open a debate about the ways, meanings and policies of those discursive and visual universes.
Main Topics
1) Genealogies and hybridizations of the scenes of customs (“cuadro de costumbres”), the tradition (“tradición”) and the modern short story.
2) The caricatures, humoristic illustrations, ads and advertisement.
3) Representation of Indigenous, Afro-descendants and Chinese subjects.
4) Nation, racism and gender in the nineteenth century press.
5) Textual analysis and authorial discursive manifestations in the nineteenth century newspapers and magazines.
6) Modernity, modernization and the modernist constellation in the nineteenth century press.
7) The serialized novels (“novelas de folletín”): new readers and new readings.
Abstracts:
Proposals for papers must be sent to marcelvelazq@terra.com.pe until May 30th 2008. They should include a title, an abstract (10 to 15 lines), name and institutional affiliation.
Colloquium Committee
President: Marcel Velázquez Castro (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)
Academic Committee
Dr. Maida Watson Espener (Florida International University)
Dr. Isabelle Tauzin (Bordeaux 3)
Dr. Thomas Ward (Loyola College)
Dr. Rocío Ferreira (DePaul University, Chicago)
Dr. Graciela Batticuore (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Dr. Ismael Pinto (Universidad San Martín de Porres)
Dr. Alberto Varillas (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Dr. Gonzalo Espino (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)
Organization Committee
Alberto Loza Nehmad (Curator of the bibliographical exposition)
Eduardo Lino
Miguel Vargas Yábar
Jannet Torres Espinoza
Eduardo Huaytán
Néstor Saavedra
Claudia Berrios
Américo Mendoza-Mori
Organizers:
Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Biblioteca Central de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
