SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE SCIENTIFIC - 5 July 2010, Oxford

Monday 5 July 2010, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE SCIENTIFIC
Keynote Speaker: Professor Marcus du Sautoy

Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and
Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford

“The 19 Steps”

Professor Marcus du Sautoy will discuss a joint project he has been
collaborating on with a composer, choreographer and sculptor exploring
the mathematical ideas behind Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The
Library of Babel”

Speakers:

Dr. Raul Ianes, Miami University

“El discurso naturalista en Sab (1841) de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda”

Katia Chornik, Open University

“Reading music backwards: evolutionary ideas in Alejo Carpentier’s
essay ‘The Origins of Music and Primitive Music’”

Dr. Patricia Novillo-Corvalán, University of Kent

“Was there a real-life Ireneo Funes?: Jorge Luis Borges and Modern
Medical Discourses”

Dr. María del Pilar Blanco, University College London

“Telepathy and Transfusions: Imaginations of Science in Pedro
Castera’s Querens (1890)”

Manuel Fons (author), Universidad de Guadalajara

“Science and fantasy from the perspective of a postmodern Mexican
storyteller”

Dr. Victoria Carpenter, University of Derby

“‘¿Dije ya?’: Textual Fragments and Repetitions in Obsesivos días
circulares (1969) by Gustavo

Sainz”

Dr. Dominic Moran, University of Oxford

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Joanna Page, University of Cambridge

“Beyond postmodern scepticism: Guillermo Martínez on the uses and
abuses of mathematical logic in criminology and literature”

Registration Fee: £15 / £7.50

Conference Dinner: £30

For more information and to register, contact:

olivia.vazquez-medina@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk or sarah.roger@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Graduate student bursaries are available; inquire for more information.

With support from:

The Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

The Spanish Studies Fund, University of Oxford

and St. Edmund Hall