[New-Poetry] Borderlands: themes in teaching literatures of theAmericas , University of Birmingham, October 18, 2007.

[Anny Ballardini]

> From: Richard J Ellis [mailto:r.j.ellis at bham.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:14 PM
Borderlands: themes in teaching literatures of the Americas, 18 Oct 2007

Borderlands: themes in teaching literatures of the Americas

Department of American and CanadianStudies, University of Birmingham

18 October 2007

No charge



This event is organised by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies and the English Subject Centre.



Register online at http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2760 



10.30-11.00 Registration 



11.00-11.15 Housekeeping and conference introduction



11.15-12.00 Title TBC 

Marcus Wood, University of Sussex



12.00-12.30 Borderlands Within: la Louisiane française, Black and White-A Modest Proposal



Robert Lewis, University of Birmingham



12.30-13.30 Lunch



13.30-14.15 



Bursting Borders: Latinity and the Idea of América in Literature and Culture

Philip Swanson, University of Sheffield



14.15-14.45 What's the Point of Chicano Studies?

Thea Pitman, University of Leeds



14.45-15.00 Tea Break



15.00-15.30 From Here To Eternity: (neo)Baroque, Modernity, Postmodernity and Tres tristes tigres as pedagogical puzzle.

Luis Perez

Princeton University 



15.30-16.00 

Sara Wood, University of Birmingham

Introducing students to research in Transatlantic/borderlands topics through a research module.



16.00-16.30 Plenary: R J Ellis, University of Birmingham



The Area Studies Network list is run by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, www.llas.ac.uk. LLAS is now a Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy, www.heacademy.ac.uk 

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