THE AESTHETICS OF YOUTH IN MODERNIST

SPAIN

Sponsored by the Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the Whitney Humanities

Center, the European Studies Council, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Spanish & Italian Modernist Studies Forum at the

Pennsylvania State University

November 4th & 5th, 2016 Yale University

12.30-1.30pmOpening Reception and Lunch Whitney Humanities Center, Room 108

1.30-2.30pm Welcome and Opening Remarks Leslie Harkema and Nicolás Fernández-Medina

3-4.30pm Object Session Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Facilitated by Kevin Repp, Curator of Modern European Books and Manuscripts

4.30-6pm Reception Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Opening EventsFRIDAY,

November 4th

ORGANIZED BY

Leslie J. Harkema Assistant Professor of Spanish

Yale University

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina

Associate Professor of Spanish The Pennsylvania State University

9.30-11aM Session I. Youth and Generation (All sessions in Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208)

Moderated by Nicolás Fernández-Medina

C. Christopher Soufas (Temple University) “‘Talkin’ ‘bout my generation’: ‘Raw Willful Youth’ as the Foundation Stone of Spanish Early Contemporary Literary History and Theory”

Juan Herrero-Senés (University of Colorado, Boulder) “The Awaited Kingdom: Youth and the Spanish Avant-garde Novel”

11.-11.15am Coffee Break

11.15-12.45pm Session II. Body and Self

Moderated by Diego del Río Arrillaga (Yale University)

Alberto Medina (Columbia University) “Youth, Egolatry, Anarchism”

Nicolás Fernández-Medina (Penn State University)

“Bodies Undone: Infirmity, Degeneration, and the Promise of Youth in Pío Baroja and Ramón Gómez de la Serna”

12.45-2pm Lunch WHC, Room 108

2-3.30pm Session III. Gender and Narrative

Moderated by Anna Torres Cacoullos (Penn State University)

Susan Larson (Texas Tech University) “The Gender Politics of ‘Unreadable Bodies’ in Spanish Avant-Garde Prose”

Leslie J. Harkema (Yale University) “The Destabilization of Development in the Novels of Rosa Chacel”

3.30-3.45pm Coffee Break

3.45-5.15pm Session IV. Eros and Thanatos

Moderated by Leslie Harkema

Maite Zubiaurre (UCLA) “Guayabos y tobilleras: Erotismo adolescente en la Edad de Plata”

Nil Santiáñez (St. Louis University) “Young Necrophiles: Modernism, The Fascist Politics of Youth, and the End of the Bildungsroman”

PanelsSATURDAY,

November 5th