“Moving the Plot Forward In Iberian Studies: Memory, Subjectivity, Futurity.” H. Rosi Song

Thursday, October 26, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
82 Wall Street (WALL82 ), 3rd Floor (Romance Languages and Literature) See map
82-90 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale Univeristy present:
“Moving the Plot Forward In Iberian Studies: Memory, Subjectivity, Futurity”

H. Rosi Song, Professor of Spanish, Bryn Mawr College

October 26 at 4PM
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street, Third Floor
New Haven, CT 06511

Between the first Informe General in 1976 and the second one in 2016, film director Pere
Portabella (n. 1929) captures two historical moments that have transcended Spain’s political
boundaries to permeate a large part of our critical understanding of the contemporary cultural
discourse in the Iberian nation. Examined together, they can also offer a framework from which
to consider a forward-looking narrative that hinges on a renewed consideration of the past.

H. Rosi Song is Professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Lost in Transition: Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain (Liverpool UP, 2016) and co-editor of the volumes Towards a Cultural Archive of la Movida: Back to the Future (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2013) and Traces of Contamination: Unearthing the Franco Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse (Bucknell UP, 2005).