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Gender, Crime and Violence in the Hispanic World

4th Annual Hispanic Studies Symposium, 13 May 2005

9.00-9.30

Registration and welcome

9.30-10.15

Dr Shelley Godsland (Visiting Research Fellow, Monash University, and Manchester Metropolitan University): "Post-Feminist Petra: Alicia Gimnez-Bartlett's Female Detective"

10.15-10.45

Coffee Break

10.45-11.45

Dr Stewart King (Monash University): "Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Spanish Masculinities in Andreu Martn's Crime Fiction"
Dr Sarah McDonald (Monash University): "Bad Boyz: Violence and Masculinities in Boyz N the Hood and City of God"

11.45-12.00

Break

12.00-1.00

Dr Hugo Hortiguera (Griffith University):"(Con)fabulaciones mediticas: la prensa argentina y el folletn policial"
Assoc. Prof. Roberto Gonzlez-Casanovas (University of Auckland): "From Catalan Imperialism to Multiculturalism in Post-Franco Spain: Revisionist Texts on Almogvars by Closa (2000) and Casanova (2001)"

1.00-2.30

Lunch

2.30-3.30

Mr Vek Lewis (Monash University): "Crimes of Inhumanity: State Institutions and Cultural-Legal Discourse as Perpetrators of Violence against Gender Variant/Transgender People in Latin America"
Ms Mnica Perera de Moore (Monash University)"Necro-philo-ecologa: De repente los lugares desaparecen"

3.30-4.00

Afternoon tea

4.00-4.45 Assoc. Prof. Alfredo Martnez-Expsito (University of Queensland): "Sentido y funcin del lesbianismo en Soldados de Salamina (2001) de Javier Cercas y Soldados de Salamina (2003) de David Trueba"
4.45-5.00 Concluding remarks

Spanish and
Latin American Studies

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