Schedule of Events

All events are at the Hyatt Regency unless otherwise specified.

Thursday, April 7

All Day: Latino Literary Imagination Conference; Rutgers University Campus
11:00AM - 6:00PM: Registration
11:30AM - 2:00PM: Track 1: Workshops; Academic Publishing in the Next Decade: Navigating Change, Seizing Opportunity; Regency C; Oltre la pizza, il Colosseo e il tiramisù: alla scoperta della cultura italiana dal primo livello (Session begins at 11:00AM); Regency B; Adapting Your Syllabus for Different Campuses; Regency A; Light lunch served ($10 workshop fee for Registrants; $25 for non-registrants). For more information and a registration link, visit the workshops page.
2:15PM - 4:15PM: Track 2: Seminars
4:30: Dancing with the Dark, Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010; Guided tour for NeMLA members; Voorhees Special Exhibition Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum
4:30PM - 6:00PM: Track 3 sessions; British Area Special Event; “Milton and the Cultures of Print”; Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University; Milton Exhibition, Alexander Library; Transportation from Hyatt; RSVP nemlatour2011@gmail.com
6:15PM: Graduate Student Caucus Greet-and-Meet; Meet graduate students and learn how to get involved with the NeMLA Graduate Student Caucus.; Hyatt registration area
7:00PM: Reading and Welcoming Reception, Rutgers University Poets; Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University; Mark Doty, Rutgers University; Note that seating for the reading is limited.; Zimmerli Museum; Wine and cheese served
8:30PM: Graduate Student Caucus Welcome Reception; Doll’s Place, 101 Paterson Street (www.dollsplacerestaurant.com); Meet in the Hyatt registration area; Ella es el Matador Screening; Rutgers University Libraries have arranged to show a documentary, Ella es el Matador (2009).; Information on the film: Talcual Films. Executive producers: Sheila C. Johnson, Suzanne La Fetra, Gemma Cubero. Written, directed and produced by Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco. Produced in association with American Documentary/P.O.V. New York: Women Make Movies [distributor], 2009.; Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library 4th Floor; Contact: Melissa Gasparotto, Latin American Studies Librarian, Tel: 732-932-7129 ext 124, email: gasparom@rci.rutgers.edu

Friday, April 8

All Day: Latino Literary Imagination Conference; Rutgers University Campus
8:00AM - 5:00PM: Registration
8:00AM - 9:00AM: Continental breakfast served; Garden State Foyer
8:30AM - 9:45 AM: Track 4 sessions
10:00AM - 11:30AM: Track 5 sessions
11:45AM - 1:00PM: Track 6 sessions
1:15PM - 2:45PM: Track 7 sessions; Italian Area Special Event; Antonella Sica, Genova Film Festival; Cristiano Palozzi, Genova Film Festival; Conference I
3:00PM - 4:30PM: Track 8 sessions
3:15PM - 4:30PM: Russian and Eastern European Special Event; Norton & Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (1956-1986), tour led by Julia Tulovsky; Zimmerli Art Museum; Transportation from Hyatt; RSVP nemlatour2011@gmail.com
4:45PM - 6:15PM: Track 9 sessions; Programs in Peril Roundtable; Featuring Rosemary Feal, Executive Director, MLA; Regency A
6:25PM - 6:55PM: Spanish/Portuguese Area Business Meeting; Salon D
7:00PM: Keynote Address; “Language Minorities in the USA in an English-Only Era”; Ana Celia Zentella, UC San Diego; Regency Ballroom
8:00PM - 9:00PM: Keynote Reception; Hors d’oeuvres buffet
8:30PM: Diversity Group Gathering; Meet in Hyatt lobby

Saturday, April 9

8:00AM - 5:00PM: Registration
8:00AM - 9:00AM: Continental breakfast; Garden State Foyer
8:30AM - 9:45AM: Track 10 sessions
10:00AM - 11:30AM: Track 11 sessions
11:45AM - 1:00PM: Track 12 sessions; Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Board meeting; Boardroom
1:15PM - 2:45PM: Track 13 sessions and special events; Spanish Language Area Special Event; Maite Carranza; Sponsored by the Ministerio de Cultura d’España; Regency C; Cultural Studies and Film Area Special Event; “Beauty Matters”; Deborah Willis, New York University; Conference I; Victorian Studies Special Event; “Victorian Studies Going Forward”; Anne Humpherys, Lehman College-CUNY; Regency F
3:00PM - 4:30PM: Track 14 sessions
4:45PM - 6:15PM: Track 15 sessions
6:30PM - 7:45PM: Track 16: Section events and receptions; C.A.I.T.Y. Board Meeting and Reception; Boardroom; MLS Writers’ Reception; Regency B; German Language Area Event and Reception; Michael Saur; In cooperation with the Goethe Institute; Regency D; Italian Language Area Business Meeting and Presentation; “Italicità: identità, linguaggi e aggregazioni nel mondo piatto”; Piero Bassetti and Niccolo d’Aquino, Globus et Locus; Regency F; Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Speaker and Reception; “Stand, Fight and Persevere: One Woman’s Journey Beyond Barriers”; Sharon Jimenez; Conference A; American Literatures Speaker and Reception; “Caribbean Transvestism” Accompanied by readings from Sirena Selena vestida de pena; Mayra Santos-Febres, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras; Co-Sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus; Regency C; British and Anglophone Area Event; “‘Brit Born Bajan’: Contemporary Black British Women’s Poetry”; Dorothea Smartt; Regency A; Combined British and American Reception to follow; Comparative Languages/French Language Area Speaker and Reception; “Muhammad Iqbal: an Islamic Philosophy of Elan Vital”; Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University; Regency E; Graduate Student Caucus Business Meeting; Salon B
7:30PM: Cultural Studies and Film Screening; “A Filha: a Film by Solveig Nordlund”; Co-Sponsored by Spanish/Portuguese Area; Salon A
8:00PM: LGBTQ Reception; Executive Director Suite; Graduate Student Caucus Dinner; Panico’s Brick Oven Pizzeria, 94 Church Street (note change in venue); Meet in the Hyatt registration area

Sunday, April 10

8:00AM - 10:30AM: Registration and Coffee
8:30AM - 10:00AM: Track 17 sessions
10:15AM - 12:15PM: Track 18 sessions
12:15PM - 1:30PM
: Closing Brunch and Membership Meeting; Garden State Ballroom