The Narratives of Transgression and Trespass
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April 17 - 19, 2009
The Departments of English and Modern Languages
North Dakota State University |
Important
Announcement
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The 2009 Red River Conference WILL go on!
We are looking forward to seeing you next week!
All is ready for a wonderful Conference!
All venues are at high elevation-- free from flood worries.
So welcome to Fargo in the springtime!
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| Call for Papers |
2010 Call for Papers is available: Translation: Passage to World Literature
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Schedule and Abstracts |
The conference schedule has been revised and updated.
Be sure to check the schedule regularly for changes. The most recent version of the program is available now by clicking on this link. Abstracts have been added.
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Keynote Speaker
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Lucha Corpi
La Página Roja: A Personal View of
Chicana Crime Fiction in the 21st Century
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Friday April 17, 2009
Alumni Center
Poet and writer LUCHA CORPI (b. 1945) was born in Jáltipan, Veracruz, Mexico, and came to Berkeley, California,
as a young wife in 1964. Her son Arturo was born in Berkeley in 1967. Corpi has a degree in Comparative Literature
from U.C. Berkeley. During her student days, she served as a student member of the newly established Chicano Studies'
Executive Committee on campus. She was also a volunteer dental assistant at the Clínica de La Raza, a Fruitvale Health
Initiative established by UC students and faculty, and a parent member of the Comité Popular de La Raza, a grass roots
organization credited for establishing the first bilingual pre-school and elementary school programs in the Oakland Public
Schools. She was also a founding member of Aztlán Cultural, an arts service organization and of Centro Chicano de Escritores
(Chicano Center for Writers ). Both organizations merged and she served as the first president of the new center. She earned
her Master's Degree in World and Comparative Literature from San Francisco State. Primarily known as a poet, writing poetry
in Spanish and translated into English by Catherine Rodríguez-Nieto, she is also the author of five novels written in English,
four of which are mysteries featuring Brown Angel Investigations and Gloria Damasco, the first Chicana detective in American
literature.
Her novels include Delia's Song (1984), Eulogy for a Brown Angel (1992, 2002), which received the 1992 PEN Oakland
Josephine Miles Award and the Multicultural Publisher's Exchange award for best fiction in 1992, Cactus Blood (1995),
Black Widow's Wardrobe (1999) and Crimson Moon (2004). Her poetry is collected in Variaciones sobre una tempestad/
Variations on a Storm (1990) and Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words (2001), with English translations by Catherine
Rodríguez Nieto. She has also authored the children's book, Where Fireflies Dance/Ahí, Donde Bailan Las Luciérnagas (1997).
She lives in Oakland, California, where she was a tenured teacher in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers
Program for 30 years.
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Plenary Speakers |
Saturday April 18
10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Alumni Center - Reimers
A Perpetual Surprise:
Theorizing Creole Identity in Caribbean
Literature
Dr. J. Michael Dash
Born in Trinidad, Dash has worked extensively on Haitian literature and French Caribbean writers, especially Edouard Glissant, whose works, The Ripening (1985), Caribbean Discourse (1989) and Monsieur Toussaint (2005) he has translated into English. After 21 years at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica where he was Professor of Francophone Literature and Chair of Modern Languages, he is now Professor of French at New York University after having been Director of the Africana Studies Program. His publications include Literature and Ideology in Haiti (1981), Haiti and the United States (1988), Edouard Glissant (1995), The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (1998). He has also translated The Drifting of Spirits (1999) by Gisèle Pineau. His most recent books are, Libeté: A Haiti Anthology (1999) with Charles Arthur and Culture and Customsof Haiti (2001). He is at present working on a book on Surrealism and ethnography in the Francophone Caribbean.
 Saturday April 18 at 5:00 p.m.
Plains Art Museum
"Writing n Between"
Cvetka Lipuš
Born in Eisenkappel / ðelezna Kapla (Austria), Ms. Lipuš studied Slavic languages and comparative literature at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). Having grown up as member of the Slovenian minority in Austria, she writes poetry in Slovenian and sometimes non-fiction in German. For several years she worked for a publishing house specializing in the literature of Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia. In 1995 she moved to Pittsburgh, PA. She received the title of MLIS (Master of Library and Information Sciences) from the University of Pittsburgh, and is currently employed as a librarian. She is the author of five poetry collections: Pragovi dneva – (Thresholds of the Day; Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt, Austria 1989), Doba temnjenja (Time of Darkening; Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1993), Geografija bližine (Cartography of Closeness; Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2000), Spregatev milosti (Conjugating Mercy; Cankarjeva založba, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2003), “Obleganje sreče” (Siege of Happiness; Cankarjeva založba, Ljubljana 2008), and the sixth collection “Pojdimo vezat kosti” (Let’s go stitch bones, Mladinska knjiga. Ljubljana 2010) is forthcoming. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian, Serbian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, Bulgarian, Italian, French and Hungarian. She has been publishing in numerous Slovenian and German literary magazines. She received several fellowships and literary awards, including the Government Fellowship by the Austrian Chancellery 1998-99, and 2006-07, Project Award by the Austrian Chancellery 2002-03, and the Award for Literature by the State of Carinthia 2000. Her poetry collection “Obleganje sreče” (2008) has been nominated for the “Veronikina nagrada”, a poetry award granted for the best poetry collection of the year.
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Registration Form
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The 2009 Registration Form IS now available on-line. Click here to access the form. PLEASE be sure to select you meals for
Friday and Saturday.
PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS
MARCH 27, 2009
The meals at the Alumni Center are catered and we cannot guarantee extra meals will
be available for any registrations made on the day of the conference.
FLARR (Foreign Language Association of the Red River) Participants:
Please use the special FLARR Registration form for Saturday FLAAR Sessions. Please pre-register so we are sure to have enough lunches.
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Conference Hotel
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Conference Hotel information will be forthcoming. We have once again reserved a block of rooms
at the Radisson Hotel Fargo. For more details about the hotel, please click here for the hotel link.
There are a number of other hotels located in downtown Fargo including the Hotel Donaldson and
Howard Johnson's, both within walking distance of the Radisson (for shuttle pick up). Information
about these hotels as well as more information about the Conference can be found by going to the
Conference Information page. Additional information about the Fargo-Moorhead area can be found
at the F/M Visitor's bureau site. Please click here or on the F/M Visitor's Bureau logo for a link.
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About the Conference |
This is the Twelfth Annual Red River Conference on World Literature. There is a history of the
Conference available on-line. If you would like to read more about how the conference came to be,
click here.
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Related Links: 
Past Schedules and Abstracts:
2007
2008
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