Conference on Javier Marías

10 June 2019 to 11 June 2019
Date: 
Monday 10 June 09:00 - Tuesday 11 June 16:00
Venue: 
Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College
Admission: 
Free

This conference is open to all. If you would like to register for  a full day of the conference (including lunch), or if you would like to attend the conference dinner, please send an email to santiago.bertran@exeter.ox.ac.uk.

 

 

Monday 10
 
09.00-09.45:  Registration
 
09.45-10.00:  Welcome
 


I. BEGINNINGS
 
10.00-11.00:  Plenary lecture     Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh), ‘Los orígenes de las novelas’
 
11.00-12.30: Carmen María López (UCAM-Universidad de Murcia), ‘Javier Marías y el cine: confluencias estéticas y perspectivas comparadas’
 
José Antonio Vila (independent researcher), ‘Las primeras novelas de Javier Marías: la vanguardia como forma de antifranquismo’  
 
Pedro Arozamena (independent researcher), ‘Los tesoros del olvido. Dos cuentos «prehistóricos» de Javier Marías’
 
12.30-13.30: Buffet lunch
 


II. CROSSING BORDERS
 
13.30-14.30: Plenary lecture
 
Maarten Steenmeijer (Radboud Universiteit), ‘Javier Marías como escritor de escritores’
 
14.30-16.00: Álvaro Marín García (University of Essex), ‘Javier Marías como agente (inter)cultural: el ejercicio del cosmopolitismo literario’
 
Heike Scharm (University of South Florida), ‘Thus Bad Begins: The Sense(s) of an Ending in Javier Marías and Julian Barnes’
 
Cristóbal Pérez Barra (University of Oxford), ‘Voyage Along the Language: Javier Marías and the Idea of a World Writer’
 
16.00-16.30: Coffee break
 
16.30-17.30: In conversation with Margaret Jull-Costa: Translating Javier Marías, translating Oxford
 
19.00: Wine reception and conference dinner

 

Tuesday 11
III. LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
 
10.00-11.00:  Plenary lecture     Elide Pittarello (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia), ‘La imagen heurística en las novelas de Javier Marías’
 
11.00-12.30: Daniela Omlor (University of Oxford), ‘Guilt in Javier Marías’s Tu rostro mañana’
 
 Marta Pérez-Carbonell (Colgate University), ‘Mutual Exclusion and Uncertainty in Javier Marías’s Latest Fiction’
 
 Santiago Bertrán (University of Oxford), ‘La mirada novelística de Javier Marías: huellas de una metafísica raciovital’
 
12.30-13.30: Buffet lunch
 


IV. TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
 
13.30-14.30: Plenary lecture
 
José María Pozuelo Yvancos (Universidad de Murcia), ‘Contrapuntos serio-cómicos en las novelas de Javier Marías’
 
14.30-16.00: Marina Pérez de Arcos (University of Oxford), ‘Text and Context: Teaching All Souls and the Cold War at Oxford’
 
Wiosna Szukala (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), ‘La masculinidad y el fantasma en la prosa de Javier Marías’  
 
 María Rosario Quintana (Marshall University/ANLE), ‘Los márgenes del cuento en Javier Marías’
 
 
16.00: Final remarks

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