Conference on Javier Marías
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
