CONFERENCES
- Claudia Cavallin
- Aug 31
- 6 min read
Updated: Oct 27
«La existencia entre dos universos de palabras». Primer Congreso de Escritura Creativa en Español, celebrado en Houston el 24 de octubre de 2025.
Keynote Speakers
Cristina Rivera Garza: Mexican writer, historian, and scholar recognized for her innovative work in narrative, poetry, and essay. Born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, she has built a literary career characterized by formal experimentation and genre blending. Some of her most notable works include Nadie me verá llorar (1999), La cresta de Ilión (2002), and El invencible verano de Liliana (2021), where she explores themes such as memory, gender violence, and identity.
Jorge Carrión: Spanish writer, literary critic, and essayist born in Tarragona. His work spans various genres, including novels, essays, and chronicles, with a particular focus on travel literature, digital culture, and memory. Some of his most recognized books include Librerías (2013), Los muertos (2010), and Barcelona. Libro de los pasajes (2017). He has collaborated with international media outlets, including The New York Times and El País, writing about literature, technology, and contemporary culture. He currently directs the Master’s in Creative Writing at Pompeu Fabra University.
Amandititita: Mexican singer and writer, born in 1979 in Tampico, Tamaulipas. She is known for her musical style called «anarcumbia», a fusion of cumbia with punk and hip-hop, blending satire and social critique. She made her debut with the album La Reina de la Anarcumbia (2008) and has published several books, including 13 Latas de Atún (2015), El Crimen de la Autopista del Norte (2022), and Un día contaré esta historia (One Day I Will Tell This Story, 2025).
Liliana Colanzi (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1981) is a writer, editor, translator, and scholar. She won the Aura Estrada Prize in 2015 for her short stories «Caníbal» and «Chaco,» and was a finalist for the Gabriel García Márquez Short Story Prize with her book Nuestro mundo muerto (Our Dead World). She is the founding editor of Dum Dum, an independent publishing house based in Bogotá that began operating in 2017. In March 2022, she was awarded the International Ribera del Duero Prize for her collection Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (You Glow in the Dark).
XL Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos. «La simbología exocanónica del cuerpo en la obra de Margo Glantz».Panel 1: «Simbología y memoria en la narrativa hispanoamericana». Conference Dates: 10/24/25 - 10/25/24. Madrid, 2025.
Sumilla: Más allá del canon, y desde una mirada dinámica y virtual que se conecta a través de las redes sociales, la ruptura de compartimientos estancos en la literatura contemporánea actual transgrede lo trasatlántico, la rigidez teórica, las hibridaciones formales y metodológicas, y las fronteras entre lo tecnológico y lo filológico para expandir una obra en la escritura digital, como lo hizo Margo Glantz. Sus textos se trasladaron a un cambio, un giro, un profundo retuiteo de la equis que Glantz usó para retar al producto comercial de una sola letra que se enhebra y se multiplica en la escritura. Con los nuevos cambios políticos y el auge de otros movimientos virtuales, vale la pena volver a sus palabras para hilvanar un nuevo tejido de la memoria.
Cuerpos sin vida e identidades compartidas en la migración venezolana as part of the panel Literatura venezolana del siglo XXI into the Track Literature Studies: 20th / 21st Centuries of the LASA2025 Hybrid Congress: Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América taking place May 23–26, 2025, virtually and on-site in San Francisco, USA.
El mapa como representación móvil de la memoria colectiva as part of the panel: Migration Narratives into the Track: Migration and Refugees for the LASA2024 Hybrid Congress: Reacción y resistencia: Imaginar futuros posibles en las Américas taking place June 12–15, 2024, Bogotá, Colombia at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
La ipseidad identitaria: un ordenamiento inestable en la escritura de los desplazados. SCMLA 80th Annual Conference. Luso-Afro-Brazilian Language and Literature Panel. Corpus Christi, TX, October 2023.
Luisa Valenzuela: Cronología de la memoria desde la mirada occidental as part of the panel: Themes and Activism in Women's Writing in the 20th Century into the Track: Literature Studies for the LASA2023 Hybrid Congress: América Latina y el Caribe: Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos, Vancouver, Canada, May 2023.
Martín Caparrós: La escritura dispersa entre las fronteras de América Latina. SCOLAS 2023 57th Annual Conference Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Dallas, TX, April 2023.
La apertura identitaria de los escritores migrantes: Escribir afuera, cuentos de interperies y querencias en Venezuela. SCMLA 79th Annual Conference. Luso-Afro-Brazilian Language and Literature Panel. Memphis, TN, October 2022.
Contemporary Venezuelan Narrative. Doctorate in Contemporary Hispano-American Literature at The University of Playa Ancha, June 2022.
Venezuela: The biographical writing of migrant subalterns was part of the panel "Venezuela, Dispersed: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Venezuelan Migration and the Diaspora" at the University of Exeter in May 2022.
Crónicas multinacionales, apertura identitaria y movimientos sociales/intelectuales alternativos en la escritura venezolana as part of the panel: La literatura es conflicto: Venezuela y Colombia into the Track: Literature Studies for the LASA2022 Hybrid Congress: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias, San Francisco, California, May 2022.
Massive Child Migration as a result of the Political Crisis in Venezuela as part of the panel Spanish Vi: 21st Century Latin American Literature. SCMLA 78th Annual Conference. Luso-Afro-Brazilian Language and Literature Panel. Houston, TX, October 2021.
Borders as Labyrinths of Power: Venezuelan Chronicles in Three Migratory Spaces. Virtual Congress. Latin American Studies Association Venezuela LASA-Venezuela 2021, June 2021.
The return of Venezuelan migrant children during the political and pandemic crisis as part of the panel: “Return Migration (2)” into the Track: Migration and refugees for the Virtual Congress. Latin American Studies Association LASA2021, May 2021.
Massive child migration as a result of the political crisis in Venezuela as part of the panel: “Los niños en la migración y el sacrificio de las madres”, into the Track: Migración, desplazamientos, diásporas for Latin American Studies Association LASA2020 Guadalajara, Mexico. May 2020.
Irony and the Modern Theatre as a Mirror of Political Repression in Venezuela. International Symposium (Re) Thinking Venezuela: Critical Approaches to a Fractured Country. Cornell University, April 2020.
The Venezuelan Political Reality Inside Literature That Replaces Journalism. (Presentation) into the Track: “Approaches To Truth From Chronicles and Journalism”. 67th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS). New Mexico State University April, 2020
Fragments of contemporary literature in the Venezuelan virtual reality (Presentation) environment into the Track: Literature of the Americas. Latin American Studies Association LASA Boston, USA. Robberson Conference Presentation & Creative Exhibition Travel Grant. Boston, Massachusetts. May 2019.
Imagination and crisis: the challenges of teaching Venezuelan literature abroad (Workshop) into the Track: Education, Citizenship, and Inclusion. Latin American Studies Association LASA Boston, USA. Robberson Conference Presentation & Creative Exhibition Travel Grant. Boston, Massachusetts. May 2019.
The Humanitarian and Political Crisis in Venezuela: An Informational Session. Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, Spanish Section. The University of Oklahoma. February 2019.
La modernización incorpórea. Cidade de Deus y el crecimiento de lo urbano frente a la inestabilidad de los cuerpos/ The disembodied modernization Cidade de Deus: The urban growth and the instability of the bodies. SCMLA 75th Annual Conference. Luso-Afro-Brazilian Language and Literature Panel. San Antonio, TX, October 2018.
Recuperaciones y reinstalaciones topológico-políticas en las ficciones de Raúl Ruiz, Roberto Brodsky y García París into the Track: Film Studies. Latin American Studies Association LASA Barcelona, Spain. Robberson Conference Presentation & Creative Exhibition Travel Grant. May 2018.
Blindness, by José Saramago: visions and destruction in the urban imaginary / Ensayo sobre la ceguera, de José Saramago: visiones y destrucciones en el imaginario urbano. SCMLA 74th Annual Conference. Luso-Afro-Brazilian Language and Literature Panel. Tulsa, OK. October 2017.
Borges and philosophy in an author/ Borges y la filosofía del autor. TIERRA TINTA; Thirteenth Annual Conference on Latin American, Peninsular, French, Francophone and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Music, Visual Arts, or Cinema. Norman, OK. October 2017.
El cuerpo como ejercicio de memoria y resistencia en la escritura de Luisa Valenzuela. South Central Modern Language Association SCMLA Conference. 73rd Annual Conference. Dallas, TX. October 2016.
Secuestro Express o La estética de la violencia en la narrativa cinematográfica. TIERRA TINTA; Twelfth Annual Conference on Latin American, Peninsular, French, Francophone and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Music, Visual Arts, or Cinema. October 2016.
La estética de la violencia en la narrativa venezolana. II Seminario Internacional de Posgraduados (II SIP-MUEAF) y VI Ciclo de Conferencias de Profesores Invitados del MUEAF, Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Salamanca, España. February 2015.
Cátedra de Literatura Venezolana José Antonio Ramos Sucre
La Cátedra Internacional de Literatura Venezolana José Antonio Ramos Sucre se fundó mediante convenio de la Universidad de Salamanca con el Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (CONAC) de Venezuela con fecha de 16 de noviembre de 1993, y en la actualidad está auspiciada por el Ministerio de Cultura y gestionada por la Plataforma del Libro y la Lectura de este país. Su objetivo es la promoción, el estudio y la investigación de la literatura venezolana desde sus orígenes aunque con especial incidencia en los autores contemporáneos.
