The Program

Day 1
Saturday, November 10

Preconference Event
Whitmore Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building
Dr. Carlos Perez-Mesa Memorial Concert  Hilaro Durán and Jane Bunnett with Candido Camero
Presented by the "We Always Swing"® Jazz Series
tickets $24/ $29

Day 2
Sunday, November 11

George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Fine Arts Building
3:00-5:00            
Works on Paper by Rolando Estévez Jordán
Special Gallery Preview

Museum of Art and Archeology, Pickard Hall
5:00-6:00        
Welcome       
Alex Barker and Mary Pixley, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri

Screening of Un libro único de Estévez (A One-of-a-Kind Book by Estévez) by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
Documentary chronicling the conception and creation of Rolando Estévez Jordán’s sculptural book based on Nancy Morejón’s poem, “I Love My Master.”

Performance
Unveiling of I Love My Master by Estévez; reading of “I Love My Master” by Nancy Morejón; translation by David Frye
                       
6:00-7:00        
Exhibition Opening and Reception

7:00-8:00        
Screening of Ediciones Vigía: Poéticas visuales (Ediciones Vigía: Visual Poetics) by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
Documentary of the evolution of the press and the production of Vigía books. Includes interviews with Vigía craftspeople and prominent Cuban intellectuals involved with the press from its inception.

Panel Discussion on the documentary withRolando Estévez Jordán, Nancy Morejón, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, and Maria Rodriguez-Alcala

 

Day 3
Monday, November 12

Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
7:45-8:30         Registration

8:30-9:00         Welcome       
Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Romance Language and Literatures, University of Missouri
Michael Middleton, Deputy Chancellor, University of Missouri

9:00-10:00      
“For the Love of Beautiful Books: An Ode to Ediciones Vigía”
Ruth Behar, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
 
10:00-10:15     Break

10:15-11:45     Breakout Sessions I
Breakout 1: Images of Modernity in Latin American Literary Magazines
Strickland Room S203, Memorial Union

    • Chair: Berkley Hudson (Magazine Journalism, University of Missouri)
    • Ana Moraña (Modern Languages, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania)
      • “The Feast of Modernity in Images. The Argentinean Magazine Caras y Caretas (1898-1910)”
    • Olga Vilella (English and Foreign Languages, Saint Xavier University)
      • “Navigating Between Two Waters: La Revista Blanca of Puerto Rico and the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
    • Robert Lesman (Modern Languages, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania)
      • “Intersemiotic Dialogue in Orígenes: Lezama and Mariano”

Breakout 2: The Art and History of Estévez’s Ediciones Vigía
Walt Disney Room N206, Memorial Union

    • Chair: Rachel Weiss, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    • Bill Fisher (Independent Researcher and Book Collector)
      • “Viaje a las semillas: The Origins and Early Years of Ediciones Vigía”
    • Kim Nochi (Independent Scholar)
      • “Vigía Iconography and the Construction of a Cuban Identity”
    • Kristin Schwain (Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri)
      • “’Vigía es Ellegua’: The Santería Aesthetics of Rolando Estévez Jordán and Ediciones Vigía”

11:45-1:00       Break for Lunch

1:00-2:30         Breakout Sessions II
Breakout 3:  The Intersection of Image and Text: Using Vigía Books as Tools for Transmediation and Building Visual Literacy
Walt Disney Room N206, Memorial Union

    • Chair: Kathy Unrath (Art Education, University of Missouri)
    • Panelists from the University of Missouri: Lyria Bartlett (Architectural Studies), Cathy Callaway (Museum of Art and Archaeology), Mary Franco (Art Education), Kristin Schwain (Art History and Archaeology), Jo Stealey (Art), and Sharyn Hyatt Wade (Art Education)

Breakout 4:  Entrepreneurship in the Visual and Culinary Arts
Strickland Room S203, Memorial Union

    • Chair: Peter Klein (Applied Social Sciences and McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, University of Missouri)
    • Wanderley Reis (Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles)
      •  “The Art of Bookmaking and Entrepreneurship in Monteiro Lobato”
    • Lola Aponte-Ramos (University of Puerto Rico)
      • “Unpleasant Questions: Reconstructing the Word in the Bookmaking in Puerto Rico”
    • Sharon Alvarez (Management & Human Resources, The Ohio State University)
      • “Entrepreneurship in the Cuban Restaurant Industry”

Breakout 5: Estévez’s Interpretation of Gender in Ediciones Vigía
Eyler Room S110,  Memorial Union

    • Chair: Anne Rudloff Stanton (Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri)
    • Aimee Koon and Niki Eaton (Sociology and Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri)
      • “Ediciones Vigía: Queering Books, Boundaries, and Boundedness”
    • Mabel Cuesta (Hispanic Studies, University of Houston)
      • “Women Authors in Vigía, a New Era Is Born”
    • María Inés Lagos (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, University of Virginia)
      • “Versions of a Life: Ana Mendieta, A Poem by Nancy Morejón in Ediciones Vigía”

2:45 – 3:45      Creativity and Innovation across Domains
Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union

    • Chair: Peter Klein (Applied Social Sciences and McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, University of Missouri)
    • Panelists: Ivo Zander (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden); Sharon Alvarez (Management & Human Resources, The Ohio State University); and Sanda Erdelez (Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri)  

3:45-4:00         Break

4:00-5:30         Breakout session III

Breakout 6: Bookmaking and Recycling as Social and Cultural Agents
Eyler Room S110,  Memorial Union

    • Chair: Flore Zephir (Romance Language and Literatures, University of Missouri)
    • Jerónimo Duarte Riascos (Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University)
      • “Recycling the Text:  How Getting Your Hands Dirty Might Turn You into an Avid Reader, an Admired Artist, and an Active Citizen”
    • Damaris Punales-Alpizar (Modern Languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University), Kathryn Witkowski and Siqi Li (Case Western Reserve University Students)
      • “Ediciones Vigía as an Educational Institution: An American Student’s Perspective”
    • Mia Leonin (Creative Writing, University of Miami) and Carol Todaro (Visual Arts, New World School of the Arts and University of Miami)
      •  “Ediciones Vigía in Miami: Pedagogical Tool and Community Builder”

Breakout 7:  A Transnational Tale of Four Artisan Presses in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico: Eloísa Cartonera, Ediciones Ergo Sum, Ediciones Vigía and Taller Leñateros
Strickland Room S203, Memorial Union

    • Chair: Pat Okker (English, University of Missouri)
    • Resha Cardone (World Languages and Literatures, Southern Connecticut State University)
      • “The Hands that Make the Books, Make the Nation: Book-objects and the Making of Chile’s Feminist Democracy”
    • Jane Griffin (Modern Languages, Bentley University)
      • “Las Cartoneras: How One Argentine Press Sparked an International Book-Object Publishing Phenomenon"
    • Erin Finzer (International and Second Language Studies, University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
      • “A Little Magazine and So Much More:The Handcrafted Journals of Cuba’s Ediciones Vigía and Mexico’s Taller Leñateros”

Breakout 8:  Convergence of Culture, Religion, and Literature in Ediciones Vigía
Walt Disney Room N206, Memorial Union

    • Chair: William Luis, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University
    • Lisa Rathje (Folklife Programs, Company of Folk)
      • “The Exceptional and the Everyday: A Closer Look at Ediciones Vigía”
    • Sarah Becker (Hispanic Studies, University of Houston)
      • “Africa, Intensified: Afro-Cuban Religious Traditions as Represented by Ediciones Vigía”
    • Gwendolyn Díaz (English Language and Literature, St. Mary’s University)
      • ”Cántico de la huella: Nancy Morejón Traces the Track of Time in Natural Love”

George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Fine Arts Building
5:30-7:30         Reception, Works on Paper by Rolando Estévez Jordán at the George Caleb Bingham Gallery
                        Remarks by Estévez at 6:00; Translation by David Frye

Bleu Restaurant and Wine Bar
8:00                 Cuban Themed Dinner (Tickets: $25.00)

 

Day 4
Tuesday, November 13

Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
7:30-8:45        
Breakfast hosted by McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

9:00-10:00      
“Estévez, Always Walking on the Grass”
Nancy Morejón, Cuban Poet Laureate
Screening of La Habana expuesta, un diseño de Estévez (Havana on Display, a Design by Estévez), a documentaryby Juanamaría Cordones-Cook that highlights the process by which Estévez and the craftspeople of Ediciones Vigía produced an anthology of poetry by Nancy Morejón

Panel Discussion on the documentary withRolando Estévez Jordán, Nancy Morejón, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, and Maria Rodriguez-Alcala
           
10:00-10:15     Break

10:15-11:15    
“Art and Entrepreneurship: Together and Apart”
Ivo Zander, Uppsala University, Sweden 

11:15-11:30     Break

11:30-12:30    
“Reflections, Refractions: Word and Image”
Rolando Estévez Jordán, principal designer and artist of Ediciones Vigía

Translator: Maria Rodriguez-Alcalá

12:30- 2:00      Break for Lunch

Ellis Library Colonnade
2:00-3:00        
“Why Collect Ediciones Vigía Books?”

      • Chair: Alex Barker, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
      • Mary Pixley, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
      • Jeanne Drewes, Chief of Binding and Collections Care, Preservation Directorate, Library of Congress
      • Bill Fisher, Independent Scholar and Vigía Book Collector
      • Kristin Schwain, Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri

3:00-3:30         Reception

3:30-4:30        
Welcome         Jim Cogswell, University of Missouri Libraries
 “Preserving Vigía”

  • Jeanne Drewes, Chief of Binding and Collections Care, Preservation Directorate, Library of Congress

5:00-7:00
Perlow-Stevens Gallery, 1025 East Walnut Street
Conference Closing Reception  
The Gallery will be showcasing its exhibition, We’re in this Together, curated by artist Kim Wardenburg (St. Louis, MO). The show was organized in response to artist books made by the Cuban publishing collective, Ediciones Vigía. Expanding on the idea of material improvisation, a defining characteristic of the Vigía projects, We’re in this Together explores eight artists’ books as devices for improvisational performance, navigation, and interaction within an environment extending beyond the books themselves.

Day 5
Wednesday, November 14

105 Strickland
4:00 PM         
Post-Conference Event: Poetry Reading by Nancy Morejón and Salgado Maranhao
Nancy Morejón, Cuban Poet Laureate
Salgado Maranhao, Brazilian Poet Laureate

 

SPONSORED BY:
Mizzou Advantage | Museum of Art and Archaeology | Afro-Romance Institute | Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Program | MU Libraries | Organization Resource Group | McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership | MU Art Department | MU Arts and Humanities Small Grants Program | Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative | Museum of Art and Archaeology | Council of Students | The Museum Associates | MU Fibers Arts Club | Office of Cultural Affairs | George Caleb Bingham Gallery | Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau

For program questions contact:
Juanamaria Cordones-Cook
Conference Chair
573-882-3328
cordonescookj@missouri.edu

For registration questions contact:
Barbara Wills
MU Conference Office
573-882-4370
muconf10@missouri.edu