¡Gracias a la vida! Celebrating Violeta Parra

2:00pm Introductory Remarks
Verónica Cortínez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Center for Southern Cone Studies
Steve Loza, Department of Ethnomusicology
Director, UCLA Center for Latino Arts

2:15pm Keynote speech
Juan Pablo González, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile
“Violeta Parra: Creator of Worlds and Songs”

3:15pm Coffee Break

3:30pm Ericka Verba, Cal State LA
“‘I, the Ugliest Woman in the World’: Violeta Parra and the Gendered Contours of her Performance”

4:00pm David Spener, Trinity University, Texas
“Honoring Violeta Parra the Day She Took Flight: Preserving Collective Memories and Reaffirming Shared Identities”

4:30pm Coffee Break

4:45pm Screening of Mimbre
(Sergio Bravo, 1957; Music Violeta Parra)

5:00pm Music by Violeta Parra performed by Chilean musicians
  Arrangements by composer Sergio Torres-Letelier

5:30pm Reception