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Page 1: 25th Annual Carolina Conference for Romance Studies• “Rousseau Between Abjection and Aura: Meritocracy, Biopolitics, and the Leaky Body.” Nat Lazakis, Independent Researcher.
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25th Annual Carolina Conference for Romance Studies

Conference Coordinators:

Jordan Bessette, Quentin Bouvier, Kristen Foote, Sandra García Gutiérrez, Jhonn Guerra Banda, Andrés Porras Chaves, Emanuele Stefanori

Special Recognition is given for the support of:

Department of Romance Studies, The Graduate School, College of Arts and Sciences, Center for European Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Center for Global Initiatives, Department of Art and Art History, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Program in Latina/o Studies, Department of American Studies, Department of History, Institute for the Arts and the Humanities

The 2020 Conference Committee thanks the following individuals for their invaluable help:

Jossette Bailey, Azza Ben Youssef, Logan Brackett, Sarah Booker, Shavon Carey, Oswaldo Estrada, Hélène de Fays, Serenella Iovino, Mireya Jamal, Nefi López-Chen, Amaia Valparis, Ellen Welch, and The Graduate Romance Association

We also thank all panel chairs, participants, and the graduate students and faculty of the Department of Romance Studies for their willing help.

2020 CCRS cover design by Jossette Bailey, Quentin Bouvier, and Kristen Foote

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Special Presentations at the 2020 CCRS

Location: Toy Lounge (Dey Hall, 4th floor)

Thursday, March 26th, 4:30 – 6:00 pm: Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza

Keynote Address: “Escrituras geológicas: Palabras que des-sedimentan

para hacer la pregunta sobre la justicia”

Friday, March 27th, 4:30 – 6:00 pm:

Dr. Elena Past Keynote Address:

“#FilmIsAlive: Ferrania, or Analog Afterlives in the Digital Age”

Saturday, March 28th, 4:30 – 6:00 pm: Dr. Ari Blatt

Keynote Address: “State of Place, State of Mind: Everyday Environments

in Contemporary French Photography”

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Thursday, March 26th, 2020 9:00 am-4:15 pm

Registration (Room 3411, Carolina Union) Coffee available until 3:30 pm

9:30 am- 10:00 am

Welcome Address (Toy Lounge, Dey Hall) Remarks given by:

• Jordan Bessette, Ph.D. Student in French, UNC Chapel Hill. • Ellen Welch, Chair of the Department of Romance Studies.

10:15 am- 11:45 pm

1.1 Tracing Spirals: Violence, Bodies and Politics. Chair: TBA

• “(Social) Bodies in Disruption: Jihadist Violence in Timbuktu.” Julianna Blair Watson, Eastern Illinois University.

• “France’s Two Koreas: Wealth and Poverty.” Sarah Arvidson, Vanderbilt University.

• “The Body as a Metaphor for Portuguese Decadence.” Paulo Rodrigues Ferreira, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Franciscan Cynicism: Bare Life as a Transformative Cosmopolitics.” Roberto Mosciatti, University of Michigan.

10:15 am- 11:45 pm

1.2 Bodies and Society: The Biopolitics of Disability. Chair: Lizzie Jones

• “Rousseau Between Abjection and Aura: Meritocracy, Biopolitics, and the Leaky Body.” Nat Lazakis, Independent Researcher.

• “Dynamics of Care in Fruta podrida: A Close Reading of Zoila and El Viejo.” Kelly Goldsmith, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “The Sacredness of Disability and El Pueblo’s New Twenty-First Century Consciousness in Cherrie Moraga’s Heroes and Saints and Watsonville.” Geovani Ramírez, UNC Chapel Hill.

11:45 am- 1:00 pm

Lunch break

1:00 pm- 2:30 pm

2.1 Ruins, Memory, and Political Violence in Latin America. Chair: TBA

• “Paraguay Requecho: Environmental Ruins, Isolation and Revolution in Son of Man (Roa Bastos, 1960).” Federico Pous, Elon University.

• “The Ruins of the Central American Civil Wars: Progress and Catastrophe.” Juan Leal Ugalde, Elon University.

• “The Ruins of Disillusionment: Film Production and the Failure to (Re)build Peruvian Society.” Pablo Celis-Castillo, Elon University.

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1:00 pm- 2:30 pm

2.2 Across the Borders: Migration in the Present and Future Tense. Chair: TBA

• “Migration and the Mare Nostrum in Mar Gómez Glez’s Cifras.” Anthony Pasero O'Malley, Davidson College.

• “The Future Is Present: Climate Changes and Changes of Perspective in Bruno Arpaia’s Qualcosa, là fuori.” Giuseppina Gemboni, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “They Tried to Bury Us: Representations of Harm in Latinx Migrant and Environmental Activism.” Meaghan Coogan, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Eco-Ego: Migration, Ecocriticism, and Identity in Latin American Slums.” Nicole Bonino, University of Virginia.

2:45 pm- 4:15 pm

3.1 Transcorporeal Technoscapes: Sites of Change in Contemporary Latin America. Chair: TBA

• “Waste and Waslala: Rewriting the Revolution.” Matthew Richey, University of Virginia.

• “Streetscapes of the 21st Century in Guadalupe Nettel’s El huésped.” María Esparza Rodríguez, University of Virginia.

• “Slow Violence and the Illegal Drug Economy in Pájaros de verano.” Lauren Mehfoud, University of Virginia.

2:45 pm-4:15 pm

3.2 Relecturas contemporáneas de imaginarios literarios. Chair: TBA

• “Cuerpos utópicos: La feminización del paisaje americano en Odas (1794, Madrid), de Pedro Montengón.” Cristóbal Clemente Rodrigálvarez, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Abyección y proyección gótica del yo en Extracción de la piedra de la locura.” Monserrat Asecio, University of Colorado, Boulder.

• “Otras imágenes del Antropoceno en prácticas de la poesía chilena.” Arnaldo Enrique Donoso Aceituno, Universidad de Concepción.

• “Referencialidad y presencia corporizada de lo natural en el teatro chileno contemporáneo.” Marcia Martínez Carvajal, Universidad de Valparaíso.

4:30 pm- 6:00 pm

Keynote Address (Toy Lounge, Dey Hall) “Escrituras geológicas: Palabras que des-sedimentan para hacer la pregunta sobre la justicia.” Cristina Rivera Garza, University of Houston.

6:30 pm- 8:30 pm

Welcome Social (Imbibe, 108 Henderson St., Chapel Hill) Participants are invited to an informal reception at Imbibe. Light hors d’œuvres will be provided, guests are welcomed to purchase beverages or additional food.

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Friday, March 27th, 2020 8:00 am-4:15 pm

Registration (Room 3411, Carolina Union) Coffee available until 3:30 pm

8:30 am- 10:00 am

1.1 Denuncia social a través del arte (audio)visual. Chair: TBA

• “Terror en el agua, miedo en el cuerpo: La lucha de los pueblos indígenas por conservar agua, vida y tradición en el documental Hija de la laguna, de Ernesto Cabellos Damián.” Jennifer Thorndike, Monmouth College.

• “Condenados a ser (in)visibles: Opresión y sobrevivencia en tres películas sobre migración centroamericana.” Manuel Sánchez Cabrera, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Mirageman: A Critical Commentary on Chilean Media and the Human Factor.” Victoria K. Driggs, Virginia Tech University.

• “Carpanta (1947-1967), de José Escobar, vs. Joker (2019), de Todd Phillips: Humor, hambre y protesta en tiempos de crisis.” Irene Gómez-Castellano, UNC Chapel Hill.

8:30 am- 10:00 am

1.2 Loci Amoeni: Beautiful Sites and (Old) New Edens. Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin

• “Villa Adriana.” Angel Boyd, Maria Paula Guerra Chavez, Yi Ge, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Eco-tourism, Berceo, and Recuperating Eden.” Paul Larson, Baylor University.

• “Of Nature and Men: An Animist Approach.” Tarik Lagnaoui, Rutgers University.

10:15 am- 11:45 am

2.1 Cuentos de ida y vuelta. Narradores peruanos en USA. Chair: Oswaldo Estrada

Roundtable discussion with Luis Hernán Castañeda (Middlebury College), Carlos Villacorta (University of Maine), Francisco Ángeles (Monmouth College), Jennifer Thorndike (Monmouth College), Alexis Iparraguirre (CUNY / Graduate Center), Ulises González (CUNY / Graduate Center)

10:15 am- 11:45 am

2.2 Matter, Resistance, and Contamination in the Anthropocene. Chair: TBA

• “Gioconda Belli’s Waslala as South to North Green Inspiration.” Chris T. Schulenburg, University of Wisconsin, Platteville.

• “Primo Levi’s Chewing Gum: Forms and Matters of Resistance in the Anthropocene.” Serenella Iovino, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Hunting in the Anthropocene, or Myxomatosis and Radioactivity in Carlos Saura’s La caza (The Hunt, 1966).” Fernando Varela, Vanderbilt University.

• “Mineral Bodies: Eco-Centric Entanglements in Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.” Paolo Saporito, McGill University.

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11:30 am- 1:00 pm

Special Event (Toy Lounge, Dey Hall) “Cristina Rivera Garza in Translation: A Bilingual Reading with Sarah Booker.” Moderator: Oswaldo Estrada. Light lunch will be provided.

11:45 am- 1:00 pm

Lunch Break

1:00 pm- 2:30 pm

3.1 Hybridizing Nature at the Dawn of the Anthropocene 1744-1784. Chair: Sarah Benharrech

• “Hybridité féminine: lecture écoféministe de La Dispute de Marivaux.” Clara Bichon, University of Maryland.

• “Plant-Men and Man-Machines: An Ecocritical Reading of Hybrid Bodies in Eighteenth-Century France.” Charlee Bezilla, University of Maryland.

• “Anthropocentrist Doesn’t Have to be a Bad Word: Liberal Anthropocentrism in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Études de la nature.” Madeline Muravchik, University of Maryland.

• “Les enjeux de l’espèce humaine pour Buffon : les races sont-elles égales?” Guilhem Le Saux, University of Maryland.

1:00 pm- 2:30 pm

3.2 Defiled Bodies: Women, Violence, and Patriarchal Power. Chair: Rhi Johnson

• “Xing Borders: TRANSPLANTation as Survival and Subversion in the Fiction of María Luisa Bombal and Isabel Allende.” Marcy Pedzwater, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Sexual Violence and the State of Exception in Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness.” Julia Danner, University of Minnesota.

• “The Commodified Female Body as a Site of Memory in Roberto Burgos Cantor’s Lo amador.” Emily Sterk, Pennsylvania State University.

• “Para que sea ni una menos: How Argentina’s #NiUnaMenos Employed Discourse to Resist Patriarchal Violence.” Alyssa Bedrosian, UNC Greensboro.

2:45 pm- 4:15 pm

4.1 Beyond Anthropocentrism: Theorizing Material Agency and Posthumanism. Chair: Serenella Iovino

• “Manuscript Eco-Narrative through a Thirteenth Century Bible.” Megan Fenrich, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “One Friday, Robinson Crusoe Wore Nothing: Redefining ‘Alterity’ in Michel Tournier’s Friday.” Elizabeth Rose, University of Colorado, Boulder.

• “Fantastic Animalities in the Work of Michele Mari: The Case of La stiva e l’abisso.” Angelo Castagnino, University of Denver.

• “The Cosmic Will to Power.” Blake Faulkner, UNC Chapel Hill.

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2:45 pm-4:15 pm

4.2 Representaciones literarias de mujeres en los siglos XX y XX. Chair: TBA

• “¿Quién es Irene? El narrador y su representación de Irene en ‘Casa tomada’ (1946), de Julio Cortázar.” Angela Pierce, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “La presencia de la mujer en La colonia Rubén Jaramillo, de Elena Poniatowska.” Katelyn Smith, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “En tierra de nadie: El espacio insular y la búsqueda del yo femenino en Primera memoria, de Ana María Matute.” Robert Sanchis Alvarez, Universitat de Barcelona / Furman University.

• “Esperando a que más Penélopes lleguen: Reescrituras feministas de la Odisea en la literatura española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y en el siglo XXI.” Macarena Martín Martínez, UNC Chapel Hill.

1:00 pm- 4:15 pm

4.3 Research and Teaching Beyond ROMS. Chairs: Hélène de Fays and Cristina Carrasco, UNC Chapel Hill

Roundtable discussion with Carolina Caballero (Tulane University), Amy C. McNichols (McDaniel College), Betsy Sandlin (The University of the South), Carmen Perez-Muñoz (Wake Forest), Francisco Brignole (UNC Wilmington), Deb Reisinger (Duke University), Anne Schaefer (Knox College), Christine Ristaino (Emory University), Simona Muratore (Emory University).

4:30 pm- 6:00 pm

Keynote Address (Toy Lounge, Dey Hall) “#FilmIsAlive: Ferrania, or Analog Afterlives in the Digital Age.” Elena Past, Wayne State University.

6:30 pm-8:30pm

Evening Social (TRU Deli & Wine Bar, 114 Henderson St., Chapel Hill) Participants are invited to an informal gathering at TRU. Light hors d’œuvres and drinks provided, guests are welcomed to purchase beverages or additional food.

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Saturday, March 28th, 2020 8:00 am-4:15 pm

Registration (Room 3411, Carolina Union) Coffee available until 3:30 pm

8:30 am-10:00 am

1.1 Creating Context and Meaning for Second Language Learners. Chair: Hélène de Fays

• “It’s Not about the Vocabulary: Contextualizing Social, Health, and Educational Services for Spanish Learners.” Amy C. McNichols, McDaniel College.

• “From the Depot to the Final Destination: Using Creative Transitions and Closure to Keep Language Learners “On-Board” During Your Lessons.” Anastacia Kohl, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Metacognitive Reflection in the Language Classroom.” Betsy Sandlin, Sewanee University.

• “Passing Torches: Mentors and Mirrors.” Laura Fielden Burns, Universidad de Extremadura.

8:30 am-10:00 am

1.2 Rethinking Colonialism: Physical, Cultural, and Political Spaces Chair: Emma Monroy

• “Colonial Spanish and Indigenous Socio-Economic Institutions in the Americas: Interaction, Hybridity, and Dominance.” Craig S. Galbraith, UNC Wilmington.

• “The Creation of Culture: ‘La souche unique’ and the Lasting Impact of Imposed Colonial Mentality.” Alexandra Goldych, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Aerial Images of the Haitian-Dominican Border: A Postcolonial Rhetorical Dichotomization of the Hispaniolan Nations.” Carrie Clower, NC State University.

8:30 am-10:00 am

1.3 Telling (Hi)stories: Memory and Identity. Chair: TBA

• “Vae Victis! Memory and Authority in Leonor López de Córdoba’s Memoirs, on Her Nine-Year Imprisonment in the Royal Atarazanas of Seville.” Eva Sánchez-Romero, Universidad de Salamanca.

• “Man vs. Wild: Restor[y]ing Order in Gamaliel Churata’s El pez de oro and Blanca Wiethüchter’s El jardín de Nora.” Emily Bryan, University of Pittsburgh.

• “The Southern Question and Organic Intellectuals: Formations of Culture, Identity and Collective Memory through Italian Foodways.” Pia Bertucci, University of South Carolina.

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10:15 am-11:45 am

2.1 Language and Community: Pedagogical Implications. Chair: Hannelore Jarausch

• “Art & Activism: Combining Arts Based Pedagogies and Social Justice in the Intermediate Spanish Classroom.” Bridget Gunnels, Emory University.

• “Building Community from Day One: First Day Activities for Language and Literature Courses.” Elizabeth Tolman, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “Breaking out of family and gender dichotomies in language education: a didactic proposal.” Laura Fielden Burns, Universidad de Extremadura.

• “Breaking Old School: Teaching Language in the 21st Century University via Languages Across the Curriculum and the Language Exchange.” Michelle Gravat, UNC Chapel Hill.

10:15 am-11:45 am

2.2 Espacios liminales y resistencias ante el control biopolítico. Chair: TBA

• “Mujeres sin fronteras: Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Verónica Reyes y la lucha por la representación dentro de la poesía fronteriza chicana.” Sherry Kate Nourizadeh, University of Georgia.

• “La dimensión biopolítica y el cuerpo homosexual en la narrativa de Mario Bellatin.” Silvia Roig, BMCC-CUNY.

• “Cuerpo, género y discapacidad en ‘Ptosis’, de Guadalupe Nettel: Una aproximación feminista.” Hyanghee Lee, University of South Carolina.

• “El sujeto con un cuerpo enfermo: Corporalidad y subjetividad en Sangre en el ojo (2012), de Lina Meruane.” Sara Park, University of Virginia.

10:15 am-11:45 am

2.3 Mapping Spaces, Shaping Landscapes. Chair: Toni Veneri

• “Landscape and Nature in Los santos inocentes.” Frieda Blackwell, Baylor University.

• “Banal Basilicas: The Post-Religious Landscape of Québec.” Claire-Marie Brisson, University of Virginia.

• “Obscuring the Ocean Through Monuments: Complex Interrelations on the Galician Coast.” Santiago G. Gesteira, UNC Chapel Hill.

11:30 am-1:00 pm

Special Event: Roundtable in honor of Dr. Glynis Cowell (Toy Lounge) Moderator: María del Carmen Caña Jiménez. Light lunch will be provided.

Grant Gearhart (Georgia Southern University) ; Betsy Sandlin (Sewanee), Laura Fielden Burns (Universidad de Extremadura), Rita Martin (Radford University), Ana Corbalán (University of Alabama), Francisco Brignole (UNC Wilmington), Begoña Caballero (Wofford College), Brian Chandler (UNC Wilmington), Beatriz Lomas Lozano (UNC Chapel Hill), Lisa Gunn (Rutgers University), Bridgette Gunnels (Oxford College), Jennifer Wooten (University of Florida), Keith Schaefer (Monmouth College), Kerri Muñoz (Auburn University), Jorge Muñoz (Auburn University), Tiffany Miller (Clemson University), Carmen Pérez Muñoz (Wake Forest University), Vicente Chacón Carmona (Universidad de Sevilla), Leticia Romo (Towson University), Vinodh Venkatesh (Virginia Tech)

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11:45 am- 1:00 pm

Lunch Break

1:00 pm- 2:30 pm

3.1 Le corps déraciné: immigration, xénophobie, et (in)tolérance dans le monde francophone. Chair: Erika Serrato

• “New York et le corps noir chez Jean-Claude Charles.” Steve Puig, St. John’s University.

• “‘Le Syndrome du débarqué’ dans la littérature parisienne postcoloniale.” Irina Randriamiadana, NC State University.

• “Environmental Effects on Identity: A Comparison Between the Image of the Tree and the Main Characters of Mabanckou’s Bleu Blanc Rouge and Gomis’s L’Afrance.” Libby Fowler, NC State University.

• “La Réunion, une île métissée aux couleurs du monde.” Julie Monjanel-Townsend, NC State University.

1:00 pm-2:30 pm

3.2 Apocalypse Now: Portraying Disasters and Crises. Chair: TBA

• “‘Excede el modo de padecer al arte de decir’: Science and Spirituality in Two Epistolary Accounts of the 1746 Earthquake in Lima.” Sam Krieg, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “The Silent Partner: From Environmental Crisis to the Emergence of Eco-Ethics in Romania.” Letitia Guran, UNC Chapel Hill.

• “J’écris écologie: Towards an ‘écriture écologique’ in the Work of Hélène Cixous.” Laurin Williams, Brown University.

• “Ec/h/o.” Ian McKenzie, Rutgers University.

2:45 pm-4:15 pm

4.1 Creating the Body: Defining Gender, Sexuality, and Corporeal Limits. Chair: TBA

• “Defining the Chivalric Athlete: Sport and War in El Victorial.” Grant Gearheart, Georgia Southern University.

• “Multiple Bodies.” Brian Troth, Ohio State University. • “Play at Being: Exploring the Limits of the Body in Céline Sciamma's

Coming-of-Age Trilogy.” Hannah Hughes, Cornell University.

2:45 pm-4:15 pm

4.2 Decoding Cultural Discourses: Images, Icons, and Identities. Chair: Sarah Booker

• “Gender and International Influence in the Poetry of the Spanish Civil War.” Katelyn Reneslacis, Vanderbilt University.

• “Venus sobre las aguas’: Simonetta Vespucci, Cover Art, and Antonio Colinas’s Obra poética completa (2011).” Maria Fellie, Pennsylvania State University, Berks College.

• “Dancing Bodies: Reading Movement and Visual Interpretation.” Gloria Flores, University of Arizona.

• “Leisure in La esquina: Spanish Caribbean Songs and Cultural Encounters.” Luis A. Sanchez Arrocha, University of Kansas.

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4:30 pm-6:00 pm

Keynote Address (Toy Lounge, Dey Hall) “State of Place, State of Mind: Everyday Environments in Contemporary French Photography.” Ari Blatt, University of Virginia.

6:30 pm-9:30pm

Closing Banquet (Tandem, 200 N Greensboro St., Carrboro) Participants holding banquet tickets are invited to attend.

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INDEX

NamePage#Flores,GloriaÁngeles,Francisco FieldenBurns,LauraArvidson,Sarah Fowler,LibbyAsecio,Monserrat Galbraith,CraigS.Baillargeon,Mercédès Ge,YiBertucci,Pia Gearheart,GrantBedrosian,Alyssa Gemboni,GiuseppinaBezilla,Charlee Gesteira,SantiagoG.Bichon,Clara Goldych,AlexandraBlackwell,Frieda Gravat,MichelleBlairWatson,Julianna GuerraChavez,MariaPaulaBlatt,Ari Gunn,LisaBonino,Nicole Gunnels,BridgetteBooker,Sarah Goldsmith,KellyBoyd,Angel Gómez-Castellano,IreneBrignole,Paco González,UlisesBrignole,Francisco Guran,LetitiaBrisson,Claire-Marie Hughes,HannahBryan,Emily Iovino,SerenellaCaballero,Begoña Iparraguirre,AlexisCaballero,Carolina Kohl,AnastaciaCañaJiménez,MaríadelCarmen Krieg,SamCarrasco,Cristina Lagnaoui,TarikCarvajal,MarciaMartínez Lazakis,NatCastagnino,Angelo Larson,PaulCastañeda,LuisHernán LeSaux,GuilhemCelis-Castillo,Pablo LealUgalde,JuanChacónCarmona,Vicente Lee,HyangheeChandler,Brian LomasLozano,BeatrizClementeRodrigálvarez,Cristóbal MartínMartínez,MacarenaClower,Carrie Martin,RitaCoogan,Meaghan McKenzie,IanCorbalán,Ana McNichols,AmyC.Danner,Julia Mehfoud,LaurenDriggs,VictoriaK. Merschell,LisaDonosoAceituno,ArnaldoEnrique Miller,TiffanyEsparzaRodríguez,María Monjanel-Townsend,JulieEstrada,Oswaldo Mosciatti,RobertoFaulkner,Blake Muñoz,KerriFellie,Maria Muñoz,JorgeFenrich,Megan Muratore,Simona

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Muravchik,Madeline Rose,ElizabethNourizadeh,SherryKate SanchezArrocha,LuisA.Park,Sara SánchezCabrera,ManuelPaseroO'Malley,Anthony Sánchez-Romero,EvaPast,Elena SanchisAlvarez,RobertPedzwater,Marcy Sandlin,BetsyPerez-Muñoz,Carmen Schaefer,AnnePierce,Angela Schaefer,KeithPous,Federico Schulenburg,ChrisT.Puig,Steve Smith,KatelynRamírez,Geovani Sterk,EmilyRandriamiadana,Irina Thorndike,JenniferReisinger,Deb Tolman,ElizabethReneslacis,Katelyn Troth,BrianRichey,Matthew Varela,FernandoRistaino,Christine Venkatesh,VinodhRiveraGarza,Cristina Villacorta,CarlosRodriguesFerreira,Paulo Welch,EllenRoig,Silvia Williams,LaurinRomo,Leticia Wooten,Jennifer

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DeyHall/ToyLounge(4thFloor)(200SouthRd,ChapelHill,NC27514) CarolinaUnion(209SouthRd,ChapelHill,NC27599) AcklandArtMuseum(101SColumbiaSt,ChapelHill,NC27599) TRUDeliWineandBar(114HendersonSt,ChapelHill,NC27514) ACHotelbyMarriott(214WRosemarySt,ChapelHill,NC27516) WallaceParkingDeck–Freeafter8pm(150ERosemarySt,ChapelHill,NC27514) GrahamMemorial(218EFranklinSt,ChapelHill,NC27514) Tandem(200NGreensboroSt#1a,Carrboro,NC27510)


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