XV conference for the Asociación Española de Historiadores de Cine (AEHC)

The XV conference for the Asociación Española de Historiadores de Cine (AEHC) will take place at Loria Center room 250, 190 York St., Yale University on April 11 & 12, 2025.
It is co-sponsored by the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale_ LIFFY (supported by the generous funding of the Kemp Foundation and the MacMillan Center at Yale, Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies, and  Branford Residential College), and La Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Free and open to the public. The films have English subtitles. Some presentations will be in English and others in Spanish.
 

AEHC/LIFFY SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, APRIL 11

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Opening and presentation of the 15th AEHC Congress

Inaugural Lecture by Julio Pérez Perucha

Inaugural Lecture by Margherita Tortora

Presentation on Fernando Birri, by Margherita Tortora (In English)

Presentation on Performing Traditions, by Nuria Pérez Matesanz

 

Break

2:05 PM – 3:00 PM

Zoom Spain. Communications:

1 – José Fidel López Zornoza: “Amalio Fernández, The Painter of Hollywood” and “From Pepe Mora to Roberto Constantino”

2 – Mar Díaz: “Antonio Moreno: The Spanish Star Who Triumphed Far from Spain”

3 – Carmen Ciller: “A Budding Film Career in Exile: The Early Works of Cecilia Roth (1976-1985)”

 

Break

 

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

1 – Rosa Alcalá: “Augusto Boal: Director, Playwright, and Founder of the Theater of the Oppressed in Brazil” (Rosa is a Yale College student) (In English)

2 – Eliecer Jiménez: “Cecilia Valdés in Cecilia (Humberto Solás, 1982): Censorship and Self-Censorship on Her Return to Havana”

 

Break

 

4:05 PM – 5:00 PM

Roundtable discussion. The Role of Interpretive Traditions: Deborah Balardini, Patricia Colmenero, and Jaime Puerta

Moderator: Esperanza Álvarez Castillo

 

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Free time

 

7:00 PM

Diego Corsini presents his film “Adiós Madrid” (2024)

Film Screening

Discussion (Q&A) and Closing Ceremony

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 12

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Presentation of the Second Day of the Conference

Presentation on Fausto Cabrera, by Margherita Tortora

 

10:15 AM – 10:55 AM

Presentation of “Young Filmmakers at Windham Middle School (Connecticut): Multiculturalism, Film, and Learning” by Carlos de la Barrera and Esperanza Álvarez Castillo. Student filmmakers, editors, and actors, members of the Windham Middle School Film Club, will participate. (Bilingual presentation in English and Spanish)

Screening of their short movie “Heroes Rising”

Discussion (Q&A)

 

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros and Sheyla Niño: “Las cómicas de la Le(n)gua,” a theater project within the company “La Barraca Hispanoamericana”

 

1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Free Time

 

3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

125 Years of Luis Buñuel, by Alfonso Puyal

Screening of This Strange Passion by Luis Buñuel (1953)

Discussion (Q&A)

 

Exhibition of original pieces from Classic Hollywood from the “Esperanza Álvarez Castillo Collection – Portable Museum”

 

6:00 p.m. – Closing Speeches: Margherita Tortora and Julio Pérez Perucha

Event time: 
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 1:00pm to 7:00pm
Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Location: 
Loria Center, room 250 See map
190 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511