Jaime Brenes Reyes

Presentations

Conferences

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “Reactivating the Reader, the Book as the Bridge: the relationship between the author and the reader in Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela / Hopscotch and Libro de Manuel / A Manual for Manuel.” (Re)Activating Objects: Social Theory & Material Culture. Department of Visual Arts Annual Graduate Student Conference. University of Western Ontario. 2 Mar. 2013.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime and Alexander Legwegoh. “A Conversation with International and Cross-Cultural Graduate Students.” Graduate Student University Teaching Conference. University of Guelph. 2 Sept. 2011.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime and Alexander Legwegoh. “Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning: The Cross-Cultural and International Teaching Assistant Peer Mentorship Program.” Twenty-fourth Annual Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference. University of Guelph. 11 May 2011.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “Improvisation as a Writing Technique in Cortazar’s Hopscotch, or how Julio invites the reader to play along.” Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium. University of Guelph. 8 Sept. 2010.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “‘El Hombre Nuevo’ in Cortázar and the Construction of the New Latin America.” Seventh International Conference on Foreign Languages, Communication and Culture. Universidad de Holguín, Cuba. 22 Apr. 2010.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “From actuality to potentiality: Heidegger (and Derrida) on the question of death.” Philosophy Society Undergraduate Student Annual Student Symposium . Trent University. 15 Mar. 2008.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “I experience time therefore I am: An analysis of the Kantian temporal subject.” Philosophy Society Undergraduate Student Annual Symposium. Trent University. 10 Mar. 2007.

Public Lectures

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “Learning from the ‘abnormal’ girl: A critique of pathological medicine through Julio Cortázar’s short story “Final del juego” / “End of the game.” Women’s Studies and Feminist Research Graduate Students Seminars. University of Western Ontario. 8 Feb. 2013.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “Playfulness and Physicality: The Author/Reader Relationship in Cortázar’s Rayuela (Hopscotch).” Transmissions Lecture Series. TransCanada Institute. University of Guelph. 30 Sept. 2010.

Brenes Reyes, Jaime. “Cortázar’s ‘New Man’ and the New Latin America.” Public Lecture Series. School of Languages and Literatures. University of Guelph. 8 April 2010.

"Sí, pero quién nos curará del fuego sordo, del fuego sin color que corre al anochecer por la rue de la Huchette..."
Julio Cortázar, Rayuela