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2012 Brown University Providence, Ri Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association Acla Collapse / Catastrophe / Change acla Collapse / Catastrophe / Change March 29 - april 1, 2012 Brown University providence, ri Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association acla Collapse / Catastrophe / Change March 29 - april 1, 2012 Brown University providence, ri ACLA 2012 TRANSLUCINATIONS: Innovative Translations from French, Spanish, Japanese Brian Evenson, Brown University “BrianEvensonis oneofthetreasures ofAmericanshort storywriting.” – Jonathan Lethem friday MARCH 30 3:30-5:00PM 2012 MartinosAuditorium, GranoffCenterfortheCreativeArts 154AngellStreet Forrest Gander, Brown University “Ifthereweresuch athingaseco-trans- lation,Ganderwould certainlybeoneof itspioneers.” C.D. Wright, – Monica de la Torre in Lana Turner Brown University “Wrighthasfoundaway towedfragmentsofan iconicAmericatoa ALL H luminouslystrangeidiom, O: TRACY eerieasatinwhistle.” T HO –The New Yorker P taBle of contents Conference Schedule 5 Welcome and General Information 9 Seminar Overview 11 Plenary and Special Sessions 19 Seminars in Detail 21 Acknowledgments 218 Call for Proposals for ACLA 2013 219 Index 220 Map inside back cover 3 Local Acknowledgements Many thanks to the following people, offices, centers, and departments for their generous support in making Brown University’s hosting of the ACLA 2012 possible: President Ruth Simmons, Brown University Former Provost David Kertzer, Brown University Dean of the Faculty, Kevin McLaughlin, Brown University Cogut Center for the Humanities and the “Global Humanities Initiative,” Brown University Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University Additional thanks to The Rhode Island School of Design and its Chair of English, Patricia Barbeito and to the departments of English, Slavic Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, Urban Studies, Classics, Africana Studies, and Literary Arts for offering meeting spaces for the use of ACLA 2012 seminars ACLA 2012 conference schedUle Thursday, March 29 3:00-7:00pm Registration 17th floor Lobby, Biltmore Hotel 12:30-4:30pm Board Meeting The Brown Faculty Club Conference Room (1 Magee Street) 5:00-6:30pm ADPCL Teaching Roundtable Challenges and Successes: How Comp Lit Departments Thrive Christopher Bush; Northwestern University Bella Brodzki; Sarah Lawrence College Carey Eckhardt; Pennsylvania State University Ann Rosalind Jones; Smith College Françoise Lionnet; University of California, Los Angeles Yopie Prins; University of Michigan Julia Watson; The Ohio State University Arnold Weinstein; Brown University The Grand Ballroom, 17th floor, Biltmore Hotel 6:30-8:30pm Welcome Reception With Welcome Address by Ruth Simmons, President, Brown University L’ Apogee, 17th and 18th floor, Biltmore Hotel (11 Dorrance Street, Providence 02903) Friday, March 30 7:30am-12:00pm Registration Continues Petterutti Lounge, Room 201, Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street) 8:00-10:00am Stream A Panels 8:30am-5:00pm ACLA Book exhibit Auditorium, Sayles Hall, Main Green 9:30-10:45am Coffee, Tea, and Pastries Stephen Robert ‘62 Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street); Auditorium, Sayles Hall (Main Green); Smith-Buonanno Lobby (95 Cushing Street); Marston Hall Rotunda (20 Manning Walk); RISD Metcalf Mezzanine (30 Waterman Street) 10:15am-12:15pm Stream B Panels 12:15-1:00pm Lunch Break 1:30-5pm Registration Continues Petterutti Lounge, Room 201, Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street) 5 1:00-2:30pm Business Meeting Room 001, Salomon (Main Green) 1:00-3:00pm Stream C Panels 2:30-3:45pm Coffee and Cookie Break Stephen Robert ‘62 Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street); Auditorium, Sayles Hall (Main Green); Smith-Buonanno Lobby (95 Cushing Street); Marston Hall Rotunda (20 Manning Walk); RISD Metcalf Mezzanine (30 Waterman Street) 3:15-5:15pm Stream D Panels 3:15-5:15pm ADPCL and Graduate Caucus Roundtable Non-Tenure Track Job Market Room 106, Smith-Buonanno Hall (95 Cushing Street) 3:30-5:00pm Literary Arts Reading Translucinations: Innovative Translations from French, Spanish, Japanese Brian Evenson, Brown University Forrest Gander, Brown University C.D. Wright, Brown University Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (154 Angell Street) 5:30-7:30pm Plenary Roundtable Africa in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring Neil ten Kortenaar, University of Toronto Eileen Julien, Indiana University Moderated by Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University Olakunle George, Brown University Room 101, Salomon (Main Green) Saturday, March 31 7:30am-12:00pm Registration Continues Petterutti Lounge, Room 201, Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street) 8:30am-5:00pm ACLA Book Exhibit Auditorium, Sayles Hall (Main Green) 8:00-10:00am Stream A Panels 8:30-10:00am ADPCL Breakfast Meeting 101 Thayer Street, Room B (For departmental chairs and program directors) 9:30-10:45am Coffee, Tea, and Pastries Stephen Robert ‘62 Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street); Auditorium, Sayles Hall (Main Green); Smith-Buonanno Lobby (95 Cushing Street); Marston Hall Rotunda (20 Manning Walk); RISD Metcalf Mezzanine (30 Waterman Street) 6 10:15am-12:15pm Stream B Panels 12:15-1:00pm Lunch Break 1:00-3:00pm Stream C Panels 1:00-3:00pm ACL(x) panel This panel, which will draw on the lessons learned at the recent ACL(x) conference on new models for academic exchange, will feature 5-minute talks and group discussion. Belinda Kong, Bowdoin College; Joseph Lavery, University of Pennsylvania; Mariano Siskind, Harvard University; Madhumita Lahiri, Brown University; Neetu Khanna, Wesleyan University; Sarah Osment, Brown University; Andrea Bachner, Penn State University; Jacob Edmond, University of Otago, SUNY; Chistopher Hill, Columbia University; David Damrosch, Harvard University; Michelle Decker, Penn State University; Mara de Gennaro, Bucknell College Room 106, Smith-Buonanno Hall, 95 Cushing Street 3:15-5:15pm Stream D Panels 3:30-5:00pm Film Screening Auf Wiedersehen—Till We Meet Again, directed by Linda Mills, New York University; and Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law Room 001, Salomon (Main Green) 4:00-5:00pm ICLA Meeting A Special Meeting of the Comparative Gender Studies Committee Chaired by William Spurlin, Brunel University, London The purpose of this Committee is to further the comparative study of gender and sexuality through proposing innovative programmes at the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), where we are a standing research committee, and at the ACLA, and to disseminate scholarship through publication in comparative gender and queer studies. The Committee has its main meeting at ICLA every three years and meets in the intervening years at ACLA. The Committee is open to anyone with academic interests in comparative work in gender and sexuality. Room 202, Pembroke Hall (172 Meeting Street) 2:30-3:45pm Coffee and Cookie Break Stephen Robert ‘62 Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street); Auditorium, Sayles Hall (Main Green); Smith-Buonanno Lobby (95 Cushing Street); Marston Hall Rotunda (20 Manning Walk); RISD Metcalf Mezzanine (30 Waterman Street) 5:30-7:00pm Plenary Panel Thinking Disaster Avital Ronell, New York University Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine Moderated by Marc Redfield, Brown University 7 Room 101, Salomon (Main Green) 7:00-8:00pm Presidential Address On Liquid Ground: Shipwrecks, Archives, Comparison Françoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles Room 101, Salomon (Main Green) 8:30-11:00pm Banquet and Awards Ceremony The Dorrance (60 Dorrance Street, Providence 02903) Sunday, April 1 8:00-10:00am Stream A Panels 10:15am-12:15pm Stream B Panels 9:30-10:45am Coffee, Tea, and Pastries Stephen Robert ‘62 Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room (Faunce House, 175 Waterman Street); Auditorium, Sayles Hall (Main Green); Smith-Buonanno Lobby (95 Cushing Street); Marston Hall Rotunda (20 Manning Walk); RISD Metcalf Mezzanine (30 Waterman Street) 12:15pm Conference ends The Yearbook of Comparative Literature YCL is dedicated to the publication of theoretically informed research in literary studies with a comparative, intercultural, or interdisciplinary emphasis. YCL is NOW AVAILABLE to ACLA Members at a 30% discount! Regular Rates $30.00 Individual (North America) $40.00 Individual (Outside North America) YCL Member Special Rates $21.00 Individual (North America) $28.00 Individual (Outside North America) Start saving today, order your subscription at [email protected] For more information, contact YCL at (416) 667-7810 or email us at [email protected]. 8 welcoMe and General introdUction Brown University, the City of Providence, and the American Comparative Literature Association are delighted to welcome you to ACLA 2012. Thanks to your intellectual engagement with our topic we have put together an international conference of over 200 seminars reaching across periods and around the globe. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, fled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in search of religious freedom and sought to foster a spirit of open inquiry and dialogue that characterizes our small state. The ACLA plenary panels will address the ways in which the language of collapse, catastrophe, crisis and change has come to dominate public discourse, both in the context of the recent upheavals in the Middle East and elsewhere, from economic and financial collapse to the so-called crisis in the humanities, in the foreign languages, and in comparative literature itself. In addition
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