MESEA Conference 2002 Padua June 26-29 2002 Panel Schedule Thursday morning 1.1 Room H Liminal Sites: The University of Anthony Spatialization of Difference California at USA Marasco in a Trans-Atlantic Context Berkeley The Ghetto: The Ghetto of Shaul Bassi Venice: From Shylock to University of Venice Italy Lubavitch The Villa: Jefferson's Villa at Monticello: An Emblem of the University of Spatialization of Difference Anthony Marasco California at USA Leading to the Waging of a Civil Berkeley War and the Drawing of a Color Line in America The City: Atlantic Crossings and Franca Bernabei (Post)-Metropolitan Transitions in University of Venice Italy Carribean Diasporic Fiction The Village: Writing Spaces: Marina Cacioppo Oxford University GB Italian Americans Writing Home 1.2 Room F University of Monika Müller (Cross)Blood Memories Germany Cologne Heather Leigh Theodore Roethke's German Georgia State USA Johnson Roots University August Wilson and James McBride: Two Tales of Euro-Afro Norfolk State Harriet Masembe USA Identity among African- University Americans Race as (Cultural) Alterity?: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle University of Monika Müller Germany Tom's Cabin and Dred and Cologne George Eliot's Daniel Deronda Ethnicity as Palimpsest in Mylene University of South David Cowart USA Dressler's The Deadwood Beetle Carolina The Dark Legacy of "Bad Blood": Harvard University; Martha Montello European-American Connections USA University of Kansas through Science and Blues Lyrics Page 1 of 19 MESEA Conference 2002 Padua June 26-29 2002 Panel Schedule 1.3 Room C Speaking Sites: University of New Monica Chiu USA Translingualisms Hampshire "my words will always come out like home": Privileging Non- University of Alicia Otano Spain standard English in Multiethnic Navarre Novels Trans -Memory and Diaspora: Agnieszka University of Memories of Europe and Asia in Poland Bedingfield Warsaw American Immigrant Narratives Cortes's Legacy: The Politics and Kent State Martha Cutter Poetics of Voice in Chicano/a USA University Literature Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, and Maria Lauret University of Sussex GB Multilingual America Mapping a "Gaelachas" Sensibility: Mr. Dooley's University College James Byrne Dialect(ic) as Delineation and Ireland Cork Creation of an Irish-American Community 1.4 Room E “New Breeds for Old Places”: Fairfield Gita Rajan USA Postcolonialism (1) University L'Abbandono: Who's (Whose) Laura Harris Meticcio in the Eritrea Italy Pitzer College USA Diaspora? Comparative Multiculturalisms: Babes-Bolyai Michaela Mudure Romania USA and Romania University Structuring Race and Subjectivity Gita Rajan in the National Imaginary: Fairfield University USA Divakaruni and Sayal The Inadequacy of the Hyphenated Asian Ethnic Wilfrid Laurie r Eleanor Ty Signifier: Reading Asian North Canada University American and European Ethnic Narratives as Global Narratives Page 2 of 19 MESEA Conference 2002 Padua June 26-29 2002 Panel Schedule Ethnic and Cultural Border Sites: Begona Simal A Holographic Approach to Zadie University of La Spain Gonzales Smith and Helena María Coruña Viramontes 1.5 Room D University of Elisabetta (Re)imagining the Homeland Rome, Tor Italy Marino (1) Vergata Representations of Di Alte Heym Edward Merwin (The Old Country) in American Dickinson College USA Yiddish Drama Herman, the Cheruscan and the Winfried Herget Search for Symbols of German- University of Mainz Germany American Ethnicity Remembering Diaspora through University of Central Alan Rice GB Gravesites, Memorials and Lancashire Angela Leonard USA Performance Loyola University Memory as a Site of Abjection: University of Reshmi Dutt Interrogating What is Lost in Lost USA Minnesota in Translation and FaultLines When Globalization Goes Local: Lene Johannessen University of Bergen Norway Creating New Homes 1.6 Room G Disillusionment and University of Roy Goldblatt Finland Resignation Joensuu University of Roy Goldblatt Doctrines of Resignation Finland Joensuu Dilemma in the Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity and Culture in Timothy Seiwoong Oh Mo's Sweet Rider University USA Sour and Gish Jen's Typical American Out of Brooklin or Beijing? Cheryl Alexander Comedies of Resignation in David University of Gdansk Poland Malcolm Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly Page 3 of 19 MESEA Conference 2002 Padua June 26-29 2002 Panel Schedule Heartsongs/Artsongs: Native Americans in Europe in the Case Western Suzanne Ferguson USA Fiction of James Welch and Leslie Reserve University Marmon Silko 1.7 Room I The Evolving Political Roles Catholic Mark Rozell of Ethnic/Religious Groups in University of USA Modern Democracies America Joel Fetzer, Central Michigan The Political Impact of Islamic USA, University, Immigration in France and Great J. Christopher Pepperdine Britain USA Soper University Varieties of Political Experience: Catholic University Michael Foley, USA, Local Worship Communities and of America, the Political Education of New Catholic University Dean Hoge USA Immigrants of America Comparing and Contrasting Georgetown Clyde Wilcox, USA, Political Attitudes Among White University, and Black Evangelicals in the Catholic University Mark J. Rozell USA United States of America Thursday afternoon 2.1 Room H Gonul Pultar Circumatlantic Cities Bilkent University Turkey Venice and Vice: European and University of David Caldwell American Narratives from the USA Northern Colorado Birthplace of the Ghetto The Hard-Boiled Pattern as Discursive Practice of Ethnic Konstanze University of Subalternity in Jakob Arjouni's Germany Kutzbach Cologne Happy Birthday, Turk! and Irene Dische's Ein Job "Russian New York", or Russians State University of Elena Apenko Russia in New York? St. Petersburg The Metropolis as Site of Ethnic Identity: Bharati Mukherjee’s Gonul Pultar Bilkent University Turkey New York and Buchi Emecheta’s London Page 4 of 19 MESEA Conference 2002 Padua June 26-29 2002 Panel Schedule 2.2 Room F Shifting Locations: Rutgers Richard Serrano USA Americans in Paris University The Fortune Teller: Victor Séjour College of William Lynn Weiss USA and the Mortara Affair and Mary African Americans, Jews and Catholic Creoles: A Descendant's University of Rome, Elèna Mortara Italy Response to the Mortara Affair Tor Vergata and Its Literary Representation An American in Paris: Poe's City College of New Carla Cappetti USA "Murders in the Rue Morgue" York - CUNY "You're the Top, You're the Eiffel Richard Serrano Tower": Interracial Gay Couples Rutgers University USA in Baldwin and Ouologuem 2.3 Room C University of Alison Goeller Strangers in a Strange Land Maryland in Germany Europe Doctorates Earned by Black, Southern Asian, and White Women at Kul Rai Connecticut State USA American and British Universities: University A Comparison Local Multi-Faced European Ethnicity in the United States: Norma Hervey Luther College USA 20th Century Celebrations and Challenges in Iowa Dorothea Making Strange in Tourism: Center for Literary Germany Löbbermann Europeans in Harlem Studies, Berlin Strangers in a Strange Land: Civil University of Alison Goeller Germany Rights and The NAACP in Europe Maryland in Europe Charles Taylor's Communitarism: Martin Fischer Establishing a Francophone University of Mainz Germany Collective Self in Quebec Page 5 of 19 MESEA Conference 2002 Padua June 26-29 2002 Panel Schedule 2.4 Room E University of Yonka Krasteva (Cross)Blood Interactions Bulgaria Veliko Turnovo Eating the Eurasian Literary Text: Food, Sex, and Trans-Cultural Desire in Fred Wah's Diamond University of British Glenn Deer Canada Grill, Sigrid Nunez's A Feather on Columbia the Breath of God, and Juzo Itami's Tampopo Unnatural Union”: Race and the Northeastern Cassandra Jackson Colonial Past in The Last of the USA University Mohicans Post-ethnic Performativity and Multicultural Ambivalence: Testing the Limits of Borderlands University of Veliko Yonka Krasteva Bulgaria in Gish Jen's Mona in the Turnovo Promised Land and Meera Syal's Anita and Me "Brushing the boots of a colored Martino Marazzi man": Italian Americans and Columbia University USA African Americans A Chinese Woman Becoming University of Joonok Huh Honorary Irish?: Reading Gish USA Northern Colorado Jen's "Who is Irish?" 2.5 Room D “New Breeds for Old Places”: University of Rocio Davis Spain Postcolonialism (3) Navarra Immigration, Tourism, Consumerism: Shani Mootoo's Grace Kyungwon Cereus Blooms at Night and Princeton University USA Hong Hanif Koureshi's The Buddha of Suburbia Hip, Young, and Exotic?: Northwestern Dorothy Wang Diasporic Writing in San USA University Francisco and London Redefining Conquest in Ana University of País Amaia Ibarraran Spain Castillo's Sapogonia Vasco Page 6 of 19 MESEA Conference 2002 Padua June 26-29 2002 Panel Schedule Rosario Ferre's The House on the Lagoon: Puerto Rican Ethnical Rosa Maria Diez University of Leon Spain and National Identities under Construction South Asians in the North American and European Rhode Island Amrit Singh USA Diasphora: Before and After College September 11 2.6 Room G Double Mirrors: American Cathy Covell University of Ethnicities Looking toward Germany Waegner Siegen Europe Claiming Europe: Native University of North Lee Schweninger American Literary Responses to USA Carolina the Old World "What the colour of my skin meant": Tracking the Rhetorical Paths of Thought in the University of Steven Mailloux USA Performance of Racial Identities California, Irvine in Nineteenth-Century America and Europe Laying the Foundations for a Polish-American Identity: Polish University of Danuta Pytlak and American