Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association

Annual Meeting of the American Comparative acla2016 Literature Association

Harvard University acla2016 March 17-20, 2016

Harvard University March 17-20, 2016 Cover art by Svetlana Boym 5 table of contents

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MEDIA: For the duration of ACLA, Harvard University Information Technology has staff on duty in each building, as well as on call at their Conference Schedule...... 7 central office, to help with media questions for seminars that explicitly requested media from ACLA. For these seminars, technology in each room Seminar Overview...... 11 is mostly self-explanatory, but should you encounter any difficulties, please call HUIT support 617-495-9460 or their central number 617-495-7777. Transportation...... 22 2016 acla

Graduate Student Events...... 24

Museums, Food, Bookstores...... 25

Pre-Conference Workshops...... 30 table of contents

Maps...... 33

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Mixed Streams...... 230

Advertising...... 279

Link to Index and Program Online...... 286

Campus Map...... 288

5 6 6 acla acknowledgements 2016 Karen Thornber great success. conventiona for sharingtheirtimeandtalents tomakethisextraordinary a collaborativeendeavor, andweareexceptionallyappreciativetoeveryone beginningbeen As istrueofallsuchgatherings,ACLA2016hasfromthevery ACLA President,andEleniCoundouriotis,ProgramCommittee Chair. have providedexpertadviceandgoodcheer, ashaveProfessorsYopie Prins, (Administrator) oftheACLASecretariatatUniversitySouth Carolina And finally, ProfessorAlexBeecroft(Secretary/Treasurer) andAndyAnderson American Studies(ProfessorBrianFarrell). (Professor William Granara),andtheDavidRockefellerCenterforLatin Studies (ProfessorCarolineElkins),theCenterforMiddleEastern Studies Jacobsen), theKoreaInstitute(ProfessorCarterEckert),Center forAfrican Reischauer InstituteforJapaneseStudies(ProfessorsTed BestorandWesley Fairbank CenterforChineseStudies(SeniorVice ProvostMarkC.Elliott),the UniversityAsiaCenter(ProfessorArthurKleinman),theJohnKing Harvard Sorensen), theGraduateSchoolofArtsandSciences(DeanXiao-LiMeng), provided bytheOfficeofDeanArtsandHumanities(DeanDiana Generous fundingforACLA2016–whichwearemostthankfulwas Mathilda Van Es(AdministrativeDeanofArtsandHumanities). Matsumoto (InterimExecutiveDirectoroftheReischauerInstitute),and AsiaCenter),Stacie Asia), ElizabethLiao(ExecutiveDirectoroftheHarvard throughout, asdidRosieCortese(AdministratorofRegionalStudiesEast Department ofComparativeLiteratureprovidedinvaluablelogisticalsupport Melissa Carden,Administrator, andIsaureMignotte,Coordinator, ofthe other eventsduringtheconferenceitself. graduate studentsandundergraduateswhoareassistingwithRegistration Argyro Nicolaou,andJosephPomp.We alsoaregratefultothemanyother Marina Connelly, JermainHeidelberg,SinaHoche,RachaelLee,MelodyLi, of thelocalarrangementsandprogramorganizing:DanielBehar, CecilyCai, graduate studentswhoformedthecoreofcommitteeanddidbulk ACLA GraduateStudentCommittee,aswelltothededicatedandtireless On campus,greatestthanksareduetoElenaFratto,ChairoftheHarvard andbeyond. support ofcolleaguesandgraduatestudentsatHarvard 2016, thesecondlargestinAssociation’s history, withoutthetremendous Damrosch, andPanagiotisRoilos–wouldnothavebeenabletohostACLA ACLAFacultyCommittee–KarenThornber(Chair),David The Harvard acknowledgments In additiontothe200 materials gatheredonhisextensiveEuropeantravels. German, French,Portuguese,andSpanishliteratures,drawingfrom wildly popularcoursesonDanteandShakespeare,aswell the vernacularliteraturesofEurope,andheintroducedtoHarvard Although fluentinGreekandLatin, Ticknor hadspecialaffinityfor first comparatist,therenownedHispanistGeorge Ticknor (1791-1871). Languages. ThefirstincumbentofthisprofessorshipwasHarvard’s establishedtheSmithProfessorshipofFrenchandSpanish Harvard It isfittingthatwegatherthisyearinCambridge,where1816 hosted byHarvard. and thelargestconventionever largest conventioninACLAhistory 2016, whichwith322seminarsand3325participantsisthesecond it ismygreatpleasuretowelcomeyouCambridgeandACLA graduate studentsofHarvard’s DepartmentofComparativeLiterature, Universityandespeciallythefaculty On behalfofHarvard welcome the 110 2016alsomarks the firstteachingoflivingliteraturesatHarvard, variety ofseminars andpapersbycomparatists frommorethan60 year’s program,we couldnotbutbeimpressedbythetremendous The sameofcourseistrue theACLA.Asweputtogetherthis philosophy, andmedicine. architecture andthe visualarts,filmandmusic,history, anthropology, work inavarietyoffieldscontiguouswithliterature,including globalization, andworldliterature.Studentsfaculty additionally postcolonialism, theenvironmentalandmedicalhumanities, ofideas,gender,the history drama,oralpoetics,multilingualism, comparative philologyprovidingthebasisforworkontranslation, scholarship, withcriticaltheory, interpretation,and literary The departmentalsoengagesinawidevarietyoftransdisciplinary from ArabicandChinesetoUrduWolof, tonamejustafew. graduate studentsarefluentinatleastonenon-Western language, broad rangeoflanguagesandcultures;infact,morethan half ofthe faculty membersandgraduatestudentsnowworkonan increasingly European traditionstoanewglobalawareness,thedepartment’s comparative studiesfromanalmostexclusivefocusonWestern Comparative Literature.Reflectingtheongoingparadigmshift of th anniversary ofthefoundingHarvard’s anniversary Departmentof

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2016 welcome acla 7 7 8 8 acla welcome 2016 Harvard University Harvard Director ofGraduateStudiesinRegionalEastAsia Director ofGraduateStudiesinComparativeLiterature Director, Global InstituteEnvironmentalHumanities Harvard Professor ofComparativeLiteratureandEastAsianLanguages and Conference Chair, ACLA2016 Karen L.Thornber Welcome! campusandtheACLAprogram. any questionsabouttheHarvard identified bybrightlycolorednametags;theywillbepleasedto answer Our dedicatedgraduateandundergraduatestudentassistantscan be (Saturday) roundoutarobustandstimulatingprogram. Award Reception(Friday),togetherwiththeACLAPresident’s Panel The OpeningReception(Thursday)andPresidentialAddress the ADPCLbreakfastmeetingforChairsandDirectors(Saturday). Literature (Thursday, Friday, Saturday),theannualBookExhibit,and by theGraduateCaucusandHarvard’s DepartmentofComparative well asthreeworkshopsespeciallyforgraduatestudentssponsored directions incomparativeandworldliteraturepublishing(Friday), as our pre-conferenceworkshops(Thursday),aspecialsessiononnew panel(Saturdaynoon);alsonoteworthyare astheplenary (Harvard) andDavidDamrosch Bermann (Princeton),StephenOwen(Harvard), the firstkeynotespeaker(Thursdayevening)andProfessorsSandra are particularlyhonoredtohaveProfessorUrsulaHeise(UCLA) as “General Information”aswellinthe“ConferenceSchedule.”We number ofspecialevents,listedtogetheronthefollowingpages under In additionto322acceptedseminars,wealsoaredelightedhost a students aroundtheworld. demonstrating expandinginterestinthefieldfromscholarsand also markedarecordnumberofapplicationsforACLAseminars, countries workinginagrowingrangeofinnovativefields.This year Initiative Civilizations Northwest B100–BasementPrefunction Room Northwest 7:30pm –9:00pm:ACLAOpeningReception 6:00pm –7:30pm:KeynoteAddress B100-BasementPrefunction Area Northwest (heldinthislocationThursdayeveningONLY) 4:00pm –8:15pm:RegistrationBegins 4:00pm –5:45pm:ACLAWorkshops Thursday, March 17 acla 2016conference schedule ScienceCenter Arcades 8:30am –6:00pm: BookExhibit Sever, andScienceCenter Northwest, 8:00am –10:00am:Coffee Emersonfoyer 8:00am –6:00pm:RegistrationContinues Friday, March 18 • • • • • • •

Ursula Heise: “Species Fictions” – Northwest B103 Ursula Heise:“SpeciesFictions”–Northwest Welcome: Karen Thornber, Conference Chair B108(Closed;advancedregistration only) Northwest Useable Literature (ACLAVice-President’s Panel)– Literature –Sever102(Closed;advancedregistration only) The Future ofSouthAsianLiterature inComparative Panel) –Sever106(Closed;advancedregistration only) Writing ofNon-Dissertation Importance (GraduateCaucus Side-Work Matters:Translation, Blogging,andthe B101 ofSvetlanaBoym–Northwest Readings InMemory registration only) Theory, andTranslation –Sever103(Closed;advanced ofSpace, Comparative Literature 2016:TheImportance

2016 schedule acla 9 9 10 10 acla schedule 2016 Boylston–Ticknor Lounge(firstfloor) World Literature) of 5:15pm –5:45pm:ADPCL Reception(hostedbyJournal 4:00pm –5:15pm:ADPCLPanelonJournalPublishing 4:00pm –5:45pm:StreamDSeminars Sever, andScienceCenter Northwest, 3:00pm –5:00pm:Coffee 2:00pm –3:45pm:StreamCSeminars BarkerCenter, Room133(PlimptonRoom) 12:30pm –1:45pm:ICLACommitteeonTranslation Meeting BarkerCenter, Room218(W.S. FongRoom) ICLA Research CommitteeonReligion,Ethics,andLiterature 12:30pm –1:45pm:BusinessandInformationMeetingofthe 12:30pm –1:45pm:ACLAGraduateCaucusPanel Boylston(Ticknor Lounge,first floor) Graduate CaucusPanel 12:00pm -1:00pm:GraduateStudentLunchavailablefor 12:15pm –2:00pm:LunchBreak 10:30am –12:15pm:StreamBSeminars Sever, andScienceCenter Northwest, 10:00am –12:00pm:Coffee 8:30am –10:15am:StreamASeminars • • Editors -Boylston110(FongAuditorium) The World ARoundtableDiscussionwith inaJournal: Care inGraduate Life-Boylston110(FongAuditorium) Mental HealthintheHumanities:Work, Community, and 2:00pm –3:45pm:Stream CSeminars Panel 12:30pm –1:45pm:Plenary 12:15pm –2:00pm:LunchBreak 10:30am –12:15pm:StreamBSeminars Sever, andScienceCenter Northwest, 10:00am –12:00pm:Coffee 8:30am –10:15am:StreamASeminars BarkerCenter, Room133(Plimpton) Meeting 8:30am –10:15am:ADPCLDepartmentChairsBreakfast ScienceCenterArcades 8:30am –6:00pm:BookExhibit Sever, andScienceCenter Northwest, 8:00am –10:00am:Coffee Emersonfoyer 8:00am –6:00pm:RegistrationContinues Saturday, March 19 Northwest B100–BasementPrefunction Room Northwest 7:15pm -8:30pm:ACLAAward CeremonyReception Presidential Address 6:00pm –7:15pm:ACLAAward Ceremony and • • •

Moderator - Northwest B103 Moderator -Northwest “Poetry, Translation, DavidDamrosch, Memory”; Steve Owen:“Don’t LookBack”andSandraBermann: Northwest B103 Northwest ACLA President Yopie Prins:“Worlds ofWorld – Poetry” Introduction: (Conference Karen Chair) Thornber

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) Science Center 112 Sever 209) Northwest B101) ) Sever 110 Emerson 305) Sever 104) Sever 210) ) CGIS South S020 - Belfer Case Study Room Sever 215) ) Sever 202) ) ) (Sever 102 ) - Thompson Rm.110 Center, Center, Hall E Center, 208) ) (Sever 113 101) (Science Center 109 306) (Northwest B108) ) Center 110 - Kresge) and Novel Social Formation ( A STREAM SEMINARS A STREAM - 10:15 a.m): a.m 8:30 (Fri/Sat/Sun, ( National Identity and Animality, Animals, A1 - 1 ( as a Global Genre Literary Journalism A2 - Beyond Borders: and Print Cultures in (Post)Colonial Literary Intersections A3 - Caribbean/Jewish a Discipline ( Eastern Literatures: Forging A4 - Comparative Middle - Cross-Racial Ventriloquism II: Performance, Poetics, and Rhetoric ( II: Performance, Poetics, and Ventriloquism A5 - Cross-Racial Americas ( and Nation in the A27 - Intersections Between Race, Identity, - Human Rights and Literature: Critical Reflections and New Directions A21 - Human Rights and Literature: Critical Reflections A22 - Images of Science in Literature ( A23 - Imperial Publics ( A24 - Institutions of Reading ( within the Humanities ( Value A25 - Intellectual Labor and the crisis of A26 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Death Representations in Literature ( Translation and Travel A28 - Intersections of A29 - Intertwining Muses? ( ) Essais (Emerson 108 A6 - Derrida’s - Part I ( Seminar Border - Undergraduate A88 - Epistemologies of the Aesthetic Judgment ( A13 - Genre as of Precarious Life Crises and the Representation World A18 - Hispanic A19 - Horror II (Northwest B107) and Literature ( War in A20 - Hostile Encounters? Intercultural Exchanges - Feed me No Line, Space Models and Storytelling ( A7 - Feed me No Line, Space Generations of Old Media ( A8 - Feminism and New ( A9 - Film and Cultural Memory A10 - Freedom after Neoliberalism ( - From Extraction to Exhaustion ( A11 Participatory Culture, Worlds, A12 - From Fiction to Faith and Fandom: Fictional ( Verbal and Visual Avant-Gardes: A14 - Global A15 - Global Poe I (Sever 207) The Limits of Figurative Language ( A16 - Hard Metaphors: A17 - Hermeneutics of Mysticism ( Comparative Poetics and the Question of “World Poetry” and the Question of “World Comparative Poetics Harsha Natalie Melas, Bruce(Roland Greene, Holsinger, - Northwest Prins, Moderator) Yopie Ram, Simon Gikandi; B103 Career Planning Nuts & Bolts: Preparing for the Job Market Job Market for the Preparing & Bolts: Nuts Planning Career Mary Frampton, Paulo Lucia, Stephanie di Bachner, (Andrea Cecily Cai, Chair; Thornber, Karen Horta, Lissa Warren; (Boylston 110) – Fong Auditorium Organizer) • •

12:30pm – 4:30pm: ACLA board meeting 12:30pm – 4:30pm: ACLA board meeting Dana-Palmer Seminar Room 12:15pm: Conference Ends 10:30am – 12:15pm: Stream B Seminars 10:00am – 12:00pm: Coffee Northwest, Science Center and Sever, 8:30am – 10:15am: Stream A Seminars 8:30am – 12:00pm: Book Exhibit Science Center Arcades 8:00am – 10:00am: Coffee Northwest, and Science Center Sever, Sunday, March 20 March Sunday, 6:00pm – 7:30pm: ACLA President’s Panel ACLA President’s 6:00pm – 7:30pm: 4:00pm – 5:45pm: Stream D Seminars 4:00pm – 5:45pm: 3:00pm – 5:00pm: Coffee 3:00pm – Northwest, and Science Center Sever, 2:00pm – 3:45pm: Professional Development Workshop Development Professional – 3:45pm: 2:00pm

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12 12 14 14 acla seminar overview 2016 A43 -MaleorFemaleFriends? Writing andStagingFriendshipin17 A42 -MakingItNew(er): Amidst andBeyondtheNewLyric Studies ( A41 -LiteratureandOpera ( A40 -LiteratureandHumanRights ( A39 -LiteratureandCultural Techniques ( A38 -LiteraryReconfigurationsofthe AncientinEast AsianModernity (CGIS A37 -LiteraryConfigurationsofthePresent ( A36 -LingualisminModernJewishLiterature ( A35 -Lifeasa Work of Art (Emerson106) A34 -Law, Art, and World-Making (Boylston103) A33 -LawandLiteratureinSub-Saharan Africa (Sever111) A32 -Latin America/France: Love,Hate,andFriendship ( A31 -LacanandPhilosophy ( A30 -Labor/Making/Matter ( A63 -Orientalismand Iberia’s QuestforModernity (BarkerCenter, Rm.403 - A62 -OrdinaryLanguage, Criticism ( A61 -OntheLivesandSoundsof Animals (BarkerCenter, Rm.218- W. S. A60 -NewNovels,Methods (BarkerCenter, Rm.316) A59 -NewCuba’s Imaginaries ( A58 -NetworkingModernisms (ScienceCenter116) A57 -NarrativizingCatastrophe ( A56 -Narrative’s Others (Sever205) A55 -Narrative Turning Points(in Theory andPractice) ( A54 -NarrativeandEthics ( A53 -MüteferrikaGalaxies: Tracing Anatolian BookHistories ( A52 -Morphologyofthe Trauma Text (NorthwestB106) A51 -Monsters: Theory, Translation, Transbiology (ScienceCenter113) A50 -ModernitiesandMachines:(Post-)SocialistScience Technology inthe A49 -ModernChineseLiteraryandCulturalStudiesinthe Age of Theory: A48 -MigritudeandtheLongueDuréeofImperialism ( A47 -Mexican(Trans)national Cinema, Visual Culture,andLiteratureI ( A46 -MediaandtheCulturesofSports ( A45 -MauriceBlanchot: Thought of Absence (Emerson307) A44 -MarxismandFormalism Today I (CGISSouthS050 Center B10) South S250) Finnegan) Fong Room) Room) 104) Global Imaginary ( Reimagining aField2.0 ( - Larsen) 206) Century SpanishLiterature ( CGIS KnafelK050) Sever 303) Boylston 110 -Fong Auditorium) Sever 106) Emerson 104) Barker Center, Rm.373-Slavic Seminar CGIS SouthS010-Tsai Auditorium) Sever 211) Boylston 104) Sever 308) Northwest B109) Northwest B105) Science Center105 Boylston G07) Barker Center, Rm.211) Barker Center, Rm.269 Sever 201) Sever 107) ) Science Center ) th and18 Science Sever th

B6 -Nomadic Waste &Ecological MaterialityinNeoliberal Space ( B5 -NarratingSepharad Today (NorthwestB107) B4 -Mexican(Trans)national Cinema, Visual Culture,andLiterature II ( B3 -Marxism,Indigenous Thought, andPopularMovements intheEraof B2 -HegemonCrisisCulture ( B1 -Cartography:Poetics, Theory, Translation ( (Fri/Sat/Sun, 10:30a.m-12:15p.m): B STREAMSEMINARS A66 -Performing Visuality ( A65 -Performing Translation ( A64 -Performanceand/asException ( A87 - Writing theDisasterinEraof Anthropocene (ScienceCenter, Hall A86 -Witnessing Trauma A85 -Utopias,Dystopias,andthe Work oftheImagination ( A84 - The BibleinModernityI ( A83 -SoundandScriptinSinophoneStudies ( A82 -RevisitingPoliticsinIndianFilmsI ( A81 -Religion,Ethics,andLiteratureI( A80 -Re-assessingtheIcon: Transnational PerspectivesonJoseOrtegayGasset A79 -Queer, Trans, Feminist, andCriticalRacePerspectivesontheCultural A78 -PublicHumanitiesinaDigital Age (ScienceCenterHall A) A77 -Proustian Awareness: Seeing,Reading,Listening,withthe Author ofla A76 -PrintCultureinthe Americas: Archives, Materialism,andtheRewritingof A75 -PostcolonialFormsandFormalisms ( A74 -PoliticalRomanticisminthe Americas (CGISKnafelK108) A73 -PoetryasPractice,Practice ( A72 -PoetryandthePolitical ( A71 -PoeticsandPoliticsoftheDanubeRiverBlackSeaRegion ( A70 -PlacingBilingualism:BilingualisminComparativePerspective ( A69 -PhilosophyandLiteraturewithoutInterdisciplinarity ( A68 -Philology, Poetry, PoetryasPhilology ( A67 -PhilipRoth’s Trans-disciplinary Translation ( K109) 206) Neoliberal Capitalism ( Auditorium) D) (Northwest B110) Production ofChildhood ( Recherche ( Literary History ( 305) 212) Dana-Palmer SeminarRoom) CGIS KnafelK109) (Barker Center, Rm.24-McFadden ) CGIS SouthS153 Barker Center, Rm.24-McFadden ) Science Center105 CGIS SouthS040 Sever 302) Sever 203) Sever 204) CGIS KnafelK107) Barker Center, Rm.18) Sever 214)

Northwest B104) Sever 304) Boylston 105) Yenching Auditorium) ) CGIS SouthS010-Tsai ) ) Science Center111) Sever 105) Sever 112) CGIS Knafel

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seminar overview seminar acla 15 15 16 16 acla seminar overview 2016 - The 21 B39 -The B38 - The “JimCrowProjection” ( B37 - Technologies ofSexualityandGender ( B36 - Teaching Rape:Representation,Rhetoric,and Resistance ( B35 - Talk about Talk (ScienceCenter104 B92 -SubjectsastheBorder( B34 -StructureandForm ( B33 -Storytelling,Ethics,andHermeneutics ( B32 -StormingtheFences ( B31 -Storiesof Transmission, Transformation andImagination ( B30 -State Violence: Discourse, Counter-Discourse, Non-Discourseinthe B29 -South Africa andGlobalModernism ( B28 -SlownessandModernity (BarkerCenter, Rm.269-Larsen) B27 -Signs,Symptoms,Stigmata ( B26 -SerialForms (BarkerCenter, Rm.211) B25 -SecularizationandtheNovel ( B24 -ScienceFictionsand Asian Histories (BarkerCenter, Rm.114 -Kresge) B23 -Sacred Troubling Topics in Tanakh, New Testament, (Sever andQur’an B22 -RomanticForms/Forums ( B21 -Revisitingthe Archive: FinanceandContemporaryLiterature ( B20 -RevisitingPoliticsinIndianFilmII ( B19 -RetriangulatingFranco-African-AmericanCultureinSound,Image,and B18 -RethinkingtheDemocraticImaginaryinSpain ( B17 -RethinkingPoliticalCinema ( B16 -Representing America’s ColorfulGenealogy ( B15 -RemeasuringLyrical Pain ( B14 -Religion,Ethics,andLiteratureII ( B13 -Reinventing,Rewriting,andDisputingOriginStories ( B12 -Recyclingculture: An Aesthetics of Waste (ScienceCenter109 B11 B10 -RecodingandReinventing Theories ( B9 -Reading Visual Cultures ( B8 -OnlyConnect?BridgingtheIsraeli-PalestinianConflict ( B7 -NostalgiafortheFuture: The LegacyofSvetlanaBoyminComparative B44 - The EssayasBridge ( B43 - The CityintheLife NarrativesoftheGlobalSouth ( B42 - The BibleinModernityII ( B41 - The Arabic Qasida (CGISKnafelK107) B40 - The Aesthetics ofPrecarity ( -ReconsideringSinophoneLiteratureandits“PoliticsofRecognition” literature”) ( Aftermath ofGenocides(withagraduateseminaron“Trauma inFrench 111 Text (Sever106) (Sever 101) Slavic Studies ( ) st CenturyNovelattheLimit ( Sever 103) Emerson 210) Sever 308) Sever 209) Emerson 318) Dana-Palmer House) Northwest B109) Emerson 101) Sever 203) Science Center116) Science Center113 ) Sever 213) Emerson 106) Sever 112) Barker Center, Rm.110 -Thompson) Barker Center, Rm.18) ) Sever 214) Northwest B106) Sever 109) Barker Center, Rm.403-Finnegan) Sever 210) Sever 107) Science Center111) Boylston G02) Northwest B108 ) Boylston 104) Northwest B103) Sever 306) Sever 307) Sever 104) ) B83 - Where the World Ends (NorthwestB104 ) B82 - Where istheEssay Going ( B81 - What DoComparativeLiterature andDigitalHumanitiesHavetoSay To B80 -Vulnerable Travelers B79 - Visual CultureandIts Discontents ( B78 - Violence inContemporary EuropeanCinema ( B77 - Variations ontheFairytale ( B76 -UtopiaRenewed ( B75 -UnformingFeeling ( B74 -Undermining Aesthetics (NorthwestB105) B51 - The NewSecurityState ( B50 - The LiteratureofContempt ( B49 - The Literary, Politics,andCommunityinLatin America andSpain B48 - The ItinerantDocument ( B47 - The HouseinLiterature ( B46 - The Flaneur, theMapmaker, andtheNervousSystem (Boylston103) B45 - The Female Voice (Sever205) B73 -UltraminorLiteratures ( B72 - Twists oftheNew Asethetic Turn (CGISSouthS040 B71 - Trauma inRecentCinema ( B70 - Transoceanic PerspectivesonGender, RaceandColonialisminthe B69 - Transnationalism, Autobiography, andNostalgia ( B68 - Translation inBetween ( B67 - Translation and/asLiterary Theory (Yenching) Auditorium B66 - Translating Crime:Production, Transformation andReception ( B65 - Trans Caribbean ( B64 - Towards aCritiqueoftheRepresentationPerpetrator ( B63 - This MustBethePlace ( B62 - Third World LiteratureRevisited ( B61 - Thinking Again About Plot (BarkerCenter, Rm.218- W. S.FongRoom) B60 - Theatre and World Making (ScienceCenter, Hall A ) B59 - The Trope oftheLament Across Cultures (Sever204) B58 -TheTrauma Text: WarDecolonization and B57 - The Surreal World (Sever211) B56 - The Subject’s PlaceinContemporarySociety ( B55 - The RhythmofProse ( B54 - The PostcolonialMiddleEast ( B53 - The PoliticalEconomyofSound ( B52 - The Planetandthe World: PostcolonialHorizonsin World Literatureand Each Other? A Critical Approach (ScienceCenter, HallD) Room) (Boylston 105) Hispanic World (CGISKnafelK108) Center, Rm.373-SlavicSeminarRoom the Anthropocene (Boylston110 -Fong Auditorium) Sever 105) Sever 202) CGIS KnafelK050) (Barker Center, Rm.316 ) Sever 212) Barker Center, Rm.133-Plimpton Sever 305) Emerson 305) CGIS SouthS050 Emerson 307) Sever 304) Sever 303) CGIS SouthS153 Sever 207) Sever 201) Northwest B101) Emerson 105) Emerson 108) CGIS SouthS020-BelferCase Study ) (CGIS SouthS250 ) ) Boylston G07) Sever 208) Emerson 104) ) )

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seminar overview seminar acla 17 17 18 18 acla seminar overview 2016 B91 -Zoopoetics:FormsofLife ( B90 - Writing Diaspora ( B89 - Writing Between Worlds: MultilingualismasaCreativeForceII ( C22 -EngagingPublics inand Through Translation ( C21 -EarlyModernMateriality ( C20 -DeathbyMachine ( C19 -CulturesofReading, Writing: LiteraryLaborinGlobal C18 -Creative Alternatives toNeoliberalism:Poetic Word inUrbanSpaces C17 -CinemasofExtraction:LifeItself ( C16 -Burqas,Bikinis,andtheGenderedPolicingofBodiesin(Neo)Colonial C15 -Breaking Through: Torture andRepresentationinNew Theoretical C14 -Bodies/Texts/Matter ( C13 -BiopoliticalModernities:EmpireandBiologicalGovernancein theLong C12 -BigBangs:RaceandRadicalisminItsGaseousState ( C11 -BeyondSynaesthesia:StructuresandCulturesoftheSensesin Early C10 -BeyondPostcolonialStudies:Radical Archives, ResistanceLiteraturesand C9 -BeyondBorders:LiteraryJournalismasaGlobalGenreII ( C8 - Austere Subjects ( C7 - Asian and African Encounters C6 - AIDS at35 (NorthwestB107) C5 - Afro-American LiteraturesandDiasporas:FromSlaveNarrativesto C4 - Aesthetic DistanceinaGlobalEconomy ( B88 - World LiteratureorGlobalizedLiterature? ( B87 - World Authorship (ScienceCenter, 110) B86 -Words,Words, Words B85 - Women’s Voices fromthePreandPostMuslim World (ScienceCenter, B84 - Women ofRegaliainPower ( C3 - Adaptation as Archaeology andCritique ( C2 - A SenseofUnease (ScienceCenter104 C1 -“LoveandItsOpposites” ( (Fri/Sat, 2:00p.m-3:45p.m): C STREAMSEMINARS 102) Perspective ( (Sever 308) Contexts (Sever111) Contexts (Sever112) Twentieth Century ( Modern Europe (Sever307) Vernaculars ( 133 -Plimpton Contemporary Writings 1 (CGISSouthS020-BelferCaseStudyRoom) B110) Sever 105) Sever 214) ) Sever 303) Sever 110) Boylston G02) CGIS SouthS040 (Science Center, 112) Science Center116) Northwest B105) Barker Center, Rm.269 -Larsen) Sever 302) SATURDAY ONLY (BarkerCenter, Rm. Northwest B110) Sever 205)

) ) Sever 102) CGIS KnafelK107) Science Center, HallE Sever 104) Sever 209) Emerson 210) Sever ) C43 - Toward the Autonomy ofLiteraryStudyI ( C42 - The ClassicalintheModern:Spectersof Arabic LiteratureI ( C41 -RetellingFantastic Tales inEast Asian andGlobalPopularCulturesI C40 -ReadingReligiouslyI ( C39 -RaceandNarrativeForm( C38 -QueernessandtheSupernaturalI ( C37 -Posthumanist Vocality I ( C36 -Politics,Intimacy, andKinshipI (Boylston105) C35 -PhotographyandtheBookI ( C34 -MedicalHumanities:ReadingtheBodyinMedicine,Literatureand C33 -MarxismandFormalism Today II (Sever208) C32 -LiteratureandCultureofEconomicBubbleinGlobalContexts ( C31 -Lawlessness,LegalStudies,andGrief ( C30 -Late-ModernLaughterintheMiddleEast ( C29 -LabyrinthasParadigminLateMedievalandEarlyModernCultures C28 -IranisNot As ItIs Told I (Dana-PalmerSeminarRoom) C27 -ImmaterialStudies ( C26 -HorrorI (Yenching Auditorium) C25 -GreatLeapsForward:LiteratureandRevolution ( C24 -Globalization, Trauma, ComparativeLiterature ( C23 -Figuring Animal andNature ( D8 -Metafictionand theExperimentalDriveinContemporary NarrativeandFilm D7 -MedicalHumanities:Readingthe BodyintheMedicine,Literatureand D6 -Materialisms/RadicalEnlightenments inPhilosophy, ScienceandLiterature D5 -LiteraturesofDevelopment ( D4 -Literature’s Boundary Work: NewMediaand Textualities ( D3 -Literatureinthe World (andnot World Literature) ( D2 -IranisNot As ItIs Told II (Dana-PalmerSeminarRoom) D1 - Afro-American LiteraturesandDiasporas:FromSlaveNarratives to (Fri/Sat, 4:00p.m-5:45p.m): D STREAMSEMINARS Slavic SeminarRoom Center 105) (Barker Center, Rm.403-Finnegan) Visual Arts I (ScienceCenter, HallE Fong Room) (Northwest B109) (Northwest B106 ) Visual Arts II (ScienceCenter, HallE (Sever 112) Center 110) - Larsen) Contemporary Writings II (CGISSouthS020-BelferCaseStudyRoom) Barker Center, Rm.24-McFadden) ) Science Center110) Sever 305) Barker Center, Rm.114 -Kresge) Northwest B107) Sever 213) Sever 201) Emerson 108)

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seminar overview seminar acla 19 19 20 20 acla seminar overview 2016 D13 -OrphanBlack: Textuality, Sexuality, Science ( D12 -OnImaginationand Art (Sever104) D11 -NewSleepStudies (NorthwestB110) D10 -Nature(s)ofthe Text (Sever105) D9 -Music– Theory – Text: CriticalStrategiesforComparingMusic, D36 - Threatened and Threatening Languages ( D35 - The PoeticsofReflexivity ( D34 - The LongSlowPlotless Text (Sever109) D33 - The LaboringSkin ( D32 - The EvidenceofRealism ( D31 - The ClassicalintheModern:Spectersof Arabic LiteratureII ( D30 - Teaching ContemporaryPoetries ( D29 - Teaching (to)Diversityin Two andFour Year Colleges ( D28 -SurfaceEncounters ( D27 -SecretLanguagesandPrivateForms ( D26 -RethinkingNationalFoundations:Using/AbusingHistory ( D25 -RethinkingHunger:StructureofLifeandHistory ( D24 -RetellingFantastic Tales inEast Asian andGlobalPopularCulturesII D23 -RealismandImperialism ( D22 -ReadingReligiouslyII ( D21 -QueernessandtheSupernaturalII ( D20 -PovertyStudies: Theory andCritique ( D19 -Posthumanist Vocality II ( D18 -Politics,Intimacy, andKinshipII (Boylston105) D17 -PlayingHouse:Domesticand Theatrical Space ( D16 -PhotographyandtheBookII ( D15 -Performance,Poetics,andPublics ( D14 -OtherMothers:RepresentationsofLaboring Women inaGobalContext “Split” Seminars–(either 2meetingsonFridayand1Saturday OR1 D40 - Writing Between Worlds: MultilingualismasaCreative ForceI ( D39 - Voicing StatesofSiege ( D38 - Visual PoliticsinMiddleEasternLiteratureandCulture ( D37 - Toward the Autonomy ofLiteraryStudyII ( Performance, andLiteraryProduction ( Center 105) (CGIS KnafelK107) Finnegan) SATURDAY ONLY (ScienceCenter 111 ) CDC, CDD,CCD,or DCD. meeting onFridayand2Saturday). Seminarslistedbelowas 102) Rm. 218- W. S.FongRoom) Slavic SeminarRoom Science Center104 Sever 111) ) CGIS SouthS040 Sever 204) Sever 305) Barker Center, Rm.114 -Kresge) Sever 307) Sever 101) Sever 213) Sever 201) Emerson 108) Sever 107) Sever 303) Barker Center, Rm.403- ) Northwest B109) CGIS SouthS153 ) Barker Center, Rm.373- Boylston G02) Northwest B105) Sever 308) Sever 205) Barker Center, ) Sever 209) Science Sever S8 -(Animal)Cruelties ( S7 -(Affirmative)Biopolitics,Race,Gender, andPostcoloniality ( S6 -“To DieContent”:Death, Writing, andCreativity ( S5 -“Psy-”Elsewhere (CGISKnafelK108) S15 - Against theFlow:ReconsideringMovement ( S14 - After FreudandLacan:MethodsforEngagingwithContemporary S13 - Affective Engagements,PrecariousLives: Thinking NeoliberalisminEast S12 - Affect andResistanceinContemporary Art andLiterature ( S11 - Aesthetics ofImprisonment ( S10 - Adaptation andCross-Cultural Appropriation ( S9 - A DancethatisNow:‘Old’ andNew Technologies forthePreservationand S4 -”Other”NarrativesofIslamicSpain ( S3 -“DissolvingMargins” inandthroughthe Work of ElenaFerrante ( S2 -“ColdPhilosophy”:Poetry, Poetics,andtheSciences ( S1 -“China”inDefinition ( Saturday, 2:00p.m. -3:45p.m.) (Friday, 2:00p.m. -3:45p.m./Friday, 4:00p.m. -5:45p.m./ C/D/C SEMINARS S23 -BlackMatter: The Times and SpacesofBlackMovement, Thought, S22 -BigData ( S21 -BeyondtheSubjectandHeritage: Lineadesombratenyearsafter. (Sever S20 - Arendt’s Literary Worlds (Emerson305/Emerson210/Emerson 210) S19 - Are We Queer Yet? (Sever203) S18 - Archival FormationsandBoundariesinComparativeLiteraryStudies S17 - Anthropocene Reading ( S16 - All intheFamily: The LiteraryandCulturalPoliticsofIncest ( Saturday, 4:00p.m. -5:45p.m.) (Friday, 2:00p.m. -3:45p.m./Friday, 4:00p.m. -5:45p.m./ C/D/D SEMINARS K109) B101/Northwest B110) Psychoanalytic Theory (Sever206) Asia (Emerson105) Emerson 307/Emerson101) 109) Re-creation ofBalletandMovement ( B106/Northwest B104/NorthwestB106) and BlackCreation ( 110/Sever 302/Sever302 (Sever 210/Sever 208/Sever 208) Center, Rm.18) Northwest B103 ) Sever 113/Emerson 106/Sever113) CGIS SouthS010-Tsai Auditorium) Boylston 103) Barker Center, Rm.133-Plimpton) )

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seminar overview seminar acla 21 21 22 22 acla seminar overview 2016 S45 -DigitalMapping, Spatially-basedStorytelling ( S44 -Dialectical Thinking intheHumanities ( S43 -DevilsintheDetails:Demonic Horrors,Devilish Afterlives, andInfernal S42 -Cross-Racial Ventriloquism I:ProseFiction,Poetry, and Translation S41 -Cross-cultural Values: ConfluencesandConflicts ( S40 -Cross-cultural(Dis-)Locations of Disability ( S39 -CrisisintheHumanitiesandChangeInterdisciplinaryPractices S38 -Copy Writers: Authorship as Textual Reproduction ( S37 -ContemporaryRealismsandtheRepresentationsofaGlobalized World S36 -ContemporaryFeministPoetry&Marxist-Feminism ( S35 -ComparativeQueerStudiesinHemisphericLatin(o) America and The S34 -ComparativeMelodrama ( S33 -ComparativeMelancholies:RepresentationofLoveasMelancholiaaround S32 -Childhood,Gaze,andConflictinLatin AmericanLiteratureandFilm Saturday, 4:00p.m. -5:45p.m.) (Friday, 2:00p.m. -3:45p.m./Saturday, 2:00p.m. -3:45p.m./ C/C/D SEMINARS S28 -CapitalismandSlaveryinLiterature ( S27 -BuildingStories: Architecture andNarrativeForm ( S26 -BuddhistLiteratureasPhilosophy, BuddhistPhilosophyasLiterature S25 -Border-Thinking andChineseStudies ( S24 -BookHistoriesfromtheMargins: GlobalPluralitiesinPrintCulture S31 -LivingOn:Deconstruction Today and Tomorrow (BarkerCenter, Rm.110 S30 -ChallengestoUniversality:Re-imaginingEuropethroughNarrativesand S29 -CatastrophicRelations: ChartingCreativeIdentitiesalongthePacificRim Desires (Sever304 ) (Northwest B104) (Northwest B101) (Barker Center, Rm.211) 316) Caribbean ( the World (Emerson106) (Sever 212) Hall B/ScienceCenter, HallB A/Science Center, HallC/ScienceCenter, HallC (CGIS SouthS050 Emerson 101) (Science Center112) - Thompson) 113 Poetics ofDiaspora,Migration,andExile ( 116 (Science Center, Rm.113/Science Center, Rm.116/Science Center, Rm. ) ) Sever 106) ) Sever 202)

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Museums, Food, Bookstores Food, Museums, acla 31 31 32 32 pre-conference workshops acla 2016 discussion about themanyformsofnon-dissertation writingthat In thispre-conferenceworkshop, wewanttogeneratealively 3. Side-Work Matters: Translation, Blogging, and the Richmond-Garza, UTAustin,andMariaKhotimsky, MIT. by hervoice,spirit,andcreativity. OrganizedbyElizabeth places acrosstheUSandglobe,whoseliveswere touched Presenters includeSvetlana’s colleaguesandstudentsfrommany on themanywaysSvetlanahasinfluencedourfieldand our work. share ourmemoriesofworkingandstudyingwithher, andreflect Literature andSlavicStudies.We willreadexcerptsfrom her work, legacy ofSvetlanaBoym--onetheleadingvoicesinComparative In thisworkshop,wegathertocommemorateandcelebrate the ofSvetlanaBoym(4:00pm-5:45pm) 2. ReadingsinMemory (Cornell). SimonePinet KatharinaN.Piechocki(Harvard), Lionnet (Harvard), include Yasser (Dartmouth),EricHayot(PennState),Françoise Elhariry and translationinanopendialoguewiththeaudience.Panelists will workshop seekstoexplorethemultilayeredworkingsofspace,theory, than presentingadiscussionofthe“statediscipline,”this new toolstorethinkcategoriesandreinventterminologies?Rather one other, butasinterlockingpractices?Can(orshould)they provide if theory, translation,andspaceareconsiderednotseparatelyfrom Comparative Literatureshapethedisciplinein2016?Whathappens Howdothesethreecrucialbuildingblocksof in the21stcentury? and space(cartographyareastudies,amongothers).What’s new questions pertaining,broadlyspeaking,to(critical)theory, translation, The studyofComparativeLiteraturehaslongbeendrivenby ofSpace, 1. ComparativeLiterature 2016:TheImportance Thursday, March 17(4:00pm–5:45pm) PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS pm) -Sever106(Closed;advancedregistration only) Writing ofNon-Dissertation Importance (4:00pm-5:45 B101 - Northwest (Closed; advancedregistration only) Theory, andTranslation (4:00pm-5:45pm)Sever103

Graduate StudentRepresentatives and discussingroupsduringtheworkshop.OrganizedbyACLA dissertation writing,whichwewillshareamongotherparticipants participants pre-registerandsendinexcerptsfromtheirnon- etc. thatwillhelpallofusnavigate“sidework.”We askthatinterested and wewillsharediscusstheconcerns,questions,stories,advice, had experienceandsuccessintheircareerswith“writingonthe side,” University)whohave moderators includingStephenBurt(Harvard make ourintellectualworkmorepublic.We willbejoinedbysenior translating, andotherwritinginmultiplediscoursesformats, to personal andprofessionaldevelopment:reviewing,blogging, partofanygraduatestudent’sshould beconsideredanecessary Michigan). Organized by Richard Delacy (Harvard University). Michigan). OrganizedbyRichard Delacy(Harvard of StatenIsland,CUNY),and MadhumitaLahiri(Universityof Srinivasan (UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley),SohomjitRay(College (Rutgers University),Roanne Kantor(BrandeisUniversity),Ragini Literature intheUSandbeyond?PanelistsincludePreetha Mani study ofliteraturesotherthanthoseproducedEnglishin Comparative American academy?Howdoesthisparticularcaseinform usabout the up foranalysisundertherubricofpostcolonialstudiesin theAnglo- globally? Arerecentlyproducednovelsandpoetry, forexample,taken by SouthAsianssituatedinAsiabeencriticallyreceived textsproduced growing marketinasimilarfashion?Howhaveliterary Marathi, Tamil andBengalitoproduce modernliteraturegearedtothe vernaculars? Havetheyencouragedwritersinlanguages such as Hindi, production inthe impact havethesematerialchangeshadonliterary by publisherssuchasPenguinIndiaandHarperCollins India. What Asia, manyofwhomwriteinEnglish,arebeingpromotedaggressively twenty years?Awholerangeofnew, youngauthorswithinSouth in Indiaspecifically, andinSouthAsiamorebroadly, overthepast landscape How haseconomicliberalizationchangedtheliterary academy, inparticularthedisciplineofComparativeLiterature. and theplaceofthisnewformliteratureinAnglo-American in SouthAsiathewakeofeconomicliberalizationIndia in 1990, production This roundtablediscussionwillexplorethestateofliterary 4. TheFuture ofSouthAsianLiterature inComparative

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maps acla 53 53 54 54 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Cup ofWater UnderMyBed Intersecting Lives,Narratives: LiteraryJournalisminDaisyHernández’s A Sever 213 Saturday, March19,2016 African GeneralElection Fear andLoathingintheDesertofReal:“HannibalElector” 2014South Conflict? Literary JournalismDuringtheIrish“Troubles”: DidaShortageofTruth Prolong the Literary JournalisminFrance: A questfor Subjectivity andStyle Sever 213 Friday, March18,2016 A GLOBAL GENREI SEMINAR: BEYOND BORDERS: LITERARY JOURNALISMAS Spiegelman’s Maus Metaphors (Un)Masked: Animality andTwentieth-Century Catastrophe in Art Are theJackalsJews?Kafka’sZoopoeticOrientalisms Biopower Constructing theInhuman(e)andHuman(e):Human-DogIntimacies American Manipulable Mongrels inFehéristen/WhiteGod Boylston G02 Saturday, March19,2016 Fiesta enlaMadriguera Narco-Animals: ReimaginingtheMexicanNationalSymbolsinJuanPabloVillalobos’ Kalevala Ecology:Nordic Animals, ShamanicOntology, andFinnishNationalIdentity Cats asinNatsumeSoseki’sWagahai waNekode Aru The Man-EatingTiger: Wild Animal PoliticsandColonialIndianIdentity Hogarth’s BeefandEnglishNationalIdentity Boylston G02 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ANIMALS, ANIMALITY, ANDNATIONAL IDENTITY Monica Hanna,CaliforniaStateUniversity, Fullerton Robert Alexander,BrockUniversity Kelly Konya,TrinityCollege,Dublin Marie Vanoost,UniversitéCatholiquedeLouvain Rob Alexander,BrockUniversity Antonia Peroikou,UniversityofCyprus Adam Toth,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Chloe Diamond-Lenow,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Sarah O’Brien,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology Yarí CruzRíos,IndianaUniversity Jonathan Lehtonen,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Amy Ratelle,UniversityofToronto Keridiana Chez,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversityNewYork Piers Beirne,UniversityofSouthernMaine Keridiana Chez,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege Literary JournalisminourBrain Moved toTears. ErwinKoch,LiteraryJournalism,andthePower of Affect Boundaries ofJournalism,Literature andTranslation Untold StoriesandSpeakingOut.MexicanauthorElenaPoniatowska:Crossing the John Hersey’sReportage Anywhere Goes?Translation andtheGlobalReachofLiteraryJournalism:TheCase Sever 213 Sunday, March20,2016 Sonia Faleiro: From BeautifulBeginningstoComplicatedStories Fiction Cronicas andBrazilianisms:BeyondJournalism, Away from Anthropology, Almost Caryl Phillips’Post-Holocaust/Decolonized Interstices Blacks, JewsandPostcolonialEkphrasisinDavidDabydeen’sHogarth Novels Syncretizing Religion, Art andIllnessin‘TheBookofMechtilde’ From theOutside:JamaicanSuperstitioninPhilipCohenLabatt’sShortFiction Sever 102 Saturday, March19,2016 slave Narratives On aMarché EnsembleenEgypte:EvocationsofJewishHistoryinFrancophone Neo- Verge ofTranscultural Memory Mémoires enchaînées’?Glissant’s‘Vertigo’ andChamoiseau’sTraces-mémoires onthe Cesaire, theHolocaust,andColonial Fanon, Memmiandthe Anxiety ofCosmopolitanism Sever 102 Friday, March18,2016 COLONIAL LITERARY ANDPRINTCULTURES SEMINAR: CARIBBEAN/JEWISHINTERSECTIONSIN(POST)

Isabel Nery,CenterforLanguageandLiterature,LisbonFacultyofLetters Kate McQueen,IndependentScholar Amanda Hopkinson,CityUniversity,London Pascal Gin,CarletonUniversity Maitrayee Basu,MiddlesexUniversity Vera Hanna,UniversidadePresbiterianaMackenzie Neil Davison,OregonStateUniversity Sarah Casteel,CarletonUniversity Bonnie Wasserman,UniversityofArizona Heidi Kaufman,UniversityofOregon Sian LuciaLlanoPuertas,Goldsmiths,UniversityofLondon Kathleen Gyssels,AntwerpUniversity Benjamin Ratskoff,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Bryan Cheyette,UniversityofReading Heidi Kaufman,UniversityofOregon Sarah PhillipsCasteel,CarletonUniversity

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stream A stream acla 55 55 56 56 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Middle EasternStudies Reimagining Comparative Literature inthe Arab World asaParadigm foraComparative Abjection, Denialand Alterity inModernOttoman-Turkish Literature Framework Charting theLiterature ofEngagementwithinaComparative MiddleEasternLiterature Dialogue inMonologue: Addressing Mahmoud DarwishinHebrew Barker 110(Thompson) Sunday, March20,2016 The LastSpring: Armenian andTurkish Literatures between1908and1914 Ottoman Afterlife Literatures: An Post-communal Imperial Traces: TheGrounds foraPost-OttomanLiterature? Literature Imagined Networks: Ahmad Shawqi’s“Sisterof Andalusia” andReadingtheWorld in Barker 110(Thompson) Saturday, March19,2016 Solidarity withoutBorders: thePoeticTributes toPaulRobesonofGoranandCegerxwîn Modernist Poetry At FarOff Points,PeoplePassBy: A Transnational Approach toIranianandIraqi Iran-Iraq War Memoirs: BirthofaNewSubjectivity? Literary Culture(s) oftheGunpowderEmpires United Yet Apart: ConfiguringaPremodern IslamicateLiterature? Barker 110(Thompson) Friday, March18,2016 FORGING ADISCIPLINE SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE MIDDLEEASTERNLITERATURES: Poetry ofthe1930s ’Mi SegundaPatria/Mayntsveytnheym:’LanguagesandHomelandsinCuban-Yiddish Cuban Sephardim inLiterature andEthnography Diversity orHybridity?:JewishandCaribbeanIdentitiesin Andrea Levy’s‘SmallIsland’ Sever 102 Sunday, March20,2016 Maya Kesrouany,American UniversityofSharjah Fatih Altug,_stanbul_ehirUniversity Matthew Chovanec,UniversityofTexas atAustin Yael Kenan,UniversityofMichigan Mehmet FatihUslu,_stanbul_ehirUniversity Nanor Kebranian,ColumbiaUniversity Elizabeth Nolte,UniversityofWashington C. CeyhunArslan,HarvardUniversity Metin Yuksel,HacettepeUniversity Thomas Thompson,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Azadeh Safaeian,NorthwesternUniversity Sunil Sharma,BostonUniversity Selim S.Kuru,UniversityofWashington Elizabeth Nolte,UniversityofWashingtonatSeattle C. CeyhunArslan,HarvardUniversity Rachel Rubinstein,HampshireCollege Ruth Behar,UniversityofMichigan Efraim Linda Weinhouse,CommunityCollegeofBaltimoreCounty Sicher, Ben-GurionUniversityoftheNegev PERFORMANCE, POETICS&RHETORIC SEMINAR: CROSS-RACIAL VENTRILOQUISM II: Japanese Literature Throw Your Voice ontheBeat:Blackvoice andHip-HopNarrationinContemporary China/cana Speech—Cross RacialTalk inVirginia Grise’sRasgos Asiáticos. Olde English800andGangstaRap|OldOralPoetics Science CenterHallE Friday, March18,2016 Friendship, Debt,and Acquittal Half-Mourning theFriend:Impossible IncorporationinDerridaandMontaigne He(ir)s: TheShadowofMariedeGournay The Authority oftheTeacher inDerridaandMontaigne Emerson 108 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: DERRIDA’S ESSAIS Empathic Failure?: Conundrums ofCross-racial Identification Everybody Else’sItalians Anti-Racist Catechisminturn-of-the-centuryBritishPeriodicals Science CenterHallE Sunday, March20,2016 of Unity My NameisKhanandaBollywoodizationofCivilRightsResistancethrough an Anthem Postracial Aesthetics and Asian American Authorship in Young Jean Lee’sIdentityPlays An Electric Audience: Translating RaceinHughes’sRussianScottsboro Play Black Talk: Accenting RaceinEarlyModernTheatre Science CenterHallE Saturday, March19,2016

William BridgesIV,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Jayson Sae-Saue,SouthernMethodistUniversity Donna BethEllard,UniversityofDenver Jim Cocola,WorcesterPolytechnicInstitute Marina Bilbija,HarvardUniversity Hassan Melehy,UniversityofNorthCarolina atChapelHill Ellie Anderson,EmoryUniversity Eloy LaBrada,UniversityofAlberta Samir Haddad,FordhamUniversity Matthew Ancell,BrighamYoungUniversity Katie Chenoweth,PrincetonUniversity Eunha Na,UniversityofMinnesota Jim Cocola,WorcesterPolytechnicInstitute Marina Bilbija,HarvardUniversity Priya Jha,UniversityofRedlands Hee-won Kim,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Ramona Tougas,UniversityofOregon Ngara Ndiaye,ColumbiaUniversity

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stream A stream acla 57 57 58 58 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Sublime Borders: Schiller’s WillSublime Borders: andNietzsche’sWill Schiller’s toPower The Korean DemilitarizedZone ‘Dark Forest’ in‘TheThree-Body Problem’ Materiality ofImaginationinKatherineMansfield’s‘The Tiredness ofRosabel’ Science Center110 Saturday, March19,2016 Framing theBorderland Dweller:Proto-cinematic Portraiture inVictorian Fiction Borders inBorges andBarthes Ut PictorPoeta:MetamorphosisandPoïesis ‘Austerlitz’ Colophon forPhotographs:Typography, Photography&MeaninginW. G.Sebald’s Virtual Playgrounds: Algorithms andtheBorders ofPoetry Science Center110 Friday, March18,2016 (UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR, PART I) SEMINAR: EPISTEMOLOGIESOF THE BORDER Reading Derrida’sEssais Of MarranosandMorality:Derrida,Montaigne,EquivocalReading Montaigne’s Telephone The Animal ThatTherefore HeIs. Emerson 108 Sunday, March20,2016 Spirit Wind, ortheSuicidePenaltyofDeathBomber “Le filetse rompe”: DerridaandMontaigneonDeath The Autoimmunity ofSkepticism From theRightSlant:Regarding theSelf-PortraitinMontaigneandDerrida Emerson 108 Saturday, March19,2016 Daniel Rhodes,UniversityofPennsylvania Jed Munson,WesleyanUniversity Jue Hou,TsinghuaUniversity Promise Li,OccidentalCollege Andrew Kingsley,DartmouthCollege Julie Salzinger,HarvardCollege Kyle Posey,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Sam Weselowski,SimonFraserUniversity Lydia Tuan,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Henry Bowles,HarvardUniversity Elena Fratto,HarvardUniversity Katie Chenoweth,PrincetonUniversity Erin GraffZivin,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia John Casey,BrownUniversity Chloe Vettier,PrincetonUniversity David Wills,BrownUniversity Jacob Levi,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Zahi Zalloua,WhitmanCollege Matthew Ancell,BrighamYoungUniversity Comics withoutBorders: DiagrammaticEpistemologyinChrisWare’s JimmyCorrigan Barca’s LiteraryFrames Postmodern andEarlyModernConfessions:Derrida’sParergon andCalderóndela Primordial Borders: TheDivisionofLandandSeainSchmittBlumenberg Intelligibility From DarknesstoDarkness:ReadingMax Aub andHumberto HélderattheMargins of Science Center110 Sunday, March20,2016 Losing theSexWars: TheDigitalLegacyof“Women Against Pornography” Out from the Archive: FeministCollectingandCollectivities Sever 109 Friday, March18,2016 MEDIA SEMINAR: FEMINISMANDNEWGENERATIONS OFOLD Falling DownaStairwell:ComplexNarrativePlanesinItaloCalvinoand FrancisPonge incrociati Spatial Storytelling:CombinatorialPotentialinItaloCalvino’sIlcastello deidestini George Perec’s Invisible Space Mapping andMovementasNarratologicalModes Barker 114(Kresge) Saturday, March19,2016 Act sothatthere isnouseinacenter.” –G.Stein’s4thDimensional Aesthetic Maupassant andVeniamin Kaverin. Inside Out.Non-OrientableSurfaces,Continuity, andNarrativeSpaceinGuyde Minds andBodiesintheWorld: Dostoevsky, George EliotandGeorge HenryLewes Barker 114(Kresge) Friday, March18,2016 STORYTELLING SEMINAR: FEEDMENOLINE. SPACE MODELSAND

Wyatt Sarafin,KenyonCollege Camilo Mejia,BrighamYoungUniversity Jack Gross,ColumbiaUniversity Lucas Cuatrecasas,HarvardUniversity Leah Allen,GrinnellCollege Jane Carr,NewAmerica Jen McDaneld,UniversityofPortland Leah Allen,GrinnellCollege Paola Villa,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Natalie Berkman,PrincetonUniversity Tomoko Slutsky,PrincetonUniversity Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire,MiamiUniversity,Ohio Mark Bartlett,IndependentScholar Elena Fratto,HarvardUniversity Melissa Frazier,SarahLawrenceCollege Paola Villa,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Elena Fratto,HarvardUniversity

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stream A stream acla 59 59 60 60 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 On PlanetRedThey’ll Eat You Dead or Alive through theLensofChildhood Ambiguous Legacies,DubiousNostalgia: RememberingtheChineseCulturalRevolution Patricio Guzmán’sElbotóndenácar andNostalgiadelaluz Memory, Shored UpagainstRuins:TheLiminal astheSiteofCulturalRedemptionin Pinochet Chile Finding andPerformingFamilyMemories:DocumentaryLettersDiaries ofPost- Sever 210 Saturday, March19,2016 The RuthlessEquationofViolence: MemoryandDiscoveryinVilleneuve’s “Incendies” Network NarrativeinDiaz.Don’tCleanUpThisBlood Algerian Memory-Narrative:theFilmsofHabibaDjahnine Planes, Trains, andDeGaulle:TheSignsofLiberationinPostwarFrench Cinema Sever 210 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: FILMANDCULTURAL MEMORY and Media Women inClothes:Collaborative FashionConversationsandCommunities Across Time Critique ontheBodyinanEgyptianSatire Vlog Jiggle andNoise: Animation and Automation inFeminist Aesthetics Sever 109 Sunday, March20,2016 Susan HoweandthePoeticsofFeministBroadcasting onPacificaRadio “A Voice of A Generation”:LenaDunham’sGirlsasTransmedia FeministTelevision Production ofFeminism’sPast The History(andFuture) ofFeministLifeWriting: OldForms,NewMedia,andthe An EthnographicMediaHistoryofWomen inDocumentary Sever 109 Saturday, March19,2016 Writing InPublic I KnowWhere You Live Alan West-Durán, Northeastern University Belinda QianHe,University ofWashington Jackie Kim,HarvardUniversity Elizabeth Osborne,FranklinandMarshall College Inez Hedges,NortheasternUniversity Fabrizio Cilento,MessiahCollege Sheila Petty,UniversityofRegina Louis Segura,RutgersUniversity Inez Hedges,NortheasternUniversity Diana Filar,BrandeisUniversity Sonali Pahwa,UniversityofMinnesota Amalle Dublon,DukeUniversity Lisa Hollenbach,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Annie Bares,IndependentScholar Jen McDaneld,UniversityofPortland Shilyh Warren,UniversityofTexasatDallas Michelle Moravec,RosemontCollege Fiona Barnett,DukeUniversity SEMINAR: FREEDOMAFTERNEOLIBERALISM Marlon Riggs Counter Narratives,Hybridity, andViewer ResponseintheDocumentaryFilmsof It All BeginsatSea:TheMemoryoftheSeainIsraeliCinemaafterSecondIntifada Ethics, Testimony andDocumentary Aesthetics: JacquesPanijel’sOctobre àParis(1962) Sever 210 Sunday, March20,2016 Reframing theHumanistLogicofNeoliberal Freedom Ernst Bloch’sUtopianPhilosophy Human Freedom andthe Utopian Imagination:RethinkingSubject-ObjectMaterialismin The PoliticsofVisibility: Form andFreedom inPabloLarraín’sNo Hurt’ Branding Freedom inan Age ofNeoliberalism:ColsonWhitehead’s‘ApexHidesthe Emerson 305 Sunday, March20,2016 Free asaBird: Conservation,Neoliberalism,andJonathanFranzen’sFreedom Involved: ZadieSmithandtheNeoliberalImagination Historicizing NeoliberalFreedom: BritishHistoricalFiction Containment Cultures andFreedom Fightersinthe1950sNovel Emerson 305 Saturday, March19,2016 Neoliberalism Governmentality and Accumulation: Literature, Freedom, andtheTemporalities of 10:04andthe Affective HistoricalPresent Ben Lerner’s Cosmopolitan Risk,NeoliberalUn-freedom Form, Temporality andCosmopolitanEthics inDavidMitchell’sCloud Atlas Emerson 305 Friday, March18,2016

Leah Anderst,QueensboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY Slava Greenberg,TelAvivUniversity Maria Flood,CornellUniversity Matthew Mullins,SoutheasternBaptist TheologicalSeminary Caroline Edwards,Birkbeck,University ofLondon Eugenio DiStefano,UniversityofNebraskaOmaha Adam Kelly,UniversityofYork Elizabeth Callaway,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Lisa Fluet,CollegeoftheHolyCross Christopher Vardy,UniversityofManchester Myka Tucker-Abramson,UniversityofWarwick Eli Jelly-Schapiro,UniversityofSouthCarolina Ralph Clare,BoiseStateUniversity Emily Johansen,TexasA&MUniversity Alexander Beaumont,YorkStJohnUniversity Alexander Beaumont,YorkStJohnUniversity Adam Kelly,UniversityofYork

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stream A stream acla 61 61 62 62 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Lost Gods:Finding ReligioninScienceFiction Northwest B101 Friday, March18,2016 SOCIAL FORMATIONS FICTIONAL WORLDS, PARTICIPATORY CULTURE, ANDNOVEL SEMINAR: FROM FICTION TO FAITH ANDFANDOM: Reel Subsumption:ContemporaryLabor-Films andthePoliticalEcologyofExtraction Terraforming, andotherSpeculativeLandscapes and ecologicaltrespass “Steps/Almost As Silent As theTurf They Trod”--Ear totheGround: Wordsworth, BP, Cerro dePasco:Lifeafter the ecologicallossofacity Sever 209 Sunday, March20,2016 Lacunae: Missing,inThoreau’s Manuscripts Dickinson’s Remains Revelation TheTransformationAutobiography’s Exhaustion,JulianaSpahr’s andtheCost of Vaseline Lens:DispersingVisions inRobHalpern’sDisasterSuites Sever 209 Saturday, March19,2016 and thePerformanceofMalaise The LifeStylesoftheBored andDisenfranchised:FelixGonzález-Torres, Gregg Araki, Children-No-Longer Freud intheRuins Totality’s Repose:Chantal Akerman’s “Everything” Unabandoned Figures ofPersistence Sever 209 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: FROM EXTRACTION TO EXHAUSTION Steven Hrotic,University ofVermont Rhona Trauvitch,FloridaInternational University Nathan Fredrickson,UniversityofCalifornia, SantaBarbara Avery Slater,UniversityofTexasatAustin Vincent Bruyere,EmoryUniversity Anne-Lise Francois,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Karl Dahlquist,YorkUniversity Juliana Chow,SaintLouisUniversity Natalie Adler,BrownUniversity Anastasia Baginski,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Samia Rahimtoola,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Joshua Guzman,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Erin Trapp,UniversityofMinnesota Alexander Wolfson,UniversityofChicago Christopher Malcolm,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Michelle Ty,IndependentScholar Anastasia Baginski,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,ComparativeLiterature Christopher Malcolm,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,ComparativeLiterature Anne-Lise Francois,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,ComparativeLiterature Imagining aNewWorld: Tracing ‘A CityLikeParadise’ HerstoryinSiminDaneshvar’s From Fictionto Alternative Religions the RoleofReligiousIdeasinHumanity’sFuture We NeedVision First:Margaret Atwood’s Church ofPetrOleum,God’sGardeners and Talents’) Postsecular Scripture: Literature ‘Parableofthe asWisdom Literature (OctaviaButler’s Northwest B101 Saturday, March19,2016 Questioning ReligionandMagicin Alternative FantasyStoryworlds A Planfor Action: MagicalPracticeasReligioninEarthseaandtheDiscworld Cognitive ConstraintsonNoveltyinSpeculativeFictionReligions Coventry Patmore andtheIdeaofOde Nineteenth-Century Romanceand the Aesthetics of Anachronism Sever 110 Saturday, March19,2016 Generic NoiseintheRuritanianRomance The ShiftingLogicofHistoricalFictionalityintheUS,1821-1851 Deception andDistinctioninEarlyModernFiction Unread/Re-Posted: TheNovelasaSocialMedium Sever 110 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: GENREASAESTHETICJUDGMENT Fandoms andtheUseofFiction The CasualFanor:HowWe LearnedtoStop HatingNerds andBecomeThem Making (Fictional)Sacred Space:FanPilgrimageandEmbodiedNarratives Building Vila Sésamo:TheImaginedCommunity, from theScreen totheThemePark Beyond Metalepsis:HowParticipationLetsFictionsExceedFictionality Northwest B101 Sunday, March20,2016

Mansoureh Modarres,UniversityofAlberta Ronald Fritze,AthensStateUniversity Moira Marquis,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Michael NietoGarcia,ClarksonUniversity Phoebe Salzman-Cohen,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Andrew Shamel,IndependentScholar Nathan Fredrickson,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Naomi Levine,Rutgers University Justin Sider,United StatesMilitaryAcademyWestPoint Edward King,YaleUniversity Thomas Koenigs,ScrippsCollege Samuel Fallon,SUNYNewPaltz Marta Figlerowicz,HarvardSocietyofFellows,University Justin Sider,WestPoint Len Gutkin,HarvardUniversity Cristina VischerBruns,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Chelsea Brown,IndependentScholar J CarolineToy,OhioStateUniversity Laura Brown,BrandeisUniversity Rhona Trauvitch,FloridaInternationalUniversity

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stream A stream acla 63 63 64 64 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Century Tracing Chinese Avant-Garde’s Busy Afterlife: Yin Lichuan’sFiction attheTurn ofthe Mirror Chinese Avant-Garde inthe Age ofMedia:TheCounter-Image ofResistance inLiWei’s Berg Poets Global Avant-gardes andtheEastGermanContext: Brech, MüllerandthePrenzlauer Foreign Labor, Security, andTerritory inClaire Fontaine Art inToday Engendering OppositionandGlobalization: A CaseStudyofthe Avant-Garde Poetryand Sever 307 Saturday, March19,2016 “Language Mothers”in Avant-garde PoeticsofBruno SchulzandDeboraVogel Transgressive Circulations: Translation andtheKitschof Avant-Garde Pause on You: CodyChoi,KimHyesoon,andtheGlobalityof Avant-Garde Other Languages. SinoGraphonics: ThePast,Present, andFuture ofChineseCharactersastheMediumfor Sever 307 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: GLOBAL AVANT-GARDES: VISUAL AND VERBAL What’s Terrible aboutthe1790sGothicNovel: aCognitivist Account oftheLifeGenres The OnlyGoodGenre isaDeadGenre: Prestige Television’s Anxiety ofInfluence Hardboiled Style:Genre, CopingandComplicity Genre without Aesthetics?: TheCaseof Amateur FictionOnline Sever 110 Sunday, March20,2016 Post-Metrical Genre Thomas Moore’s Anacreontic Balladry Hongjian Wang,PurdueUniversity Linda Huang,OhioStateUniversity Anna Horakova,CornellUniversity Anthony Abiragi,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Liansu Meng,UniversityofConnecticut Anastasiya Lyubas,SUNYBinghamton Johannes Göransson,UniversityofNotreDame Brian Reed,UniversityofWashington Jonathan Stalling,UniversityofOklahoma Jonathan Stalling,UniversityofOklahoma Barrett Watten,WayneStateUniversity Dorin Smith,BrownUniversity Michaela Bronstein,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Will Norman,UniversityofKent Elyse Graham,SUNYStonyBrook Benjamin Glaser,YaleUniversity Michael Hansen,UniversityofChicago Brazil’s Inhotim:ModernistParadiseand/orPoliticalMediation Poland andtheLowCountries Globalization ontheMargins oftheHistorical Avant-garde Network. A CaseStudyof Global Avant-Garde Poetics,Race,andViolence: CraigSantosPerez Radical ParticularityandtheGlobal Avant-Garde Sever 307 Sunday, March20,2016 Dying toTell theTale: TheMurders of Coleridge,Poe,Verne, andPamuk Works The EdgarPoeof Arabic Literature: ThePoesqueElementsinKahlilGibran’sLifeand Edgar Allan Poe’sDetectiveStoriesFrom a Brazilian CriticalPerspective Sever 207 Sunday, March20,2016 Armand Godoy’sSymbolistTranslation ofPoe’s“TheRaven” Poe inMontevideo1919 and Argentina Poe Sever 207 Saturday, March19,2016 The Ladyisa“Goth”:Edgar Allan Poe’sDarkLadiesandtheirGreek Counterparts What theNoseKnows:PunsinTwo StoriesPoeandGogol Why theGreat Frenchman SolvesHisCrimesinanImaginaryParis Sever 207 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: GLOBAL POEI

Lauren Weingarden,FloridaStateUniversity Micha_ Wenderski,AdamMickiewiczUniversity Omaar Hena,WakeForestUniversity Barrett Watten,WayneStateUniversity Abigail RayAlexander,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Hicham MahdjoubAraibi,UniversityofAliLounici Fabiana Vilaco,UniversityofSãoPaulo Jena Whitaker,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Christopher Rollason,IndependentScholar Emron Esplin,BrighamYoungUniversity Eleftheria Tsirakoglou,AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki,Greece Nikita Allgire,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Susan ElizabethSweeney,CollegeoftheHolyCross Scott Miller,BrighamYoungUniversity Emron Esplin,BrighamYoungUniversity

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stream A stream acla 65 65 66 66 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 My Blood, Your Tear: Mourning,Self-Sacrifice,andMartyrdom in‘Rouzatal-Shuhad_’ Medieval Islam Hagiography asRitualPerformance: Literature, Mysticismand ReligiousIdentityin Sever 104 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: HERMENEUTICSOFMYSTICISM Archive, Memory, and Agency: GüneliGün’s‘TheBookofTrances’ (1979) Figuring theFuture: Apostrophe andEnvironmentalism inIntoEternity Disaster and Apocalypse asMetaphoricLimitsinLatin American Literature Alternate Presents andWormhole Aesthetics Sever 101 Sunday, March20,2016 RepurposingOldLanguageforNew Ideas Theorizing MetaphorintheQur’an: Naipaul’s BendintheHistoricalNovel The NewSpiritofCapitalismisaPlot Global Capitalismandthe Aesthetics ofSurface Sever 101 Saturday, March19,2016 Under Pressure: ThePrecarious MetaphorofQueer Figuratively Speaking:OnFeelingBadly Impossible Figures: Garbage, Affect, Representation Bricks asMortar:CoalescingMetaphorinMotherlessBrooklyn Sever 101 Friday, March18,2016 LANGUAGE SEMINAR: HARDMETAPHORS: THE LIMITSOFFIGURATIVE Aidin Keikhaee,YorkUniversity Tehseen Thaver,BardCollege Stacey Schlau,WestChesterUniversity Gloria MaitéHernández,HarvardUniversity Sevinc Turkkan,SUNYBinghamton Sarah DeYoreo,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Carlos Amador,MichiganTechnologicalUniversity Charles Tung,SeattleUniversity Rachel Friedman,WilliamsCollege Nasser Mufti,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Gloria Fisk,QueensCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Jason Baskin,UniversityofWyoming Kate Haffey,UniversityofMaryWashington Sumita Chakraborty,EmoryUniversity Sean Grattan,UniversityofKent Benjamin Widiss,HamiltonCollege Sean Grattan,UniversityofKent,UK Gloria Fisk,QueensCollege,TheCityUniversityofNewYork A NestfortheSoul:TheTrope ofSolitudeinThree EarlyModernSpanishNun-Poets La miacreatura cheàinséragione:ThePoeticsofCatherineSiena’sMysticism Experiences ofTemptation: A ReadingoftheMemorial ‘Libro de lavida’ Sustainable Devotion.HermeneuticsofWater, Soil,andMysticisminTeresa deJesús’s Sever 104 Saturday, March19,2016 Death of/asGrace:Kleist,Sufism, Wilde &Blanchot Corpus Juan Goytisolo’sHermeneuticsofLonging:ReadingtheLostPagesJohnCross’ Nicholas Love How toReadLiterally:MysticismandMetaphorinJulianofNorwich,Walter Hilton,and Fissures of Intimacy: Precarity and hogar in ‘Amador’ byFernandoLeónde FissuresAranoa ofIntimacy:Precarity andhogarin‘Amador’ Barcelona’s Apocalyptic Face; Alejandro González-Iñárritu’s‘Biutiful’ Migrant CyphersofPrecariousness andSurplus asesinos’ Martyrs, MonstersandInfrapoliticalHauntinginWilmer Urrelo Zarate’s‘Fantasmas Northwest B108 Friday, March18,2016 REPRESENTATION OFPRECARIOUSLIFE. SEMINAR: HISPANIC WORLD CRISESAND THE ‘R “My tastetransformedintoyours”:ReadingasSavoringinthe‘Cánticoespiritual’and Toward anUnderstandingofMysticalCommentary:TheCaseIbnal-Farid Thomas Gallus(d.1246) Dionysian HermeneuticsandMysticismintheCommentariesof Augustinian Canon Many Ways ofSaying‘I’: Faridal-Din’AttarandthePoeticsofSelfhood Sever 104 Sunday, March20,2016 ā sa L

Gloria MaitéHernández,WestChesterUniversity Stacey Schlau,WestChesterUniversity Lisa Tagliaferri,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Jonathan PimentelChacón,UniversidadNacional,CostaRica Marimer Carrión,EmoryUniversity Eser Ari,WesternUniversity Manuela Ceballos,UniversityofTennessee,Knoxville Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger,GordonCollege Lindsey Reuben,UniversityofPennsylvania Diogenes CostaCurras,UniversityofMassachusetts Amherts Manuel Chinchilla,Sewanee:TheUniversity oftheSouth Zoya Khan,UniversityofSouthAlabama Roberto Robles,UniversityofSouthAlabama Manuel Chinchilla,Sewanee:TheUniversityoftheSouth Arjun Nair,HarvardUniversity Craig Tichelkamp,HarvardDivinitySchool Nicholas Boylston,GeorgetownUniversity ī l

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stream A stream acla 67 67 68 68 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Tom Ripley: theContemporaryHorror Where theWild Things Are: Horror, Atavism, andtheUnspeakable Anxiety ontheSurface:ElizabethBowen’s ModernistHorror Northwest B107 Sunday, March20,2016 Belated Affairs: “Afterward” and theRoleofHorror inCritical Invention The Horror ofRace:Lovecraft, Afro-pessimism, andtheLogicsofHorror Hours and Aeons: Anticipations ofCosmicHorror inMelville’s‘TheBell-Tower’ Northwest B107 Saturday, March19,2016 Fleshly Christianity: A DiscourseofHorror The Horror Within: American Literature asCulturalMirror The OriginsofLiteraryHorror? Northwest B107 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: HORROR II Precarious Subjects:Spain’sEconomicCrisisinPabloGutiérrez’s ‘Democracia’ Precarious Arts “Crisis andMigrationinPosthegemonicTimes: Primitive Accumulation andLaBestia” Documentary ‘Losreyes delpuebloquenoexiste’ Precarious Navigation: Affect, Anticipation, andGhostlyRemainsinBetzabéGarcía’s Northwest B108 Sunday, March20,2016 Monstrosity andExcessinRecentSpanishRepresentation ofthePrecarious You shallnotcare! Horrorism andPrecarious Life inGangandNarco Violence a lacarne’ The InhospitableBodyoftheNation:MaternalSubjectivityinDiamelaEltit’s‘Impuesto El cruce enlacrónica:OntheDisplacementofPoliticsand Northwest B108 Saturday, March19,2016 Chu-chueh Cheng, National ChungHsingUniversity Christopher McVey,BostonUniversity Michelle Rada,BrownUniversity Math Trafton,UniversityofAlaskaSoutheast Quinn Lester,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Alejandro Omidsalar,UniversityofTexasatAustin Anbara Khalidi,UniversityofOxford Sarah Young,OldDominionUniversity Edmund Cueva,UniversityofHouston-Downtown Chris McVey,BostonUniversity Eduardo Matos-Martin,NewYorkUniversity David Colbert-Goicoa,Sewanee:TheUniversityoftheSouth Abraham Acosta,UniversityofArizona Lilia AdrianaPerezLimon,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Roberto RoblesValencia,UniversityofSouthAlabama Christian Kroll,ReedCollege Andreea Marinescu,ColoradoCollege Juan CarlosAguirre,NewYorkUniversity Hofmannsthal’s World Literature After theGreat War Machine GunModernism Flipbooks intheFoxhole:GraphicNarrativesandCulturalMemoriesofTheGreat War Two Types ofWar Literature: TheBlurringoftheBorder Linein Wilhelm Klemm’sPoetry Sever 208 Friday, March18,2016 EXCHANGES IN WAR ANDLITERATURE SEMINAR: HOSTILEENCOUNTERS?INTERCULTURAL Rhetorical Limits: DiscipliningHumanRightsandRhetoric Moments andMomentumofHuman RightsandLiterature Sever 113 Friday, March18,2016 REFLECTIONS ANDNEWDIRECTIONS SEMINAR: HUMANRIGHTSANDLITERATURE: CRITICAL Testimonial NarrativesoftheSyrianUprising Greeks The OthersinCyprus: DistinguishingbetweenRumsasTurkish Greeks andCyprus Letters andPhotosofWehrmacht SoldiersinNorth Africa andtheBalkans When Armenians SpeakEnglish:EthnicMarkingsinFatih Akin’s TheCut Sever 208 Sunday, March20,2016 Poetics ofDissonanceandClosenessintheNovelsbyIvo Andric andSasaStanisic The EnemyWithin: SloveneLiteraryResponsesto Austria-Hungary inWorld War I Nursing attheEdge Reconstituting theTorn Nation:SongsofPolandintheGreat War Sever 208 Saturday, March19,2016

Anna Guillemin,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Ross Etherton,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Drago Momcilovic,UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee Jan Behrs,NorthwesternUniversity Anna Guillemin,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Patrick Fortmann,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Nicole Coleman,WayneStateUniversity Kristina Reardon,CollegeoftheHolyCross Belinda Walzer,Northeastern University Greg Mullins,TheEvergreenStateCollege Elizabeth SwansonGoldberg, SwansonGoldberg,BabsonCollege Greg Mullins,TheEvergreenStateCollege Alexandra Moore,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatGreensboro Mohammed Kadalah,UniversityofConnecticut Esra Yildiz,BeykentUniversity Petra Bopp,IndependentScholar Nicole Coleman,WayneStateUniversity Ljubinka Petrovic-Ziemer,UniversityofSarajevo Kristina Reardon,CollegeoftheHolyCross Margaret Higonnet,UniversityofConnecticut Ewa Wojno-Owczarska,HumboldtUniversitätBerlin

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 69 69 70 70 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Scientist onDr. Moreau’s Island Hereditary GeniusintheGrandeurofLife:TheNewMan, BeastManandtheCrazy Stolen LivelihoodsinBessieHead’s ‘WhenRainCloudsGather’ and Cinema(JamesWhale,1931) Science, Art, and Adaptation: FrankensteinasNovel(MaryWollstonecraft Shelley, 1818) and Mr. Hyde “That childofHellhadnothinghuman:”TheDangerScientificInquiry inDr Science Center112 Sunday, March20,2016 Technology, Posthuman Agency andReligion in‘Cloud Atlas’ Men The Riseofthe Android: TheIndustrialRevolutionandtheEnslavementofMechanical Medicine, MakeMeImmortal! Thomas Pynchon’sDoctors:The“Hilarious”andtheGrotesque Science Center112 Saturday, March19,2016 SEMINAR: IMAGES OFSCIENCEINLITERATURE The Genre ofHumanRightsStorytelling:SocialMediaandHumans(New York) Iran Hassan Blasim’sTheCorpseExhibitionandtheEthicsofViolence Guantánamo Diary Juridical InhumanityandNarrativeProliferation inMohamedouOuldSlahi’s Sever 113 Sunday, March20,2016 Indigenous RightsinanEraofSettlerState Apology Human RightsandthePrivatizationofJustice for theBoycott,Divestment,andSanctionsMovement Vying DeploymentsoftheNational,andRationaleforaHumanRightsFramework Sever 113 Saturday, March19,2016 Structured Absence: RevolutioninHumanRightsOrientedLiteraryCriticism At theIntersectionofJuridical,Political,and Aesthetic Acts: Re-imagining Precarity Chung-jen Chen,National TaiwanUniversity Mary Cappelli,EmersonCollege Frank P.Tomasulo,PaceUniversity Molly Porter,LouisianaStateUniversity Maria-Sabina DragaAlexandru,UniversityofBucharest Caroline Mosser,UniversityofSouthCarolina Catalina FlorinaFlorescu,PaceUniversity-NewYorkCity Abeer Fahim,AmericanUniversityofSharjah Catalina FlorinaFlorescu,PaceUniversity Mukti LakhiMangharam,RutgersUniversity Audrey Golden,CoeCollege Alexandra Moore,UniversityofNorthCarolinaGreensboro Brenda Vellino,CarletonUniversity Shakti Jaising,DrewUniversity David Palumbo-Liu,StanfordUniversity Elizabeth SwansonGoldberg,BabsonCollege Susan Spearey,BrockUniversity . Jekyll Irish CritiquesofEmpire: An Internationalist, Anticolonial Counterpublicinthe the 1820s “Genus Periodical,SpeciesMagazine,ClassCalcutta”:BadPoetryandPublicOpinionin Out ofBounds:Civility, CensorshipandImperialLaw Public Sphere? The LiteraryPublicsofEighteenth-Century Anglo-Indian Writing: MakingtheColonial Sever 202 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: IMPERIALPUBLICS Institutions ofNotReading and ReadinginWorld War I Battle HymnoftheLibrarians:The American Library Association’s Campaign forBooks Art Spiegelman’sChildren’s CartoonsandtheHistoryofComicsLiteracy S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: INSTITUTIONSOFREADING Imperial University British Imperialism Lies, DamnedandHistory:MakingSenseofPitcairnIslandinNineteenth-Century Sever 202 Sunday, March20,2016 Red Bloomsbury:Genre andCLRJames’sLiteraryPublics Republic: Counter-reading theImperialPublicSphere Amy Martin,MountHolyokeCollege Nineteenth Century Sever 202 Saturday, March19,2016 Dan White,UniversityofToronto Tanya Agathocleous,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork James Mulholland,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity James Mulholland,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity Tanya Agathocleous,HunterCollege,CUNY Edward MorganDayFrank,Stanford University Kathryne Bevilacqua,UniversityofMichigan Lee Konstantinou,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark Lee Konstantinou,UniversityofMaryland Kimberly Andrews,YaleUniversity Natalia Cecire,UniversityofSussex Leif Sorensen,ColoradoStateUniversity Siraj Ahmed,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Tillman Nechtman,SkidmoreCollege Robert Higney,CityCollegeofNewYork,CUNY Rajender Kaur,WilliamPatersonUniversity

“Indostan”in American PrintCulture oftheEarly

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stream A stream acla 71 71 72 72 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Fragments Towards a(Quasi-)MaterialistPedagogy ofEigensinn(Idiosyncrasy) The ContextsofCritique The PrisonofthePresent: IntellectualLabor inNeoliberalTimes Humanistic Values inJeffrey Eugenides’s‘TheMarriagePlot’ Emerson 101 Saturday, March19,2016 We Cannot“LevelThePlayingField.”We MustReconfigure ItsSymbolicCoordinates. Francis BaconinBenares: CompetingTeleologies of UtilityinBritishIndia Utopia andPraxis:RethinkingPossibilitiesforIntellectualLabor Mind The Administrative Emerson 101 Friday, March18,2016 HUMANITIES VALUEWITHIN THE SEMINAR: INTELLECTUAL LABORAND THE CRISISOF Converging Cultures: Academia MeetsFanFiction The “Great RoughCountryside”ofEnglishStudiesandFantasiesHeroic Scholarship “The Great Outside”:BlackSparrow Booksandthe MakingofaRegional Avant-Garde Reading Reading Ashbery S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 Constructing thePulpGenre System Literary Classification:TheInstitutionalizationofGenre Fiction Institutionalizing Affect Language A Screaming Comes Across theSky:TheMilitary-IndustrialComplexandTurn to S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Arthur Strum,PacificLutheranUniversity Ross Knecht,EmoryUniversity Christian Gerzso,PacificLutheranUniversity Matthew Flaherty,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Mary EileenWennekers,OCADUniversity G.S. Sahota,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz David Lemke,UniversityofMinnesota Timothy Brennan,UniversityofMinnesota Geordie Miller,MountAllisonUniversity Christian Gerzso,PacificLutheranUniversity Timothy Brennan,UniversityofMinnesota Katherine Snyder,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Maria Cecire,BardCollege Maggie Doherty,HarvardUniversity Kimberly Andrews,YaleUniversity Leif Sorensen,ColoradoStateUniversity Andrew Goldstone,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick Patricia Stuelke,DartmouthCollege Natalia Cecire,UniversityofSussex Precarity? Women ReadingTogether: A Value SystemandaCallto Arms Valuing theHumanitiesinFaceofEnclosure Mere Work intheHumanities Emerson 101 Sunday, March20,2016 Death Facing Death. A SartrianPerspectiveontheContemporaryTendency toOver-Humanize Literature andtheFiveStages: A MedicalHumanitiesPerspectiveonGrief Edwidge Danticat’s‘Claire oftheSealight’ Tales ofPossessionandDispossession:NarrativeEconomies ofLossandGriefin Culture inthe Arab Gulf The Protagonist doesnotDie Anymore: TheInfluence oftheDeathNarrativeonPopular Death andCreation in“Three littlepigs” Science Center109 Saturday, March19,2016 Fellini’s Death After StranglingtheBaby:Deathas Anti-Event inChekhov’sShortStories Mountain” Sacred Decay:DeathbetweenScienceandTradition inThomasMann’s“TheMagic Transcending Putrefaction from DemocritustoDali Science Center109 Friday, March18,2016 SOCIAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANDAESTHETICASPECTS REPRESENTATIONS INLITERATURE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL, SEMINAR: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVESONDEATH

Geordie Miller,MountAllisonUniversity Melissa McGregor,SimonFraserUniversity Katherine Lawless,HuronUniversityCollege Robert DDay,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Adriana Teodorescu,PetruMaiorUniversity Rachel Warner,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Elsa Charlety,BrownUniversity Maha ZeiniAl-Saati,UniversityofDammam Cong MinhVu,UniversityofCaen-France Kevin Kopelson,UniversityofIowa Lauren Fath,NewMexicoHighlandsUniversity Laura Tradii,UniversityofOxford Marie-Pierre Krück,CollègedeMaisonneuve Adriana Teodorescu,PetruMaiorUniversity

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 73 73 74 74 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 America theBrave:NewLatinaIdentities inMainstream ComicBooks Of PowerandPrestige: LanguageContactin LatinoWomen MagazinesintheUS in MónicaCarrilloandToni Morrison Healing RacializedBlackFemaleBodiesinthe Americas: Identity, SexualityandNation Sever 306 Sunday, March20,2016 the ShapingofaNationalCulture inChile Forming theCulture oftheNation-State:The Roleof Anthropology andEthnographyin reino deestemundo” Afro-Cubanism “El andNationalCulture, affiliationand reticence in AlejoCarpentier’s Narratives Conversion andIntegration:National Anxieties in American BarbaryCaptivity Sever 306 Saturday, March19,2016 Procura deumaborboletapreta Lusotropicalism, Afra-Brazilian Identity, andNationalMythsinEsmeraldaRibiero’s A Black Atlantic Women’s Literature Mexico Exporting CubanMestizaje:RaciallyConsciousUsesof‘Raceless’IdeologyinBraziland Sever 306 Friday, March18,2016 NATION IN THE AMERICAS SEMINAR: INTERSECTIONSBETWEENRACE, IDENTITY, AND Present “Super SadTrue LoveStory”:OntheSocialInequalityofImmortalityinOurDystopian Beauty, Cruelty, Jokes:Body-SnatchingLiterature inQuebec(1844-1945) Famine With noFriendinCourt,except,ofcourse,God: An CaoineadhandtheGreat Irish Desperately SeekingHappiness:SuicideandSavoirVivre inEighteenth-CenturyFrance Science Center109 Sunday, March20,2016 David YagüeGonzález,UniversidadComplutense deMadrid/HarvardUniversity Celeste MorenoPalmero,HarvardUniversity Mar Gallego,UniversityofHuelva Sebastián LópezVergara,UniversityofWashington Marta Puxan-Oliva,UniversityofBarcelona Nikoletta Papadopoulou,UniversityofCyprus Deonne Minto,BrowardCollege Felipe FanuelXavierRodrigues,UniversidadedoEstadoRiodeJaneiro Anne Guarnera,UniversityofVirginia David YagüeGonzález,UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid/HarvardUniversity Marta Puxan-Oliva,UniversitatdeBarcelona Cristina Douglas,UniversityofBucharest Martin Robert,UniversitéduQuébecàMontréal Moore Quinn,CollegeofCharleston Ekaterina Alexandrova,UniversityofWyoming Destiny Transfigured into Travel (or Vice Versa) New York forDailyReading:JulioCambaandJosepPlaWrite theCity (1898-1982) andKadyaMolodowsky(1894-1974) Translation, Yiddish Archives andtheCity. Thecorrespondence betweenRokhlKorn Spanish-American War tothePost-SpecialPeriod Translating Cuba’sRevolution:Feministand Anti-Racist Critiquefrom theCuban- Sever 103 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: INTERSECTIONSOF TRAVEL AND TRANSLATION Bead Game Hesse’s Irony: Transmedialization andTranscendence inHermannHesse’sTheGlass Bach andLaurence Sterne Melancholy Ironies: SublimeSolitudeandSentimentalPerformanceinWorks byCPE Sever 215 Friday, March18,2016 APPROACH TO LITERATURE ANDMUSIC SEMINAR: INTERTWINING MUSES?ACOMPARATIVE The Stranger, the Flâneur French PhilosophersTravel America Understanding ModernJapanthrough Cultural Translation Sever 103 Sunday, March20,2016 Journey Translations ofTravel Poems:ElizabethBishop’sGeographyIIIandTanikawa Shuntaro’s Nomadic Secrets Yoko Tawada’s Translational Travels Andrés Neuman’sTraveller oftheCentury Reclaiming theLiterature ofotherCountries:Translation andCosmopolitanismin Sever 103 Saturday, March19,2016

Giseli Tordin,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Regina Galasso,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Chantal Ringuet,BrandeisUniversity Laura Lomas,RutgersUniversity,Newark Sara Kippur,TrinityCollege Regina Galasso,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Shelley Hay,UniversityofWisconsin-La Crosse Alex Brown,CornellUniversity Susan Hohl,TheUniversityofChicago Bonnie Gill,UniversityofVirginia Sara Kippur,TrinityCollege Michele Monserrati,BrynMawrCollege Toshiaki Komura,KobeCollege Alicia Borinsky,BostonUniversity Barbara Agnese,UniversitédeMontréal Joanna Neilly,UniversityofOxford

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 75 75 76 76 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Advertising Films Reading theRomanceofaShoe:The RepetitionandErasure of LaborinEarly Concrete Gloves,Concrete Labor Sever 106 Saturday, March19,2016 Challenges toFilmingLaborToday Allegories ofLabor:‘24CITY’afilmbyJIA Zhangke Labor thatMatters:GenderandEverydayBiopoliticsinthePostwarDevelopment Film Citation, Labor, Nostalgia Art Cinema’s(Im)materialLabors Sever 106 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LABOR/MAKING/MATTER A DeafeningSilence:EugenioMontale’sPoetryBetweenMusicandWords Looking atandListeningtotheLine:Musico-PoeticPhrasinginFourSaintsThree Acts Form, Affect, Subject:thePlayofMusicandRomanticPhilosophiesLanguage The BodyinBerlioz’sNovellas: A Juncture betweenMusicandLiterature? Sever 215 Sunday, March20,2016 Diaspora Music, ReligionandLanguage:TheMultipleModesofInterconnection inthe Yoruba Contrapunctual ReadingandImprovising futures Kiko Amat of Soundtrack ofaGeneration:Post-FrancoBarcelona andBritishPunk/PopintheNovels Sever 215 Saturday, March19,2016 LiteraryImaginationDevelopedintoSong The ReadingLiszt:HowaComposer’s Franz LisztandProgram Music Martin Johnson,TheCatholicUniversity ofAmerica Jesús Costantino,UniversityofNotreDame Jonathan Buchsbaum,QueensCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Jerry Carlson,CityCollegeandTheGraduateCenter,UniversityofNew York Molly Geidel,UniversityofManchester Sarah AnnWells,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison John DavidRhodes,UniversityofCambridge Salomé AguileraSkvirsky,UniversityofChicago Sarah AnnWells,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison Mattia Acetoso,BostonCollege Elizabeth Newton,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Carmen FayeMathes,UniversityofBritishColumbia Nina Rolland,UniversityofKent/Sorbonne Robert Stephens,UniversityofConnecticut Mariam Popal,BayreuthUniversity Maria VanLiew,WestChesterUniversity Susan Hohl,UniversityofChicago Robert Doran,UniversityofRochester Reading byResidualMeans Making Do:EcologiesofRepairfrom DickinsontoBarthes Affective LaborandNarrativeMoodsinContemporaryFiction Towards aTypology oftheRefusalWork andofitsRepresentation inLiterature Sever 106 Sunday, March20,2016 Cinema, Labor, andtheProcess Genre Representations inBritishIndia The Aesthetics ofLaborinEarlyNon-fictionFilms: ArtisanandIndustrial Freud’s Animals, Lacan’sobjets,andNonhumanPhilosophy Heidegger The ConceptualHistoryofEmptySpeech: Lacan Atop Kierkegaard, Benjamin,and Emerson 104 Sunday, March20,2016 On Defiance:Lacanvs.Butler Lacan withNietzsche:Towards a NewGayaScienzaofPsychoanalysis Philosophy, PsychoanalysisandthechallengeofSadomasochism of Education Lacan, Badiou,andtheTheftofJouissance:PhilosophyPsychoanalysis attheLimit Emerson 104 Saturday, March19,2016 Desire andDriveinFourModesofNihilism Lacan andthePhilosophyofMathematics Lacan’s PsychoanalyticExistentialism Lacan andKant:DasDingRevisited Emerson 104 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LACAN ANDPHILOSOPHY

Joel Burges,UniversityofRochester Hannah Freed-Thall,BrownUniversity Jerónimo Arellano,BrandeisUniversity Federico Bellini,UniversitàCattolicadelSacroCuore Salomé AguileraSkvirsky,UniversityofChicago Rianne Siebenga,IndependentScholar Gautam BasuThakur,BoiseStateUniversity Samuel McCormick,SanFranciscoState University Mari Ruti,UniversityofToronto Dany Nobus,BrunelUniversityLondon Andrea Nicolini,UniversityofVerona Lee Edelman,TuftsUniversity Seung-hoon Jeong,NewYorkUniversity,AbuDhabi Jonathan Dickstein,IndependentScholar Todd McGowan,UniversityofVermont Richard Boothby,LoyolaUniversityMaryland Gautam BasuThakur,BoiseStateUniversity Todd McGowan,UniversityofVermont

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stream A stream acla 77 77 78 78 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Foundation ofGhana Crafting Nation,CultivatingMyth: The Autobiography ofKwameNkrumah and the Sever 111 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LAW ANDLITERATURE INSUB-SAHARANAFRICA Diatribe andhisDissidentCosmopolitanism “I Would Likethe Arabs to Arrive Onceandfor Anti-Paris All”: NéstorPerlongher’s Accidental Francophilia:Vallejo andMoro, Latin-Americans inParis Ribeyro, ReaderandCriticofDiaries French DiariesinthePracticeofDiaryWriting inHispanic America: JulioRamón Sever 107 Sunday, March20,2016 Octavio PazandtheIdeaofFrance Theft, Resonance,andPotentiality:RaúlRuiz’sfilmtheorypracticeinFrance,1978 essay rubbles «Libros siniestrados»:Caillois,Segalen,andresistance totheotherinMartínCerda’s Sever 107 Saturday, March19,2016 During theInter-War Period Tightening theCircle: Alfonso ReyesandtheFormationofaPan-AmericanIntelligentsia century Argentina Literary transgressions: French liberalism,crime,punishmentandpenalcodeinXIX Counter-secularization: Aproposal Sever 107 Friday, March18,2016 FRIENDSHIP (PERHAPS) SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICA/FRANCE: LOVE, HATE, AND Fantasy Literature -theCounterFactualwhichBearsonTruth After thePerformance:LacanScreened Gary Rees,BemidjiStateUniversity Nienke Boer,NewYorkUniversity Nicholas Matlin,NewYorkUniversity German Garrido,NewYorkUniversity Fernando Velasquez,St.Joseph’sCollege,NewYork Isaura ContrerasRios,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Maarten VanDelden,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Mónica Ríos,RutgersUniversity Carlos Labbé,RutgersUniversity Federico Fridman,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Valentina Iturbe-LaGrave,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Pablo PérezWilson,BaruchCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Mónica Ríos,RutgersUniversity-NewBrunswick Federico Fridman,UniversityofCalifornia-Riverside Josephine Sharoni,DavidYellinCollegeofEducation Rachel Joseph,TrinityUniversity Reading theEvidenceofaNewSouth Africa in“Fruit ofaPoisonedTree” Beyond Rights:CapetonianImaginariesof Anti-Apartheid Protest Harnessing Violence andGuilt:MandelaFirstonCrime,Law, andLegitimation Sever 111 Saturday, March19,2016 Can theSubornedSpeak:BribesandSacrificein Achebe’sNoLongeratEase (En) Forcing JusticeinPost-IndependenceNigerianFiction Post-NAFTA Bootlegs:EconomicLaw, Violence, andNew Aesthetic Realms Disability’s Riftfrom Race:Law, HIV, andPerformativityinthe80’s Does PhilipK.DickDream ofFetuses?:The Android and‘Roev. Wade’ (1973) A World soNew:TheGlobal American Frontier ofToni Morrison’s‘A Mercy’ Boylston 103 Saturday, March19,2016 The World According toDoe The Case Against Caste:MulkRaj Anand’s ‘Untouchable’ asan Act ofLaw Speculative Futures, ContingentPasts:PoliticalTemporality andContemporaryFiction Art inan Alternate LegalUniverse:TheGuantánamoBayMuseum Boylston 103 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LAW, ART, AND WORLD-MAKING Time Heals All Regimes:Temporality inLawand African Literature Bringing theCivilDeadtoLife:BoerWar PrisonersinBritishIndia Invisible Weevil Liberal Institutionalism’sNarrativeDisplacementsinMaryKarooro Okurut’s The Sever 111 Sunday, March20,2016

Jennifer Upton,UniversityofCambridge Cullen Goldblatt,BrownUniversity Nicholas Matlin,NewYorkUniversity Neil tenKortenaar,UniversityofToronto Oluwole Coker,ObafemiAwolowoUniversity Iván Ramos,UniversityofCalifornia, Riverside Hentyle Yapp,PomonaCollege Palmer Rampell,YaleUniversity Morten Hansen,BowdoinCollege Hilary Schor,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Rose Casey,CornellUniversity Stefanie Boese,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Paul Saint-Amour,UniversityofPennsylvania Elizabeth Anker,CornellUniversity Paul Saint-Amour,UniversityofPennsylvania Peter Leman,BrighamYoungUniversity Nienke Boer,NewYorkUniversity David Babcock,JamesMadisonUniversity

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stream A stream acla 79 79 80 80 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Questionable Borders: ChangingLiterature IntoLifeandLiterature Sterne The Art oftheEssayandFormlessLife:ReflectionsonGyörgy Lukácsand Laurence ConceptionofEthopoietic Authorship Ernst Jünger’s From Vita toVitae: LifeasWork of Art inDante Emerson 106 Sunday, March20,2016 Life asarsbonietaequi Experience Immigrant ExperienceasaPlay-BasedNarrativeinBIOBOXES: Artifacting Human On theMultimillionaire’s EverlastingLife:RefinementandIdeology Edith Wharton’sHouseofMirthandthe Aesthetic Challenge Emerson 106 Saturday, March19,2016 Make Life Art – An ImmoralImperative Sprach Zarathustra Of LifeBeautifullyWritten: Aesthetic Self-RealizationinNietzsche’sEcceHomoand Also Materialist Aestheticism Experience Itself:Pater’s Writing theGoodLife:Sainte-Beuve’sVolupté Emerson 106 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LIFEASA WORK OFART The Art ofConstitution Sinew, PhoenixMarrow Judgments Judgments oftheTang inaLawandLiterature Context:TheExampleoftheDragon World-Making inthe1905 Aliens Immigration Act Sovereignty andotherWorks of Art Boylston 103 Sunday, March20,2016 Giulia Radaelli,BielefeldUniversity Gabriel Trop,UniversityofNorthCarolina atChapelHill Mario Bosincu,UniversityofSassari Yue Huang,YaleDivinitySchool Katrin Becker,UniversityofLuxembourg Katarina Zeravica,UniversityofOsijek Jordi Cabos,UniversityofBremen Jittima Pruttipurk,ChulalongkornUniversity DS Mayfield,FreieUniversitätBerlin Jack Rasmus-Vorrath,UniversityofOxford Timothy Chandler,UniversityofPennsylvania Melissa Verhey-Zuranski,PrincetonUniversity Giulia Radaelli,BielefeldUniversity Elizabeth Anker,CornellUniversity Tony Qian,HarvardUniversity Beth Rosenberg,UniversityofNevada,LasVegas Lisi Schoenbach,UniversityofTennessee One-Man Esperanto:LouisWolfson’s Schizophrenic Lingualism Menachem KipnisandtheLinguisticPoliticsof Acculturation inWarsaw’s Teatr Wielki Pathological Lingualism:ReadingSclerosis inthePoetryofJacobGlatstein Barker 211 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LINGUALISM INMODERNJEWISHLITERATURE Narrating aHeterogeneous Present: Teju Cole’snovelOpenCity Literary-historical Time Beyond (One)ModernityandContemporaneityinLiterature: LotmanandRancière on The Representation andExperienceofContemporaneityinContemporaryLiterature Science Center105 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LITERARY CONFIGURATIONS OF THE PRESENT Gender, Secularism, andJewishLingualism Modern Hebrew Literature Against SpokenHebrew: Y.H. From the Beginning Brenner’s Lingualism inaWar Zone:TheCaseofHebrew/Arabic Barker 211 Sunday, March20,2016 Zhitlowsky andMoysheLitvakov From yidish-taytshtoliteraturgufe:The Yiddish(ist) Translation Programs ofChaim Take oftheBestFruit oftheLand Thou ShallWrite No Yiddish – Aharon Reuveniandthe Language ofPalestine Goldberg Hebrew-German Monolingualism:LingualContradictionsinS. Y. Agnon andLeah Barker 211 Saturday, March19,2016

Raphael Koenig,HarvardUniversity Hanna King,IndependentScholar Sunny Yudkoff,UniversityofChicago Roni Henig,ColumbiaUniversity Yaakov Herskovitz,UniversityofMichigan Kaisa Kaakinen,UniversityofTurku,Finland Teemu Ikonen,UniversityofTampere Jacob Lund,AarhusUniversity Kaisa Kaakinen,UniversityofTurku Gizem Arslan,TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica Allison Schachter,VanderbiltUniversity Roni Henig,ColumbiaUniversity Lital Levy,PrincetonUniversity Joshua Price,ColumbiaUniversity Daniel Behar,HarvardUniversity Yaakov Herskovitz,UniversityofMichigan Maya Barzilai,UniversityofMichigan

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stream A stream acla 81 81 82 82 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Tawada Presenting theHere andNow:Temporal OrientationinaMomentofWriting by Yoko Realism andReificationin Tom McCarthy’sRemainder Antiquity inSocialist China The Usesand Abuses ofHistoryforSocialism:OnSome Representations ofNational The SublimeinChineseModernity: anInherent BattleofSubjectivity Era oftheChineseRevolution “The World View of‘Allunder Heaven’”inHiraokaTakeo andJapanese Sinologyinthe History, Fiction,Science:Rereading LuXun’s‘OldStoriesRetold’ S250 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Modernity inLyric Translation Apostrophizing Byron ——TheRhetoric ofTroping andtheMakingofChinese To DieanOldDeath:Transcending Time inLateQingBiographicalWritings Returning tothe‘RitualofZhou’FindaChinesePathFuture, 1860-1900 Crisis ofMeaning An Onto-hermeneuticTurn inChina’sPoliticalModernization:From NewKnowledgeto S250 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 IN EASTASIANMODERNITY SEMINAR: LITERARY RECONFIGURATIONS OF THE ANCIENT Presence ofthepastinfloatingpresent: PerPettersson’sICursetheRiverof Time ‘Voracious MusealCulture:’ RevolutionandMuseumCulture inRecent Argentine Fiction Trapped inthePresent: Germany’sRubbleTexts Science Center105 Sunday, March20,2016 Ki Historical SedimentationinthePresent: NarrativeInnovationsinThomasMann,Danilo El camino(2007) The Paced Aesthetics ofanHistoricalPresent: Sound,Silence,andPlayinIshtar Yasin’s Science Center105 Saturday, March19,2016 ŝ andOrhan Pamuk Gizem Arslan,TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica Chris Carpenter,UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee Hale Sirin,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Pu Wang,Brandeis University Xiang He,UniversityofNewMexico Tsuyoshi Ishii,UniversityofTokyo Satoru Hashimoto,UniversityofMaryland Ying Xiong,UniversityofOregon Keren He,StanfordUniversity Rudolf Wagner,HeidelbergUniversity Jean Tsui,CollegeofStatenIsland,CityUniversityNewYork Satoru Hashimoto,UniversityofMaryland Pu Wang,BrandeisUniversity Aino Makikalli,UniversityofTurku,Finland Stephanie Pridgeon,CatholicUniversityofAmerica Kathryn Sederberg,TexasChristianUniversity David Francis,HarvardUniversity SEMINAR: LITERATURE ANDCULTURAL TECHNIQUES Reconfiguring Historythrough Literature—On Mo Yan’s HistoricalDrama Modernity Tang Tales andWang Xiaobo:EncountersbetweenKnight-ErrantTradition andLiumang The ImaginativeMaterialismofNgKimChew’sMalayanCommunistTrilogy S250 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 German pacemakerofTechniques forWorld Literature Techniques for“World Literature”, theCulturalOwnership oftheTechniques. Cotta–the Baumgarten’s Aesthetics Techniques of Attention inLiterature andScience:OntheGenealogy of A. G. Northwest B105 Sunday, March20,2016 Werther (1922) The ExclamationMarkasaCulturalTechnique: GuoMoruo’s Translation ofGoethe’s Learning HowtoWrite: Techniques ofHandwritingaround 1900 in theGermanReadingRevolution Brevity, Breadth, CulturalTechnique -QuotationandtheMaterialSpatialityofLiterature Northwest B105 Saturday, March19,2016 Writing ontheGrid:KafkaandInscriptiveTechniques oftheOffice Walser Protocol. Bureaucratic RoutineandLiterature intheCaseofFranzKafkaandRobert TypewriterNovel Accidents: Faulkner’s andtheCulturalTechniques ofRevision Northwest B105 Friday, March18,2016

Yue Zhang,ValparaisoUniversity Dingru Huang,UniversityofPennsylvania Nicholas Y.H.Wong,UniversityofChicago Jeewon Kim,Ludwig-Maximilian-University,Munich Johannes Wankhammer,CornellUniversity Johannes DKaminski,AcademicaSinica Mareike Schildmann,UniversityofZurich Andrew Patten,UniversityofErfurt Matthew Schilleman,AmherstCollege Simon Roloff,UniversityofHildesheim Sean DiLeonardi,UniversityofNorthCarolina Kathrin Fehringer,UniversityofErfurt Andrew Patten,UniversityofErfurt

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 83 83 84 84 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Source Reading theMaster:Sergei Slonimsky’s“Master iMargarita” asanInterpretation ofIts On StagesandPages:Reading“Madama Butterfly”asaFluid Text Distribution ofComplicitiesinCarmen Musical Time andRhetoricalTiming: ReadingMusic,thePresence oftheLetter, andthe Councillor Krespel andTheInterdiction ofSong Boylston 110(FongAuditorium) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LITERATURE ANDOPERA Recasting History:Literature, HumanRights,andthePoliticsof Autocritique Literary CartographiesandtheMappingofHumanRights Poppies Perceptions ofHumanRights: A critiqueofEthicalUniversalsin Amitav Ghosh’sSeaof Sever 308 Sunday, March20,2016 Crocodile SeekingRefuge Staging Testimony andPerformingWriting inSonjaLinden’sIHaveBefore Meand and TheVortex inColombia The DutyofMemoryandtheNeedfor Accountability inOneHundred Years ofSolitude Seeds ofDiscontent:NaturalismandtheHumanRightsNarrative Humanitarian Fictions:TheMissionNarrativeandtheThird SectorNovel Sever 308 Saturday, March19,2016 Indignity: RightsandReparationsinSamuelRichardson’s Clarissa Empire ofFeelings:PassionandHumanRights Humans, Non-humansand“IndianDogs”inKashmir Sever 308 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LITERATURE ANDHUMANRIGHTS Olga Haldey,University ofMaryland,CollegePark Brianna Wells,UniversityofAlberta H. MarshallLeicester,UniversityofCalifornia, SantaCruz Joshua Wilner,CityCollegeandTheGraduateCenter,UniversityofNew York Cynthia Chase,CornellU. Sonali Perera,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Janice Ho,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Arnab Roy,UniversityofConnecticut Eda DedebasDundar,Bo_aziçiUniversity Andrés Alfredo Duplat,MinnesotaStateUniversity,Mankato Diane Smith,FarmingdaleStateUniversity Megan ColePaustian,NorthCentralCollege Ramesh Mallipeddi,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Adam Schoene,CornellUniversity Deepti Misri,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Janice Ho,UniversityofColorado,Boulder Sonali Perera,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Molina, Minnesota StateUniversity,Mankato The OperaticMode:LaSonnambulainMillontheFloss Operatic Spectacle Envoicing Galatea:TheModernizationofOvid’sMythPygmalionin Ancien-Régime The ManyRolesofthe Actor DonJuan Andrea Chenier--Incredible buttrue? Text and Authorship inRegietheater Boylston 110(FongAuditorium) Saturday, March19,2016 Walcott intheGulf: Anticommunist ImpasseoftheHemispheric Lyric Sequence Toward aComparative Poetics Living Absence byTouch Lyric andNarrative:BeyondtheOxymoron Science CenterB10 Saturday, March19,2016 Difficulty andthe Lyric Black ReadingandLyric Studies Lyric andtheEnvironmental ImaginationintheWritings of Audre Lorde Lyric Surplus,SocialDeath,GlobalBeing Science CenterB10 Friday, March18,2016 NEW LYRIC STUDIES SEMINAR: MAKINGITNEW(ER): AMIDSTANDBEYOND THE A Libretto forVictoria Ocampo:BeatrizSarloandOperaticModernity Completing aNation-BuildingStory:BristowandWainwright’s Opera,RipVan Winkle Revisionist Historian Marco Tutino’s LaCiociara(2015):TheOperaComposerasLibrettist, Editor, and Canon FormationinWagner’s DieMeistersinger Boylston 110(FongAuditorium) Sunday, March20,2016

Zhe Geng,HarvardUniversity Devin Burke,UniversityofLouisville Ana Foteva,St.LawrenceUniversity Cynthia Chase,CornellUniversity Micaela Baranello,SmithCollege Harris Feinsod,Northwestern University Rachel Galvin,UniversityofChicago Michelle Clayton,BrownUniversity Ella Brians,PrincetonUniversity Dorothy Wang,WilliamsCollege Sonya Posmentier,NewYorkUniversity Angela HumeLewandowski,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Walt Hunter,ClemsonUniversity Gillian White,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Angela HumeLewandowski,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Roberto IgnacioDíaz,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Victoria Aschheim,PrincetonUniversity Laura Prichard,SanFranciscoOpera Nicholas Vazsonyi,UniversityofSouthCarolina

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stream A stream acla 85 85 86 86 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Friendship andthePoliticsofReform inSpanish18thCentury (Un)equal malefriendshipinCadalsosCartasMarruecas “Amistad” betweenmajos?Eighteenth-centuryevidenceandcontexts Boylston 104 Sunday, March20,2016 The Female Anacreon? ThePoeticsofFemaleFriendshipinEighteenth-Century Spain Eighteenth-Century SpanishWomen Writers andtheIdealofFriendship The MysticalBondofFriendship?Writing Female Ars Amicitiae intheConvent Ágreda Female FriendshipandPolitical Agency inEarlyModernSpain:TheCaseofsorMaríade Boylston 104 Saturday, March19,2016 Gallant Imposter](1624) Perfidious Pals:MaleBondsBetrayedinJosédeCamerino’s“Elpícar Staging Friendship:TheFemaleBodyPoliticinEarlyModernSpanishTheater que vengadelosdos. Friendship intheSeventeenthCenturySpanishnovelascortas:Maslaamistadconviene Boylston 104 Friday, March18,2016 LITERATURE STAGING FRIENDSHIPIN17THAND18THCENTURY SPANISH SEMINAR: MALEORFEMALEFRIENDS? WRITING AND Writing Outof“Lyric” –Post-“Lyric” Genres andtheNew“Lyric” Studies Studies, DocumentaryPoetics,andtheHistoricalLyric A TheoryoftheLyric Particular:ClaudiaRankine’s“AmericanLyrics,” NewLyric The ObsoleteLyric Science CenterB10 Sunday, March20,2016 Jan-Henrik Witthaus,UniversitätKassel Claudia Gronemann,UniversityofMannheim Rebecca Haidt,OhioStateUniversity Elizabeth Lewis,UniversityofMaryWashington Catherine Jaffe,TexasStateUniversity Agnieszka Komorowska,UniversityofMannheim Nieves Romero-Díaz,MountHolyokeCollege Shifra Armon,UniversityofFlorida Jennifer Barlow,WakeForestUniversity Lourdes N.Jimenez,SaintAnselmCollege Claudia Gronemann,UniversityofMannheim,Germany Agnieszka Komorowska,UniversityofMannheim,Germany Gillian White,UniversityofMichigan Whitney DeVos,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Chad Bennett,UniversityofTexasatAustin o amante”[The Production andDeconstruction: Macherey andDerridaonTextual Structure andForm Subsumption, Synchronicity, SetTheory:Wuthering Heights,1848 Made NauseousbyForm:FormalismandtheRealismof Abstraction Is DiscontinuityaForm?DisconnectionChronotope? S050 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: MARXISMANDFORMALISM TODAY I What isanInterstice?DeleuzeviaBlanchot onCinema Exodus: ExileandtheUprooted SubjectBetween BlanchotandLevinas Varieties ofNothing Emerson 307 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: MAURICE BLANCHOT: THOUGHT OFABSENCE Forms ofUnevenness Isms Time asFormandtheMaterialityofContemporary The LongueDurée,Marxism,andForm S050 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 The TheoryoftheNovelHiddeninLukács’sHistoryandClassConsciousness Differential Space “an isolatedplacefortarget practice”:PoeticForm,Insurrection, and theDream of Modeling theGlobe Between Culture andNeed:Brecht attheFrankfurtSchool S050 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016

Peter Libbey,DuquesneUniversity Anna Kornbluh,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago David Cunningham,UniversityofWestminster Timothy Bewes,BrownUniversity Tom Laughlin,UniversityofToronto Emilio Sauri,UniversityofMassachusetts,Boston Tom Eyers,DuquesneUniversity Eugene Young,LeMoyneCollege Michael Krimper,NewYorkUniversity John Brenkman,BaruchCollegeandThe GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Nasrin Qader,NorthwesternUniversity Emilio Sauri,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston Josh Robinson,CardiffUniversity Mathias Nilges,St.FrancisXavierUniversity Carolyn Lesjak,SimonFraserUniversity Ben Parker,BrownUniversity Ruth Jennison,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Tom Eyers,DuquesneUniversity Todd Cronan,EmoryUniversity

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stream A stream acla 87 87 88 88 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Surfing Community Civic Duty in the Modern Surfing State: Digital Citizenship in Theorizations of the Global Medal Men’sHockeyGame Hockey SticksandSmartphones:Sport Audiences, Media,andthe2010OlympicGold “Authentic Aboriginal Products:” Cause-RelatedMarketingandtheOlympic Games Communism, Bio-fictionandtheOlympicsinJeanEchenoz’s‘Courir Northwest B109 Saturday, March19,2016 Making SenseofMan-boysinEarly21stCentury America Sporting Publics:NewMediaNarrativesofFandomandRacialMasculinity Trujillo’s Dragons:Nationalism,MasculinityandtheUniversalBlack Athlete Argentina Wild BullofthePampas:FirpoandDiscoursesRace,IdentityNationhood in Northwest B109 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: MEDIAAND THE CULTURES OFSPORTS Maurice BlanchotandtheEternalReturnofTerror inSamuelBeckett’sHowItIs Minding Absence andTheObject’s“New Atmosphere”: BlanchotonMallarmé Blanchot, Hölderlin,andTheCommunityofDivine Absence Emerson 307 Sunday, March20,2016 Blanchot-Khatibi: An InfiniteConversation? In the Absence of Aesthetics: BlanchotandtheCaseofGwion A StopBetweenUncertainties:BlanchotandBlackLiteraryExperimentalisms FictionalizationofMauriceBlanchotPoetics Paul Auster’s Emerson 307 Saturday, March19,2016 Dexter ZavalzaHough-Snee,University ofCalifornia,Berkeley Kelsey Blair,SimonFraserUniversity Estee Fresco,WesternUniversity Roxanna Curto,UniversityofIowa Kyle Kusz,UniversityofRhodeIsland Ben Wirth,UniversityofWashington Samuel Ginsburg,UniversityofTexasatAustin Lara Tucker,ColumbiaUniversity Katherine Kelp-Stebbins,PalomarCollege Marcel Brousseau,UniversityofTexasatAustin Christopher Langlois,McGillUniversity Brian Clancy,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Joseph Albernaz,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Nasrin Qader,NorthwesternUniversity Brenda Machosky,UniversityofHawai`iWestO`ahu Kevin Bell,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity María LauraArceÁlvarez,ComplutenseUniversityofMadrid ’ Control “A statelypleasure-dome”: The Astrodome attheIntersectionofRace,Class,andClimate The Yellow Line,MilitarizedVision, andtheUnreal RhetoricsofSportsBroadcasting This Tournament Will BeTweeted: Serena Williams andMulti-ChannelSelf-Branding Authority and Authorship inConstructing theSportsNarrative Northwest B109 Sunday, March20,2016 Reinterpretación delarebelión deloscolgados Las fatalesmemorablesdelfilmnoir norteamericanoyelcinenegr Under theSameMoon:Immigration+Art, anEnlighteningCombination (González, 2014).Unapropuesta deanálisisfílmico. Anotaciones alaconceptualizaciónde“Frontera” desdelasabiduríadeBirdman Sever 206 Sunday, March20,2016 “La nochemexicana”andtheImaginingofaFestiveNation México-Estados Unidos El nortenorteado:identidadnacionalendospelículasdetemamigratorio enlafrontera El cineexperimentalensúper8:Méxicoylafrontera culturallatinoamericana Nación ydiálogocreativo en elcine Sever 206 Saturday, March19,2016 De SendadeGloriaaElEncantodelÁguila.LaGuerraCristeraentelevisiónnacional. Préstamos eintercambios: elcinedelaedadoro enlagráficapopularmexicana El (trans)nacionalismocosmopolitaenlaÉpocadeoro Huellas intertextualesdelcinehollywoodense Sever 206 Friday, March18,2016 CULTURE, ANDLITERATURE I(ORGANIZEDBYREDCACINE) SEMINAR: MEXICAN(TRANS)NATIONAL CINEMA, VISUAL Marcel Brousseau,UniversityofTexasatAustin Katherine Kelp-Stebbins,PalomarCollege Anita Stahl,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Stephen Brauer,St.JohnFisherCollege Maribel Rojas,UniversidadAutónoma delEstadodeHidalgo Gisela Cázares,UniversidadAutónoma delEstadodeHidalgo Itza Zavala-Garrett,MoreheadStateUniversity Areli AdrianaCastañedaDíaz,UniversidadPedagógicaNacionalUPN Manuel RCuellar,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Danna Levin-Rojo,UniversidadAutónomaMetropolitanaAzcapotzalco Alvaro Vazquez-Mantecon,UniversidadAutonomaMetropolitana,Mexico James Ramey,UniversidadAutónomaMetropolitana,CampusCuajimalpa Adrien JoseCharloisAllende,UniversidaddeGuadalajara Maricruz CastroRicalde,TecnologicodeMonterrey,campusToluca Álvaro Fernández,UniversidaddeGuadalajara Lauro Zavala,UAMXochimilco María delaCruzCastroRicalde,TecnológicoMonterrey,CampusToluca James Ramey,UniversidadAutónomaMetropolitana,CampusCuajimalpa

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stream A stream acla 89 89 90 90 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Objecthood in Art: Wang Keping’sFallenIdols Fashion, Consumption,andthePolitics ofSocialistHistory Voluntarism, Fatigue,andInterpretive Practice S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF THEORY: RE-IMAGINING AFIELD2.0 SEMINAR: MODERNCHINESELITERARY ANDCULTURAL Closing Remarks and CoolieWoman Migritude, Coolitude,andtheTransoceanic FemaleSubjectinThePrisonerofParadise Traveler In Your OwnLand:ReverseMovementsinMigritudeLiterature There’s NoPlaceLikeHome:DiasporicReturninOkeyNdibe’s‘Foreign Gods,Inc.’ Barker 269(Larsen) Sunday, March20,2016 Postcolonial Migration,Literature andtheCity:RawiHage’sNovelsofUrbanMigritude Migrant Literature withan Activist Voice: IgiabaScego’s‘Adua’inContext and ItalianLiteratures. North African Migrant Authors inFranceandItaly: Autobiographies inPostcolonialBeur Migrant Narratives From Co-developmenttoMigritude:ReimaginingFrench-African Relationsthrough Barker 269(Larsen) Saturday, March19,2016 Patel’s ‘Migritude’ Theorizing aMigrantPoetics:StylisticStrategiesandtheCollectiveVoice inShailja Opening Remarks Barker 269(Larsen) Friday, March18,2016 IMPERIALISM SEMINAR: MIGRITUDEAND THE LONGUEDURÉEOF Jennifer DorothyLee, SchooloftheArtInstituteChicago Calvin Hui,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Hongwei (Thorn)Chen,Universityof Minnesota Darwin Tsen,ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity Calvin Hui,CollegeofWilliamandMary Pius Adesanmi,CarletonUniversity Supriya Nair,TulaneUniversity Sushmita Sircar,NewYorkUniversity Alexander Hartwiger,FraminghamStateUniversity Yumna Siddiqi,MiddleburyCollege Eleanor Paynter,OhioStateUniversity Mohamed Baya,WesternUniversity Julie Kleinman,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Ashna Ali,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Ashna A.Ali,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Christopher IanFoster,JamesMadisonUniversity Ashna Ali,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Christopher IanFoster,JamesMadisonUniversity Chinese Minor:Mandarin-DubbedForeign CinemaasSinophone “History doesn’thaveverbs”:Translating thePastinSinophonePoetryofBeiDao Queer SinophoneVisuality S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 The Weight ofWords: ModernChinese/SinophoneStudiesand“New”Formalism(s) Beyond theMonstrous Typewriter: ChineseLanguageTechnology inDigital Era Notes from theOtherSideofHistory:Global Reflectionson“ThePlanetwithoutSun” Robots andLivingIntestines:TheImpact ofSovietScienceonUnnoJuza’sFiction K050 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 Famous PhotographsandtheExtendedMind For aLanguagetoCome:PhotographyandtheMaterialistCritiqueof Technology Fallout FantasyorBunkerBildungsroman? NuclearFictionintheNewRussia K050 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 The Industrial/UrbanParadox:EngineeringtheSocialistCityinChinese Films,1949-1976 Interface The CuriousCaseofaRobotDoctor:Labor, Professionalization, andthePoliticsof From RobotsatWork toHumansasService: A PostsocialistRevolutionofThings K050 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 IMAGINARY SOCIALIST SCIENCEAND TECHNOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL SEMINAR: MODERNITIESANDMACHINES: (POST-) Dissent Through Affect: TheSocialClassoftheHooligans Echoes from thePast:Representation, History, andtheNationin Alai’s RedPoppies Visualizing theSinophone:Body/LanguageinMartial Arts Cinema S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016

Thomas Chen,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Tara Coleman,RutgersUniversity Alvin K.Wong,UnderwoodInternationalCollege,YonseiUniversity Roy Chan,UniversityofOregon Bo An,YaleUniversity Thomas David,Augsburg College Seth Jacobowitz,YaleUniversity Margaret Hillenbrand,UniversityofOxford Franz Prichard,PrincetonUniversity Anindita Banerjee,CornellUniversity Erin Y.Huang,PrincetonUniversity Xiao Liu,McGillUniversity Neda Atanasoski,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Xiao Liu,McGillUniversity Erin Huang,PrincetonUniversity Victoria Lupascu,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Kyle Shernuk,HarvardUniversity Melissa Chan,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia

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stream A stream acla 91 91 92 92 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Transgenerational Trauma in Aboriginal andM Northwest B106 Friday, March18,2016 OF THETRAUMA TEXT MORPHOLOGY SEMINAR: Vampires, Sexuality, andThe SpanishOtherinRobertLouisStevenson’s“Olalla” Gender DysphoriaandTheMonster:Trans-lating Frankenstein Re-Telling theGothicTale: HideousHeroines inChuckPalahniuk’sInvisibleMonsters The ManwiththeStolenFace:UseofMaskin“Slasher”Film Science Center113 Sunday, March20,2016 Reynold’s MonstersasEnemiesofCuriosity Monsters, FriendlyandUnfriendly:OnPrimoLevi’s“Transbiology” of Godzilla Differing Images of NuclearMonsters in theU.S. and JapanasSeenThrough Adaptations “Ego” asMonster:FinancialCapitalismandtheTechno-thriller Narrative Monstrosity AUncoiling Empires: EugeneBatchelder’s Romance of theSea-Serpentand Anti-imperial Science Center113 Saturday, March19,2016 Monsters (Un)told:TheRhetoricoftheMonstrous (Un)Leashing theBloodyCountess:SexandSuperstition Monstrous Sound:TheorizingtheMonsterthrough Voice in Ancient Greek Literature Science Center113 Friday, March18,2016 TRANSBIOLOGY MONSTERS: THEORY,SEMINAR: TRANSLATION, Jones’s Sorry Everything Was LosingDefinitionandOutline:Re-membering Trauma FictioninGail Indigenous NarrativeIdentity Jennifer Olive,GeorgiaStateUniversity Jay Rajiva,GeorgiaStateUniversity Janice Zehentbauer,IndependentScholar Anson Koch-Rein,MiddleburyCollege Nicole Burkholder-Mosco,LockHavenUniversity Kevin McGuiness,BrockUniversity Shawn Gaffney,NewYorkUniveristy Walter Geerts,AntwerpUniversity Yoshiko Ikeda,RitsumeikanUniversity John Johnston,EmoryUniversity Schuyler Chapman,UniversityofPittsburgh Irene Bulla,ColumbiaUniversity Cristina Santos,BrockUniversity Hannah Silverblank,UniversityofOxford Janice Zehentbauer,IndependentScholar Cristina Santos,BrockUniversity Valérie-Anne Belleflamme, UniversitédeLiège Michaela Moura-Kocoglu,FloridaInternational University ā ori Literature: Storytellingand Age Semi-Permeable NarrationandTraumatic DissociationinTahmima Anam’s A Golden Decolonizing Trauma Studies:Writing thePartitionofBengal The CalcuttaChromosome Analysis ofNarrativeDiscourseasIndicativePostcolonialTrauma in Amitav Ghosh’s Re-enacting Trauma in Arundhati Roy’sTheGodofSmallThings Northwest B106 Saturday, March19,2016 Ottoman BookCulture ontheMarginalia: TheCaseofCarullah EfendiLibrary Science Center104 Friday, March18,2016 BOOK HISTORIES SEMINAR: MÜTEFERRIKAGALAXIES: TRACING ANATOLIAN Narrative To Suffer, HappilyEver After: Toward an Analysis oftheSurvivorFigure inTrauma “The storythatcannotbetold”:TheViolence ofOrder andM.NourbeSePhilip’sZong! Man” Narrative Dis-order andBodilyClaivoyanceinJamesBaldwin’s“GoingtoMeetthe Trauma Aesthetics andCulturalMemory:ReadingDreaming inCuban Northwest B106 Sunday, March20,2016 Social Progress orSelf-Possession?:Imre KertészandtheTalking Cure Earth Binaries Intertwined:Representations ofTrauma inFrantzFanon’sTheWretched ofthe One Blanketfor“SevenSleepers”:Oral Tradition, Sacred Texts andOttomanLiterature Advertising Literature inOttoman-Turkish Periodicals Compiling theSultan’sWords: MakingFifteenthCenturyDiplomaticLettersintoBooks What TheBookofDedeKorkutSays:National(Author)ityversusCultural Authenticity Jay Rajiva,GeorgiaStateUniversity Shumona Dasgupta,UniversityofMaryWashington Jennifer Olive,GeorgiaStateUniversity Margaret Herrick,UniversityofToronto Berat Açıl, Erkan Irmak,BosphorousUniversity Jill Stockwell,PrincetonUniversity Amir Khadem,UniversityofAlberta Diana Arterian,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Sarah Stunden,McGillUniversity Amy Parziale,TulaneUniversity Lisa Mulman,SalemStateUniversity Brigitte Stepanov,BrownUniversity Bahadir Sürelli,HarvardUniversity Gunil Cebe,HarvardUniversity Oscar AguirreMandujano,UniversityofWashington Emrah Pelvano İ stanbul ğ lu, YeditepeUniversity

Ş ehir University

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stream A stream acla 93 93 94 94 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Tracing theGenre forLoveofModernity:ReadingFolktale(s)asaNovelorVice Versa Century Istanbul Strange EchoesofParis:French BooksandTrans-Communal ReadershipsinNineteenth- “Feel WhatWretches Guideto EmpathyandIntimacy Feel”:Lear’s Toussaint’s MarieTetralogy Pouring Away the Acid: NarrativeHeuristicsandIntersubjectivityinJean-Philippe An Anthropological PerspectiveontheEthicsandHermeneuticsofStorytelling Proustian Storytellers:Inquiries IntoWhatItMeansTo Be An EthicalReaderofOthers Sever 303 Saturday, March19,2016 Fictional Ethics:BetweenLacanandLevinas Levinas andtheMoralImagination:ThePoliticsofIntelligibility Other (1949): AJean-Pierre Melville’s‘LeSilencedelamer’ LévinasianEncounterwiththe “Slip[ping] BetweenOurFingers”:TheCinematicInstantandLevinas’sSocialEthics Sever 303 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NARRATIVE ANDETHICS Censorship, JudgmentandTurkish ModernistPoetry Between LegalandLiterary:CasesforLiteraryTexts inthe1950s,Turkey Science Center104 Sunday, March20,2016 The PublishingPoliciesoftheOttomanPrintingPress intheTanzimat Era Science Center104 Saturday, March19,2016 Rewriting HumanLandscapesfrom myCountry Early RepublicanTurkey The StateandtheBook:Translation, NationalHumanismandCulture Planninginthe “Let MeExplainMyself”:TheStrangeHistoryofNâzımHikmet’sKuvâyiMilliye Etienne Charriere,UniversityofMichigan Jason Lotz,SUNYFarmingdaleStateCollege Will Crichton,UniversityofWarwick Lily Alexander,NewYorkUniversity / CityUniversityofNewYork Synne Ytre-Arne,UniversityofBergen,Norway Jiewon Baek,UniversityofMinnesota Pamela Brown,NewYorkUniversity Andrew Jones,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Sanders Bernstein,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Jason Lotz,SUNYFarmingdaleStateCollege Erin TremblayPonnou-Delaffon,IllinoisStateUniversity Yalçın Arma Seval Gülen,TheAtaturkInstituteforModernTurkishHistory İ Ay Jill Stockwell,PrincetonUniversity Firat Oruç,GeorgetownUniversity-Qatar Erkan Irmak,Bo rfan Karakoç,ÇanakkaleOnsekizMartUniversity Ş e Ba Ş aran, Bo ğ an, ğ İ ğ aziçi University stanbul aziçi University Ş ehir University Hatred’s Knowledge:PedagogicalPhilippicsinWilliam H.Gass’s‘TheTunnel’ Virginia Woolf: Ethics,Politics,andRealistVision The EthicsofRecoil When HistoryGetsPersonal:EthicsandtheWar Writings ofMarguerite Duras Sever 303 Sunday, March20,2016 The Turning Point:ConceptualizingNarrativeChangeand Agency A RefugeewithoutEnd?: On theNarrativeConditionofRefugee Becoming andNarratingaMuselmann – Turning PointsinHolocaustLiterature Experiments withCounterfactualHopeandNarrativeForm Turning PointswithoutCharacter?TheodorW. Adorno and Alexander Kluge’s Sever 201 Sunday, March20,2016 Eliding theIllicit:Narrating Adultery inNineteenth-CenturyFiction “Fevers are neverattheirheightonce”-Thefeverishturningpointsinnarrative texts Dislocated Turning Points:CharacterTransitions inConrad,JamesandProust The ModernNovel: An EpistemologyoftheTurning Point(Flaubert,Proust, Kafka) Sever 201 Saturday, March19,2016 Bildungsroman Turns andreturns: (in)significantmomentsofchangeandstasisintheGerman Twisting theTurning Point–LudwigTieck’s Zerbino Fiesko Schiller’s Reversing Plot’s Arrow -OntheDirectionality ofCharacterChangeinTwo Versions of Too Late!—TheNostalgiaofEpicReversalandRecognition Sever 201 Friday, March18,2016 PRACTICE) SEMINAR: NARRATIVE TURNING POINTS(IN THEORY AND

Glen Stosic,SheridanCollege Joel Childers,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Manya Lempert,UniversityofArizona Erin Ponnou-Delaffon,IllinoisStateUniversity Anita Lukic,IndianaUniversityBloomington Charlton Payne,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley/UniversityofErfurt Dennis Bock,UniversityofHamburg Leslie Adelson,CornellUniversity David Darby,UniversityofWesternOntario Leonie Achtnich,FreieUniversitätBerlin Leah Light,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Johannes Türk,IndianaUniversityBloomington Leigh York,CornellUniversity Annette Budzinski,TowsonUniversity Sean Toland,PrincetonUniversity Ellwood Wiggins,UniversityofWashington Johannes Türk,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington Anita Lukic,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington

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stream A stream acla 95 95 96 96 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 of Germany Voiding Catastrophe: Remembranceand SilenceintheFictiononStrategicBombing Remember theFuture: TheEsotericNarrativeFramesofthe Edwardian Apocalypse Elegiac RealismandtheFragilityof CulturalValue Beginning aCatastrophic Narrative.ParadoxesandtheInventionof Apocalyptic Fiction Sever 211 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NARRATIVIZING CATASTROPHE Toward aTheoryoftheFictionalEssay Parabiography, orWhentheText Tells You What You Didn’tKnow You NeedtoKnow Problems andPossibilities Imagining HistoryasNarrative’s‘Other’? Early-Victorian NaturalHistory, BritishProvincial Realism,andtheDilatoryDescriptive Sever 205 Sunday, March20,2016 A Weak TheoryofModernistDescription The StatusoftheObjectinBalzac’sWild Ass’s Skin Telling Visions: the Agency of Images Syntactical Architecture inthe18thCBritishNovel Sever 205 Saturday, March19,2016 Hypothetical FocalizationinWilliamAbsalom, Faulkner’s Absalom! Dangerous Knowing:EmpatheticImaginingandNarrativeLossinModernistLiterature Object-Voice and theDesire ofHenryJames Early 18th-CenturyDialog Sever 205 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NARRATIVE’S OTHERS Nil Santiáñez,Saint LouisUniversity Steve Asselin,Queen’sUniveristy Nir Evron,TelAvivUniversity Francoise Lavocat,SorbonnenouvelleParis 3.InstitutUniversitairedeFrance. Svetlana Rukhelman,HarvardUniversity Cécile Guédon,HarvardUniversity Marco Caracciolo,UniversityofFreiburg Wen Jin,FudanUniversity Benjamin Paloff,UniversityofMichigan Adrienne Ghaly,NewYorkUniversity Amy M.King,St.John’sUniversity Dora Zhang,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Michelle Lee,SarahLawrenceCollege Tove Holmes,McGillUniversity Cynthia Wall,UniversityofVirginia Paul Jaussen,LawrenceTechnologicalUniversity Eve Sorum,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston James Curley-Egan,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Thomas Reinert,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Dora Zhang,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Change Apocalypse ‘Here’ andon ‘TheRoad’:Space,Image,andCommunicatingClimate Problem Surviving Eucatastrophe: OntheParadoxofaSolutionthatInitiatesDesire forthe Leonardo’s LittleDisasters Strangelove” andvonTrier’s “Melancholia” Rethinking Catastrophe: CinematicTone asConceptual Vehicle inKubrick’s“Dr. Sever 211 Saturday, March19,2016 Teeth andJesmynWard’s SalvagetheBones SkinofOur Narrating theUnspeakable:Disaster&Catastrophe inThorntonWilder’s Modernism’s SocialNetworks:Telephonic GossipintheNovelsofEvelynWaugh intervention The MonaLisainShanghai:Nazım Hikmet’s‘GiocondaandSi-Ya-U’ asdiplomatic Melodrama andPropaganda: Narrationin1940sModernism Science Center116 Saturday, March19,2016 Linked ModernismsasRhizomaticPraxis The Pleasure ofaTango Dance:ShanghaiSilentCinemaandaGlobalModernistIdiom Science Center116 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NETWORKING MODERNISMS Houellebecq’s TheElementaryParticles Ending withExtinction:Irony andPost-HumanNarrationinVonnegut’s Galapágosand “Noah’d donebarred the door”: ReadingRefugeinCatastrophe Narratives Toxic CloudsandLatencyGaps.Narrating Accidents inRiskSociologyandLiterature A CuriousHalo:George ManleyHopkinsandtheKrakatoaTsunami (1883-1884) Sever 211 Sunday, March20,2016

David Rodriguez,StonyBrookUniversity Michael Lewis,BerryCollege Gerard Passannante,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark Svetlana Rukhelman,HarvardUniversity Nicole Hirschfelder,EberhardKarlsUniversitätTübingen Katharine Perko,StonyBrookUniversity Alice Xiang,HarvardUniversity Melissa Dinsman,UniversityofNotre Dame Jana MillarUsiskin,UniversityofVictoria Aleksander Sedzielarz,UniversityofMinnesota Carrie Johnston,BucknellUniversity Melissa Dinsman,UniversityofNotreDame Elizabeth Rodrigues,TempleUniversity Marco Caracciolo,UniversityofFreiburg Alexandra Rahr,UniversityofToronto Eva Horn,UniversityofVienna Cecile Guedon,HarvardUniversity

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stream A stream acla 97 97 98 98 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Living “Socialism”Twice. Imaginariesof the(post)SovietDiasporainCuba(II) Identities andEpiphaniesthrough Life-histories Living “Socialism”Twice. Imaginariesofthe(post)SovietDiasporainCuba: Narrating Cuba’s New Anti-capitalism(s): SocialistNarratives Beyond theState Rethinking CubanCivilSocietyandtheEmergence ofNewImaginaries Current DynamicsofCuban CivilSociety Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Sunday, March20,2016 Literatura “bastarda”: NuevasTendencias enlaNarrativaCubanaContemporánea Race, Religion,andCitizenship:Freemasonry andtheStateinCuba Cuba’s ShiftingRacialImaginaries: Art, Performance,andtheCivicSphere Transgressing theImageofIsland“Frozen intime”ContemporaryCuban Arts The HistorythatWe Were Tomorrow andtheCubansWe HaveNeverBeen: Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 Escape An UrbanPolyphony:Havana’sMalecónasaSiteforGeopolitics,EverydayLifeand Social ReadjustmentsinTwo CubanFilmsfrom the21stCentury Cosmopolitan andOrientalistViolence in Armand Gatti’sEl otro Cristóbal Cuba Libre?: QueerTestimonio ThenandNow Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NEWCUBA’S IMAGINARIES Modeling ImmigrationasNarrativeandNetwork Fleece ‘Drat Statistics!’:From StatisticstoTrembling inW. E.B.DuBois’s TheQuestoftheSilver Science Center116 Sunday, March20,2016 María ReginaCanoOrue,Institutode Antropología (CLACSO) Jenny CruzCabrera,GrupodeTrabajo Anti-Capitalismos&SociabilidadesEmergentes Emergentes (CLACSO) Dmitri PrietoSamsonov,GrupodeTrabajoAnti-Capitalismos&Sociabilidades María Alfonso,St.Joseph’sCollege Victor Fowler,HarvardUniversity Amanda Fleites,TulaneUniversity Julie Skurski,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Zoya Kocur,IndependentScholar Odette Casamayor,UniversityofConnecticut Liset CruzGarcia,FloridaStateUniversity Luis AlbertoRodriguezCortes,UniversityofKansas Marta HernándezSalván,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Guadalupe Escobar,NewYorkUniversity María Alfonso,St.Joseph’sCollege Elizabeth Rodrigues,TempleUniversity Claire Class,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Rethinking WhattheNovelDoes:Margaret Atwood’s SpeculativeTechnologies Surface andDepthinTom McCarthy’sC. The Way Empire PenetratestheSkin:TheorythatNewNovelsDo A MinorMethodologyfortheContemporaryNovel Barker 316 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NEWNOVELS, NEWMETHODS Saer A dóndevanamorirloscaballos: elanimalimpolíticoenNadienadanuncadeJuanJosé Dogs andKynicisminMartín Adán’s LaCasadeCartón Biopolitics ofthe Animal inEstebanEcheverría’s“El matadero” Voices Heard inContention:Poe’sOrangutan Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ON THE LIVES ANDSOUNDSOFANIMALS Doing StyleinthePost-DisciplinaryNovel historical novelonSpanishCivilWar (1936-39) From SoldiersofSalamis(2001)toTheImpostor(2014):Mappingoutthecontemporary The LookoftheBook Barker 316 Sunday, March20,2016 Approaching Totality intheNovel Writing Backwards: HistoricityandtheBookerPrize Branded Reading Five Yeezy Theses,or, RethinkingtheNovelin Age ofCorporate Art Barker 316 Saturday, March19,2016

Ashley Winstead,SouthernMethodistUniversity John Schneider,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Matt Tierney,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,UniversityPark Silvia CerneaClark,BrownUniversity Andrew Hoberek,UniversityofMissouri David Alworth,HarvardUniversity Karina Miller,University ofCalifornia,Irvine Claudia Becerra-Mendez,BrownUniversity Ali Kulez,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Brett Brehm,NorthwesternUniversity Ali Kulez,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Brett Brehm,NorthwesternUniversity Robert Ryder,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Michael Dango,UniversityofChicago Durba Banerjee,UniversityofDelhi David Alworth,HarvardUniversity Vincent Adiutori,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Alexander Manshel,StanfordUniversity Aaron DeRosa,CaliforniaStatePolytechnicUniversity,Pomona Andrew Hoberek,UniversityofMissouri

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 99 99 100 100 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 ‘I hereby’: Speech Acts and theSingingLine Thinking thePoem The KingofFrance Truth-in-Genre: HowtoTalk aboutFictionin Possible World Semantics Boylston G07 Saturday, March19,2016 Unfixing ourConcepts: Wittgenstein, FamilyResemblance,andCompositeForm Trollope’s Certainties Parrhesia, Persuasion,and Care oftheSelf:Jane Austen’s ‘Keeping’ The Recovered BodyinCavell’sReadingofWordsworth Boylston G07 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ORDINARY LANGUAGE, ORDINARY CRITICISM Materializing FairyTales: The Animals Inhabitingthe Art ofLuísBenedit Performing Taxidermy: Animality andEcologyinFabiánBielinsky’sElaura Vargas Llosa’sElhablador Deer inLatin American Art andFiction:FridaKahlo’sElvenadoheridoMario Vivisected Voices: Expressions of Animal PaininNineteenth-Century Literature Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Sunday, March20,2016 devant soi Volume Control: Loud Animality andMuteInhumanityinGilbertGatore’s Lepassé What theCricketSays According toThoreau Of BarksandBirds inLudwigTieck’s “BlondeEckbert” Cawing andKilling Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 Helen Thaventhiran,RobinsonCollege, UniversityofCambridge Walter Jost,UniversityofVirginia Joshua Gang,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Sam Berstler,HarvardUniversity Nancy Yousef,BaruchCollegeandTheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNew York Daniel Wright,UniversityofToronto Eric Lindstrom,UniversityofVermont John Golden,FloridaAtlanticUniversity Daniel Wright,UniversityofToronto Joshua Gang,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Vanessa Badagliacca,NewUniversityofLisbon Aarón Lacayo,RutgersUniversity Kristina Gibby,LouisianaStateUniversity Kristie Schlauraff,CornellUniversity Rebecca Saunders,IllinoisStateUniversity Laura Zebuhr,UniversityofSt.Thomas Robert Ryder,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Peggy McCracken,UniversityofMichigan We are notmeantforrevelation: KafkanCoetzeeanEndings Confrontations withtheOrdinary: Wittgenstein, Cavell,andScenesofResistance Common SenseandtheGlobalWinsome Ordinary Arguments Skepticism, Impersonality, andMonsieurTeste Boylston G07 Sunday, March20,2016 Early Twentieth-Century EngagementwithModernityThrough Japan Iberian Author’s The ReverseTravelogue: IsmaelGrasa’sDíasenChina León’s SonríeChinaandGironella’s China,lágrimainnumerable Spanish ImperialNostalgiaintheConstruction ofMao’sCulturalRevolution: Alberti and Barker 403(Finnegan) Sunday, March20,2016 Una starenMadrid: Anna MayWong inSpanishFilmMagazines Asian ExoticisminSpanishFilmMagazines,1921-1936 (1906-1909) Color, Corporeality andEmbodiedJaponismeinSegundodeChomón’sPathéFilms Barker 403(Finnegan) Saturday, March19,2016 Japan Reading from theMargins: Research onEuropean Accounts in16thand17th-Century Suez CanalandSpanishvoyagestoEast Asia The EasternmostSally:DonQuixoteinearlyEast Asian Translations. Barker 403(Finnegan) Friday, March18,2016 MODERNITY SEMINAR: ORIENTALISM ANDIBERIA’SSEARCHFOR

Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé,TulaneUniversity Magdalena Ostas,RhodeIslandCollege Clifford Mak,CollegeoftheHolyCross Robert Chodat,BostonUniversity V. JoshuaAdams,UniversityofLouisville Timothy Gaster,MonmouthCollege Kathleen Davis,TulaneUniversity Yeon-Soo Kim,RutgersUniversity Mary KateDonovan,SUNYStonyBrook Eva Woods,VassarCollege David George,BatesCollege Noemi MartinSanto,BostonUniversity Qing Ai,FarmingdaleStateCollege Manuel Azuaje-Alamo,HarvardUniversity Mary KateDonovan,SUNYStonyBrook

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stream A stream acla 101 101 102 102 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Staging Visibility: Interpreters inKathrinRöggla’s TheUnavoidables Amazonian HealingSongs Refiguring BodilyPresence through Translation: Performingthe Translation of S040 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Translating PerformanceintheTalmud Diverse Translations: OnDiversityandtheTemporal inTranslation What istheSoundofOneFrog Jumping?:Writing onBash_’sPond S040 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 PERFORMING TRANSLATIONSEMINAR: Titus Andronicus: Shakespeare’s ExceptionalViolence “Andyoushallriseabove”:GeneticMeliorisminSpider-Man Turn Off the Dark Performing the Abject: CollectiveNightmares oftheSubcultural BodyPolitic Ordinary ExceptionsintheFederalTheatre Project K107 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 Olympics State ofExceptionandExceptionality:theRussianPeopleSochi The BehztiRiot:MulticulturalSpectatorandtheStateofException Performing theState:Dalcrozean EurythmicsandRacialException K107 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 “Exceptions, Rules,andRitualinCulturalFeministTheatre” Exceptional Kaprow Curating QueerKisses K107 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: PERFORMANCEAND/ASEXCEPTION Robin Ellis,University ofCalifornia,Berkeley Jamille PinheiroDias,UniversityofSão Paulo Zvi Septimus,HarvardLawSchool Julia Constantino,UniversidadNacionalAutonomadeMexico Clark Lunberry,UniversityofNorthFlorida Robin Ellis,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Kristin Dickinson,UniversityofMichigan Stefania Porcelli,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Samuel Yates,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity Lindsay Bishop,UniversityCollegeLondon William Burch,RutgersUniversity Catherine Schuler,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark Stefka Mihaylova,UniversityofWashington Julia Walker,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Timothy Youker,UniversityofToronto Elin Diamond,RutgersUniversity Todd Coulter,ColbyCollege William Burch,RutgersUniversity Performances ofTranslatablity inOrhan Pamuk’sSnow Performing Translation, Staging‘NewEurope’ Translational andTransnational TheaterinLateOttomanEmpire S040 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 Translators andInterpreters inIraqWar Literature Declaring Mysteries:TheTheatricalRoleoftheInterpreter inEarlyModernEurope Performing TransnationalPerforming of Activism Acts (In)visible PoliticsofaCommon Abyss inMexican Artist Teresa Margolles’ Vaporización Eye-Witness”“By An in AzadehAkhlaghi’s Seeable Visualizing CollectiveMemoriesinIran:Staging DeathtoExpandtheLimitsof S153 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 The Transparent Museum.Crisisofmemorialsandmarketlogicsinpost-dictatorialChile Practices ofMemorializatoninPost-HolocaustBerlin Performative Actions ofHolocaustMemorializations inEuropean Contemporary Art S153 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 More thanMeetstheEye: Sensing ScenesofHumanRightsViolations inMuseums Chile Dragging MemoryoutoftheGrave:PosthumouslyPerformingDictatorinSpainand Japanese PhotographyandVideo Art Performativity andtheTrauma ofthePerpetrator:The Asia-Pacific War inContemporary The Forensic Imagination:Photographyand Aesthetics inthePost-Conflict Andes S153 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 PERFORMING VISUALITYSEMINAR:

Kristin Dickinson,UniversityofMichigan Avishek Ganguly,RhodeIslandSchoolofDesign Ali Bolcakan,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Amanda Al-Raba’a,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Kathryn Santos,TexasA&MUniversity-CorpusChristi Areum Jeong,UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles Ludmila Ferrari,UniversityofMichigan Sareh Afshar,NewYorkUniversity Miguel CaballeroVazquez,PrincetonUniversity Kerry Whigham,NewYorkUniversity Diana Popescu,BirkbeckCollege,UniversityofLondon Freier Amy,UniversityofWesternOntario Brigette Walters,UniversityofArizona Ayelet Zohar,TelAvivUniversity Stephenie Young,SalemStateUniversity Kaitlin Murphy,UniversityofArizona

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stream A stream acla 103 103 104 104 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 The HystericalUniversity ‘Testamentszeit’: Poetry, Philosophy, Lateness A Returnto‘ThePhilology’ The OtherHalfofLanguage Boylston 105 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: PHILOLOGY, POETRY, POETRY ASPHILOLOGY ‘about peoplelikeyou’:PTSDandtheEthicalRelationinRoth’s‘TheHuman Stain’ The EthicsofMemoryinPhilipRoth’s‘Sabbath’sTheater’ Philip RothandtheFailure ofSublimation Science Center111 Sunday, March20,2016 Roth’s ConversationwithKierkegaard Svevo andPhilipRoth’s‘Portnoy’sComplaint’ Zeno Cosini2.0- A DialogueBetweenPsychoanalysisin‘Zeno’sConscience’byItalo Literature’s RecountingofPsychoanalysis:Rothand1960sFreudianism Science Center111 Saturday, March19,2016 Counter-Kepesh: ‘TheDying Animal’, PsychoanalysisandFeminism Racism, Feminismand‘PoliticalCorrectness’ in‘TheHumanStain’ Gender Politicsin‘LettingGo’and‘ThePsychoanalyticSpecial’ Philip Roth’sPsychopathologyofEverydayWomen: Psychoanalytic Aesthetics and Science Center111 Friday, March18,2016 PHILOSOPHY OFMIND TRANSLATION: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS, AND SEMINAR: PHILIPROTH’S TRANS-DISCIPLINARY Simon MorganWortham,KingstonUniversity Soelve Curdts,Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Martin McQuillan,KingstonUniversity Jan Plug,UniversityofWesternOntario Jonathan Luftig,MorganStateUniversity Aimee Pozorski,CentralConnecticutStateUniversity Gurumurthy Neelakantan,IndianInstituteofTechnology,Kanpur Victoria Aarons,TrinityUniversity Valérie Roberge,UniversitéLaval Marta Medrzak,UniversityofWarsaw Patrick Hayes,OxfordUniversity Mike Witcombe,UniversityofSouthampton Lianne Barnard,PalackyUniversity Maren Scheurer,GoetheUniversityFrankfurt Maren Scheurer,GoetheUniversityFrankfurt,Germany Aimee Pozorski,CentralCTStateUniversity “Pallaksch. Pallaksch.”PhilologyattheLimitofLanguage “fu_r sich,fu_rkeinen,jeden—”Celan,Szondi,Derrida Philology intheShadows Listen: Litai Boylston 105 Saturday, March19,2016 Felt Thought:Harvard PragmatismandtheNeurophenomenology ofModernistPoetics Thinking OutIntoLanguage Sever 112 Sunday, March20,2016 A Person’sWords: LiteraryCharactersand Autobiographical Understanding View Towards anExistentialistPoeticsoftheNovel:Kierkegaard andtheConceptofaLife- Natural Philosophy:MarianneMoore, Richard Baxter, and Aristotle onMt.Rainier Sever 112 Saturday, March19,2016 Philosophy andLiterature: Two ModesofOneLife. Morality DramaasParticipatoryContemplation:MankindandWisdom Philosophy, Literature, andDemocracyinPlato’sDialogues Sever 112 Friday, March18,2016 INTERDISCIPLINARITY SEMINAR: PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE WITHOUT “Nots”andHeidegger Das machtnichts!:Hamacher’s Agamben andHamacheronHölderlin’sPhilology OtherPhilology “Sprechstunde”. Heidegger’s “Does heHEARtheplaint?”Wittgenstein andScholemontheLanguageofLament Boylston 105 Sunday, March20,2016

Alexis Briley,ColgateUniversity Sascha Wolters,FreieUniversitätBerlin Rebecca Haubrich,BrownUniversity Thomas Schestag,BrownUniversity Matt Langione,University ofCalifornia,Berkeley Michael Hurley,UniversityofCambridge Garry Hagberg,BardCollege Yi-Ping Ong,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Stephen Thompson,CornellUniversity Stephen Blackwood,RalstonCollege Eleanor Johnson,ColumbiaUniversity Jeff Miller,SUNYNewPaltz Abigail Modaff,HarvardUniversity Stephen Tardif,HarvardUniversity Jonathan Luftig,MorganStateUniversity Anthony CurtisAdler,YonseiUniversity Henrik SundeWilberg,NorthwesternUniversity/WabashCollege Juliane Prade,GoetheUniversityFrankfurt

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 105 105 106 106 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 o Londonu’(A NovelaboutLondon)intotheEnglishLanguage Multilingualism inTranslation: TheComplexity ofTranslating MilosCrnjanski’s‘Roman Bilingual Theatre inMontreal, ortheCycleofHope’sDisappointments La Perdida, Bilingualism,andthePowerofImagination Bilingualism andBiculturalCriticismwithSayyedKashua Sever 212 Sunday, March20,2016 The BilingualOeuvre ofPatriciaNellWarren: Genre Matters Writing BetweenLanguages:GuoXiaoluandContinuousBilingualWriting Bilingualism andIntercultural Awareness inContemporaryRelocationMemoirs Filling theBlanks:Linguistic Anxiety inContemporaryLiterature ofNew Arrival Sever 212 Saturday, March19,2016 Le Bread Al Hafi:TheMultilingualRealitiesofMoroccan LiteraryProduction 19th centuryMaharashtra Language asContestation:JotibaPhule’sInterventionsintheBilingualPublicSphere of Inhabiting theBi-langue:LanguageandIdentityin Abdlekbir Khatibi’sWorks Sever 212 Friday, March18,2016 COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE SEMINAR: PLACING BILINGUALISM: BILINGUALISM IN Textual Face:CognitionasRecognition Self-Subverting Texts: Philosophy, Ekphrasis,andtheLimitsofDisciplinaryReading Visnja Krstic,UniversityofBelgrade Nicole Nolette,HarvardUniversity Caity Swanson,StonyBrookUniversity Sheena Steckl,UniversityofUtah Maria Rewakowicz,UniversityofWashington Kate Costello,UniversityofOxford Lynn Mastellotto,UniversityofBolzano Silvia Mejia,TheCollegeofSaintRose Nadia Miskowiec,LouisianaStateUniversity Rohini Mokashi-Punekar,IndianInstitutionofTechnology,Guwahati Bouchra Benlemlih,IbnZohrUniversity Kate Costello,UniversityofOxford James Simpson,HarvardUniversity Abigail Modaff,HarvardUniversity Passion, Domesticity, andSpecies-Profiling ononeofthe“Great HistoricalRivers” and GeopoliticalOrientationofPeoplesattheCrossroads The Identityof Ancient KartvelianTribes inRomanRepresentations: ThePlace,Function Travelling Names:From HistertoIstria The DanubeasaSiteofGeocriticism Sever 305 Friday, March18,2016 AND BLACK SEAREGION SEMINAR: POETICSANDPOLITICSOF THE DANUBE RIVER Jean-Luc Nancyand lesoi-disantmythe South African Struggle Literature and Art Crucifying the WhiteJesusof Apartheid –The Appropriation ofBiblicalElementsin Contingent Nonsovereignties in‘TheExperienceofFreedom’ Sever 302 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: POETRY AND THE POLITICAL Towards aHydropoetics oftheDanubeRiver The DanubeBetweenHydropoetics andHydropolitics Acting theOther: Abkhazians inContemporaryGeorgian FilmandLiterature Sever 305 Sunday, March20,2016 The ImageoftheBlackSeainBulgarianLiterature The BlackSeainRomanian Art andLiterature Metamorphoses: From HybriditytotheRussianNationinNikolaiGogol’s“Taras Bulba” Xeno and Autostereotypes inthe Ancient World. The KartvelianTribes astheOtherinBlackSeaRegion:TheStudyofIdentityFormation, Sever 305 Saturday, March19,2016

Henry Sussman,YaleUniversity Ketevan Nadareishvili,TbilisiI.JavakhishviliStateUniversity Tomislav Longinovic,HarvardUniversity Matthew Miller,ColgateUniversity Ketevan Nadareishvili,TbilisiStateUniversity Matthew Miller,ColgateUniversity Marijeta Bozovic,YaleUniversity Mary Childs,UniversityofWashington Matthew Ellison,University CollegeLondon Gerda Engelbrecht,UniversityStellenbosch Andrew Barbour,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Travis Holloway,PrattInstitute Nassima Sahraoui,GoetheUniversityFrankfurt Marijeta Bozovic,YaleUniversity Dragan Kujundzic,UniversityofFlorida Mary Childs,UniversityofWashington Roberto Adinolfi,PlovdivUniversity Ileana Marin,UniversityofWashington Anna Kovalchuk,UniversityofOregon Tamara Cheishvili,IvaneJavakhishviliTbilisiStateUniversity

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 107 107 108 108 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Soma(tic) Praxis:CAConradandthe RenaturalizationofPoetry Heading Out:NotesonaBewildered Poetics Ghosts intheGhetto:Tamara KamenszainandtheOntological Poeticsof Absence How ManyBooksDoesItTake?: A PoeticsofErasure through SrikanthReddy’sVoyager Sever 304 Saturday, March19,2016 Reading Horizontally:MeaningandEthicsinLeslieScalapino’sNewTime Susan HoweandtheReinstatementofDevotion A.R. Ammons andthePracticeofPoetic Attention Sever 304 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: POETRY ASPRACTICE, PRACTICE ASPOETRY Interval asIntegralMusic History’s “Pure Interruption”: PostmodernTemporality andEdRoberson’sLucid The PoeticPoliticsofNon-Representation Motherfucker The ParticipatoryPoeticsof Affinity Groups: BlackMaskand Up Againstthe Wall Biopolitics inDerrida’s‘TheTheaterofCruelty’ “The Act ofPoliticalRevolutionis Theatrical”: Biodeconstruction, Biopoetics,and Sever 302 Sunday, March20,2016 Literature andPhilology Democratic RightsandLiteraryDemocracy. JacquesRancière andÉtienneBalibaron Parataxis: PoeticsandPoliticsin Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Revolutionary Martyrdom andPoeticSilenceinRoqueDalton’s Dark SunPoetics:Depression andtheRevolution Sever 302 Saturday, March19,2016 Putting anEndtoFinitude.Literature andtheTheologico-Political Andrea Actis,Brown University Brad Fox,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversity ofNewYork Seth Michelson,WashingtonandLeeUniversity Sam Corfman,UniversityofPittsburgh Nate Mickelson,GuttmanCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Kristen Case,UniversityofMaineatFarmington Lucy Alford,StanfordUniversity Robert Farrell,LehmanCollege,CUNY Nate Mickelson,GuttmanCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Gabrielle Everett,RutgersUniversity Daniel Fineman,OccidentalCollege Sean Lovitt,UniversityofDelaware Travis Holloway,PrattInstitute Kyung-Ho Cha,UniversityofBayreuth,Germany Sebastian Truskolaski,Goldsmiths,UniversityofLondon Zen Dochterman,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Ana Bozicevic,BHQFU/TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Mauro Senatore,UniversidadDiegoPortales,Santiago SEMINAR: POLITICALROMANTICISM IN THE AMERICAS Ben Jonson,Pindar, and Autonomous Self-fashioning “Poetry…is prayer”:Writing and“Form-of-Life”intheworkofSamuelBeckett How toInventaLifeofOne’sOwn:Nietzsche’sPoeticsas Askesis. Sever 304 Sunday, March20,2016 Affective Form Literary FormandUniversalismin Frantz Fanon’s“OnNationalCulture” Northwest B104 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: POSTCOLONIAL FORMSANDFORMALISMS Romantic HistoryandtheRiddleof America Back toNature, Again: Latin American PoliticalRomanticism Amalia Argentine RomanticismandthePoliticsofConsumption:Variations ofJoséMármol’s K108 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 “Romantic Machines:TheRailroad andUnevenDevelopmentinMexico”_ Translation andtheRomanticNotionofPossibilityinNineteenth-CenturyMexico Costumbrismo Literature asan Analysis ofModernizationinLatin America Costumbrismo, Production ofFolkandtheCircuits ofCapital K108 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 Transatlantic RomanticismandtheQuestionof Artistic Labor The GauchoOutlaw, theByronic Hero andtheDarkFateofLiberalSubject Photography andtheVisual EconomyofHispanicRomanticism The Un-Representation ofRebellion K108 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016

Becquer Seguin,CornellUniversity Ana Sabau,UniversityofMichigan Robert Farrell,LehmanCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Oliver Southall,IndependentScholar Trine Riel,NationalUniversityofIrelandGalway Ankhi Mukherjee,University ofOxford Alexander Fyfe,Pennsylvania StateUniversity Yogita Goyal,UniversityofCalifornia Los Angeles Ronald Briggs,BarnardCollege Gabriel Horowitz,IndependentScholar Susan Hallstead,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Ana Sabau,UniversityofMichigan Ty West,SaintMary’sCollege,NotreDame Marie EliseEscalante,UniversityofPennsylvania Felipe Martinez-Pinzon,BrownUniversity Bécquer Seguín,CornellUniversity Juan PabloDabove,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Brendan Lanctot,UniversityofPugetSound Emma Stapely,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 109 109 110 110 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Cool Realism:TheNewJournalism,Magazines,andtheMakingofPrivatized America Signifying Genre: PopularPrintCulture and African American NewspaperFiction Archive How toDoThingswithWords: Inscription,Legibility, andthePoetryPerformancein “Archiving andTheorizingthe“CityofPrint” K109 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 MATERIALISM, AND THE REWRITINGOFLITERARY HISTORY SEMINAR: PRINTCULTURE IN THE AMERICAS: ARCHIVES, Reformatting PostcolonialExperience Forms ofDeliveryinSouth Africa Realism asForm,Mode,Genre, StyleinPostcolonialfiction Pro Forma:Lotus,the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association, andtheCulturalColdWar Obscurity intheNew Arabic NovelanditsReader Northwest B104 Sunday, March20,2016 Stories oftheState:LiteraryFormand Authoritarianism Fiction Postcolonial Warfare, Gender, andtheHistoricalNovelForminContemporary African Atlantic SlaveryandtheGlobalNovel Blackness andUtopia:John Akomfrah’s FugitiveFilmicGrammar Northwest B104 Saturday, March19,2016 The PlayofMetaphorandtheSimulacrum: SalmanRushdie’sMidnight’sChildren Forming Delhi:Literaryform, Affect, andDeclinein Ahmed Ali’s Twilight inDelhi Daniel Worden,UniversityofNewMexico Brooks Hefner,JamesMadisonUniversity Lisa Chinn,EmoryUniversity Mark Noonan,NewYorkCityCollegeofTechnology,University York Jesse Schwartz,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege Daniel Worden,UniversityofNewMexico Maria Bose,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Alvan Ikoku,StanfordUniversity Sangeeta Ray,UniversityofMaryland Monica Popescu,McGillUniversity Adam Spanos,NewYorkUniversity Jini KimWatson,NewYorkUniversity Anne Gulick,UniversityofSouthCarolina Yogita Goyal,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Matthew Omelsky,DukeUniversity Karim Abuawad,Al-QudsUniversity Praseeda Gopinath,SUNYBinghamton The Saturday EveningPostonMicrofilm 1877 GeneralStrikeinTransatlantic Context Representing UrbanCatastrophe: TheWoodcuts andPhotographicStereoviews ofthe Dominican Nineteenth-CenturyLiteraryCanon The Constructive PowerofDeficiency: Archives, PrintCulture, andtheDevelopmentofa Theorizing Trans-Periodical Studies K109 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 El Cosmopolita,Modernismo,andLiteraryValue intheUSSpanish-LanguagePress The PlotOfDebt:RacedRadicals,Serialization, And ThePedagogyofCapitalistCrisis We Moderns:IndigenousPrintCulture andNativeLiteraryHistory K109 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 Proust andKafka’sInsects The BallastthatChainstheDogtohisVomit A l’écoutedeProust: Absolute Music,Transcendence, andSkepticismintheRecherche Seminar Room(Dana-PalmerBldg.) Saturday, March19,2016 Reading Knausgaard, FeelingProustian: PopularandCritical Associations Reading thePress withMarcel Proust Orality andTextuality ExperienceofRacine’sPhèdre intheNarrator’s and MurielBarbery Tasting theSearch orSearching forTaste: ExploringDelectableQuestswithMarcel Proust Seminar Room(Dana-PalmerBldg.) Friday, March18,2016 LISTENING, WITH THE AUTHOR OFLARECHERCHE SEMINAR: PROUSTIAN AWARENESS: SEEING, READING,

Adam McKible,JohnJayCollegeofCriminalJustice,CityUniversityNewYork Justin Rogers-Cooper,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Wendy V.Muniz,ColumbiaUniversity Florian Freitag,JohannesGutenbergUniversityMainz John AlbaCutler,NorthwesternUniversity Jesse Schwartz,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Kathleen Washburn,UniversityofNewMexico Pauline Moret-Jankus,Friedrich-Schiller UniversitätJena Charlie Strong,VillanovaUniversity Joseph Acquisto,UniversityofVermont Olivia Gunn,UniversityofWashington Yuri Anjos,UniversityofSãoPaulo Maury Bruhn,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Adeline Soldin,DickinsonCollege Adeline Soldin,DickinsonCollege

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 111 111 112 112 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Randa Jarrar’s ARanda Jarrar’s MapofHome Arab American GirlhoodandtheErotics ofDarkHumorin Alicia Erian’sTowelhead and about HongKong’sUmbrella Movement Feeling LikeaChild: Affect andtheEthicsofRepresenting Childhoodin Art andWriting Imaging Ghosts:Visual Culture andthe(Im)possibilityofQueerChild Sever 204 Friday, March18,2016 CHILDHOOD PERSPECTIVES ON THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF SEMINAR: QUEER, TRANS, FEMINIST, ANDCRITICALRACE of JamaicaPlain,Massachusetts Curating CommunityHistoryintheDigital Age: Teaching, Technology, andtheHistory Public PoetryinaDigitalWorld Here ComestheWorld: CivicHumanitiesontheWeb Science CenterHallA Saturday, March19,2016 Humanities The RoleofScholarlySocietiesinFacilitatingSocialKnowledgeandSharingthe Public Humanities Bringing Categoriesfrom ScienceintoHumanitiesPractice:TheImplicationsfor the Short Circuits: CulturalInstitutions,DigitalLabor, andLocalNetworks Science CenterHallA Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: PUBLICHUMANITIESINADIGITAL AGE “Proust’s Waterlilies”, Marcel Takes aWalk inNaoshima,Japan. Medieval Fretwork, ModernSpires: BeholdingaCathedralwithM.deCharlus Bergotte andVermeer: A FatalMeetingofStyles Seminar Room(Dana-PalmerBldg.) Sunday, March20,2016 Leila Ben-Nasr,OhioStateUniversity Kai HangCheang,UniversityofCalifornia, Riverside Golan Moskowitz,BrandeisUniversity Julian Gill-Peterson,UniversityofPittsburgh Gabrielle Owen,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln Jody M.Gordon,WentworthInstituteofTechnology Christopher Gleason,WentworthInstituteofTechnology Liza Flum,CornellUniversity Emily Oliver,TheKnoxWriters’House Victor Taylor,YorkCollegeofPennsylvania Nicky Agate,ModernLanguageAssociation Urszula Pawlicka,UniversityofWarmiaandMazury Jim McGrath,BrownUniversity Nicky Agate,ModernLanguageAssociation Lucy Bergeret,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Cristian Micu,IndependentScholar Célia Abele,ColumbiaUniversity ‘My ChildhoodisRuined!’:HarperLee,RacialInnocenceandWhiteRage The PoliticsofQueerFuturityinLoisGould’sX: A FabulousChild’sStory The Child’sBodyandtheInventionofGenderinMidTwentieth Century Sever 204 Saturday, March19,2016 Alexie’s Flight Missing Persons:Childhood,Race,andtheFailure ofSurrogate FamilyinSherman A RevivaloftheQuestion ofLiberalisminOrtegayGassetbyMarioVargas Llosa Reassessing theMiseryandSplendor Transnational Letters,Translation, andtheImpossibility ofInterlinguisticPolitics: Ortega andtheInterwarBookMarketinUnitedStates Northwest B110 Saturday, March19,2016 Andalusia/Tartessos/Atlantis: Ortega’sSouthern Question Transnational Constituencies José OrtegayGassetandHisPublics:TheMakingofRegional,National, and Trembling before Chaos: Aesthetics andSubjectivityinOrtega’searlyyears(1910-1914) The StainoftheWar: WhatRe-ReadingOrtegaMeansforSpanishIntellectualHistory Northwest B110 Friday, March18,2016 PERSPECTIVES ONJOSÉORTEGA Y GASSET ICON: TRANSNATIONALRE-ASSESSING THE SEMINAR: Literature Politics andMethodologiesInfluencingInclusioninColonial/PostcolonialChildr Syrian RefugeeChildren: Trauma, Displacement,andChildren’s Books The Queer Aesthetic ofChildhoodTrauma andThePromise ofFuturity Sever 204 Sunday, March20,2016 Katherine Henninger,LouisianaStateUniversity Gabrielle Owen,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln Julian Gill-Peterson,UniversityofPittsburgh Yvonne Hammond,WestVirginiaUniversity Maria BelenCastanonMoreschi,Texas A&MUniversity Leslie Harkema,YaleUniversity Gayle Rogers,UniversityofPittsburgh Jose LuisVenegas,WakeForestUniversity Javier Krauel,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Luis Bautista,YaleUniversity Sebastiaan Faber,OberlinCollege José LuisVenegas,WakeForestUniversity Leslie Harkema,YaleUniversity Sreemoyee Dasgupta,UniversityofPittsburgh Muhammad Masud,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston Hannah Dyer,CarletonUniversity

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8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 113 113 114 114 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 An EthicsforMissingPersons Fear andTrembling: DefiningGenre, DefiningFaith Belial’s Hope:TheProblem ofForgiveness inMilton’sParadiseLost Barker 18 Sunday, March20,2016 Denise Levertov:Forgiving God The PlaysofKalidasa:Treading theLineBetweenConstraintandFreedom Barker 18 Saturday, March19,2016 Forgiveness andSelf-Forgiveness intheLaterPoetryofGeoffrey Hill Poems Dream toVeteran’sFrom Soldier’s Dream: Acts ofRedress inSeamusHeaney’sWar The InclinationtoForgiveness intheWork ofDavidJones Hopkins, Yeats, Auden, andtheStarrySky Above Barker 18 Friday, March18,2016 RELIGION, ETHICS, ANDLITERATURE) REDEMPTIONS (SPONSOREDBY THE ICLACOMMITTEEON SEMINAR: RELIGION, ETHICS, ANDLITERATURE I: SECULAR Mission Impossible:OrtegaandtheUniversity the MassesinDigital Age Multitude, SocialMass,andMedia:ReadingJoséOrtegayGasset’sTheRevoltof Philosophy thatSticks:SituatingOrtegayGassetwithinSpeculativeRealism Northwest B110 Sunday, March20,2016 Kitty Millet,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Rosemary Demos,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Andrew Shifflett,UniversityofSouthCarolina Seminary Kathleen HendersonStaudt,VirginiaTheologicalSeminary&Wesley Sukanya Chakrabarti,StanfordUniversity Paul Robichaud,AlbertusMagnusCollege Huiwen Shi,UniversityofHongKong Thomas Berenato,UniversityofVirginia Joseph Simmons,UniversityofChicago Paul Robichaud,AlbertusMagnusCollege Seminary Kathleen HendersonStaudt,WesleyTheologicalSeminaryandVirginia Thomas Berenato,UniversityofVirginia José M.delPino,DartmouthCollege Teresa Vilaros,TexasA&MUniversity William Viestenz,UniversityofMinnesota Censorious EnthusiasmandtheNeo-liberalPublicofIndia and ARevolution John Abraham:AnArtist Effects Industry To BeorNottoBe:IndianCinema Amidst thePoliticsofOutsourcing intheVisual Khan World Audiences Watch Bollywood:FindingaPoliticalVoice DiscussingMyNameis Sound, Language,andthePoliticsofaCrossover Film Sever 214 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: REVISITINGPOLITICSININDIANFILMI The NationalLanguageandtheRepublican LegaciesinModernTaiwan Sound andScriptintheChineseLatinizationMovement Authentic Chinese:DialectandFolksongsintheMakingofModern ChineseNation The RuleofaUniformScript Yenching Auditorium Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: SOUNDANDSCRIPTINSINOPHONESTUDIES Confluence ofthePopular, thePublic,andPolitical The StarastheTwitterati: ExaminingDiscoursesofHindifilmStardom andthe Woman inIndianCinema Fueling IntellectualFreedom: TheVoice oftheEveryman,Bolstered onbytheEvery Undressed Identities: Acting, PassingandBeinginHindiFilm Writing Politics,HistoryandTrauma: FinalSolution,ParzaniaandFiraq Sever 214 Saturday, March19,2016

Baidurya Chakrabarti,TheEnglishandForeignLanguagesUniversity Pavithra Narayanan,WashingtonStateUniversityVancouver Vartikka Kaul,JawaharlalNehruUniversity Priya Kapoor,PortlandStateUniversity Pavitra Sundar,KetteringUniversity Monika Mehta,BinghamtonUniversity Clare Wilkinson,WashingtonStateUniversityVancouver Ming-Huei Wang,UniversityofTexas atAustin Yurou Zhong,UniversityofToronto Gina Tam,StanfordUniversity Mårten SöderblomSaarela,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience Jing Tsu,YaleUniversity Flora Shao,YaleUniversity Sreya Mitra,AmericanUniversityofSharjah Anwesha Arya,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies Clare Wilkinson,WashingtonStateUniversityVancouver Sarah Niazi,JawaharlalNehruUniversity

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 115 115 116 116 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Passionate Modernism:TheDrama ofCrucifixion inDjunaBarnesand W. B. Yeats Modernist ReadingsofMaryMagdalene Gabriela Mistral:Teaching theBibleinPost RevolutionaryMexico The Bibleand Andean ModernityinJoséMaría Arguedas Sever 203 Saturday, March19,2016 Caspari’s BiblicalPoems “So laßmichdeinMinnesängersein!”–Letmebe Your Love-Poet!”OnHedwig “The FinestRosein All ofPsalms”:ItzikMangerandthePoeticsBiblical Anachronism E.J. Pratt Rupture andReform:IntersectionsofReligiousLiteraryModernisminthePoetry Apollinaire Choosing andBeingChosen:BiblicalElectioninWalt Whitman andGuillaume Sever 203 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE BIBLEINMODERNITYI WorldsScript Apart Cacophony andResonance:ZhongLiheinTranswar Taiwan Chinese Writer GuDing’sNewLife The Transnational “National Language”:LinguisticExperimentintheManchukuo Yenching Auditorium Sunday, March20,2016 China Script, Folksongs,andtheNationalizationofDialectalLiterature inTwentieth-Century Vernacular Chronotope: TheOrthographicJiangnaninSiniticTexts A HistoricalReviewoftheDiscoursefangyaninModernChina Yenching Auditorium Saturday, March19,2016 Rebecca Kastleman,HarvardUniversity Jenny Haase,StanfordUniversity/Humboldt UniversityBerlin Leila Gómez,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Enrique BernalesAlbites,ArkansasStateUniversity Anat Koplowitz-Breier,BarIlanUniversity Rachel Wamsley,HarvardUniversity Graham Jensen,DalhousieUniversity James Leveque,UniversityofEdinburgh Caroline Sauter,CenterforLiteraryandCulturalResearch(ZfL)Berlin Jenny Haase,StanfordUniversity/HumboldtUniversityBerlin Jing Tsu,YaleUniversity Mei-Chen Pan,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Miya Xie,HarvardUniversity Flora Shao,YaleUniversity Han Zhang,UniversityofChicago Jin Liu,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology IMAGINATION SEMINAR: UTOPIAS, DYSTOPIAS, AND THE WORK OF THE The BibleinMichailBulgakov’s‘TheMasterandMargarita’ Emphatic ModernCatholicNovel Franz Heinrich Achermann’s ‘Zukunftsroman’:’The Antichrist’ (1939)Reflections onan God intheDock:StefanZweig’s Aesthetic Theodicy Sever 203 Sunday, March20,2016 “Utopia andHubrisInOne”:Queer ManifestosInTheory/AsPraxis Precision andWholeness: ‘TheManWithout Qualities’andtheUtopiaofExactLiving Novel Dystopian Totalities: HerbertMarcuse’s ‘One-DimensionalMan’andtheContemporary Feminism isHumanism:HowMoniqueWittig’s ‘LesGuérillères’ EndsFeministUtopias Sever 105 Sunday, March20,2016 Common Places,‘Killboxes.’LivingTogether inthe Age ofDrones Utopia andRace Jean Améry –RessentimentandUtopianTime Stellar Models:BenjaminandScheerbart Sever 105 Saturday, March19,2016 The Destruction oftheCity:TheBiopoliticalFilmandUtopian-Dystopian Axis Feminine BodiesinFictionalandHistoricalDystopias Wells’s “StubbornBeast Flesh”:TheLaboratoryandUtopiain‘TheIslandofDr. Moreau’ On theVerge ofUtopia:Dystopia,Hope,andtheReasoned Passions Sever 105 Friday, March18,2016

Annika Sass,JohannesGutenbergUniversityMainz Andreas Mauz,UniversityofZurich Gregor Thuswaldner,GordonCollege J. DeLeon,NewYorkUniversity Juan Torbidoni,HarvardUniversity Ulrich Plass,BerlinCenterforLiteraryandCulturalResearch Kimberly Coates,StonyBrookUniversity Elisabeth Weber,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Sze WeiAng,UniversityofHongKong Dania Hückmann,HarvardUniversity Kristina Mendicino,BrownUniversity Nitzan Lebovic,LehighUniversity Elisabetta DiMinico,UniversitatdeBarcelona Matthew Hadley,UniversityofMinnesota Eirene Visvardi,WesleyanUniversity Dania Hückmann,HarvardUniversity Ulrich Plass,CenterforLiteraryandCulturalResearch,Berlin

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 117 117 118 118 stream A acla 8:30AM - 10:15AM 2016 Contours ofGrievabilityandLivabilityUnderPoliticalViolence Ethical andRelationalWitnessing inSamer Yazbek and Ahdaf Soueif:Expandingthe About CivilWar Eyewitnessing theCatastrophe, ShowingtheWound: MultidimensionalTestimonies Trauma ScenebutNotSeeninCervantes’CaptivityStories Malika Mokeddem. Transgressing theRulesof Autobiography: Novelsofthe1990sbyNinaBouraouiand Barker 24(McFadden) Sunday, March20,2016 American War Stories:Myth,Memory, andthePoliticsofMemoir Witness Whisperers—Shaping OurCollectiveUnderstandingofthe“Horrors ofWar” Representation ofthe Allied BombingCampaign Against Germany Contentious Memories: A CriticalReassessmentoftheUseTerror Imagesinthe Barker 24(McFadden) Saturday, March19,2016 Voice ofWitness BookSeries The SeeingChimera:Constitutionof Authenticity inEyewitnessTestimonies ofthe Women Totalitarian Testimonials: Precarious PathosandEthos Creating aVoice of Authenticity: The Act ofWriting andtheHolocaustCanon Why listen?Ethos&PathosofPerpetratorWitnessing Barker 24(McFadden) Friday, March18,2016 OF EYEWITNESSACCOUNTS SEMINAR: WITNESSING TRAUMA: THE ETHOSANDPATHOS Deniz GundoganIbrisim,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Aurelia Kalisky,ZentrumfürLiteratur-undKulturforschung(Berlin) Jeffrey Weiner,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Annick Durand,ZayedUniversity Myra Mendible,FloridaGulfCoastUniversity Gary Mills,UnitedStatesAirForceAcademy Christoph Weber,UniversityofNorthTexas Audrey Louckx,UniversitédeMons Hana Waisserova,UNL,NE Cindy KRenker,UniversityofNorthTexas Belinda Kleinhans,TexasTechUniversity Cindy K.Renker,UniversityofNorthTexas Christoph Weber,UniversityofNorthTexas Post-Katrina NewOrleans Writing theDisasterinEraof Anthropocene: thePastandFuture ofDisasterin Against the Anthropocene: PostcolonialStudiesandtheHuman Question Concepts Writing theDisasterinEraof Anthropocene (I):MappingtheDebatesand Science CenterHallD Friday, March18,2016 ANTHROPOCENE SEMINAR: WRITING THE DISASTERIN THE ERAOF THE Paradis Blues Trauma Narrativesfrom theSea:TheMosaicof OceanicMemoryinShenazPatel’s Beckett’s Anthropocene; or, DisasterandtheModernistSubjectinEndgame “The rest isweather”:Toxic wasteinToni Morrison’sBeloved Anthropocide: OntheSpeculative EndofHumanity Disastrous Scholarshipinthe Age ofthe Anthropocene Science CenterHallD Sunday, March20,2016 Geologic Legibility:LearningtoReadTraces ofDisasterinthe Anthropocene After theGlobe:Catastrophic Histories,PlanetaryFutures, and Art inthe Anthropocene Songs toSingBeyondMankind:Recent Anthropocene Compositions Concepts Writing theDisasterinEraof Anthropocene (2):MappingtheDebatesand Science CenterHallD Saturday, March19,2016 Russell StockardJr.,CaliforniaLutheranUniversity Vivek Freitas,ColbyCollege Jennifer Cazenave,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Alla Ivanchikova,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Jennifer Cazenave,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Guyomar Pillai,OhioStateUniversity Luke Mueller,TuftsUniversity Christina Thyssen,SUNYAlbany Graeme Stout,UniversityofMinnesota Andrew Reszitnyk,McMasterUniversity Brian Malone,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Alexis Radisoglou,ColumbiaUniversity/NewYork Anna-Sophie Springer, Etienne Turpin,UniversityofWollongong Alla Ivanchikova,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges

Independent Scholar

8:30AM - 10:15AM 10:15AM - 8:30AM 2016

stream A stream acla 119 119 120 stream B acla 120 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Bridges andImpassesinJoeSacco’sPalestinianComics Bridging Homelands:RhizomesandRhetoricinZochrot.org Borrowed PalestinianReturnsbetweenMemory andNarration Palestinian-Conflict Literature, Classroom, War Game: A newapproach tothepedagogyofIsraeli Sever 106 Sunday, March20,2016 Feminist Activists Occupation’ Orientalism andCriticalDialogues:Reflectionsfrom PalestinianandIsraeli‘Anti- Bereaved Mothers Across Borders A Borrowed Identity(Dancing Arabs) Pseudo-Multiculturalism inSayedKashua’sNovelsandEranRiklis’Film Adaptation of The LiteraryRepresentation ofJewish-PalestinianHybridity Sever 106 Saturday, March19,2016 Performing CompetingMemories:Exileand Active Identity Responsibility ofComparativeLiterature Thinking through Catastrophe: Orientalism,European anti-Semitism,andthe Subliminal Messages/DialogicVerse: Arab andJewishPoets(Con)versing Sever 106 Friday, March18,2016 PALESTINIAN CONFLICT SEMINAR: “ONLY CONNECT”?BRIDGING THE ISRAELI- The Translator asCartographer: Ahmad al-HajariandthePoliticsofSpace Mapping Damascus’Hinterland:Ibn Tulun’s CartographicDefense Space inCrisis:GeographicalandPolitical SpaceintheLiterature ofCyprus S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 TRANSLATION SEMINAR: CARTOGRAPHY:POETICS, THEORY, Katharina N.Piechocki,HarvardUniversity Rebecca Scherr,UniversityofOslo Laini Kavaloski,SUNYCanton Education, Haifa Maurice Ebileeni,HebrewUniversityofJerusalemandtheArabAcademicCollege of Shai Ginsburg,DukeUniversity Wafaa Hasan,IndependentScholar Ari Ofengenden,BrandeisUniversity Iris Bruce,McMasterUniversity Michael Keren,UniversityofCalgary Ihab Saloul,UniversityofAmsterdam Andrew Rubin,GlobalCenterforAdvancedStudies Kamal Abdel-Malek,AmericanUniversityinRasAlKhaimah Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan,HebrewUniversity,Jerusalem Susan Lanser,BrandeisUniversity Oumelbanine Zhiri, UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego Dana Sajdi,BostonCollege Argyro Nicolaou,HarvardUniversity da Cunha Full ofFuture(s): GeographyandtheLostParadisesofÉliséeReclusEuclides My shore, mysounds,earth,place:CharlesOlsonandthePoemasMap ‘Germania’, Humanism,andEurope’s EarlyModernBoundaries Ad omniaclimata:Total SpaceorModular S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 The Asian Bourgeois The Asian Remainders ofthe American Century Hydrohegemony: Writing Water BetweenRightandCommodity #No Dads:Debt, Anarchism, andHegemonicDisinheritance Barker 24(McFadden) Saturday, March19,2016 Free Trade No Countryfor Young Mulattoes:Creole Counter-hegemonies intheEraofBritish Geistwritten: DavidMitchellandtheWriting ofHegemon CrisisCulture UNESCO andFree-worldism Tarrying withNeoliberalism:TheMarginality oftheSignifierandImmaterialLabor Barker 24(McFadden) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: HEGEMONCRISISCULTURE of Literature The ImpactofCensorshiponthePhenomenological Approach towards Geography Lost inSpace:Postmodernism’sCartographicUncanny Exile’s Return:TheCaseofVladimirNabokov “The SlightestGesture”: Deligny’sCartographies S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 Mapping UtopiasinContemporaryBlackScottishPoetry

Yvette Siegert,IndependentScholar Sarah Arkebauer,ColumbiaUniversity Katharina Piechocki,HarvardUniversity Jennifer Nelson,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Colleen Lye,University ofCalifornia,Berkeley Brent Bellamy,MemorialUniversityof Newfoundland Anjuli Kolb,WilliamsCollege Annie McClanahan,UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee Christopher Taylor,UniversityofChicago David Thomas,CarletonUniversity Sarah Brouillette,CarletonUniversity Tim Kreiner,YaleUniversity Michael Szalay,UniversityofCaliforniaIrvine Sarah Brouillette,CarletonUniversity Babak Mazloumi,NewYorkUniversity Karen Jacobs,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Olga Aksakalova,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Leon Hilton,NewYorkUniversity Benjamin Clary,EmoryUniversity

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 121 121 122 stream B acla 122 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Spiral’s End:thePoeticsofGrexit The CorporateState American CrimeFiction Human Traffickers andthePolice:UnravelingOldHegemonyinContemporary Tube Entertainment’sFlops Barker 24(McFadden) Sunday, March20,2016 Capital andtheSea:OnLabor, Use-value, andCommunity Traces ofElBuenVivir intheWork ofBolívarEcheverría Against “Neoliberalismfrom Below:”IndieThinkingandStruggle forCommons Infancy andIntransigence:Chile’sescuelastomadas,astrategyintheimpasse Science Center105 Sunday, March20,2016 The ColonialityofLandandIndigenousCommunism Marx inMexico,Mexico Primitive Accumulation anditsLimits Science Center105 Saturday, March19,2016 The Profane State:BolívarEchevarría,Álvaro García LineraandtheUseofState Culture Arguedas, Abstraction, Between MarxismandIndigenousThought:Translation asPoliticalStrategy always impossibleformofabsoluteandpure liberation...(Notesfrom themiddle) ...Moving beyondthebinaries...Marxisttoneswithinrhythms andaffects ofan Science Center105 Friday, March18,2016 MOVEMENTS IN THE ERAOFNEOLIBERALCAPITALISM SEMINAR: MARXISM, INDIGENOUS THOUGHT, ANDPOPULAR Joshua Clover,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Michael Szalay,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Caren Irr,BrandeisUniversity Joseph Jeon,PomonaCollege Alessandro Fornazzari,UniversityofCalifornia, Riverside Emily Pryor,UniversityofCalifornia, Riverside Djurdja Trajkovic,IndianaUniversityBloomington Bret Leraul,CornellUniversity Don Deere,DePaulUniversity Bruno Bosteels,CornellUniversity Brian Whitener,UniversityofMichigan Conor Harris,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Karen Benezra,ColumbiaUniversity Gavin Arnall,UniversityofMichigan Susana Draper,PrincetonUniversity Alessandro Fornazzari,UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside Gavin Arnall,UniversityofMichigan Jorge Pérez SolanoyThebookoflife(2014)deJorge R.Gutiérrez. Cuento dehadasparadormircocodrilos(2002)IgnacioOrtizCruz, Espiral(2008)de Formulaciones delonacionalmexicanocontemporáneo. Acercamiento alosfilmes de CarlosCarrera El cuerpofemeninocomometáforadelterritorio-naciónenBackyard: Eltraspatio(2009) El realismo trascendidodeCarlosReygadas Collaboration) Carlos Reygadas’sVexing Realism:Toward anOntologyofCinema(asthe Analogy of Sever 206 Friday, March18,2016 CACINE) CULTURE, ANDLITERATURE II(ORGANIZEDBYRED SEMINAR: MEXICAN(TRANS)NATIONAL CINEMA, VISUAL mexicano Las tácticasdeldiscursotransnacional deEstherSeligson:másallálojudíoy El imaginarioalegóricotransnacional entres novelasmexicanasrecientes (2004-2012) Vasconcelos El primermuralismodelDr. Atl. Antecedentes delproyecto nacionalistadeJosé Lecturas transmediales.Larepresentación cinematográficadeFridaKahlo. Sever 206 Sunday, March20,2016 Ratio triplex2016:imágenes,migrantesysueñoamericano en elcinedocumentaldeNicolásEchevarría Fronteras ytensionesdelonacional:larepresentación cinematográficadelos Wixárikas González Iñárritu Ciudad globalymigración,elementosdelcinetransnacionalenBiutifulde Alejandro Formación deestereotipos nacionales,revolucionarios ymodernosenelcinedelosaños30 Sever 206 Saturday, March19,2016

Mauricio DíazCalderón,UniversidaddeGuadalajara Alicia VargasAmesquita,UniversidaddeGuadalajara New York Silvia Alvarez-Olarra,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversity Eunha Choi,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach James Ramey, Mauricio DíazCalderón,UniversidaddeGuadalajara Alicia VargasAmesquita,UniversidaddeGuadalajara Lourdes ParraLazcano,UniversityofLeeds Alejandra Bernal,UniversityofOttawa María delasNievesRodríguezyMéndez,UniversidadNacionalAutónoma México Alma DeliaZamoranoRojas,UniversidadPanamericana Roberto Dominguez-Caceres,TecdeMonterreyCampusCiudadMéxico Campus Cuajimalpa Diego AugustoSalgadoBautista,UniversidadAutónomaMetropolitana, Maria FernandaDiazBasteris,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Carlos AlejandroBelmonteGrey,UniversitéSorbonne-UniversitatJaumeI

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stream B stream acla 123 123 124 stream B acla 124 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NARRATING SEPHARAD TODAY Underground Stratification, Geopolitics,and Volumetric MaterialityinRepresentations of MexicoCity’s Degrowth andthePoliticsofPlayin21stC.SpanishEnvironmental Art Manifestations The PoliticalEcologyofWaste: Non-human Agency inRecentSpanishCultural Perejaume’s SensualObjects andIberianEcologicalThought K109 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 IN NEOLIBERALSPACE (HISPANIC STUDIES) SEMINAR: NOMADIC WASTE &ECOLOGICALMATERIALITY What’s NewisOld:MartíSans’s“L’estigma?” andSpanishJudeophobia Sepharad through aLeviticalLens Incursiones literariasenelpaisajeinvisibledeSefarad Sepharad LostandFoundattheSephardic MuseumofToledo Northwest B107 Sunday, March20,2016 From SepharadtoZion:JuliánMarías’IsraelMemoir A Voice inSpanish:HisHundred Years, A Tale ofaTurkish Jew Sephardic-Spanish EncountersandtheRiteofReturn Narrating theSephardi Kitchen:HistoryandGeographyin Sephardi Cookbooks Northwest B107 Saturday, March19,2016 Utopia inSepharad:ConflictiveReadingsaboutBeingaJewSpain a-Levi Sepharad asMisunderstanding:TheSephardisms ofÁngelPulidoandSa’adiBesalel Hasidism Through thePrismofSepharad Northwest B107 Mark Anderson,University ofGeorgia Christine Martinez,NewYorkUniversity Luis Prádanos,MiamiUniversity John Trevathan,IndianaUniversity Megan Saltzman,WestChesterUniversity Hazel Gold,EmoryUniversity Stacy Beckwith,CarletonCollege José ManuelFajardo,IndependentScholar Daniela Flesler,StonyBrookUniversity Michal Friedman,CarnegieMellonUniversity Jane Mushabac,NewYorkCityCollegeofTechnology,University Dalia Kandiyoti,CollegeofStatenIsland,CityUniversityNewYork Harry Kashdan,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Dosinda Garcia-Alvite,DenisonUniversity Andrew Soria,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Yitzhak Lewis,ColumbiaUniversity Daniela Flesler,StateUniversityofNewYorkStonyBrook Stacy Beckwith,CarletonCollege The CrisisofOil:Destruction andResistanceinOro Negro byFernandoE.‘Pino’Solanas Activism. Intimate Trash: Migrant’sDiscarded Objectsin the SonoranDesertand(Re)humanizing Alternatives toGlobalPolluting Entropic Landscapes,Ecoart,SeedBanks,and Andean Open-PitEcoLabs:Overlooked K109 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 Tatyana Tolstaya andDubravkaUgrešić Objectified Nostalgia:LocatingBoym’s CommonplacesintheContempor to Babadag” Georgi Gospodinov’s“The PhysicsofSorrow” and Andrzej Stasiuk’s“OntheRoad “I’m dreaming ofbuildingareservation ofsortshere.” NostalgiaforthePresent in Same As ItNever Was: NostalgiafortheFuture inSlovakCulture The NationofDisplaced Youth: TheNostalgiaofInnocenceinHolocaustEasternEurope Emerson 210 Saturday, March19,2016 Longing forWar: NostalgiainPost-War Ex-Yugoslav DiasporicTexts Nostalgia andTrauma inDašaDrndi Loss inTranslation: ReflectiveNostalgiaandPost-Yugoslav Writing Restorative Nostalgiaandthe Yugoslav Project: GoingBackHome,Politically Emerson 210 Friday, March18,2016 SVETLANA BOYM INCOMPARATIVE SLAVIC STUDIES SEMINAR: NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE: THE LEGACY OF de futuros The PoeticsofPrecarity andtheNostalgiaofJunkinMercedes Alvarez’s Mercado la chatarra Reading theWaste Losvagabundosde oftheGlobalCity:Jorge CarriónandSagar’s The CrisisoftheMadridUrbanPeripheryinJoséÁngelMañas’sSospecha K109 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 María SilviaMontenegro,UniversityofArizona Daniela Johannes,WestChesterUniversity Roberto Forns-Broggi,MetropolitanStateUniversityofDenver Marina Flider,UniversityofTexasatAustin Sanja Ivanov,UniversityofToronto Eva Hudecova,UniversityofMinnesota Yolanda Sarmiento,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach Antje Postema,UniversityofChicago Vlatka Vel Una Tanovi Marina Antić,IndianaUniversityBloomington Thomas Garza,UniversityofTexasatAustin Jacqueline Sheean,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Megan Saltzman,WestChesterUniversity Nick Phillips,GrinnellCollege čić, CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach ć, UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst ć’s Novels

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stream B stream acla 125 125 126 stream B acla 126 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 North African Ekphrasis:Poetry, Television, andthe Afterimage of Aniconism Mesoamerica The PlaceofImageinSociety:Visual Tools forDistinguishingClassin Sixteenth-Century The MedialityofVisual Threat Communication Northwest B109 Sunday, March20,2016 Comics’ SynopticImage Student-Centered Approaches toDevelopingVisual Frameworks Star Bodies:Embodied Attention and(Dis)Honestyin‘RomanHoliday’ Northwest B109 Saturday, March19,2016 Pregnancy, PageNumbers,andPrivateReading:InventoryBooksasSitesforRuminatio Circulating Atrocity Attending BeyondText Northwest B109 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: READING VISUAL CULTURES Killing HimSoftly: Andrej Gelasimov’sThirstandPutin’sEndlessWar inChechnya Neoauthoritarianism withaHumanFace:SovietHero inpost-SovietTVBiopic Russian Literature intheEraofVietnam: TheUtopianProject thatwasTolstoy College Bucolic NostalgiainRussiaand America Emerson 210 Sunday, March20,2016 Thomas Connolly,YaleUniversity Samantha Billing,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Anne Ulrich,UniversityofTuebingen Katharina Motyl,UniversityofTuebingen Fabio Mourilhe,FederalUniversityofRiodeJaneiro Margaret Galvan,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Hilarie Ashton,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Leah Henrickson,UniversityofLondon Alison Dean,SimonFraserUniversity Leah Souffrant,NewYorkUniversity Leah Souffrant,NewYorkUniversity Margaret Galvan,TheGraduateCenter,CUNY Thomas Garza,UniversityofTexasatAustin Sergey Toymentsev,FloridaStateUniversity Jennifer Wilson,UniversityofPennsylvania William Meyer,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach Proust inScandinavia-Critical Approaches totheReception ofProust Cardinal (Re)directions inTheory’sCompass:Euro-Atlantic Realignments What istheNon-West?: OccidentalistIdentificationsRedefined Experimental Cosmopolitanism Sever 109 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: RECODINGANDREINVENTING THEORIES In Search oftheLanguageLost:DungKaiCheung’s Fictionafter1989 Sinophone Cinema:Heterogeneity orCommercial Considerations? Sever 101 Friday, March18,2016 ITS “POLITICS OFRECOGNITION” SEMINAR: RECONSIDERINGSINOPHONELITERATURE AND “Critique theCritique:RecodingCritical” Empirical LawsofLiterature: ThePost-theoretical Aspiration ofDigitalHumanities (Xiang Shu)DebateReconsidered Reconciling Approaches toDiagrammaticReasoning: An EarlySongImageand Number in EnglandandEurope, circa 1608 Exhibiting Theory:TheRenaissanceMuseumandVirgilian Poetics:Ethics againstTime Literature andItsIdentityProblem Sever 109 Sunday, March20,2016 Prompted Transreading: A CriticalTheoryand/for A Present Phenomenon The OtherFreudian Reading Fiction Dynamic in Angela Carter’s Transcreation: A ParadigmShiftinComparativeLiterature? TheTranslation-(re)writing The BiggerPicture: LiteraryMigrationandTheoretical Eclecticism Sever 109 Saturday, March19,2016

Neal AshleyConradThing,LundUniversity Nicoletta Pireddu,GeorgetownUniversity Robert Cowan,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Didier Coste,UniversitéBordeauxMontaigne Helen (Huiwen)Zhang,UniversityofTulsa Nicoletta Pireddu,GeorgetownUniversity Nim YanWong,Chinese UniversityofHongKong Wing ShanHo,MontclairStateUniversity Melody YunziLi,WashingtonUniversity inSt.Louis Ling Kang,WashingtonUniversityin St.Louis Ming Xie,UniversityofToronto Alexandre Gefen,CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique/UniversitéParis Sorbonne Holger Schneider,InternationalConsortiumforResearchintheHumanities Tim Markey,WorcesterAcademy Sébastien Doubinsky,AarhusUniversity Helen HuiwenZhang,UniversityofTulsa Alex Freer,TrinityCollege,UniversityofCambridge Martine HennardDutheildelaRochère,UniversityofLausanne Paul Tenngart,LundUniversity

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stream B stream acla 127 127 128 stream B acla 128 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Confrontation ofMaterialEcocriticalandPsychanalytical Perspectives Discursivity andMateriality: An Analysis of Affect inDescriptions ofWaste through a Taking outtheTrash: Kittler Airs an Anecdote Waste inSystems(Theory) Dust Convolute(aScattered TheoryofNon-Waste) Science Center109 Friday, March18,2016 WASTE SEMINAR: RECYCLINGCULTURE: ANAESTHETICSOF Same Dream Language andIdentityintheChinese-ItalianPlayTong Men-g:Bronze Gate/ Sinophone Articulations From FlowersofShanghaitoBlossoms:RediscoveringtheVoice ofShanghaithrough “China Weekend” inIowa:EnvisioningtheFuture ofChineseLiterature Taiwan, andtheUS Structure ofDualDominationinSinophoneUSLiterature: NegotiatingbetweenChina, Sever 101 Sunday, March20,2016 A Non-LocalSinophoneLiterature: Kim-chewNg’sWritings ofMalayanCommunists Worldly Encountersand SpectralReturnsinLi Yongping’s “TheEndoftheRiver” “Sadness forthePacific” The Sinophone’sObsessionwithChina:Reading“TheSadSongofNanyang”and What Does“South”MeantoSinophoneLiterature? Sever 101 Saturday, March19,2016 Post/colonial PoliticsofVision andLanguageinSeediqBale Thinking about Abang andKadresengan Nationhood Undone:Documenting“native-soil”inWuhe’s RemainsofLifeand Christine Temko,UniversitéCatholique deLouvain Dominik Zechner,NewYorkUniversity Patrick Fortmann,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Josh Alvizu,YaleUniversity Paul North,YaleUniversity Markus Wilczek,TuftsUniversity Valentina Pedone,UniversityofFlorence,Italy Yunwen Gao,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Li-ping Chen,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Su-ching Huang,EastCarolinaUniversity Ling Kang,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Alison Groppe,UniversityofOregon Jessica Tan,HarvardUniversity Melody YunziLi,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Dihao Zhou,DukeUniversity Chialan SharonWang,FengChiaUniversity and US American Literature Plastic NarrativesasofDisposability:SyntheticsinContemporaryGerman Pynchon’s Wastelands Talking Trash: Kafka’sOdradekasEcocriticalCompost Clemens Brentano’s RomanticWaste Science Center109 Saturday, March19,2016 Cyborg Utopias Summer We GotFree ‘Indirect Descendants’:CommunityandTheTemporality oftheQueerBlack Artist inThe Shall IProject aWorld?: OriginandCommunityintheNovelsofThomas Pynchon Boylston 104 Saturday, March19,2016 in Superhero ComicsandGraphicNarrativesofDisability Whatever HappenedtotheManofTomorrow?: OriginStoriesandModernMythologies “’I Dream I’mtheDeathof Orpheus’”:ReadingRich’sMythofLyric Origin” Etiology andImpasseinClaudiaRankine Boylston 104 Friday, March18,2016 ORIGIN STORIES SEMINAR: REINVENTING, REWRITING, ANDDISPUTING Gleaning asCulturalPraxis Postcolonial Toxic Hysteria:ReadingtheSouth African Environment Trash andtheToxic City:GuillermoFadanelliandMexicanliteraturabasura Science Center109 Sunday, March20,2016

Christina Gehrlein,IndependentScholar Virgil Brower,ChicagoTheologicalSeminary Ian Fleishman,UniversityofPennsylvania Catriona MacLeod,UniversityofPennsylvania Frann Michel,WillametteUniversity Kate McCullough,CornellUniversity Devin Fromm,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Theresa Tensuan,Tensuan Camille Norton,UniversityofthePacific Cynthia Dobbs,UniversityofthePacific Theresa Tensuan,HaverfordCollege Kate McCullough,CornellUniversity Annie Pfeifer,RutgersUniversity Helen Kapstein,JohnJayCollegeofCriminalJustice,CityUniversityNewYork Alice Whitmore,MonashUniversity

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stream B stream acla 129 129 130 stream B acla 130 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 42:1-6 Wittgenstein andtheUnfinalizableDialogue ofJob:ReconciliationintheGrammar Browning, ClaudeMcKayandDerek Walcott Purifying thePast:Imperialism,Forgiveness andPragmatism inthePoetryofRobert Brook’s Mahabharata Matters ofEthicsandPolitics:Translation, Adaptation, and Appropriation inPeter Barker 18 Sunday, March20,2016 Liberation The LackofLoveortheHeartbreak intheWork ofOlgaOrozco andPoetryasa Aesthetic TheoriesthatCodifiedCasteandPerformedStatehoodin Performative Historiographies:HowSanskritDramaandDramaturgy Articulated Shaykhs andtheCity:The Ascetic asanIslamicModernistinNaguibMahfouz’sFictions Barker 18 Saturday, March19,2016 Mahanirvan Epic Theatre, FolkForm,andSatish Alekar’s Emotion inGreek andSanskritDrama Barker 18 Friday, March18,2016 LITERATURE) BY THE ICLACOMMITTEEONRELIGION, ETHICS, AND PERFORMANCE, POLITICS, AESTHETICS(SPONSORED SEMINAR: RELIGION, ETHICS, ANDLITERATURE II: Original Amnesias, HauntingsandPalimpsests Decolonizing theConstitutioninToni Morrison’s A Mercy: DemocraticIlliteracies, Voice onRecord: TheNewNegro Movement’sRecording Aesthetics of Amazon Age The Anxiety of(Corporate)Influence:FightingforFrance’sPatrimoineLittéraire inthe Boylston 104 Sunday, March20,2016 Trevor Williams,PepperdineUniversity David St.John,GeorgiaStateUniversity So-Rim Lee,StanfordUniversity Patricia AuroraOrtizLozano,UniversidadAutónomadeAguascalientes Vivek VNarayan,StanfordUniversity Nazry Bahrawi,NationalUniversityofSingapore Aparna Zambare,CentralMichiganUniversity Dorothy Figueira,UniversityofGeorgia Kitty Millet,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Dorothy Figueira,UniversityofGeorgia Marc Maufort,UniversiteLibredeBruxelles Valerie Thomas,PomonaCollege Sonnet Retman,UniversityofWashington Kathy Richman,HarvardUniversity Ancient India The BlueZenith:Dickinson,Figuration,andChronic Pain Donne’s SeismicConceits Michael Dransfieldandthe Lyrical PainofPsychosis The PlaceofPaininContemporaryLyric Science Center116 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: REMEASURINGLYRICAL PAIN Tonto in theSchoolhouse:Sherman Alexie onPoverty, Education,andtheRez Sick oftheSymbolic:Writing InPaloMonteinLyn DiIorio’sOutsidetheBones. “Storyteller” and Audre Lorde’s “Power” Murder andColonialTheology; orBlacknessandIndiannessinLeslieMarmonSilko’s Science Center111 Friday, March18,2016 SPACES GENEALOGY: GHETTOS, REZ’S, ANDOTHER WIDE OPEN SEMINAR: REPRESENTINGAMERICA’SCOLORFUL The Transmutation ofPaininCharlotteSmith’sBeachyHead(1807) The Trouble withHymns:Pain,LongingandLyricism Lyric Expressions ofCollectiveExperienceinTwentieth-Century PoeticDrama Dialogue andDevotion:Interrogating Lyric PainontheEarlyModernEnglishStage Science Center116 Sunday, March20,2016 Epistolary andLyric PaininEmilyDickinson The ScienceofBegging Refrain thyVoice from Weeping: Lyrical ImpulsesinthePuritanCaptivityNarrative Essaying Pain Science Center116 Saturday, March19,2016

Michael Snediker,UniversityofHouston Jessica Tabak,BrownUniversity Amy Hilhorst,UniversityofWesternAustralia Susannah Mintz,SkidmoreCollege Matthew Beach,BrownUniversity Jessica Tabak,BrownUniversity Ben Gibson,YaleDivinity School Victoria Chevalier,MedgarEversCollege, CityUniversityofNewYork Chad Infante,NorthwesternUniversity Victoria Chevalier,MedgarEversCollege,CUNY Richard Perez,JohnJayCollegeandCUNYGraduateCenter Cristine Soliz,FortValleyStateUniversity Elizabeth Dolan,LehighUniversity Emma SalgårdCunha,UniversityofCambridge Sarah Berry,UniversityofConnecticut Kimberly Huth,CaliforniaStateUniversity,DominguezHills Jed Deppman,OberlinCollege Todd Carmody,HarvardUniversity Lucas Hardy,YoungstownStateUniversity Ann Jurecic,RutgersUniversity

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stream B stream acla 131 131 132 stream B acla 132 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Militant Evidence:Documentaryand Accumulation Articulating PoliticsinEgyptianCinema sincethe2011 Revolution Abbas Kiarostami andthePolitical? Ecuadorian DocumentaryFilms The BurningEmbersofaBroken Discourse:ThePoeticsofPolitical CinemainTwo Radical Eclipse:NotesonPoliticalCinemainItaly Sever 112 Saturday, March19,2016 United RedTerrorists: Wakamatsu’s and Adachi’s Resurrected Militants of MaoistFraternitysinceMay1968 “It’s Always RighttoRebel!”:Godard-Gorin’s Vent d’estandtheRadicalThwartedness Artists’ Television inNew York City:PoliticsinaMinorKey Communist Moments:Filmsfrom theSpanishCivilWar Iranian CinemaandthePoliticsofRefusal Sever 112 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: RETHINKINGPOLITICALCINEMA Movement inHelenaMariaViramontes’s UndertheFeetofJesus A LatinaChrist:CatholicIconographyReimaginedfortheEnvironmental Justice Fallout Country:TheReservationandtheSpace-Time ofWar inSilko’sCeremony Science Center111 Sunday, March20,2016 Fictive Rez Something isRotteninKinogamish:Mesnak’sCinematic Adaptation ofHamletona Colonialism andExhibitionism:UsurpationoftheRezinCinema Mother byJamaicaKincaidandWe the Animals byJustinTorres Potentiality oftheSubject:Privation,Non-Being,andNihilismin Autobiography ofMy Science Center111 Saturday, March19,2016 Ryan Watson,MisericordiaUniversity Ahmed Ghazal,UniversityofAuckland Ahmad Nadalizadeh,UniversityofOregon Mariko Plescia,UniversityofOregon Mauro Resmini,UniversityofMaryland Sarah Hamblin,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston Man-Tat TerenceLeung,HongKongPolytechnicUniversity Benjamin Olin,NewYorkUniversity Juli Highfill,UniversityofMichigan Sara Saljoughi,UniversityofToronto Sarah Hamblin,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston Molly Hildebrand,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Mai-Linh Hong,BucknellUniversity Julie Burelle,UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego Wayne Wapeemukwa,TheNewSchoolforSocialResearch Richard Perez,JohnJayCollegeofCriminalJustice,CityUniversityNewYork The RancierianPoliticalFilmandthePoliticsofPlague The PoliticsofNecrofuturism: Allegory and Abjection inSnowpiercer Tatjana Turanskyj’s TheDrifter “I’m anexpertincrisis—howmayIhelpyou?” Affective LaborandtheEndofWork in Late Age oftheFrench NewWave Between CinephiliaandPoliticalCritique:LucMoullet’sLePrestige delaMort andthe Sever 112 Sunday, March20,2016 the Present “They don’trepresent us”:Libertarian Practicesfrom theSpanish Transition to Intelligentsia oftheXXICentury Belén Gopegui:NeitherwiththeMandarines oftheRegime78NorwithNew comunicación españoles Hasta cuántonosdalasolidaridad:crisisdelosrefugiados deSiriaenlosmedios Economical CrisisToday Thinking theNewPoliticalMachinery. HowSpanishSocialMovements Are Facingthe Argentina andSpain Fidelity and/orPromiscuity. MilitantResearchers andtheProduction ofKnowledgein Boylston G02 Saturday, March19,2016 On Transitions andIdeologicalFormationsinContemporarySpain De laprácticadiscursivaalastácticascotidianas.Construcción ycaídadelparadigmaCT Late FrancoismorTransition: More thanaSemanticDebate Historical Visibility inSpain There’s NothingtoSeeHere? Post’68IntellectualNarratives,MilitantFilm Archives, and Boylston G02 Friday, March18,2016 THEORETICAL APPROACHES. SPAIN: CULTURAL PRACTICES, HISTORICAL NARRATIVES, SEMINAR: RETHINKING THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINARY IN

Rachel tenHaaf,TrumanStateUniversity Katherine Sugg,CentralConnecticutStateUniversity Jette Gindner,CornellUniversity Matt VonVogt,IndianaUniversity Luis GonzalezBarrios,BenningtonCollege Javier Entrambasaguas,UniversityofMichigan Ana Luengo,SanFranciscoStateUniversity David Hernández,TraficantesdeSuenos Federico Pous,ElonUniversity Vicente Rubio-Pueyo,FordhamUniversity Ignasi Gozalo,UniversityofPennsylvania Irene Domingo,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Pablo LaParra-Perez,NewYorkUniversity Javier Entrambasaguas,UniversityofMichigan Federico Pous,ElonUniversity Pablo LaParra-Perez,NewYorkUniversity Vicente Rubio-Pueyo,FordhamUniversity

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stream B stream acla 133 133 134 stream B acla 134 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 SEMINAR: REVISITINGPOLITICSININDIANFILMII Cultural MobilityandPolyphonicPoeticsinTariq Teguia’s Romawalan’touma Music, Mobility, andSolidarityintheFilmsofSissakoKlapisch Melvin Van PeeblesandTheWriting ofFrancophone African Cinema Retriangulating Coltrane: Afro-Futurism inEmmanuelDongala’s“Jazzetvindepalme” Northwest B103 Saturday, March19,2016 Tram 83:FistonMwenzaandtheUnma(s)kingofJazz BYG-Actuel andBeyond:JazzFreedom àlaFrançaise,1968-2016 Miles’s Smiles:JazzPortraits,“Freedom” andFugitiveWithdrawal Triangulating Dislocationin“Sonny’sBlues” Northwest B103 Friday, March18,2016 AMERICAN CULTURE INSOUND, IMAGE, AND TEXT SEMINAR: RETRIANGULATING FRANCO-AFRICAN- Rethinking HistoricalMemoryDuringtheTransition Theatre and CivicEngagementinContemporarySpain: A Tale ofInterruptions Politics The SpanishTransition toDemocracyinContext: A Temporal JourneyThrough Memory On Anamnesis: How A Nosa Terra (1977-1980)asaHidden Archive Boylston G02 Sunday, March20,2016 independence HindiCinema Re-claiming Mehboob’sROTI(Bread, 1942)asaKeyPolitical Work of 1940’sPre- And There Was IPTA: LeftistTrajectories oftheLate-colonialIndianCinema Sever 214 Friday, March18,2016 Clare Wilkinson,WashingtonStateUniversityVancouver Monika Mehta,BinghamtonUniversity Lauren DuGraf,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill/JohnsHopkins University Kathryn Lachman,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Joseph Pomp,HarvardUniversity Eric Prieto,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Pim Higginson,BrynMawrCollege Rob Wallace,BowlingGreenStateUniversity Sybil NewtonCooksey,IndependentScholar Rashida Braggs,WilliamsCollege Eric Prieto,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Lauren DuGraf,UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill/TheJohnsHopkins David Rodríguez-Solás,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Juan Menchero,NewYorkUniversity Azahara Palomeque,PrincetonUniversity Alejandro Alonso,BrooklynCollege Omar Ahmed,UniversityofManchester Binayak Bhattacharya,AmityUniversity The Ethico-PoliticalDimensionsofNo-BudgetFilmmaking:MohallaFilmsinPerspective Politicizing Stardom inContemporaryBombayCinema Kashmir inVishal Bhardwaj’s Haider Necropolitics andtheFemaleSuicideBomber–GenderGeo-politicalWorlding of Species Interrupted: An Analysis of Animal Melodramaof1970s Sever 214 Saturday, March19,2016 Better FedThanFree: BuyingOutintheFinancial Disaster Economy in Americanah andForeign GodsInc. Emerging from Debt, Ascending intoCredit: RemittancesandtheGlobalPolitical Disembodied FinanceinOusmane Sembene’s Xala Sever 104 Sunday, March20,2016 Ghost:PeriodizingFinanceinContemporary Latin American Fiction The Landowner’s A SonginReverse:ReadingFinancethrough LanguagePoetry Entrepreneurial Heroines: TheStartUpPodcastandGendered Stress Aesthetics Precarity andFinance:Periodizing Post-1945 American Literature Sever 104 Saturday, March19,2016 Epigraphic Surplus,NegativeFeelingandFinancialization Beyond Wall Street: De-CenteringFinanceintheContemporaryTransnational Novel Wages Against Artwork: TheSocialPracticeofDecommodification Bezzles &BlackSwans:TheDisputedTerrains oftheEconomicImagination Sever 104 Friday, March18,2016 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE SEMINAR: REVISITING THE ARCHIVE: FINANCEAND “Nehru andTamil Cinema:Thirumbi Paar(1953)andIrumbuthirai (1960)” Why DoesPoliticsNeedFilms?TheMakingofIndianCinemaDuring1930s’.

Abhijeet Paul,MiddleburyCollege Monika Mehta,SUNYBinghamton Anandi Rao,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Suvadip Sinha,UniversityofMinnesota Pallavi Rastogi,Louisiana StateUniversity Christine Okoth,King’s CollegeLondon Michael Tratner,BrynMawrCollege Ericka Beckman,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign John J.McGlothlin,IndianaUniversity Michelle Chihara,WhittierCollege Sean O’Brien,UniversityofAlberta Kalyan Nadiminti,UniversityofPennsylvania Laura Finch,UniversityofPennsylvania New York Leigh ClaireLaBerge,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversity Matt Seybold,ElmiraCollege John J.McGlothlin,IndianaUniversity Laura Finch,UniversityofPennsylvania Swarnavel EswaranPillai,MichiganStateUniversity Madhuja Mukherjee,JadavpurUniversity,Kolkata

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stream B stream acla 135 135 136 stream B acla 136 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 The DiscourseoftheUdder: A LandFlowingwithMilkandHoney Suicide intheTorah, Talmud, andCommentaries TheMissingLinkinIslamicHumorStudies Ridicule intheQur’an: Sever 111 Saturday, March19,2016 Ibrahim, IdolsandCivilDisobedienceintheQur’an NarrativesofMary The MaleisNotLiketheFemale:QueerQur’anic Matters oftheBodyandBodiesthatMatter:SignifyingChristianIdentity inHebrews Justification toErase Alterity Killing intheNameofGodanEthiopianBiography:TheBibleasSource of Sever 111 Friday, March18,2016 TESTAMENT, ANDQUR’AN IN TANAKH,SACREDNEW TROUBLING TOPICSSEMINAR: Democracy in Action: Beethoven’sSonatain A MajorforPianoandCello,Op.69. Aesthetics ofNonviolence:Shelley, Adorno, Ranciere Apostrophe, DemocracyandConstituentPower Castlereagh, Caricature, andthe Art ofCharacter Assassination Emerson 101 Saturday, March19,2016 Living Forms The SublimePoliticsofRuins:PalmyraandtheLossPerspective Leaves ofGrassandtheEnd(s)Romance Re-forming Coleridge’sMeditations Lonely PoetsandtheirPublics Emerson 101 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ROMANTIC FORMS/FORUMS Ruth Tsoffar,University ofMichigan Roberta Sabbath,UniversityofNevada, LasVegas Mostafa Abedinifard,GrantMacEwan University Leyla OzgurAlhassen,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Kecia Ali,BostonUniversity Jennifer Kaalund,IonaCollege Benjamin Volff,INALCO,Paris Roberta Sabbath,UniversityofNevada,LasVegas Marshall Brown,UniversityofWashington Matthew Borushko,StonehillCollege Lenora Hanson,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud,UniversityofTennessee Marjorie Levinson,UniversityofMichigan Jonah Siegel,RutgersUniversity Jordan Greenwald,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Casie LeGette,UniversityofGeorgia Amelia Worsley,AmherstCollege Marjorie Levinson,UniversityofMichigan Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud,UniversityofTennessee Agricultural ModernizationandChineseScienceFictionDuringthePost-MaoThaw Creating ScienceFictionFanSubjectivityin1960sJapan Material andImmaterialRocks:CometWriting inEnglandandChina Science Crosstalk inChina’s ShiftingCulturalField Barker 114(Kresge) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: SCIENCEFICTIONSANDASIANHISTORIES Tanak, NewTestament andtheQur’an ‘Who Told TheeThatThouWast Naked?’Troubling NakednessandKnowinginthe Hans Blumenberg’s Two TheoriesofSecularization andtheNovel Barker 110(Thompson) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: SECULARIZATION AND THE NOVEL Warship Imperial ImaginariesofJapaneseScienceFiction:OnOshikawaShunrō ’s Undersea In OtherTimes: ScienceFictionandDemocratizationin1980sSouthKorea Great Wall Planet:Estrangements ofChineseScienceFiction Reading IndianSFProtocols Barker 114(Kresge) Sunday, March20,2016 What ItMeanstoBeHuman:MagicandGenderinFinalFantasyVI ‘Nausicaa oftheValley ofWind’ Biopower MeetsScienceFiction:Empire, EschatologyandResilience inMiyazaki’s World BuildingandTaiwanese SubjectivityinShi-kuoChang’s“City”Trilogy and FamousSuicidesoftheJapaneseEmpire Alien/Asian TheIntersectionofScienceFictionandHistoryinThree-Body Problem Barker 114(Kresge) Saturday, March19,2016

Hua Li,MontanaStateUniversity Kate Page-Lippsmeyer,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Yizhi Xiao,BrownUniversity Nathaniel Isaacson,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity Nathaniel Isaacson,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity Cara Healey,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara William ThomasMcBride,IllinoisStateUniversity Hannes Bajohr,ColumbiaUniversity Ryan Siemers,UniversityofUtah Baryon TensorPosadas,UniversityofMinnesota Sunyoung Park,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Veronica Hollinger,TrentUniversity Jessica FitzPatrick,UniversityofPittsburgh Kathryn Hemmann,GeorgeMasonUniversity Susan Napier,TuftsUniversity Cara Healey,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Mingming Liu,PomonaCollege

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stream B stream acla 137 137 138 stream B acla 138 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Schulz’s Peanuts “The ContinuousandObstinateSeries”:IterationTemporality inCharles The Sonnet-Season,andtheTransformation of American Television Serial Narratology Binge-Watching and Addicted Reading:SerialFormsasConsumer Discipline How We ReadNovelForm:Victorian Seriality, Form,andFormation Barker 211 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: SERIALFORMS Secularization anditsDiscontents:MichelHouellebecqthe“ReligiousQuestion” The Regensburg Address, Secularization,andConversion inHouellebecq’s‘Submission’ Beyond (Postsecular)Belief:LocatingBeingintheFictionofMarilynneRobinson Religion asDevice:MarilynneRobinsonandtheContemporaryNovel Barker 110(Thompson) Sunday, March20,2016 ‘Adam Bede’andtheHistoryofNovel ‘Caleb Williams’ - A FictionalRenditionofGodwin’sDoctrineNecessity Evangelical SecularismandtheRiseofNovel Reading Character After Calvin Barker 110(Thompson) Saturday, March19,2016 de Unamuno Are You There, God?It’sMe,Miguel.:UncertaintyandBeliefinThree NovelsbyMiguel Women, SecularizationandtheEighteenth-centuryNovel The OpenMarriagePlotandtheSeries ForminTrollope’s PalliserNovels Seriality isOrdinary Barker 211 Saturday, March19,2016 Anne McCarthy,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Sean O’Sullivan,OhioStateUniversity Sara Hackenberg,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Heather Freeman,FloridaPolytechnicUniversity Anna Gibson,DuquesneUniversity Anna Gibson,DuquesneUniversity Louis Betty,UniversityofWisconsin-Whitewater Russell Berman,StanfordUniversity Megan Milota,UniversityofAntwerp Ray Horton,CaseWesternReserveUniversity Vincent Pecora,UniversityofUtah Judith Stuchiner,FordhamUniversity Tracy Fessenden,ArizonaStateUniversity David Diamond,UniversityofChicago Keith Schaefer,MonmouthCollege Carol Stewart,UniversityofEastAnglia Gregory Brennen,DukeUniversity Susan Bernstein,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Serial Discoveries:theDigitalEditingofModernism The Backward-Facing IndianSerial Penny-Part Serial,TheMysteriesofLondon Constructing aWorld PiecebyPiece:FragmentsofLondoninGeorge W. M.Reynolds’s Serial Historiography:NarrativeHistoryandthe Anxiety ofTruth “The NewspaperNovel”:Disrupted SerialityinVictorian SensationFiction Never-Ending Stories:Modernism,SerialForm,and*TheHuman Age* Barker 211 Sunday, March20,2016 German Romantics Impressionable BodiesintheModern Age: NostalgiaforFemaleMysticismamong the Dramaturgy, 1630-1650 The InvisibleMark:Representation ofBaptisminParisian Hagiographic “Pownced, Pricked,orPaynted”:Tattoos andIndigenousLiteracies Emerson 106 Sunday, March20,2016 Stigma asDrama,Rhetoric:From Shakespeare toGoffman Branding ontheFaceinEngland,1600-1800 Montaigne’s Violence: SignsoftheBodyandSoul Emerson 106 Saturday, March19,2016 Early ModernTattooing: WhyIsItSoEasilyForgotten? Cutaneous MarksandPopularHealinginEarlyModernEurope Rapunzel andEarlyModernBirth-Marks:BetweenScienceMagic Emerson 106 Friday, March18,2016 CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE TECHNIQUES OFINSCRIBING THE BODY AND THEIR SEMINAR: SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, STIGMATA: EARLY MODERN

Nikolaus Wasmoen,SUNYBuffalo Kiran Mascarenhas,SeattlePacificUniversity Laura Buchholz,OldDominionUniversity Ben Bolling,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Jessica Valdez,UniversityofHongKong Matthew Levay,IdahoStateUniversity Peter Erickson,OaklandUniversity Ana Conboy,CollegeofSt.Benedictand St.John’sUniversity Mairin Odle,UniversityofAlabama Jeffrey Wilson,HarvardUniversity Craig Koslofsky,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Cynthia Nazarian,NorthwesternUniversity Anna FelicityFriedman,CenterforTattooHistoryandCulture Katherine Dauge-Roth,BowdoinCollege Charlotte TrinquetduLys,UniversityofCentralFlorida Katherine Dauge-Roth,BowdoinCollege Peter Erickson,OaklandUniversity

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 139 139 140 stream B acla 140 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 ‘Mhudi’ andLauren Beukes’s‘ZooCity’ Taking PointofView, theTiger’s ortheSloth’s:PlaceandDisplacementinSolPlaatje’s African GuernicaandtheTransversal Encounter of Africa andModernism Retheorizing Gordimer: Realism,NaturalismandPoliticizedTime Barker 403(Finnegan) Saturday, March19,2016 Modernism, theSestigers,and Academic Labor Apartheid, Modernism,Modernity Barker 403(Finnegan) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: SOUTHAFRICAANDGLOBAL MODERNISM Contemplation, Recollection Slowness in20th-centuryLiteraryDescriptionsofRailroad Stations:Observation, Idle Modernity:Memory, Activity and Affectivity inFelisbertoHernández Barker 269(Larsen) Sunday, March20,2016 Arresting ImagesWith Words: HistoricalTrauma inW.G. SebaldandHertaMüller Anxious Freedoms: DelayandtheModernistNovel J.M. Coetzee’sPost-ImperialSlowdown:LatelifeandPalliativeJustice Barker 269(Larsen) Saturday, March19,2016 The PaceofLanguage George Oppen’s Attenuated Towers: TheCity After Image Becoming Still:PhotographyandtheInventionofMotionPictures Barker 269(Larsen) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: SLOWNESS ANDMODERNITY Erin Fehskens,TowsonUniversity Nicole Ridgway,UniversityofWestern Cape Aaron Bartels-Swindells,UniversityofPennsylvania Matthew Eatough,BaruchCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Rita Barnard,UniversityofPennsylvania Rita Barnard,UniversityofPennsylvania Margit Dirscherl,UniversityofBristol Robert Wells,WilliamJewellCollege Ramona Uritescu-Lombard,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Ayten Tartici,YaleUniversity Anthony Wexler,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Niloofar Sarlati,UniversityofMinnesota David Hobbs,NewYorkUniversity Louise Hornby,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Ramona Uritescu-Lombard,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor and theLimitsofLocal Waiting tobeModern/ist: ThePostapartheidNovelin Afrikaans, GlobalModernism, Non-Fiction asModernistForm:Considerationsfrom theSouth African Archive Imagination Fiction’s Archival Old Violence, NewForms:Christiansë,Wicomb, andContemporarySouth African Barker 403(Finnegan) Sunday, March20,2016 Homeland Stories:Traces Literature ofthe Armenians’ Catastrophe inthePerpetrator’s Speech, France,2ndPartofXXthCentury State, JusticeandTruth duringPost-conflict Situations.ParadoxoftheConsensual Génocide. Del’intentionnalitéàlaresponsabilité Genocide, Genre, andthe GenericTestimony Sever 103 Saturday, March19,2016 of theUnconscious Proust’s l’inconscientdansleconscient: Affect andSpatialDigression asRepresentation Traumatic Affinities: HonoréDaumier, Pierre Véron, andHaussmannization Victor Hugo’sLeDernierjourd’uncondamné The LastFrameofaCondemnedMan:Parergonal FrictionasMatrixialBorderspace in the French Wars ofReligion The PenortheSword? :GabrielledeCoignard’s “Imitationdelavictoire deJudich”and Sever 103 Friday, March18,2016 FRENCH LITERATURE”) GENOCIDES (WITHAGRADUATE SEMINARON “TRAUMA IN DISCOURSE, NON-DISCOURSEIN THE AFTERMATH OF SEMINAR: STATE VIOLENCE: DISCOURSE, COUNTER- Andrew vanderVlies,QueenMaryUniversityofLondon Sarah Nuttall,UniversityoftheWitwatersrand Sangina Patnaik,SwarthmoreCollege Hazal Halavut,Bo Limoges -France Pascal Plas,Internationalinstituteforresearchonconflicts(IiRCO)-University of Vivianne Châtel,UniversitédeFribourg Katherine Wilson,FrankZeidlerCenterforPublicDiscussion Winter Borg,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Jennifer Pride,FloridaStateUniversity Michaela Telfer,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Eileen Jakeway,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatCharlotte Winter Borg,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Jean-Marie Grassin,UniversitédeLimoges

ğaziçi University

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 141 141 142 stream B acla 142 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Pedro SalvinoZulen Aymar, TheIndigenistaOtherinanHistoricalFiction de telenovelassurcoreanas enLatinoamérica Transmisiones yconservaciones mediáticasdecódigosglobalescultura:elconsumo Sever 307 Sunday, March20,2016 Films andLiteratures Reading Doku[fu]andConsumingCannibal:Figures ofExclusioninTrans-Imperial Nubes ligeras:decómoOrientellegóalapoesíacatalanayesta seorientalizó en elsigloXVI Luís deFróisysuTratado (1585)sobre Japón:ponerporescritoladiferencia (1873 -1927)ySuVisión de, Arte Nipón La MiradadeunViajero HispánicoenJapónMeiji(1868-1912).EnriqueGómezCarrrillo Visions ofJapaninEarly20thCenturyLatin American Travelogues Sever 307 Saturday, March19,2016 Chilean Literature inChina:From PabloNeruda toRobertoBolaño De “España”a“Xibanya”-Transcripciones históricasdelnombre delpaísenchino Sin boato:lasrelaciones sobre Chinadelaexpediciónfranciscana1579 Portuguese Modernism: A ColdLanguidGlanceUponChina Un informadorsolvente:laimagendeChinaFernándezNavarrete Sever 307 Friday, March18,2016 HISPANICWORLD AND THE AND IMAGINATION: THE CULTURAL ENCOUNTER OFASIA SEMINAR: STORIES OF TRANSMISSION, TRANSFORMATION Epistemology ofgenocidestudies Vendee-Nicaragua-Venezuela theintersticesofgenocide Memory andLapsesintheCaseof1994GenocideTutsis La Parole duJuristeSurleGénocide Sever 103 Sunday, March20,2016 Mozelle Foreman,Cornell University Sohyun Lee,TexasChristianUniversity Andrea Mendoza,CornellUniversity Jaume Subirana,UniversitatObertadeCatalunya Muriel Gomez,UniversitatObertadeCatalunya Elena Barles,UniversidaddeZaragoza Janelle Gondar,YaleUniversity Wei Teng,SouthChinaNormalUniversity Shiyang Yu,PekingUniversity Dolors Folch,UniversitatPompeuFabra Cristina Zhou,UniversityofCoimbra,Portugal Anna Busquets,UniversitatObertadeCatalunya Miaowei Weng,SouthernConnecticutStateUniversity Jean-Marie Grassin,UniversitédeLimoges Norbert-Bertrand Barbe,UniversidadNacionaldeIngeniería Catalina SagarraMartin,TrentUniversity Cecile Moiroud,UniversitéParisIPanthéon-Sorbonne casa deMayuraVinita Diteeyont La novelacióndeCuzcoy Ayutthaya enLosríosprofundos deJoséMaría Arguedas yLa Surrender ofBreda” A Tale ofTwo Empires: Shared Visual Rhetoricin“TheSurrender ofaFortress” and“The COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ANDFILM MOVEMENT IN TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SEMINAR: STORMING THE FENCES: MIGRATION AND Perspective-Taking The EthicalPotentialofNarrativeFiction: Nussbaum,Hermeneuticsand It’s relatable Reading Stories,Minds Sever 107 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: STORYTELLING, ETHICSANDHERMENEUTICS Dead RefugeesandImmortalNations Mediterranean Migrationandthe Aesthetics ofDisasterCapitalism Rethinking Pedro Aguilera’s FilmNaufragio(Shipwreck), 2010 Chronicle (2006-9) Social Infrastructures ofUndocumentedMobilityinSudeuropa (2005-7)andSahara Emerson 318 Saturday, March19,2016 in theImmigrationPoliticsofErriDeLuca “Fences workforpoultry, notforpeople”:Myth,History, andGeographicalDeterminism Jamal MahjoubandTayeb Salih,StormingtheFences? A ComparativeStudy Bodies asBorders intheNarrativesofPapKhoumaandNasseraChohra Manu Chao Vulnerable SubjectsandFortress Europe: DenunciationinJoanManuelSerratand Atlantropa: FencingintheMediterranean Emerson 318 Friday, March18,2016

Pasuree Luesakul,ChulalongkornUniversity Alexandra Méndez,ColumbiaUniversity Silvia Bermúdez,UniversityofCalifornia-SantaBarbara Hanna Meretoja,University ofTurku Robert Eaglestone,RoyalHolloway,University ofLondon Andreea Ritivoi,CarnegieMellonUniversity Colin Davis,RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon Hanna Meretoja,UniversityofTurku Lynn Itagaki,OhioStateUniversity Jennifer Gully,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Claudia Esposito,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston Amy Tibbitts,BeloitCollege Nilgun Bayraktar,CaliforniaCollegeoftheArts Jim Hicks,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Mahmoud Zidan,UniversityofJordan Tera Reid-Olds,UniversityofOregon Silvia Bermúdez,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Anna Botta,SmithCollege

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 143 143 144 stream B acla 144 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Interviews withHideousMen’ Across EthicalBorders: DifficultEmpathyandNarrateesinDavidFoster Wallace’s ‘Brief The EthicsoftheTelling inCharlesDickens’s‘OurMutualFriend’ Encounters withVulnerability: TheEthicalStanceof Agnès Varda ‘Stardust Memories’(1980) Filmic EthicsandPhotographicIcons:‘Persona’(1966),‘LaChambre verte’(1978)and Sever 107 Saturday, March19,2016 From theSignifiertoLetter Derrida andtheUnconscious Systems, Structure, Media:Towards aPoeticsoftheNonhuman Sever 308 Saturday, March19,2016 Formalism, Mere Form,andJudgment From theDespot’sFacetoGoat’s Anus: DeleuzeandGuattari’sParanoidMethod The FormofStructure Sever 308 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: STRUCTURE AND FORM Ethics, Hermeneutics,Trauma, Storytelling The EthicalPotentialofNarrativesVictimization inNovelsabouttheBasqueConflict The ResponseofLiterature The EthicsofStorytelling: A HermeneuticsofGrandChallenges Sever 107 Sunday, March20,2016 Aili PetterssonPeeker,LundUniversity Kathleen Pacious,NationalUniversityofIrelandGalway Sharon Marquart,WilfridLaurierUniversity Libby Saxton,QueenMaryUniversityofLondon Pietro Bianchi,DukeUniversity Robert Lehman,BostonCollege Steven Miller,SUNYBuffalo Kate Marshall,UniversityofNotreDame Robert Lehman,BostonCollege Audrey Wasser,MiamiUniversity Nathan Brown,ConcordiaUniversity Nathan Brown,ConcordiaUniversity,Montréal Colin Davis,RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon Irene Gantxegi,DeustoUniversity Nicholas Huelster,CornellUniversity Heidi Bostic,BaylorUniversity Lukács inSelf-translation:TheNecessityofContingencySoulandtheForms Form as Addendum andIrregularity: ReadingSerialityintheWork ofEvaHesse [see also]:LocatingFormintheObjectlessIndex Willing BetweenStructure andForm: A Nietzschean Account Sever 308 Sunday, March20,2016 Poetic Forms,Daring Allegorizations, andContrastingHistories: Al-Andalus andthe John Ashbery “I try tomakemyselfclear”: Affect, Subjectivity, andNeoliberalismin Talking Headsand Breaking theBoundariesof Western Modernity Dana-Palmer (SeminarRoom) Sunday, March20,2016 Re-thinking theFear ofMaternal:ParasitesandPlacentas Subject, Object,andCitizen:ClaudiaRankine’sUglyFeelingsResistance Writing Eve’sCreation Dorothy Allison’s ‘Trash’: Erasure andRupture inInternalQueerMigration Dana-Palmer (SeminarRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 Haitian-Dominican Border César-Nicolás Pensón’s“TheGalindoVirgins” (1891)asaFoundationalText ofthe Identity Chronicled Horticultural KnowledgeinOralHistories Reinforcing theBorder oftheSelf,BlurringBorder ofNation-States:LatinoImmigrant Rainbow Nation Globalized Consumption An American Abundance: FoodNarratives andtheNationalImaginaryin Age of Dana-Palmer (SeminarRoom) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR, PART II) SEMINAR: SUBJECTSAS THE BORDER(UNDERGRADUATE

Márton Farkas,HarvardUniversity Anna Moser,NewYorkUniversity Robin Graham,ConcordiaUniversity Marty Rayburn,UniversityofChicago Jack Chelgren,UniversityofWashington Issraa Faiz,ConnecticutCollege Olan Munson,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison Matthew Schlesinger,FordhamUniversity Madeline Salinas,CornellUniversity Emma Brown,ColbyCollege Vania Ma,DukeUniversity Stephen Zaksewicz,VanderbiltUniversity Nathaniel Otjen,UniversityofIowa Dylan Goodman,DavidsonCollege Dandi Meng,UniversityofWashington Elena Fratto,HarvardUniversity Henry Bowles,HarvardUniversity

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 145 145 146 stream B acla 146 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 and Beckett’sStoriesTexts forNothing Over MyDeadBody:TheBodyasaBorder BetweenLifeandDeathinSartre’s TheWall Sephardic inthePoetryofDarwishandLorca Implicit aestheticcommunicationin Bourdieu andProust On Proustian Intelligence Too Much:Talk About LiteraryEmbarrassment Discourses ofConnoisseurshipandtheEnregisterment ofValue Science Center104 Sunday, March20,2016 Talk aboutSpeechattheEdgeofLanguage:Entextualizing Glossolalia Talk About (and Around) Dance:JoeGoode’s29Effeminate Gestures asInteractionRitual The SemioticsofBeing“JusttheVoice” Approaches toEntextualizingSoundscapes Creation oftheSowetanSoundscapeJune16,1976:Literary, Visual, andMusical Coaxing theWavering Voice: ListeningandTamenaga Shunsui Science Center104 Saturday, March19,2016 Mexico’s indigenouslanguages Cyberpunks, LinguisticPirates,andLiteraryFrauds:tradinginsultsoverthefuture of In FavorofMondegreens: OnthevalueofMisunderstandingaNavajopoem Disabilities Ritual PerformancesofNarrative:TheNarrativesIndividualswithIntellectual Cookbook Ancient CookinginaModernKey:Intertextualitiesof17thCenturyItalianVernacular Science Center104 Friday, March18,2016 ENTEXTUALIZATION SEMINAR: TALK ABOUT TALK: LANGUAGE, ARTIFACT, Ryan Walsh,BrownUniversity Naser Albreeky,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick Michael Lucey,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Zakir Paul,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Tristram Wolff,NorthwesternUniversity Michael Silverstein,UniversityofChicago Nicholas Harkness,HarvardUniversity Sima Belmar,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Amanda Weidman,BrynMawrCollege Sarah Neterer,UniversityofPennsylvania Patrick Luhan,BarnardCollege Paja Faudree,BrownUniversity Anthony Webster,UniversityofTexasatAustin Amy Shuman,OhioStateUniversity York Jillian Cavanaugh,BrooklynCollegeandTheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNew Tristram Wolff,NorthwesternUniversity Michael Lucey,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Write toRemainSilent:Elisionand Absence asNarrativeResistance Collateral Damage:RapeasaPerformanceofBlackMasculinity Rape andResistanceinan American Opera:CarlisleFloyd’sSusannah(1955) Un-teach theRhetoricofRape Bystander InterventionTraining asDemocraticDialogue:UsingInteractiveTheaterto Sever 306 Friday, March18,2016 AND RESISTANCE SEMINAR: TEACHING RAPE: REPRESENTATION, RHETORIC, PrEP Debates Bottom Value: CritiquingTop Supremacy’s Instrumentalization ofBottomlyRiskinthe Is theSexRobotaTop? in KristienHemmerechts’ Alles verandert Is DildotoDigitalasPenisPenis? Technologies ofGender, SexualityandTranswriting Sever 210 Friday, March18,2016 STUDIES COMMITTEE) (SPONSORED BY THE ICLACOMPARATIVE GENDER SEMINAR: TECHNOLOGIES OFSEXUALITY ANDGENDER Human Bodies Re-Writing the“RapeScript”:Representing theLiberationof“Feminized”Natural and “Nay pish,naypew”:Teaching RapeThrough PoetryinSeventeenth-Century England Middle EnglishPastourelle “I trust torecover myharteagayne”: Anti-Rape EducationandSurvivorSpeechinthe Sever 306 Sunday, March20,2016 Sexual Assault asEconomic Allegory inTwenty-First-Century Anglophone Fiction Ruin, Rape,andthe Atlantic Mortifications AllHerOwn:Rape,Rhetoric,andResistanceinHarrietJacobs“Incidents” Sever 306 Saturday, March19,2016

Lucia Lorenzi,UniversityofBritishColumbia Candice Pipes,UnitedStatesAirForceAcademy Monica Hershberger,HarvardUniversity Michelle Ruehl,UnitedStatesAirForceAcademy Carissa Harris,TempleUniversity Candice Pipes,UnitedStatesAirForceAcademy Jordana MarionGreenblatt, UniversityofToronto Alexander Aguayo,UniversityofMichigan, AnnArbor Liedeke Plate,RadboudUniversity Drew DanielleBelsky,YorkUniversity Jordana MarionGreenblatt,UniversityofToronto Mary Renda,UniversityofMichigan Christopher Shirley,NorthwesternUniversity Carissa Harris,TempleUniversity Heather Hicks,VillanovaUniversity Elizabeth Dill,KingsboroughCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Theodora Sakellarides,LebanonValleyCollege

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 147 147 148 stream B acla 148 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 The Problem ofTime inFoucault’sDisciplineandPunish It Matters Humanity andaSecularWorld: TheSlowEntrenchment of“theMiddle Ages” andWhy The HistoriographyofWorld Historyand theQuestionofTemporal Convergence Sever 213 Saturday, March19,2016 Britain The ParasiticalPublicIntellectual: A StoryofPoliticalHistoriesLandinVictorian Modernity ‘The darkbackward andabysmoftime’:EnglishIslandPlaystheConstruction of Unfamiliar Islands:Toward aPedagogyofDisruption Sever 213 Friday, March18,2016 HISTORY WORLD OF AND THETIME-FRAMES EUROCENTRISM SEMINAR: THE “JIM CROW PROJECTION”: REVISITING The FemaleConsumerandtheFuturistFearofSex Sex, Surrogacy andFemale Agency: TheExampleofBollywood Recording theWaves: Wearable FertilityTrackers andTechnological Visions Sever 210 Sunday, March20,2016 Utopianism Beyond Neuromancer: ExploringtheLimitsofVirtual BodiesandthePitfallsofTechno- “Monstrous Marionettes”:SurfaceandDisidentificationinOscar Wilde Drawing asaBody: Articulations ofSurgical Vision inGrant’s Atlas Gendering MopedsandUsersinTaiwan: A BriefHistory Sever 210 Saturday, March19,2016 Renisa Mawani,UniversityofBritish Columbia Kathleen Davis,UniversityofRhodeIsland Sudipta Sen,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Jo Guldi,BrownUniversity Rachel Poulsen,EdgewoodCollege Ashley Byock,EdgewoodCollege Sudipta Sen,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Kathleen Davis,UniversityofRhodeIsland Rachel Perry,AuburnUniversity Sneha KarChaudhuri,WestBengalStateUniversity Sara DiCaglio,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Matthew Greengold,TexasStateUniversity Elizabeth Richmond-Garza,UniversityofTexasatAustin Drew DanielleBelsky,YorkUniversity Kuan-Hung Lo,VirginiaPolytechnicInstituteandStateUniversity SEMINAR: THE 21STCENTURY NOVEL AT THE LIMIT The EarlyModernBrand:ItsHistoryandCharacteristics Early ModernityintheWake ofClimateChange Medieval/Modern Temporalities ofSpanish America andBrazil Sever 213 Sunday, March20,2016 At theLimitsofDavidMitchell’sGlobal Novels Twenty-First Century Secret Histories:DetectiveFictionandtheGlobal African Novelinthe Global Period Towards aProvincialism ofTime: Diaries,LettersandSpeechesinJ.M.Coetzee’s The Anti-Bodies ofFormandtheLimitsNarrativeinRohintonMistry’s A FineBalance Northwest B106 Sunday, March20,2016 Writing FeministFuturityattheLimitinMargaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAddam’Trilogy FlightBehaviour Local andPlanetaryMemoryinBarbaraKingsolver’s Realism ofthe Anthropocene: DavidMitchell’sTheBoneClocks Why MatterMatters:Tom McCarthyandtheProblem ofTotality Northwest B106 Saturday, March19,2016 Stitching itTogether: ParanoiaandForminthe21stCenturyNovel At theLimit:KazuoIshiguro’s Clones Innovation’s Limits,Rising Asia, andChang-raeLee’sOnSuchaFullSea Graphic Shame:DiscursiveLimitsandLongformNarrative Northwest B106 Friday, March18,2016

Ali Anooshahr,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Prasannan Parthasarathi,BostonCollege Nadia Altschul,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Robert Colson,BrighamYoungUniversity Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra,Pennsylvania StateUniversity Jan Steyn,CornellUniversity Derek Ettensohn,Sewanee:TheUniversityoftheSouth Calina Ciobanu,EmersonCollege Jessica Rapson,King’sCollegeLondon Thom Dancer,UniversityofToronto Timothy Wientzen,SkidmoreCollege Frida Beckman,StockholmUniversity Christopher Holmes,IthacaCollege Wendy AllisonLee,SkidmoreCollege John Su,MarquetteUniversity Timothy Wientzen,SkidmoreCollege Christopher Holmes,IthacaCollege

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 149 149 150 stream B acla 150 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 SEMINAR: THE ARABIC QASIDA: ANAESTHETICSFOR THE Rust American Meyer’s ‘In theeyeblinkofaplanet’:ReframingTime andSpace ofPrecarity inPhilipp Treading Chasms:Precarity inDickinson,Moore andCelan Invisible Maids:ReclaimingSpacesand Agency inLola Arias’ Maids/Mucamas Precarious EncountersandtheFeminizationofLaborinLucrecia Martel´s‘TheSwamp’ Science Center113 Sunday, March20,2016 Violent Possibility:Narrative,Body, andPrecarity inEtel Adnan’s “SittMarieRose” Adopting theDead:DocumentingPrecarity inJuanManuelEchavarría’sRequiemNN Forms oftheCubanRevolution Pícaros in Mexico:ThePrecarity oftheLettered City Science Center113 Saturday, March19,2016 Lyric Precarity The WhiteNoiseofProtest Secession/Insecession: ChusPato’sandErínMoure’s PoeticsofPrecarity Science Center113 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE AESTHETICSOFPRECARITY The Words ofWar and theWar ofWords: TheNaqā’id K107 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 al-Hudhali The Achievement of Arabic Allegorical PoeticForm: The Elegyof Abu Dhu’ayb The RitualofDelegation:PoemsPresented andRecitedBefore Prophet Mohammad Suzanne Stetkevych,GeorgetownUniversity Lucy Bond,UniversityofWestminster Katherine Hazzard,GlobalCenterforAdvancedStudies Noelia Díaz,QueensboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY Marcelo Carosi,NewYorkUniversity Jennifer Wacek,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Ivett LópezMalagamba,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Jason Bartles,WestChesterUniversity Jorge Téllez,UniversityofPennsylvania Matthew O’Malley,YaleUniversity Carlos VarónGonzález,TrinityCollege Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza,HarvardUniversity Carlos VarónGonzález,TrinityCollege Jason Bartles,WestChesterUniversity Jaroslav Stetkevych,UniversityofChicago Hussain Abulfaraj,KingAbdulazizUniversity Hamad Alajmi,KuwaitUniversity 21ST CENTURY inPre-Islamic Poetry Moses asLaw-Giver Biblical Traditions Hannah Arendt’s ReceptionoftheBible:Her PoliticalPhilosophyintheLightof The Buber-Rosenzweig Bible:Translation andRevelation Sever 203 Sunday, March20,2016 Ted ShawnandtheBibleinEarlyModernDance in Literature andFilm The Heterotemporal Useof theBible:TheCollisionofMythicalwithPresent Time Challenging Authority: Representing theOtherinBiblicalTheatre inIsrael Sever 203 Saturday, March19,2016 Babel inKafka,Joyce,andBorges On theReligiousSignature ofKafka’s‘Oktavhefte’ The Prodigal SonandtheInteractionsbetweenBibleKafka Sever 203 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE BIBLEINMODERNITYII New Odists,Lyric: TheQasīdainFrancophone Arabic Literary Cultures Arabic Poetry Twilight oftheProse Poem:QuestioningthePoeticsofModernandPostmodern Self-modelling intheQasidaandGhazal K107 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 Ibrahim al-`Alawi A LongNight’sJourneyintoDay: Abu al-`Ala’ al-Ma`arri’sPraisePoemtoal-Sharif (r.780 –784) Burning Bridges:Bashsh Undying GloryandEverlastingInfamy: A BipartiteFakhr-Hijā’ QasīdahbyJarr K107 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 Dana Lloyd,Syracuse University Rosa CocoSchinagl,HumboldtUniversität Berlin Dafna Shetreet,TelAvivUniversity Alexander Schwan,FreieUniversitätBerlin Alla Soumm,JohannesGutenbergUniversityMainz Sharon Aronson-Lehavi,BarIlanUniversity Caroline Sauter,CenterforLiteraryandCulturalResearch(ZfL)Berlin Simone Stirner,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Antonio Portalatin,GoetheUniversityFrankfurt Jenny Haase,StanfordUniversity/HumboldtUniversityBerlin Caroline Sauter,CenterforLiteraryandCulturalResearch(ZfL)Berlin Yasser Elhariry,DartmouthCollege Sayed Elsisi,UniversityofMaryland Yaseen Noorani,UniversityofArizona Suzanne Stetkevych,GeorgetownUniversity Ali Alnahhabi,IndianaUniversity Cynthia Brandenburg,GeorgetownUniversity

ār ibnBurd (714–784)andthevizier Ya`qūb binDāwd

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stream B stream acla 151 151 152 stream B acla 152 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 GLOBAL SOUTH SEMINAR: THE CITYIN THE LIFENARRATIVES OF THE Lacan, theFreudian-Modernist EthicsandtheBible Autobiographical Form “All ofOurMemoriesWere Resurrected:” ResistancetoLoss through Traditional Arabic The FormsofMetropolitan Apprenticeship inthe Age ofGlobalization Ordinary Desires andtheDesire forOrdinariness inContemporaryBeirut Of OtherCities Northwest B108 Sunday, March20,2016 What Will HappeninThisCity:LossandNewIdentitiesModernSyrianPoetry The CityanditsPortrayalin Arab RomanticPoetry Performing Presence: ‘ElHadhra’ Situating theCinematicSelfin Arab CitiesofConflict Northwest B108 Saturday, March19,2016 Shukrī’s NovelWujūh Negotiating Space:ReclaimingtheSpatialGenderBoundariesofTangier inMuhammad of Hope Wounded Cities:Topographies ofSelfandNationin Afaf Kanafani’sNadia,Captive The ImageoftheCitybetweenShockRepression andtheShockofDisease Palestine inLatin American-Arab Chronicles Northwest B108 Friday, March18,2016 Itzhak Benyamini,UniversityofHaifa Gretchen Head,Yale-NUSCollege Luciano BritoBraga,UniversityofParisIII-SorbonneNouvelle Ghenwa Hayek,UniversityofChicago Yasmine Ramadan,UniversityofIowa Manar Shabouk,UniversityofSouthCarolina Ronak Husni,AmericanUniversityofSharjah Imed Nsiri,AmericanUniversityofSharjah Valerie Anishchenkova,UniversityofMaryland Mbarek Sryfi,UniversityofPennsylvania University ofTunis Hager BenDriss,InstitutPréparatoireauxEtudesLittérairesetSciencesHumaines, Samir Mundy,BritishUniversityInEgypt Tahia AbdelNasser,AmericanUniversityinCairo Rania Said,BinghamtonUniversity Gretchen Head,Yale-NUSCollege Sowers andHarvesters:RootsofBrazilaprèsTheGermanBrother Between “formation”and“insertion”:GilbertoFreyre’s case. Modernismo eMedicina,MaravilhaLoucura:Notassobre OsórioCésarePierre Mabille Cannibalism asCultural Appropriation: From CalibantotheCannibalistManifesto Sever 209 Friday, March18,2016 SPANISH AMERICA NETWORKS ANDSILENCESBETWEENBRAZIL SEMINAR: THE ESSAY ASBRIDGE: EXPLORINGDIALOGUES, Gendered Illness:Disease,Identity, andthe ModernChineseWoman Female Reproductive BodiesinNeo-liberalChina Study onthePhenomenaofBurning PoemsbyPoetessesinQingDynasty Sever 205 Friday, March18,2016 VOICEFEMALE SEMINAR: THE De infinitoainfinito:Carrera, Aira,Rosa Essayistic Metamorphoses:TheTravel NotesofCarpentierandGuimarãesRosa Cecília Meireles asPublicIntellectuals Gendering theLatin American “Lettered City:”GabrielaMistral, Victoria Ocampo,and Sever 209 Sunday, March20,2016 Eustasio Rivera Generative Destructions: Figurations oftheOrigininEuclidesdaCunhaandJosé When One America BecameLatin Slave andCitizen: An Inter-American Dialogue Ways ofSeeinginSpanish andPortuguesetextsfrom EarlyColonialSouth America Sever 209 Saturday, March19,2016

Marcelo Diego,PrincetonUniversity Alfredo CesarMelo,Unicamp Rodrigo LopesDeBarros,BostonUniversity/USPFAPESP Jose LuisJobim,UniversidadeFederalFluminense Paulo Moreira,YaleUniversity Javier Uriarte,StonyBrookUniversity Eileen Vickery,UniversityofNottingham, Malaysia Li Wang,UniversityofOregon Cheng Yan,TsinghuaUniversity/Duke University Paul AllenMiller,UniversityofSouthCarolina Leihua Weng,PacificLutheranUniversity Bairon OswaldoVelezEscallon,UniversidadeFederaldeSantaCatarina Victoria Saramago,UniversityofChicago Javier Mocarquer,ProvidenceCollege Javier Uriarte,StonyBrookUniversity Paulo daLuzMoreira,SouthernConnecticutStateUniversity Thiago Nicodemo,UniversidadedoEstadoRiodeJaneiro Paul Firbas,StonyBrookUniversity

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stream B stream acla 153 153 154 stream B acla 154 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Friday, March18,2016 WARSNARCO SIÈCLE TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: “GLOBAL MEXICO” FROM THE FINDE AND THE MAPMAKER, FLÂNEUR, THE SEMINAR: THE Listening toEcho “TheSecondSex” through SimonedeBeauvoir’s Between theEarthlyandDivine:RecoveringFemaleVoice inClassical Antiquity Laugh oftheMedusa. Women’s Writing orFeminineWriting: SomeConceptualIssuesintheTranslation ofThe Sarah Kofman’sJanusFace:BirthandDeathofaPhilosopher Sever 205 Sunday, March20,2016 Womanhood, Visibility andWriting inLeylaErbil’sCuceandElifShafak’sTheGaze Employment attheTurn oftheTwentieth Century Recorded FemininityandthePhonograph: A FictionalTypist’s Answer toPrecarious The Romance:DisguiseofPowerintheEighteenthCenturyEnglishNovel Bretonne’s LePalais-Royal(1790) Working Girls:From Prostitutes to Attributes, “LesConverseuses”inRétifdela Sever 205 Saturday, March19,2016 China Action Mask Action, Dynamics ofCulturalPoliticsintheFeministCampaignsContemporaryChina Zorrilla’s DonJuanTenorio inFin-de-SiècleMexico “¿Otra aventura?Mealegro:” Bourgeois Ennui,Victors from Afar, andRewriting The ImpossibilitiesofVision: PhotographingMexicoCity Walking theStreets withaContemporary:Valeria Luiselli Boylston 103 Marcela RomeroRivera, Maximillian Alvarez,UniversityofMichigan Patrick O’Connor,OberlinCollege Tyler Travillian,PacificLutheranUniversity Yung InChae,Écoledeshautesétudesensciencessociales Frederic-Charles Baitinger,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Paul AllenMiller,UniversityofSouthCarolina Egem Atik,OzyeginUniversity Megan Harris,UniversityofToronto Argentina Rodríguez,UniversidadNacionalAutónomadeMéxico Anne Steinberg,KnoxCollege Yu Wang,DukeAsian/PacificStudiesInstitute Danielle Villanueva,PacificLutheranUniversity Leihua Weng,PacificLutheranUniversity Kevin Anzzolin,WorcesterStateUniversity Marta Sierra,KenyonCollege Patrick O’Connor,OberlinCollege

Hobart andWilliamSmithColleges (Un)Dead The Creaturely Archive Natalia Almada andTeresa Margolles DocumenttheMexican Inside theExocerebrum: MediaandtheMexicanMind Boylston 103 Sunday, March20,2016 Urban Mysticism: An Aesthetics of Everyday Life Ana Clavel’sLosdeseosysusombra:laflânerietransgressed La caligrafíadelacalle:MappingtheMexicoCityFlâneur Boylston 103 Saturday, March19,2016 Cliff’s _Abeng_ Cliff’s The “Ruination”ofEnglishness:Jamaican Nature andNationalIdentityinMichelle MT Vasudevan “Sherlock” Nair’s Narrating theSpaceandSpatialityof Loss:Remembered “Home” andExilic“House”in Smith’s ConsidertheLilies The World intheHome,HomeWorld: UnhomelyStirringsinIainCrichton Emerson 307 Sunday, March20,2016 Rituparno Ghosh Sites ofLove:Space,ConjugalityandtheDomesticSacred intheFilmsof the ZenanaandBeyond The Introverted Courtyard HouseandtheNovelinIndia:MuslimWomen Writing This BusinessofRooms:JeanRhys’sMelancholiaintheMetropole Emerson 307 Saturday, March19,2016 Home isamuseum:StoryHouse(s),memorialization,andidentity(re)creation Turkish Literature Setting Fire totheImperialPast:HousesofFallenEmpire inModern Emerson 307 Friday, March18,2016 FASHIONING COMMEMORATION, CONSUMPTION, DISPLAY ANDSELF- SEMINAR: THE HOUSEINLITERATURE: PRACTICES OF

Marcela RomeroRivera,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Maximillian Alvarez,UniversityofMichigan Dan Russek,UniversityofVictoria Patricia Tovar,OberlinCollege Alejandro Puga,DePauwUniversity Ji EunLee,University ofCalifornia,LosAngeles Somdatta Bhattacharya,BirlaInstitute ofTechnologyandScience Daniel Brown,IndependentScholar Rijula Das,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,Singapore Diviani Chaudhuri,SUNYBinghamton Christina Stevenson,SanFranciscoArtInstitute Aleksandra Bida,RyersonUniversity Pelin Kivrak,YaleUniversity Diviani Chaudhuri,StateUniversityofNewYorkatBinghamton

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stream B stream acla 155 155 156 stream B acla 156 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Solentiname” “Apocalipsisde Beauty andViolence inthePhotographicImageJulioCortázar’s “That EmblemofFreedom”: Lowry, McKay, andtheModernPassport Titicut Follies(1967) Documenting InstitutionalFormsofDocumentation: A Reading ofFrederick Wiseman’s Modern DocumentarityandtheLiterary Sever 304 Sunday, March20,2016 Pushkin’s GoldenBullet:ThePoet’sDeathonDisplay Documenting Galindo/Galindo Lonquen’s Echoes(1978-2014) Alone withthe Archive Sever 304 Saturday, March19,2016 Rituals, Recordings, andResistance:ThePersonasItinerant Artifact Translation asaCapture Device:FrankSmith’sGuantanamo “Sensitive Documents”:Orientalism,Pornography, NationalMuseums Scarcity, Accessibility, Value: TheDocument andItsEconomy Sever 304 Friday, March18,2016 DISPLAY, ANDRESISTANCE SEMINAR: THE ITINERANTDOCUMENT: BETWEENCAPTURE, Janike Ruginis,EmoryUniversity Nissa Cannon,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Emily ORourke,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Ronald Day,IndianaUniversityBloomington Olga Voronina,BardCollege Patricio Boyer,DavidsonCollege New York Angeles DonosoMacaya,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversity Silvia Spitta,DartmouthCollege Nihad Farooq,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology York Margaret Carson,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversityNew Laura Torres-Rodríguez,NewYorkUniversity Cesar Barros,SUNYNewPaltz Cesar BarrosA., Silvia Spitta,DartmouthCollege New York Angeles DonosoMacaya,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversity

State UniversityofNewYorkatPaltz In Search ofReaders:PhilippineLiterature inSpanish After 1898 Sacrifice andBiopoliticsinRaúlZurita’sPurgatorio (1979) During Underground ResistancetoFrancoism UPG, PSUCandPCE:CommunistParties Advocating forHeteronomous Literature Narrative Activism andtheTextual Grassroots inMid-CenturyLatin American Fiction Boylston 105 Friday, March18,2016 LATIN AMERICAANDSPAIN SEMINAR: THE LITERARY, POLITICS, ANDCOMMUNITYIN Thomas Hardy andthePublicExecutionofVictorian Novel A TheoryofSchadenfreude; or, Montaigne’sLaughter The GloriousPrude Sever 201 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE LITERATURE OFCONTEMPT Diamela Eltit Minoritarian SubjectsResistanceandStateofExceptioninFuerzasespeciales by On LanguageandthePoliticalinContemporaryVenezuela for Hegemony Discourses ofSpanishNationalIdentityinRevolutionaryMexico:TheExiles’Struggle Boylston 105 Sunday, March20,2016 Political Challenge Songs foraColdWar, theEpigrammaticPoetryofEfrainHuertaasSiteConflictand Crisis andDemocraticIneptitudeinSpain. A MaddeninglyComicalConfusion: Aleix Saló´sIllustratedHistoriesofSocio-Economic Raúl Ruiz’sCosmopolitanRegionalism Boylston 105 Saturday, March19,2016

Paula C.Park,WesleyanUniversity Scott Weintraub,UniversityofNewHampshire Pablo GarcíaMartínez,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Karen Spira,GuilfordCollege Jess Boersma,UniversityofNorthCarolinaWilmington Scott Weintraub,TheUniversityofNewHampshire CFS Creasy,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley David CarrollSimon,UniversityofChicago Wendy AnneLee,NewYorkUniversity Zachary Samalin,UniversityofChicago David CarrollSimon,UniversityofChicago Erika Almenara,UniversityofArkansas Juan PabloLupi,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Kyle Lawton,TulaneUniversity Daniel Chavez,UniversityofNewHampshire Jess Boersma,UniversityofNorthCarolinaWilmington Ignacio Lopez-Vicuna,UniversityofVermont

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stream B stream acla 157 157 158 stream B acla 158 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Biopower The PandemicPlanet:DiseaseDiscourse, BiosecurityStates,andContemporary Dataveillance, Tactical Media,andIntimateBureaucracies: Reportsfrom theFront on aSociety’sMetadata There isNoData:BuildingEmpty Archives andConstructing CulturalMemoryBased Epidemiological Semiotics S050 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 The ImageRefreshed: Records andErasures inThomasPynchon’sBleedingEdge Surveilling Citizens:ClaudiaRankine,from theFirsttoSecondPerson Resisting theSecurityState:ThePoliticalRelevanceof Autopoietic Practices Surveillance andtheMasterNarrative S050 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 RESISTANCE COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE, ANDSTRATEGIES OF SEMINAR: THE NEWSECURITYSTATE: SURVEILLANCE, The ImportanceofBeingCynical Franz KafkaandthePoeticsofReproach Sever 201 Sunday, March20,2016 Contempt UndertheSkin Getting Negative Adorno’s Contempt;or, HowILearnedtoStopWorrying andScorntheBomb “Unaccountable Antipathies”: TheNature of Aversion Sever 201 Saturday, March19,2016 Belinda Kong,BowdoinCollege Jon McKenzie,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Kyle Bickoff,UniversityofMaryland Carlos Rojas,DukeUniversity Mary Wilson,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Jeffrey Clapp,HongKongInstituteofEducation Rui Coelho,UniversityofLisbon Aaron Santesso,GeorgiaTech David Rosen,TrinityCollege Belinda Kong, Carlos Rojas,DukeUniversity John Havard,SUNYBinghamton Devorah Fischler,UniversityofPennsylvania Alicia Christoff,AmherstCollege Julia Jarcho,NewYorkUniversity Zach Samalin,UniversityofChicago Lily Gurton-Wachter,UniversityofMissouri

Bowdoin College Voyeurism andSurveillanceinFlaubert’s pre-Facebook Paris Art, SurveillanceandDisciplinein17thcenturyFrance Literature, SurveillanceandtheInsightsofForm Contemporary China The CrisisofGazeandUncannyMoments:FictionalNarrativesSurveillancein S050 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 Environmental CrisesinNew ZealandandSouth African Literatures Post-colonial Tourism inthe Age ofthe Anthropocene: NegotiatingLandDisputesand Global SouthDisastersandWorld Literature: Narratingthe2004Tsunami The CommonClimate:BiopoliticsandCosmopolitanisminthe Anthropocene Boylston 110(FongAuditorium) Sunday, March20,2016 Epic Entanglements:ScaleandSpacein Yvonne Dust Owuor’s MadMax:FuryRoad Sozaboy andGeorge Miller’s “Who killedtheworld?”:TheGlocal Anthropocene OilDisasterinKenSaro-Wiwa’s Wizards andOil:TheScalesofEnvironmental Crisisin African Literature Boylston 110(FongAuditorium) Saturday, March19,2016 Life Among theVermin: NinevehandEcologicalRelocation Ventriloquist’s Tale Planetary Awareness andtheRoleofNonhumanForces inPaulineMelville’sThe Locating the Anthropocene: EarthSystemScienceandPostcolonial, FeministTheory Boylston 110(FongAuditorium) Friday, March18,2016 ANTHROPOCENE HORIZONS IN WORLD LITERATURE AND THE SEMINAR: THE PLANETAND THE WORLD: POSTCOLONIAL

Sophia Mizouni,BostonUniversity Andrej Pezelj,UniversityofNovaGorica Karen Fang,UniversityofHouston Renren Yang,StanfordUniversity Amelia Chaney,UniversityofDelaware Liam O’Loughlin,UniversityofPittsburgh Rebecca Oh,UniversityofChicago Nicole Cesare,UniversityofSouthFlorida Kristen Angierski,CornellUniversity Dustin Crowley,RowanUniversity Daniel Williams,HarvardUniversity Mirja Lobnik,OxfordCollegeofEmoryUniversity Stephanie Clare,SUNYBuffalo Janet Zong,HarvardUniversity Rebecca Oh,UniversityofChicago

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stream B stream acla 159 159 160 stream B acla 160 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 POLITICS, CULTURE SEMINAR: THE POSTCOLONIAL MIDDLEEAST: THEORY, The SkinoftheVoice The Expropriated Voice: SlaveryandSound The Acoustics ofBare LifeinKafka’sLateStories Emerson 105 Sunday, March20,2016 Alchemies ofSanctionedValue: Music,Networks,Law “Links toPhatBeats”: Avocational Entrepreneurship inthe App Economy Notes onthePoliticalEconomyofMusicRecommendation Music Streaming andthe Algorithmic Subject Emerson 105 Saturday, March19,2016 The SoundofInsecurity Rethinking theMusicologyof‘Magic’:Secularism,Ontology, Exchange Muzak, Atmosphere, andLaborinPrecarious Japan Sonic Protest Vernaculars Emerson 105 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE POLITICALECONOMYOFSOUND Arts oftheSyrianRevolution Cultures ofTerror andResistance In English Middle EasternLiterature inTranslation: Possibilities andLimitsofWorking Through/ Postcolonial TheoryandModern Arabic Literature: Twenty-First CenturyHorizons Northwest B101 Friday, March18,2016 Anna Ball,NottinghamTrentUniversity Karim Mattar,UniversityofColoradoatBoulder Pooja Rangan,AmherstCollege Julie BethNapolin,TheNewSchool David Copenhafer,BardHighSchoolEarlyCollegeQueens Martin Scherzinger,NewYorkUniversity Sumanth Gopinath,UniversityofMinnesota Eric Drott,UniversityofTexasatAustin Michael BirenbaumQuintero,BostonUniversity Naomi Waltham-Smith,UniversityofPennsylvania Jim Sykes,UniversityofPennsylvania Lorraine Plourde,PurchaseCollege,SUNY Benjamin Tausig,StonyBrookUniversity Michael Gallope,UniversityofMinnesota Naomi Waltham-Smith,UniversityofPennsylvania miriam cooke,DukeUniversity Stephen Morton,UniversityofSouthampton Lindsey Moore,LancasterUniversity Waïl Hassan,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Palestine Metropolitan Cultures ofEngagementandSolidarity:JeanGenettheQuestion Negotiating theRightofReturninPalestinianFiction Paradoxes ofOrientalism:GenealogiestheSplitSemiticFigure Defective Sovereignty: PalestineinaGlobalContext Northwest B101 Saturday, March19,2016 Rhythm andRepetitioninCarylPhillips’s DancingintheDark The SoundofSincerity:Prose RhythmsinDavidFosterWallace Breathing Pauses:RhythminVirginia Woolf’s andRobertMusil’sProse Beckett’s Breathing Patterns:Worstward hoandStirringsStill Rhythmic RegularityasRhetoricalStrategy Sever 212 Saturday, March19,2016 Poetry andTime –RhythmandMetre intheŒuvre ofOctavio Paz The MusicofThought:RhythmandPoetryinPhilosophy Meter, Rhythm,andthe“GhostlyVoice”: A computationalstudyofverse andprose An EmpiricalStudyofProse Rhythm Sever 212 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE RHYTHMOFPROSE Contact-Zone Facing Islam:Corporeal Visualisation andCulturalConfrontation intheDiasporic Edward SaidandtheInstitution ofPostcolonialStudies Northwest B101 Sunday, March20,2016

Anna Bernard,King’sCollegeLondon Barbara Harlow,UniversityofTexasatAustin Ella Shohat,NewYorkUniversity Salah DHassan,MichiganStateUniversity Giulia Mascoli,UniversitédeLiège Yonina Hoffman,OhioStateUniversity Stefanie Heine,UniversityofZurich Arthur Rose,UniversityofDurham Trisha UrmiBanerjee,HarvardUniversity Catarina vonWedemeyer,FreieUniversitätBerlin Kevin Holden,HarvardUniversity Arto Anttila,StanfordUniversity Ryan Heuser,StanfordUniversity Marissa Gemma,MaxPlanckInstituteforEmpiricalAesthetics Thomas Wisniewski,HarvardUniversity Anna Ball,NottinghamTrentUniversity Karim Mattar,UniversityofColoradoBoulder

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stream B stream acla 161 161 162 stream B acla 162 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 The Aridity andtheCharacterFormationin“OQuinze”ofRacheldeQueiroz Fictional andCulturalIdentityinCurralde Assombrações ofFontesIbiapina Giovanni’s Cities:Representations ofParisianErbein1950’s Poetics Body andMemory:PlacesofIdentityinFerreira Gullar’s Narratives Alienated Freedom: Identity Construction inContemporarySwedishSuburban Sever 208 Saturday, March19,2016 Experiences intheSocialSpaceaPoembyMargaret Atwood “A poorwomanlearnstowrite”:TheRepresentation oftheIdentityConstruction from Charles Dickens The InfluenceofSpaceandPlaceinSomeCharacters’IdentitiesOliverT Narrative SpaceandtheSubjectinRicardo Palma’sTradiciones Bovary, Lenita,SarnauandJaneDoe The FeminineLook About PlaceinLiterature: PerspectivesofElisabethBennet,Emma Sever 208 Friday, March18,2016 SOCIETY: IDENTITYREADINGSINLITERARY NARRATIVES SEMINAR: THE SUBJECT’SPLACE INCONTEMPORARY senza donne,rarefaction and suspensionoftime. Beyond borders: Yiyun Li’sThousand Years ofPrayersandHaruki Murakami’sUomini Murakami’s writingstyle Haruki MurakamiandJazzMusic---Unveilingtherhythmical charmofHaruki Literary SynaesthesiaandPoeticsofExile:BehindtheRhythmMuXin’sProse Sever 212 Sunday, March20,2016 Andrea Lobato,UniversidadeEstadualdoMaranhao Stela MariaVianaLimaBrito,InstitutodeEnsinoSuperiorMúltiplo-IESM Thiago Silveira,InstitutoSuperiordeEducaçãoSãoJudasTadeu Silvana Santos,UniversidadeEstadualdoMaranhão Lydia Wistisen,StockholmUniversity Lígia Souza,UniversidadeFederaldoPiauí Juliana SalesViegasCasteloBranco,InstitutoFederaldoMaranhão-CampusTimon Elisabeth Austin,VirginiaTech Elisabeth MarydeCarvalhoBaptista,UniversidadeEstadualdoPiauí Silvana MariaDaSilvaPantoja,UniversidadeEstadualdoMaranhão Elisabeth MaryDeCarvalhoBaptista,UniversidadeEstadualdoPiauí Maria doSocorroBaptistaBarbosa,UniversidadeEstadualPiauí Giusi Tamburello,UniversityofPalermo,Italy Dan Shao,UniversityofTokyo Chenyu Qu,TsinghuaUniversity wist, by Loss andDisplacementinThea Astley’s ‘Heartiswhere theHomeis’ НочьВремя (Time: Night). Trapped intheBody-Text: Identity(De)Territorialization inLiudmilaPetrushevskaia’s Os QueBebemComoCães:SpacesofIdentity Gilberto Noll The ContemporarySubjectinCrisis:IdentityIssueHotel Atlântico byJoão Sever 208 Sunday, March20,2016 Surrealism Without Fetishes?The Arab-Islamic Readingof Automatic Images,1946-1952 (1937) andRaúlRuiz’adaptation(1987) Surrealist Adaptation Across Cultures andMedia:OnSadeghHedayat’sTheBlindOwl Schizophrenia The FantasticInfluencingMachineof Victor Tausk: A StudyinSurrealism and Work ofMiguelÁngel Asturias Ecos enformadecáscaranaranjasacadaintacta:Surrealism andEideticRupture inthe Sever 211 Sunday, March20,2016 Silvina Ocampo,Giorgio deChirico,andPeripheralSurrealism Debord, theTropics andtheMakingofNewLatin American Cinema Argentina, Superreal ImageSpace,RiversofSilver Sever 211 Saturday, March19,2016 Surrealism’s Bastard Children: Pierre Menard andLolita Necessary Gradients:GeopoliticalSurrealism Surrealist ImaginariesoftheGlobal Sever 211 Friday, March18,2016 WORLD SURREAL SEMINAR: THE

Maria Barbosa,UniversidadeEstadualdoPiauí Melanie Jones,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Raimunda CelestinaMendesdaSilva,FAP/MauriciodeNassau Maria SuelydeOliveiraLopes,InstitutoEnsinoSuperiordoMaranhão Anneka Lenssen,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Jeroen Gerrits,SUNYBinghamton Katie Lally,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Joel Nickels,UniversityofMiami Geoff Shullenberger,NewYorkUniversity Ernesto Livon-Grosman,BostonCollege Justin Read,SUNYBuffalo Delia Ungureanu,HarvardUniversity Christopher Bush,NorthwesternUniversity Effie Rentzou,PrincetonUniversity Christopher Bush,NorthwesternUniversity

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stream B stream acla 163 163 164 stream B acla 164 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Hoelderlin “Zwar gehenwirfast,wiedieWaisen”: LamentingtheMaternalinThree Lyrics by Platonov From RitualtoRadio:Reconstructing theSoundscapeof‘TheFoundationPit’by Andrei Death inaDiscipline:EthnographicElegy Sever 204 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE TROPE OF THE LAMENTACROSS CULTURES Flexible Truths: NeoliberalUseofTraumatic JonathanSafranFoer’s History Visualization ofTrauma inW.G. Sebald’sWork Traumatic Fantasies:History, MemoryandImaginationinContemporaryPolishCulture S250 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 Traumatic Flashes:The(Extremely) ShortStoryinContemporaryWar Literature Game ofForgetting” Linguistic FragmentationandLabyrinthineNarrativeinMuhammedBerrada’s“The Le People…MonPère (2012) Vestiges ofMyth: Algerian Nationalism As Trauma inMustaphaSedjal’sUnSeulHéros, S250 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Thesis Excerpt from myMaster’s Tracing NathanPrice’sTrauma ThePoisonwoodBible: An Edited inBarbaraKingsolver’s Grief, Sex,andDemons:Traumatic Transferal inJ.M.Coetzee’s“MasterofPetersburg” Cosmopression: A ClosedMindinan“OpenCity” The Trauma NarrativeEconomyinTeju Cole’sOpenCity S250 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR:DECOLONIZATION THETRAUMA TEXT:AND WAR Jacob Denz,NewYorkUniversity Maureen Pritchard,IndependentScholar Molly Klaisner,HarvardUniversity Mazalit Haim,NewYorkUniversity Brian Yost,AbrahamBaldwinAgriculturalCollege Dorota Mieszek,WarsawUniversity Joanna Nizynska,IndianaUniversityBloomington Brian Williams,TennesseeTechUniversity Ian Campbell,GeorgiaStateUniversity Nicole Horne,TulaneUniversity Rachelann Copland,SUNYMorrisville Kasia vanSchaik,McGillUniversity Sara Faradji,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark Trisha Remetir,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Ian Campbell,GeorgiaStateUniversity Lament intheChinesePoeticTradition andintheHebrew Bible The EthicsofLamentinZong!byM.NourbeSePhilip Beyond Let thisChalicePassfrom Me:TheLamentoftheSacrificialChildinGreek Tragedy and in theWork ofNadezhdaMandelstam After thePoet,orChildWhoGrows Up:Women’s Writing andGendered Mourning Sever 204 Saturday, March19,2016 Staging theWorld inHeddaGabler The InvisibleStageHand:Drama ofCapitalfrom HenrikIbsento Ayad Akhtar Science CenterHallA Sunday, March20,2016 ‘The Abyss’ Metamorphoses oftheFlâneuse:From Emma Gad’s‘AnEveningVisit’ toUrbanGad’s Strategy ofPontiac’sRetreat inRobertRogers’sPonteachch, The Savagesof America A RangingStyleofRepresentation: MoralLeveling,CommandFailure, andtheSound Worlds Elsewhere: CosmopoiesisinShakespeare’s Hamletand KingLear Science CenterHallA Saturday, March19,2016 World MakingandUnmakingin Alain Badiou’sComedies Intercultural World Making Imagined Theatres andConceptualPerformance Science CenterHallA Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THEATRE AND WORLD MAKING The SaddertheBetter: Yue OperaandtheTactics ofTears Intranslatability andDisplacement:EmbodyingSorrow inImmigrantLiterature Alternative ReadingofTheMahabharata Grief fortheLivingandDead:Draupadi’sLamentasaParadigman Sever 204 Sunday, March20,2016

Luying Chen,ColumbiaCollegeChicago Saharnaz Samaeinejad,UniversityofToronto Beth Harper,YaleUniversity Lusia Zaitseva,HarvardUniversity Leonardo Lisi,Johns HopkinsUniversity Alisa Sniderman,NewYorkUniversity Lynn Wilkinson,UniversityofTexasat Austin Jarrett Chapin,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Douglas McQueen-Thomson,CornellUniversity Joseph Litvak,TuftsUniversity Glenn Odom,UniversityofRoehampton Daniel Sack,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Leonardo Lisi,TheJohnsHopkinsUniversity Glenn Odom,UniversityofRoehampton,UK Wendy Xie,AppalachianStateUniversity Irina Wender,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Kumar Bhattacharya,BirlaInstituteofTechnologyandScience

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 165 165 166 stream B acla 166 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Third CinemaintheEraof MillennialGlobalization Ghosh’s Inan Antique Land Cosmopolitical Non-Alignment:Indian OceanStudies,Third Worldism, and Amitav Satyajit Ray Black Ants andBones:Nehruvian ScienceandThird-World Environment intheFictionof WritingBandung, Antagonism, Emerson 108 Friday, March18,2016 SOUTH-SOUTH SOLIDARITIES LITERATURESEMINAR:REVISITED: WRITING THIRD WORLD Concatenations The Coherence ofCalculation Raw Ambitions Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Sunday, March20,2016 Detection asPlotCreation: ReadingtheClassicDetectiveStory Reading forthePlotter Plot andtheEthicsofHeroism Plots inKaren Tei Yamashita’s IHotel Constraints ofHistory:TheRevolutionTime, MovementofStyle,and Accumulation of Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 Plot vs.Realism Plotlessness andCollageForminContemporaryFiction How PlotMoves Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THINKING AGAIN ABOUTPLOT Sophia McClennen,PennsylvaniaState University,UniversityPark Micheal Rumore,TheGraduateCenter, CityUniversityofNewYork Upamanyu PabloMukherjee,Warwick University Keya Ganguly,UniversityofMinnesota Peter Hitchcock,GraduateCenter,CUNY Micheal Rumore,GraduateCenter,CUNY Yoon SunLee,WellesleyCollege Seo HeeIm,YaleUniversity Sanjay Krishnan,BostonUniversity Charles Rzepka,BostonUniversity Wendy VeronicaXin,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Anjali Prabhu,WellesleyCollege Michael Colson,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark Maia McAleavey,BostonCollege Ivan Kreilkamp,IndianaUniversity Anita Law,StanfordUniversity Yoon SunLee,WellesleyCollege Betrayed Sita Affective andExilicHistoriesinPostcolonialSouth Asia: QurratulainHyder’s Solidarity NarrativesintheThird-World Novel Strange Logic:Body, Affect, Lyric Time Resistance fortheFuture: LuXun,LiuCixin,andtheFrontiers ofThird World Solidarity Case oftheSwedishCrimeNovel Allegories ofanEmbattledPublic:National Allegory, Geopolitical Aesthetic, andthe Emerson 108 Saturday, March19,2016 Is DistanceRelevant?Reflectionson ‘StrangersDrowning’ The Infrastructure ofContemporary American Regionalism Local ThingsinaGlobal Age; or, WhyMatterMatters intheContemporaryIrishNovel The ConjuncturalCityinPostcolonialPoetry Emerson 305 Saturday, March19,2016 Hurricane Katrina’sThirdspace: PrivateMaterialsMadePublicSpace After Disaster Antoni’s ‘DivinaTrace’ Faulkner “wenttotheWest Indies”:The PostcolonialPoliticsofIntertextualityinRobert The IndebtedCity:Temporal DialecticsintheCityofCredit Emerson 305 Friday, March18,2016 MATERIAL WORLD SEMINAR: THIS MUSTBE THE PLACE: TEXT, SPACE, AND THE The Future Anterior oftheThird: OntheLimitsofPerfectSolidarity UNDRIP Lit Darker andPoorer intheUSSR,Before and After Bandung Socialist RealismBetweentheSovietandNon-AlignedSouths Emerson 108 Sunday, March20,2016

Rituparna Mitra,MichiganStateUniversity Rossen Djagalov,NewYorkUniversity Meena Alexander,CityUniversityofNewYork Daniel Dooghan,UniversityofTampa Phillip Wegner,UniversityofFlorida Bruce Robbins,ColumbiaUniversity Raymond Malewitz,OregonStateUniversity Jesse Bordwin,UniversityofVirginia Anjali Nerlekar,RutgersUniversity David Callenberger,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Ethan King,BostonUniversity Robert Brazeau,UniversityofAlberta Ethan King,BostonUniversity Jesse Bordwin,UniversityofVirginia Peter Hitchcock,CityUniversityofNewYork Susan Hegeman,UniversityofFlorida Alastair Renfrew,DurhamUniversity Leah Feldman,UniversityofChicago

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 167 167 168 stream B acla 168 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Sunday, March20,2016 The I-NarratorandHisFoil:IdentifyingwiththeHolocaustPerpetrator Innocence Åsne Seierstad’sOneofUs:PerpetratorandVictim intheConstruction ofNational Between victimsandperpetrators,approaching thegrayzone Picturing thePerpetrator Sever 215 Saturday, March19,2016 The Voices ofPerpetrators The Ambivalent Grotesque: Tournier’s TheOgre andtheMalignInversion of Evil of Africa Representations ofPerpetratorsMass Atrocities CommitedintheGreat LakesRegion Schöne Zeitenin Auschwitz Sever 215 Friday, March18,2016 PERPETRATOROF THE SEMINAR: TOWARDS ACRITIQUE OF THE REPRESENTATION Peculiar Situations Rebirth Railroad EntanglementsinWalden Woods: TheDeepCutandThoreau’s Metaphorof The World andtheGarden: TheSpaceandScaleof“Rootedness”inKincaidNaipaul Emerson 305 Sunday, March20,2016 Thoughtlessness andSkandala:The Trial ofDuch Memory, CommemorationandthePoliticsofRepresentation inPost-Genocide Cambodia The ThingsWe Bury:Confronting Atrocity inTim O’Brien’sMyLaiWritings A CambodianEichmann?Visions ofKhmerRougeperpetratorsintheglobalcontext Sever 215 Gregor Rehmer,UniversitätHamburg Ellen Rees,UniversityofOslo Mesnard Philippe,UniversityofClermont-Ferrand2-UBP Paul Lowe,UniversityoftheArtsLondon Sue Vice,UniversityofSheffield Yasaman Naraghi,UniversityofWashington Gerd Hankel,HamburgInstituteforSocialResearch Christophe Busch,UniversityofAmsterdam Colman Hogan,RyersonUniversity Marta Marin-Domine,WilfridLaurierUniversity Jonathan Lamb,VanderbiltUniversity Kyle Bucy,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Shirley Wong,WestfieldStateUniversity Benjamin Waterman,UniversityofWaterloo Khatharya Um,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Iain Bernhoft,BostonUniversity Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier,ErasmusUniversityRotterdam Strategic Transitions andTransitional StrategiesinTrans CaribbeanFiction Writings Gender Free BeingandOtherWays ofBeinginContemporaryCaribbeanWomen’s The Nature ofTrans: Writing GenderontheCaribbeanBody Sever 105 Friday, March18,2016 CARIBBEAN SEMINAR: TRANS Lost inTransduction: theCocaineofSherlock Holmes Gender Translations in the American Sherlock Holmesseries,“Elementary” Dis-locating CrimeFiction Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Friday, March18,2016 TRANSFORMATION ANDRECEPTION SEMINAR: TRANSLATING CRIME: PRODUCTION, The Cultivationof Ambiguity inTrans CaribbeanLanguageandLiterature Languages intheCaribbean Trans CaribbeanLanguageandPerformance:TheImpactofHipHoponCreole Trinidadian Calypso Border Cross-Dressers: Anxieties ofNationandGenderinMid-Twentieth Century Sever 105 Sunday, March20,2016 Beyond MaleandFemale:TheTrans SpeaksOut the questionofCaribbeanculturequeerness “The grey area offreedom”: ShaniMootoo’s‘MovingForwards SlowlyLike A Crab’and ‘Cereus BloomsatNight’and‘Valmiki’s Daughter’ “Don NewClothesandInventWays ofBeing”:Cross-dressing inShaniMootoo’s Sever 105 Saturday, March19,2016 Keja Valens,SalemStateUniversity Diana Josan,GoldsmithsCollege,UniversityofLondon Emily Taylor,PresbyterianCollege Emily Taylor,PresbyterianCollege Keja Valens,SalemStateUniversity Iván MartínCerezo,UniversidadAutónoma deMadrid Kathleen Komar,UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles Karen Seago,CityUniversity,London Louise Nilsson, Stewart King,MonashUniversity Dannabang Kuwabong,UniversityofPuertoRico,RíoPiedras Nicholas Faraclas,UniversityofPuertoRico,RíoPiedras Susana DeJesus,NewYorkUniversity Ada McKenzie,BloomfieldCollege Tuli Chatterji,UniversityofConnecticut/SacredHeart Alison Donnell,UniversityofReading Anita Baksh,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork

University ofUppsala

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 169 169 170 stream B acla 170 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Untranslatable Tongue Languages onTrial: TheTerstis andTestis ofLanguage Perverse Delights:Translation, Desire, PoliticsinLiLivres douTresor “As ifweweren’t girls”:Translating FemaleSame-SexDesire afterRomanticism Yenching Auditorium Saturday, March19,2016 The EndofTranslation andtheLastMan Latin American Literature intheSovietUnion The EntanglementofLiterature, RevolutionandInternacionalizm:TheTranslation of Dialogue withHeideggerandBenjamin The Virtú ofModernTranslation andtheQuestionofOrigin:Pound’sCavalcantiin The Truth inTranslation: HeideggerandGoogle Yenching Auditorium Friday, March18,2016 LITERARY THEORYSEMINAR:AND/AS TRANSLATION Torchon Regular Guys:JimThompson’sPop.1280inTranslation to French Africa inCoupde Detectives andFluidIdentities Cover Connections.Merging theLocalintoCosmopolitan Mediascapes Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Sunday, March20,2016 Born inTranslation: The MysteriousCaseofSaraMoliner Translation andtheDetectiveGenre inIshiguro, Mitchell,andMurakami Detected inTranslation Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 Elissa Marder,EmoryUniversity Oisín Keohane,UniversityofDundee Tara Mendola,UniversityoftheArtsPhiladelphia Lauren Stone,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Jacques Lezra,NewYorkUniversity Rachael Lee,HarvardUniversity Philip Gerard,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Geoffrey Bennington,EmoryUniversity Tze-Yin Teo,UniversityofOregon William Blick,QueensboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY Ross Shideler,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Louise Nilsson,UppsalaUniversity Stewart King,MonashUniversity Rebecca Karni,RogerWilliamsUniversity Theo D’haen,UniversityofLeuven Empson and After: TheUsesof Ambiguity The UntranslatableModernismofManuelRamosOtero’s “Descuento” James Mabbe’s1631TheSpanishBawdandtheMay-be-nessofTranslations Ashbery’s Illuminations Translation StudiesasaFrameworkforComparingPostmodern Literature: TheCaseof The FormofTranslation: Vischer, BenjaminandtheCognitivePoeticsofÜbertragung Yenching Auditorium Sunday, March20,2016 the Introduction ofSpanish American PoetsintheUS The Visible andtheInvisibleTranslator: Alice Stone BlackwellandIsaacGoldberg and The PlaceofTranslation in Argentina andtheUS On MediationandFragmentation:TheTranslator inValeria Luiselli’s‘Losingrávidos’ Sever 305 Sunday, March20,2016 Translation’s NewTaxidermy: A ReadingofMercedes Cebrián’s‘Quéinmortalhesido’ Industrious (Fictional)Translators inthe(Fictional?)Translation Industry Novellas The Translator asaTool forDismantlingCultural Tradition inMarioBellatin’sJapanese Sever 305 Saturday, March19,2016 Urban, theMarketandTranslation Inclúyanmeafuera:BetweenPastandPresent, theRuraland María SoniaCristoff’s María Negroni’s La Anunciación Translation andtheNegotiationofTrauma inRobertoBrodsky’s Bosquequemadoand Translation TheoryandLatin American Literature: A StoryofRequitedLove? Provincial Universalism: A Latin American TheoryofTranslation Sever 305 Friday, March18,2016 LITERATURE, MARKETANDCULTURE INIBERO-AMERICA SEMINAR: TRANSLATION INBETWEEN: SITUATING

Michael Wood,PrincetonUniversity Ronald Mendoza-deJesús,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Gregory Baum,BrighamYoungUniversity Shijung Kim,HarvardUniversity Ignacio Infante,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Soledad Marambio,TheGraduateCenter, CityUniversityofNewYork Sergio Waisman,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity Sarah Booker,UniversityofNorthCarolina atChapelHill Ben VanWyke,IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversity,Indianapolis Denise Kripper,GeorgetownUniversity Ilse Logie,GhentUniversity Adriana Mackler,UniversityofConnecticut Hilary Levinson,UniversityofMichigan Delfina Cabrera,UniversidadNacionaldeLaPlata,Argentina Martin Gaspar,BrynMawrCollege Denise Kripper,GeorgetownUniversity Adriana Mackler,UniversityofConnecticut

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 171 171 172 stream B acla 172 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Leonard Woolf’s Colonial Autobiography “An anti-imperialistwhoenjoyedthefleshpotsofimperialism”: AmbivalentNostalgiain Nostalgia andtheWriting ofNaturalDisasters Amid Decolonization intheMaghreb d Barghouti’s ISawRamallah:TheImpossibleReturnoftheDisplaced Autobiographer Emerson 104 Sunday, March20,2016 Autobiographical EssaysandPoetry The Politicsand Aesthetics ofJapaneseKorean Writer KimuShijon’s Autobiographical Integrating theSelf:GaoXingjian’sOneMan’sBible New BookinanOldWorld: A Transnational ChineseMemoiroftheTwentieth Century Nostalgia inSouthSideStoriesbyLinHai Yin Representative Men Autobiographical Biography:“Napoleon”inRalphWaldo Emerson’s Emerson 104 Saturday, March19,2016 Histories inSoniahKamal’s“AnIsolatedIncident” Traumatic Experience,CrisisofSurvivalandHealing;TheExchangeInterconnected Where DoWe ComeFrom? Whatare We? Where are We Going?Where doIBelong? Epiphany andNostalgiaintheWorks ofSwissMigrationWriters Nostalgia, Theoryandthe Arts Emerson 104 Friday, March18,2016 NOSTALGIA SEMINAR: TRANSNATIONALISM, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND Los inútiles:Medicine,Masculinity, andEmpire inNineteenth-Century Spain K108 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 RACE ANDCOLONIALISMIN THE HISPANIC WORLD SEMINAR: TRANSOCEANIC PERSPECTIVESONGENDER, Michelle Murray,VanderbiltUniversity Akiko Tsuchiya,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Katie Logan,UniversityofTexasatAustin Spencer Segalla,UniversityofTampa Asaad Al-Saleh,IndianaUniversity Changhwan Kim,UniversityofGeorgia Lily Li,IndianaUniversityBloomington Ke Ren,BatesCollege Yu MinClaireChen,St.Mary’sCollegeofMaryland Naomi Uechi,MeioUniversity David Waterman,UniversitedeLaRochelle,France Edward Aiken,SyracuseUniversity Leena Eilittä,UniversityofTampere David Hertz,IndianaUniversity Yu MinClaireChen,StMary’sCollegeofMaryland Julia Chang,CornellUniversity How To ReformthePenitentiarySystem:Women Against PenitentiaryColonization Gender, Colonialism,andTransatlantic Sex-Trafficking inFin-de-siècleSpanishLiterature Nazaria andtheFirstRepublic K108 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 Bahman Ghobadi andtheCinemaofKurdish Trauma Eastwood’s ‘GranTorino’ Re/covering War Trauma inFilm:PaulHaggis’s‘IntheValley ofElah’andClint They CameBack:ZombieNarratives andthe Algerian War inFrench Cinema Commemorating inthePost-traumaticEra The FlowersofWar!?: Chinese CinemaandtheUnbearableLightnessofMemory S153 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Osage County’ Truth Telling: ExposingTransgenerational Trauma andNative American Lossin‘August: Trauma andtheOtherWounding Catharsis Children astheBearers ofTrauma, Memory, andJustice:Recreations ofViolence or Four Directors inSearch oftheirFather:DocumentaryFilmandtheElectra Complex S153 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: TRAUMA INRECENTCINEMA ¿Genio osalvajenacional? Artist JuanLunaandtheTrials ofLateSpanishModernity The RacialPoliticsofEduardo LópezBago’sLaprostituta Obdulia Fandiño’sBody As ImperialSubtext K108 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 Philippines “Filipinas, nuestrashijas”:Race,Sexuality, andtheColonial“Family”inSpanish Colony andMetropolis Entre mimujeryelnegro: ManlyWomen, Monstrous Slaves,andtheHappyMarriageof

Aurélie Vialette,StonyBrookUniversity Akiko Tsuchiya,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Lisa Surwillo,StanfordUniversity Maryam Ghodrati, University ofMassachusettsAmherst Eugene Arva,IndependentScholar Claire Mouflard,UnionCollege Ying Xiao,UniversityofFlorida Erica Galioto,ShippensburgUniversity Jennifer Yusin,DrexelUniversiy Cheri Robinson,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Antonio Gómez,TulaneUniversity Gail Finney,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Matthew Nicdao,NewYorkUniversity Michelle Murray,VanderbiltUniversity Nuria Godón,FloridaAtlanticUniversity Joyce Tolliver,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Mar Soria,UniversityofMissouri

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 173 173 174 stream B acla 174 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Listening totheHeartofThings The CallofConscience:Kant,Heidegger, Lacan The GloriousBody: Agambenian Non-unveilable Nudityin Art S040 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 Fragmented Body:Ida: A Novel Zizek onFinitudeandthe Aesthetic The OtherSynaesthesia S040 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Jacques Rancière andtheTrouble with Time Rancière’s GenealogyofInoperativity Intersubjective Acts: the Aesthetics ofWill Thinking theLimitsofInteriorityinBadiou’sEvent Art S040 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 SUBJECT INCONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL THOUGHT SEMINAR: TWISTS OF THE NEWAESTHETIC TURN: ART AND Feeling Time: Mourning After ‘2001’ World-Hating: Apocalypse andTrauma in‘We NeedtoTalk aboutKevin’ Post-humanity, Nostalgia,andDystopiainCaoFei’sFilms ‘Volver’ From Trauma toRestitutionandBack Again: MovingBodiesinPedro Almodóvar’s S153 (CGISSouth) Sunday, March20,2016 Sanja Dejanovic,BardCollege Charles Shepherdson,SUNYAlbany Frances Restuccia,BostonCollege Munire SevgiSen,Bo Thomas Brockelman,LeMoyneCollege Susan Bernstein,BrownUniversity Scott Herder,UniversityofToronto Jen HuiBonHoa,YonseiUniversity Tracy McNulty,CornellUniversity Robert Hughes,OhioStateUniversity Frances Restuccia,BostonCollege Robert Hughes,TheOhioStateUniversity Sarah Senk,UniversityofHartford Sean Desilets,WestminsterCollege Angie Chau,ArizonaStateUniversity Michelle Hulme-Lippert,Randolph-MaconCollege ğaziçi University Literature? How Would the Archeology of“MinorLiterature” HelpUsTheorizeUltraminor Kleine, Mineur, Small.Onthe(Mis)FortunesofaConcept William HeinesenandtheUltraminorFaroese Culture What IsanUltraminorLiterature? Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ULTRAMINOR LITERATURES Undermining Aesthetics inDiscoursesofProfessionalism: IanMcEwan’s‘Saturday’ New HistoricismandThe Aesthetics ofthe Archive of theBeautifulandSublime” Evolutionary FeelingsandtheUnity ofDifference inKant’s“Observations ontheFeeling (Florence, 1569-ca.1620) Historicizing theRiseof Aesthetics: TheExampleofthe Academia degli Alterati Northwest B105 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: UNDERMININGAESTHETICS Dialects intheItalianContext Global MasterpiecesandUltra-minorLiterature: Translating IntoMinorLanguagesand UnexpectedLliterary Transfer: TheCaseoftheCzech-ChineseNovelOn River Foreigners inUltraminorGenre Fiction:TheRainbowIslandandtheCityofRain Modern SanskritandPostcolonialNostalgia Barker 133(Plimpton) Sunday, March20,2016 Judeo-Persian Literature: TheCurrent Consequencesofan Ancient Animosity Chemmeen inMalayalam Ultraminor Literature inaMajorLanguage: An IndianWay ofThinkingTheCase Francophone Acadian Literature asanUltraminorLiterature Margins oftheMinor:BilingualismandTranslation inIndigenousTaiwanese Literature Barker 133(Plimpton) Saturday, March19,2016

Veronika Tuckerova,HarvardUniversity Cesar Dominguez,UniversityofSantiagodeCompostela Bergur RönneMoberg,UniversityofCopenhagen David Damrosch,HarvardUniversity Bergur Moberg,UniversityofCopenhagen David Damrosch,HarvardUniversity Regina Martin,Denison University Timothy Aubry,Baruch College,CityUniversityofNewYork Ludwig Schmitz,NewYorkUniversity Déborah Blocker,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Jin Chang,GraduateCenterCityUniversityofNewYork Elisa Segnini,UniversityofBritishColumbia Adam Kola,NicolausCopernicusUniversity Rashi Rohatgi,SkidmoreCollege Matthew Nelson,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Mohammad JafarShokrollahZadeh,SUNYBinghamton Bhavya Tiwari,UniversityofHouston Andrea Cabajsky,UniversitédeMoncton Andrea Bachner,CornellUniversity

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 175 175 176 stream B acla 176 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Auto-erotics andSexMachines:QueeringPornography and Affect inCronenberg’s Crash The FormofBreathing inBob Flanagan’sThePainJournal The Desire forFact: Affect, Rape,andtheDiscourseofLaw Wounded Branches, Abandoned Boots Witnessing War, Negotiating Affect: EdithWharton’sWorld War IWriting K050 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 Monochrome, Affect, andthe“Post-Black”Theater Nothing Personal:Richard Avedon, JamesBaldwin, andthePoliticsofBanality Feminine, Asian, Passive?: Inscrutable Encounterswith Yoko OnoandLaurel Nakadate The Strength ofthe Yellow Object:Fanonand Asian American Manhood K050 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: UNFORMINGFEELING Negative Meaning:TheThinginallitsStupidity Sublime Promises orRegression Reclaimed:IsThere an“EmancipatedSpectator”? Adorno betweenKantandMarx Northwest B105 Sunday, March20,2016 Modernist Playandthe Aesthetic Education A PragmatistoftheImagination:JamesWeldon Johnsonandthe Aesthetics ofBlackness The Aesthetics ofCare Walter aestheticworldviews Pater’s Creative versusContemplative Aesthetics: A comparisonofFriedrichNietzsche’sand Northwest B105 Saturday, March19,2016 Anna Christine,TuftsUniversity Jean-Thomas Tremblay,UniversityofChicago Hannah Manshel,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Rachel Ablow,SUNYBuffalo Stephanie Byttebier,BostonUniversity Tina Post,YaleUniversity Carmen Merport,UniversityofChicago Vivian Huang,WilliamsCollege Seulghee Lee,WilliamsCollege Judith Goldman,UniversityatBuffalo,StateofNewYork Daniel Benjamin,UniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley Hannah Manshel,UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside Jin Chang,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Oleg Gelikman,SokaUniversityofAmerica (Edward) GeoffreyWildanger,BrownUniversity Kelly Walsh,YonseiUniversity Arielle Zibrak,UniversityofWyoming Josephine Donovan,UniversityofMaine Katie Fry,UniversityofToronto Places ofPermission:Translation andOpacityinGlissantBenjamin Affect theycalledit Ecstatic universalityinKantandPhilip A.D.” “Inklings of Angular Remit”: Antithetic Speechand Affect inNathanielMackey’s“Atet K050 (CGISKnafel) Sunday, March20,2016 Living After theEndTimes: Utopia, Apocalypse andRuins Ecological UtopianandDystopianDiscoursesaboutthe Amazon Revolution’s bodilyfearsandsensualpleasures The BiggestandMostRealPersonOnEarth:theutopianlessonsof Russian The NoPlaceofPolitics:DeprivatisingUtopia Sever 202 Sunday, March20,2016 In theNow:Green UtopiasandUtopianismafterNature The FallofMars:KimStanleyRobinsonandUtopianHope Afrofuturism asUtopalypse:between Afro-pessimism andBlack-optimism? Sever 202 Saturday, March19,2016 Utopia intheLabyrinth The DialecticofFuture andUtopia Proposing CuratorialUtopianism Sever 202 Friday, March18,2016 PRAXIS SEMINAR: UTOPIA RENEWED: LOCATING ANEWUTOPIAN

Adam Ahmed,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Joe Luna,UniversityofSussex Daniel Benjamin,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Ismail Muhammad,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Adam Stock,YorkStJohnUniversity Patricia Vieira,GeorgetownUniversity Samuel Goff,UniversityofCambridge Jana Tsoneva,CentralEuropeanUniversity Elise Billiard,UniversityofMalta Kathrin Schödel,UniversityofMalta Lisa Garforth,NewcastleUniversity Dave Burnham,UniversityofChicago Romy Opperman,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Darius Lerup,UniversityofCambridge Callum Cant,UniversityofSussex Rhys Williams,King’sCollegeLondon Rhys Williams,King’sCollegeLondon Darius Lerup,UniversityofCambridge

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 177 177 178 stream B acla 178 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 and JenniferKent’sTheBabadook The FairyTale inReverse:StigmatizedGuardians inHenryJames’sTheTurn oftheScrew New Tales A Tale As Old As Time or As New As ItsTranslation? :HowDisneyDubbingsTell The Villain istheNewHero/ine The StrangeandtheFamiliar:NarrationinThree Animated FairyTales Sever 207 Sunday, March20,2016 hombre quesiempre soñó Irena Sirena: TheResurfacingofLittleMermaidinCristinaRiveraGarza’sEl White Cat,Merricat:TheFairyTale Within We Have Always Livedin theCastle Wilhelm Hauff Stories ofEmancipationintheLandFairyTales: “TheStoryofLittleMuck”by Bettina von Arnim’s EcologicalVision inherLiteraryFairyTale “The Queen’sSon” Sever 207 Saturday, March19,2016 Violence, Gender, andthe Tale: FairytalesandNarrativeintheWorks ofKerstinHensel Rubin GibaliTexts from SouthernOman “A ManWas Always CatchingFish”:FairyTale Elementsinthe Ali al-Mahri/Johnstone/ Fairy Tales andFacialHair:The(Blue)Beard FetishinVictorian England The FairyTale withintheFrame:Straparola andthe Afterlife ofSubversive Genres Sever 207 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: VARIATIONS ON THE FAIRYTALE on theBrutal RoadtoManhood in‘TheChild’sPose’ Problematic MasculinitiesVersus Nonconformist Femininities: A Romanian Perspective Fists onFlesh:Violence, Space,andCulturalMemoryinRecent Post-SovietCinema Abjection andEthicsin Agnieszka Holland’s ‘BurningBush’ Boylston G07 Friday, March18,2016 CINEMA SEMINAR: VIOLENCE INCONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN Monica Filimon,KingsboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY Austin Riede,UniversityofNorthGeorgia Brandy Wilcox,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Yvonne Toepfer,MontanaStateUniversity Mary Slowik,PacificNorthwestCollegeofArt Sylvia Morin,UniversityofTennesseeatMartin Naomi Greenwald,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Almut Nickel,UniversitätKassel Deborah Janson,WestVirginiaUniversity Melissa Sheedy,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Marielle Risse,DhofarUniversity Ryan Habermeyer,UniversityofMissouri Sally Livingston,OhioWesleyanUniversity Christopher Chiasson,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington Alexandra Slave,University ofOregon Sandra Russell,UniversityofMassachusetts Amherst Joshua Beall,GeorgiaGwinnettCollege Body’s Tears’ The and‘TheStrangeColorofyour Aesthetics ofViolence intheNeoGiallo:‘Amer’ Violence andRepresentation inCatherineBreillat’s “ÀMaSœur!”(“FatGirl,”2001) Poppe’s ‘1,000Times GoodNight’(2013) Who’s Afraid oftheBig,BadSouth?:Violence, Gender, andtheGlobalSouthinErik Boylston G07 Saturday, March19,2016 Seeing andBelieving: DerridaonFaithandtheMoving Image Photography’s Alchemy, FaithinThingsUnseen Having Another LookatLoss:ReframingthePhotographicEncounter asaPoeticDevice S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGIS South) Sunday, March20,2016 How toSeeaScar:RogerCasement’sPhotographic Archive ofthePutumayo On Distance:TheBorderless SpectatorandaPoliticsofSeeing Surveillance NetworksinContemporaryFilmandVideo Subversive Core, Sovereign Image:Closed-Circuit Vigilantism andtheIntermedialityof S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 ‘El tren delamemoria’ Migratory Aesthetics andtheFuturity ofthe“Not-Yet Community” in Remembering SpanishMigrationtoGermanyinLateFrancoism:MigrantMemories, Voice asWitness: Re-enactment,RedemptionandVocality intheQuinquiFilm The ChildinTime: EncounteringChildhoodinSpanishCinema From PlatotoPasolini: Appearances, Apparitions, Virtualities S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 IMAGE,POLITICS, THEORY SEMINAR: VISUAL CULTURE ANDITSDISCONTENTS: Systemic Violence andthePrecariat in‘Deuxjours,unenuit’(2014) After Violence: InterlockingCinematicSpacesin Audiard, Denis,andMaïween Boylston G07 Sunday, March20,2016

Hugo RiosCordero,MiamiUniversity,Ohio Ora Gelley,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity Julianne Q.M.Yang,UniversityofOslo Robert Trumbull,University ofWashingtonBothell Patty Keller,Cornell University Jon Snyder,BostonUniversity-Madrid Carolina SáCarvalho,UniversityofNorthatChapelHill Andre Kunigami,CornellUniversity Camila Moreiras,NewYorkUniversity Julian DanielGutierrez-Albilla,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Tom Whittaker,UniversityofLiverpool Sarah Thomas,BrownUniversity Steven Marsh,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Julian Gutierrez-Albilla,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Patty Keller,CornellUniversity Monica Filimon,KingsboroughCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Laura Chiesa,SUNYBuffalo

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 179 179 180 stream B acla 180 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Sociology ofLiterature Bridging theGapbetweenComparative Literature andDigitalHumanitiesthrough Comparative andDigital: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration Literature andDigitalHumanities Toward Quantitative Analysis of Heterogeneous Corpora:IntersectionsofComparative Science CenterHallD Friday, March18,2016 CRITICAL APPROACH DIGITAL HUMANITIESHAVE TO SAY TO EACH OTHER? A SEMINAR: WHAT DOCOMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND Travelers, Liars,andConMen In aChineseWonderland: ComicTravels inChina intheInterwarPeriod Barker 316 Sunday, March20,2016 Race, Spirituality, andVulnerability inMemoirsofHenryObookiah Revealing Vulnerability asan Anti-Imperial Act: EwaFelińska’sSiberianTravel Writing Mary Wollstonecraft’s Epistolary Anthropology: SocialScienceagainstFormalism Slave: A True History “This DearObject:”CurbingtheThreat ofWomen inEmpire inOroonoko or, TheRoyal Barker 316 Saturday, March19,2016 At theMercy ofProvidence: EarlyModernExplorationandtheRhetoricofVulnerability Doubt andDespair:ColonialBodiesinPerformance Andanças eviajes Vulnerable MedievalIberianTravelers: BenjaminofTudela’s Itinerary andPero Tarfur Pilgrimages “On HomelyTerms withGod”:TheIntimacyofVulnerability inMargery Kempe’s Barker 316 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR:VULNERABLE TRAVELERS Gabriele Lazzari,Rutgers University Fatma Tarlaci,UniversityofTexasatAustin Travis Mullen,UniversityofSouthCarolina Fatma Tarlaci,UniversityofTexas,Austin Sayan Bhattacharyya,UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign Lisa Colletta,TheAmericanUniversityofRome Wendy Gan,UniversityofHongKong Sharon Tang-Quan,WestmontCollege Constance Ostrowski,SchenectadyCountyCommunityCollege Bakary Diaby,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick Katherine Katsirebas,TuftsUniversity Julia MixBarrington,BostonUniversity Joanne vanderWoude,UniversityofGroningen Montserrat Piera,TempleUniversity Monica Cure,BiolaUniversity Wendy Gan,UniversityofHongKong Monica Cure,BiolaUniversity the Liberal Arts the Teaching, Learning,DoingDHinaComparativeContext:Promoting CriticalThinkingin Always Already Digital:Erich Auerbach, the Alphabet, andComparativeDigitalStudies Digital HumanitiesandPublishingScholarshipinElectronic Journals Collection Understanding Tocqueville across Time andLanguagesthrough theHathiTrust Humanities Classroom Small DataandBigData:TheReflectiveintheContextof Text Analysisandthe Science CenterHallD Saturday, March19,2016 The Value ofEssayHistory, Theory, andStylometry Where istheEssayGoing? (Everywhere &Nowhere...) The EthicsoftheEssay Is thePastOurFuture? HistoricityandEssay asaGenre Sever 303 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: WHERE IS THE ESSAY GOING? Julio Cortázar, Rayuela/Hopscotch,andtheDigital60s Tools:Dismantling theMaster’s A PostcolonialReadingofComparative Apps Comparative Culture andtheDigitalHumanities Weave theNetwork– A CaseStudyinComputationalComparativeLiterature Science CenterHallD Sunday, March20,2016

Katherine Faull,BucknellUniveristy Richard Cavell,UniversityofBritishColumbia Steven TotosydeZepetnek,PurdueUniversity Joel Goldfield,FairfieldUniversity Sayan Bhattacharyya,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Patrick Madden,BrighamYoungUniversity Randi Saloman,WakeForestUniversity Raina Levesque,NewYorkUniversity Vincent Ferre,UniversityParisEstCreteil Stefano Ercolino,YonseiUniversity Christy Wampole,PrincetonUniversity Andrew Parker,RutgersUniversity Roopika Risam,SalemStateUniversity Sukanta Chaudhuri,JadavpurUniversity Christine Ivanovic,UniverstiyofVienna

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 181 181 182 stream B acla 182 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Beastly World: Language,Image, Affect Worlds Suspended:SamuelBeckett’s“OhioImpromptu” The World EndsinFarce Dragon Inn Flesh/FlashoftheWorld: KingHu’sDragon InnandTsai Ming-Liang’sGoodbye the SyrianRefugeecrisis Wer Weiss/Who Knows?“Absurd Majesty”inGaza,BongJoon-ho’sSnowpiercer and Northwest B104 Saturday, March19,2016 The World We HaveLost:FantasiesofthePre-Modern inBasilBunting’s‘Briggflatts’ Derrida andBlanchot,Blanchot Auster, Auster andDerrida Life Writing, Relation,Mediation:Coetzeeand Auster Powers andPotentialofDisruptive World-Carrying Northwest B104 Friday, March18,2016 ENDS SEMINAR: WHERE THE WORLD Essay as“Poetry”vs.“Prose” intheInternet Age Is There anEssayinThisWeb? (EssayandtheMedia) The MovingEssay The Video Essay:WhatIsItandWhat’sNext? Sever 303 Sunday, March20,2016 Essays from theOtherSide:Writers ontheCritics Hybridization ofCriticalEssays.CanEssayandTheorygotogether? Poetry andtheEssayisticForm The Lyric Essay:Problems, Forms,Meanings Sever 303 Saturday, March19,2016 Anthony Siu,Hong KongUniversityofScienceandTechnology Christoforos Diakoulakis,Independent Scholar Clair Sheehan,UniversityofLimerick Elizabeth Wijaya,CornellUniversity Diane Rubenstein,CornellUniversity James Tink,TohokuUniversity David Coughlan,UniversityofLimerick David Huddart,ChineseUniversityofHongKong Ana Luszczynska,FloridaInternationalUniversity David Huddart,TheChineseUniversityofHongKong David Coughlan,UniversityofLimerick Elizabeth Wijaya,CornellUniversity Vasily Lvov,GraduateSchoolandUniversityCenteroftheCityNewYork Irène Langlet,UniversityofLimoges Nora MAlter,TempleUniversity Ned Stuckey-French,FloridaStateUniversity Gordana Crnkovic,UniversityofWashington supérieure /Centrenationaldelarecherchescientifique),Paris Guido MattiaGallerani,Institutdestextesetmanuscritsmodernes(Ecolenormale Maria Borio,UniversitàdiSiena-perStranieri Alberto Comparini,StanfordUniversity Curious Creatures: Large Animal ElegiesandtheExpansionofLoss Lilith’sBrood Reading ofOctaviaButler’s GuidetoEcological“EndTimes”A inthe Survivor’s Anthropocene: A Posthuman The BeastlyEndofChinaanditsHumanRemains:LaoShe’sCatCountry Tove JanssonandtheEndofWorld: Post-ApocalypticEthicsintheMoominSeries Northwest B104 Sunday, March20,2016 Raisin intheSunandMahaswetaDevi’sBayen Subverting SubalternConsciousness:Search forSelf-IdentityinLorraineHansberry’s A Ahilya BaiHolkar:TheDefacto Administrator andRulerofMalwaRegioninIndia. Northwest B110 Sunday, March20,2016 Conceptualising Gender:RealisingWomen’s RightsGlobally The Aesthetics ofOpposition:ReclaimingaNonconformistPrincessfrom Rajasthan Lakshmibai, TheWarrior QueenofJhansi: A DamselDefyingDestiny Northwest B110 Saturday, March19,2016 Woman inRegalia:Rebellious PrincessofKapurthala The Audacity to‘Be’ Using RegaliaforWomen’s Reform: ThePalanquinTasselA StudyofKashibaiKanitkar’s Women ofRegaliainPower: A Catalyst Northwest B110 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: WOMEN OFREGALIAIN POWER: ACATALYST

Arthur Wang,YaleUniversity Carolyn Lau,ChineseUniversityofHongKong Eric Hodges,NewYorkUniversity Daisuke Kiriyama,SUNYAlbany Jyoti Hermit,AmityUniversity Vineeta Saluja,IndianInstituteofInformationTechnology,DesignandManufacturing Archana Parashar,IndianInstituteofManagement,Raipur Atul Hermit,AxtriaIndiaPvtLtd Bhumika Sharma,CentralUniversityofRajasthan Shreeja Sharma,InstituteforExcellenceinHigherEducation Shubhra Tripathi,Govt.MotilalVigyanMahavidhyalaya Barinder Kumar,BaringUnionChristianCollege Jyoti Rane,PratapCollege,Amalner Usha Mudiganti,AmbedkarUniversity Sudhi Rajiv,JaiNarainVyasUniversity Udaipur) Jayshree Singh,BhupalNoblesPostGraduateCollege,(MohanlalSukhadiaUniversity,

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 183 183 184 stream B acla 184 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Twentieth-Century” Between EgyptandGermany:TheRihlainNabilaSalem’sDiary“Dhata al-Himmainthe Captured intheNetof(Mis)Interpretation: A Studyin Alifa Rifaat’sShort Stories Voices ofDefianceandChange; Arab Women Writers inthePostmodern Age Rainy DayWomen Khichuri:BangladeshiWomen Write FictioninEnglish Science CenterB10 Sunday, March20,2016 Muslim Women in Amina Wadud’s Activism Waris Dirie:Voice oftheCosmopolitanNomad Muslim authorofcolonialIndia Rokeya’s Sultana’sDream: Exploringtheintricaciesbehindvoiceofafeminist Science CenterB10 Saturday, March19,2016 Feminist Utopiasfrom theMiddleEasternWorld The IntersectionofIslamandFeminisminIran From ShehrazadtoFatimaal-Mernissi:ContestedViews oftheHarem PastandPresent Al-Khansā’: A SeventhCenturyElegist Singing thePast,CallingFuture: TheWomen Ashiqs of Azerbaijan Science CenterB10 Friday, March18,2016 MUSLIM WORLD SEMINAR: WOMEN’S VOICES FROM THE PREANDPOST Sally Abed,UniversityofUtah Amel Abbady,SouthValleyUniversity,Egypt Rima Sadek,UniversityofSouthCarolina Hafiza Khan,IndependentScholar Lava Asaad,MiddleTennesseeStateUniversity John CHawley,SantaClaraUniversity Anindita Basu,JadavpurUniversity Feroza Jussawalla,UniversityofNewMexico Maryam ZehtabiSabetiMoqaddam,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Maha Baddar,PimaCollege Doaa Omran,UniversityofNewMexico Anna Oldfield,CoastalCarolinaUniversity Doaa Omran,UniversityofNewMexico Feroza Jussawalla,UniversityofNewMexico (1914) The MakingoftheVirtual: Words asVirtual EntitiesinGertrude Stein’sTender Buttons The GlobalWord Chinese Notions Words andConcepts:HowTranslators HaveMistranslatedandMisunderstoodBasic Science Center112 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS! Between Text andContext: the Author inWorld Literature Some ofMyBestFriends Are Writers... What isaWorld Author? Conceptualising Agency intheGlobalLiteraryMarket Science Center110 Friday, March18,2016 FACE OFLITERATURE SEMINAR: WORLD AUTHORSHIP: CHARTING THE HUMAN Expressing theInexpressible: theSemioticsofEdmundBurke’s Aesthetic Theory If NotCharity, What? Philosophy andTheTurn toLiterature: MetaphorandtheEarlyStanleyCavell Science Center112 Sunday, March20,2016 Word Art: ComicsandtheQuestionofImagetext Quoi?: Frog-Talk andotherDelir-ious Words In OtherWords, ExistencePhilosophy inanExtra(m)oralSense:Vilém Flusser’s Goffman andColbertdo“TheWørd” Science Center112 Saturday, March19,2016

Hyonbin Choi,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Michael Malouf,GeorgeMasonUniversity Eugene Eoyang,IndianaUniversity Joshua Kates,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington Katarzyna Bartoszynska,MonmouthCollege Jeanne-Marie Jackson,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Rebecca Braun,LancasterUniversity Rebecca Braun,LancasterUniversity Tobias Boes,UniversityofNotreDame Jessica Slavic,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Felicia Martinez,SaintMary’sCollegeofCalifornia Joshua Kates,IndianaUniversityBloomington Andréa Gilroy,UniversityofOregon Christine Wertheim,CaliforniaInstituteoftheArts Aaron Jaffe,UniversityofLouisville Edward Comentale,IndianaUniversity

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 185 185 186 stream B acla 186 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 Worlding Literatures inPortuguese “World CinemainFrench” Yiddish, Translation, andaWorld Literature To-Come Global European Narrative Science CenterHallE Friday, March18,2016 LITERATURE? SEMINAR: WORLD LITERATURE ORGLOBALIZED Representative Authorship Brink’s Authorship Political DissidenceandNovelisticForm:Towards aBiographicalReview of André Authorship asFeminist Activism: The Wimmen’s ComixCommunity The Classicsfor All: PerformativeRewritingsoftheCanon Science Center110 Sunday, March20,2016 of Letters Philip Roth’s‘OtherEurope’: The Author As Ambassador intheColdWar Republic Service Editions Circulating ThomasMann:FiguringWorld Reader/AuthorshipintheU.S. Armed Navid KermaniasWorld Author Science Center110 Saturday, March19,2016 The IdeologyofInterconnectedness from E.M.Forster toDavidMitchell Bolaño andtheLived Abstraction oftheLatin American “World” Locating JapaneseLiterature withinUSWorld Literature Anthologies Emerging LiteraryHistories Science CenterHallE Saturday, March19,2016 Helena Buescu,UniversityofLisbon Rachel Gabara,UniversityofGeorgia Saul Zaritt,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Barry McCrea,UniversityofNotreDame Barry McCrea,UniversityofNotreDame Alexander Beecroft,UniversityofSouthCarolina Tobias Boes,UniversityofNotreDame University Leon deKock,UniversityofJohannesburg/JohnsHopkinsStellenbosch Leah Misemer,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Emily Spiers,St.AndrewsUniversity Marla Zubel,UniversityofMinnesota Anna Muenchrath,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Claire Baldwin,ColgateUniversity Philip Tsang,UniversityofCincinnati David Kurnick,RutgersUniversity Shun’ichiro Akikusa,UniversityofTokyo Susan Andrade,UniversityofPittsburgh AS ACREATIVE FORCEII MULTILINGUALISMBETWEEN WORLDS:SEMINAR: WRITING Writing theConfinesofShadow: Alessandro Spinaand the World Novel Identity Without thePersoninJosephO’Neill’sTheDog Reading ofJiaPingwa’sQinOpera The FloatingCountry: A ReflectiononChineseFictionand World Literature through the Science CenterHallE Sunday, March20,2016 Multilingual Ethicsand Aesthetics: TheWorld ofNourbeSePhilip’sZong! The RoleofaHybridLanguageinCathyParkHong’sDanceRevolution The Chinese American Writers asTranslators: Writing Chinesethrough English Sever 102 Sunday, March20,2016 Multilingual Body:TheCaseofLouisWolfson Andreï Makine’s Autobiographical NovelDreams ofMyRussianSummers From MotherTongue to‘GrandmaternalTongue’: Creation inBetweenTwo Languagesin Dystopian Babels:ImaginaryLanguagesandMultilingualisminFictions Sever 102 Saturday, March19,2016 MultilingualJapan Portraits ofHalf-lifeinMichaëlFerrier’s Multilingualism inCayCicellis Splitting Images,Two-headed Monsters:Genetic,Geminal,GenitalFigures of Bilingualism, theSubhumanandUniversalityin Aleksandar Hemon’sNovels Sever 102 Friday, March18,2016

Alexander Beecroft,UniversityofSouthCarolina Jay Garcia,NewYorkUniversity Jiwei Xiao,FairfieldUniversity Shawn Gonzalez,RutgersUniversity Tae YunLim,UniversityofWashington Zuqiong Ma,BeijingForeignStudiesUniversity Caroline Rabourdin,UniversityoftheArtsLondon Cristina Toharia,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbanaChampaign Dominique Jullien,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Hannah Holtzman,UniversityofVirginia Maria Oikonomou,UniversityofVienna Mads RosendahlThomsen,AarhusUniversity Wen-Chin Ouyang,SOAS,London,UK

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 187 187 188 stream B acla 188 10:30AM - 12:15PM 2016 REINVENTION OF THE SELF SEMINAR: WRITING DIASPORA: MYTH, HISTORY AND Resonances andDissonancesinVietnamese Diasporic Literature Innovation Displaced NarrativeofTomás EloyMartínez:Exile As aLeitmotifand As aFormal The Bedouin:TheoriesofDiasporicRestlessnessinMiddleEasternLiterature into TheirNarrativeThought&Practice Russian Roots, American Novelists:HowNabokov& Ayn RandBrought Russian Issues Yemeni Literature De-territorializingtheDiaspora:DisplacementandRegionalExileinContemporary Sever 110 Sunday, March20,2016 “Out-of-Home”: Figures oftheTransfuge inContemporary French Autofiction Longing forExile:TheCaseofIranianFemaleWriters inFrance Americas Invisible Memories:DiasporaandSelf-makinginBlackWomen’s Literature ofthe Regendering BrazilianLiterature inDiaspora Diasporic EntanglementsinBrazilianandSouth African Literature Sever 110 Saturday, March19,2016 The Three-lives Diasporic NobelLaureates: GaoXingjianvis-à-visPearlS.Buck Forgetfulness Making Absence Present: Writing theImpossibleinMahmoudDarwish’sMemoryfor Garza andValeria Luiselli Space andDiaspora.MexicanWomen Writers LivingintheUnitedStates:CristinaRivera Ricardo Sternberg andtheReinventionofSelf The DiasporicMusingsof Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Sever 110 Friday, March18,2016 Lise-Helene Smith,CaliforniaStatePolytechnic University,Pomona Mariya Dzhyoyeva,UniversityofToronto Jason Mohaghegh,BabsonCollege Gene H.Bell-Villada,WilliamsCollege Ammar Naji,ColoradoCollege Aubrey Korneta,NewYorkUniversity Farzad Salamifar,UniversityofIowa Jamie Rogers,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Else Vieira,QueenMaryUniversityofLondon Hapsatou Wane,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Meiling Wu,CaliforniaStateUniversity,EastBay Evren Akaltun,StonyBrookUniversity Adriana Pacheco,UniversidaddelasAméricasPuebla Hudson Moura,UniversityofToronto Vanesssa Valdés,CityCollegeofNewYork,CUNY Hudson Moura,UniversityofToronto Virginia Woolf The RabbitinHead-Lamp:OnObscure andVulnerable Forms ofLifein The Erosion ofGenre: SlowDeathasFormofLife Arachnophilia: Metamorphosis,Ecology, andLiterature ‘LeonceundLena’ Sick ofLife.References of Insects andofDeathinGeorg Büchner’s Sever 302 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ZOOPOETICS: FORMSOFLIFE Scenting Wild: Ocularcentrism andtheCanineOlfactoryinTheCallofWild The UntimelinessofLiteraryCowsandPigs Annie Dillard’s Skin-Book:PilgrimatTinker Creek Animal Behavior Zoopoetics ofEthology:Reimarus’ Drives,NegativeDialecticsandtheSpontaneityin Sever 302 Sunday, March20,2016 Human Animality: ZoopoeticsinMichelHouellebecqandÉricChevillard’s Fiction “An HeirloomWorth Seeing”:Kafka’s“Crossbreed” asLife‘InBetween.’ Animal Comedy:Balzac’sZoopoetics How toLive(Together) -Forms,Figures andFantasiesofLifein Auto/Zoographies Sever 302 Saturday, March19,2016

Peter Meedom,UniversityofOslo Matthias Preuss,EuropeanUniversityViadrina Bernhard Malkmus,OhioStateUniversity Sebastian Schönbeck,Julius-Maximilians-UniversitätWürzburg Frederike Middelhoff,UniversityofWürzburg Peter Meedom,UniversityofOslo David Huebert,UniversityofWesternOntario Amelie Björck,SödertörnUniversity Nathalie Cochoy,UniversitéToulouse-JeanJaurès André Krebber,UniversityofKassel Stephanie Posthumus,McGillUniversity Eva Hoffmann,UniversityofOregon Travis Wilds,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Frederike Middelhoff,Julius-Maximilians-UniversitätWürzburg

10:30AM - 12:15PM 12:15PM - 10:30AM 2016

stream B stream acla 189 189 190 stream C acla 190 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 Terror: Rhymes withError Dead LimbsandDanceMoves:GracetheContemporaryGlobalgothic Positive Disintegration:TheDarkStructure ofBecomingHumaninCyclonopedia Call andResponse:DarkEchotheGothicReturn Science Center104 Friday, March18,2016 HORROR SEMINAR: ASENSEOFUNEASE: THE MATERIALITY OF “Love’s aDangerous Thing”-theOppositeofPurity, theOppositeofTrust Beloved Neither Too ThicknorToo Thin: DecolonizingLoveandLanguageinToni Morrision’s Transgression andLoveinTheGodofSmallThings Northwest B105 Saturday, March19,2016 Noble Proustitución: OnProust, Theory, andLatin American Literature Modern France Et moy?Suis-jesurunlitderoses?: TheHistory oftheConquestMexicoinEarly Neo-Confucian InfluenceonElegiacMemoirsDuring17thto19thCenturyChina Modern LoveintheMiddle Ages: theCaseofChristinedePizan Northwest B105 Friday, March18,2016 NARRATIVES CENSORSHIP, EVIL, POLITICS&GODINPOST-COLONIAL SEMINAR: “LOVE ANDITSOPPOSITES” ━LOVE, TYRANNY, Zombie Web Was BlindbutNowISee:FatalEmpiricisminWeird Fiction Sheltering Sky Approaching Oblivion:PortMoresby’s SlideToward Negationin PaulBowles’s Science Center104 Saturday, March19,2016 Lance Duerfahrd,PurdueUniversity Leif Schenstead-Harris,OntarioCollegeofArtandDesignUniversity Jessica Elkaim,ConcordiaUniversity Thomas Stuart,UniversityofWesternOntario Riley McDonald,UniversityofWesternOntario Thomas Stuart,UniversityofWesternOntario Kenneth Sammond,FairleighDickinsonUniversity Daniela Miranda,WashingtonStateUniversity Shahd Alshammari,ArabOpenUniversity,KuwaitBranch Jonathan Slaughter,TulaneUniversity Jenny MarieForsythe,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Meng Wang,PurdueUniversity Lynn Shutters,ColoradoStateUniversity Kenneth Sammond,FairleighDickinsonUniversity Karen Macfarlane, Mount SaintVincentUniversity Riley McDonald,WesternUniversity Andrew Martino,SouthernNewHampshire University Spoiler ofMen Living Deadness:InsensibilityandtheProto-Haitian zombieinKingoftheDeadand Modern RewritingsoftheGospelNarratives Editing Kings:Heym,FaulknerandDavid Adaptation asMethod:KamauBrathwaiteandPostcolonialMedia Shakespearean Adaptation Sever 102 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ADAPTATION ASARCHAEOLOGYANDCRITIQUE Filming thePresent: The Aesthetic Distance andRecentChileanCinema Decolonizing theLiteraryImaginary in Algeria On NarrativeUnmooringin Alain Mabanckou K107 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 The Transition ataDistance:ContemporaryRevisionsofthe23-F Poetry thatSynthesizesDistances:Towards an Aesthetics of‘CommonUnderstanding’ Literature and“Culture ofProximity”: BridgingthePedagogicalDivide into the21stCentury Shooting forParis,GettingMexico:RobertoBolañoBringstheCityofLights Paradigm K107 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: AESTHETICDISTANCE INAGLOBAL ECONOMY Faust’s Grotesques: Sokurov andSvankmajer Lee’s American Adaptation Ang American FictionattheDawnofMultimodality Figures ofBeing:theSongParmenidesasPerformance Sever 102 Saturday, March19,2016

Shannon Zellars-Strohl,IndianaUniversityBloomington Olga Solovieva,UniversityofChicago Chloe Blackshear,UniversityofChicago Jacob Edmond,UniversityofOtago Walter Cohen,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Haun Saussy,UniversityofChicago Susana DomingoAmestoy, UniversityofMassachusettsBoston Corbin Treacy,FloridaStateUniversity Justin Izzo,BrownUniversity Vicent Moreno,ArkansasStateUniversity Anna Ciamparella,LouisianaStateUniversity Mort Guiney,KenyonCollege Brantley Nicholson,GeorgiaCollege Brantley Nicholson,GeorgiaCollege Justin Izzo,BrownUniversity Mert BahadirReisoglu,NewYorkUniversity Yu-Yun Hsieh,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Jordan Brower,YaleUniversity David Spitzer,SUNYBinghamton

2:00PM - 3:45PM 3:45PM - 2:00PM 2016

stream C stream acla 191 191 192 stream C acla 192 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 Tails of Intimacy:Monkeys,Kittens,andTeddy Bears in AIDS Media Nostalgia andItsDiscontents,orWhat DoesTestimony DoToday? Northwest B107 Saturday, March19,2016 Aztlán Unprotected: ReadingGilCuadros inthe Aftermath of AIDS The Trace of AIDS inDavidLevithan’sBoyMeets Princesa orPrincipessa?:Italian-Washing and AIDS inTranslation Northwest B107 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: AIDSAT 35 Black DiasporaandInauthenticityinToni Morrison’sTar Baby Literatura Afro-Brasileira A CartadaEscravaEsperançaGarcia eRelaçãodeGênero: UmaNarrativaPrecursora da Cultural HybridityandIdentityBuildingin African American Literature A Capoeira:DaEscravidãoàDiáspora S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 An American Slave,Written ByHimself Violência, Memória Individual e Coletiva em Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, cultural imaginationinanglophoneCaribbean Refiguring thesilenced roots: KamauBrathwaite,diaspora,fragmentation,andthecross- Ayuba SuleimanDIallo Some Memoirs,Histories:CompetingNationalNarrativesandtheLegacyof S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 I CONTEMPORARY WRITINGS DIASPORAS: FROM SLAVE NARRATIVES TO SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURES AND BitterFruit Dangor’s Mere Instruments ofPleasure andPain:BodilyFunctionsDysfunctionsin Achmat Roshaya Rodness,McMaster University Stephanie Youngblood, TulsaCommunityCollege Julie Minich,UniversityofTexasatAustin Michael Buso,WestVirginiaUniversity Kevin Regan-Maglione,UniversityofOregon Stephanie Youngblood,TulsaCommunityCollege Dean Allbritton,ColbyCollege Sebastião Lopes,FederalUniversityofPiauí(UFPI) Elio Souza,StateUniversityofPiauí Celia Helene,IndependentScholar Francílio Trinidade,InstitutoFederaldoMaranhão do Piaui Nilson MacedoMendesJunior,InstitutoFederaldeCiência,EducaçãoeTecnologia Nair Anaya-Ferreira,UniversidadNacionalAutonomadeMexico Emily Kugler,HowardUniversity Sebastião Lopes,FederalUniversityofPiauí Elio Souza,StateUniversityofPiauí Benjamin Fancy,BrownUniversity East Africa) Voyaging toIndia:D.D.T. Jabavu’sTravelogue E-IndiyanaseEast Africa (InIndiaand Commerce, Climate,andCircular Migrationsinthe Afrasian Sea Chinese South African Insularity a Tanzanian Martial Arts andFilmClub Chineseness Before theChinese:HistoricalTraces andContemporaryCulturalProjects in and Africa Common Experiences,Desires: Tracing anIntellectualHistorybetweenChina Barker 133(Plimpton) Saturday, March19,2016 SEMINAR: ASIANANDAFRICANENCOUNTERS Truvada andtheNewGaySexualRevolution There andBack Again: AIDS intheSpanishImaginary Ethics of Austerity Ethics Legislating CitizenshipinaLonely World: ClaudiaRankine’s American Lyric Series Precarious NarrativesandTopographies ofCrisisintheFictionChristosEconomou Producing theFemaleSubject in/of Austerity-Extremity Sever 303 Saturday, March19,2016 Neoliberalism & Affect: TheMethodsofBerlantandCvetkovich Dissident Austerity in Amit Chaudhuri’s A StrangeandSublime Address One toZero: Austere Subjects&NegativeIntimaciesontheEveofWeb 3.0 Antinomies ofExhaustionandPlay:Theorizing Austere Subjects Sever 303 Friday, March18,2016 BEYOND RECOGNITION SEMINAR: AUSTERE SUBJECTS: THINKING THE SELF

Tina Steiner,StellenboschUniversity Neelofer Qadir,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Sean Metzger,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Mohammad YunusRafiq,BrownUniversity Derek Sheridan,BrownUniversity Frieda Ekotto,UniversityofMichigan Tina Steiner,StellenboschUniversity Marie H.Koffi-Tessio,Hobart&WilliamSmithColleges Octavio R.Gonzalez,WellesleyCollege Dean Allbritton,ColbyCollege Pashmina Murthy, Kenyon College Peter Murray,FordhamUniversity Victoria Reuter,PetrosHarisFoundation, AcademyofAthens Sheshalatha Reddy,HowardUniversity Martin A.Jensen,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Sandhya Shetty,UniversityofNewHampshire Brendan Beirne,joojoo.com Stephen Levin,ClarkUniversity Stephen Levin,ClarkUniversity Pashmina Murthy,KenyonCollege

2:00PM - 3:45PM 3:45PM - 2:00PM 2016

stream C stream acla 193 193 194 stream C acla 194 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 The ‘other’ Naxal The ‘other’ English Fiction,Non-Fiction Accounts andTranslations ofNaxalitePoetry Towards aComparative Analysis oftheReceptionNaxaliteMovementinIndian Sever 214 Saturday, March19,2016 Nabankur The Emergence oftheBhadramahila(Gentlewoman)Communist inSulekhaSanyal’s Radical Legacy:MahaswetaDevitoBudhanTheatre Pin Pin’sInvisibleCity Assembling the Archive, Assembling theCity: Archeology, Waste, andMontageinTan Oral InterviewsasProtest Literature: anExplorationofIndo-Caribbean Indenture Sever 214 Friday, March18,2016 ARCHIVES, RESISTANCE LITERATURES AND VERNACULARS SEMINAR: BEYOND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES: RADICAL Wilhelmine Berlin. The FriedrichshagenerKreis -literaryjournalismandtheprofessional press in Literary Journalists Alberto Salcedo-RamosandGayTalese Wild Animals andForces ofNature: TheDuelingBoxingandRacialMetaphorsof The OriginofItalianLiteraryJournalism Emerson 210 Saturday, March19,2016 Journalism Literary Gendering thePublicSphere: RosarioCastellanosandClarice Lispector’s Journalists Without Borders: ComparativeCoverageoftheWar onTerror Between PoliticalMovementand Artistic Value -LiteraryJournalismin1930sChina Emerson 210 Friday, March18,2016 A GLOBAL GENREII SEMINAR: BEYOND BORDERS: LITERARY JOURNALISMAS Reshmi Mukherjee, BoiseStateUniversity Souradeep Roy,UniversityofDelhi Nandini Dhar,FloridaInternationalUniversity Henry Schwarz,GeorgetownUniversity Veronica Jimenez,UniversityofToronto Alison Klein,UniversityofMassachusettsDartmouth Nandini Dhar,FloridaInternationalUniversity Hendrik Michael,Otto-Friedrich-Universität(UniversityofBamberg) Joy Jenkins,UniversityofMissouri Carlos A.Cortés-Martínez,UniversityofMissouri Berkley Hudson,UniversityofMissouri Federico Casari,DurhamUniversity-TheBritishSchoolatRome Ignacio Corona,OhioStateUniversity Lindsay Morton,AvondaleCollegeofHigherEducation,Australia Josh Roiland,UniversityofMaine Lei Qin,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Josh Roiland,UniversityofMaine Friday, March18,2016 (1400-1650) CULTURES OF THE SENSESINEARLY MODERN EUROPE SEMINAR: BEYOND SYNAESTHESIA: STRUCTURES AND the Proletarian Sublime A RiverofBlood-RedSyllables:Varavara Rao’sCaptiveImaginationandtheDialecticof Listening toGraffiti and Tagging Cinema intheContemporaryMediterranean Sever 209 Saturday, March19,2016 Strange DaysandTechno-Futures: EnvisioningBlack Activism through thePosthuman Stephen Hawking’s Apparent HorizonandtheBoundariesofRadicalBlackness Blackness asDisinterestedness: RalphEllison’sRadicalDemocraticThought Autonomous spacesinaracializedstate:MexicoandCongregación Sever 209 Friday, March18,2016 GASEOUS STATE SEMINAR: BIGBANGS: RACE AND RADICALISMINITS Materialities ofMemoryintheTransition BetweenthePrintandPost-PrintCulture Ethnographic Wonder, PopularDiscourse,andRacialScentsinthe Atlantic World Food, Flesh,andFaithin Anatomy Texts inEarlyModernEngland Sever 307 Saturday, March19,2016 Analysis The SenseofTouch inEarlyModernGermanCalvinism:ReligiousRitualasaMethodof Neither DeafNorDeafening: Active Listening According toFrench RenaissancePoetry Apollo’s LamentandtheMusicalPerformanceofMemory Walking withCelestina: An UrbanSensoriuminLateMedieval Rome Sever 307

Stefano Gulizia,C.U.N.Y.NewYork Marlene Eberhart,VanierCollege/Dawson John Maerhofer,CityUniversityofNewYork David Fieni,SUNY CollegeatOneonta Elizabeth Reich,ConnecticutCollege Ricardo Wilson,CornellUniversity Nathaniel Mills,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Northridge Paige Andersson,UniversityofMichigan Elizabeth Reich,ConnecticutCollege Esther Lezra,UniversityofCaliforniaSantaBarbara Ryan Kernan,RutgersUniversityNewBrunswick Sha XinWei,ArizonaStateUniversity/HerbergerInstituteforDesignandtheArts Oana SuteuKhinitirian,ArizonaStateUniversity Andrew Kettler,UniversityofSouthCarolina Jasmine Lellock,IndependentScholar Jacob MBaum,TexasTechUniversity Corinne Noirot,VirginiaTech Marlene Eberhart,VanierCollege Stefano Gulizia,CityUniversityofNewYork

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stream C stream acla 195 195 196 stream C acla 196 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 Fictions “Animals mounted,notstuffed –bothaboutsex,ofcourse”:ContemporaryTaxidermy Olfactory Art, Trans-corporeality, andtheMuseumEnvironment The HumanistDisruptions ofRotimiFani-Kayode Vulnerable ReadingasDe-humanistPractice Science Center116 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: BODIES/TEXTS/MATTER The SocialLifeofSensation:Biopolitics,Logistics,and American “NewEmpire” The PoliticsofPlasticity:Race,NatalityandEducabilityinUNESCO’s Statement onRace Twentieth-Century Virology Miniaturization, Magnification,andtheMicrobiopolitical: RaceandtheColonialityof S040 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Biopolitics “To Cleansethemfrom Pollution”:Medicine,Race,andDegenerationinDracula Biopolitical SacrificeandConsumptioninPadmanabhan’sHarvest The Neobugarrón:SexualTrash, Biopolitics,andLatin/o America Home toHarlem Unhistorical FormsofLifeinNietzsche’sUntimelyMeditationsandClaudeMcKay’s S040 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 CENTURY BIOLOGICAL GOVERNANCE IN THE LONG TWENTIETH SEMINAR: BIOPOLITICALMODERNITIES: EMPIREAND and Amiri Baraka’sRevolutionaryPoeticsofDiscomfort Sharing BadDebt:JackSpicer’s Coins, Aprons andtheColonial Archive: theInsurgent Force ofMinutiae Dialectics ofEtherEthnicity Something More ThanRawMaterial:LangstonHughes,NicolásGuillén,andthe Susan McHugh,University ofNewEngland Hsuan Hsu,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Roderick Ferguson,UniversityofIllinois atChicago Julietta Singh,UniversityofRichmond Nathan Snaza,UniversityofRichmond Julietta Singh,UniversityofRichmond Evan Mauro,UniversityofBritishColumbia Sonali Thakkar,UniversityofChicago Jih-Fei Cheng,ScrippsCollege Steven Pokornowski,WhittierCollege Molly Hall,UniversityofRhodeIsland Ramon Soto-Crespo,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Jennifer Wang,BrownUniversity Evan Mauro,UniversityofBritishColumbia Steven Pokornowski,WhittierCollege,RioHondoCollege Kirsty Singer,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Esther Lezra,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Ryan Kernan,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick REPRESENTATION INNEW THEORETICAL CONTEXTS BREAKING THROUGH:AND TORTURESEMINAR: By, Of,andForthe Anthropocene: A DualistManifesto Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s “Pornocracy”Today Beloved’s DispersedPedagogy Sensuous FleshandExcessiveMaterialites Science Center116 Saturday, March19,2016 Political Implications The French MilitaryWomen’s Action PlanDuring the Algerian War: StrategicStakesand Burning Hijab:TheBurqas andtheBikinis archetypes Prioress, Plath’sPurdah, RaniPadmini’sMystery VeilChaucer’s andTaslima Nasreen’s Sever 111 Friday, March18,2016 POLICING OFBODIESIN(NEO)COLONIALCONTEXTS SEMINAR: BURQAS, BIKINIS, AND THE GENDERED Torture inaSouth Atlantic Frame On Torture andPhenomenologyinVictorian DomesticFiction Contemporary SocietyandTheater Performing Torture: ThePublicSphere and theUnseenin20th-centuryand Sugar andFish:Labor Abuse andSystemicvs.InteractiveViolence Sever 112 Saturday, March19,2016 Textuality inGuantánamoDiary Animating Torture: Affect, Iconography, andtheGuantánamoHungerStrikers Eduardo Rovner Laughing Bodies,BodiesinPain:HowHumor Approaches Torture inTwo Works by Witnessing totheWitnesses Sever 112 Friday, March18,2016

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Karyn Ball,UniversityofAlberta Nathan Snaza,UniversityofRichmond Anne-Gabrielle Roussel, BrownUniversity Devaleena Das,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Anaïs Maurer,ColumbiaUniversity Anna Provitola,ColumbiaUniversity Kerry Bystrom,BardCollegeBerlin Katherine Anderson,IndianaUniversity Sebastian Wogenstein,UniversityofConnecticut Françoise Lionnet,HarvardUniversity Eleni Coundouriotis,UniversityofConnecticut Terri Tomsky,UniversityofAlberta Marin Laufenberg,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Irene Kacandes,DartmouthCollege Kerry Bystrom,BardCollegeBerlin Eleni Coundouriotis,UniversityofConnecticut

2:00PM - 3:45PM 3:45PM - 2:00PM 2016

stream C stream acla 197 197 198 stream C acla 198 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 in thehoodsofSão Paulo,Brazil Live Poetry:someaestheticandpolitical implicationsofthecontemporaryliteraryscene The Dead(ly)City:M.NourbeSePhilip’s Zong! Sever 308 Friday, March18,2016 POETIC WORD INURBAN SPACES SEMINAR: CREATIVE ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM: Spinoza’s Cinema Pornography A Porn About Porn About Porn About Porn:‘NeuWave Hookers’andthe Apparatus of Blanchot, theImage,andCinemaofLifeDeath Sever 205 Saturday, March19,2016 The GrainoftheVoice inthe Age of Atmospheric Media The RhetoricofMadnessinRealistFilmTheory Cinema Without Philosophy:Terrence Malick’sEcoform Sever 205 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: CINEMASOFEXTRACTION: LIFEITSELF Khalifa’s Pornography Bodies, SexualityandtheNationalHonor:TheLebanese‘Othering’RhetoricofMia Cross-Dressed: Western Women Writing SelfinHijabiCultures Deployment ofSexuality (Un)covering theSexualizedFemaleBody:Western FeministStrategiesRegarding the Sever 111 Saturday, March19,2016 in Egypt When LiberationMeansDefecation:Western Feminism’sFascinationwith(Nude)Bodies in Algeria Colonization Muslim Women’s BodyandtheConstruction ofRacializedTime DuringFrench Carlos CortezMinchillo, DartmouthCollege Anne Shea,CaliforniaCollegeoftheArts Anne Shea,CaliforniaCollegeoftheArts Cornelia Gräbner,LancasterUniversity,UK Ilka Kressner,UniversityatAlbany,SUNY Gregory Flaxman,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Robert Thomas,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Jeff Fort,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Alanna Beroiza,RiceUniversity Temenuga Trifonova,YorkUniversity Ted Geier,RiceUniversity Ted Geier,RiceUniversity Assem Nasr,IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversity,FortWayne Colette Morrow,PurdueUniverstiyCalumet Cornelia Möser,CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique Karim Malak,IndependentScholar Karima Ramdani,CentresdeRecherchesSociologiquesetPolitiquesParis Jamaican PerformancePoetry The Body, Neocolonialism,andEconomicDispossession:BodilyDiscourses in1980s’ Lima Flame-Cut:Victoria Guerrero’s SonicPoetryintheNeoliberalCity Naturalization oftheUrban From theFlowerofFactory420toFlowers24City:JiaZhangke’sPoetic Sever 308 Saturday, March19,2016 Jérôme Game’sPosthumanNomadintheNeoliberalMegalopolis Industrial UrbanCentres inEngland’sNorth-West Facets ofDisdainandCulturalDispossession:PoeticResistancesinIndustrialPost- Cut toWalt: The(Dis)embodied CamerainLucasHnath’s …DeathofWalt Disney Seduced bytheMachine:Film,Death, andImmortalityinTheInventionofMorel Boylston G02 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: DEATH BYMACHINE Witnessing Lower-Class IssuesinContemporary African Literature Sulky Proletarians in Argentina: Pleasure asThreat inEliasCastelnuovo’sLateWritings Algerian Writers andtheGambleofLiterature Writing undertheInfluence:Suzanne Voilquin’s Souvenirsd’unefilledupeuple Sever 105 Saturday, March19,2016 Common Occupations:TheLaborofLiteraryProstitution inFin-de-siècleFrance Reading Workers andthe Work ofWriting: George SandandLiteraryLabor Literary LaborinGeorge Sand’sPastoralNovels Pre-Histories ofLiteraryLabor Sever 105 Friday, March18,2016 LITERARY LABORINGLOBAL PERSPECTIVE SEMINAR: CULTURES OFREADING, CULTURES OF WRITING: Stacy Lettman,UniversityofCentralArkansas Ilka Kressner,SUNYAlbany Jasmine Hu,HarvardUniversity Nathalie Wourm,Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon Cornelia Gräbner,LancasterUniversity Kee-Yoon Nahm,Yale University Gina Sherriff,Norwich University Siobhan Mei,UniversityofMassachusetts Amherst Krzysztof Rowi Kate Gross,UniversityofConnecticut Ruben Perez-Hidalgo,DominicanUniversity Lucy RMcNair,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Bettina Lerner,CityCollegeofNewYorkandTheGraduateCenter,CUNY Jessica Tanner,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Rachel Corkle,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversityNewYork Marie-Claire Vallois,CornellUniversity Natasha Lee,YaleUniversity Bettina R.Lerner,TheCityCollegeandtheGraduateCenter,CUNY Rachel Corkle,BMCC,CityUniversityofNewYork

ński, UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst

2:00PM - 3:45PM 3:45PM - 2:00PM 2016

stream C stream acla 199 199 200 stream C acla 200 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 A FuturistDeath:TheExaltationandDemiseoftheManFormedwithIron The StatusofTranslation Performative ReadingsofSorJuana InésdelaCruz Bringing ClassicstoReluctant21stCentury Publics:Monolingual, Anti-Intellectual, and Translingual Practices oftheTranslingual Practice Sever 104 Friday, March18,2016 TRANSLATION SEMINAR: ENGAGING PUBLICSINAND THROUGH Writing Authorial Identity:Play-Texts Farce’ inFielding’s‘The Author’s and Artefacts Sonnets “I hadratherthanfortyshillingsImyBookofSongsandSonnets”: EarlyModern Doing ThingswithWords: TheStrangeCaseofBarnabeBarnes Barker 269(Larsen) Saturday, March19,2016 John Eliot Rocky SpeechandTalking Texts: OralMaterialityintheWorks ofRogerWilliams and Authentic Disclosure andtheUseofPunctuationinThomasTraherne’s Poetry “V” forVermeer: TheShapeofWriting inPainting Letters In/As/OnMaterialObject Barker 269(Larsen) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: EARLY MODERNMATERIALITY Dangerous MachinesandBodilyExhaustion:Cesare Pavese’sLatrilogiadellemacchine Corrigan’s Pulse:Modernism, Architecture, andChrisWare attheChicagoWorld’s Fair Crowded Spaces:MachinesandPoetsinTheUniversalExpositions Boylston G02 Saturday, March19,2016 Photography Kills:DeathbytheCamera Sophia Farmer,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Adriana Jacobs,University ofOxford Isabel Gómez,UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles Chen Wang,UniversityofMinnesota Spencer Hawkins,BilkentUniversity Sandra Bermann,PrincetonUniversity Ashley Bender,TexasWoman’sUniversity Sapna Balakrishnan,TheEnglishandForeignLanguagesUniversity Pablo Maurette,UniversityofChicago Caroline Egan,StanfordUniversity Tanya Zhelezcheva,QueensboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY W. JudeLeBlanc,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology Erika MaryBoeckeler,NortheasternUniversity Erika Boeckeler,NortheasternUniversity Krzysztof Rowi Kevin Donnelly,AlverniaUniversity Siobhan Mei,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Joanna Madloch,MontclairStateUniversity ński, UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Resistance Transgression oftheSayable:NarrativeCommunitiesTranslation duringtheGezi Fiat Lux,Translatio: An EthicsforEngineeringinTranslationscapes Power in/through Translation intheMayFourthDiscursive Arenas TranslationApproaching Activism Sever 104 Saturday, March19,2016 Making RuinsofRuins:Palmyra,Traumatism, Comparison Broken Cosmopolitanism inContemporaryLatin American Fiction The Urgency ofGenre intheEraofGlobalizingTrauma Cannot Teaching World Literature in An Age of Trauma: Texts ThatCirculate andPeopleWho Science CenterHallC Friday, March18,2016 LITERATURE SEMINAR: GLOBALIZATION, TRAUMA, COMPARATIVE Forgetting Animals: UntimelyReflectionsinNietzscheand Adorno Like/as aLion.ContestingContainment. Licenses toKill:Cecil,Hogan’sPower, andtheSacrificial EthicsofConservationHunting Sever 201 Saturday, March19,2016 Fire ofmyLions,or:Shere KhaninVenice Lions Carnivore/Raubtier: Schiller’s Hospitality forthe Animal Sever 201 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: FIGURINGANIMALANDNATURE

Inci Sariz-Bilge,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Jordan Smith,JosaiInternationalUniversity Yumiao Bao,UniversityofEdinburgh Marlene Esplin,BrighamYoungUniversity Jennifer Ballengee, Towson University Maria JoseNavia,PontificiaUniversidad CatólicadeChile Renee MichelleRagin,DukeUniversity Basak Candar,AppalachianStateUniversity Jennifer Ballengee,TowsonUniversity David Kelman,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Fullerton Osman Nemli,EmoryUniversity Susanne Fuchs,NewYorkUniversity Sarah Groeneveld,GettysburgCollege Eckart Goebel,UniversityofTübingen Kurt Hollender,NewYorkUniversity Mukasa Mubirumusoke,EmoryUniversity OsmanNemli, EmoryUniversity Mukasa Mubirumusoke,EmoryUniversity Kurt Hollender,NewYorkUniversity Susanne Fuchs,NewYorkUniversity

2:00PM - 3:45PM 3:45PM - 2:00PM 2016

stream C stream acla 201 201 202 stream C acla 202 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 Horror Film Monsters MasqueradingasChildren: Violence againstKidsintheContemporary Horror Film,Trauma, andTraumatophilia Shared MonstersofPageandScreen Yenching Auditorium Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: HORROR I History’s Agent: ChineseCommunistLiterature andthePathtoUtopia (1972) Revolutionary Literature asNews:Guillermo Atías’ “Tabloid Novel”… Y corríaelbillete Las Meninas Revolutionary Stages:ReasonandDissentinBrecht’s LifeofGalileoandBuero Vallejo’s Sever 101 Saturday, March19,2016 RevolutionarySchisms:TheJournalisticFormationofDostoevsky’sDemons Davis (1974) Talking aboutBlackRevolution:The Autobiographies of Anne Moody(1968)and Angela and theNihilisticRevolutionary The EvolutionofIntellectualsinLaoShe’sFiction:“NewHamlet,”“SuperfluousMan” From Comradeto Apostle: PopularRevolutionandPersonalGloryinZola’sGerminal Sever 101 Friday, March18,2016 REVOLUTION SEMINAR: GREAT LEAPSFORWARD: LITERATURE AND Common Catastrophes Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound:Trauma andthePoliticalUnconsciousofRomanticism Comparison The Absent Cita:Traumatic National Allegories ofLatin America andtheLimitsof The PermanentParabasisoftheWorld: “Blow-up” UnframedComparisoninCortázar’s Science CenterHallC Saturday, March19,2016 Karen Renner,Northern ArizonaUniversity Kelly Hurley,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Thomas Britt,GeorgeMasonUniversity Jack Dudley,MountSaintMary’sUniversity Lauren Parker,StanfordUniversity Elizabeth Hochberg,PrincetonUniversity Beatrice Mazzi,ColumbiaUniversity Jennie Wojtusik,UniversityofTexasatAustin Michaela Keck,CarlvonOssietzkyUniversityofOldenburg Xi Tian,BucknellUniversity Biliana Kassabova,StanfordUniversity Lauren Parker,StanfordUniversity Biliana Kassabova,StanfordUniversity Brian McGrath,ClemsonUniversity David Brookshire,UniversityofMaryland Matthew Berger,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia David Kelman,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Fullerton the Horror ofTheology Darkness MysticismandNegativeEnchantments:EugeneThacker, True Detective,and Dreadful Things:ObjectOntologyin‘TheWhisperer InDarkness’ Comprehension TheThingandItFollows:Unnamed,theUnfamiliar, andthePurpose(lessness)of Nightmares toLiveBy–ThomasLigotti’sPhilosophicalHorror Yenching Auditorium Saturday, March19,2016 Astronaut Adrift: Alienation, the Abyss, andthe“Outer”inGlobalizedOuterSpace Contemporary Iranian Art: Overcoming RegionalCul-de-sac Seminar Room(Dana-PalmerBldg.) Friday, March18,2016 PERSIAN ART ANDCULTURE I SEMINAR: IRANISNOT ASITIS TOLD: CONTEMPORARY Immateriality andStandardization: InformationandDifference inModernist Aesthetics Spacious Immateriality Presence Without Presence and Abstraction Coins Barker 24(McFadden) Saturday, March19,2016 perdonaren Resurrection andthePoeticsofHylomorphism: Ausiàs March, Aquelles mansquejamés and HistoriographicalCase(13th14thcenturies) From the Abstract totheMaterial:Textualizing Vengeance inMedievalIberia:The Epic The MatterofLanguage:ImmaterialPoeticsinTroubadour Lyric Barker 24(McFadden) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: IMMATERIAL STUDIES

Jack Dudley,MountSt.Mary’sUniversity Kyle Ott,SyracuseUniversity Shastri Akella,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Atene Mendelyte,LundUniversity Nicholas Huber,DukeUniversity Samine Tabatabaei,McGillUniversity Christopher Larkosh,UMassDartmouth Azra Ghandeharion,FerdowsiUniversityofMashhad Jason Hoelscher,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity Laura Yoder,NewYorkUniversity Heather Bamford,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity Simone Pinet,CornellUniversity Henry Berlin,SUNYBuffalo Oscar Martin,LehmanCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Christopher Davis,NorthwesternUniversity Henry Berlin,SUNYUniversityatBuffalo Simone Pinet,CornellUniversity

2:00PM - 3:45PM 3:45PM - 2:00PM 2016

stream C stream acla 203 203 204 stream C acla 204 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 Arab-Islamic Humour Hassan waMorcus: Comedy andReligioninEgyptianFilm The MeansandEndsof Yasir al-Manawihly’sSatire Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LATE-MODERN LAUGHTER IN THE MIDDLEEAST Great ofLoveLabyrinth:SorJuanaInésdelaCruz’s Amative Prodigality Labyrinth ofDesire inEarlyModernHispanicTheatre: From LopetoSorJuana A LabyrinthofPerspectives:Velázquez and theLimitsofVisible Quijote Severing Ariadne’s Thread: TheLabyrinthasConstructive ParadigminCervantes’sDon Northwest B109 Saturday, March19,2016 TheRoutetoKnowledge:Borges’s andMedievalScandinavianLabyrinths Centuries Into theLabyrinth:TheCrónicaGeraldeEspanha1344Between14thand17th Occult Crypts:Readingand/asDisorientation Northwest B109 Friday, March18,2016 AND EARLY MODERNCULTURES SEMINAR: LABYRINTHASPARADIGM INLATE MEDIEVAL The BridgebetweenPopularandEliteIran:MahmoudFarshchian’sPainting The OntologyandWorldview in Artistic Creation Seminar Room(Dana-PalmerBldg.) Saturday, March19,2016 Magic RealisminRezaBaraheni’sTheSecrets ofmyHomeland Da andI’m Alive: TheHonorofPopularityand Authenticity Paolo Branca,Catholic UniversityofMilan(Italy) Rania Mahmoud,University ofNorthCarolinaWilmington Noha Radwan,UniversityofCalifornia, Davis Rania Mahmoud,UniversityofNorthCarolinaWilmington Hardy Griffin,IndependentScholar Guillermo MiguelMorales-Jodra,TempleUniversity Javier Rubiera,UniversitédeMontréal Alodia Martin-Martinez,TempleUniversity Eli Cohen,SwarthmoreCollege Sergio FernándezMoreno,UniversidadAutónomadeMadrid Carlos Pio,UniversityofPennsylvania Erica Weaver,HarvardUniversity Victor SierraMatute,UniversityofPennsylvania Berkeley Ana GarrigaEspino,UniversidadAutónomadeMadrid-UniversityofCalifornia, Azra Ghandeharion,FerdowsiUniversityofMashhad Mahmoud Farshchian,MinistryofArtandCulture Mohammadreza Golshani,NayshabourUniversity Mahmoud RezaGhorbanSabbagh,FerdowsiUniversityofMashhad Azra Ghandeharion,FerdowsiUniversityofMashhad Maryam Mousavi,FerdowsiUniversityofMashhad Contemporary Arab Cinema” Contemporary Arab “Perceived inthisNarrow Frame,There Is NothingtoLaughat:TheUseofHumorin Positive Demolition:TheLiminalStatusof Aziz Nesin’sHumor of theTurkish InvectiveTradition “Is thisthehumanherd ofassesyou’vecreated?”: NeyzenTevfik andthe Transformation Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 the Bullets’ Euphoria andDisillusion:Re-Presenting theChineseJazz Age inJiangWen’s ‘Gonewith Early 20th-CenturyChinesePopular Fiction “Industrial Fiction”and“StockMarket Fiction:”Morality, Commerce, andModernity in Valuing theVirtual: Tech BoomsandThePlasticityofValue Racial LogicofCredit “Have PatienceWith MeandIWill Pay You Everything”:Winthrop, Equiano,andthe Sever 204 Friday, March18,2016 BUBBLE INGLOBAL CONTEXTS SEMINAR: LITERATURE ANDCULTURE OFECONOMIC The LawoftheOutlaw:NormalizationViolence inCartuchoandIndio Borrado On theDe-BanalizationofEvil Entre laLegalidadyLegitimidadElCuerpoDolientedeUnaMadre S153 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Mexican LawandPolygamousOrder: TheKidnappingofEricLeBaron Ethics andtheLawlessLawofFacebook,Narcos andHedgefundManagers Asked and Answered: Legal Narrative,Trope andCredibility inStatev. Zimmerman S153 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 COMPARATIVE READINGS SEMINAR: LAWLESSNESS, LEGALSTUDIES, ANDGRIEF:

Michelle Baroody,UniversityofMinnesota Hardy Griffin,IndependentScholar Michael D.Sheridan,BilkentUniversity Yun Zhu,TempleUniversity Peijie Mao,UniversityofNorthGeorgia Rob Hardesty,UniversityofKentucky Colin Drumm,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Yoshihiro Yasuhara,CarnegieMellonUniversity Ikuho Amano,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln Rafael Acosta,UniversityofKansas Brian Gollnick,UniversityofIowa Leticia MoraPerdomoBrauchli,UniversidadVeracruzana Rebecca Janzen,BlufftonUniversity John Waldron,UniversityofVermont Colin Christensen,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Abigail Stepnitz,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Emily Hind,UniversityofFlorida

2:00PM - 3:45PM 3:45PM - 2:00PM 2016

stream C stream acla 205 205 206 stream C acla 206 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 Novel Series The EndofFables:Trauma, Corporeality andtheGazeinaRecent, PopularGraphic Visual Medical Representation: From GraphicSatire toGraphicNovels Science CenterHallE Friday, March18,2016 THE MEDICINE, LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS I SEMINAR: MEDICALHUMANITIES: READING THE BODY IN After theDesert:TheContemporaryScene Peripheral Naturalism:NarrativeFormandtheModesofProduction Vanguardism in1930sQueerForm World Literature, Totality, andtheUnrepresentable System Sever 208 Saturday, March19,2016 Literary Cartography, Marxism,andForm A TheoryofForm:Newsfrom Ideological Antiquity Raymond Williams andtheEcologyofForms The FormalismofExperimental American Poetry Sever 208 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: MARXISMANDFORMALISM TODAY II Economic NovelasLiteraryGenre Imagined Catharsis:IkeidoJun’s‘We, theGenerationofBubble’andPopular ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ The NotionofMaternityDuringtheLostDecadeJapanThrough Haruki Murakami’s When LibidinalEconomyRan Amok: TheCautionaryTale of‘NeonGenesisEvangelion’ Kenji Nakagami’s‘Supreme Time attheEndofEarth’ Proto-Historiography and oftheBubbleEconomy:William Gibson’s‘Neuromancer’ Sever 204 Saturday, March19,2016 Lisa DeTora,Hofstra University Carl Fisher,CaliforniaStateUniversity, LongBeach Stephanie Hilger,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Lisa DeTora,HofstraUniversity Davis Smith-Brecheisen,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Hoang Phan,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Glyn Salton-Cox,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Oded Nir,OhioStateUniversity Robert Tally,TexasStateUniversity Silvia López,CarletonCollege Thomas Laughlin,UniversityofToronto Joel Duncan,UniversityofNotreDame Thomas Laughlin,UniversityofToronto Oded Nir,TheOhioStateUniversity Ikuho Amano,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln Burcu Genc,UniversityofTokyo Yu-I YvetteHsieh,RutgersUniversity Yoshihiro Yasuhara,CarnegieMellonUniversity The IconographyofanEpidemic:Christianityand AIDS Advertisements Spiritual Diseases:DiscoursesofSinandIllnessinTheories Addiction Diagnoses inFin-de-siècleParis Writing Hysteria,Reading(hi)stories:WhenDoctorsTell StoriesandNovelists Make Science CenterHallE Saturday, March19,2016 Interdisciplinary Bridges:GenderandGenre inLiterature andMedicine Bacteriological Modernism World Wars Making PoliticsIntimate:TheCandid CameraandtheFramingofPowerBetween Boylston 105 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: POLITICS, INTIMACY, ANDKINSHIPI Remediation, Photography, Reparation Hatred ofPhotography...and OtherFixations (1860-1920) Learning toSee:MethodsofKnowledgeProduction in Art HistoryandMedicine “The bookwasnotenough”:Notesfrom theChileanBattlefield Sever 213 Saturday, March19,2016 Postcards from UncommonPlaces Hemon’s ‘TheLazarus Project’ Diplopia andtheDispossessed:PhotographsFragmentedSelfin Aleksander Mirrors, Windows, Cameras,andNewDocuments: Autophotobiography andtheBook Autobiography, the Archive, andGertrude Stein’sPhoto-Fictions Sever 213 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE BOOKI

Liam Monaghan,YorkUniversity Brendan McGillicuddy,UniversityofMinnesota Emilie Garrigou-Kempton,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Stephanie Hilger,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Jens LohfertJørgensen,AalborgUniversity Annie Rudd,Columbia University Laila Amine,UniversityofNorthTexas Nada Ayad,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Sandra SoHeeChiKim,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Seungyeon GabrielleJung,BrownUniversity Jennifer Bajorek,HampshireCollege Jadwiga Kamola,Ruprecht-Karls-UniversitätHeidelberg Natalia Brizuela,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Tracy Stuber,UniversityofRochester Ece Aykol,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Michael Mascuch,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Emily Setina,UniversityofNevada,LasVegas Natalia Brizuela,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Clara Masnatta,ICIBerlin

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stream C stream acla 207 207 208 stream C acla 208 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 L. Velásquez Deploying theSupernatural:Gender IdentityintheworksofGloria Anzaldúa andGloria Emerson 108 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: QUEERNESS AND THE SUPERNATURAL I Notebook ofaReturntotheNativeLand “ThisThrong SoStrangelyChatteringandMute”:TheNoisy Crowd inCésaire’s Migration, Bestialization,andtheScreaming Voice ofPosthumanistRights Hearing the Animal Inside Sever 305 Saturday, March19,2016 Vox Mundi:or, HowTo ListentotheVoice oftheWorld Question ofthe Animal “Une langueouunemusiqueinouïe,assezinhumaine…”:NarrativeVoice andthe For More ThanOurVoices: Cavarero, Wordsworth, Bartok,andthePosthuman Sever 305 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: POSTHUMANIST VOCALITY I Today I Am aBoy “Not justaboutmeandmybody”:ExploringCross-Racial KinshipsinKimFu’sFor Queer Exceptionalisms:Kinship,Settlement,andtheMoravianTheologyofGrace Gures’s Photography Ayse LovesFatma:FemaleHomoerotic IntimacyandthePublic/NationalSpaceinNilbar Boylston 105 Saturday, March19,2016 Korean HanasPostcolonialBiologism and LeaveittoMe Asian Adoption inCrimeNovelsbyDonLeeandBharatiMukherjee:CountryofOrigin Intimate Justice:TheCaseofSoniaSotomayor Sandra Russo,Wayne StateUniversity Elizabeth Howard,UniversityofOregon J. LeighMyers,UniversityofOregon Yanie Fecu,PrincetonUniversity Lacey Schauwecker,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Naomi Beeman,KansasCityArtInstitute Dominic Pettman,NewSchoolforSocialResearch Kári Driscoll,UtrechtUniversity Andrew Welch,LoyolaUniversityChicago Miriam Piilonen,NorthwesternUniversity Kári Driscoll,UtrechtUniversity Gregory Fenton,McMasterUniversity Gino Conti,WhittierCollege Duygu Ula,UniversityofMichigan Sandra SoHeeChiKim,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Jenny HeijunWills,UniversityofWinnipeg Vivian Halloran,IndianaUniversityBloomington Aliens intheCloset Once Upon An EnchantedOrgy: FairyTale Porn asanErotic Equalizer All theWorld isaVampire –Blood,BoozeandGangbanginPoppyBrite’sLostSouls Touching theOtherWorld: Femininity, Science,andtheImageryofEctoplasms Emerson 108 Saturday, March19,2016 Supernatural Queernessin Antebellum African American SlaveNarratives Becoming MyOwnGhost:SpectralCircularity asQueerStance Female Homoeroticism andtheSupernaturalinModern Arabic Fiction ‘God HelptheChild’ Speaking theUnspeakable: Agency andLackinToni Morrison’s‘TheBluestEye’and Jerry andHamlet,ChesnuttShakespeare Americanah “What’s LoveGottoDowithIt?”:Romance,Race,andNarrativePleasure in Adichie’s Morrison’s Paradise Dislocating theReader:Political,Psychological,andTextual DisplacementinToni Barker 114(Kresge) Saturday, March19,2016 the UtopianForm Ambivalent Politicsand Ambivalent Genres: SuttonGriggs’sImperiuminImperioand “a franticspuriousbabble”:Writing RaceinCoetzee’sIntheHeartofCountry Narrative Disidentification:FormandIdentityinMorrison’sSongofSolomon Slavery, Narrative,andTime inThree Contemporary Novels Rehabilitating Whiteness:Black Able-bodiedness asNarrativeProsthesis Barker 114(Kresge) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: RACE ANDNARRATIVE FORM

Laura Osur,IndependentScholar London Brickley,UniversityofMissouri Julia Andres,BielefeldUniversity Claudie Massicotte,YoungHarrisCollege Christopher S.Lewis,WesternKentuckyUniversity Daniella Gati,BrandeisUniversity Kate Goodin,UniversityofTexasatAustin Sheldon George,SimmonsCollege Nicholas Rinehart,HarvardUniversity Joanne Freed,OaklandUniversity Jean Wyatt,OccidentalCollege Samantha Simon,UniversityofWashington Agata Szczeszak-Brewer,WabashCollege Catherine Romagnolo,LebanonValleyCollege Erin Salius,StonehillCollege Megan Obourn,SUNYBrockport Sheldon George,SimmonsCollege Jean Wyatt,OccidentalCollege

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stream C stream acla 209 209 210 stream C acla 210 2:00PM - 3:45PM 2016 Medieval ChineseGhostStories:Fiction andHistory Fantasy, Mysticism,andtheErotic inRaja Alem’s Fatma Women Sapphic MarriageinKorean PopularFiction:From Women Warriors toSelf-Made Milan Kundera’sFantasyofTotalitarianism Barker 403(Finnegan) Saturday, March19,2016 Traveling MonkeyKingintheMaoistEra:Journey Across Time andNationalBorders Media Transgression andMadameWhite:NewStagesforanOldTale Republic ofChina,1949-1966 When aGhostisNotGhost:DiscoursesofMythologyandSuperstitioninthePeople’s Barker 403(Finnegan) Friday, March18,2016 AND GLOBAL POPULAR CULTURES I SEMINAR: RETELLINGFANTASTIC TALES INEASTASIAN Seeing Eucharistically:Derrida’sPoliticalTheologyoftheMassMedia Literature andthePoliticalTheologicalRemains Secularism’s Logicof Autoimmunity Science Center110 Saturday, March19,2016 Blake’s “PrintingHouseinHell” Prayer andReligioninT. S.Eliot’sFourQuartets Jamesian Community Who’s Listening?Presence and Absence inDevotionalPoetry Science Center110 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: READINGRELIGIOUSLY I Dylan PengfeiWang,UniversityofAlberta Ghadir Zannoun,UniversityofKentucky Yoon SunYang,BostonUniversity Amanda Vredenburgh,IndianaUniversityBloomington Hang Wu,HongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnology Tarryn Chun,HarvardUniversity Maggie Greene,MontanaStateUniversity-Bozeman Liang Luo,UniversityofKentucky Adam Stern,HarvardUniversity Sarah Hammerschlag,UniversityofChicago Nathaniel Conroy,BrownUniveristy Kris Trujillo,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley David Marno,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Amy Hollywood,HarvardDivinitySchool Constance Furey,IndianaUniversity Jerilyn Sambrooke,U.C.Berkeley Eleanor Craig,HarvardDivinitySchool Kris Trujillo,U.C.Berkeley An Ayyubid Renaissance:Salahal-Din,from KnighthoodtoNahdah Global RevolutionaryandCulturalPhenomenon.” “From theStreets ofSīdBouztoDukeUniversity:al-Shābb’sNeo-ClassicalPoetryasa Makaan al’AanII Violence PastWrit Now:IntertextualityandViolence in Adonis’ al-Kitaab Amsi, al- The Atlal andtheCulture ofRuins Science Center105 Friday, March18,2016 ARABIC LITERATURE I SEMINAR: THE CLASSICALIN THE MODERN: SPECTERSOF Form, Temporality, andtheTheoryof Novel Intellectual HistoryasaChallengeto LiteraryTheory Rereading theUrn Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 No Apologies Do theHumanitiesMakeProgress? Toward the Autonomy ofLiteraryStudy Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: TOWARD THE AUTONOMY OFLITERARY STUDY I The BookShelfintheInnerRoom:Post-ClassicalPoeticsModern Arabic Literature Arabic Auto/biography: ShiftingGrounds andProspects Ma`arri asSignifierofModernityinNeoclassical ArabicLiterature Science Center105 Saturday, March19,2016

Samuel England,UniversityofWisconsin–Madison Nizar F.Hermes,UniversityofVirginia Clarissa Burt,UnitedStatesNavalAcademy Terri DeYoung,UniversityofWashington Yasmine Khayyat,RutgersUniversity Muhsin Al-Musawi,ColumbiaUniversity Jennifer Fleissner,IndianaUniversity Bloomington Justin Weir,HarvardUniversity Richard Strier,UniversityofChicago Eric Hayot,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Paul Grimstad,YaleUniversity Daniel Braun,PrincetonUniversity Benjamin Barasch,ColumbiaUniversity Daniel Braun,PrincetonUniversity Benjamin Barasch,ColumbiaUniversity Sahar Ullah,ColumbiaUniversity Muhsin al-Musawi,ColumbiaUniversity Kevin Blankinship,UniversityofChicago

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stream C stream acla 211 211 212 stream D acla 212 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Shuresh andViolent Nationalism: UnderstandingIranianRadicalDiscourseinImages Women withoutMen:From IranianFeminismtoDiasporic Seminar Room(Dana-PalmerBldg.) Saturday, March19,2016 Opportunities andConflictsWhich Woman journalistsDeal With Iranian Women andCinema,aftertheIslamicRevolution Exhibiting theCity:Site-specificityinNegarFarajiani’s Tehran MonoxideProject Seminar Room(Dana-PalmerBldg.) Friday, March18,2016 PERSIAN ART ANDCULTURE II SEMINAR: IRANISNOT ASITIS TOLD: CONTEMPORARY americanas Hablar delasancestras:memória,diásporaelugarnasliteraturasnegrasfemininas Belonging Diaspora through theVoice ofDionneBrand:Searching theMaptoPlaceof la Literatura El Criollismoen América: ElContextoHistóricoylosReferentes Histórico-culturalesen S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Marcas identitárias,espiritualidaderastafárieoreggae noBrasil Narrativas afro-diaspóricas emcançõesdeGilbertoGil Maroons andRenegades:RevolutionaryBlackWomen Writers ofthe Americas passagem Tão longe,tãoperto:Osório Alves de Castro ePatrickChamoiseau,ohumanismopede S020 BelferCaseStudyRoom(CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 II CONTEMPORARY WRITINGS DIASPORAS: FROM SLAVE NARRATIVES TO SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURES AND Neda Bolourchi,ColumbiaUniversity Cyrus Amiri,UniversityofKurdistan Elham MoeiniJazani,IslamicAzadUniversity,CentralTehranBranch Elaheh Koolaee,TehranUniversity Deanna Kashani,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Christopher Larkosh,UMassDartmouth Azra Ghandeharion,FerdowsiUniversityofMashhad Alcione Alves,UniversidadeFederaldoPiauí Aurea ReginadoNascimentoSantos,FederalInstituteofPiauí Josinaldo OliveiradosSantos,UniversidaddelEstadodePiauí-Brasil Francisca Cavalcante,UniversidadeFederaldoPiauí Feliciano BezerraFilho,UniversidadeEstadualdoPiauí Delphine Gras,FloridaGulfCoastUniversity Luiz Valverde,UniversidadeEstadualdeFeiraSantana Technology ofPiauí Áurea ReginadoNascimentoSantos,FederalInstituteofEducation,Scienceand Alcione CorreaAlvez,FederalUniversityofPiauí Friday, March18,2016 LITERATURE) SEMINAR: LITERATURE IN THE WORLD (ANDNOT WORLD Return: Writing Literature, ReadingSociety Forming Self:SmartPhonesInContemporaryIran Counterstories: Visual SpectacleandtheGlobal Novel Singularity, Multimodality, Transmediality: theFuture(s) oftheNovel? The NovelasSocialNetwork:Reading MarkZ.Danielewski’s‘TheFamiliar’ Code/Words: InternetEkphrasisandPolitical Agency inContemporaryFiction Science Center110 Friday, March18,2016 NEW TEXTUALITIES AND SEMINAR: LITERATURE’S BOUNDARY WORK: NEWMEDIA Visualizing Literature intheWorld atthe2016 ACLA The InternationalWriting Program inIowa andtheSocialityof‘Literature intheWorld’ Translations,Hoffmeister’s Journalism,ComicStrips andCaricatures Worlding Literature Before andDuringCommunisminCzechoslovakia: Adolf Importance of“KnowingThyEnemy” From CulturalColdWar totheWorld RepublicofLetters:“CoverBooks”andthe Barker 269(Larsen) Saturday, March19,2016 Czechoslovakia The SweetFlypaper:Světováliteraturaand American Literature inCommunist Traduttore, Traditore; or, Americanists inUnexpectedPlaces before andafter National Literatures ascomponentsfor“Literature oftheworld”orWorld Literature: China The InstitutionofSocialistRealismandtheShiftingVision ofWorld Literature inSocialist Barker 269(Larsen)

Brian Goodman,HarvardUniversity Jessie Labov,OhioStateUniversity Ahmad Shakeri,UniversityofLimoges Zahra Ojagh,InstitutionofHumanandCulturalStudies Juan Meneses,University ofNorthCarolinaatCharlotte Grzegorz Maziarczyk, JohnPaulIICatholicUniversityof Lublin Julia Panko,WeberStateUniversity Annie Galvin,UniversityofVirginia Jonathan Abel,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Scott Kushner,UniversityofRhodeIsland Jap-Nanak Makkar,UniversityofVirginia Annie Galvin,UniversityofVirginia Jessie Labov,OhioStateUniversity Bill Martin,ImreKerteszKolleg,FriedrichSchillerUniversityJena Michelle Woods,SUNYNewPaltz Yanping Zhang,HarvardUniversity Brian Goodman,HarvardUniversity George Blaustein,UniversityofAmsterdam Rahilya Geybullayeva,BakuSlavicUniversity Yucong Hao,UniversityofMichigan

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 213 213 214 stream D acla 214 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Pantheism Shifts:TheTransformation ofSpinoza,1770-1890 Dissonant Materialism:Discordant DiscussionsamongRameau,Diderot andD’Alembert Materialist Posterities:LiteraryReception asThrow ofDiceintheWork ofDenisDiderot Sever 112 Friday, March18,2016 PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE ANDLITERATURE SEMINAR: MATERIALISMS/RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENTS IN Migration andDisability:Southeast Asian MigrantNarrativesinTaiwan Away intheWorld: George LammingandTheNovel ofUnderdevelopment The MetabolicNarrator Ishiguro’s Unreliable NarratorandJapan’sEmpathyDeficit Northwest B107 Saturday, March19,2016 The Self-HelpNovelandtheLiteraryEconomyof Asian Service Gyopo’s Homecoming:ImaginingNorthKorea inLiterature ofReturnMigration An Alternative Ethicsof Aid intheFictionofNuruddin Farah Chinese Developmentin Africa Battle Hymnofthe Afropolitan: Afro-Asian ModelMinoritiesandthe Afterlives of Northwest B107 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: LITERATURES OFDEVELOPMENT the Real Not EveryonePoops:PrivateLanguageIcons,SocialMediaFictions,andtheSubtitlefor What IsNon-Literature? ‘Das richtigeLebenimfalschen’:Marketing,MediaandtheirDiscontents Coetzee Against theDisc:LiteraryOwnershipandOurFearofNewMedia Science Center110 Saturday, March19,2016 Tracie Matysik,UniversityofTexasat Austin Scott Sanders,DartmouthCollege Masano Yamashita,UniversityofColorado Boulder Blanca Misse,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Grace Hui-chuanWu,NationalCentralUniversity Peter Ribic,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Anne McKnight,ShirayuriCollege Sunny Xiang,YaleUniversity Ragini Srinivasan,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Na-Rae Kim,UniversityofMinnesota Karin Gosselink,YaleUniversity Christopher Fan,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Sunny Xiang,YaleUniversity Christopher Fan,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Jonathan Abel,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Scott Kushner,UniversityofRhodeIsland Andrew McCann,DartmouthCollege Jap-Nanak Makkar,UniversityofVirginia Enlightenment” Vico, Leopardi, andtheImpactofScientificMaterialism intheItalian“Counter- Philosophical Interpretation Diderot’s ExperimentalMaterialism:TheSocialandPoliticalDimensionsofScientific/ Materialist Legacy Too SoontoTell: StephenJayGould’sReadingoftheFrench RevolutionasaView ofHis Sever 112 Saturday, March19,2016 Sertão: Veredas Performative Pactários:anEpistemology oftheMetafictitiousinLolitaandGrande Unreliable Metafiction:Kurt Vonnegut, MarioBellatinandEloyUrroz Northwest B106 Friday, March18,2016 CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE AND FILM SEMINAR: METAFICTION AND THE EXPERIMENTAL DRIVEIN From ScientiatoHistoria:Representing theBodyinEarlyModernEurope Enlightened Wax Works: Viewing the Anatomical Woman intheViennese Josephinum The BodyasaMetaphor:thePracticeofSelf-mummificationinJapan Thinking inMore thanTwos: Bi-andPoly-sexinEarlySexology Science CenterHallE Saturday, March19,2016 Aching Bodies,MedicalImages,andHealingWords LookatMe. in Anita Brookner’s in Iran The BodyNarrativeofTranssexuality: DocumentaryFilmandthePoliticsofSexChange Photography ofHannahWilke The Auto-Portrait ofIllness:Seeing theSelfasOtherSeesinPerformative Medical PatrimonyandtheFemaleBodyinPostmodernCinema Science CenterHallE Friday, March18,2016 THE MEDICINE, LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS II SEMINAR: MEDICALHUMANITIES: READING THE BODY IN

Christopher Nixon,QuinnipiacUniversity Blanca Missé,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Matthew Lau,QueensboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY Alexandra Brostoff, UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Dustin Dill,UniversityofPennsylvania Javier Muñoz,UniversityofColorado atBoulder Dustin Dill,UniversityofPennsylvania Xinyao Xiao,UniversityofTexasatAustin Angelika Pumberger,UniversityofVienna Giovanni Borriello,RomaTreUniversity Katelyn DykstraDykerman,UniversityofManitoba Laurence Petit,UniversitéPaulValéry-Montpellier3,France Najmeh MoradiyanRizi,UniversityofKansas Elizabeth Lanphier,VanderbiltUniversity Linda Saladin-Adams,FloridaStateUniversity Lisa DeTora,HofstraUniversity Stephanie Hilger,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 215 215 216 stream D acla 216 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 material environments. Representational StrategiesofFemale Alterity inFaïzaGuène’sNovels:Urbanand Sever 105 Friday, March18,2016 OF THETEXT NATURE(S)SEMINAR: Rethinking ContrapuntalPossibilities:Edward SaidandMusical-LiteraryInterpretation Mütterlein” “WennSong asDualReading:Formal Analysis Through PoeticReadinginMahler’s dein Truth Harmony andLogic,ContradictionComposition in Adorno’s MusicalConceptionof Northwest B109 Saturday, March19,2016 Hölderlin’s Voices: A MusicalCross-reading Play-full Scoring:MusicTheoryinSamuelBeckett’sFootfalls Literary MusicainDante’sLaCommediaandthe1589MediciIntermedi Adorno’s Agon: ReadingStravinskyinSearch ofthe Authentic Northwest B109 Friday, March18,2016 PRODUCTION FOR COMPARING MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, ANDLITERARY SEMINAR: MUSIC—THEORY—TEXT: CRITICALSTRATEGIES Patricio Pron andthe“Distresses” ofNarrativeProgression Shock Tactics: Eroticism asMetafiction Perec, Borges andSemiocapitalism Precarious Authors: MetafictionalDriveinContemporaryPeruvian Narrative Northwest B106 Saturday, March19,2016 The Artist Drawing:MetafictioninChildren’s Picturebooks The GameofSelf-writinginthe American Metafictional Novel Alexandrine Mailhe, UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Alexandrine Mailhe,UniversityofCalifornia atDavis Loic Bourdeau,UniversityofLouisiana atLafayette Robert Ryan,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Dan Deutsch,UniversityofToronto Eric Oberle,ArizonaStateUniversity Heidi Hart,DukeUniversity Shane Thorn,SUNYBuffalo Juliana Chapman,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Marc Caplan,UniversityofMichigan Eric Oberle,ArizonaStateUniversity Marc Caplan,FrankelInstitute,UniversityofMichigan Lori Hopkins,UniversityofNewHampshire Julia Boog,UniversityofHamburg Marc Kohlbry,CornellUniversity Javier Munoz,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis,NewYorkInstituteofTechnology Saloua Karoui-Elounelli,ÉcoleNormaleSupérieureUniversityofTunis Wilting NormsandFlourishingHomosexualityin André Béland’sOragesurmoncorps La terre estlemeilleurécrivain:Memory, ResistanceandEcologicalWriting Sever 105 Saturday, March19,2016 La Nature commetiers-espacedansLeSoleil duLacquisecouchedeJ.R.Léveillé Wanderers openforWonder: Beckett’sMollloyandDuras’Lolasécopoètes Perception, ImaginationandtheLandscape: HealingtheRiftinContemporary Art On thePossibilityofGrievingasan Aesthetic Ethics Sever 104 Saturday, March19,2016 the Kantiansubject. Contaminating Imagination:JacquesDerrida,theframe,andconstitution andruin of The SublimeandNovel The Art ofColeridge’sImagination Sever 104 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ONIMAGINATION ANDART Shahrzad’s InsomniacDiscourse:LogosandLegend,Word andSorrow ‘I Dream, Therefore I Am.’ Dream ConsciousnessinEarlyModernEurope Tantalus andMorpheus Northwest B110 Saturday, March19,2016 Insomnia, Agency, and Authorship inVladimirNabokov’sLolita On Sleepingwith Another Person Feeling As IfDead:Septimus,FrancisandtheZepplins Above “Something ElseinMe”:Dickens,Sleep,andtheIntractableSelf Northwest B110 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: NEWSLEEPSTUDIES

Loic Bourdeau,UniversityofLouisianaatLafayette Marie Noussi,LinfieldCollege Martine Noël,Universitéd’Ottawa/UniversityofOttawa Gwenola Caradec,GrinnellCollege Daniela Kato,Hiroshima JogakuinUniversity Raquel Parrine,University ofMichigan Sol Pelaez,MississippiStateUniversity Hiroki Yoshikuni,UniversityofTokyo Charlotte Kent,MercyCollege Sol Pelaez,MississippiStateUniversity Navid Naderi,DukeUniversity Bernadette Höfer-Knudby,WebsterUniversity Antonio Viselli,WilfridLaurierUniversity Sarah Kingston,UniversityofNewHaven Adela Pinch,UniversityofMichigan Samantha Carrick,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Adrian Versteegh,NewYorkUniversity Samantha Carrick,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia

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stream D stream acla 217 217 218 stream D acla 218 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Robert LowellasEugene McCarthy’sPraisePoetinthe Tradition ofRomanticIronist Sever 107 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: PERFORMANCE, POETICS, ANDPUBLICS Women andReproductive PoliticsinConstitutionalIran Radical BodilyInscriptions:GlobalWomen andtheCleaning/Cleansingof Globe Au-Pair Novels Ugly EncountersbetweenNordic andGlobalWomen inContemporaryScandinavian Fierce Interiors:DomesticLaborandFirst-PersonNarrativeinTheHelp Arcadian Philosophyandthe American Dream inSusannaRowson’sReubenandRachel Science Center111 Saturday, March19,2016 LABORING WOMEN INAGLOBAL CONTEXT SEMINAR: OTHER MOTHERS: REPRESENTATIONS OF Playing withTechnoDollies inOrphanBlack,or, TheTV Actress andOtherTechnologies Animating Cloning:TheBody’sSpecialEffects inJurassicPark andOrphanBlack Gesture inOrphanBlack Clones All theWay Down Boylston G02 Saturday, March19,2016 Science Fiction Barren BitchesandtheNewWomb: Post-biologicalReproduction inOBandFrench Intertextuality betweenOrphanBlackandCloningLiterature Orphan Black’sFamilyRomance The DancingWomen: Gendered CodesinOrphanBlack Boylston G02 Friday, March18,2016 SCIENCE SEMINAR: ORPHANBLACK: TEXTUALITY, SEXUALITY, Grzegorz Kość,UniversityofWarsaw José FelipeAlvergue,UniversityofWisconsin John Hyland,HaverfordCollege Shadi Ghazimoradi,Queen’sUniversity Maya Smorodinsky,ShorelineCommunityCollege Elisabeth Oxfeldt,UniversityofOslo Alice Pedersen,UniversityofWashingtonBothell Carolyn Davis,UniversityofTexasatAustin Alice Pedersen,UniversityofWashington,Bothell Maya Smorodinsky,ShorelineCommunityCollege Christopher Grobe,AmherstCollege Simon Porzak,ColumbiaUniversity David Bell,DukeUniversity Sharrona Pearl,UniversityofPennsylvania Andrea Goulet,UniversityofPennsylvania Carole Guesse,UniversitédeLiège John Stout,McMasterUniversity Robert Rushing,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Andrea Goulet,UniversityofPennsylvannia Robert Rushing,UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign Mackey City Machine:PoemasPlanintheWork ofWilliam CarlosWilliams andNathaniel Community vs.Totality: PublicTheaterandtheFormationofSocialSpace to Neoliberalism Un Jardin ParaRevivir(A Garden Revive/Relive):CeciliaVicuña’s Teloerotic Response Sever 107 Saturday, March19,2016 The EpistleasSonicPerformanceintheCircum-Atlantic World Doing thePublicaService?Poetry, Violence andtheLimitsof Artistic Liberty Riddled Performances:HistoryandMemoryinTribal PoetryofSaudi Arabia What isHappening: Gertrude SteinandtheTheaterofDinner Gertrude Stein’s ParlourPlay Northwest B105 Friday, March18,2016 SPACE SEMINAR: PLAYING HOUSE: DOMESTICAND THEATRICAL Photobooks intheDigital Age: RinkoKawauchi’sImperfectPhotography Spaces ofContemplation:TheWeimar PhotobookandtheModelofEarlyPhotography Finding ForminthePhotographicBook: Albert Renger-Patzsch’s EisenundStahl Sever 213 Saturday, March19,2016 Between FixityandMontage:SashaStone’sBerlininBildern(1929) The CityPastandFuture: HoracioCoppola’sBuenos Aires: visiónfotográfica Joining Forces, PartingWays: Trajectories ofTravelogue inPhotographicImageandText Nathaniel Hawthorne’sTheMarbleFaun Taking TheTour: Photography, Ekphrasis,andtheGrandTour, asPictured Through Sever 213 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE BOOKII

Davy Knittle,UniversityofPennsylvania Robert Vork,ArkansasTechUniversity Jose Alvergue,UniversityofWisconsin-EauClaire John Hyland,HaverfordCollege Evelina Stenbeck,CentreforLanguagesandLiteratureLundUniversity,Sweden Ali Almajnooni,UniversityofArkansas Elizabeth Blake,Cornell University Adam Frank,University ofBritishColumbia Karen Bassi,UniversityofCalifornia, Santa Cruz Carol Dougherty,WellesleyCollege Clara Masnatta,ICIBerlin Carolin Duttlinger,UniversityofOxford Pepper Stetler,MiamiUniversity Sonja Srdanovic,TuftsUniversity Jodi Roberts,StanfordUniversity Atsuko Sakaki,UniversityofToronto Caroline Whitbeck,UniversityofPennsylvania Natalia Brizuela,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Clara Masnatta,ICIBerlin

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 219 219 220 stream D acla 220 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Recasting LubaLuftandPosthumanist RecursiveVocality Monodrama NeitherSelfNorUnself:The Aporìa ofaPosthuman Vocality inFeldman’sandBeckett’s Swan song:mythologyandphenomenology Sever 305 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: POSTHUMANIST VOCALITY II The PoliticsofIntimacy: African American Women Writers andEurope Not inVenice Anymore: Othello,InterracialKinship,andJimCrow America Native Sons: African American KinlessnessandNativeKinship Created Narrating Green JelloandComposingGujaratiHaikus:Kinship Recognized/Kinship Boylston 105 Saturday, March19,2016 Relative Strangers:ContractingKinshipintheQueerEcologyClassroom Intimacy andContagioninthe Aesthetics ofWalter Pater Disturbing IntimacyinGravity’sRainbow Boylston 105 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: POLITICS, INTIMACY, ANDKINSHIP II Century IranianTheatre Architectural Comedy:DomesticandPublicSpacesinNineteenth-Early-Twentieth- Clytemnestra’s UncannyHousekeeping Domesticating DeathinGreek Tragedy: “TheHouseofHades” Northwest B105 Saturday, March19,2016 Dwelling in American RealistDrama Jason D’Aoust,UtrechtUniversity Francesca Placanica,MaynoothUniversity, Ireland Martin Ullrich,NurembergUniversity ofMusic Jason D’Aoust,UtrechtUniversity Laila Amine,UniversityofNorthTexas Nora Nunn,DukeUniversity Kate SteinnagelStutz,IndependentScholar Roshni Rustomji-Kerns,SonomaStateUniversity Sarah Ensor,PortlandStateUniversity Atti Viragh,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Samir Sellami,UniversitédePerpignan/UFFRio-Niteroi Laila Amine,UniversityofNorthTexas Nada Ayad,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Sandra SoHeeChiKim,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Sheida Dayani,HarvardUniversity Carol Dougherty,WellesleyCollege Karen Bassi,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Katherine Biers,ColumbiaUniversity SEMINAR: POVERTY STUDIES: THEORY ANDCRITIQUE Laurie Anderson’s Voice: BetweentheBodyandTechnology Sound Denaturalizing theVoice: CharlieChaplin,MickeyMouse,andEarlySynchronized Não Identificado:Racial AmbiguityandPsychedelic Vocality intheMusicofGalCosta Sever 305 Saturday, March19,2016 Science FictionandMasculinitiesin TheBriefWondrous LifeofOscar Wao “TheMartian” George duMaurier’s Irregularly Born/ As You Are: QueerSpiritualismandExtraterrestrial Eugenicsin Hermaphrodite Mysticism andtheConstruction ofSexualBodiesinJuliaWard Howe’sThe People” “That’s averyqueerstory”:TheQueernessofStylein Arthur Machen’s“TheWhite Emerson 108 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: QUEERNESS AND THE SUPERNATURAL II The PovertyoftheKid:Visual LifeofDeprivationintheEarlyComics With Us Always: Borges, EternityandtheProblem ofPoverty Money and“CommonThings”inWordsworth’s ‘Prelude’ The Currency ofNothing:UsuspauperandtheFranciscanMendicantControversy Barker 403(Finnegan) Saturday, March19,2016 Racial GeographiesofPovertyandtheLimitsCharity The NewestUtopia:‘EndingPoverty’ Archipelagoes ofPovertyandSovereignty onThePequod Barker 403(Finnegan) Friday, March18,2016

Simone Schmidt,MonashUniversity Jessica Teague,UniversityofNevada,LasVegas Edward Piñuelas,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Fullerton Antoinette Hertel,St. Joseph’sCollege,NewYork Michael Harwick,OhioStateUniversity Danny Luzon,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Megan Arkenberg,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Elizabeth Howard,UniversityofOregon J. LeighMyers,UniversityofOregon Vincent Basso,UniversityofNewMexico Stephen Buttes,IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversity,FortWayne Mark Rivera,YaleUniversity John Whalen,TuftsUniversity Holly Schreiber,UniversityofMaine Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken,CityCollegeofNewYork,CUNY Kyle Kamaiopili,TuftsUniversity Holly Schreiber,UniversityofMaine Kyle Kamaiopili,TuftsUniversity John Whalen,TuftsUniversity

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 221 221 222 stream D acla 222 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Renegotiating RealismintheVictorian Transcolonial: MappingNarrativeStructure in Robinson Crusoe “I hadagreat mindtoseethewholeisland”: MappingColonialSpacein Intercultural ComparativeStudyBasedonaGermanandanEgyptianNovel Connected History-PostWorld War IIinEgypt between FactualityandFictionality An Barker 114(Kresge) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: REALISMANDIMPERIALISM Devotion, Critique,andtheReadingofHagiography Lawrence, GillesDeleuze,andEveKosofskySedgwick Une manière amoureuse: LoveandDevotionintheReadingIdeals/PracticesofD.H. Education Ethical Training Through ExperimentalReading:Religious Attention and Aesthetic S040 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Adichie’s PurpleHibiscus Paradoxes ofPoliticalHeroism: TheToxic PrivateSphere ofChimamandaNgozi Practicing ComparativePhilologyontheEdgeofHeresy Aesthetic Theology:ReflectionsonLiteraryReadingandthe Virtues ofIndecision S040 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: READINGRELIGIOUSLY II True Blood We FightLikeSiblings,But We FuckLikeChampions: QueerVampire FamilyinHBO’s Meryl Streep’s UndyingNose:DeathCampinBecomesHer(1998) Fabulous SlippersofOz Wonders Taken forSigns: Allegorical Misreading, EnchantedMateriality, andthe Monstrous Bodies:GenderandGenre in19thCenturyFranceandBeyond Emerson 108 Saturday, March19,2016 Christie Harner,Dartmouth College Sam Waterman,UniversityofPennsylvania Radwa Imam,AinShamsUniversity Alexander Eisenthal,UniversityofPennsylvania Aakash Suchak,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Rachel Smith,VillanovaUniversity Benjamin Hagen,UniversityofSouthDakota Eleanor Craig,HarvardDivinitySchool Jerilyn Sambrooke,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Seth Kimmel,ColumbiaUniversity Michael Allan,UniversityofOregon Jerilyn Sambrooke,UCBerkeley Eleanor Craig,HarvardDivinitySchool Michelle Vaughan,UniversityofMountUnion Benjamin LPanther,IndependentScholar Shannon Brennan,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Rebekkah Dilts,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Moscow intheMargins: Sadriddin Ayni, Tajik Realism,andSovietSocialism Peasant Insurgency andNarrativeTechnique inRajaRao’sKanthapura(1938) Savage Nobles:French ImperialDiplomacyin20thCenturyLiterature politics ofrepresenting Race andRealismfrom theOldSouthtoNewEmpire: CharlesChesnuttandthe Barker 114(Kresge) Saturday, March19,2016 Wilson HarrisandtheNovelofObscure Persons If We CouldLiveon Air Angel (2012) TheHunger The “ArtofHunger”:HungerasLanguage and Aesthetics inHertaMuller’s Literary Hunger:TheProduction ofTransnational CulinaryWriting Sever 308 Friday, March18,2016 HISTORY SEMINAR: RETHINKINGHUNGER: STRUCTURE OFLIFEAND From FolkTales toPopularCultures--Centered onTheLegendoftheWhiteSnake Redefining Women inChineseLiterature: Weaving aNewKindofFolktale Experiments withFictionWriting Classical Transgression: OntheFantasticElementinSuTong and Yu Hua’s Avant-Garde K107 (CGISKnafel) Saturday, March19,2016 A ShortHistoryoftheFantasticCinemainChina Revolution, 1966-1976 The Dis/appearanceof Animals in Animated Filmduring theChineseCultural Agent forShapingtheFuture The Epic“JourneytotheWest” inTransformation –ContemporaryChinese Art asan K107 (CGISKnafel) Friday, March18,2016 AND GLOBAL POPULAR CULTURES II SEMINAR: RETELLINGFANTASTIC TALES INEASTASIAN

Emily Laskin,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Aakash M.Suchak,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Genevieve Amaral,TempleUniversity Alex Eisenthal,UniversityofPennsylvania Jeannie Im,NewYorkUniversity Sarika Chandra,Wayne StateUniversity Szidonia Haragos,ZayedUniversity Andrew Kleinke,UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee Lina Qu,RutgersUniversity Liang Luo,UniversityofKentucky Laura Castruita,UniversityofTexasatElPaso Xiaowen Xu,UniversityofToronto Sean Macdonald,UniversityofFlorida Daisy YanDu,HongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnology Eva Aggeklint,StockholmUniversity Liang Luo,UniversityofKentucky

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 223 223 224 stream D acla 224 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Graham Greene’s Mission:IntimacyImpossible Encoding byHand Lewis Carroll andtheCipherofInterpretation Wordplay, Puns andFantasticalEtymologies:theIdiolectalCantofVictor Hugo’sThieves Sever 303 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: SECRETLANGUAGES ANDPRIVATE FORMS Flawed Beauty:ReadingLangstonHughes’s“I,too”alongside“America theBeautiful” Revisiting theEdenicMyth:History, RaceandReligion in A Mercy andThe Accursed Flavoring theSoil:Land,Narrative,andColonialHistoryinMorrison’s A Mercy King and After The HollowRingofFreedom: ReassessingtheConstitutioninRadicalWritings Before Sever 209 Saturday, March19,2016 per/Forming NationalIdentity:DiasporicPerformanceinEarly20thCenturyPageantry and theChansonsdeGeste The HistoriaIherosolimitana ofRobertRheims:FrankishDestinybetweentheBible “Where Am I?”:Tracking George Washington’s DollarBillImage Sever 209 Friday, March18,2016 ABUSING HISTORY SEMINAR: RETHINKINGNATIONAL FOUNDATIONS: USING/ Hungry Women andTheirHungerNarratives Ad Nauseam: A Glutton’sHungerinPost-RevolutionaryFrench Literature Potentials Delicious Writing andHunger’s Sever 308 Saturday, March19,2016 for Witching Chalk andBlood:Hunger, Consumption,andCompulsionInHelenOyeyemi’sWhiteis Jeffrey Covington,Baldwin WallaceUniversity Emily James,UniversityofSt.Thomas Jordan Buysse,UniversityofVirginia Mandy Mazur,PrincetonUniversity Emily James,UniversityofSt.Thomas Patrick Moran,PrincetonUniversity Meredith Malburne-Wade,GettysburgCollege Nilanjana Ghosal,IndianInstituteofTechnology,Hyderabad Gabriella Friedman,CornellUniversity Jacqueline Foertsch,UniversityofNorthTexas Jodi VanDerHorn-Gibson,QueensboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY Stefan VanderElst,UniversityofSanDiego Mark Thistlethwaite,TexasChristianUniversity Meredith Malburne-Wade,GettysburgCollege Lina Qu,RutgersUniversity Edwige Crucifix,BrownUniversity Cecilia Flores,TheEvergreenStateCollege Sarah Huddleston,PortlandStateUniversity Spyographies: ModernismandtheIntelligenceMemoir Feigning toSpeak:ReadingDerridaLevinas Modernist Tradecraft to PayintheBacklands(1956) “This MineMouthNotHasOrder Notone.Iam”:EncryptingMasculinitiesinThe Devil Sever 303 Saturday, March19,2016 How DoWe Teach Literature WhenStudentsHaveBasic ReadingandWriting Problems? What We MeanWhenWe Rank the“Winners” Among OurStudentWriters Sever 205 Friday, March18,2016 YEAR COLLEGES SEMINAR: TEACHING (TO) DIVERSITYIN TWO ANDFOUR in Asia New Build yourown Archive: A Theoretical Reflectionon Art Archive andtheMakingof Counterpoint, Intervaland Surface: On theCuratorialPrecision in “Cinema - Visual Arts” Today’s ChineseVideo Art “How canwebepost-internetinsidetheGreat Firewall”: Anachronic Contemporalityin the 1980sandJapanafter1990 The Screen astheSurface:DecolonizingFilmmakingPracticeagainstRacisminUK Sever 111 Saturday, March19,2016 Independent FilmProjects Engaging theTransnational SurfaceofFilmFestivals:FestivalFundsvis-à-vis Asian Art, Context,Documentary:RethinkingtheMakingof Art Through China’sVan Gogh Between SlidesandDCP: Artists’ MovingImagein Asia andExhibitionFormats Sever 111 Friday, March18,2016 CINEMAS CRITIQUING ANDCURATING ASIAN VISUAL ARTS AND SEMINAR: SURFACE ENCOUNTERS: WAYS OFPRODUCING,

Mark Kaufman,AlverniaUniversity Rachel Gardner,EmoryUniversity Patrick Moran,PrincetonUniversity Valeria Souza,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Anna Krauthammer, TouroCollege Dominique Zino,LaGuardia CommunityCollege,CityUniversity ofNewYork Tiffany Magnolia,NorthShoreCommunity College Dominique Zino,LaGuardiaCommunity College(CUNY) Lu Pan,HongKongPolytechnicUniversity Ming-han Hsu,TaipeiNationalUniversityoftheArts Beichen Yang,BeijingFilmAcademy Identity andNation(TrAIN) Hiroki Yamamoto,UniversityoftheArtsLondonResearchCentreforTransnational Art, Ran Ma,NagoyaUniversity Kiki TianqiYu,UniversityofNottinghamNingboChina Julian Ross,UniversityofWestminster Ran Ma,NagoyaUniversity Lu Pan,TheHongKongPolytechnicUniversity

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 225 225 226 stream D acla 226 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Sufi Poeticsandthe QuestionofNarrativeForm Rachid Boudjedra’sal-Marth On theImportanceofBeingGregarious: The1001Nights,Language,andMobilityin The Prose Poemandthe Arabic LiteraryTradition Science Center105 Friday, March18,2016 ARABIC LITERATURE II SEMINAR: THE CLASSICAL IN THE MODERN: SPECTERSOF Leaning Toward Affect: Teaching PoetryandPerformance Reading FigurativeLanguageviaImage In theRepublicofPoetry:UnTaller dePoesía Sever 201 Saturday, March19,2016 Chocquibtown Comparative Arts and(De)coloniality:Teaching Antonio Preciado, ElcinaValencia, and Engaging Latin American Poetry: A CourseModelfortheLiberal Arts College Teaching, Interpretation, andthePublicHumanities Sever 201 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: TEACHING CONTEMPORARY POETRIES Teaching DiversitytoDiverseStudentPopulations World Literature inandforaVery DiverseClass “Only Connect”:DiversityinTeaching World Literature Shakespeare forNurses:OnPerceptions ofLiterature attheCommunityCollege Sever 205 Saturday, March19,2016 Short-term Teaching, Long-termLearning:SuccessasaProcess inLiterature Instruction Rethinking the200-LevelLiterature Survey: An ExperimentinRe-Reading Hoda ElShakry,Pennsylvania StateUniversity Anne-Marie McManus,WashingtonUniversity inSt.Louis Huda Fakhreddine,UniversityofPennsylvania Yasmine Khayyat,RutgersUniversity Muhsin Al-Musawi,ColumbiaUniversity Jill Kuhnheim,UniversityofKansas Celia Bland,BardCollege Silvia Tandeciarz,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Juan Ramos,CollegeoftheHolyCross Melanie Nicholson,BardCollege Teresa Longo,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Melanie Nicholson,BardCollege Jill Kuhnheim,UniversityofKansas Tiffany Magnolia,NorthShoreCommunityCollege John Foster,GeorgeMasonUniversity John Zamparelli,NorthShoreCommunityCollege Stacie Vos,HousatonicCommunityCollege/SacredHeartUniversity Natalie Hopper,LakelandCommunityCollege Maria Ramos,ReynoldsCommunityCollege The ReceptionoftheGreat Hymntothe Aten inModern Arabic Poetry Exegesis ānic The ModernMufassir:ContinuityandChangeinworksofContemporaryQur’ Al-‘mmiya inClassicalandModernDebates Science Center105 Saturday, March19,2016 Before Saussure: PhonicSignificationinIbnJinnī Jesmyn Ward’s SalvagetheBones” “Beware theLife You Earn”:TheBiopoliticsofLaborInHanOng’sFixerChao and Latina/o DocumentaryFilm Necroliberalism: Necropolitics, Neoliberalism,andCartographiesofResistancein “Optimal”: Modelsof Asian LaborinTheWind-Up GirlandOnSuchaFullSea Science Center104 Friday, March18,2016 WORK SEMINAR: THE LABORING SKIN: PERFORMING RACE AT/AS Mental Radio. Intimate Thoughts:Telepathic EvidenceandProgressive MarriageinUptonSinclair’s Authentication Ratification: Albion Tourgee’s “InvisibleEmpire” andRealism’s Turn Away from Exercises inRealist Authorship: EvidenceandSympathyinFelixHolt’sCourtroom Sever 307 Saturday, March19,2016 A StudyinSuspicion:TheLegalSignificanceof Woman inWhite Word ontheStreet: Anecdotal EvidenceandtheTime oftheNovel Georg Büchner, Re-Animator Realism andtheProblem ofEvidenceinJane Austen and Annette vonDroste-Hülshoff Sever 307 Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: THE EVIDENCEOFREALISM

Aya Bassiouny,IndianaUniversityBloomington Zainab Mahmood,NewYorkUniversity Boutheina Khaldi,AmericanUniversityofSharjah Mohammad Salama,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Patricia Chu,Amherst College Edward Avila,MinnesotaStateUniversity, Mankato Michaela Brangan,CornellUniversity Michaela Brangan,CornellUniversity Danielle Haque,MinnesotaStateUniversityatMankato Daniel Mrozowski,TrinityCollege(Hartford) Daniel Farbman,HarvardLawSchool Laura Wagner,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Katherine Hilliard,PrincetonUniversity Sonia Werner,NewYorkUniversity Joseph Metz,UniversityofUtah Geoffrey Baker,Yale-NUSCollege Geoffrey Baker,Yale-NUSCollege

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 227 227 228 stream D acla 228 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Gestures ofSocial(Dis)IntegrationinThePioneers ofIngolstadt Sever 101 Friday, March18,2016 THE REFLEXIVEGESTURE SEMINAR: THE POETICSOFREFLEXIVITY: IMAGE, TEXT, AND Slowness asMediuminContemporaryPhotographyandFilm The SlowGamesMovement:Temporality andTranslation inIndependentVideo Games Death, Sex,andTemporality: TheLongSlowPlotlessfilm Sever 109 Saturday, March19,2016 Gertrude Stein’sPlotlessTexts Outlaw Time andContinuousPresents: EconomiesandTemporalities ofReading(in/to) the bourgeois body Whence the“slowing”intext?Jameson’s Antinomies ofRealismandthequestion The PoeticsofSimultaneityinBeckett’sTheater Joyce’s UlyssesandRelativeTime Sever 109 Friday, March18,2016 SPEEDY ALTERITIES SEMINAR: THE LONGSLOW PLOTLESS TEXT, ANDITS and theMakingofChinesenessforChina’sSouthwestMinorities From CulturalGuardians toEntrepreneurs ofthePast:Neoliberalism,EthnicIdentity Bedouin Cowboys:Race,Labor, and “Arabness”intheWild West Object-Matrices ofDesire Elephant FucksCartoDeath:On Animals asEmotionalLaborers, asCharm-Capital, Colonial Violence The FighterWhoWouldn’t Fight:Muhammad Ali, theNationofIslam,andLabor Science Center104 Saturday, March19,2016 Womanism Staging BlackFemaleFlawlessness:OnBeyoncé’sPerformanceofFeminismand Martin Sheehan,Tennessee TechUniversity Avra Spector,TheGraduateCenter,CUNY Phillip Griffith,TheGraduateCenter, CUNY Jen Caruso,MinneapolisCollegeofArtandDesign Elizabeth Losh,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Christy Burns,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Stephen Cope,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Margueritte Murphy,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Barry Spence,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Stephanie Nelson,BostonUniversity Margueritte Murphy,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Christy Burns,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Yanshuo Zhang,StanfordUniversity Danielle Haque,MinnesotaStateUniversity,Mankato Vanessa Roveto,IndependentScholar M. CooperHarriss,IndianaUniversity Sasha Panaram,DukeUniversity North Translation asReflexiveLoop: Translation asIdentityinSalih’sSeasonofMigrationtothe Joseph Cornell:ReflexivityofCinema,Image,andNarrative Reflexive Gestures in Word &Image:Klee,O’Hara,andMorris Sever 101 Saturday, March19,2016 Marcel Proust Chercher/Créer: Unity, Fragmentation,andSelf-Representation inGeorges Perec and and HannahWeiner “Points” ofCollaboration:Self-Reflexivityin Work byCixous/Derrida,ClaudeCahun, “DaseigeneSchicksal” A ScienceofDestiny:(Re)FlexibilityinHerder’s Personal Autonomy and AestheticAutonomy Personal Autonomy Barker 373(Slavic SeminarRoom) Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: TOWARD THE AUTONOMY OFLITERARY STUDY II Language RightsandHumanRights: Amazigh NarrativesinFrench-language Literature Driss Chraibi’sTrilogy ortheRe-writingof Arab ConquestoftheMaghreb The UncivilTongue: 19thcentury Adab andTheWork ofal-Shidyaq Internationalizing French LanguageandLiterature in Alain Mabanckou’sVerre Cassé S153 (CGISSouth) Saturday, March19,2016 Arabic isthenewLatin Linguistic Tensions inJeneparlepaslalangue demonpère byLeïlaSebbar Learning toRead:SpokenMoroccan Arabic andEducationReforminMorocco Displaced Vowels: Accent andDialectinHananal-Shaykh’s InnahaLandanya Azizi S153 (CGISSouth) Friday, March18,2016 EXPRESSION LINGUISTIC TENSIONS AND THE CHALLENGESOF SEMINAR:LANGUAGES:AND THREATENING THREATENED

Avra Spector,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Isa Murdock-Hinrichs,TulaneUniversity Sarah Wyman,SUNYNewPaltz Noam Scheindlin,LaGuardiaCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Phillip Griffith,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Eric Foster,WillametteUniversity Joshua Kotin,Princeton University Daniel Braun,PrincetonUniversity Benjamin Barasch,ColumbiaUniversity Erin Twohig,GeorgetownUniversity Michael Toler,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Emily Larsen,NewYorkUniversity Claire Reising,NewYorkUniversity Amine Zidouh,UniversityofMiami Elena Kazakova,DartmouthCollege Alexander Elinson,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Dima Ayoub,GeorgetownUniversity Rachid Aadnani,WellesleyCollege

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 229 229 230 stream D acla 230 4:00PM - 5:45PM 2016 Meaningful Freedom and SocialJusticeintheWorks of André Brinkand Assia Djebar Sever 204 Friday, March18,2016 DJEBAR ANDANDRÉBRINK SEMINAR: VOICING STATES OF SIEGE: THE WORK OFASSIA of Beirut’s Visual Culture Encountering Fairouz, Grendizer andHaririattheCarnival: A BakhtinianInterpretation Visualizing theSyrianCrisis:Syrians’Revolution ofImagesBefore ISIS’sWar ofImages Cinematic Terrorism andtheMurder oftheImage Visibility and Accent inthefilmsofMichelKhleifi Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 Coca-Cola Advertising Femininity:Desire, Desirability, andSexin Alexandra Chreiteh’s Always Yusuf’s QueerMasculinityinPersianCulturalProductions Ceylan’s OnceUponaTime in Anatolia Autopsy ofaLandscape:PoliticsVisibility andEthicsofNarrationinNuriBilge Re-Iterating Cubism:from PicassotoOussamaDiab Barker 218(W.S.FongRoom) Friday, March18,2016 LITERATURE ANDCULTURE SEMINAR: VISUAL POLITICSINMIDDLEEASTERN Defining ImaginationinSecular Terms Autonomy andDifference: Gerard ManleyHopkins Shadows, Great andSmall Barker 373(SlavicSeminarRoom) Saturday, March19,2016 Prosody, History, Action Theory Practices ofSurprise Phyllis Taoua,UniversityofArizona Anjuli Gunaratne,PrincetonUniversity Nadine Sinno,VirginiaTech Hatem Akil,SeminoleStateCollege Sarah Hudson,UniversityofArkansas Maya Aghasi,AmericanUniversityofSharjah Claudia Yaghoobi,GeorgiaCollegeandStateUniversity Merve Tabur,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Ziad Suidan,HaigazianUniversity Maya Aghasi,AmericanUniversityofSharjah Nadine Sinno,VirginiaTech Charles Altieri,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Robert vonHallberg,ClaremontMcKennaCollege Rebecca ArielPorte,NewYorkUniversity Oren Izenberg,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Kate Stanley,UniversityofWesternOntario The African Connection:Conversation between Aimé Césaire and Assia Djebar André Brink’sSouth Africa Till DeathDoUsPart:Love, Abandonment, andRebellionin Algeria and Assia Djebar’s Sever 204 Saturday, March19,2016 VanishingWriting Strike:Djebar’s Poetics in theWork of Assia Djebarand André Brink Reconciling theTruth: Transitional Justice,CommittedLiterature, andVoices UnderSiege in English Collecting Tongues, collectingWorlds: Cosmopolitan-self-fashioning&the1001Nights The Two LanguageProblem: Bilingualismand LebaneseLiteraryProduction Happening NowinEgypt The Words HaveLostTheirFeatures: Arabic Heteroglossia in Yusuf al-Qa’id’sIt’s The LanguageoftheNation:Multilingualismin Age ofImperialismandLiberation Sever 102 Saturday, March19,2016 Resistant Pidgin:Hawai‘i’sCreole inJohnDominisHolt’sWaimea Summer Hybrid Diction:theCaseofRodrigodeValdés’s “FundaciónyGrandezasdeLima” Roland BetweentheVernacular and Latin Writing FictionintheShadowofEmpire Sever 102 Friday, March18,2016 AS ACREATIVE FORCEI MULTILINGUALISMBETWEEN WORLDS:SEMINAR: WRITING

Yohann C.Ripert,ColumbiaUniversity Stefanie Sevcik,BrownUniversity Jill Jarvis,PrincetonUniversity Anjuli Gunaratne,PrincetonUniversity Paulo Horta,NewYorkUniversity Elizabeth Marcus,ColumbiaUniversity/MIT Emily Drumsta,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Wen-chin Ouyang,SOAS,UniversityofLondon Kara Hisatake,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Germán Campos-Muñoz,AppalachianStateUniversity Peter Madsen,UniversityofCopenhagen Sara Johnson,UniversityofConnecticut Mads RosendahlThomsen,AarhusUniversity,Denmark Dominique Jullien,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

4:00PM - 5:45PM 5:45PM - 4:00PM 2016

stream D stream acla 231 231 232 mixed stream C/D/C acla 232 2016 The UsesofaGlow-worm Why NotScience?Virgil’s Georgics andEpicureanism Science Center111 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 THE SCIENCES SEMINAR: “COLD PHILOSOPHY”: POETRY, POETICS, AND From ExceptionaltoUniversal:HowChinaShapedU.S.Foreign Policy Translation inShapingNationalCharacter Travels inModernChina The Dilemmaof“Chinese”Tradition S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Stream C,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Taiwan’s QueerTheater Chinese Nanfeng,GenderTransvestite, andQueerCampyPolitics:TheGlocalizationof Performing China:MimicryandDiasporicImaginationinChinese-AmericanWriting A ChopSueyStateofBeing:HybridProductions ofCulture, Cuisine,Romance,Progeny Re-defining “Chineseness”Through theLensofCriticalMixed-RaceStudies S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 The LanguageReformandEsperantoMovementinEarlyTwentieth-Century China The MosqueinModernity: Architecture ofMonotheisminChina When Was China? China andtheUniversalizingOther:ModernIntellectualDilemmas S010 TsaiAuditorium(CGISSouth) Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: “CHINA” INDEFINITION Adam Miller,Vanderbilt University Konrad Weeda,UniversityofChicago Emily Leithauser,EmoryUniversity Margaret Greaves,SkidmoreCollege Xiao Di“Janice”Tong,IndependentScholar Yonguo Chen,TsinghuaUniversity Pinghui Liao,UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego Peter Bol,HarvardUniversity Ivy I-chuChang,NationalChiaoTungUniversity Yuan Ding,UniversityofMinnesota Eileen Chow,DukeUniversity Emma Teng,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Carlos Yu-KaiLin,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Nancy Steinhardt,UniversityofPennsylvania Paul Goldin,UniversityofPennsylvania Peter Zarrow,UniversityofConnecticut Yuan Ding,UniversityofMinnesota Xiao Di“Janice”Tong,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Hagiwara Kyôjirô Robot Lyricism inTwentieth-Century JapanesePoetrybyKitaharaHakushûand Getting theNews:William CarlosWilliams andtheValues ofTechno-Science Aggregative PoeticsinElizabethBarrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh Science Center111 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Steamboat Shelley’s “Sublime Archimedean Art”: A “knaveofthefirstrate”:Rochesterandhis“Satire” [onbeing] AgainstReason No Iwithouta You: Transitional RelationalityinTheNeapolitanNovels Status oftheBook The LimitsoftheDoublePlot Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Northwest B104 Friday, March18,2016 Body MourningandtheLanguageofSelf-LossinElenaFerrante’sL’amore molesto Of BondsandBinds: Attachment thatEnslavesintheNeapolitanQuartet Maternal DislocationsinElenaFerrante’sWritings Northwest B106 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 WORK OFELENAFERRANTE SEMINAR: “DISSOLVING MARGINS” INAND THROUGH THE Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s HeavenlyQuestions:ElegyMaterializedandDematerialized Science FictionandLyric inTracy K.Smith’sLifeonMars Albert Goldbarth’sComediesofScience Disorientation andImpossibleEmbodiment: Aesthetic Minima Science Center111 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Marianne Tarcov,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Seth Perlow,UniversityofOklahoma Amy Huseby,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Ivan Ortiz,UniversityofSanDiego Gregory Palermo,NortheasternUniversity Jade McGleughlin, Massachusetts InstituteforPsychoanalysis Lindsay Starck,UniversityofNorthCarolina atChapelHill Joshua Rothman,TheNewYorker Leslie Elwell,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Christine Maksimowicz,AmericanPsychoanalyticAssociation Katrin Wehling-Giorgi,DurhamUniversity Lindsay Starck,UniversityofNorthCarolina-ChapelHill Christine Maksimowicz,AmericanPsychoanalyticAssociation Emily Leithauser,EmoryUniversity Margaret Greaves,SkidmoreCollege Rachel Trousdale,FraminghamStateUniversity G. GabrielleStarr,NewYorkUniveraity

2016

mixed stream C/D/C stream mixed acla 233 233 234 mixed stream C/D/C acla 234 2016 The Poeticsof Arab-Andalusia inFedericoGarcia Lorca’s DivanDelTamarit (1859-62) Ambivalent Readingsof Al-Andalus intheWar andtheSpanishOccupationofTetouan Gardens ofHeavenlyDelight: Andalusí SufismandtheSpanish Avant-Garde Sever 107 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Tierra Prometida –SpainasJewishPastandFuture Jewish ‘CourtlyLove’Poetryinal-Andalus al-Andalus or Andalucía?: Constructions ofHeritagein20thCentury Arabic Literature From SyriatoSevilla:Writing al-AndalusintheSeventeenth-Century Sever 202 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 The ConceptualConquest:IdeologicalNeedofan Artifactual EarlyIslam Theater andIslaminEarlyModernSpain:TheCuriousCaseoftheMoriscos Al-Andalus intheEyesofa16thCenturySpanishCrypto-Muslim Sever 107 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: “OTHER” NARRATIVES OFISLAMICSPAIN Ferrante’s ElenaGreco Dissolving theMargins of theMaternalDiscourse:From Ibsen’sNoraHelmerto Struggling withtheMotherTongue inElenaFerrante’sNovels The Secret vs.theBoundaryStone:RadicalPowerinWriting ofElenaFerrante Ferrante’s NeapolitanNovels Obscure andPollutedSolidarities: Anthropocene EcologyandPoliticalImaginationin Northwest B106 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Lubna Safi,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Itzea Goicolea-Amiano,EuropeanUniversity Institute(EUI) Erin Roark,EmoryUniversity Marco KatzMontiel,MacEwanUniversity Isabelle Levy,ColumbiaUniversity Anna Cruz,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Sabahat Adil,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Emilio Gonzalez-Ferrin,UniversityofSeville Melissa Figueroa,OhioUniversity Lisette Balabarca,SienaCollege Catherine Infante,AmherstCollege Anna Cruz,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Grace RussoBullaro,LehmanCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Laura Benedetti,GeorgetownUniversity Alice Brittan,DalhousieUniversity Jedediah Purdy,DukeUniversitySchoolofLaw The “Geopolitics”oftheBalkans’PsychoanalysisandPsychiatryin1990s Between Anxiety andBoredom: Freud andHeidegger Interpretation oftheFreudian OedipusComplex A RequiemfortheEndofState’sViolence. CritiquetoLeonRozitchner’s America Reparation, Sublimation,Liberation:Transnational PsychoanalyticPraxis inLatin K108 (CGISKnafel) Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR:ELSEWHERE “PSY-” Writing as Afterlife: Kierkegaard’s ‘FellowshipoftheDead’ A DrinkofDeathorLife: ReadingDeathin Auerbach, deMan,andMontaigne Boylston G07 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 CREATIVITY SEMINAR: “TO DIECONTENT”: DEATH, WRITING, AND Concluding Remarks From InnerTerritory toInteriority:MappingthePlasticBrain Century GlobalImagination Native andNationalMonstrosities: Castration,Psychophysiology, andthe Seventeenth- Understanding Todestrieb, viaDerrida K108 (CGISKnafel) Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Untimely andOutofPlace:Fanon’sElsewheres Freud, theGlobalSexualScientist The DisappearanceoftheNegro: Fanonand Afterlives of Anticolonial Struggle Fanon’s Clinic K108 (CGISKnafel) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016

Dusan Bjelic,UniversityofSouthernMaine Avraham Rot,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Marcelino Viera-Ramos,MichiganTechnologicalUniversity Rachel Greenspan,DukeUniversity Cate I.Reilly,PrincetonUniversity Paula SouzaMendes, JohnsHopkinsUniversity James Funk,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Mavis Chia-ChiehTseng,TaipeiMedical University Anna Fishzon,DukeUniversity Dylan Lott,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Andrew S.Brown,YaleUniversity Robbie McLaughlan,NewcastleUniversity Cate I.Reilly,PrincetonUniversity Veronika Fuechtner,DartmouthCollege Nijah Cunningham,HunterCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Azeen Khan,BrownUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/C stream mixed acla 235 235 236 mixed stream C/D/C acla 236 2016 “I Want More Time”: Passing andtheLimitsofFuturistDiscourse Biopolitics BeyondtheBody Cinema andtheReproduction ofLife K109 (CGISKnafel) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 2666, DehumanizetoHumanize: A LiteraryPerspectiveon Affirmative Biopolitics The Search foran Affirmative Biopoliticsinthe Work ofRobertoEsposito Silk-worm andSlave:TheBiopoliticsof Absolute Estrangement K109 (CGISKnafel) Stream C,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 AND POSTCOLONIALITY SEMINAR: (AFFIRMATIVE) BIOPOLITICS, RACE, GENDER, For theDearOldFlag,IDie:SingingToward Sacrificeinthe AmericanCivil War The War ofthe Ashes: Anonymity andMemoirinResponsetoDeath Damaged Bodies:OnFailure, Finitude,andDreams ofDyinginResnais Death-ics: TheEthicsofWriting in Aronofsky’s TheFountain Boylston G07 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Don’t FeartheReaper:EmbodimentsofDeathinContemporaryFiction in America Exile asDeathBehind:Creative ImpulseintheWorks byRussianExilicWriters “Written Against MyLife”:CharlesDickensPlayingwithDeath Boylston G07 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 and Writing theJournal‘ModernNature’ Dying andEnvisioningOtherUtopiainWriting: Derek Jarman’sIllnessToward Death “To DieContent”:DeathandWriting inChuTien-Hsin’s “ManofLaMancha” Donna V.Jones,University ofCalifornia,Berkeley Leerom Medovoi,UniversityofArizona Rhiannon Welch,RutgersUniversity, New Brunswick Emily Vazquez,CornellUniversity Stijn DeCauwer,UniversityofLeuven Ingrid Diran,PacificNorthwestCollegeofArt Naminata Diabate,CornellUniversity Matt Moses,CityUniversityofNewYork Wynn Chapman,BellarmineUniversity Sherilyn Hellberg,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Forrest Johnson,YorkUniversity Mary Gryctko,UniversityofPittsburgh Daria Smirnova,UniversityofOregon Katherine J.Kim,BostonCollege Hyemin Kim,SUNYBuffalo Mavis Chia-ChiehTseng,TaipeiMedicalUniversity Genital CursingandtheWork ofDeath: An Affirmative Biopolitics? Dialectics ofaGendered Maroon MemorialinGloriaRolando’sRaícesdemicorazón Tendai Huchu’sTheHairdresser ofHarare Quiet, butDeadly:PostcolonialQueerHybridityand Alternative FormsofResistancein K109 (CGISKnafel) Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Sacrifice andDuty:theReevaluationof Veteran StatusandBritish War Horses,1898-1945 ‘Stress Without Distress’: Animal Stress, Gender andBritishMedicalResearch, 1946-1965 “Is theGaze*Only*Human?” Sever 112 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 coloquio delosperros” The Words ofSuffering Animals in Apuleius’s MetamorphosesandCervantes’s“El animales Inhuman(e) Behavior:Violence, Trauma, andPossibilitiesforRepair inNombres y In DefenseofCruelty: Animal NarrativesandEntangledEmpathy Emerson 106 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Cruelties Great andSmall:Coleridge’s Albatross inthe21stCentury Predatory Plates:Violent Authorship Feeding Audubon’s Birds of America Porcus Oeconomicus: SmithfieldFoodsandResponsibility Sever 112 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: (ANIMAL)CRUELTIES

Naminata Diabate,CornellUniversity Sarah Quesada,StanfordUniversity Robert LaRue,UniversityofTexasatArlington Chelsea Medlock,OklahomaStateUniversity Catherine Duxbury,UniversityofEssex Sophie ChristmanLavin,SUNYStonyBrookUniversity Glen Carman,DePaulUniversity Kristina Mitchell,UniversityofPennsylvania Wojciech Malecki,UniversityofWroclaw Sarah Weiger,UniversityofPortland Melissa Yang,UniversityofPittsburgh Lindsay Garcia,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Natalie Lozinski-Veach,BrownUniversity Bruno Penteado,BrownUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/C stream mixed acla 237 237 238 mixed stream C/D/C acla 238 2016 Thousand andOneNights,Rumi, PauloCoelho A JourneyFrom West Asia toSouth America: A StudyofThree Storiesfrom One Aristotle’s PoeticsinClassical Arabic: “Misunderstanding”andCreative Transformation Sever 109 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 APPROPRIATION SEMINAR: ADAPTATION AND CROSS-CULTURAL Litefeet: YouTube, InstagramandtheDemocratisingPotentialofSocialMediaPlatforms Whose Rite?XavierLeRoy’sSacre duPrintemps Dancing Culture ontheSilverScreen Bodies inMotion:Gesture inEarlyFilmandPerformanceCapture Sever 302 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Ephemera andthe Apparatus: Ballet intheDigital Age Evolving (an)notations Question Body,An ObjectiveRecord? TheDanceNotationBureau, theDancer’s and Authorship in Authority intheChoreographic Text: George BalanchineandHisLegacy Sever 211 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Past Imperfect?:DanceReproduction asCollaborativeProcess Toward anEmbodiedEnlightenment:DanceonthePageinEighteenth-centuryFrance Sever 302 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 CREATION OFBALLET ANDMOVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE PRESERVATION ANDRE- SEMINAR: ADANCE THAT ISNOW: ‘OLD’ ANDNEW Soudabeh Rafieisakhaei,Universityof Georgia Tarek Shamma,HamadBinKhalifaUniversity Eric Hairston,ElonUniversity Vivian Kao,KetteringUniversity Katie Beswick,UniversityofExeter Rachana Vajjhala,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Marianne Schultz,UniversityofAuckland Vanessa Chang,StanfordUniversity Adrienne Bernhard,KeanUniversity Rebecca Stancliffe,CentreforDanceResearch(C-DaRE),CoventryUniversity Whitney Laemmli,UniversityofPennsylvania Megan Race,YaleUniversity Douglas Priest,MichiganStateUniversity Tamara Caulkins,OregonStateUniversity Susanna Weygandt,PrincetonUniversity Narrative Adaptation andUntranslatabilityinRabih Alameddine’s TheHakawati --Transnational CulturalPoliticsfrom Brotherhood toNationhood A BetterTomorrow, Disrupted: SouthKorean Cinema’sHongKongConnection Interference? Slumdog Millionaire’s GlobalNarrative: Appropriation, Collaboration,orLiterary Hollywood’s Appropriation ofBorges: A CaseofMutualCross-Cultural Decanonization Sever 106 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 The StrangerHadaName:Reclaiming Algerian IdentityafterCamus. Cross-Cultural Adaptation ofHamlet From PrivatetoPublic:ShiftingoftheEmotive DomainsinBhardwaj’s Haider(2014)asa Containment Nationality underInterrogation: ChoiIn-hunandtheFantasyofFlightin Era of Day ofaCondemnedMan The Mind-BodyProblem, Genre and thePoliticsof Abolition inVictor Hugo’sTheLast Readers The Warden and “I”:ReaderasPrisonerandWarden inVarlam Shalamov’s Mirror of Mohammad Mokhtari’sPrisonPoems The Arched Membraneof ClosedEyes:InteriorityandModernist Aesthetics in Science CenterHallD Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: AESTHETICSOFIMPRISONMENT Byrd and Jefferson’s OldWorld andNew:DividingLinesCommonPlaces Red Odysseys:EarlyNative American Literature andtheClassics From ShiraztoConcord: RalphWaldo Emerson’sRenderingsofHafez Watching WhatGod(s)Exactly? ClassicalInfluenceinthe Works ofZoraNealeHurston MiddleStyleintheMidwest Theodore Dreiser’s Sever 109 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Pauline HomsiVinson,DiabloValleyCollege Jinhua Li,UniversityofNorthCarolinaAsheville Gretchen Busl,TexasWoman’sUniversity Monica Simorangkir,GeorgetownUniversity Priscilla Charrat,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Devika Sangwan,BirlaInstituteofTechnologyandScience We JungYi,Pennsylvania StateUniversity Maya Kronfeld,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Maya Larson,UniversityofOregon Samad Alavi,UniversityofWashington Adhira Mangalagiri,UniversityofChicago Yenna Wu,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Victoria TietzeLarson,MontclairStateUniversity Matthew Duques,UniversityofNorthAlabama Atefeh AkbariShahmirzadi,ColumbiaUniversity Eric Hairston,ElonUniversity Michael Healy,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork

2016

mixed stream C/D/C stream mixed acla 239 239 240 mixed stream C/D/C acla 240 2016 Verena Conley(SeminarRespondent) A ‘RadicalIndestructibility’? Thinking Affect withBlanchotand Vallejo Everydayness andtheEvent Boundlessness, Relationality, andtheSensationofTime Affects ofIndeterminancyasFormsResistance Emerson 101 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 ART ANDLITERATURE SEMINAR: AFFECTANDRESISTANCE INCONTEMPORARY The Aesthetics ofNowhere: A Phenomenology ofPrisonSpace Shocking Power: Affect andFactinGuantánamoDiary Romantic SocialismandEugèneSue’s Aesthetics ofthePrison and ThePunitiveSociety(1972–1973) Foucault’s Lectures atthe Collège deFrancePenalTheoriesandInstitutions(1971–1972) Journaland “Alienation” and“resistance toalienation”inJeanGenet’sTheThief’s Science CenterHallD Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Camp Stories Voices against Aggression and Amnesia: Visceral Aesthetics in Yang Xianhui’sPrison Fugitive Aesthetics: CriminalPleasure intheCaseofRoseButler Writing RaceandNationintheCaptivityNarrativeofChineseLaborers Siting theChina-IndiaLiteraryEncounterinColonialPrisonCell Aesthetics ofFeminizationinPrisonWritings byMoroccan Women Science CenterHallD Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Paloma Yannakakis,IndependentScholar /PalgraveMacmillan Renee Hoogland,WayneStateUniversity Fernanda Negrete,SUNYBuffalo Janae Sholtz,AlverniaUniversity Paloma Yannakakis,IndependentScholar/PalgraveMacmillan Fernanda Negrete,UniversityatBuffalo,SUNY Adrian Switzer,UniversityofMissouri-KansasCity Chad Hegelmeyer,NewYorkUniversity Adam Cutchin,UniversityofPennsylvania/BrynMawrCollege Kalinka Alvarez,ColumbiaUniversity Yenna Wu,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Emahunn Campbell,WashingtonandLeeUniversity Feng (Aaron)Lan,FloridaStateUniversity Adhira Mangalagiri,UniversityofChicago Naima Hachad,AmericanUniversity Verena Conley(SeminarRespondent) Global MexicanCinematographersandthePoliticsof Affect Béla Tarr andthe Affective StanceBefore theWorld The Pronouns Emerson 307 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Neoliberal Nocturnes: RomanticismandHealinginPost-IMF Soundtracks Otaku andtheCulturalLogicofNeoliberalism Intensities ofFate:Fetishismand Affect inSouthKorean DigitalDivination Nationalism andMoneyinSwallowtail Butterfly Emerson 105 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 of Ourselves Affective andSelf-governingPracticeofChineseInternetCelebrity:Toward thePolitics Electronic Gambling,ImmaterialistPedagogy, andthePost-SocialistChineseSubject Mobile Bodiesonan Automated Flow:NeoliberalSubjectsinPre-IMF SouthKorean Films Talent asVirtue: Anthropotechnical Imperatives inEast Asian ModernizingReform Emerson 105 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 THINKING NEOLIBERALISMINEASTASIA SEMINAR: AFFECTIVEENGAGEMENTS, PRECARIOUSLIVES: Verena Conley(SeminarRespondent) Glocalizing Pathos: Art andEasternEuropean Environmental Activism Rap forPeace:Politicsand Aesthetics ofNonviolentResistance inBrazilianHipHop Versos Indignados: Affect andSocial Activism inRecentSpanishPoetry Emerson 101 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Kerry Hegarty,MiamiUniversity James Martell,LyonCollege Celia Galey-Gambier,Paris-DiderotUniversity/UCBerkeley Woo ChanLee,University ofChicago Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, WasedaUniversity David Kim,PurchaseCollege,SUNY Kota Inoue,WashingtonStateUniversity Zhongxuan Lin,UniversityofMacau Timothy Simpson,UniversityofMacau Han SangKim,BostonUniversity Ryan Mitchell,YaleUniversity Discussants: CatherineYeh,BostonUniversity;TomikoYoda,HarvardUniversity Claire DanjuYu,StonyBrookUniversity Michelle Ho,StonyBrookUniversity Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy,MiamiUniversity,Ohio Charlie Hankin,PrincetonUniversity Alberto LópezMartín,FloridaStateUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/C stream mixed acla 241 241 242 mixed stream C/D/C acla 242 2016 Modernist Poetics Split Objects:MelanieKlein’sProjective IdentificationinMarianneMoore’s The RavishingofWriting: LolV. Stein.DurasavecLacan Lacan’s Backwards Compatibility: handheldobjetpetita Psychoanalysis andtheRhetoricalTradition: From Freud toLacan Sever 206 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Beyond FamilialTies: ThePerformanceofIntergenerational BondsinBorges Poetry The SymptomReading Same-Sex Parenting Mommy, Mama,&Oedipus:TheFreudian FamilyDramainthe Age of The Uncanny After Freud Sever 206 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 THEORY ENGAGING WITH CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC SEMINAR: AFTERFREUDANDLACAN: METHODSFOR Consuming FemaleMasculinity: Affective LaborinJapan’sDragCafes The IyashiBoom:MarketingSocialityinJapanese Animal Cafes Female Workers onand off theSilverScreen: Tracing NeoliberalisminColdWar Taiwan Representation underEast Asian Neoliberalism Bayside ShakedowntoHanzawaNaoki: Aesthetic andIndustrialShiftsinLabor Emerson 105 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Iven Heister,SUNYBuffalo Ida MarieNissen,UniversityofCopenhagen Maryann Murtagh,DukeUniversity Paul Earlie,UniversitélibredeBruxelles Frances Ruiz-Alfaro,UniversityofPuertoRico Trevor Pederson,BostonGraduateSchoolofPsychoanalysis Jaime Brunton,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln Maria delosAngelesLopezOrtega,UniversidadAutónomaAguascalientes Natalie Strobach,UniversityofWisconsinRiverFalls Michelle Ho,StonyBrookUniversity Amanda Robinson,UniversityofPittsburgh Claire DanjuYu,StonyBrookUniversity Patrick Terry,UniversityofKansas Freud Futures: CuttingEdgeorChopping Block? Winnicott InaPsychoanalyticParadigm Time, Space,andtheCreation ofBeinginSongSolomon:CombiningLoewaldand Leaving Macondo: A PsychologicalSpaceofCritique On Teaching Psychoanalysisand Ambivalence Sever 206 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Time andFlight Reorganizing Relationships: InoperativeandDelicateBodiesinIsraeliChoreography Decadence inRevival: Yosef HaimBrenner andtheSeductionsofPassivity Fort, Da!(Zionist)MovementandIts Double Northwest B110 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Non verbumeverbo:PoliticsofUntranslatabilityinHebrew and Yiddish Hebrew Literature Resistance toTranslation asImmobility:UntranslatabilityinEarly20thCentury S.R.O. Deane Pharr’s “To MoveWithout Moving”:Wanderings andMinoritarianCosmopolitanisminRobert Northwest B101 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Woman Should IStayorGo?ThePoliticsofLocationinStorytheCannibal S.A.S.C. concernantundispositifimpérial’ Legitimated Loitering:MovementandthePolitics ASBO inTiqqun’s ‘Rapportàla Conflicting Movement:ConflictasPoliticalMobility Northwest B110 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 MOVEMENT SEMINAR: AGAINST THE FLOW: RECONSIDERING

Jerry AlineFlieger,RutgersUniversity Gavriel Reisner,NationalPsychologicalAssociationforPsychoanalysis Michael Graziano,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Natalie Strobach,UniversityofWisconsin-RiverFalls Mikhal Dekel,City College andTheGraduateCenter,City UniversityofNewYork Melissa Melpignano,UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles Shir Alon,UniversityofCalifornia,Los Angeles Yuval Kremnitzer,ColumbiaUniversity Elazar Elhanan,CityCollegeofNewYork,CUNY Danielle Drori,NewYorkUniversity Debarati Biswas,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Alexandra Perisic,UniversityofMiami Anne Mulhall,UniversityofLondon Liron Mor,UniversityofToronto Shir Alon,UCLA Elazar Elhanan,CityCollegeofNewYork

2016

mixed stream C/D/C stream mixed acla 243 243 244 mixed stream C/D/D acla 244 2016 Producing Pedophilia Oldboy, orBiopolitics Media Cheers totheHappyCouple:ConfusedSpectatorshipandConsensual IncestinPopular (2012) Transnational Temptations: Adapting Incestin JulioMedem’s“LatentacióndeCecilia” Barker 18 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie Not Just A Kindred and Villain, ButFamily:HorrificIntimacyinOctaviaButler’s Face oftheEarth(1996)andDenisVilleneuve’s Incendies(2010). Oedipus Reconstructed: IncestuousTurns ofRaceandGenderinRitaDove’sTheDarker ASubversive Sexuality:IncestinNadineGordimer’s SportofNature ‘That I,too,hadabrother!’: Incestinthe18thCenturyNovel Barker 18 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 þis worldbrouȝte toende:RetellingGenesis19inMedievalWord andImage Milton andLovecraft, Abyss andIncest The MedievalPhilomela The FearofSameness Barker 18 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 CULTURAL POLITICSOFINCEST SEMINAR: ALLIN THE FAMILY: THE LITERARY AND Chloe Taylor,UniversityofAlberta Luis Intersimone,TexasStateUniversity Bronwyn Malloy,UniversityofBritishColumbia Elena Lahr-Vivaz,RutgersUniversity,Newark Greenlee Brown,SUNYBuffalo Shawn Doubiago,UniversityofSanFrancisco Carolyn Ownbey,McGillUniversity Jen Shelton,TexasTechUniversity Erin Mann,LindenwoodUniversity,Belleville John Garrison,CarrollUniversity Monica BrzezinskiPotkay,CollegeofWilliam&Mary Stephen Guy-Bray,UniversityofBritishColumbia Bronwyn Malloy,UniversityofBritishColumbia Stephen Guy-Bray,UniversityofBritishColumbia Carolyn Ownbey,McGillUniversity The Air inJaneEyre Enter Anthropocene, c1610 Surface, Scale,andSymptominthe Anthropocene Barker 133(Plimpton) Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ANTHROPOCENE READING A Pan American Archive: PlacingMunaLee Forging theBorderlands: IdentityandOwnershipinthePeraltaGrant Papers ‘Coloniality ofPower’ Archive andIncest:LuisLópez Nieves’“ElcondedeOvando”andPuertoRico’s Sorcery Novels The EthnographicTurn’s Incidenceon the Archival Turn: TheCaseofTwo African Sever 210 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES SEMINAR: ARCHIVAL FORMATIONS ANDBOUNDARIES IN Accelerated Reading Species Worlds Species, System,Form:ReadingBeyondtheHuman Barker 133(Plimpton) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Stratigraphy andEmpire: Waiting fortheBarbarians,ReadingunderDuress The ScaleofSettlerEnvironmentalism and ClimateChange (Mis)Reading the Anthropocene: Henry Adams, theSecondLawofThermodynamics, Barker 133(Plimpton) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016

Tom Ford,UniversityofMelbourne Steve Mentz,St.John’sUniversity Tobias Menely,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Jesse Taylor,UniversityofWashington Tobias Menely,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Angela VeronicaWong, SUNYBuffalo Anita Huizar-Hernández,Universityof Arizona Liesl Owens,RutgersUniversity Maria Muresan,Queen’sUniversity Megan MacDonald,KoçUniversity,Istanbul,TURKEY Angela VeronicaWong,TheStateUniversityofNewYorkatBuffalo Derek Woods,RiceUniversity Antoine Traisnel,UniversityofMichigan Jesse OakTaylor,UniversityofWashington Jennifer Wenzel,ColumbiaUniversity Matt Hooley,TuftsUniversity Justin Neuman,YaleUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/D stream mixed acla 245 245 246 mixed stream C/D/D acla 246 2016 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Resistance We’re Here, We’re (Post-)Queer:HomonationalistIdentity Logicsandan Aesthetics of The QueernessofCreativity When QueerWas Straight: Alan Watts intheCybernetic Fold Sever 203 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ARE WE QUEER YET? Embodiment’s Pressures OnNarrativesOfRwandanGenocide Archives An EverydayLife Archive inGeorges Perec’s ChosesCommunes Translation asaMetaphorforMigrantCommunity Archives Universities ofthe Air, LibrariesWithout Walls Sever 208 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Beyond theBriefcase:RadicalCounter Archives andRalphEllison’sInvisibleMan Palimpsest andPerformance:ContemporaryTakes onthe Archive oftheMiddlePassage Passports inthe Archive: FrantzFanonand Kateb Yacine atIMEC,Normandy Intimacy andthe Archive Sever 208 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Queer Structure, Animated Form,andReallyRosie Why Narrative?:Premises andPromises forQueerTheory On Normaling,OrQueerTelevisuality afterthe“Posts” Sever 203 Bryan Kimoto,UniversityofMemphis Tyler Bradway,SUNYCortland Philip Longo,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz E.L. McCallum,MichiganStateUniversity Tyler Bradway,StateUniversityofNewYork,Cortland Meredith Shepard,ColumbiaUniversity Paula Klein,UniversitédePoitiers Ashwinee Pendharkar,VictoriaUniversityofWellington David Squires,WashingtonStateUniversity Margarita Castroman,RutgersUniversity Asimina InoNikolopoulou,NortheasternUniversity Megan MacDonald,KoçUniversity Lisa RyokoWakamiya,FloridaStateUniversity Nick Salvato,CornellUniversity E. L.McCallum,MichiganStateUniversity Karen Tongson,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Queer Universal A TheoryofQueerTranslocality Amendment Against Citizenship:PostbellumU.S.FictionandtheQueerContextofFourteenth Sever 203 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 In politics,loveisastranger:Grace, Gratitude,andBaldwin’sGospelofLove The HumanismoftheRefugee Before theLaw: Arendt, Kafkaand EichmanninJerusalem Emerson 210 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Decomposing Politics: Arendt’s Passionfor“InSearch ofLostTime” How toDoGoodinModernity?Stifterand Arendt ontheMeaningof Action Arendt afterTragedy Emerson 210 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Constraining Voices The StableObject: Arendtian Aesthetics andtheEndofCommon Hannah Arendt’s ReligiousImagination:Politics,Ethics,Poetry Temptations ofPolitics Arendt ontheWorld-Creating PowerofImaginationasan Antidote totheTotalitarian Emerson 305 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: ARENDT’SLITERARY WORLDS

Rebekah Sheldon,IndianaUniversityBloomington Elisa Glick,UniversityofMissouri William Clark,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Ferris Lupino,BrownUniversity Hadji Bakara,UniversityofChicago Eric Kligerman,UniversityofFlorida Natasha Hay,UniversityofToronto Javier Burdman,NorthwesternUniversity Devin Byker,BostonUniversity Susannah Gottlieb,NorthwesternUniversity Jana Schmidt,BardCollege Mara Willard,UniversityofOklahoma Mihaela Czobor-Lupp,CarletonCollege Scott Selisker,UniversityofArizona Katie Fitzpatrick,BrownUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/D stream mixed acla 247 247 248 mixed stream C/D/D acla 248 2016 SEMINAR: BIGDATA Respondent La PolíticaTerrenal: InfrapoliticalRuminationsintheLiteraryWork ofJosé Revueltas Infra: Exile,MigrationandMarranism Sever 302 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Neither SubjectnorPolitics,ShadowLight:both/andReasonBeyond An-archic MessianicityforThinkingPracticesofDes-montage Abandonment ofSubjectivity The Line As A (Shaded)Space:HeideggerandJünger About (περι) theLineand Sever 302 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Nomic Closure oftheGeopoliticsThought Des-legacy: BeyondHeritageandConsensus The ExhaustionofthePolitical Sever 110 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 AFTER. TEN YEARS SOMBRA SEMINAR: BEYOND THE SUBJECTANDHERITAGE: LINEADE Big Data:CommunicatingOutside the MediumofMeaning Big DataandtheReturnofKantian Sublime Big DataandtheEndofTheory Northwest B103 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Nicole Simek,WhitmanCollege Jeffrey DiLeo,UniversityofHouston,Victoria Alberto Moreiras,TexasA&M Derek Beaudry,UniversityofPennsylvania Pablo Dominguez,PrincetonUniversity Marco Dorfsman,UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock Michela Russo,TexasA&MUniversity Ana Carrasco-Conde,UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid Gerardo Munoz,PrincetonUniversity Maddalena Cerrato,TexasA&MUniversity Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott,UniversityofMichigan Maddalena Cerrato,TexasA&M Gerardo Munoz,PrincetonUniversity Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott,UniversityofMichigan Herman Rapaport, Wake ForestUniversity Vanessa Loh,TempleUniversity Vanessa Loh,TempleUniversity Daniel O’Hara,TempleUniversity Jeffrey DiLeo,UniversityofHouston- Victoria The PoliticsofVisualizing BigData Big Dataand20thCenturyPoetryTranslations Zooming inandout:BigDatatheScalarityofReadingacross Literatures Northwest B103 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 South African andU.SPerformance Mourning (in)theVoid :DeathandBlackCorporeal IntegrityinContemporaryBlack Destruction oftheObject,or A Song forBlack Critique The SubtextUttered: Exposing TheTheatre asMetonymic Anathema toBlackDramatic Boylston 103 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Black LivesMatterandPoliticalImprisonment Social DeathandNarrative Aporia in12 Years aSlave Transcendence/Immanence Divide “The QuestforFreedom is Death”:StateViolence andBlackBodies,Explodingthe Black inTime: UntimelyBlackness Boylston 103 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 CREATION OF BLACK MOVEMENT, BLACK THOUGHT, ANDBLACK SEMINAR: BLACK MATTER: THE TIMES AND SPACES On Data,Givens,andGenerosity Spying ontheDead:ContemporaryEthicsofPrivacyforPre-Internet Age Against Innovation Northwest B103 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Daniela Agostinho,CatholicUniversityofPortugal,Lisbon Jacob Blakesley,UniversityofLeeds Andrei Terian,LucianBlagaUniversityofSibiu,Romania Andrei Terian,LucianBlagaUniversityofSibiu,Romania Christian Moraru,UniversityofNorthCarolinaGreensboro Mlondolozi Zondi, Northwestern University Nicholas Brady,UniversityofCalifornia, Irvine Jaye AustinWilliams,CaliforniaState University,LongBeach Joy James,WilliamsCollege Frank WildersonIII,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Selamawit Terrefe,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine John MurilloIII,BrownUniversity Selamawit D.Terrefe,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine John MurilloIII,BrownUniversity Nicole Simek,WhitmanCollege Melanie Conroy,UniversityofMemphis Jeffrey Williams,CarnegieMellonUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/D stream mixed acla 249 249 250 mixed stream C/D/D acla 250 2016 Aimé Césaire’s “Notebook”: Brotherhood oftheFlame::LéonDamas’s“Black-Label”asBluesCounterstatementto #Translivesmatter Black Trans Potentialities:OnQueerTransphobia, Trans Antiblackness, and Black PerformanceintheUniversity: A Self-perpetuatingCycleof Absent andDistance Boylston 103 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Retrofitting theTheoryofNovel Revolutionary Chinaand Argentina, 1950-1976 Global MaoisminPrint:IntellectualNetworksandTranslation FlowsBetween Science Center112 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Republican Shanghai(1911-1937) Modern Book,OutdatedResearch. RethinkingTranscultural BookDesignofthe The LiteraryMonographandthe“Intermedial Author” inRepublicanChina Science Center112 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 “Bauhausbauten Dessau”(1930): Another PossibleHistoryofthe Architecture Book What isaMinorMedium? Philippines The BoxerCodex(ca.1595).Cross-Cultural Book-Making intheEarlyColonial Science Center112 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 PLURALITIES INPRINTCULTURE SEMINAR: BOOKHISTORIES FROM THE MARGINS: GLOBAL Christopher Winks,QueensCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Cecilio Cooper,NorthwesternUniversity Matthieu Chapman,CentralWashingtonUniversity Priya Joshi,TempleUniversity Rosario Hubert,TrinityCollege Karolina Pawlik,ShanghaiUniversity,UniversityofSilesia Myra Sun,ColumbiaUniversity Ani Kodzhabasheva,ColumbiaUniversity William Stroebel,UniversityofMichigan Miguel Martínez,UniversityofChicago Myra Sun,ColumbiaUniversity William Stroebel,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Buddhists, notBarbarians:ReimaginingtheSouthernBorder inQing-dynastyChina Chinese Interpretations ofthe‘Barbarians’ The UsesofEnvironmental DeterminismandGeographicalBoundaries inHanandTang Nativism intheTang Dynasty Presenting thePiaotoRepresent theTang: BaiJuyi’spoetryonforeign issuesandPoetic “Within theFourSeas”:Core-Periphery MoralNetworksinConfucianTexts Emerson 104 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: BORDER-THINKINGANDCHINESESTUDIES Buddhist Literary CriticisminEast Asian Literature The OriginalMindistheLiteraryMind, theOriginalBodyCarvesDragons S050 (CGISSouth) Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY ASLITERATURE SEMINAR: BUDDHIST LITERATURE ASPHILOSOPHY, Traditional ChineseFictionandWorld Literature Anthologies Modern ChineseLiterature andtheBorders ofHumanitiesDiscourse Imitation andInnovation Traversing Borders: ComparingEarlyModernChineseandEuropean Debateson Rong’s Poetics Natural InspirationofPoeticCreation: TheNon-mimeticTradition inPlatoandZhong Emerson 101 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 The MythofShangri-LaandItsParadox:Reading An Yiru’s TheSunandtheMoon Cultural Capital (Feeling at)HomeatthePeriphery:ShenCongwen’sLiteraryProduction inTerms of Relations Oppositional PoliticsandtheBuddhistCultofBookinLateImperialSino-Western Emerson 101 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016

Megan Bryson,UniversityofTennessee,Knoxville Shao-yun Yang,DenisonUniversity Baoli Yang,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles Ning Ma,TuftsUniversity Ning Ma,TuftsUniversity Francisca Cho,Georgetown University Rafal Stepien,Hampshire College Rafal Stepien,HampshireCollege Junjie Luo,GettysburgCollege Rae Yan,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Rivi Handler-Spitz,MacalesterCollege Mingjun Lu,IndependentScholar Hao Jin,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Kun Yue,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Patricia Sieber,OhioStateUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/D stream mixed acla 251 251 252 mixed stream C/D/D acla 252 2016 NARRATIVE FORM SEMINAR: BUILDING STORIES: ARCHITECTUREAND Memory, Imagination,andMadhyamaka Nirvana, Death,andSelf-Transformation: TheCaseofNatsumeS Medieval Japan A PoeticsofNonduality:JapaneseCourtPoetryandBuddhistPhilosophyin in Aśvaghoșa’sBeautifulNanda Thought Of DoctorsandPoetstheMindsofMen:Towards an Appreciation oftheVarieties of Panegyric asPhilosophy:Voice and Argument inIndianBuddhistHymns S050 (CGISSouth) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 The Playand/astheSūtra:CommentaryTraditions onXixiangji(TheWestern Wing) Dharma The ScandaloftheSpeakingBuddha:PerformativeUtteranceandErotics ofthe about Reality Where “Philosophy”and“Literature” Converge: ExploringTibetan BuddhistWritings Sutta asIntervention S050 (CGISSouth) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Response tothe“LifeofMilarepa” The ScholarandtheRepa:Cross-Cultural PerspectivesonaContemporaryChan Zen RhetoricofUncertaintyinComparativeLiteraryPerspectives Haussmann/Hidalgo Renovations Remembering the ParisPalimpsest:Memory, Urban Planning,andStorytellinginthe Tradition Towards aNew Architecture: A Futurist Manifestoforthe African American Literary Leaves “Muss essein?”:The Architectural InnovationsofMarkZ.Danielewski’sHouse SpeedofLight Architectural SpaceasCognitiveinElizabethRosner’s Science CenterHallA Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Ashley Nadeau,UniversityofMassachusetts,Amherst C.W. Huntington,HartwickCollege Michihiro Ama,UniversityofAlaskaAnchorage Ethan Bushelle,HarvardUniversity Sonam Kachru,UniversityofVirginia Richard Nance,IndianaUniversityBloomington Qiancheng Li,LouisianaStateUniversity Natalie Gummer,BeloitCollege Yaroslav Komarovski,UniversityofNebraska-Lincoln Maria Heim,AmherstCollege Massimo Rondolino,CarrollUniversity Steven Heine,FloridaInternationalUniversity Jason Grant,University ofMichigan Peter L’Official,BardCollege Alejandra Ortega,WashtenawCommunity College Lucas Wilson,LipscombUniversity ōseki Madame Bovary. Designing theBodyof Adulteress withthe Architect’s Tools: SexualityandSpacein Playing House: Architecture andIndeterminacyinNathanielHawthorne Reliability inKaramzinandPoe ‘A cabinwithnodoor, nowindows,floors’: Architectural StabilityandNarrative Just Feelings: Affect and Architecture intheVictorian Courthouse Science CenterHallC Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 The sheertremendous tidalwaveofdesperate living:GlissantandtheUSSouth of capitalism Shut Your Mouth,Beast!:Machado de Assis, RobertoBolaño,andthesilenceatcore Capitalism, Slavery, andtheNovel: Toward aNon-Bourgeois HistoryoftheForm Science CenterHallB Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Digestive Capital:PerformingandDeformingtheScato-logicalinTimes ofSlavery Transatlantic Anti-/Slavery MixedMediaatMid-Century:TheGreek Slave Human Commodityand Art ObjectsintheNatTurner Archive Cinematic Archive Radical Slavery, Capitalism, andFilmic Aesthetics: SteveMcQueen’s12 Years aSlaveandCuba’s Science CenterB10 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: CAPITALISM ANDSLAVERY INLITERATURE Architecture andNarrativeinChrisWare’s ‘BuildingStories’ And OtherStories- An ExperimentinDesigningFiction “The ManNextDoor”(Argentina, 2009) Latin America: Rationalism,Structure andUrbanEthics in Deconstructing LeCorbusier’s narrative aestheticinJinPingMei From LiteratiGarden toMerchant Garden: riseof Chinesenovelandthegrotesque Science CenterHallC Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Aina Marti,King’sCollegeLondon Marissa Grunes,HarvardUniversity Stiliana Milkova,OberlinCollege Ashley Nadeau,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst Jackqueline Frost,Cornell University Andrew McLeod,Monash University Laura Martin,UniversityofCalifornia, SantaCruz Heather Vermeulen,YaleUniversity Joy Bracewell,AthensStateUniversity Erin Forbes,UniversityofWyoming Philip Kaisary,VanderbiltUniversity/Warwick Daniel Hutchins,TexasTechUniversity Laura Martin,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Ena Jung,IndependentScholar Arsalan ulHaq,NortheasternUniversity Eduardo Ledesma,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Zhenxing Zhao,SingaporeUniversityofTechnologyandDesign

2016

mixed stream C/D/D stream mixed acla 253 253 254 mixed stream C/D/D acla 254 2016 Capitalism, Slavery, andClimate Human Trafficking: ModernDaySlaveryinLiterature Plantation Desafiando doseconomiasalavez:JuanFranciscoManzanoandtheW A Compromised Liberal:theCaseofSimondedeSismondi Science CenterHallB Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Transpacific Maladies Literature from thePacificRim “A LittleFlyingFishisSick”: Representing Catastrophic ExperiencesinChildren’s in thePacificRim Floating GarbageinIndigenousWaters: Environmental andIndigenousPoeticsofWaste Science Center116 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Japan 3.11 The PoeticsofSlowCatastrophe: Transpacific CulturalIdentitiesintheCinemaof and ShaunTan’s TheRabbits Environmental GraphicMemory:Visualizing SlowViolence inGBTran’s Vietnamerica Apocalyptic UtopiasinDavidMitchell’sCloud Atlas Science Center116 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 and Fictions Ruined Horizons:Catastrophic Time asIslandPoeticsinTaiwanese Media Arts Dreaming intheRyukyu Arc: Takara Ben’sOceanicPoetics Climate ChangeandChangingWorld Literature Science Center113 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 CREATIVE IDENTITIESALONG THE PACIFIC RIM SEMINAR: CATASTROPHIC RELATIONS: CHARTING Caleb Knapp,UniversityofWashington Sultan Alquthami,IndependentScholar Courtney Gildersleeve,UniversityofMinnesota Albert Alhadeff,UniversityofColoradoBoulder Corey Byrnes,Northwestern University Hiroko Matsuzaki,UniversityofCalifornia, SantaBarbara Yu-ting Huang,AmherstCollege Kiu-wai Chu,UniversityofHongKong Jeffrey SantaAna,StonyBrookUniversity Roy Kamada,EmersonCollege Lawrence Zi-QiaoYang,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Daryl Maude,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Karen Thornber,HarvardUniversity Karen Thornber,HarvardUniversity Lawrence Zi-QiaoYang,UniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley Corey Byrnes,NorthwesternUniversity riting oftheSugar Incredible India?CulturalFetishisminContemporaryIndo-Britishfilms Miguel Street The PoeticsofBlackWordsworth: Re-thinkingPostcolonialMimicryinV.S. Naipaul’s Cambodia’ Representation, ModernSlaveryandEthics:ZadieSmith’sStory, ‘TheEmbassyof Indigenous IntellectualsandtheirCommunitiesinPotikiPearsfrom theWillow Tree Linda Tuhiwai SmithandDecolonizingMethodologies:TheSignificanceofResearch to Sever 103 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 DIASPORA, MIGRATION, ANDEXILE EUROPE THROUGH NARRATIVES ANDPOETICSOF SEMINAR: CHALLENGES TO UNIVERSALITY: RE-IMAGINING The Transnationalization ofHolocaustMemoryinSherko Fatah’sEinWeiβes Land Poetics ofMultidirectional Memory Clara Usón’sNovel‘LahijadelEste’ New StrategiesinOrder toTalk About thePast:TheInternationalizationofTrauma in Submission: OnInterwovenHistoriesofViolence Moroccan ImmigrantsRemappingSpain’s(Literary)Memory Sever 113 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 (Dis)LocationsofLebanonandFranceintheInterlingualWorks ofEtel Adnan Mapping theForeign: TheEastinContemporaryGermanFilm “Are weGermansorTurks?” IntegrationandtheQuestionofIdentityinGermanyToday Language Literary Symbiosis:HowLanguageImmigrationBenefitsboth Authorand Adopted Sever 113 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016

Parama Sarkar,UniversityofToledo Nozomi Saito,BostonUniversity Pamela McCallum,UniversityofCalgary John Hansen,MohaveCommunityCollege Arina Rotaru,NYUShanghai Yasemin Mohammad,TheUniversityofIowa Yasemin Mohammad,UniversityofIowa Nami Shin,RutgersUniversity Isabel DominguezSeoane,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Arina Rotaru,NewYorkUniversity,Shanghai Holly Jackson,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Nadia Sahely,BaldwinWallaceUniversity Nora Gortcheva,JacobsUniversity Katherine Anderson,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/D/D stream mixed acla 255 255 257 257 acla mixed stream C/C/D 2016 ğaziçi University Veysel Ozturk, Bo Fatima Fiona Moolla, University of the Western Cape Dianna Niebylski, University of Illinois at Chicago Catalina Esguerra, University of Michigan Sandra Navarro, Western New England University Katie Salmon, Newcastle University Dorian Jackson, Roger Williams University Literature Tulin Ece Tosun, Purdue University, Comparative Inela Selimovic, Wellesley College Inela Selimovic, Newcastle University Philippa Page, of Oregon Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, University University Philippa Page, Newcastle of Kansas Verónica Garibotto, University Friday, March 18, 2016 Stream C, 2:00 pm-3:45 pm Emerson 106 Abdülhak Hâmid’s Mode in Poetry: Romantic The Rise of Modern Elegy in Turkish Poetry Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Postcolonial and Love Melancholia in Tayeb African and Latin-American Novel in Counterpoint The Aboulela’s The Translator: Leila Saturday, March 19, 2016 pm Stream C, 2:00 pm-3:45 Sever 212 Martel’s Films Lucrecia Children Music, Memory and Lost de la montaña and Play in Los colores Imaginative Mimesis: Violence Saturday, March 19, 2016 Stream D, 4:00 pm-5:45 pm Sever 212 de la siesta Ugly Feelings in Sofía Mora’s La hora Children: Wandering Adolescent as a Adolescence as a Metaphor for the Nation and the ¿Desechos tóxicos..? - Mistakes Reflection of Their Parents’ African Diaspora and the Narcotrafficking The Luso-African Connection: Representing in Brazilian Cultural Production MELANCHOLIES: COMPARATIVE SEMINAR: AS MELANCHOLIA AROUND OF LOVE REPRESENTATION THE WORLD SEMINAR: CHILDHOOD, GAZE, AND CONFLICT IN LATIN IN LATIN CONFLICT AND GAZE, CHILDHOOD, SEMINAR: FILM AND LITERATURE AMERICAN 18, 2016 Friday, March pm-3:45 pm Stream C, 2:00 Sever 212 The American Cinema: Social Consensus in Latin of National Political and In Search of Embrace Child’s Gaze and its Rhetoric As Narrated of Memory: The Pinochet Dictatorship, Discursive Space The Diachronic Alejandro a casa, by Chilean writer the Child’s Gaze, in Formas de volver Through Zambra Cinema Argentine of a Global Iconic Sign in Child’s Gaze: the Making A David Farrell Krell, Brown University Scott Shershow, University of California, Davis Carrie Reese, University of Toronto György Fogarasi, University of Szeged Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth College Rüdiger Campe, Yale University Nicole Sütterlin, Harvard University Avital Ronell, New York University of Paris Ouest Nanterre Peter Szendy, University Gerhard Richter, Brown University of Manitoba Dawne McCance, University Nicole Sütterlin, Harvard University Nicole Sütterlin, Brown University Gerhard Richter,

Revisiting Derrida on Lévi-Strauss: Agriculture as “Writing” Agriculture Revisiting Derrida on Lévi-Strauss: Place: Cinema and Deconstruction Taking or the Historical Fate of Close Reading Irony, Terrorism’s is Justice” “Deconstruction Barker 110 (Thompson) Psychoanalysis of Cruelty Saturday, March 19, 2016 Stream D, 4:00 pm-5:45 pm Friday, March 18, 2016 pm Stream D, 4:00 pm-5:45 Barker 110 (Thompson) Beginnings and Husserl’s “Crisis” and the Future to Know: Wanted What It Has Been We Humanities of Deconstructing and the Rhetoric of Cannibalism Deconstruction Alive: Dead Surprise, and a Archival Reprise, Tomorrow: Glances at Deconstruction’s Three Whither Deconstruction? Wearing Down, Speculation, “Usure” Down, Wearing Whither Deconstruction? Adorno) with False Life, Living on (Derrida Legacies of La vie la mort Friday, March 18, 2016 Friday, March pm-3:45 pm Stream C, 2:00 Barker 110 (Thompson) with Deconstruction The Trouble SEMINAR: LIVING ON: DECONSTRUCTION TODAY AND AND TODAY DECONSTRUCTION ON: LIVING SEMINAR: TOMORROW

2016

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256 256 258 mixed stream C/C/D acla 258 2016 Neoliberal Melodrama: HyperlinkCinemaand Affective EconomiesofDebt Rethinking MelodramainLatin American Cinema Cinematic Melodramainthe1960s and 70s Sever 202 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Melodramas oftheBodyPolitic From theFrench theatricalmelodramatothefirst Americanfeature films,andbeyond. Melodramatic Aesthetics Hawthorne’s Back totheRoots:MelodramaandLimitsofVocalic Expression Sever 202 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE MELODRAMA Personal LoveLetters Tracing CamilleClaudel’sMentalBreakdown inHerStatuesDepictingLoversand Robert Musil’sDieVollendung derLiebe Love anditsSymptoms:PortrayingMelancholiainGiacomoLeopardi’s Cantiandin Madness andtheErotic intheGhazalsofZībal-NisāMakhf Emerson 106 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 The ColonialSubjectofMelancholia Beyond Morality:LoveandDeathinTragedies Persia andModernEngland Carving outtheSpaceforMelancholicLove:TheTristan Legend betweenMedieval Emerson 106 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Imperial China Melancholy Harmony:Love-SicknessinWomen’s PoemstotheirHusbandsinLate Dervish inFifteenthCentury Anatolia State ofEcstasyasanExpression ofLovetoGod: Ascension JourneyofanOttoman Robin Blyn,University ofWestFlorida Ana M.Lopez,Tulane University Despina Kakoudaki,AmericanUniversity Anupama Kapse,QueensCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork Jean-Marc Leveratto,UniversityofLorraine Tom Perrin,HuntingdonCollege Jacqueline Waeber,DukeUniversity Matthew Buckley,RutgersUniversity Esra Coskun,PurdueUniversity Cecily Cai,HarvardUniversity Myriam Sabbaghi,UniversityofChicagoDivinitySchool Rini Mehta,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Yuhan Huang,PurdueUniversity Tom Ribitzky,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Haihong Yang,UniversityofDelaware Sibel Kocaer,EskisehirOsmangaziUniversity Apprehending GlobalMelodrama As Such Films European Auteur Controlled PathosversusGlobalizedExcess:TheMelodramaticTurn inContemporary Melodrama and Allegory: An EmotionalRe-imaginationofEmpress Ki National Melodramas:MassMedia,theSyrianExodusandMotherMerkel Sever 202 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Production Reading theNarco-sphere: Toward aQueerHemisphericCritique ofNarco Cultural Sexual Aporias ofNihilisticNationalisms Cultural Production Sex aftertheRevolution:QueerUtopias andthePoeticsofHopeinCubanMexican Sever 106 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 and Cruising Utopia Feeling Picuo:TheQueerBrown Affect To BeinJoseEsteban Muñoz’sDisidentifications Modernist Flight Religious CaribbeanSexualitiesinLaPatografía Sever 106 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Narrating travesti:Latin American QueerSelfNarrative Cartographies ofKnowledge.NotesonLatin American QueerEpistemologies Pedro Lemebelandthe“Loco Afán” forQueerFuturity Sever 106 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 LATIN(O) AMERICAAND THE CARIBBEAN SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE QUEER STUDIESINHEMISPHERIC Retrofitting ‘TheMelodramaticImagination’

Ben Singer,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Dominique Nasta,UniversitéLibredeBruxelles Kyounghye Kwon,UniversityofNorthGeorgia Scott Loren,UniversityofSt.Gallen Julia Straub,UniversityofBern Liliana Gonzalez,University ofArizona Vincent Cervantes,UniversityofSouthern California David Tenorio,UniversityofCalifornia, Davis Marcos Gonsalez,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Jose Quiroga,EmoryUniversity Adrián EmmanuelHernández-Acosta,HarvardUniversity Joseph Pierce,StonyBrookUniversity Jorge SánchezCruz,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Carl Fischer,FordhamUniversity Adrián EmmanuelHernández-Acosta,HarvardUniversity Vincent Cervantes,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Carla Marcantonio,LoyolaMarymountUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/C/D stream mixed acla 259 259 260 mixed stream C/C/D acla 260 2016 FEMINISM SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISTPOETRY &MARXIST- Tomassini’s SanguediCane Wounding theIndividual:DynamicsofDiversityand Anatomy ofLoveinVeronica The Automobile asEpistemologicalQuestioninJohnO’Hara’s Appointment inSamarra Hyperinflation asSocialRealityin Hans Fallada’s Wolf unterWölfen The NeedinessofHenryJames Barker 211 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 REPRESENTATIONS OFAGLOBALIZED WORLD. SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY REALISMS AND THE Organizing andtheFeminizationofLiteraryLabor The Artist asHousewife:HowtoDo ThingswithFeministWords, Hands,andEyes Barker 316 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Feminist Poetry, Labour, Abjection Communal Labour:Dorothy Lusk’sPoeticsof Aggression An UncommonLyric: Activist Aesthetics andtheEnvironment inTracy Ryan’s Hoard Barker 316 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Labour, Reproduction, andPoeticLanguageinDianediPrima’s‘Loba’ Kathy Acker Situationism, Cyborgism, andOtherFeministPoeticStrategies:InMemoriamto Flawed UtopiasandFailingSuccessfully:Kollontai,SexLanguage Writing/Not Writing: Anne Boyer, Paralipsis,andtheModelofLiteraryWork Barker 316 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 Stefania Lucamante, TheCatholicUniversityofAmerica Luigi Juarez,BrandeisUniversity Nurettin Ucar,IndianaUniversityBloomington Rosetta Young,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley Nurettin Ucar,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington Norman Valencia,ClaremontMcKennaCollege Samuel Solomon,UniversityofSussex Jeanne Vaccaro,IndianaUniversity Amy De’Ath,SimonFraserUniversity Joseph Giardini,JohnsHopkinsUniversity Ann Vickery,DeakinUniversity Jordan Savage,UniversityofEssex Matthew Landis,StocktonUniversity Elena Gomez,UniversityofNewSouthWalesArt&Design Lindsay Turner,UniversityofVirginia Juliana Spahr,MillsCollege Amy De’Ath,SimonFraserUniversity Between FantasyandRealityinMichaelHaneke’sCinematicRealism Zadie Smith,SpinozistEthics,andCollectivizedRealism Stock CharactersinRealist9/11 Fiction DeLillo’s FallingMan Cosmodern Logic?TheMiseriesofMulticulturalisminTeju Cole’sOpenCityandDon Barker 211 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 “A Collective ExternalBrain”:RebeccaWest’s “Derivative”Modernism Spark’s SlenderMeans Century Paris ‘Une scienceconjecturaleettrompeuse’: Document Authentication inSeventeenth Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Sever 215 Saturday, March19,2016 The Poeticsof Anachronism Inlaid Garbage:ClichéandMisogynyinSeventeenth-CenturyLyric I Am Him,OnlyBetter:MappingOneselfontothePast Lines oftheCreator: EarlyModernCopycatsandLateCoverBands Sever 215 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 REPRODUCTION SEMINAR: COPY WRITERS: AUTHORSHIP AS TEXTUAL Figueiredo From Non-PlacetoPlace:SpatialPoliticsinPassageiro dofimdiabyRubens Reprodução (2013)andtheCaseofBrazil Contemporary RealismsandGlobalizationinLatin America: Bernardo Carvalho’s Latin American Neobaroque andtheCritiqueofRealism Violence, Realism,andCommunitiesofReadersinContemporaryLatin America Barker 211 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Vartan Messier,QueensboroughCommunityCollege,CUNY James Arnett,UniversityofTennesseeChattanooga Sandra Singer,UniversityofGuelph Zeynep Aydogdu,OhioStateUniversity Jennifer Spitzer,Ithaca College Ramsey McGlazer, Brown University Sean O’Neil,ColumbiaUniversity Ian Sampson,BrownUniversity Katie Kadue,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Lindsey Aakre,HarvardUniversity Kathryn Crim,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Ramsey McGlazer,BrownUniversity Katie Kadue,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Camilo Malagon,TulaneUniversity Norman Valencia,ClaremontMcKennaCollege Raul Verduzco,TecnologicodeMonterrey Ruth Halvey,PrincetonUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/C/D stream mixed acla 261 261 262 mixed stream C/C/D acla 262 2016 The Decolonial Appropriations ofLizHoward andJordan Abel The Value ofMemory:Neo-extractionistLogicandContemporaryRetro-culture Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Sever 215 Saturday, March19,2016 Gender Shrapnel and Precarity: Problems ofSilenceinthe Academic Workplace Education ataSmall-ishGeneralUniversity From Q coursestoePortfolios,GenEdIntegrativeCore: Transforming Liberal Arts Interdisciplinarity andCivicEngagement The Culture ofCaregiving: A Counter-Practice inResearch andTeaching Northwest B101 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Humanities Utopian InnovationorDystopianDecline:Interdisciplinary Teaching andResearch inthe Andragogy asInterdisciplinary Method Crisis andScale:TheHumanitiesRe-generativeFailure The StoryofNeoliberalism:BetterNarrativesforTimes ofChange Northwest B101 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Communities ofListeners:MusicalCultures asPedagogicalTechnologies Now What?ReconceptualizingModernLanguageMajorPrograms The CrisisofMulticulturalismandtheNecessityHumanities Why thePostmanShould Always Ring Twice -EvenataBusinessSchool Northwest B101 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES SEMINAR: CRISISIN THE HUMANITIESANDCHANGEIN Sean Braune,YorkUniversity Sean Braune,YorkUniversity Fenn Stewart,UniversityofBritishColumbia Guy Witzel,HighPointUniversity Ellen Mayock,Washington andLeeUniversity G. MichelleCollins-Sibley,University ofMountUnion Steven L.Torres,UniversityofNebraska Omaha Palmar Alvarez-Blanco,CarletonCollege Brian Martin,WilliamsCollege Charles Tedder,MetropolitanStateUniversity Annabel Martín,DartmouthCollege Txetxu Aguado,DartmouthCollege Tim Seiber,UniversityofRedlands Gerburg Garmann,UniversityofIndianapolis Yasser DerwicheDjazaerly,FitchburgStateUniversity Virginia Rademacher,BabsonCollege Julie Townsend,UniversityofRedlands Txetxu Aguado,DartmouthCollege Annabel Martin,DartmouthCollege Hearing Disabilities Founders Story:SouthCentralZambianschoolforchildren withIntellectual,Visual, and Miracle Cure forPolio “The Chinesepeoplehavestoodup”:SocialistRehabilitationMedicineandtheMaoist Imperial Eye/I Cripping thePhilippineEnlightenment:PostcolonialDisabilityandNormate Crossings Disability StudiesandtheMedicalHumanities:Cross-Cultural Comparisonsand Boylston 104 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 DISABILITY SEMINAR: CROSS-CULTURAL (DIS-)LOCATIONS OF B/Orders Unbound:Works and PortraitsofModernDisabled Artists inTaiwan Miser/Abling Images: A CasetoStudy Changing theChannel?Representing Disability inChineseTVDramas Boylston 104 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 China Explorations attheIntersectionsofDisability, GenderandCulture inContemporary Are HibakushastheDisabled?:TheGenealogiesofandDisabledinJapan Space “Crossing HalftheCountrytoSleepwith You:” DisabilityandPolitical Agency inCyber Roaming GazainaWheelchair:Re-Choreographing theIsraeli-PalestinianConflict Boylston 104 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Tamara Shetron,TexasStateUniversity Laurence Coderre,UniversityofMichigan Sony CoranezBolton,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor Kathleen Ong,HarvardUniversity Hangping Xu,StanfordUniversity Sarah Dauncey,TheUniversityofNottingham Hsiao YuSun,NationalSunYat-senUniversity Maria Flamich,IndependentScholar Maria Flamich,IndependentScholar Rita Hoffmann,IndependentScholar Todd Foley,NewYorkUniversity Sarah Dauncey,UniversityofNottingham Yasuko Kase,UniversityoftheRyukyus Hangping Xu,StanfordUniversity Ilana Szobel,BrandeisUniversity

2016

mixed stream C/C/D stream mixed acla 263 263 264 mixed stream C/C/D acla 264 2016 (Breaking theCommandment) Shimazaki Tōson’sRewritingof‘CrimeandPunishment’inHis1906Novel‘Hakai’ in ‘SoulMountain’ Cross-cultural LiteraryPersonaeinSearch ofaStory:GaoXingjian’sFictionalCharacters Man ofPeaceinStatesWar: Gregory DavidRoberts’‘Shantaram’ Emerson 307 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Conflicting CrypticSubtext Song:Flaubert’s‘MadameBovary’andPlato’s‘Phaedrus’ as The BlindBeggar’s The Straightforward MovementofSlyIdeas:CulturalExchangeinMedievalIberia Hisham, andIsmail Going totheWest: ResponsestoOrientalistTropes intheTravels oftheFariyaq,IsaIbn Emerson 307 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 The IntertextualOther:Cross-Cultural Exoticizationin Asian DiasporaPoetry 1874-1911 Reprints, Translations, andInventions:Foreign ImagesofChinainChinesePeriodicals, Encountering Allen Ginsberg: TheSouth Asian Avant-Garde ResponsetotheBeats Iranian Art (Mis)Translations andSomeFormativeMomentsintheDiscourseofContemporary Emerson 307 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 CONFLICTS SEMINAR: CROSS-CULTURAL VALUES: CONFLUENCESAND Frankenstein inthe MeijiJapan A Ventriloquist Speakinginhis/herOwn Voice: TheTranslation andIllustrationsof Northwest B104 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 FICTION, POETRY, AND TRANSLATION SEMINAR: CROSS-RACIAL VENTRILOQUISM I: PROSE Janet Walker,RutgersUniversity Rujie Wang,CollegeofWooster Shreerekha Subramanian,UniversityofHouston-ClearLake Steven Walker,RutgersUniversity Paula Karger,UniversityofToronto Ida Nitter,UniversityofChicago Benzi Zhang,ShanghaiUniversityofPoliticalScienceandLaw Yingying Huang,PurdueUniversity Rita Banerjee,Ludwig-Maximilian-University,Munich Foad Torshizi,ColumbiaUniversity Steven Walker,RutgersUniversitiy Janet Walker,RutgersUniversity Tomoko Nakagawa, UniversityoftheSacredHeart,Tokyo Olivia LoksingMoy,LehmanCollege, City UniversityofNewYork Jang WookHuh,UniversityatBuffalo, StateUniversityofNewYork between Empires from Beneath When thePastTalks Backfrom TheFuture: SpeakingRace,Indigeneity, andtheFuture Whiteness afterVietnam The EthnicizationofVeteran America: Toni Morrison,LarryHeinemann,andMilitary Time-Space Compression andGeographiesofLovein Yusef Komunyakaa’sDienCaiDau Northwest B104 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Loathsome Spoils: Beowulf’s monstrous economyofbodies Loathsome Spoils:Beowulf’s The Devil’sDangerous Book:Fakelore, MoralPanicsandtheModernGrimoire Milton’s DevilsandtheSevenDeadlySins:DecategorizingEvilinParadise Lost The SoulinPain:Souls,Devils,andPurgatory inLate-MedievalTexts Sever 304 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 DEVILISH AFTERLIVES, ANDINFERNALDESIRES SEMINAR: DEVILSIN THE DETAILS: DEMONICHORRORS, Authorial Translation asVentriloquism Uses ofNaziGermanyinContemporary African American Literature Selling the“SoulMarket”:BlacknessandValue inCommercial Marketinginthe1970s. Chester Himes’‘IfHeHollersLetHimGo’andTheStateofException Northwest B104 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Love andTheft: Anticolonial PalimpsestsintheHarlemRenaissance The Translation of Affect inLin Yutang’s CulturalDiplomacy Minority Myth Asian-American NovelsintheBrontë Tradition: Successful Adaptation andtheModel

Jeong EunWe,RutgersUniversity Joseph Darda,TexasChristianUniversity Sunny Yang,LouisianaStateUniversity Elizabeth Liendo,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Scott Poole,CollegeofCharleston Kelly Lehtonen,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Colin Fewer,PurdueUniversityCalumet Heather Hayton,GuilfordCollege Heather Mitchell-Buck,HoodCollege Ben Tran,VanderbiltUniversity Gianna Zocco,UniversityofVienna Dan Guadagnolo,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Kelsey Kiser,SouthernMethodistUniversity Jang WookHuh,SUNYBuffalo L. MariaBo,ColumbiaUniversity Olivia Moy,LehmanCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork

2016

mixed stream C/C/D stream mixed acla 265 265 266 mixed stream C/C/D acla 266 2016 Fantasy A ReturntoMonsters:Presence and Absence inMedieval DramaandPostmodern Garden Wall” Devilish Seductions:Despair, Postmodernity, and Dangerous Beastsin“Overthe Steampunk, Feathers,andRock&Roll:MysteryPlayDevilsforModern Audiences Examination ofDaenerysTargaryen’s SubversionofPoliticalRolesinWesteros Power Shiftedthrough theMaternalMonstrous andPowerfulBloodoftheDragon: An Sever 304 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Reason HasItsEpochs: OntheLogicofClosure inHegel’sPhenomenology Thinking theVoid: Blake,Kierkegaard, andthe Anxious Negative Sever 211 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 The Art of Arts: Transcendental DialecticinEarlyModernity Philosophical Grounds What KindofWorld DoesDialecticNeed toSucceed? A LiteraryInvestigationinto Staging Thought: A DramaticPerspectiveonDialecticalPhilosophy Plato andKafka:TheDialecticsofWithdrawn Revelation Sever 211 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: DIALECTICAL THINKING IN THE HUMANITIES The War inHeavenisPersonal:JohnConstantinetheHero We Don’tWant toNeed Slender Man,Childhood,andtheInfernalInternet The PastandFuture LivesofGrendel Infernal Time: DemonicEnergy, Diegesis,andTemporal Rebellions Sever 304 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Paul Masters,TuftsUniversity Niall Donegan,GuilfordCollege Anna Rider,GuilfordCollege Heather Mitchell-Buck,HoodCollege Abby Daniel,MarshallUniversity Michael Saman,Independent Scholar Elizabeth Fay,UniversityofMassachusetts Boston Frederick Blumberg,UniversityofHongKong Maria Devlin,HarvardUniversity Jamey Graham,LeMoyneCollege Amit Shilo,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Richard Flynn,BrandeisUniversity Jamey Graham,LeMoyneCollege Kurt Cavender,BrandeisUniversity Karra Shimabukuro,UniversityofNewMexico Adam Golub,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Fullerton Richard FordBurley,BostonCollege Heather RichardsonHayton,GuilfordCollege Badiou, Twisted Alasdair MacIntyre’s DialecticalSynthesis: A Viable ModelforCross-cultural Ethics? Dialectical CritiqueattheEndofHistory Philosophy The Difference BetweenHarman’sandMeillassoux’sNotionsof A Speculative Sever 211 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Turtle Island Decolonizing GeographiesofPower: IndigenousDigitalCounter-Mapping Practiceson Networks andMeshworks:Sensual-SemioticExistenceBeyondtheHuman Umwelt :aichingers topo-graph Science CenterHallB Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 ‘Underground’ London The Ladbroke Archipelago: Urban Localities,CulturalFormsandthe Archive in Reading theOcean “Things. Things.Things.”: A GeographyofMaterialDesire inQuicksand Place Cultivating theUn-Cultural.LiteraryRomanticism,ModernityandPhilosophyof Science CenterHallB Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Friday, March18,2016 STORYTELLING SEMINAR: DIGITAL MAPPING, SPATIALLY-BASED Sheer Negativityand American Realism J.M. CoetzeeandtheHegelianDialectic Andrew Warren,HarvardUniversity Amod Lele,BostonUniversity Djordje Popovi Kurt Cavender,BrandeisUniversity Shaun Stevenson,CarletonUniversity Chris Loughnane,UniversityofGlasgow Academy ofSciences) Andreas Dittrich,InstituteforCorpusLinguisticsandTextTechnology(Austrian Jason Finch,ÅboAkademiUniversity Robin Miskolcze,LoyolaMarymountUniversity Laure Parkinson,IndependentScholar Peter Henning,LundUniversity Erica Smeltzer,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Katie Trostel,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz Richard Flynn,BrandeisUniversity Farzad Shahinfard,YorkUniversity

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2016

mixed stream C/C/D stream mixed acla 267 267 269 269 acla mixed stream D/C/D 2016 Daniel Frappier, Université de Montréal Daniel Frappier, Université of Oxford Carina Venter, University William Fourie, University of Oxford Kjetil Klette Boehler, University of Oslo Chris Stover, The New School Dan DiPiero, Ohio State University Hisaaki Wake, Bates College Masami Yuki, Kanazawa University Keijiro Suga, Meiji University Marjorie Rhine, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Toshiya Ueno, Wako University Alex Bates, Dickinson College Hisaaki Wake, Bates College Rei Magosaki, Chapman University Murray Dineen, University of Ottawa Dineen, University Murray Toronto of Nickelson, University Patrick University of Ottawa Murray Dineen, Nova de Lisboa João Pedro Cachopo, Universidade of Toronto Patrick Nickleson, University Saturday, March 19, 2016 pm Stream C, 2:00 pm-3:45 Science Center 113 des arts de l’audible sous le régime esthétique reconfigurations Ici rien n’est silencieux: Kidnapping Rancière 2015-2019, Project, America. (Research Politics of Popular Music in a Changing Latin Projects) Council, Free funded by the Norwegian Research Music Attali, Deleuze, and the Politics of Improvised Rancière, the Notion of Contingency Through On Music and Politics: Reading Rancière SEASON 2 ECOCRITICISM IN JAPAN: SEMINAR: Friday, March 18, 2016 Stream D, 4:00 pm-5:45 pm K050 (CGIS Knafel) and the Rural in Reading the Wild of the Ecoscape in Genji’s Built Environment: Traces of Genji. The Tale Abe Kobo in Ecosophy After the Quake in Murakami Haruki’s Artist: “Nature” or Beast Vengeful Yanagimachi Festivals” of Nakagami Kenji and The Eco-Performativity in the “Fire Mitsuo Morton’s and Timothy Kawakami’s Kamisama 2011 Hiromi Reconstructions: Creative Hyperobjects SEMINAR: DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: RANCIÈRE AND MUSIC AND RANCIÈRE ON A GROUND: DIVISIONS SEMINAR: 18, 2016 Friday, March pm-5:45 pm Stream D, 4:00 113 Science Center Music of Tragic Adorno, and the Sense Ranciere, Aftermath of the Adorno, and Music in the Rancière, The Politics of the Muses: Postmodern Debate Althusser and Louis Young La Monte from Lesson in “Low Music” A Joan Lubin, University of Pennsylvania Aaron Rosenberg, Cornell University Lindsay Thomas, Clemson University Ala Alryyes, City University of New York Jessica Hurley, University of Chicago Dan Sinykin, Grinnell College Lee Norton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lee Norton, University of University Robbie Cormier, Stony Brook Greta Pane, Harvard University/Boston University Ingrid Becker, University of Chicago Lee Norton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lee Norton, University of Pennsylvania Joan Lubin, University of David Kennedy Jones, Rutgers University David Kennedy Riverside University of California, Amanda Sharick, of California, Santa Cruz Katharine Trostel, University

S010 Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South) of Man: Population Bomb on Spaceship Earth The Stature Blockage Much Information: Scale and Narrative Too Scales: The Familiar and Form Modeling Temporal Saturday, March 19, 2016 Stream D, 4:00 pm-5:45 pm Modeling the Anthropocene: Probability, Risk, and the Fictions of Nuclear Waste Probability, Anthropocene: Modeling the The Poetics of Microfinance Saturday, March 19, 2016 Stream C, 2:00 pm-3:45 pm S250 (CGIS South) and War Plato and Locke: The Mind, the Polity, S250 (CGIS South) and Scale in 1960s Biology Catachresis Cultures: Between Two Redundancies of Scale the Dimensions of Immediate Austen and Attention to the Novel: Jane The First Scale of Experience the Global 1940s Dymaxion Poetics: Buckminster Fuller Remodels Friday, March 18, 2016 pm Stream C, 2:00 pm-3:45 SEMINAR: MODELING SCALE MODELING SEMINAR: Science Center Hall D Center Hall Science American Diplomacy of Native Century: Cartographies and the 21st Wampum Histories of Collaboration/ and Contested Bergner Yosl in Haifa: ‘Brotherhood’(2013) in ‘Mixed’ City Spaces Coercion Agosín’s Cartographies Digitally Mapping Marjorie Story Maps: Saturday, March 19, 2016 March Saturday, pm D, 4:00 pm-5:45 Stream

2016

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268 268 270 mixed stream D/C/D acla 270 2016 Child-Analysis Schooling Psychoanalysis:BeatingFantasies, Daydreams, and Anna Freud’s Pedagogical Aesthetic EducationGoestoSchool The DialecticsofPedagogicalTraining and Youth EmpowermentinBrazil Emerson 104 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Academic BarbarismandtheLiterature ofConcealment Academic BarbarisminNabokov’s‘Pnin’ Subversive Conventions:CampusNovelsand Academic Critique Alerts toaDystopianNightmare ofDehumanization Emerson 104 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: EDUCATION ANDITSDISCONTENTS The NuclearUncannyandtheToxic ImageintheTV Anime SeriesCoppelion(2013) Radiation Crisis With theWholeEarthInsideTheirStomachs:OnCattleinFukushimaUnder the Sightseeing Post-Fukushima JapaneseEnvironmental Literature: Radiation,NuclearUtopia,and Furukawa Hideo’s“Horses”,andHistory K050 (CGISKnafel) Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Catastrophic Tokyo: Re-thinkingtheNuclearWalking DeadinJapaneseComics Tone Deaf:OnŌe’sEcocriticalRemainder Biotropes andtheProblem ofCulture American ImpactonJapaneseLiteraryEnvironmentalism K050 (CGISKnafel) Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Carolyn Laubender, DukeUniversity Jesse Raber,LoyolaUniversityChicago Priscila AndradeM.Rodrigues,Federal UniversityofRiodeJaneiro Michael O’Sullivan,ChineseUniversityofHongKong Derong Cao,ChineseUniversityofHongKong Christopher Findeisen,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago Akiyoshi Suzuki,NagasakiUniversity Michael O’Sullivan,ChineseUniversityofHongKong Chase Gregory,DukeUniversity Carolyn Laubender,DukeUniversity Livia Monnet,UniversityofMontreal Keijiro Suga,MeijiUniversity Keitaro Morita,IndependentScholar Douglas Slaymaker,UniversityofKentucky Yukihiro Tsukada,KwanseiGakuinUniversity Margherita Long,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine Christine Marran,UniversityofMinnesota Masami Yuki,KanazawaUniversity An EssayisBeingWritten Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 AMERICA SEMINAR: EMBODYING POLITICSINAFRICAANDLATIN The EphemeralEternal in19th-CenturyFrench RealistFiction Disappearing Ink Light Work: TheEphemeral Art ofTransparencies Science CenterB10 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 ARCHIVE, MEMORY SEMINAR: EPHEMERAANDEPHEMERALITY: MEDIA, The NormalizationofViolence inRobertoBolaño’sEmbodied Politics Oil LifeinHelonHabila’sonWater Lagoon and NnediOkorafor’s Sever 202 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Autothanatography and African IllnessNarratives The PoliticsofSensations:Texture, Body, andDiscourseinCubanCinemaLiterature d’Ivoire An “ImaginarySyndrome toDiscourageLovers”:ResistanceHIVPrevention inCôte Sever 202 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Caribbean Literature andStreet Art: A ComparativeStudyofGenderandCulturalPoliticsthe Leonardo Sanchez’s Arpias. Photographyas aTool ofEmpowerment Bodies asTimepieces: QueerTemporality inTattoo Sever 202

Chase Gregory,DukeUniversity Ashleigh Harris,UppsalaUniversity Yianna Liatsos,UniversityofLimerick Mariana Olivares,LouisianaStateUniversity Guillermo Severiche,LouisianaStateUniversity Heidi Brevik-Zender, UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Susan Zieger,University ofCalifornia,Riverside John Plunkett,UniversityofExeter Priti Joshi,UniversityofPugetSound Susan Zieger,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside Nicole Gervasio,ColumbiaUniversity Ashleigh Harris,UppsalaUniversity Yianna Liatsos,UniversityofLimerick Guillermo Severiche,LouisianaStateUniversity Christine Cynn,VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity Idaliz RomanPerez,SUNYBinghamton Mariana Olivares,LouisianaStateUniversity Ramayana Sousa,UniversidadedoSuldeSantaCatarina

2016

mixed stream D/C/D stream mixed acla 271 271 272 mixed stream D/C/D acla 272 2016 Interwar Expressionism and(Trans)national Borders inStevieSmith’sOvertheFrontier Masculinity, OrientalismandTechnology: PaulWegener’s FaceandtheFantasticFilm Károly Lathjay’sDrakula halála (1921) Here Among theDead:ThePhantomCarriageandCinemaofOccultedTaboo Northwest B108 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: EXPRESSIONISMINGLOBAL CINEMA/CULTURE “Delete isOurDefault”:TheParadoxofPresence andMemoryinEphemeralMessaging Digital Theatricality:FlickeringDocumentsinUnsteady Archives Jokes oftheDay:ExploringEphemeralityVictorian NewspaperHumour Science CenterB10 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 “History oftheVoice”:The BBCandtheEmergent Archive ofCaribbeanVoices Scissors-and-Paste: Circulation andEndurancein19th-century Newspapers Ephemeral Buildings:Threshold Experiences ofMemoryinParis,1889and1900 The Augury ofClouds Science CenterB10 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Literature DowntothePixel Le Brasierardent -IvanMosjoukine’sclind’œil toGermanExpressionism Four DeathsandOneLife:MayaDeren andExpressionism Shadow, Blur, Glitch:TheGothicRouteto Contemporary DigitalExpressionism “Dream, littleone,dream”: FairyTale Expressionism inTheNight oftheHunter Northwest B108 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Laurel Harris,RiderUniversity Thomas Elsaesser,ColumbiaUniversity Gary Rhodes,Queen’sUniversityofBelfast Robert Guffey,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach Gary Rhodes,Queen’sUniversity,Belfast Robert Singer,CUNYGraduateCenter Kimberly Hall,WoffordCollege Lindsay BrandonHunter,SUNYBuffalo Bob Nicholson,EdgeHillUniversity Mollie McFee,UniversityofChicago Priti Joshi,UniversityofPugetSound Christina Svendsen,UniversityofPennsylvania A. B.Huber,NewYorkUniversity Dennis YiTenen,ColumbiaUniversity Bernard McCarron, Queen’sUniversityofBelfast Graeme Harper,OaklandUniversity Hugh Manon,ClarkUniversity Marlisa Santos,NovaSoutheasternUniversity Defeat andDelusion:PostwarCatastrophe inNerven(1919) Nietzsche’s FingerprintsonTheHandsofOrlac War I Je vousappelle:Expressionism and Abel Gance’s‘J’accuse’attheCentennialofWorld “True, Nervous”: American Expressionist CinemaandtheDestabilizedMale Northwest B108 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Martha Rosler, MaryKelly, andthe Technologies of(Feminist)Language ‘Dialogue UponMountPentelicus’(1906) Dystopian Utopiasin Arundhati Roy’s‘TheBriefing’(2008)and Virginia Woolf’s The Reproductive FuturismofShelley’sLastMan Sever 110 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 The Transgressive Girl Being The Limitsof“Cyberfeminism”and“Globality”inRuthOzeki’s A Tale fortheTime Cloud Atlas, LeeBul,andthereappropriation ofthe Asian femalecyborg Sever 110 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Geologies ofSexandGender:TheShifttheRockWhenFeministsBecameQueer Women, Multidimensional Space,andViolence In Search ofDifference: TheSalpêtrière, Hysteria,andtheBeginningsofPsychoanalysis Sever 110 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: FEMINISTSINGULARITIES

Steve Choe,SanFranciscoStateUniversity Phillip Sipiora,UniversityofSouthFlorida Marcelline Block,IndependentScholar Robert Singer,TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork Jacquelyn Ardam,UniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles Urvashi Vashist,UniversityCollege,London Jennifer Horwitz,TuftsUniversity Nicole Killian,VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity Evangeline Holtz,UniversityofToronto Kyunghee SabinaEo,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia Samantha Pergadia,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Amy Wong,DominicanUniversityofCalifornia Ronjaunee Chatterjee,CaliforniaInstituteoftheArts Ronjaunee Chatterjee,CaliforniaInstituteoftheArts Jacquelyn Ardam,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles

2016

mixed stream D/C/D stream mixed acla 273 273 274 mixed stream D/C/D acla 274 2016 The ParallelWorlds oftheHindiandTamil ShortStory Black LessonsontheGlobal Consumer Capitalism The HindiNovelinthe Age ofLiberalization:From SocialRealismto ‘Bazaari’ LanguageandthePoliticsofTranslation inHindi/Urdu Literature Sever 103 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 English The CosmopolitanStoryofaVernacular Novel:IntizarHusain’sBastiinUrdu/Hindi/ Al-Andalus inSouth Asian Literature: Transnational ImaginariesinUrdu andEnglish The PoetryofRevolution:HaiderandtheKashmirConflictinUrdu Poetry Urdu Vernacular Literature Textual Migrations: American Evangelism,IndianMuslimReformandProduction of Sever 103 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 Multilingual Reader Forgetting MonolingualWorld Literature: UnderstandingTranslatability toImaginea Realism andReligion: An Alternative GenealogyfortheNovelinIndia Material Cultures: Tracing Labor, Language,andKnowledge Across theIndianOcean Bengali Literature as Asian Literature Sever 103 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 VERNACULARS INMOTION SEMINAR: FORGETTINGENGLISH: SOUTHASIAN Preetha Mani,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick Gregory Goulding,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Richard Delacy,HarvardUniversity Nida Sajid,Georg-August-UniversityGoettingen Sayyeda ZehraRazvi,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis Roanne Kantor,BrandeisUniversity Krupa Shandilya,AmherstCollege Asiya Alam,LouisianaStateUniversity Sohomjit Ray,CollegeofStatenIsland,CityUniversityNewYork Aruni Mahapatra,EmoryUniversity Poulomi Saha,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley Madhumita Lahiri,UniversityofMichigan Madhumita Lahiri,UniversityofMichigan Roanne Kantor,BrandeisUniversity I HaveNoMind:Lateral Agency, orIndifference, inElizabethStoddard’s TheMorgesons Never Was Stuttering oftheDoctrine: A re-reading ofBartleby (1988) and Amitav Ghosh’sTheShadowLines(1988) From CartographicDistancetoCosmopolitanBridgesinBapsiSidhwa’sIce-Candy-Man Science Center109 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 SEMINAR: FORMSOFPASSIVITY The SoundofModernism Today: DistantReading Audiobook Culture Genres Without Borders: ReadingGloballyBetweenModernIranandtheWest Sever 306 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Friday, March18,2016 CIRCULATION IN THE MODERN/CONTEMPORARY PERIOD SEMINAR: GLOBAL GENRES: LITERARY FORMAND The SilentSyntaxofRooms AIDS andthePassivityof Angel ofHistory The DestituentPowerof#Duranadam:Taking aStand After GeziPark Kapil’s BanenBanlieue Bodies ontheGround: SupineBodiesinRenée Gladman’sRavickianTrilogy andBhanu Science Center109 Stream D,4:00pm-5:45pm Saturday, March19,2016 The PassiveClassroom Floundering Agency andthe(Im)possibilityofPassivity Laziness andtheProblem ofResistancetoBiopower Passivity, Mourning,andModernEthics Science Center109 Stream C,2:00pm-3:45pm Saturday, March19,2016

Seohyon Jung,TuftsUniversity Alice HonorGavin,UniversityofSheffield Marten Weise,YaleUniversity/GoetheUniversityofFrankfurt Prathim-Maya Dora-Laskey,AlmaCollege Christien Garcia,McMasterUniversity Sarah D’Adamo,McMasterUniversity Brandon Walsh,University ofVirginia Marie Ostby,Connecticut College Sookyoung Lee,ConnecticutCollege Marie Ostby,ConnecticutCollege Christien Garcia,McMasterUniversity Ricky Varghese,IndependentScholar Gabriel Quigley,UniversityofToronto Sarah Dowling,UniversityofWashingtonBothell Sarah D’Adamo,McMasterUniversity Carolyn Veldstra,UniversityofAlberta Zuzanna Ladyga,UniversityofWarsaw Mary Traester,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia

2016

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