Please join us on Tuesday, May 19, 12:15 pm and Wednesday, May 20, 3:30 pm, Dartmouth Hall 105. All are welcome. Please see the schedule below.
Tuesday, May 19, 12:15 pm
Dartmouth Hall 105
Welcome: Roopika Risam
Panel 1: Unsettled Pasts
Moderator: Kristina L. Shea
Marta Hulievska
Imagining the Commune: Khvylovy’s Transcendencies in My Self (Romantica)
Yi (Yuuki) You
Phantomized Report, Folded Archives: The Paperwork of Denial in Postwar Japan
Mallory Wooldridge
Tracing Vergangenheitsbewältgung - A Tradition of Dealing with the Past
Questions & Answers & 10 minute break
Panel 2: Human, All Too Human
Moderator: Dominick B. Philip
Peter T. Domokos
“And Friends, They May Think It's a Movement:” Grotesque Geometry as a System of Humanism in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and István Örkény’s One-minute Stories and Tóték
Yazi Zheng
Vision, Voice, and Touch: a Posthumanist Approach to History in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part
Clarissa Melendez
Wood Lands: Reconciling the Forest as a Site of National Memory in Germany and Italy
Questions & Answers
Wednesday, May 20, 3:30
Dartmouth Hall 105
Welcome: Roopika Risam
Panel 3: Negotiating National Narratives
Moderator: Mallory Wooldridge
Yu Yan
Honor, Decorum, and Unity: Translating Le Cid (1637) in Caroline England
Dominick B. Philip
kör göze parmak: embodiment, sensation and phenomenology in Gegen die Wand (2004)
Questions & Answers & 10 minute break
Panel 4: Sexual/Textual Forms: Unruly Feminisms
Moderator: Peter T. Domokos
Kristina L. Shea
Revolution in Epic Poetry: On the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin and Lisa Robertson
Jocilynn Colombo
“Embodied Horror: Women and Medical Authority in Video Games”
Wenyu Zeng
Before Any “Making”: The Materiality of Language in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Work
Questions & Answers