THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH

 

WELCOME. 9:10-9:15 

 

PLENARY ADDRESS: 9:15-10:45 

“Decolonial Water Memory: Floods, Rising Seas, and Inequality as Testimony to the Transpacific Anthropocene”

Jeffrey Santa Ana, Stony Brook University 

Chair: Brian Eberle, Stony Brook University 

Chat Moderator: Julia Brown, Stony Brook University

 

SESSION 1: 11:15-12:45

SESSION 1A. MEMORY LIVES!: UNCERTAINTY, DISORDER, AND FREEDOM

Faculty Respondent: Simone Brioni, Stony Brook University

Chair: Frank Harder, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“Politically Mobilized Memory in Arundhadi Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.” Kyle Woodend, CHA University in South Korea.

“The Ethiopian Red Terror and Its Narrative Afterlife: Postmemory in the Short Stories of Dinaw Mengestu and Maaza Mengiste.” Brandon Breen, University of Cagliari

“Performativity in Shailja Patel’s Migritude.” Marietta Kosma, University of Oxford

“Memory, Counter-Memory, Trauma, and Place in Amy Waldman’s The Submission.” Margrét Ann Thors, University of Iceland.

 

SESSION 1B. HAUNTOLOGICAL ARCHIVES

Faculty Respondent:  Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University

Chair: Hayden Kindrat, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations: 

“Radicalization as Reclamation: How the Haunted Self Continues to Grasp at Polarization in an Attempt to Exorcise its Indeterminacy.” Zachary Waters, Rhode Island College

“The Ruined Archives of Sebald and Frisch.” Paromita Patranobish, Independent Researcher.

“The (Un)bearable Lightness of Instagram Memories.” Ana Isabel Galván García de las Bayonas, University of Murcia.

 

LUNCH BREAK 

 

SESSION 2: 1:30 – 2:45

PANELS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENS: CONFRONTING LIMITATIONS TO MEMORIALIZATION

Faculty Respondent: Sara Santos, Stony Brook University

Chair: Lindsey Pelucacci, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“Fandom, Embodied Nostalgia, and Animated GIFs.” Jessica Hautsch, Stony Brook University.

“When a Black Man’s Blue: HBO’s Watchmen and the Draw of the Alternate History Genre.” Sarah Myers, Stony Brook University.

“The Limits of Memory: Husserl, Levinas, and the Immemorial.” Charles Driker-Ohren, Stony Brook University

 

SESSION 3: 3:30-4:45

MEMORY AND BODY: MEDICAL HUMANITIES AS A RESPONSE

Faculty Respondent: Celia Marshik, Stony Brook University

Co-chairs: Julia Brown, Stony Brook University & Lea Borenstein, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“Reaching Evelyn: A Documentary Study of Dementia Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Lindsey Pelucacci, Stony Brook University.

“‘No miracle is worthy’: Childbirth, Twilight Sleep, and the Medicalized Female Body.” Haleigh Yaspan, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

“In Oblivion and Old Age: An Exploration of Remembering and Aging in Select Texts” Shobha Elizabeth John, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal.

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH 

 

SESSION 4: 10:00-11:15 

SESSION 4A. FORGETTING AND RETROSPECTION: GRAPHIC APPROACHES

Faculty Respondent: Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook University

Chair: Jessica Hautsch, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“The Best We Could Remember: Memory, Forgetting, and Family Formation in The Best We Could Do.” Justine Trinh, Washington State University

“Subjectivity through Time: Retrospective Childhoods in Debbie Drechsler’s Daddy’s Girl.” Mukulika Batabyal, University of Delhi.

“Performing Care Work: Graphic Narrative and Tensions of Visibility.” Julia Brown, Stony Brook University.

 

SESSION 4B. ALTERING SPACES: PROXIMITY, LOCATION, AND MOVEMENT

Faculty Respondent: Ritch Calvin, Stony Brook University

Chair: Lisa LeBlond, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“Leather Bars and Luxury Lofts: Memory-Play and the Changing Landscapes of Queer Alabama.” Sarah Chant, The New School for Social Research.

“Haunted Houses: Reading the Memory of Surveillance in Gay Bathhouse Design.” Brian Eberle, Stony Brook University.

“Queer Time and Memory in A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.” Lucien Darjeun Meadows, University of Denver.

 

SESSION 5: 11:45-1:00 

SESSION 5A: COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES: CRISES OF BELONGING

Faculty Respondent: E.K. Tan, Stony Brook University

Chair: Nayoung Yang, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“Confronting Hidden Histories through Mythmaking in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora.” Victoria V. Chang, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

“‘Collective Amnesia’: Analysing the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 through the Intersection of Gender and Historiography.” Pooja Yadav, University of Delhi.

“Discovering Alternative Futures through Women’s Collective Memory in Ecofeminist Literature.” Tayla Straub, Stony Brook University.

 

SESSION 5B. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: QUESTIONS OF RELIABILITY

Faculty Respondent: Katherine Johnston, Stony Brook University

Chair: Brian Eberle, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“Unreliable Narrators and Chaotic Structure: The Art of Misremembering in I’m Thinking of Ending Things.” Carina Stopenski, Carnegie Mellon University.

“Memory and Power: Unreliable Narrator in Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma and Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine.” Dania Shaikh, St. Xavier’s College, Gujarat University.

 

LUNCH BREAK: 1:00-1:45

 

SESSION 6: 2:00-3:30 

SESSION 6A. THE MEMORY OF (OUR?) TRADITION

Faculty Respondent: Tracey Walters, Stony Brook University

Chair: Lea Borenstein, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator:

Presentations:

“Identifying the Self and Decolonisation via Memory-writing and Imagination in Indigenous American and Chinese American Fiction.” Jessica Mure, University of Gloucestershire.

“The Decolonial Imagination in African American Literature: Hauntings that Delink from Modernity/Coloniality to Reconstitute Ways of Knowing.” Lisa LeBlond, Stony Brook University.

“Personal Histories of Wrongful Death in the Context of Black Lives Matter: Community-Based Obituary Projects as Instruments of Resisting Racial Violence.” Sunoo Kim, Independent Scholar.

 

SESSION 6B. THE USABLE PAST(S): THE MEMORY OF MEDIA 

Faculty Respondent: Timothy August, Stony Brook University

Chair: Bernard Krumm, Stony Brook University

Chat Moderator: GradCon Committee

Presentations:

“The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in Contemporary Media – Analyzing the Social Amnesia Surrounding the Marichjhapi Massacre.” Pratiti Roy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal.

“Visualizing Trauma and Healing in East Indonesia: Remembering “Forgotten” Cold War Memories through Arts-based Research.” Julie Gaynes, University of California, Los Angeles.

“In(ter)ventions: Technologies of Memory, and a Post-human Imagination.” Sonakshi Srivastava, Indraprastha University Delhi.

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 4:00-5:30

“Migrant Lots/Migrant Horizons” 

Edgar Garcia, University of Chicago

Chair: Anthony Gomez

Chat Moderator: