February 17th, 2023
Breakfast and Registration | 8:30-9:10 AM
Location: Poetry Center (HUM 2001)
Plenary Address: “Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty” | 9:15-10:30 AM
Location: Poetry Center (HUM 2001)
Presented by: Timothy K. August
Session 1 | 10:45-11:50 AM
Panel 1a: Fluid Attention and Misrepresentations
Location: Humanities 2052
Faculty Respondent: Simone Brioni
- “The Mis-representation of Africa’s Intangible Heritage in Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (2008)” by James Gonese
- “Yours Truly: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie as Epic Drama” by Sophie Stein
- “Castro and I: Resisting Identification in Jordan Castro’s The Novelist” by Akosua Adasi
Panel 1b: Gender (and) Performance
Location: Bev Birns Conference Room (HUM 2018)
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Celia Marshik
- “Girl Culture and the Network of Girlhood Relationships in the works of Anna Burns and Lucy Caldwell” by Lizzie Belnap
- “The Center of Attention: Literacy, Pornography, and the Price of Humanity” by Tess Patalano
Panel 1c: Race, Space, Racism and Testimony
Location: Poetry Center
Faculty Respondent: Timothy K. August
- “The Privilege Your Beauty Bears”: Exploring Julie Taymor’s Critique of Contemporary Racism Through Symbolism and Setting in Titus” by Kate Rutherford
- “The Intention of Space and Place in African American Literature and Text” by Khadijah Boxill
- “Racism and Testimonial Injustice: The Experiences of African LGBT+ Asylum Seekers within the Euro-American Asylum System and the Need for Politics of Attention” by Emillion Adekoya
Lunch | 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Poetry Center (HUM 2001)
Session 2 | 1:00-2:20 PM
Panel 2a: Confluence: Surveillance, Propaganda and the Artist
Location: Bev Birns Conference Room (HUM 2018)
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Katherine Johnston
- “Symphonies and Soundbites: The Harmony of Social Media Surveillance and Cancel Culture in Todd Field’s Tár” by Sam Littman
- “Seeing with F.B. Eyes: The Psychic Gymnastics of FBI Surveillance of the Civil Rights Movement” by Samriddhi Agrawal
- “When the Children Touched the Paintings: The Afterlives of the New German Cinema and the Red Army Faction” by Rosa Martinez
Panel 2b: Medicalized, Demonized and Dancing Bodies
Location: Humanities 2052
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Justin Johnston
- “Truth, Legend, or Lie: The Elizabeth Bathory Story” by Andreley Bjelland
- “Paying Attention: The Cost of Chronic Illness in Panic Room” by Julia Brown
- “Understanding Valery’s Fourth Body Through the Dancing Body” by Noor Imran
Session 3 | 2:30-3:50 PM
Panel 3a: Robust Afterlives and the Notably Notorious
Location: Humanities 2052
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Jessica Hautsch
- “‘Some things should never be remade’: Posthumous Discourses Surrounding Anthony Bourdain” by Lauren Randall
- “Bold on the Page: Margaret Cavendish and Fanfiction as a Literary Tradition” by Callie Gonsalves
- “Fame and The Political Prophet” by S. Yarberry
Session 4 |4:00-5:20 PM
Panel 4a: Unstable Homes: Trauma and the Anthropocene
Location: Bev Birns Conference Room (HUM 2018)
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Sara Santos
- “Post-Apocalyptic Shakespeares: Trauma, Memory, and Performance in Station Eleven (2014)” by Susan Harris-Gamard
- “Reclaiming the Homeland: Palestinian American Understandings of Home in Literature” by Dyala Kasim
- “Borderlands in a Planetary Age” by Karl Nycklemoe
Panel 4b: Attention Online
Location: Humanities 2052
Faculty Respondent: Dr. Jessica Hautsch
- “Cat Got Your Attention: Boredom, Attention and Time in the Digital Age” by Tirna Chatterjee
- “Influence, Instagram Baddies, and Wielding Attention” by Gillian Kenah
- “Is Cancel-Culture Carceral? A Deconstruction of Cancel Culture Discourses Through an Abolitionist Lens” by Sam Davis
Keynote Address: “‘The Air Itself Is Filled With Monsters’: Fame, Circulation, And Universal Horror” | 5:30 PM
Location: Poetry Center (HUM 2001)
Presented by: Dr. Will Scheibel
