crossroads crossroads conference conference 2008 2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst Organization of Students in Comparative Literature Organization of Students in Comparative Literature Presents: Presents: Crossroads: a Graduate Conference Crossroads: a Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature in Comparative Literature 10 - 12 October, 2008 10 - 12 October, 2008 Keynote Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Ammiel Alcalay Ammiel Alcalay Ph.D. Ph.D. Professor of English and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center Professor of English and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
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conferenceconference20082008University of Massachusetts AmherstUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Organization of Students in Comparative LiteratureOrganization of Students in Comparative LiteraturePresents:Presents:
Crossroads: a Graduate Conference Crossroads: a Graduate Conference in Comparative Literaturein Comparative Literature
10 - 12 October, 200810 - 12 October, 2008
Keynote Speaker:Keynote Speaker:
Ammiel Alcalay Ammiel Alcalay Ph.D.Ph.D.Professor of English and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate CenterProfessor of English and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
1) The Role of Trauma in Poetic, Political, and Ideological Dialogue Between the Swiss Writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the Jewish German Author Klaus Mann Ute Bettray
2) Traumatic memories of post WW2 Italy, unburied: Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani and Giorgio Agamben Amanda Minervini 3) The Transcultural Child: Trauma and Subjectivity in Germania anno zero and Le Chiavi di casa Hans W. Staats
4) Remembering the Gulag Through Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales (10 minutes) Nicole Christofaro
Room 601 (Chair: Scott Salus)
1) Sociedad y cultura fragmentada Luz M. Landeros
2) The Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English on Stage: An Analysis of the Representations of Colonial Others in Sri Lankan Performance Spaces Kanchuka Dharmasiri 3) When Is Noh Not Noh? Yeats’s Hybridization of Two Traditions Satoko Kakihara
Friday, October 10, 2008 6:00 – 10:00 P.M. Welcome Party (28 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, MA 01060)
8:00 – 8:45 A.M. Registration and Breakfast 8:45 – 9:00 A.M. Welcome Talk in Room 601
2) Notes from Under the Mattress: Self-Deception and Self-Discovery in The Diary
Sean Toland
3) Death and the Stranger Tim O’Neil
12:20 – 1:30 P.M. Lunch and Key Note
Key Note Speaker: Ammiel Alcalay 1:30 – 2:45 P.M. Faculty Panel: Methods in Comparative Literature
2:45 – 5:00 A.M. Session ThreeRoom 301 (Chair: Frans Weiser)
1) Between Deleuze and “Can the Subaltern Speak”: Becoming in the Poetry of Audre Lorde Scott Salus
2) Lost Bodies and Untrue Eyes: Hybridity, Migration, and Belonging in Zoë Wicomb’sYou Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town Emily Young
3) An anthem for the dream land: the significance of poetry and its legacy for the nationalist struggle of the Black Arts Movement and the Palestinian Culture of Resistance Nadia Alahmad 4) La verdad del discurso del “loco” dentro de El misterio de la cripta embrujada (10-15 Minutes) Mariana Segovia
Room 601 (Chair: Kanchuka Dharmasiri)
1) Monumental Failures: Falling Sculpture, Sculpture in Limbo Adrienne Posner 2) Functionary Performance Art in Aztlán and El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico Matthew Goodwin 3) Brands of Multi-Dimensional Discourses Rhona Trauvitch 4) Appropriation of Frida Kahlo’s Body Discourse by Chicana Feminists Diana Gumbar
Room 400 (Chair: Cecilia Rodrigues)
1) Reading Between the “Posts” in Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon and Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters John Hyland
2) On Homelessness: Imagining Diaspora in Black Transnationalist Thought Balbir K. Singh
3) Surrealism and Resistance: Black Modernism in the Caribbean
María Antonia Carcelén Estrada
4) Los Mares del Sur como reflejo de la lucha de clases en la sociedad posfranquista (10-15 Minutes)
María Ramírez-López
8:30 – 11:00 P.M. The Reprobate Blues Band Playing at The Northampton Arts Council
Sunday, October 12, 2008
8:00 – 9:00 A.M. Breakfast
Session Four 9:00-10:30 AM Room 301 (Chair: Emir Benli)
1) Cinematic Calligrams: Prescient Picture Poems of Apollinare
Daniel Pope
2) Can We Have a Cultural History of Aesthetic Disinterestedness? Aleksandar Stevic
3) Hippolyte Taine’s Philosophy of Art and Émile Zola’s Naturalism Criticism, Science and Milieu
I-Ju Ruby Chen
Room 601 (Chair: Cristiano Mazzei)
1) Ensaio hispano-americano e identidade nacional: a evolução de uma idéia Cecília Rodrigues
2) Joel Barlow’s Black Legend: Poetry and Conspiracy in the Early Republic John C. Havard
3) Negritud, Identidad Nacional y Estado en Cuba y en Perú
Luis Martín Valdiviezo Arista
Room 400 (Undergraduate) (Chair: Lauren Mahoney)
1) Be Careful What You Wish For Brigitte Morency 2) A Brief Study of Titles Sean Toland
Session Five 10:50-12:20 AM Room 301 (Chair: Maria Antonia Carcelén Estrada) 1) La identidad fragmentada dentro de La muerte me da Cynthia Meléndrez 2) Emergent Intellectuals in La Petite Jerusalem and La Statue De Sel Lara Curtis 3) The Voodoo Intellectual Nahir Otaño Gracia Room 601 (Chair: Rhona Trauvitch) 1) A Continually Unfolding Global Drama: Community, Technology, and the News in American Society Kristina Marie Darling 2) Exploring Common Differences: The Effect of Dramatic Activities and Workshops on Facilitators in Institutions of Incarceration Erin Kaplan
3) Refugee Subjectivity: Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke Claire Burrows
12:20 – 3:00 P.M. Lunch and Hike to see the New England Foliage
Also Sponsored by: UMass Amherst Department of Comparative Literature, The Graduate School at UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst Department of Languages, Literatures andCultures, UMass Amherst Graduate Student Senate, Smith College Department ofComparative Literature
