Thursday, February 26 Noon - 6:00PM Registration
1:00 and 3:00 Tour of
Boston Athenaeum (Acteva reservation required) 10 � Beacon Street
(Meet in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency 20 minutes in advance)
2:15-4:15
Session 1: Seminars
CAITY
Caucus Event Plymouth Room
"From
Dissertations to Books"
Chair:
Suha Kudsieh, Trent University
Panelists:
Sharmila
Sen, Harvard University Press
Harry
Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Marilyn
Gaddis-Rose, Binghamton University
Michael
Kiskis, Elmira College Steve Scipione, Bedford/St. Martin's
CAITY
Reception and meeting following, Plymouth Room
4:30-6:00
Session 2
6:30
p.m. Poetry Reading and
Welcoming Reception
Rosanna
Warren, Boston University Wine and cheese served Ballroom
8:30 p.m. Dim Sum
Dinner/Graduate Student Meet & Greet Emperor Garden, 690
Washington Street
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Friday, February 27
8:00-5:00
Registration
8:00-5:00 Book Exhibits,
Adrienne de Lafayette Salon
8:00-9:00
Continental breakfast served, Adrienne de Lafayette Salon
8:30-9:45 Session 3
10:00-11:30 Session 4
11:45-1:15 Session 5
1:00 -2:00 Afternoon
snack served, Adrienne de Lafayette Salon
1:30-2:45
Session 6
3:00-4:30
Session 7
4:45-6:15
Session 8
6:45 p.m. Keynote
Address
"Literary Neo-Confederates and the Civil Rights"
John Stauffer, Harvard University
Ballroom B
7:45-9:00 p.m. Keynote Reception: Hors d'oeuvres buffet
Ballroom A and Ballroom Foyer
7:30 pm
Sponsored Local Event
Opera Boston: The Nose (Acteva registration
required)
Cutler Majestic Theater; 219 Tremont Street
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Saturday, February 28
7:00-8:15 Women's Caucus
Breakfast, Private Dining Room
8:00-5:00
Registration
8:00-5:00 Book Exhibits,
Adrienne de Lafayette Salon
8:00-9:00
Continental breakfast served, Adrienne de Lafayette Salon
8:30-10:00 Session 9
10:15-11:20 Session 10
11:45-1:00 Session 11
12:45-1:15
Afternoon snack served, Adrienne de Lafayette Salon
1:15-2:45 Session 12: Panels and
Special Events
"El Mundo Literario
De Jeronimo Lopez Mozo: Homenaje al escritor y su obra"
Chair: Enrique
Ruiz-Fornells, University of Alabama
Panelists:
John Gabriele, The
College of Wooster
Eileen Doll, Loyola
University-New Orleans
Response: Jer�nimo
L�pez Mozo
- Popular Culture Special Event Nantucket Room
"The Gay Brown Beret
Suite: Queer and Chicano, Sexuality and Ethnicity--Bedfellows, an
Intimate Pillow Talk"
Rigoberto Gonzalez,
Rutgers University
Co-Sponsored by the GLBTQ Caucus
- Poetry Reading by Maggie Dietz and Todd Hearon Ballroom B
3:00-4:30 Session 13
- American Literatures Special Event Ballroom B
"Early African-American Literature and the Archive"
Chair: Paul Erickson, American Antiquarian Society and Jason
Haslam, Dalhousie University
Panelists:
Lois Brown, Mount
Holyoke College, AAS-NeMLA fellow, 2000-01
Jeannine DeLombard,
University of Toronto, AAS-NeMLA fellow, 2001-02
Lloyd Pratt, Michigan
State University, AAS-NeMLA fellow, 2008-09
4:45-6:15 Session 14
4:45 -
7:00 Spanish Language Event and Reception
Marquis Room
"Reading Spanish
Poetry Today"
Chair: Alan Smith, Boston
University
Poets:
Graciela Baquero
Jos� Luis Gallero
Jos� Mar�a
Parre�o
Poets sponsored by The
Humanities Foundation, Boston University; The Consulate of Spain,
Boston; The Geddes Fund, Boston University
Reception sponsored by
Dept. of Romance Languages, Boston University
6:30 - 7:45 Session 15: Section Events and
Receptions
German Language Event and Reception Plymouth Room
A Reading by Hansj�rg Schertenleib
French Language Event and Reception Duxbury Room
"What is French Cinema?"
T. Jefferson Kline, Boston University
Italian Language Event and Reception Dedham Room
"Yalta e la crisi degli anni '70 in Italia / Yalta and the
Crisis in Italy in the '70s"
Enrico Palandri
Comparative Literatures Event and Reception Sturbridge
Room
Bina Sharif
Co-Sponsored by American Literatures Section
Women's Caucus Event Concord Room
"Caribbean Women and the Black Radical Intellectual
Tradition"
Carol Boyce Davies
Writers' and Editors' Reception Ipswich Room
Reception for creative writers and editors working in creative
writing programs, and in English and Modern Language
departments.
Sponsored by Modern Language Studies
8:00 pm GLBTQ Reception
Presidential Suite 2201
Graduate Caucus
Reception
Emmet's Irish Pub, 6
Beacon St # B
Boston Ballet: Jewels
(Acteva reservation required)
Wang Theater, 270 Tremont
Street
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Acteva
reservation required)
Lyric Stage Company, 140
Clarendon Street
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Sunday, March 1
8:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee
8:30-10:30 Session 16: Seminars
10:45-12:15 Session 17
12:30-1:30 Closing Brunch and Membership
Meeting, Private Dining Room
2:00
British Literatures Event: Endgame (Acteva reservation
required)
American
Repertory Theater, 64 Battle Street, Cambridge
