Thursday Sessions

February 26

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Session 1

Thursday, February 26, 2:15pm-4:15pm

1.01 Lexington Room
The Literature of 9/11 (Seminar)
Chair: Justine Dymond, Springfield College
"The Catastrophic Renaissance of 21C Realism" Eric Bennett, Harvard University
"Feeling Everything Different: (Meta) Sentimentalism in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" Aaron Chandler, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Das Falling Thing: The Suspension of History in Don DeLillo's Falling Man" Chris Cowley, SUNY Buffalo
"After the 25th Hour: Spike Lee's Inside Man and Post-9/11 Entertainment" Lori Harrison-Kahan, Harvard University
"The Fires Have Begun: Visions of 9/11 and Other Terrors in Mohja Kahf's E-mails from Scheherazad" Bahareh Lampert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Falling Man as Still Life: The Fiction of Don DeLillo after 9/11" Anne Longmuir, Kansas State University
"Reading But Not Sitting Down: Stand-Up Comedy's Response to 9/11" Darcy Mullen, SUNY Albany
"'How could anything be the same?': September 11 and the Discourse of Pseudo-terrorism in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss" Arjun Poudel, Northeastern University
"Against That Day: Thomas Pynchon's Deconstruction of 9/11 Representations" Paolo Simonetti, Universita di Roma "Sapienza," Italy
1.02 Berkshire Room
Laughter's Reason: The Comic in Caribbean Literatures (Seminar)
Chair: Nicole Simek, Whitman College
"Seriously Funny: The forms and functions of humor in the works of Rosario Ferr� and Ana Lydia Vega" Maureen Moynihan, University at Buffalo
"Laughing Till we Shake Off the Patterns: The Disruptive Role of Laughter in Mirta Y��ez' and Mayra Santos Febres' Short Fiction" Ilka Kressner, University at Albany, (SUNY)
"Hosaying through Pain: The Joyous Poetic Personae in Lorna Goodison's Poetry" Aparna Mujumdar, Northeastern University
"Humor, Inversion, Subversion and Satire in Caribbean Literature" Marie-H�l�ne Koffi-Tessio, Columbia University
"Comic Knowledge and French Antillean Fiction" Nicole Simek, Whitman College
Respondent: Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo
1.03 Duxbury Room
Song & Social Change (Seminar)
Chair: Lauren Shaw, Elmira College
"Vallenato y Rap: expresiones de historia y memoria en poblaciones desplazadas Afro-Colombianas" Diana Rod�guez Quevedo, University of Toronto
"M�sica y derrumbes durante el periodo especial cubano" Laura Redruello, Manhattan College
"Stating the Unspeakable: Covert Lesbian Desire in Two Songs by Mar�a Elena Walsh" Raul Galoppe, Montclair State University
"Denuncia social y entorno pol�tico en el rock en espa�ol de los ochentas: el caso de Per�, Argentina y Chile" Lisette Balabarca, Colby College
"Violeta Parra: Canto a lo humano y a lo divino, donde humano da camino a la nueva trova o al canto nuevo'" Ana Figueroa, Penn State University, Lehigh Valley
1.04 Dedham Room
Italian Literature: From The Twentieth Century Into The New Millennium (Seminar)
Chair: Giovanni Migliara, University of Madrid UNED
"Gomorra: quando la realta' incontra la letteratura" Antonella Calarota, Montclair State University
"L'arte di perdersi: i percorsi rivelatori di Gianni Celati" Anna Chierici, University of Toronto
"I 'Grandi Mascherati': Ponza ed Enrico IV e le strategie della frammentazione identitaria nell'opera pirandelliana" Lidia Ciccone, University of Wisconsin
"Guareschi tra storia cinema e letteratura" Andrea Carosso, University of Genoa
"Though the barricades: Domenico Starnone and the school in Italy" Giovanni Migliara, University of Madrid UNED
1.05 Sturbridge Room
Parole al confine/Words on Border (Seminar)
Chair: Monica Facchini, Brown University
"Esperienza e sentimento del confine nell'opera di G�zim Hajdari" Ugo Fracassa, Universit� Roma-Tre
"Gli sconfinamenti della narrativa di Jarmila Ockayov�" Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College
"Writing from and on the border. Christiana de Caldas Brito and Jarmila Ockayov�'s narratives" Silvia Camilotti, University of Bologna
"Exile and Collision of Cultures in Fulvio Tomizza's Trilogy" Ida Marinzoli, Rutgers University
"Ex-clusion, Living Philology, and Critical Elaboration in Gramsci's Prison Writing" Stefano Selenu, Brown University
"Voices from the Border. The Role of Rituals in Italian Political Films of the 60s" Monica Facchini, Brown University
"Border Crossing and Masculinity on Trial: Transgression, Failure, and Resurrection in Gianni Amelio's Il ladro di bambini (1992)" Gaoheng Zhang, New York University
1.06 Plymouth Room
From Dissertations to Books (Roundtable)
Chair: Suha Kudsieh, Trent University
"'Guidelines for Readers': What We Ask of Manuscript Evaluators and Why" Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
"Comments on the Review Process" Marilyn Gaddis-Rose, Binghamton University
"'You want me to do what?': Editors, Reviewers, Critics, Readers and Publishing a Dissertation" Michael Kiskis, Elmira College
"Textbook Options" Steve Scipione, Bedford/St. Martin's
"How to Contact an Editor" Sharmila Sen, Harvard University Press
1.07 Suite 625
Constructions of English Renaissance Comedy Founder's Session (Seminar)
Chair: Arthur Kinney, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Wit, Malice, Power and the 'Comic' in Etherege's Man of Mode" Ann Garner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"City Comedy as Sexual Education: (Un)Punishing Sexuality in The Dutch Courtesan" Jessica Landis, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"'Dyvers Toyes Mengled yn the Same': Reinterpreting the Metatheatrical Elements of Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres" Nathaniel Leonard, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Shakespeare and the Hybridity of Comedy: Twelfth Night's Tragical Mirth" Mathew Martin, Brock University, Ontario
"Yeelde to a Woman': Mucedorus and Submissions to Comedie" Kreg Segall, Regis College
"Incredulous Comedy: Permission and Permeability in The Knight of the Burning Pestle" Megan Inbody, Michigan State University
"Comic Relief in Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello" Brandon Shaw, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"The Materials of Drinking Culture in Middleton and Dekker's The Honest Whore" Timothy Zajac, University of Massachusetts Amherst
1.08 Concord Room
The Role of Music in Foreign Language Instruction (Seminar)
Chair: Rita Pasqui, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"The Supportive Role of Music in Early Foreign Language Instruction" Bridget Pinsonneault, University of Massachussetts-Amherst
"Sing, Sing a Song! - Accelerating Foreign Language Acquisition through Music, Songs, and Drama" Myrna J. Santos, Florida Atlantic University
"Integrating Songs in the Teaching of Elementary Russian" Alfia Rakova, Dartmouth College
"Enhancing Vocabulary Acquisition through Music and Images with instructor-made Karaoke Videos" Rita Pasqui, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Giving American Students 'Italian Ears:' Using Music to teach Italian History and Culture" Ilaria Serra, Florida Atlantic University
"Songs and Culture while teaching Italian: gocce di memoria" Paola Vettorel, University of Verona
1.09 Suite 1025
Methods of Literary Ecology in American Literature: The Constitution of Place (Seminar)
Chair: Karen Waldron, College of the Atlantic
"Picturesque Nature: The Influence of Guidebooks and Aesthetic Theories on Henry David Thoreau" Kurt Moellering, Northeastern University
"Quantification and Desire: The Tension of Sublimity in America" Robert Friedman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Representing Capital as Landscape: The Naturalization of Corporate Practice in The Octopus" Rachel Collins, Syracuse University
"Ecologies of Culture, Ecologies of Being: 'Nature' and Cultural Pluralism in Toomer's Cane" Spencer Morrison, University of Toronto
"A View of the Woods: Exploring Flannery O'Connor Through the Lens of Literary Ecology'" Christine Flanagan, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
"Genealogical Geographies: Place-Based Ecology and Environmental Justice in Muriel Rukeyser's 'The Book of the Dead'" Jill Gatlin, New England Conservatory
"'Knowing the World and My Place in it': Mapping Adrienne Rich's Native Land" Kristina Wright, Tufts University
"Ideology, Ontology, Ecology: Constructions and Functions of Place in William T. Vollmann's Seven Dreams" Christopher Coffman, Boston University
1.10 Cambridge Room
Heidegger in America (Seminar)
Chair: Adam Johns, University of Pittsburgh
"Martin Heidegger's 'Worldhood of the World' and Toni Morrison's 'Inoperative Community': The World at its Limits" Asimina Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
"The (Quintessentially American) Phenomenological Drama of 9/11: from Heidegger to Levinas, and Beyond" John Woznicki, Holy Family University
"Divine Withdrawal and Poetry's Failure: Literalization of the Poetic Word in Rukeyser's 'Mediterranean'" Ashley Foster, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"The Most Disturbing Thing: Heidegger as a Traumatic Presence in Literary Studies" Glenn Clifton, University of Toronto
"Gathering an Eco-Ethics: The Thing in Heidegger and Stevens" Brendan Mahoney, Binghamton University
"Dwelling in the City: The Periodical as Techne in A Hazard of New Fortunes" Craig Carey, University of Iowa
"'Dead but Still With Us': The Influence of Heidegger on Postmodern American Fiction" Charles Cullum, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
"The Flame of Being: Heidegger's Ill-Formed Question in Danielewski's 'House of Leaves'" Adam Johns, University of Pittsburgh
"Literata-turned-Linguist Laura (Riding) Jackson's Way to Language" Anett Jessop, University of California, Davis
1.11 Rockport Room
Pop Psych: Psychotherapy and Popular Culture (Seminar)
Chair: Jennifer Bottinelli, Kutztown University
"Movie Star Suicide, Hollywood Gossip, and Popular Psychology in the 1950s and 1960s" Jennifer Frost, University of Auckland
"'I wish my car could start over with me': Desire and Recovery in Pimp My Ride" Marilena Zackheos, The George Washington University
"The Talking Cure at Work (or not?) in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction" Kabi Hartman, Franklin & Marshall College
"In(side) Treatment: Transference as a Narrative Device" Jennifer Bottinelli, Kutztown University
"Questioning the Law of the Father: Male Authority 'In Treatment'" Katja Hawlitschka, Ocean County College
1.12 Chatham Room
Genre Trouble: The Role of Genre in 20th and 21st Century Film and Fiction (Seminar)
Chair: Allison Rittmayer, Bucknell University
"Genre, Critical Anxiety, and the Burden of Story" Robert Johnson, Midwestern State University
"'She was trouble': Questions of Noir as Genre" Stephen Swanson, Penn State-Erie
"The Films of the Coens and the Faulknerian Unmasking of Genre" Iain Bernhoft, Boston University
"The Fourteenth Vision: Todd Haynes' Manipulation of Genre in I'm Not There" Allison Rittmayer, Bucknell University
1.13 Quincy Room
Reconfiguring Boundaries: Shaping the Self in 20th Century French and Francophone Literature (Seminar)
Chairs: Alina Opreanu, Harvard University and Loren Wolfe, Harvard University
"'Je suis parce que je suis malade'--Proust, Woolf and Nancy on Writing Physical Pain" Anna Magdalena Elsner, University of Cambridge
"Le corps trou�: Undoing Immunity in Herv� Guibert's AIDS Trilogy" Loren Wolfe, Harvard University
"Rewriting the Immobile Body: Extended Peripersonal Space in Anne Marie Alonso's La danse des marches" Cara Gargano, Long Island University
"A Change of Heart: Intruders, Intrusions, and the Destabilization of Identity in Jean-Luc Nancy's L'Intrus" Tali Zechory, Harvard University
"Pascal Quignard: Bilingualism, Starvation and the Disappearing Body" Blandine Mitaut, Shippensburg University
"The Errant 'I': Negotiating and Narrating the Self in Nina Bouraoui's Gar�on manqu� and La vie heureuse" Allison Fong, Brown University
"Transsubstanciation du moi : l'alimentation" Misako Nemoto, Meiji University
1.14 Suite 1525
Das Tier im Mittelpunkt: Animals, literature, and modernity (Seminar)
Chair: K�ri Driscoll, Columbia University
"Mitsein: Why now?" uliane Prade, Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Universit�t, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
"What is it like to be...?: Verwandlungsgeschichten um 1900" Ursula Renner, Universit�t Duisburg-Essen
"Framing Wilderness: How Zoo Animals and Man Look at Each Other in Modern Literature" Wiebke Amthor, Freie Universit�t-Berlin
"The Animal's 'I': Representations of Animal Subjectivity in the Prose Work of Ilse Aichinger" Johannes Becker, Universit�t Leipzig
"The Noise in the Burrow: Animals and Kafka's Heritage in Peter Weiss' 'Aesthetics of Resistance'" Jenny Willner, Freie Universit�t-Berlin
1.15 Suite 1925
Primo Levi Between Testimony and Literature: Investigation of Levi's Figure as a Witness (Seminar)
Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni, Dalhousie University
"The Exemplary Chaim Rumkowski in Primo Levi's Gray Zone" James T. Chiampi, University of California, Irvine
"Io sono un centauro: A Reading of Primo Levi's Quaestio de Centauris" Felice Italo Beneduce, Trinity College
"Primo Levi: la voce del testimone come riscrittura dell'immaginario letterario" Franco Baldasso, New York University
"Butterfly Ethics: Tracing a Trope in Levi's Essays and Short Fiction" Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh
"Man's Purposeful Creation: Primo Levi's Utopia of Being in La Chiave a stella" Federica K. Clementi, University of South Carolina
"Primo Levi Between Testimony and Literature" Amalia Rechtman, Queensborough Community College-CUNY
"I caratteri linguistici dell'opera di Primo Levi, analisi di: Se questo � un uomo e La tregua." Elena Grianti-Schechter, The College of New Jersey
1.16 Nantucket Room
Women Writing Trauma (Seminar)
Chair: Jamie Carr, Niagara University
"Past and Present Interwoven: The Trauma of Civil War and Dictatorship in Montserrat Roig's The Violet Hour" James McCutcheon, Niagara University
"Tununa Mercado's Paper Cemeteries: Rescuing Memory from Oblivion in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dirty War" Annette H. Levine, Ithaca College
"Narrating Trauma as a Politics of Time" Jamie Carr, Niagara University
"Trauma and Reconciliation in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman" Sung Hee Yook, Graduate Center-CUNY
"In search of 'an authentic sign': Women's Commemorative Practices in the Work of Deirdre Madden" Elizabeth Chase, Emory University
"Slavenka Drakulic, Trauma and the Post-National Body" Stephenie Young, Salem State College

Session 2

February 26, 4:30pm-6:00pm

2.01 Lexington Room
Women's Autobiography in French: Towards a Plural Self?
Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College
"Dual, Doubled and Divided Selves: Women Writing Between Algeria and France" Amy Hubbell, Kansas State University
"Memoires composites dans l'oeuvre d'Assia Djebar" Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Pedagogically Speaking: Autobiography and the Learning Subject" Lisa Connell, University of Washington
"Christine Angot's Second-Person Autobiography" Natalie Edwards, Wagner College
2.02 Berkshire Room
Russian Poetry: Text and Context
Chair: Fran�oise Rosset, Wheaton College, Massachusetts
"Feminine Modesty or Feminist Criticism? Evdokiia Rostopchina's 'How Women Must Write'" Evelina Mendelevich, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"'JA POET!' - Koz'ma Prutkov as Literary Reformer" Stephanie K. Richards, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Symbol of Undetermined Faith: Some Notes on Kruchenykh's Vowel Poem 'e u ju'" Denis Crnkovic, Gustavus Adolphus College
"Joseph Brodsky and the Poetics of Photography" Molly Thomasy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2.03 Duxbury Room
Biographical Spectacle: Theorizing Non-Literary Auto/Biography
Chair: Lindsay Adamson Livingston, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Autobiography and the Problem of Empathy in Au Revoir Les Enfants" Stefanie Wortman, University of Missouri
"From 'Autoperformance' to YouTube: Theorizing the Confessional Performance" Christopher Grobe, Yale University
"Celebrity Bio Blogs: Hagiography, Pathography, and Perez Hilton" Elizabeth Podnieks, Ryerson University
"'Why So Serious?': Celebrity Death and Spectacular Biography" Lindsay Adamson Livingston, The Graduate Center-CUNY
2.04 Dedham Room
The Victorians in the New Millennium
Chair: Dana Shiller, Washington & Jefferson College
"Adapting Darwin's Garden: Telling Origin Stories in the New Millennium" V. Britt Terry, University of South Carolina
"Reviving the Victorian Dandy: Negotiating Modes of Heroic Masculinity in Tim Burton's Later Films" Rebecca Lee, University of Oklahoma
"Lunatics, Mistresses and Fallen Women Revisited: Gender, Sexuality and Third Wave Feminisms in 21st Neo-Victorian Fiction" Nadine Muller, University of Hull
"'Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor and plain': The Return of Jane Eyre in Nanny Fiction and Film" Dana Shiller, Washington & Jefferson College
2.05 Sturbridge Room
Replaying the Past: Representing the Early Modern in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Spain
Chair: Carey Kasten, Fordham University
"Una farsa lorquiana: La dama boba" David Rodr�guez-Sol�s, Queens College
"Enlisting the Golden Age: Early Modern Literature Goes to War" Jason Thomas Parker, Vanderbilt University
"Lazarillo de Tormes en el cine: del franquismo al postnacionalismo" Fernando Rodr�guez-Mansilla, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Francisco Nieva's Sacred Irreverence: Updating Tirante el Blanco" Carey Kasten, Fordham University
2.06 Plymouth Room
CAITY Caucus Reception
Hosted by Elizabeth Anderman, University of Colorado-Boulder For Contingent, Adjunct, Independent and Two-Year College faculty members.
2.07 Suite 625
Sexual Betrayal in Shakespeare
Chair: Ted Price, Montclair State University
"Why Cordelia Has to Die" Kristin Smith, Boston University
"Sexual Betrayal and Redemption: Much Ado" Caroline Latta, Columbia College
"Vulcan's Badge: Sex as Power in Titus Andronicus" Lisa Barksdale-Shaw, Michigan State University
"Victorian Perceptions of Sexual Betrayal in Hamlet" Mary Balestraci, Northeastern University
2.08 Concord Room
Past and Present on the Screen: History and Society through the Images of the Italian Filmmakers
Chair: Chiara De Santi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"La storia vista da sinistra: La rabbia di Pier Paolo Pasolini" Chiara De Santi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Desiring Objects: Cars, Record Players, and Girls on Film in 1960s Italy" Anita Angelone, College of William and Mary
"Spettrologia o dietrologia? Italia violenta nel film Romanzo criminale di Michele Placido" Federica Colleoni, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
"The Fragmented Unity of Italian Society: Moretti's Social View in Il Caimano" Silvia Carlorosi, University of Maryland
2.09 Suite 1025
Lydia Maria Child: Overlooked Heroine of Social Reform
Chair: Amber Vayo, Worcester State College
"Transcending Emerson: Social Morality in Lydia Maria Child's 'Letters from New York'" M. Clay Hooper, Prairie View A & M University
"Lydia Maria Child's Philothea as Feminist-Abolitionist Text" Nicole Livengood, Marietta College
"Lydia Maria Child on the Indian Question: A Matter of Mothering 'The Great Human Family'" Caroline Woidat, SUNY-Geneseo
"In the Presence/Present of History: Historic Fiction and Child's Hobomok" Jaclyn Penny, Clark University
2.10 Cambridge Room
Historicizing Memory / Remembering History I
Chair: Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas
"The Fetish of Memory" Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas
"Her Womb Was Her(Story): Reproduction as Counter-Narrative and Counter-Memory in Gayl Jones' Corregidora" Robert J. Patterson, Florida State University
"Losing It: Fictionalized Creations of Alzheimer's Disease" Linda Simon, Skidmore College
"Performing of a Southerner: The Boundaries of Genre, Identity, and Power in Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream" Amy Schmidt, University of Arkansas
2.11 Rockport Room
Does Truth Matter?: The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy (Roundtable)
Chair: Eugenio Bolongaro, McGill University
"Truth and Consequences: Between Correspondence and Coherence" Mark Epstein, Princeton University
"La solitudine di una prospettiva" Ron Kubati, University of Chicago
"What We Can Learn from Sciascia: Truth in/through Language" Enrico Vettore, California State University-Long Beach
"No Truth, No Justice?: Pasolini and the Role of the Intellectual Today" Anna Paparcone, Cornell University
"The Rhetorical Nature of Truth in Vattimo's Ontological Hermeneutics" Anthony Petruzzi, University of Massachusetts-Boston
2.12 Chatham Room
Contemporary Trends in Latin American Narrative
Chair: Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University
"El Crack en las Letras Mexicanas" Carolina Moctezuma, Kutztown University
"Jorge Volpi en Busca de Klingsor" Kim Euisuk, University of West Georgia
"El Panfleto y la denuncia en la novela contemporanea ecuatoriana" Galo Vaca Acevedo, William Paterson University
"La Narrativa Latinoamericana en el Cambio del Siglo XX al XXI: Roberto Bolano y Sus Contemporaneos" Franklin Rodriguez, William Paterson University
2.13 Quincy Room
Writing (North) America in French (Roundtable)
Chair: Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College of New Jersey
"Playing Role Reversal on the Plantation: Amis et Fortune (1893) by Sidonie de La Houssaye" Christian Hommel, University of Virginia
"Nos hommes et notre histoire: Memorializing the Afro-Creole Community of New Orleans" Cora Monroe, University of Puerto Rico, Mayag�ez
"Dany Laferri�re's American Autobiography: 'Moi n�gre d'Am�rique ou je ne suis pas un �crivain afro-am�ricain'" Anne Saliot, Johns Hopkins University
"Franco-American French in English and in French" Susan Pinette, University of Maine
"Writing the Metanarrative of Franco-American Oral Histories" Mary Rice-DeFosse, Bates College
2.14 Suite 1525
New Perspectives on Anna Seghers Past President's Session
Chair: Christiane Zehl Romero, Tufts University
"Anna Seghers: A Retrospective on the 25th Anniversary of Her Death" Helen Fehervary, The Ohio State University
"Anna Seghers's Encounter with China in the 1930s" Weijia Li, The Ohio State University
"Time, Space, and Visuality: Anna Seghers and Futurism" Birgit Maier-Katkin, The Florida State University
"Censorship and Self Censorship in Anna Seghers' Depiction of the New Socialist Personality" Ute Brandes, Amherst College
2.15 Suite 1925
Beyond the Commedia: Italian Theatre, Adaptations, and Opera Through the Centuries
Chair: Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University
"Bernardino Pino da Cagli's Gli Ingiusti Sdegni" Petra Wirth, University of Arizona
"Andrea Perrucci as Rifacitore of Spanish Golden Age Drama" Nancy L. D'Antuono, Saint Mary's College
"Dalla commedia all'opera. La commedia dell'Arte 'maestra' dell'opera buffa" Gianni Cicali, Georgetown University
"Leoncavallo's Pagliacci: Tears of a Clown?" Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh
2.16 Nantucket Room
Narrating Multiple Modernities (Seminar)
Chair: David Kim, Michigan State University
"Archetype, Symbol and Dream: Constructions of the Inside in Richard Beer-Hoffmann's 'Der Tod Georgs'" Sonja Graeber-Magosci, Harvard University
"Indexical Modernity" Benjamin Robinson, Indiana University
"If China Travelled to Descartes: Descartes' Cartographical Schizophrenia Seen From Multiple Modernities" Kyoo Lee, The City University of New York
"Planetary Dialectics" David Kim, Michigan State University