Convention 2012 Schedule of Events

All events are at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center unless otherwise specified.

Thursday, March 15

11:00AM - 6:00PM: Registration
11:30AM - 2:00PM: Track 1 Workshops; See all workshops.; Track 1 Workshop: The World(s) of the Small Press; Peter Conners, BOA Editions; Details; Light lunch served; pre-registration required.; Highland Room B Add to calendar; Track 1 Workshop: Shaping Your Academic Career and Entering the Job Market; Gregory Colón Semenza; Details; Light lunch served; pre-registration required.; Highland Room D Add to calendar; Track 1 Workshop: Engaging Students: PBL and Teaching with Technology; Jenn Brandt, University of Rhode Island; Details; Light lunch served; pre-registration required.; Highland Room C Add to calendar
2:15PM - 4:15PM: Track 2: Seminars; See all track 2 seminars.; Track 2 Workshop: Telling Tales Out of School: Community Based Writing Programs; Joe Flaherty, Writers & Books; Details; Pre-registration required.; Highland Room B Add to calendar
4:30PM - 6:00PM: Track 3 Sessions; See all track 3 sessions.; Portuguese Language Special Event: Benjamin Moser; “Lives and Afterlives of Clarice Lispector”; Benjamin Moser; Highland Room J Add to calendar
7:00PM - 9:00PM: Reading and Welcome Reception: Cornelius Eady; Cornelius Eady, University of Missouri-Columbia; Co-Sponsored by Nazareth College; Wine and cheese served; Riverside Court Add to calendar
8:00PM - 10:00PM: Graduate Student Caucus Welcome Reception; State Street Bar & Grill, Rochester Plaza Hotel Add to calendar; Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Meet and Greet; TBD Add to calendar; Raisin in the Sun; Sponsored by Diversity and American Literatures Area; Geva Theatre Add to calendar

Friday, March 16

8:00AM - 5:00PM: Registration; Exhibitors; Lilac Ballroom South Add to calendar
8:00AM - 9:00AM: Continental Breakfast
8:30AM - 9:45AM: Track 4 Sessions; See all track 4 sessions.
10:00AM - 11:30AM: Track 5 sessions; See all track 5 sessions.
11:45AM - 1:00PM: Track 6 sessions; See all track 6 sessions.; Creative Writers and Editors Reception; Sponsored by MLS; Hyatt Carson Room Add to calendar
1:15PM - 2:45PM: Track 7 Sessions; See all track 7 sessions.; French and Francophone Special Event: Alek Baylee Toumi; Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (reading); Alek Baylee Toumi, University of Wisconsin; Hyatt Regency B Add to calendar
3:00PM - 4:30PM: Track 8 Sessions; See all track 8 sessions.
4:45PM - 6:15PM: Track 9 Sessions; See all track 9 sessions.; BOA Editions: Three BOA Poets Special Event; Christopher Kennedy, Syracuse University; Keetje Kuipers, Gettysburg College; Michael Waters, Monmouth College; Hyatt Grand Ballroom D Add to calendar
6:20PM - 7:30PM: Graduate Student Caucus Business Meeting; Highland Room A Add to calendar
7:30PM - 9:00PM: Keynote Address and Reception: Jennifer Egan; “Experimentation in Fiction: Notes from a Reluctant Practitioner”; Jennifer Egan; Artisan Works (limited seating); Transportation from Hyatt: reservation required (Acteva); Artisan Works Add to calendar

Saturday, March 17

8:00AM - 5:00PM: Registration; Exhibitors; Lilac Ballroom South Add to calendar
8:00AM - 9:00AM: Continental Breakfast
8:30AM - 10:00AM: Track 10 Sessions; See all track 10 sessions.
10:15AM - 11:30AM: Track 11 Sessions; See all track 11 sessions.; Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Board Meeting; Hyatt Carson Room Add to calendar
11:45AM - 1:15PM: Track 12 Sessions; See all track 12 sessions.; African American Poetry Reading: Leonard A. Slade, Jr.; Leonard A. Slade, Jr., SUNY Albany; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C Add to calendar; Trends in the Discipline Roundtable; “Novel (App)lications: New Media in English and the Humanities”; Rik Hunter, St. John Fisher College; Lisa Jadwin, St. John Fisher College; Sharon Willis, University of Rochester; John Michael, University of Rochester; Highland Room G Add to calendar; Creative Writing Special Event: ‘Telling Tales Out of School’; “Telling Tales Out of School”; M.J. Iuppa, St. John Fisher College; Sarah Freligh, St. John Fisher College; B.K. Fischer, Hudson Valley Writer’s Center; Steven Huff, Rochester Institute of Technology; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C Add to calendar; Italian Literatures Special Event: ‘Fattore ‘motivazione’’; “Fattore ‘motivazione’”; Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Wellesley College; Cristina Pausini, Tufts University; Barbara Alfano, Bennington College; Elisabetta D’Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology; Highland Room C Add to calendar; Spanish Language and Literatures Special Event; El mundo literario de Ana Rossetti: Homenaje a la escritora y su obra; Sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Culture; Hyatt Regency B Add to calendar
1:30PM - 3:00PM: Track 13 Sessions; See all track 13 sessions.
3:15PM - 4:30PM: Track 14 Sessions; See all track 14 sessions.; Women’s and Gender Studies Screening: White Scripts and Black Supermen; White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in American Comic Books; Hyatt Regency A Add to calendar
4:45PM - 6:15PM: Track 15 Sessions; See all track 15 sessions.
6:30PM - 8:30PM: British and Anglophone Literature Special Event: Bette London; “Falling in Love with a Dead Man: WWI, Memory, and the Travels of Charles Sorley”; Bette London, University of Rochester; Reception co-sponsored by the American and British Area; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B Add to calendar; Italian Language Special Event and Reception: Salvo Cuccia; Documentary Screening Détour De Seta; Salvo Cuccia; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C Add to calendar; Comparative Languages Special Event: Robert Doran; Robert Doran, University of Rochester; “Are There Universal Aesthetic Categories? The Case of the Sublime”; Reception co-sponsored by the French and Francophone Literatures and Comparative Literatures Areas; Hyatt Grand Ballroom G Add to calendar; C.A.I.T.Y. Business Meeting and Reception; Hyatt Carson Room Add to calendar; Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Speaker and Reception: Stephanie Li; “The Gospel According to Toni Morrison”; Stephanie Li, University of Rochester; Hyatt Grand Ballroom E Add to calendar; German Language, Literature, and Culture Speaker and Reception: Uljana Wolf; “Weder Im Guten Noch Im Bad: False Friends, Poetry, and (Mis-)Translation”; Uljana Wolf; Hyatt Grand Ballroom F Add to calendar; Cultural Studies and Film Speaker and Reception: Josefina Mata Zetina; “Ciudad Juárez From a Mother’s Perspective: Gender and Fiction Film”; Josefina Mata Zetina; Co-sponsored by Hispanic Scholars committee; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A Add to calendar
8:00PM - 10:00PM: Graduate Student Caucus Dinner; Scotland Yard Pub, 187 St. Paul Street; Scotland Yard Pub Add to calendar

Sunday, March 18

8:00AM - 10:30AM: Registration and Coffee; Exhibitors; Lilac Ballroom South Add to calendar
8:30AM - 10:00AM: Track 17 Sessions; See all track 17 sessions.
10:15AM - 12:15PM: Track 18 Sessions; See all track 18 sessions.
12:00PM - 1:30PM: Membership Meeting and Brunch; Lilac Ballroom North Add to calendar
12:45PM - 3:15PM: Track 19 Workshops; See all workshops.; Track 19 Workshop: Modern Languages Workshop; “Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Intercultural Competence”; Sonia Massari, University of Florence; Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Chiara Ferrari, Chico State University; Details; Hyatt Wilmorite Room Add to calendar