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Conference Schedule

Saturday, April 8, 2017 | Georgetown University

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8:00am-9:00am – Registration and Breakfast – New North, 3rd Floor

 

8:30am – Opening Remarks – New North 311

 

9:00am-10:15am: Session I

Panel A: Troubling Subjectivity and Agency – New North 408

Moderator: Rob Yates

  • “The Magic Mirror”: Plath’s The Bell Jar as a Feminist Revision of Freud’s Uncanny

-Kelly Coyne, Georgetown University

  • “The Coexistence of Freedom and Constraint”: An Analysis of the Concept of Agency, as Discussed in Higher Education Today

-Claire Kelly, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Legitimizing Clare Kendry: Anti-anti-normativity and Desire in Nella Larsen’s “Passing”

-Alyvia Walters, Georgetown University

 

Panel B: Political Materialisms – New North 204

Moderator: John James

  • The Social Life of the Bayanat of the First Intifada (1987-1993): Revolutionary Rupture and Nostalgia in Post/Colonial Times

-Thayer Hastings, Georgetown University

  • Desiring the Child Photograph as Image-Object: Revisiting the Problem of Lewis Carroll

-Jacob Myers, Georgetown University

  • Katrina in the Anthropocene: Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina and David Speilman’s The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City

-Jewel Pereyra, Georgetown University

 

Panel C: Imagined Futures – New North 311

Moderator: Emily Coccia

  • Postcolonial Utopianism and Ecological Decolonization in The Hungry Tide

-Julian B. Dean, James Madison University

  • Words of Unbinding: Genre Fiction and the Environment

-Aaron Dell, Tufts University

  • Presentist Aesthetics: The Queer Ethics of Walter Pater

-Chris Huebner, Georgetown University

  • Subaqueous Poetics: Feminist Challenges to Imperialism

-Aaron Pinnix, Fordham University

 

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10:30am-11:45am: Session II

Panel A: Identity Formations in a Posthuman World – New North 408

Moderator: Rob Yates

  • Afrofuturism in the Chthulucene: Sympoietic Kin-Making in Bloodchild

-Liana C. Bayne, James Madison University

  • The Post-Apocalyptic Touch: An Analysis of Racial Formation and Touch in Octavia Butler’s Dawn

-Lenaya Stewart, University of Maryland

  • Fragmented Identities: Gender, Race and Cyborgs in Ex-Machina by Alex Garland

-Marina Vlahaki, University of California, San Diego

 

Panel B: Anthropocene Literature and Imagined Ecological Disasters – New North 204

Moderator: Chris Huebner

  • Pastoral Futurism: William Blake’s Millenarian Making

-John James, Georgetown University

  • “Hand this over. Pass this on”: Juliana Spahr’s “Tradition” and Epigenetics in the Anthropocene

-Esther Nafziger, James Madison University

  • Island Communities as Refuge from Oil in Oil on Water and Marrow Island

-Megan O’Neill, James Madison University

 

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12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch – New North 311

 

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1:15-2:30: Faculty Plenary Panel – New North 204

–Sponsored by the 2016-2018 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change

Moderator: Emily Coccia

  • Dr. Luis Campos, Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, The John W. Kluge Center; Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico

  • Dr. Kavita Daiya, Associate Professor of English, The George Washington University

  • Dr. Kellie Robertson, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland

 

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2:45pm-4:00pm: Session III

Panel A: Animal Studies – New North 311

Moderator: Rob Yates

  • Individualism against the Swarm in the Old English Letter from Alexander to Aristotle

-Robert Byers, Fordham University

  • The Hiatus of “True Man” and a Universal Becoming-Animal: A Pre-, Early, and Post-Modern Reading of Giordano Bruno’s Cantus Circaeus

-Emily Coccia, Georgetown University

  • “We’re All [Things] Here”: Troubling the Subject/Object Binary in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books

-Jade Hage, Georgetown University

 

Panel B: The Posthuman Body – New North 408

Moderator: Chris Huebner

  • The War of Terror: Asymmetrical Representations of Humanness, Grief, and Terror in Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill

-Grace Foster, Georgetown University

  • Between the Body and Information: The Posthuman Dilemma in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story (2010)

-Sang Eun “Eunice” Lee, University of California, San Diego

  • Simulated Prosthetic Frustration in Ampu-Tea

-Andrea Medina, University of Florida

 

4:15pm-5:30pm: Keynote Address, "What Is an Environment?" – New North 311

  • Dr. Vin Nardizzi, Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia

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