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
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“The Magic Mirror”: Plath’s The Bell Jar as a Feminist Revision of Freud’s Uncanny
-Kelly Coyne, Georgetown University
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“The Coexistence of Freedom and Constraint”: An Analysis of the Concept of Agency, as Discussed in Higher Education Today
-Claire Kelly, Carnegie Mellon University
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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
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The Social Life of the Bayanat of the First Intifada (1987-1993): Revolutionary Rupture and Nostalgia in Post/Colonial Times
-Thayer Hastings, Georgetown University
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Desiring the Child Photograph as Image-Object: Revisiting the Problem of Lewis Carroll
-Jacob Myers, Georgetown University
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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
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Postcolonial Utopianism and Ecological Decolonization in The Hungry Tide
-Julian B. Dean, James Madison University
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Words of Unbinding: Genre Fiction and the Environment
-Aaron Dell, Tufts University
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Presentist Aesthetics: The Queer Ethics of Walter Pater
-Chris Huebner, Georgetown University
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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
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Afrofuturism in the Chthulucene: Sympoietic Kin-Making in Bloodchild
-Liana C. Bayne, James Madison University
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The Post-Apocalyptic Touch: An Analysis of Racial Formation and Touch in Octavia Butler’s Dawn
-Lenaya Stewart, University of Maryland
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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
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Pastoral Futurism: William Blake’s Millenarian Making
-John James, Georgetown University
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“Hand this over. Pass this on”: Juliana Spahr’s “Tradition” and Epigenetics in the Anthropocene
-Esther Nafziger, James Madison University
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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
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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
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Dr. Kavita Daiya, Associate Professor of English, The George Washington University
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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
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Individualism against the Swarm in the Old English Letter from Alexander to Aristotle
-Robert Byers, Fordham University
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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
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“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
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The War of Terror: Asymmetrical Representations of Humanness, Grief, and Terror in Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill
-Grace Foster, Georgetown University
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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
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Simulated Prosthetic Frustration in Ampu-Tea
-Andrea Medina, University of Florida
4:15pm-5:30pm: Keynote Address, "What Is an Environment?" – New North 311
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Dr. Vin Nardizzi, Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia
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