FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2019
2242 Patterson Hall
8:30am — Registration and Breakfast
8:45am — Opening Remarks: Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland
Introduction of Dr. Keshavarz by Jillian Bruns, University of Maryland
9:00–10:30am — Panel 1: Representing (In)visibilities: Film & Contemporary Media
Moderator: Nélida Devesa Gómez, University of Maryland
11:00–12:30pm — Panel 2: Subverting Sexuality: Recovering Female Narratives
Moderator: Elizabeth Robinson, University of Maryland
12:30–2:00pm — LUNCH
2:00–3:15pm — Book Exhibit, Hornbake Library, 3rd Floor: “Forbidden, Forgotten, and Erased: Rare, Censored, and Forgotten Books and Manuscripts at the University of Maryland"
2124 Patterson Hall
3:30pm–5:00pm — Panel 3: Exposing Politics
Moderator: Sofia Maurette, University of Maryland
2114 Patterson Hall
5:30–6:30pm — Keynote Address, “(In)visible Monsters,” Dr. Mabel Moraña, William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis. Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Liz Robinson, University of Maryland
6:30pm — Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2019
2114 Patterson Hall
8:30am — Registration and Breakfast
9:00–10:30am — Panel 4: Textual Matters: Searching at/in the Margins
Moderator: Charlee Bezilla, University of Maryland
11:00–12:30pm — Panel 5: Contested Bodies: Gender & Sexuality
Moderator: Jillian Bruns, University of Maryland
12:30pm — Closing Remarks: Cecilia Battauz, University of Maryland
2242 Patterson Hall
8:30am — Registration and Breakfast
8:45am — Opening Remarks: Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland
Introduction of Dr. Keshavarz by Jillian Bruns, University of Maryland
9:00–10:30am — Panel 1: Representing (In)visibilities: Film & Contemporary Media
Moderator: Nélida Devesa Gómez, University of Maryland
- Emily Meneghin, New York University, “SKAM and SKAM Italia: Translating the Media-Saturated Teenage Experience”
- Wenxian Zhang, Duke University, “The In/Visibility of the Refugee in Transnational Visual Representations: Ai Weiwei’s Documentary Human Flow”
11:00–12:30pm — Panel 2: Subverting Sexuality: Recovering Female Narratives
Moderator: Elizabeth Robinson, University of Maryland
- Luming Zhang, Duke University, “The Lost Voice of Cultural Revolution: A Critical Analysis of the Narrative of Female Writings in the 1990s”
- Shannon Callahan, Boston College, “Hidden Spaces: Female Sexuality in Matthew Lewis’ The Monk”
- A Ra Kim, Ewha Woman’s University, “Re-Writing the Fairy Tale: Sub-version of Patriarchy through Maternal Telepathy in ‘The Bloody Chamber’”
12:30–2:00pm — LUNCH
2:00–3:15pm — Book Exhibit, Hornbake Library, 3rd Floor: “Forbidden, Forgotten, and Erased: Rare, Censored, and Forgotten Books and Manuscripts at the University of Maryland"
2124 Patterson Hall
3:30pm–5:00pm — Panel 3: Exposing Politics
Moderator: Sofia Maurette, University of Maryland
- Luz Adriana Mueller, George Mason University, “Confronting National Trauma: The Combination of Discourses in The Sound of Things Falling”
- Emily Wieder, Elizabethtown College, “Visibility in Art and Politics: Breton, Dalí, and Picasso in the 1930s”
- Karla P. Aguilar Velásquez, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Impossibility of Oblivion: The Ethical Construction of Trauma in La noria, by Ahmel Echevarria”
- Lisa LeBlond, Stony Brook University, “An Island Paradise Unsettling—How Tibon Channels Hispaniola’s Traumatic Past in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones”
2114 Patterson Hall
5:30–6:30pm — Keynote Address, “(In)visible Monsters,” Dr. Mabel Moraña, William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis. Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Liz Robinson, University of Maryland
6:30pm — Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2019
2114 Patterson Hall
8:30am — Registration and Breakfast
9:00–10:30am — Panel 4: Textual Matters: Searching at/in the Margins
Moderator: Charlee Bezilla, University of Maryland
- Claire Konieczny, Johns Hopkins University, “Dating Binding Waste”
- Tim Anderson, New York University, “Digging for Nancy Holt’s Buried Poems”
- Russ Gasdia, Yale University, “The Power of (Nonexistent) Books: The Catalogus Librorum Mystico-Politicorum and Censorship During the Thirty Years’ War”
11:00–12:30pm — Panel 5: Contested Bodies: Gender & Sexuality
Moderator: Jillian Bruns, University of Maryland
- Kelsey Smoot, William & Mary, “The Epistemology of Studs: Black, Queer, and/or Female Masculinities, Unwritten as the Second Butch”
- Callan Roten, University of Maryland-College Park, “A Grotesque Autoportrait: The Theatricality of Death in La Mort propagande”
12:30pm — Closing Remarks: Cecilia Battauz, University of Maryland