Conference Schedule
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Friday April 20
Registration 9:30-12 -- Modern Languages Courtyard 10-11AM Gentrifying Tucson -- Student Union, San Pedro Room “Building the “New Pueblo”: The Rhetoric of Urban ‘Revitalization’ in Downtown Tucson Weaving Meaning: Visitors Respond to Nature Poetry in Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Adaptation + Voyeurism -- Student Union, Kiva Theater The Authority of Looking, the Sin of Speaking: How Power Circulates in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) The Technological Grotesque in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove 12:15-1:30PM Queer Studies: Flesh + Time -- Student Union, San Pedro Room Words Made Flesh: The Queer Modernity of Advice Columns in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) “Damian’s Booty: Anachronism, Queer Space, and Disidentification in the Liber Gomorrhianus” Landscape and The Novel -- Student Union, Kiva Theater Work of the Mind”: Paracosmic Landscaping in Wuthering Heights "Landscape, Polyvocality, Oral Tradition in N.Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain and Mohamed Salah Al-Azab’s Sīdī Bārranī. 2-3:30PM Performance of LeRoi Jones's play Dutchman -- Student Union, Kiva Theater Direction by David Greenwood Music by Jake Sorgen 4-5:15PM EDI: Pedagogy and Equity -- Student Union, San Pedro Room Patterns of Disrespect: A Phenomenological Study of Student Incivility toward Minority Composition Instructors Reading As Radical Love : Resisting a White Lens How an Externally Imposed Socioeconomic Identity Interferes with Language Learning Disability Studies: Fanfic and Myth -- Student Union, Kiva Theater Human Beings, or, the Modern Hephaestus: A Better Perspective on Emerging Technology and Disability Criptopic Futures-Speculative Fan Fiction and the Future of the Disabled Body 6PM David LaRocca, Keynote Address "Cinematic Dissonance: Mediating the Marriage of Sound and Image" Integrated Learning Center, Room 141 Catered Reception by Tucson Tamale Company, to follow the keynote Saturday April 21 10-11AM New New Materialism -- Harvill Room 305 The Birthmarks of New Materialism: Cultural Complicity and Radical Potentials Setting Intentions: Aligning Buddhist Practice with New Materialism Concepts EDI: Vocalizing Collectivity -- Chemistry Building, Room 134 The Embodiment of Colonization: Individual and Collective trauma embedded in Mexican American Scholarship New Narrative Same Story: Women of Color and the Voices that are Missing 12:15-1:30PM Monstrous Marks -- Harvill Room 305 Chesnutt’s Conjuring Mark Flawed and Floppy Love in Hawethorne's "The Birthmark" The Fetishized American Vampire Affective Bonding and Subject Formation: Art Engaging the Social in China -- Chemistry Building, Room 134 The “Ethic Turn” of Socially Engaged Art: Everyday Affect and Subject Formation in “Yangdeng Cooperatives” “We the Chi-phenomena”—Chinese Youth Rap with Patriotism The Fantasy of Freedom: Narrating Sex and Love in Yu Dafu and Eileen Chang Encountering Nüshu in Cinema: Aesthetics of Sensation and Film-becoming-nüshu 2-3:15PM Queens, Closets, and Incest -- Harvill Room 305 “Monstrous Love in the Drama of John Ford” “Closets and Convents: Cross-Dressed and Collaborative Marriage in The Convent of Pleasure” The Queen’s Shadow: Elizabethan Influence and Devolving Women in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Series Relationships and Violence -- Chemistry Building, Room 134 “Unions and Divisions in Iraqi Ezidi Refugee Wedding Party Celebrations in Germany” “What if we don’t want to leave? How do we make him stop? Power and Erotic Immunity: [Re]imagining BDSM in George Orwell’s 1984 4-5:15PM Provocation from the Margins: Poetry Reading Chemistry Building, Room 134 6PM Kim Evans, Keynote Address "Keeping it Together: The Monster Makes His Case" Modern Languages, Room 311 Catered Reception with pizza, snacks and salad by Time Market, to follow the keynote including dance performance MONSTROSITREE a duet structured and performed by carie lyn schneider and chilopsis linearis |
Chair: Dr. Carie Schneider Aly Higgins Marisa Pesa Chair: Heidi Wallace Mary Rosenberry Christopher Christiansen Chair: Casely Coan Amilynne Johnston Ian James Chair: Dr. Emily Lyons Grace O’Connor Dalia Ebeid Chair: Dr. Charlie Scruggs Holly Griffith Lance Guzman Chair: Stefan Vogel Amy Takabori Hannah Grace Lanneau Misul Song Chair: Amilynne Johnston Rachel Levit Ades Amanda Martin Sandino Chair: Amanda Zhu Jason Knowles Jacquelyne Kibler Chair: Amy Takabori Erika Sylvia Nacim Nicole Darling Chair: Sovay Hansen Christine Walsh Savannah Hicks Kelsey Kristner Chair: Dr. Hai Ren Yanhua Zhou Jin Li Alice Fengyuan Yu Xufei Ma Chair: Dr. Meg Lota Brown Betsy Labiner Courtney Carlisle Grace Chen Chair: Housten Donham Allison Stuewe Michael Brasher Matthew Pascucci Charlotte Seley Rachel Mindell Amanda Martin Sandino |