LAC 2019: Visualizing the Self in Flux
DAY 1: Friday, October 25th
(Please note room changes below)
| 8:15-9:00 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast (Provided)
Room: 134 HUB Robeson Center
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| 9:00-9:15 a.m.
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Welcoming Remarks from the Liberal Arts Collective
Speakers: Kendra McDuffie, President Thomas O. Beebee, Faculty Advisor Room: 134 HUB Robeson Center
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| 9:15-9:30 a.m. | Words from our sponsor: Department of Comparative Literature
Speaker: Charlotte Eubanks, Department Head |
15 min break
| Session A (HUB 131) | Session B (HUB 134) |
| 9:45-11:15 a.m. | 9:45-11:15 a.m. |
| Fashioning the Female Body: Materiality and Visuality
Moderator: Kendra McDuffie “Femininity at the crossroads: shaping a female image in a Russian fashion magazine Modnyi magazin (1862-1883)” Maria Alesina “Embodying Female Agency Through Disruptive Movement” Kelly Stewart “Respectable Entertainment”: Self-Fashioned Myth, Mask, and Exhibition at London’s Vauxhall Gardens and Royal Academy” Priscilla Sonnier |
The Unhomely Self: Negotiating Gender, Kinship, Homelessness
Moderator: Daniel Purdy “‘I Failed as a Mother, Moonee, You’ve Disgraced Me!’: Visual Representations of Fluctuating Childhood Sovereignty from The Wizard of Oz to mid90s” Joseph V. Giunta “Public-Private Negotiations: Exploring the Shifting Roles of Women in Kashmir” Shreya Sangai “The Self in Flux: Animist and Material extension of the self in ‘The Widower’ by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed” Diana Rahim |
15 min break — Coffee Provided
| 11:30-1:00 p.m. | 11:30-1:00 p.m. |
| Visualizing the Past
Moderator: Eduardo Ramos “How White is Heimdallr?” Chihiro Tsukamoto “Islam, Blackness, and Slavery: Unpacking Islamophobia and the War on Terror” Adam Miyashiro “In memoria: Evidence of Classical Rhetoric in Beowulf” Jonathan Correa
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The Virtual and the Speculative
Moderator: Merve Tabur “‘Digging the center:’ Images of a Black Future in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo” Steven Jaindl “Visuality and Erasure of Nuclear Selves and Spaces” Purdom Lindblad “Déjà Vu and the Realist Imagination” Elizabeth Mansfield |
| 1:00-2:00 p.m. | Lunch (Not Provided) |
| 2:00-3:30 p.m. | 2:00-3:30 p.m. |
| (Dis)Placing the Subject and the Geopolitics of the Self
Moderator: Victoria Lupascu “Zitkala-Ša in Flux: An Analysis of the Western and Indigenous Norms in American Indian Stories” Taylor Jones “Exploring the Marginalization of the Black Body in the Public Sphere” Kirk Maynard “The Repeating Idol: José Martí and the Iconography of the Nation” Alfred Lopez |
Comic Art and Latinidad: Visualizing the Latino Body and its Lived Experience
Moderator: Marco Martinez “Negotiations of Latinidad: Ethnic and Racial difference in Tales from La Vida” Constanza Contreras “The Importance of Being Montoya: Latina’s Portrayal in Batman’s Supporting Character Renee Montoya” Moisés Hassan “Aesthetic, aesthesis, freedom, and the Chicana Heart in Jaime Hernández’s Love and Rockets” Camila Gutiérrez |
| 3:30-4:15 p.m. | Free Time |
| 4:15-6:15 p.m. | Reception at HUB Noontime Lounge
(Light Appetizers Provided) |
| 6:30-8:30 p.m.
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Early Period Study Group Presents
Dorothy Kim, Ph.D. Keynote Lecture “Race, St. Margaret, and Visualizing Premodern Blackness in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MS 370” Room: 102 Thomas Building |
DAY 2: Saturday, October 26th
| 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast (Provided)
Room: 233A HUB Robeson Center |
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Session A (HUB 233A) |
Session B (HUB 233B) |
| 8:45-10:15 a.m. | 8:45-10:15 a.m. |
| The Art of Care: Therapy, Pedagogy, Activism
Moderator: Chang Tan “Margaret Naumberg, Art Therapy, and Activism” Peggy Suzuki “A ‘Leftover Lady’s Narrative: Building Professional Identities in Art Education” Yang Deng “Embodying Flux: James Bishop’s Jacob, 1974” Molly Warnock “Drowning the Self: From Fluxus Art (Joseph Beuys) to Human Flow (Ai Weiwei)” Sabine Doran |
Toward an Ambiguous Self
Moderator: Yi-Ting Chang “Are We Cyborg or Just Animal? An Intervention” Jessica Chang “Do Black Holes Dream of Self? Media and the Construction of Self of Psychopath in AT&T’s Mr. Mercedes” Min-chi Chen “Asian Bodies in Nineteenth Century America: The Yellow Peril, Freak Shows, and Futurity in Crip Kinship” Su Young Lee “(Un)visualizing Taiwanese/American Subjectivity: Reading Poetic Form in Leona Chen’s Book of Cord (2017)” Yi-Ting Chang |
15 min break
| 10:30-12:00 p.m. | 10:30-12:00 p.m. |
| Virtual Communities and the Digital
Moderator: Jonathan Abel “#Jerusalem: Harnessing Spatio-Temporal Fluidity in the Digital Realm” Anna Kensicki “Reimagined Communities: Transcending national self-identity through the Facebook mega-group ‘Subtle Asian Traits'” Amanda Rachmat “Hey, that’s me!: Avatar-mechanical interactions and experiences of virtual embodiment in mediated spaces” Ryan Tan “What Are They Talking About: Assessing Facebook Readers’ Response” Alina Zhurbenko |
Twisted Passions, Twisted Selves: The Navigation of Identity in Pre-Modern Europe
Moderator: Jonathan Correa “A ‘Mirour that Highte Middelerthe’: Langland’s Use of Language in Passus XI of the B-Text of Piers Plowman” Audrey Saxton “Orpheus, Poet-King: Art, Music, Statecraft, and the Poetry of Disharmony in Sir Orfeo” Mattison Schuknecht “‘Speak Lavinia’: Intertextuality as Dismemberment in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus” Audrey Gradzewicz |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Lunch – Provided at Registration Desk |
| 1:00-2:30 p.m. | 1:00-2:30 p.m. |
| Embodying the Self in Flux: Liminality, Fluidity, Plasticity
Moderator: Sarah Henneböhl “Liminal Embodiment, Language, and Identity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mutterzunge” Hannah Mantangos “A State of Flux: Colors, Coma, and Cognition in Marica Bodrožić’s Das Wasser unserer Träume (2016)” Chrisann Zuerner “Learning positions: Spatial dislocations and relocations in colonial Bengal” Anindita Mukhopadhyay “‘Betwixt and Between’: The Ceramic Process and Rites of Passage,” May Okafor |
Political Subjects in Media
Moderator: Krista Brune “Political Subject Formation in Lola Arias’ El año en que nací (2011)” Michelle McGowan “Complementing Habermas with ethics: philosophy against Chilean homophobia” Carlos Lau “The Making of ‘Makwerekwere’: Black African Migrants in South Africa” Tembi Charles |
15 min break – Coffee Provided
| 2:45-4:15 p.m. | 2:45-4:15 p.m. |
| A/E Body in Flux Exhibition Roundtable
Curators: Jessica Scott and Chaehee Yoon Participants: Chaehee Yoon, Xuan Pham, Anthony Reamer, Kathryn Fanelli, Vick Quezada, Jessica Scott, Benjamin Heller |
Queer Narratives
Moderator: Constanza Contreras “(En)gendering Feeling Across Time” Christine Libby “Drawing comics: A methodology to materialize queer presence within family narratives” Martha Newbigging |
| 4:15-5:00 p.m. | Free Time |
| 5:00-7:00 p.m. | Liberal Arts Collective Presents
Caitlin Bruce, Ph.D. Keynote Lecture From “La Banda” to “El Equipo”: Contingent Subjectivities in Legal Graffiti Programs in León Guanajuato Mexico Room: 233A/B HUB Robeson Center |
| 7:30-10:00 p.m. | Closing Dinner
Room: 233A/B HUB Robeson Center |