Conference Schedule

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

 

9:00-9:15 a.m.

 

Welcoming Remarks from the Liberal Arts Collective

Speakers:

    Kendra McDuffie, President

    Thomas O. Beebee, Faculty Advisor

Room: 134 HUB Robeson Center

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

 

 

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