Program

Program.

Friday 5th, 2021

9:45-10:00 a.m. EST

Opening Remarks

10:00-11:30 a.m EST

P-1: "Voices of Resistance: Narrativity and Writing the Self"
Chaired by Josh Alvizu, Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and the Environmental Humanities

"Kafka with and against the Anthropocene", Søren Larsen, Cornell University • "Anyway, I am Telling the Story: Lies, Humour, and Memory in Jakob the Liar", Virginia Shewfelt, University of Toronto
"Auschwitz and After: Bodies that Write", Ashwathi Menon, SUNY New Paltz
"Redirection, Self-affirmation, and Reconstruction in the Poems of Cheon Sangbyeong and Maya Angelou", Aaron Hahn, Columbia University

15-minute break

11:45a.m.-1:15p.m. EST

P-2 “Apocalypse Now: Approaches to Contagion, Crisis, and Climate Change"
Chaired by Mauro Resmini, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Italian

"Challenging the Status Quo: A Feminist/Queer Examination of Climate Fiction", Shannon Steiner, University of Idaho
"Reimagining Godzilla: The Apocalypse as Redemption", Jordan Foster, University of Maryland
"Contagion, Care, and Cures in the Speculative Future of Lee’s On Such a Full Sea", Karen Siu, Rice University
"The Face Mask as an Object of Orientalist Dystopia", Jacob Lacuesta & Scott Tsuchitani, San Francisco State University & University of California

1-hour lunch break

2:15-3:45 p.m. EST

P-3 "Women Writers Smashing the Patriarchy"
Chaired by Mercédès Baillargeon, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies

"How Qajar Iranian Princess Taj al-Saltana Saw a 19th Century Global Pandemic", Amanda Caterina Leong, University of California
"Sexual violence, commodification and objectification of the black female body in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe", Marietta Kosma, University of Oxford
"An Ecosystem of Solidarity: Establishing ecofeminism and utopia in Angèle Kingué’s Venus of Khala-Kanti", Sarena Tien, Cornell University

15-minute wellness break with Guilhem Le Saux

4:00-5:30 p.m. EST

Post-Show Discussion of “The Catastrophist” with Round House Theatre’s Artistic Director, Ryan Rilette
Chaired by Jyana Browne, Assistant Professor of Japanese and Minor Advisor

*You can stream Round House Theatre and Marin Theatre’s co-production of “The Catastrophist” by Lauren Gunderson for free from your own home! The streaming is available Feb 27th through March 7th. Link and passcode available on our Arts Night Out page (see the menu at the top of this page).

Saturday 6th, 2021

10:00-11:30 a.m. EST

P-4: "Materials of Resistance: Protest in Visual Art and Music"
Chaired by Ryan Long, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

"Political resistance through art during the Portuguese dictatorship: The Coimbra Case (1958-1962)", Pedro Réquio, University of Coimbra
"“Hum Dekhenge”: Resistance through Art against fascist forces in India" ,Gayatri Aich, Jadavpur University
"Queering the Presence: The Construction of Queer Utopia Through Music Production in Post-Maidan Ukraine", Kateryna Romanovska, Charles University
"Next morning will rise full of poetry: The resistence of small fireflies through art", Sergio Schargel, PUC of Rio de Janeiro

15-minute break

11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. EST

P-5 “Displaced Objects: Preserving the Past and Imagining the Future"
Chaired by Valérie K. Orlando, Professor of French & Francophone Literatures and Cultures

"Our Home and Haunted Land: a Meditation on Space, History and Memory", Nadine Valcin, OCAD University
"C’est à moi [It’s mine]” : Racial Melancholia and Resilience in Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de…", Emily Wieder, University of Iowa
"Threads Untwined, Stories Unfolded, Futures Imagined", Kajill Aujla, Emily Carr University of Art+Design

45-minute lunch break with Liz Robinson

2:00-3:30 p.m. EST

Keynote Address
Chaired by Madeline Muravchik, PhD student in the Department of French and Italian

"Queer Food Literacies", Nicole Seymour, California State University, Fullerton

15-minute break

3:45-4:45 p.m. EST

Social Event
Connect with the colloquium participants, organizers and attendees in a relaxed setting.