Program 49
Thursday April 24, 2014
Registration Opens 8:30
Location: Anatol Patio
Breakfast
Session I—9:30-10:45
Panel 1: Beyond Realism: Realms of Desire and Magic
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Vlatka Velcic, CSULB
Disenchanting Capitalism: The Power of Advertisement in Emile Zola’s Au Bonheur Des Dames
Alan Gomez, CSULB
Our Obsession with the Wicked Witch
Erika Torres, CSULB
The Modern Yama-Uba: Redefining Mountain Witches in Contemporary Japanese Animated Film
Iavana Burgos, CSULB
Panel 2: Negotiating and Practicing Interdiscipinarity
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Elizabeth Dahab
Inter/Intra-Disciplinarity and Super-diversity: A Proposal for Negotiating Difference across and within Disciplines
Andrew Ogilvie, UC Santa Barbara
Intersections of Labour and Literary Studies in Contemporary Nigerian Literature: Depictions of Women in the Nigerian Skilled Labour Environment
Halima Buhari Sekula, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria
Ouroboric Myopia? A Self-Reflection on Interdisciplinary Work
Vartan Messier, Queensborough CC (CUNY)
Session II—11:00-12:15
Panel 3: Inter Alia: Rhetoric and Thought from Cicero to Us
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Kathryn Chew, CSULB
Cicero and the Science of Persuasion
Michael Boal, CSULB
The Art and Import of Rhetoric: An Interdisciplinary Study
Steven Cruikshank, CSULB
The Face of the Faceless: Ciceronian Humanitas and the Invention of the Human
David Kaufmann, CSULB
Women in Cicero’s Letters: Historical and Classical Perspectives
Angela Robinson, CSULB
Panel 4: The Music of Liberation: German Poetry, Politics, and Music 1785-1824
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Ryan Adams, CSULB
Poems, Songs and Symphonies: The Development of Beethoven’s Musical Adaptations of the Works of Goethe and Schiller
Adam Merki, CSULB
A ‘small circle’ of Revolutionary Proportions: Beethoven, Kleist, Collin, and Liberation Art of the Napoleonic Era
Rebecca Stewart, CSULB
Heinrich von Kleist’s “Germania to her Children”: An Angry Chapter in the History of German Freedom Anthems
Jeffrey L. High, CSULB
Session III—12:30-1:45
Location: Anatol Patio
Lunch
Session IV—2:00-3:15
Panel 5: Negotiating Trauma
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Elizabeth Dahab, CSULB
Migrations of Trauma Memory: Psychoanalysis, Immigration, and Memoir Writing
Ljiljana Coklin, UC Santa Barbara
Diaspora Studies: The Identity of Being In-Between
Sara Bitar, CSUL
Peace Through Separation: A Study of the Peace Walls in Belfast
Claire Pelonis, CSULB
Panel 6: Examining Contemporary Culture
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Vlatka Velcic, CSULB
Baring One’s Soul: The Nakedness of Tinder and Love Poetry
Kelli Snyder, CSULB
The Sound of Tomorrow, The Music of Today: Aura in Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
Joe Cannon, CSULB
Foucault and Skateboarding: The Relationship Between Space and Liberty
Jeremy Klemin, CSULB
Video Games and Literacy
Bryanna Bynum, La Verne University
Panel 7: Re-examining Stories and Narratives
Location: AS 385
Moderator: TBA
Which Witch: How Fables Transforms the Archetypal Witch Through the Action of Narrative
Amy Desuza, CSULB
The Not So Savage Woman
Jennie Nguyen, CSULB
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence Towards a “Brave New World”
Laura Macarewich, Independent Scholar
The Text of the Harem: An Interdisciplinary Comparison of
The Women of Algiers in Asia Djebar and Lalla Essaydi
Christina Alegria, CSULB
Session V—3:30-4:45
Location: Anatol Center
Introductory Remarks: Vlatka Velcic, CSULB
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Marina Antic, University of Pittsburgh
Session VI—5:00-6:15
Location: Anatol Center
Introductory Remarks: Carl Fisher, CSULB
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Ellen Peel, CSU San Francisco
Session VII—6:00-7:30
Location: Anatol Patio
Reception
Friday April 25 2014
Registration Opens 8:30
Location: Anatol Patio
Breakfast
Session VIII 9:30-10:45
Panel 8: Interdisciplinarity and Intradisciplinarity: Integrated Approaches to Teaching Literature and Culture in RGRLL at CSULB
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Enrico Vettore, CSULB
Participants: Bonnie Gasior, Nele Hempel-Lamer, Aparna Nayak, and Enrico Vettore
Panel 9: Digital Literature I: Re-encountering Film through Digital Literature
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, CSULB
Musings on Technological Singularity: Spike Jonze’s Her with Oedipus Rex and Genesis
Samantha Ong, UCLA
At the Intersection of Face and Interface: Spike Jonze’s Her as Digital Literature
Naomi Stark, UCLA
Session IX—11:00-12:15
Panel 10: Round Table Discussion on Interdisciplinarity
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Carl Fisher, CSULB
Participants:
Jordan Smith (Comparative World Literature and Classics)
Beth Manke (Human Development)
Brian Trimble (University Art Museum)
Clorinda Donato (Russian, German, Romance Languages and Literature)
David Stewart (Religious Studies)
Kathryn Chew (Comparative World Literature and Classics)
12:15-1:00 Brief Lunch Recess
Session X—1:00-2:15
Panel 11: Theory in Multimedia Arts and Hyperspace
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, CSULB
Life 2.0: Space, Identity, and Democracy in Virtual Reality
Shawn Zhang, UCLA
The Internet: Everyone’s Neighborhood – Arcade Fire’s “The Wilderness Downtown” through the Lens of Graphic Novels
MJ Watz, UCLA
Old Fields + New Media: Hyper-remixing the Classics
Ariel Ardin, UCLA
On Mouchette: The Virtual Theater of the Oppressed
Sally N. Marquez, UCLA
Panel 12: Postcolonial Praxis in a Contemporary World
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Alan Gomez, CSULB
Interdisciplinary Connections in Postcolonial Literature: Representation of Multi-Dimensional Impact of Colonialism in Kincaid’s A Small Place and Devi’s Imaginary Maps
Sultan Alquthami, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Mohajer’s Memoir: Comparing Arab and Iranian Women’s Memoirs from Across the Diaspora
Leila Pazargadi, Nevada State College
The Poetics of Politics in the Kurdish Contemporary Literature
Amir Sharifi, California State University, Long Beach
Ali Ashouri, California State University, San Diego
Poetry Declamación: Poems Alive! — 2:30-4:00PM
Location: Anatol Center Lounge
Moderator: Jordan Smith, CSULB
Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month with poetry readings at this College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Intersections event. Faculty, students and visitors will be reading their favorite poems, in English and original languages. All CLA community is welcome to come read – we’ll have food and drinks to add to the atmosphere.
