Program 54
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Registration Opens 8:30
Location: Anatol Center Patio
Coffee & Breakfast
Session I—9:30-10:45
Panel 1: Bertolt Brecht and the Scars of Modernity
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Taylor Espinosa, California State University, Long Beach
“Voicelessness and Silencing of Women in Brecht’s Works”
Liane Sponberg, California State University, Long Beach
“Praxis and Performance: Mother Courage and her Cafeteria”
Chris Anthony, California State University, Long Beach
“The Creative Afterlife of Brecht’s Poem ‘Praise of Communism’”
Robert Blankenship, California State University, Long Beach
“The Brechtian Socrates: Herr Keuner’s Approach to a Traumatized Society”
Luke Beller, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 2: A dramatic reading of Aristophanes’ Clouds
Location: Anatol Center
Moderators: Kathryn Chew and Mik Larsen, California State University, Long Beach
Dramatis personae:
Strepsiades—Lauren Hamilton
Pheidippides—Elizabeth Pavlath
Xanthias—Lara Andreina Kuehne
Student—Caitlin Fisher
Socrates—Gillian Duane
Better Argument—Hailey Lane
Worse Argument—Wendy Rosales
Pasias—Lizbeth Jardon
Witness / Chorus Leader—Moc Le Nguyen
Amynias—Pedro Garcia Jiminez
Session II—11-12:15
Panel 3: War and Suffering
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Letitia Deon, California State University, Long Beach
“From Desolation to Reconciliation: A Petal (1996) and Spirits’ Homecoming (2016)”
Sung-Ae Lee, Macquarie University
“Trauma and Embodied Memories in A Gesture Life”
Shu-ching Chen, National Chung Hsing University
“‘For her heroes are flying’: New Representations of Combat Trauma in Israel”
Rakefet Zalashik, University of Edinburgh
Asher Salah, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Session III—12:30-1:45
Panel 4: Remembering the Holocaust
Location: MHB 315
Moderator: Levon Parseghian, California State University, Long Beach
“Buried Words: Exploring Sexual Violence in Holocaust Survivor Narrative”
Jody Spiegel, The Azrieli Foundation
“‘Laying Ghosts to Rest?’: Effectuating the Demand of Witnessing Through Spectrality and the Metaphor of the Musselmann”
Alex Williams, University of Amsterdam
“‘Auschwitz is Not a Zionist Myth’: Translating and Transmitting the Holocaust in Spain, 1960-1970”
Paul H. Cahill, Pomona College
“Twice Removed from Trauma: Third-generation Jewish American Holocaust Writings”
Tiasa Bal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Panel 5: Trauma and Memory
Location: LA1-305
Moderator: Jessica Brooks, California State University, Long Beach
“The Materiality of Mourning: Physicality, Translation, and the Problem of Catullus in Anne Carson’s Nox”
Olivia Ingram, Simon Fraser University
“Damnatio Memoriae and its effect on Roman literature, history, and architecture”
Elizabeth Pavlath, California State University, Long Beach
“Conjuring the Nazi: The Performance of Spectral Memory in Collier Schorr’s Forests and Fields”
Stacy Schwartz, University of California, Santa Cruz
“West Coast, Nest Coast: The Car as Vehicle for Constructing a Memory of Belonging”
Farzana Waseeq, University of Oxford
Session IV—2-3:15
Panel 6: “World History is Judgement Day”: 18th-Century Universal History and Memory Theory
Location: MHB 315
Moderator: Dionne Agawu, California State University, Long Beach
“Popular Memory of the Dutch War of Liberation and the Thirty Years War: Universal History in the dramatic works of Schiller and Kleist”
Jeffry L. High, California State University, Long Beach
“‘In earlier times—long since passed’: The idealization of the Middle Ages in Dueling Versions of Das Käthchen von Heilbronn”
Glen Gray, California State University, Long Beach
“Blood Libel, Trauma, and Collective Jewish Memory in Heinrich Heine’s ‘The Rabbi of Bacherach’”
Lisa Beesley, California State University, Long Beach
“Universal History and Recasting Memory: Franklin and Beaumarchais in Feuchtwanger’s Novel Proud Destiny”
Natalie Martz, California State University, Long Beach
Session V—3:30-4:45
Panel 7: The Trauma of Translation
Location: MHB 315
Moderator: Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
“The Translator’s Rendering of Momo’s Voice in La Vie Devant Soi”
Tyler McMullen, California State University, Long Beach
“A Sherlock Holmes Analysis”
Ame Chang, California State University, Long Beach
“Differing Feminist Translation Strategies in Sibilla Aleramo’s Una Donna”
Breanna Campos, California State University, Long Beach
“The Silence of Translation”
Sherida Hendrix, California State University, Long Beach
Session VI—5-6:15
Panel 8: Traumatic Memory
Location: MHB 315
Moderator: Kelsey Devoe, California State University, Long Beach
“Recreating the Present from the Past: the Consciousness of History and the Role of Memory in Selected Nigerian War Poetry”
Charles Akwen, University of Lagos
“Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Self-Forgiveness: Confronting Complicity in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying”
Dylan Winchock, California State University, San Marcos
“From Bearing to Burying: Embodied Memories of Darfur Genocide in the Poetry of Emtithal Mahmoud”
Mayy ElHayawi, Ain Shams University
“The Model Missionary: Authorial prescriptions for healing colonial wounds in the works of Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Kingsolver”
Abby Yost, Prescott College
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Registration Opens 8:30
Location: Anatol Center Patio
Coffee and Breakfast
Session VII—9:30-10:45
Panel 9: What I Brought in My Luggage: Relics of Lost Lives
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Sophia Pandya, California State University, Long Beach
A panel of recent Muslim refugees from Turkey share their experiences. The art exhibit accompanying this panel will be on display in the Anatol Center throughout the Conference.
Panel 10: Nostalgia and Memory
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Christopher Shaw, California State University, Long Beach
“Cultural Memory and Trauma: Embodying the History of Post-Communism”
Albena Vassileva, Brooklyn College, CUNY
“Tending to the Past: Preserving Cultural Memory in Oman”
Kirsten Hemmy, Sultan Qaboos University
“Narrating and Promoting the Culture and Memory of Sacred Defense”
Annie Tracy Samuel, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
“Seeing/Knowing: Tensions of Memory and the Impacts of Witnessing in Hrair Sarkissian’s Execution Squares”
Lauren Howard, University of Ottawa
Session VIII—11-12:30
Panel 11: Cultural Studies and Global Perspectives on Trauma and Memory
Location: MHB 315
Moderator: Vlatka Velcic, California State University, Long Beach
“Memory and Trauma in Exeter Book of Elegies”
Cory Spencer, California State University, Long Beach
“Gazing at the Camanchaca: An Analysis of Manifestations of Trauma”
Nancy Navarro, California State University, Long Beach
“From Mother to Daughter: How Sarah Kay Addresses Trauma and Healing in ‘B: If I Should Have a Daughter’”
Joelle Sabater, California State University, Long Beach
“Perfect Blue and the Trauma of Celebrity”
Isaac Garland, California State University, Long Beach
“Memories of Postcolonial Trauma in Mohsin Hamid’s Exist West”
Cameron Mayer, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 12: Music and Memory
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm, California State University, Long Beach
“Ballads as Vessels for Collective Cultural Memory: A Critical Comparison of Noyes’s ‘The Highwayman’ and Lorca’s ‘Romance sonámbulo’”
Maria Fellie, Pennsylvania State University
“Hora: ‘Voices from the Ancient Past’”
Amir Sharifi, California State University, Long Beach
Ali Ashouri, California State University, San Diego
“‘That’s on the Dead Homies’: Soundscaping Black (Male) Trauma Through Los Angeles Based Hip Hop”
Kevin P. Morris, Syracuse University
“Reincorporating Holocaust Memory in the Soviet ‘Great Patriotic War’ Narrative with Music”
Alexandra Birch, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Session IX—12:30-1:45
Poetry Recitation / Declamation
Open to all! Come share your favorite poem (or section thereof) in the original language or in translation.
Location: Anatol Center Patio
Organizer/Moderator: Elizabeth Dahab, California State University, Long Beach
Session X—2-3:15
Plenary Speaker
Valerie Orlando, University of Maryland, College Park
“The Trauma of Mediterranean Crossings When a ‘Global Subject’ Is Not One: Depictions of Race and Immigration in Algerian Cinema”
Moderator: Elizabeth Dahab, California State University, Long Beach
Location: Anatol Center
Session XI—3:30-4:45
Panel 13: Comedy and Trauma
Location: AS 385
Moderator: Katherine McLoone, California State University, Long Beach
“Felicité Fétiche: Reading Against Flaubert in Un Coeur Simple”
Jack Doty, California State University, Long Beach
“Let the Spirit Catch You and Rise Up: An Intersectional Analysis of Race, Class and Gender in the Medical Humanities”
Dejah Rodríguez, California State University, Long Beach
“Coping with Trauma Through Comedy, Empathy, and Agency in Deadpool 2: The Emancipatory Function of Subversive Praxis in Public Memory”
Carol Zitzer-Comfort, California State University, Long Beach
José I. Rodríguez, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 14: Postcolonial Trauma
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Pravina Cooper, California State University, Long Beach
“Allen Brooks and Emmett Till: The Second-Hand Consumption of Traumatic Imagery in the Press”
Meghan Jordan, George Eastman Museum
“A Fairytale of Chaos: Deconstructing Toni Morrison’s Sula”
Carter Elwood, California State University, Long Beach
“‘Something I feel so shamed about still’: Postcolonial Trauma in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe”
Judith Broome, William Paterson University
“Unlearning Patriarchy: Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Oe’s Death by Water as Therapy”
Cate Rivers, North Carolina State University
Session XII—5-6:15
Panel 15: Holocaust and Trauma
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Sophia Avants, California State University, Long Beach
“The Jewish Holocaust: A Dystopia Within the Conjurings of a Utopia”
Viviana De La Rosa, School of the Art Institute at Chicago
“Narrative, Structure, Genealogy: The Goldhagen Controversy in Historiography of the Holocaust”
Jungmin Kim, Independent Scholar
“The Birth and Rebirth of the Story: The Transmission of Traumatic Content in Literature and Psychoanalysis”
Dana Prop, The Bar-Ilan University
Panel 16: Literary Memory
Location: MHB 315
Moderator: Katherine McLoone, California State University, Long Beach
“Chile and the Theatricalities of Memory”
Alicia Del Campo, California State University, Long Beach
“The hybrid ritual of cleansing in Rosa Cuchillos”
Melissa Parra, California State University, Long Beach
“Memory, Trauma, and Poetic Voice in the Work of Jenny Erpenbeck”
Doris McGonagill, Utah State University
