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.