12:20–12:30 Opening remarks
12:30–1:30 Popular Formulas: Constructions of Whiteness
in Film, Television, and Music
"Fade to White: DVD Extras and Their Ability to
(Dis)Narrate Race," David Messmer.
"Hillbillies, Healers, and Erstwhile-Cannibals: Representations
of White Trash in The X-Files,"
Gina Weaver.
"Eight Miles From Graceland," Molly Robey.
1:45–3:00 Material Matters: Artistic Production and
Its Influences
"Rrose Sélavy and the Work of Painting: A Little Game
Between I and Me," Brooke Campbell, Emory University.
"A Small Boy and (Various) Others: A Year with Punch and Napoleon," Michael
Meeuwis.
"This is Not History: Disciplining Readers and
Interpellation in William Thackeray’s The
History of Henry Esmond," Duncan Hasell.
"’An Art Allied to Poetry’: The Visual and Manual Arts
as Metaphor in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats," Julianne White, Jacksonville
State University.
3:45–4:30 The Art of Community
"Saints Alive: Santos in Contemporary American
Life," Dinah Zeiger, The University of Colorado.
"Purpose and Strategy in Music Outreach: The Challenges
and Rewards of Teaching Culture and Imagination," Daphne Gerling and Joel
Luks, Rice Shepherd School of Music.
"Sparks From Northern Fires: Tolkien, Lewis, and the
Study and Creation of Myth," Andrew Lazo.
"Art and Activism: The Case of Documenta II,"
Kathryn M. Floyd, The University of Iowa.
9:20–9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30–10:30 (In)Visible Identities
"Disembowelling Serial
Murder: Race and the Art of Murder by Numbers," Shubha Joshi.
"American Accents: Subversive Realidades of East L.A.
and Chicano Art in Gregory Nava's
American Family," John Escobedo
"Re-presentation—Re-production—or Non (rep)resentation—Non
product(ion): Does Reproduction Represent Production?" Eser Selen, New
York University.
10:40-11:40 Genders
in Conflict: Maids, Mothers, and Marriage in Shakespeare
"Divorce a mensa
et thoro and Companionate Marriage in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and The
Winter's Tale," Ronit Berger.
"Warring Queen-Mothers in Shakespeare's King John," Mary Stripling.
"The Secret Life of Props: Shakespeare and the
Disappearing Female Body," Amy Pollard.
11:45—12:20 Lunch
12:30 –
2:00 Keynote Speaker
"Choosing
a Critical Path: The Dreaded 'So What?' Question," Dr. Lawrence Buell,
Chair of the Department of English Harvard University.
2:10
– 3:10 (Dis)Locating Agency: the
Politics of Place
"Tragic Comic: Debbie Dreschler's Daddy's Girl and the
Crisis of Home," C. Kayte Young, Rice School of Architecture.
"'The Law in the Present Instance': Property in The
Mysteries of Udolpho," Leah Speights.
"Lulu's Title," Lourdes Alberto.
3:20-4:20 Constructing the Self, Constructing the
Other: Aesthetic Representations of Africa
"Double Identities and Anti-Slavery in the Black
Atlantic," Basak Demirhan.
"Within the Time-lag in Mapping the Absent Presence—From
Toni Morrison's Rereading of Hemingway," Josephine Huang, State University
of New York at Albany.
"Exploring Art: The Congo, Jukkäsjarvi,
London–Nigeria," Celia Aijmer and AnnKatrin Jonsson, Göteborg University.
4:30
– 5:30 Marked Bodies: the Aesthetics of
the Other
"Dignity on Aesthetic Terms: Melville's Confidence
Man," Rachel Cole, Johns Hopkins University.
"An Exemplary 'Antiromance?': Lennox's The Female
Quixote," Eun-Young Koh.
"'Lo que quiero es tierra': Longing and Belonging in
Cherrie Moraga's Ecological Vision," Priscilla Ybarra.
5:30-6:00 Reception for Dr. Buell