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Thursday, November 13
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8:30 – 10:00 am | Registration and Breakfast | Room 5409 |
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| Session A 10:00 – 11:30 am |
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| Session B 11:45 – 1:15 pm |
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1:15 – 2:30 pm | Lunch Break |
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| Session C 2:30 – 4:00 pm |
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| Session D 4:15 – 5:45 pm |
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6:00 – 7:30 pm Room C204-205 Elaine Scarry
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7:30 pm Reception in Room 4116 |
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Friday, November 14
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9:00 – 10:00 am | Registration and Breakfast | Room 5414 |
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10:00 – 11:30 am Skylight Room (9th floor) Rosanna Warren
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11:30 – 12:30 pm | Light Refreshments Room 5414 |
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| Session E 12:30 – 2:00 pm |
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| Session F 2:15 – 3:45 pm |
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| Session G 4:00 – 5:30 pm |
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6:00 – 7:00 pm Room 9205 André Aciman
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Session A
Panel A1 / Room 8301
Moderator: Professor Marvin Carlson
Theater for Action
Elizabeth Moe (Rutgers University)
Una solidaridad subversive: Street art and festival celebrating the damnificados of Mexico City’s 1985 earthquake
Katherine Payne (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Theater of the Distressed City: A Case Study of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Meg Alvarado Saggese (UC Berkeley)
The Sound and Sight of Silence
Panel A2 / Room 8304
Moderator: Professor Mary Gibson
Fascism, Empire, Rome
Gianna Albaum (New York University)
Africa Romana: Fascist Manifestations of “Terza Roma” in Colonial North Africa
Robert Corban (Syracuse University)
Concrete Ideas: Monuments, Culture and Political Religion in Fascist Parma, 1922-1928
Ole Hinz (Yale University)
How to Write an Empire? Rome’s Metamorphosis in C. Ransmayr’s Last World
Panel A3 / Room 8400
Moderator: Professor Adele Haft
Remains of Troy
Kiernan Acquisto-Axeloons (University of Delaware)
How Was Troy Divorced from the Orient? Schliemann’s Excavations and Their Aftermath
Yukai Li (Yale University)
The Destructions of Troy
Vanessa Loh (Temple University)
A Second Troy: Revision and Impossible Reversal in Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan”
Session B
Panel B1 / Room 8301
Moderator: Professor Patricia Laurence
Romance and Ruin
Daniel Nutters (Temple University)
Rupert Birkin Among the Ruins: Robert Browning and D.H. Lawrence
Miller Oberman (University of Connecticut)
Translating the Ruin[ed] City
Elizabeth Porter (Fordham University)
Navigating Space and the Self in Roxana’s London
Panel B2 / Room 8304
Moderator: Professor Monica Calabritto
Early Modern Spaces of Emotion
Kathryn Swanton (University of Chicago)
Repeated Forgiveness as a Sign of Division between the Private and the Public Self in The Tempest and La Estrella de Sevilla
Kirsten Noelle Mendoza (Vanderbilt University)
“Thou maiest inforce my body but not mee”: Masochistic Pleasure of the Bounded Subject in John Marston’s The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of Sophonisba
Luisanna Sardu (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
De-foresting Nature in Early Modern Psychological Romance: Giulia Bigolina’s Reworking of Classical Natural Spaces
Panel B3 / Room 8400
Moderator: Professor Vincent Crapanzano
Poetry’s Landscape
Marvin Campbell (University of Virginia)
Key West and American Poetics: The Capital of the Global South Atlantic in Hart Crane’s The Bridge and Derek Walcott’s Omeros
Davy Knittle (University of Iowa)
A Microcosm: The Imagined Urban Landscape of Leslie Scalapino’s that they were at the beach
Jasmine Vasandani (Parsons, The New School)
Navigating Imaginary Cities Through Public Transportation in the Poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Panel B4 / 8402
Moderator: Fabio Battista, PhD Candidate
Sites of Memory
Iván Andrés Espinosa Orozco (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
The Grotesque as a Motif in the Design of Latin American Cities: Mario Mendoza’s Scorpio City
Andrey Korovin (Moscow State Pedagogical University)
The Concept of Locus in Karen Blixen’s Tale “The Roads Round Pisa”
Dana Francisco Miranda (The University of Connecticut)
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”: The Loss on Bunker Hill
Session C
Panel C1 / Room 8301
Moderator: Professor Mary Ann Caws
Maps and Metaphors After Modernism
Caitlin Woolsey (Yale University)
To Pass from Language to Life: Mapping Tactics of Détournement from Lettrist Poetics to the Situationist City
Zoë Slutzky (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Empty Center, Shifting Frame: The Elevator as Metaphor for Postmodernism
Charlotte Kent (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
A Force Illegible: The City and the Imagination in Charles Simic’s Dime Store Alechemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
Seo Hee Im (Yale University)
The Well and the Warren
Panel C2 / Room 8304
Moderator: Nora Carr, PhD Candidate
The Body and the City
Erin McElroy (UC Santa Cruz)
Queering the Stage of San Francisco’s Eviction Epidemic
Jason Rhys Parry (Binghamton, SUNY)
Skeleton Cities, Thinking the Urban Virtual
Raj Patel (University of Pennsylvania)
Economic science and the construction of utopia and dystopia in the city
Panel C3 / Room 8400
Moderator: Professor Giancarlo Lombardi
The Beauty of Rome
Matthew Gasda (Lehigh University)
Pattern Languages in Fellini and Sorrentino
Sarah Atkinson (University of Chicago)
Un vecchio trucco? Visualizing Experience and Objectifying Expression in La grande bellezza
Allison Hadley (Yale University)
Open Spaces, Closed Spaces: Rome as Manifestation of Alienation in La Grande Bellezza
Panel C4 / 8402
Moderator: Professor Martin Elsky
New York Cities
ChrisM Jones (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Civic Insignia, Hierophany of the Abiding City
Alexander Manevitz (New York University)
Remembering Seneca Village as an Urban Alternative
Huma Mohibullah (University of British Columbia)
Before it was Ground Zero, it was Little Syria: Establishing Arab Legacies in Lower Manhattan
Nicholas Grosso (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
The City Meditations: On Urban Spaces and Public Spheres
Session D
Panel D1 / Room 8301
Moderator: Erin Glass, Digital Humanities Fellow
Digital Space
Francisco Laucirica & Jason R. Young (McGill University)
Mapping Early Modern Lima: Cities as Theaters of Convention
Ali Pearl (University of Southern California)
The Politics of Archiving the Street
Jedd Hakimi (University of Pittsburgh)
Visualizing Urban Dystopia, The Legacy of Architecture Modernism in Film and Video Games
Panel D2 / Room 8304
Moderator: Professor Maxime Blanchard
Monumental Projects
Miguel Caballero (Princeton University)
“Lazarus, Rise!” André Malraux in Brasilia
Diviani Chaudhuri (Binghamton, SUNY)
Abiding Cities in early South Asian Muslim women’s writing: hauntologies of Lahore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Lucknow
Deena Dinat (University of British Columbia)
The Monumental Impulse: Johannesburg and Transience
Panel D3 / Room 8400
Moderator: Professor Elizabeth Beaujour
Poetics of St. Petersburg
Vedran Catovic (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
The (Un)Happy Prospects: Saint Petersburg of Nikolai Gogol’s Short Stories
Inna Kapilevich (Columbia University)
Waiting to Collide: Absences and Moments of Existential Crisis in Zoshchenko’s “Absence of Malice” and Dostoevsky “Notes from the Underground”
Keith Walmsley (University of St. Andrews)
The Poetics of St Petersburg in Dostoevskiis Crime and Punishment
Panel D4 / 8402
Moderator: Ashna Ali, PhD Candidate
Tales of Two Cities
Nicole Berland (University of North Carolina)
Tower Babies: Reading and Writing the City of Prague
Calin Murgu (McGill University)
Imagining Victorian Dublin: Tourist Publications, Mediation, and the Emplacement of a City’s “Collective Memory”
James Robertson (New York University)
Sublimating History: Yugoslav Cities and Socialist Subjectivity
Session E
Panel E1 / Room 8301
Moderator: Professor Anna Akasoy
Imagining Istanbul
Pelin Kivrak (Yale University)
Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence as a Territory of Cultural and Individual Memory
Elvan Julia Sayarer (Université de Montréal)
Reimagining the City in Orhan Pamuk’s İstanbul. Hatıralar ve Şehir [Istanbul. Memories and the City]
Hale Sirin (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Istanbul and the Artist: Historical Memory and the Fragmentation of the Cityscape
Panel E2 / Room 8304
Moderator: Professor Bettina Lerner
Disruption and Recomposition
Paolo Pellecchia (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Reassembling Residue: Benjamin on Translation
Sean Theodora O’Hanlan (Stanford University)
The “Undersea World of the Arcades”: Walter Benjamin’s Paris sous-marine
Moira Weigel (Yale University)
Zoopraxiscopes and the city symphonies: Kafka, Benjamin, and “Realism”
Panel E3 / Room 8400
Moderator: Professor David Hoffman
Viable Utopias
Ryan James Hughes (UC Los Angeles)
Eroding Utopia: Patrick Chamoiseau’s Fort-de-France and the Absence of Blochian Hope
Cody Jones (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Colonization of Rust: Antinomies of the (Speculative) City in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
Kristin Miller (UC Santa Cruz)
Postcards from the Future
Panel E4 / 8402
Moderator: Professor Jonathan Shannon
Writing the Maghreb
Anouar El Younssi (Pennsylvania State University)
Tangier: An Abiding Literary-Space
Joan Listernick (Boston College)
Spatial Dynamics in Benchemsi’s Marrakech, lumière d’exil
Michelle Weitzel (The New School)
The Shape of the Kasbah: Countermemories and Violence in Algiers
Session F
Panel F1 / Room 8301
Moderator: Professor Bettina Lerner
Paris: Hugo, Balzac, Lacan
Katherine Ayers (Purdue University)
Re-enactment or Revival? Memory and the Image of Revolutionary Paris in 1944
Colin Foss (Yale University)
Reading the Revolution: Victor Hugo’s Les Chatiments during the Siege of Paris 1870-1871
Lauren Pendas (Louisiana State University)
Betting on Paris: Balzac and Lacan on Cities as Idealized Signifiers
Panel F2 / Room 8304
Moderator: Professor Paul Oppenheimer
Translating Cities
Elias Kleinbock (Pierrepont School, B.A. Yale University)
Text and Creation in the Urban Avant-Garde: Reading Gabriel Pomerand’s Saint-Ghetto-des-Prêts
Dan Poston (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Rome-ing the Suburbs: Addison’s Cato and the performance of citizenship to the ideal republic
Jon Rachmani (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Amid the Uproar of the Rabblement”: Wordsworth’s Intertextual London
Panel F3 / Room 8400
Moderator: Professor Paolo Fasoli
Visible and Unseen
Samarjit Ghosh (University of Minnesota)
Imagining [In]security: Seeing Catastrophe and “Unseeing” Violence in Mumbai
Matthew Gannon & Wilson Taylor (Independent Scholars)
Poetry After Dresden: Dream Cities, Destruction, and Fiction as Divine Violence
Natalie Pellolio (Stanford University)
The Portals of the Past: Photography and Utopia in the Aftermath of the 1906 Earthquake
Panel F4 / 8402
Moderator: Professor John Van Sickle
Ancient Cities: Petra, Athens, Rome
Anna Accettola (UC Los Angeles)
Petra: Ancient and Modern Images, Public and Private Spaces
Miruna Barnoschi (University of Virginia)
Conflict, War, Peace, and Flourishing in the City of Magnesia: Plato on Political Realism and Political Eudaimonism in The Laws
Garrett Ryan (University of Michigan)
Rebuilding Athens
Session G
Panel G1 / Room 8301
Moderator: Professor Lía Schwartz
Fragments and Rhythm
Sareh Afshar (New York University)
Reflective Rhythms, Reluctant Realities: Shifting Tempos & Modified Imaginaries in Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s Underneath the City’s Skin
Adelaide Kuehn (UC Los Angeles)
Alternative Subjectivities in Temps de chien and Verre cassé
Francesca Silva (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Urban space and sociopolitical malaise in contemporary Chilean poetry
Panel G2 / Room 8304
Moderator: Professor Giancarlo Lombardi
Urban Disinterest
Ian Murray (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Urban Taxonomies of Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd”
Lee Brewster Norton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Faces of the City: Godard’s Alphaville as Uncanny Paris
Jordan Schroeder (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Cléo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda’s Aestheticism
Panel G3 / Room 8400
Moderator: Claire Sommers, PhD Candidate
Affective Geography in Virginia Woolf
Geneviève Barrons (Phillips Andover Academy)
The Geography of Pain: Place and Personhood in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
Kate Perillo (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
The Urban Park and London’s Liminal Spaces: Making Room for Mrs. Dalloway‘s Critique of Empire
Hayley Colange Stefan (University of Connecticut)
“Home is Where the Trouble Starts”: WWI Literature and the Inability to Return
Abiding Cities, Remnant Sites 