(dis)junctions 2008

Schedule

Friday, April 11

Coffee station opens at 9:00am in the English Department Library

Buffet lunch 11:45-1:15 in English Department Library

Reception 6:30-9:00 in HMNSS 1500

9:30-10:30 Registration

10:30-10:50 Opening Remarks

Session One:  11:00-12:20

Session Two:  12:30-1:50

Session Three:  2:00-3:20

Session Four:  3:30-4:50

Keynote Speaker, Mark McGurl: 5:00pm

Saturday, April 12

Coffee station opens at 8:00am in the English Department Library

Grab n’ Go lunch 1:00-1:30 English Department Library

Session One:  8:30-9:50

Session Two:  10:00-11:20

Roundtable: 11:30-12:50

Session Three:  1:40-3:00

Session Four:  3:10-4:30

Cintax 6:00-8:00 HMNSS 1500

 

Panel

Session

Day

Time

Border Games I:  Government and Society

1

Friday

11:00

Detective Fiction

1

Friday

11:00

Imperialism I

1

Friday

11:00

Crossing Boundaries from 18th to 20th Century

1

Friday

11:00

Writing Across University Divides:  Researching & Dialogues in Academia

1

Friday

11:00

Black Literature, Law, & Public Policy

2

Friday

12:30

Border Games II:  Post-Colonial Discourses

2

Friday

12:30

Imperialism II

2

Friday

12:30

Bringing the Noise from Bebop to Hip Hop

2

Friday

12:30

Conrad & Forster

2

Friday

12:30

Border Games III:  Gender and Sexuality

3

Friday

2:00

Changing Terrains & Alternative Plains

3

Friday

2:00

Gender & Sexuality in Gothic Literature

3

Friday

2:00

Reading Science

3

Friday

2:00

Modernism II

3

Friday

2:00

Contemporary Poetry

4

Friday

3:30

Medieval & Renaissance Drama

4

Friday

3:30

Mass Media & the War Text

4

Friday

3:30

War Literature of the 20th Century

4

Friday

3:30

Consumption & Waste

4

Friday

3:30

Children's Literature

1

Saturday

8:30

Donne with Milton

1

Saturday

8:30

The Fiction of Nonfiction

1

Saturday

8:30

Modernism I

1

Saturday

8:30

Authorship & Identity in Native American Literature

1

Saturday

8:30

“New” Criticism:  Fresh Looks & Neglected Writers

2

Saturday

10:00

(Re)deeming Hemingway

2

Saturday

10:00

Philosophy & Religion

2

Saturday

10:00

Mapping Middle-Earth:  Reading J.R.R. Tolkein in a Global Age: 

2

Saturday

10:00

The Victorian Novel

2

Saturday

10:00

Race, Gender, & Electronic Literature

3

Saturday

1:40

Memoir I

3

Saturday

1:40

Myth Conceptions:  Reading Folklore & Mythology Across the Ages

3

Saturday

1:40

The Technological Body:  Myths & Realities of Self

3

Saturday

1:40

Art & Aesthetics in the Writing of Edith Wharton

3

Saturday

1:40

Memoir II

4

Saturday

3:10

Constructions of Race in the Americas

4

Saturday

3:10

Science & Literature in the 19th Century

4

Saturday

3:10

Trauma & Performance

4

Saturday

3:10

Wilde Things

4

Saturday

3:10

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