Program

Conference Program

Friday (April 15): All events take place at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities (CMU 204, CMU 202) (map)

3.00 – 3.45 pm: Check- in

3.45 – 4.00 pm: Opening Remarks

4.00 – 5.00 pm: Keynote by Prof. Dr. Andrea Geier, University of Trier, Germany: Cross-cultural experiences in colonial and postcolonial spaces: Traveling and masquerading in works by Ilija Trojanow

5.00 – 6.00 pm: Dinner Reception

Saturday (April 16): All events take place at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities (CMU 202, CMU 204)

8.15 – 9.00 am: Breakfast

9.00 – 10.15 am: Panel 1

10.30 – 11.30 am: Panel 2

11.30 – 12.30 pm: Lunch

12.45 – 1.45 pm: Panel 3

2.00 – 3.00 pm: Panel 4

3.15 – 4.30 pm: Panel 5

5.00 – 6.00 pm: Keynote by Dr. Habiba Ibrahim, University of Washington, USA: In Between Worlds: Imagining Black Oceanic Lifespans

6.00 – 7.00 pm: Dinner Reception and Closing Remarks (CMU 204)

Panels

Panel 1: “Narrating Difference” (9.00 – 10.15 am in CMU 202); Moderator: Justin Mohler

1. Veronika Muskheli (University of Washington):

Radiant Brides: Migration of the Folktale Motif “The Horse as a Magical Helper to the Heroine”

2. Zhe Geng (Harvard University):

Metaphors of Disability in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior

3. Nathan Bates (University of Washington):

“Eine Art Vogelfreiheit”: The Arrest of Individuation and Family Narrative through the Poetics of Migration in Zsuzsa Bánk’s Novel Der Schwimmer

Panel 2: “Seeking Refuge” (10.30 – 11.30 am in CMU 202); Moderator Preston Albertine

1. Ross Lipton (Binghamton University – SUNY):

Irmgard Keun’s Kinder Aller Länder and the Contemporary European Refugee

2. Chiara Benetollo (Princeton University):

We are the story we tell: migration narratives in asylum law

Panel 3: “Urban Utopias” (12.45 – 1.45 pm in CMU 202); Moderator Richard Boyechko

1. Joseph Kuster (University of New Mexico):

Free to be You and Me (But Mostly Me): Hybrid Identities and Queer Utopias in My Beautiful Launderette and Lilting 

2. Richard Hronek (University of Wisconsin – Madison):

Plague and the City

Panel 4: “Between Identities” (2.00 – 3.00 pm in CMU 202); Moderator Kristina Pilz

1. Erin Gilbert (University of Washington):

The Nun Lieutenant and the Cavalry Maiden

2. Lisa Ortiz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):

When I became “your people”: The in-betweenness of (return) migration

Panel 5: “Opening Translation” (3.15 – 4.30 pm in CMU 202); Moderator Nathan Bates

1. Rebecca Loescher (Johns Hopkins University):

Productive Unbelonging: Form and the In-Between in Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière

2. Sara Iacovelli (University of Colorado Boulder):

“Translation Must Be Endless”: The Heterolingual Address as a Tool for Building Language Justice

3. Lana Jaffe (Harvard University):

“The Rest is Silence”: Language and the Ineffable