SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Student Colloquium 2005
April 21-22
Event Schedule
Thursday, April 21
8-8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast (HUB 309)
8:30 a.m. - Conference Welcome (HUB 309)
Leroy Searle, Comparative Literature
8:45-10:15 a.m. - Panel 1 (HUB 309)
Chair: Leroy Searle, Comparative Literature
Meredith Bagley, Communication, University of Washington:
“Heroic Rhetoric in the Remembrance of Reggie White”
Melanie Kill, English, University of Washington:
“Agency, Authenticity, and Authority: Writing a Social Agent”
Jeffrey Resta, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“Believe it or not, I’m walking on air: Ideology and the Modern American Hero”
10:30-12 p.m. - Panel 2 (HUB 309)
Chair: James Tweedie, Comparative Literature
Sima Daad, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“Rhetoric against Rhetoric: Voice of Ethnicity in Langston Hughes’ ‘Let America Be America Again’”
Kat Hankinson, English, SUNY Stony Brook:
“Living the Epic: Loaded Language and the Heroic Narrative in Charismatic Cults”
Dru Williams, Communication, University of Washington:
“Staying Committed to the Mission: George W. Bush’s Performance in the 2004 Presidential Debates”
12-1:30 p.m. - Lunch
1:30-3 p.m. - Panel 3 (COM 202)
Chair: José Alaniz, Slavic Languages and Literatures
William Mitchell, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“Terror and the Rhetoric of Integration in Y.B.’s Allah Superstar”
Kelly Walsh, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“Intensities of Terminality: Thinking Theater through the Failed Revolution”
Erica Weems, French and Romance Philology, Columbia University:
“Heroes, Anti-Heroes and the Building of an Exemplary Society”
3:30-5 p.m. - Panel 4 (COM 202)
Chair: Judith Howard, Women’s Studies
Katie Boyer, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“‘I too am an Imagiste!’: Amy Lowell and the Construction of the Masculine Heroic”
Puja Sahney, English, Utah State University:
“Princess Veeravati: The Goddess of Virtue”
Haerin Shin, Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill:
“The Function of Silence as a Communicative Strategy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Natsume Soseki’s The Three Cornered World”
3:30-5 p.m. - Panel 5 (HUB 204N)
Chair: Evelyn Ender, French and Italian Studies
Nidesh Lawtoo, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“Death of the Subject, Birth of Dialogue: Bakhtin and His French Reception”
Katy Masuga, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
"Mirbeau and Bataille's Erotic Anti-Hero: The Role of Woman in Decadent Readings of the Occidental and Oriental."
Anne McConnell, Comparative Literature and Humanities, U of Colorado at Boulder:
“The Heroic Failure of Orpheus: A Reading of the Central Essay in Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature”
5:30 p.m. – Opening Address ( Burke Room, The Burke Museum)
Paolo Valesio, Giuseppe Ungaretti Chair in Italian Literature, Department of Italian, Columbia University:
“Beyond Futurism: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Last Stand”
Reception to Follow
Friday, April 22
8-8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast (COM 204)
8:45-9:45 a.m. – Panel 6 (COM 202)
Chair: Nicholas Halmi, English
Hans-Peder Hanson, Classics, University of Washington:
“The Champions of Rhetoric: Nietzsche and the Sophists vs. Plato”
Travis Landry, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“The Virtue of Pathos in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King”
10-11:30 a.m. - Panel 7 (COM 202)
Chair: Cynthia Steele, Comparative Literature
Sheryl Cunningham, Communication, University of Washington:
“Making an American Hero: The Case of Jessica Lynch”
Erica Edwards, Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University:
“Anti-Charismatic Charisma: Revisions of Heroic Leadership in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle”
Sidney F. Lewis, English, University of Washington:
“You have seen how a [White] man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a [White] man: Narrative, Passing, and the Rhetoric of the Self-Made Man”
11:30-1: 30 p.m. - Lunch
1:30-3 p.m. - Panel 8 (THO 317)
Chair: Ruggero Taradel, French and Italian Studies
Stefan Kamola, Near Eastern Languages, University of Washington:
“Telling to Live the Tale”
Nicla Riverso Levander, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“Heroic Rhetoric in the Roman Army: The Case of Agricola and the Britons in ‘De vita Julii Agricolae’ by Publius Cornelius Tacitus”
Ethan Spanier, History, University of Washington:
“The Rhetorical Transformation of the ‘Good Farmer’ in Ancient Rome”
3:30-5 p.m. - Panel 9 (COM 202)
Chair: Willis Konick, Comparative Literature
Maura Danforth, English, University of Washington:
“Lunar Landscapes: The West as Tabula Rasa in Kenneth Burns’ Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery”
Clayton Hanson, Slavic Department Graduate, University of Washington:
“‘A matter of principle, that’s what it is’: The Treatment of ‘Little’ Czechs in the Works of Havel and Hrabal”
Lizabeth Johnson, History, University of Washington:
“Rhetoric and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Wales: Gerald of Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, and Welsh Law”
3:30-5 p.m. - Panel 10 (COM 226)
Chair: Brian Reed, English
Fabrizio Cilento, Comparative Literature, University of Washington:
“The Vision at Last: The Question of Vision in Samuel Beckett’s Short Plays”
Lee Einhorn, English, University of Washington:
“Heroism of Re(a)d”
Kimberly Lamm, English, University of Washington:
“‘The Mother of Us All?’ Gertrude Stein’s Susan B. Anthony, Portraiture, and the Question of Feminist Heroes”
5:30 p.m. - Keynote Address (COM 226)
Special thanks to our sponsors, including the College of Arts and Sciences; Associated Students of the University of Washington; Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies; The Graduate School; Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Sally Ryan Fund; Simpson Center for the Humanities; Center for Western European Studies; and the University of Washington Departments of: Anthropology, Art and Art History, Asian Languages and Literatures, Classics, Communication, Comparative Literature, Comparative Religion, English, French and Italian, Germanics, History, Linguistics, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Philosophy, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese.Arnold Weinstein, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University:
“Literature and Interiority: The Heroics of Modernism”
Reception to Follow (COM 202)