Breakfast
8: 30 – 9:00am Social Sciences Tea Room
Introduction
9:00 – 9:15 am Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 1: Languages of Anti-Fascism
9:15 – 11:00am Social Sciences Tea Room
Moderator: Bill Brown
· Casey Michael Henry, “From Pagan to Particle: Speculative Identity and Post-Primitivism in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Phillip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach”
· Michael Hessel-Mial, “Concrete Poetry and the Cybernetic Fold: The Post-War Reconstruction of Language"
· Amy Waite – Mina Loy and Futurism
Coffee
11:00 – 11:20am Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 2: Reconstructing Damaged Life
11:20am – 1:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Moderator: Shannon Mariotti
· Jana Schmidt, “Figures of Passivity: Autism Studies in the Wake of Fascism"
· Elizabeth Brogden, “Damaged Lives, Adorno, New Critics”
· Noah Rosenblum, “Coming to America: Paul Lazarsfeld, Hannah Arendt, and the Public Role of Thought in Postwar America”
· Christopher Malcolm, “Exile, Affirmation, and Negative Dialectics”
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 3: European Modernism, American Modernity
2:00 – 4:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Moderator: Adrienne Brown
· Josh Bernstein, “Go East young man: Henry Roth’s modern reception”
· Jake Cowan, “European Exclusion, Intrusion, and Allusion”
· Gemma Goodale-Sussen, "The Startlet--Spangled Acrobat: Impersonation and Émigré Identity in Lolita”
· Douglas Duhaime, "Dos Passos, The Big Money, and the Pluralist Novel"
9:15 – 11:00am Social Sciences Tea Room
Moderator: Bill Brown
· Casey Michael Henry, “From Pagan to Particle: Speculative Identity and Post-Primitivism in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Phillip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach”
· Michael Hessel-Mial, “Concrete Poetry and the Cybernetic Fold: The Post-War Reconstruction of Language"
· Amy Waite – Mina Loy and Futurism
Coffee
11:00 – 11:20am Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 2: Reconstructing Damaged Life
11:20am – 1:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Moderator: Shannon Mariotti
· Jana Schmidt, “Figures of Passivity: Autism Studies in the Wake of Fascism"
· Elizabeth Brogden, “Damaged Lives, Adorno, New Critics”
· Noah Rosenblum, “Coming to America: Paul Lazarsfeld, Hannah Arendt, and the Public Role of Thought in Postwar America”
· Christopher Malcolm, “Exile, Affirmation, and Negative Dialectics”
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Panel 3: European Modernism, American Modernity
2:00 – 4:00pm Social Sciences Tea Room
Moderator: Adrienne Brown
· Josh Bernstein, “Go East young man: Henry Roth’s modern reception”
· Jake Cowan, “European Exclusion, Intrusion, and Allusion”
· Gemma Goodale-Sussen, "The Startlet--Spangled Acrobat: Impersonation and Émigré Identity in Lolita”
· Douglas Duhaime, "Dos Passos, The Big Money, and the Pluralist Novel"
Break
4:00-4:30
American Cultures and Political Theory Workshops: Shannon Mariotti
4:30 – 6:00pm Social Sciences 401
Contemporary Art and Mass Cultures Workshops: Lutz Koepnick
4:30 – 6:00 pm Cobb 107
Dinner
6:30 – 8:00pm Cedars Mediterranean Restaurant
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Friday, November 11
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00am CWAC Lounge
Panel 5: Designing Democracy
9:00 – 11:00am CWAC 153
Moderator: Jeffrey Lieber
· Rebecca Uchill, “Alexander Dorner’s Museum of the Future”
· Sean Cummings, "The American Built Environment and the Transmutation of the European Fascistic Impulse”
· Ana Maria Leon – Exhibiting Politics
Coffee
11:00 – 11:20am CWAC Lounge
Panel 6: European Cinemas and American Genres
11:20am – 1:00pm CWAC 153
Moderator: Lutz Koepnick
· Andrew Young, "Individual Against the Crowd: Fury, Vigantilism, and the Langian Critique of Community Identity”
· Jesse Cordes Selbin, "Spatializations of Fear in Modern American Cinema"
· Kirsty Dootson “Sort of a False Western: Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious”
Lunch 1:00 – 2:00pm CWAC Lounge
Panel 7: Modernist Aesthetics, Mass Markets
2:00 – 4:00pm CWAC 153
Moderator: Jay Curley
· Hyewon Yoon, “Exile at Work: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi from the 1920s to the 1970s”
· Sarah Fay McCarthy, “Craft Talk: the Paris Review Interview and Literary Practice in the Post-WWII United States"
· Noelle Belanger, “Futurism at the Panama Pacific International Exposition”
Break
4:00 – 4:20pm
Roundtable Discussion
4:30 – 6:00pm CWAC 157
Reception
6:00 – 7:00pm CWAC Lounge
9:00 – 11:00am CWAC 153
Moderator: Jeffrey Lieber
· Rebecca Uchill, “Alexander Dorner’s Museum of the Future”
· Sean Cummings, "The American Built Environment and the Transmutation of the European Fascistic Impulse”
· Ana Maria Leon – Exhibiting Politics
Coffee
11:00 – 11:20am CWAC Lounge
Panel 6: European Cinemas and American Genres
11:20am – 1:00pm CWAC 153
Moderator: Lutz Koepnick
· Andrew Young, "Individual Against the Crowd: Fury, Vigantilism, and the Langian Critique of Community Identity”
· Jesse Cordes Selbin, "Spatializations of Fear in Modern American Cinema"
· Kirsty Dootson “Sort of a False Western: Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious”
Lunch 1:00 – 2:00pm CWAC Lounge
Panel 7: Modernist Aesthetics, Mass Markets
2:00 – 4:00pm CWAC 153
Moderator: Jay Curley
· Hyewon Yoon, “Exile at Work: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi from the 1920s to the 1970s”
· Sarah Fay McCarthy, “Craft Talk: the Paris Review Interview and Literary Practice in the Post-WWII United States"
· Noelle Belanger, “Futurism at the Panama Pacific International Exposition”
Break
4:00 – 4:20pm
Roundtable Discussion
4:30 – 6:00pm CWAC 157
Reception
6:00 – 7:00pm CWAC Lounge