Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Conference Schedule

Thursday, November 10


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" 



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






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