The ACLA is almost here! See at a glance when your colleagues from the Centre are presenting:
Don’t miss The Linda Hutcheon and J. Edward Chamberlin Annual Lecture
by Uzo Esonwanne: “Migrations: Ifa in Cyberspace”
Friday April 5, 4:40pm-6:30pm, Room 112, Victoria College, 73 Queen’s Park Crescent
A2 Across the Shadow Lines: Diasporas in the Age of Transnationalism
Sheshalatha Reddy, Howard University
Northrop Frye Hall, Room 235
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Yan Lu, University of Toronto “(Re)mapping the Field of Racial Positions: Chinese and Jamaican diasporas in Yan Li’s Lily in the Snow”
A5 Attention’s Forms I
Yaron Aronowicz, Princeton University; Eva-Lynn Jagoe, University of Toronto
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 2198
252 Bloor Street West
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Eva-Lynn Jagoe, University of Toronto “Attention’s Deficit”
A6 Attitudes Towards the Center: Literary Maps of Central and East-European Cityscapes
Veronika Ambros, University of Toronto; Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa
Lillian Massey Building, Room 205
125 Queen’s Park
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Veronika Ambros, University of Toronto “Prague—a Haunted Centre. The Labyrinth of the City in the Works of Franz Kafka, Jiří Weil, and Bohumil Hrabal”
A32 Packing and Unpacking: On Portable Belongings and Identities
Nefise Kahraman, University of Toronto; Veronica Jimenez, University of Toronto
Victoria College, Room 213
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Olga Bazilevica, Justus Liebig University of Giessen “New Old World: ‘Home’ and ‘Exile’ in Central and Eastern European Childhood Memories”
April 6, 8:30–10:20
Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard, University of Toronto “Giovannino Guareschi’s Haversack: Unpacking Liberty in Prison and in Fiction”
Veronica Jimenez, University of Toronto “The Art of Living Out of Suitcases: Cynthia Rimsky’s Poste Restante”
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Nefise Kahraman, University of Toronto “Hidden in Air: Rhetoric of ‘Fresh Air’ in Edip’s Kalp Ağrısı and Kazemi’s Tehran-e Makuf”
A33 Parental Guidance Advised: The Mother as GPS
Valerie Bherer, University of Minnesota; Rachel McWhorter, University of Minnesota
Birge Carnegie, Room 20
75A Queen’s Park
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Natalie Pendergast, University of Toronto “The Transitional (Book) Object as Conduit to Individuation in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?”
A43 Repositioned Realisms
Kate Holland, University of Toronto; Jeff Gatrall, Montclair State University; A. Sean Pue, Michigan State University
Goldring Student Centre, Room 218
150 Charles Street West
April 6, 8:30–10:20
Ryan Culpepper, University of Toronto “Realism without Mimesis: Time, Narrative, Transformation”
A46 Sounding Space, Sounding Community
Tania Gentic, Georgetown University
Goldring Student Centre, Room 133
150 Charles Street West
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Catherine M. Schwartz, University of Toronto “Louder than Words: Tracing the Sounds of Book History”
A47 Spatial Narratives
Ben Miller, Georgia State University
Northrop Frye Hall, Room 9
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Toshi Tomori, University of Toronto “Stargazing: Space Imagery, Sublime, and Memory in Patricio de Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light”
A50 Surrealist Strategies: Dépaysement and the Locations of Modern Aesthetic Practice
Marc Caplan, Johns Hopkins University; Markéta R. Holtebrinck, University of Toronto
Victoria College, Room 112
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Kristina Syvarth, University of Toronto “Boris Vian and the Margins of Surrealism”
April 6, 8:30–10:20
Markéta R. Holtebrinck, University of Toronto “Ruins, Fragments, Chance Encounters. Photo-Essay with Departure Point: Surrealism”
A60 Timekeeping in Print: The Literary Register of New Temporalities
Mayra Bottaro, University of California, Berkeley
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 235
170 St. George Street
April 6, 8:30–10:20
Victor Li, University of Toronto “The Untimely in Globalization’s Time”
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Lauren Beard, University of Toronto “‘Can one Narrate Time?’: Subjective Temporality and Literary Form in Ulysses and The Magic Mountain”
B6 Comparing Violences, or the Violence of Comparativity?
Miriam Novick, University of Toronto, and Jay Rajiva, University of Toronto
Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, Room 105
121 St. Joseph Street
April 6, 11-12:50
Jessica Copley, University of Toronto “Violence and Subjecthood in Judith Butler’s Frames of War and David Grossman’s To the End of the Land”
B14 Gendered Positioning Systems
Joanne Freed, Oakland University
Lillian Massey Building, Room 310
125 Queen’s Park
April 7, 11-12:50
Kirk Morrow, University of Toronto “Identity and Social Space in Gay Narratives of the 1970s”
B15 Global African Literatures I
Brady Smith, University of Chicago; Chandani Patel, University of Chicago
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 317
170 St. George Street
April 6, 11-12:50
Karen Yaworski, University of Toronto “Spaces Real and Imagined: The Place of ‘Africa’ in New World Black Identities”
B18 Labor Beyond Economy
Clare Calahan, Duke University
Goldring Student Centre, Room 148
150 Charles Street West
April 5, 11-12:50
Tetiana Soviak, University of Toronto “Reality TV and Politics of Work”
B32 Positioning Ethics
Scott DeShong
Goldring Student Centre, Room 206
150 Charles Street West
April 7, 11-12:50
Élise Couture-Grondin, University of Toronto “The Politics of Location: For a Feminist Critical Comparative Literature”
B45 Temporalizing the Global
Ian Balfour, York University; Joshua Clover, University of California Davis
Northrop Frye Hall, Room 113
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 7, 11-12:50
Eric Cazdyn, University of Toronto “Chronic Space: ‘The Clock’ as ‘The Map’”
B51 The Poet and the World
Jeannine Marie Pitas, University of Toronto
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 4426
252 Bloor Street West
B59 Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn I: Contemporary Continental Thought and the Sense of Place
Robert Hughes, Ohio State University; John Paul Ricco, University of Toronto
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 4410
252 Bloor Street West
April 7, 11-12:50
John Paul Ricco, University of Toronto “Drool: Liquid Fore-speech of the Fore-scene”
B62 Uproot, Downroot: Performance Art as Positioning
Antje Budde, University of Toronto; Elin Diamond, Rutgers
University Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, Room 108
121 St. Joseph Street
April 6, 11-12:50
Antje Budde, University of Toronto “You don’t bring me flowers. Collective Gestus or the interactive celebration of queer labor as social critique”
April 6, 11-12:50
Joe Culpepper, University of Toronto “Experimental Magic (Manifesto)”
B64 ‘Where were you when?’ ‘Wish you were here’ ‘Same Place, Different Time’: Rhetoric of Sharing and Separation across Time or Space
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 2296
252 Bloor Street West
April 7, 11-12:50
Darcy Gauthier, University of Toronto “The Sound Of ‘What Is Not There’: Tele-Spectral Logic Of The ‘Sorane’ In Sôseki’s ‘Koto No Sorane’”
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto “From Second Person to Third Person: A Sad Young Man/Woman on a Train En Route to the Cultural Other”
B65 Worlds within Worlds: One Medium Containing Another
Emma Kafalenos, Washington University in St. Louis; Wendy Faris, University of Texas, Arlington
Victoria College, Room 323
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 6, 11-12:50
Antonio Viselli, University of Toronto “Contrapuntal Subjectivity or A Modernist Fugal Poetics”
C1 A Discourse of Place : Exiles and Displacements in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World
James Nemiroff, University of Chicago
Emmanuel College, Room 108
75 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 6, 2:20–4:10
Adleen Crapo, University of Toronto “Exile, Mediterranean Slavery and Spanish Valor in the Work of Cervantes”
C19 Mapping Animality III: Communicative Ecologies, Nonhuman Worlds
Alex Benson, Bard College
Carr Hall, Room 406
100 St. Joseph Street
April 6, 2:20–4:10
Sarah O’Brien, University of Toronto “Sticky Matter: The Peculiar Substance of Animal Death in Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga and La mujer sin cabeza”
C25 New Directions from Old Maps : Taking Leave of Capitalism
Scott Marentette, University of Toronto; Martin Zeilinger, York University
Victoria College, Room 212
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 5, 2:20–4:10
Martin Zeilinger, York University “Counter Code with Code: Resisting Intellectual Property Digitally”
D23 The Global Contemporary
Nathaniel Heisler, University of Toronto
Northrop Frye Hall, Room 231
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
April 6, 4:40–6:30
Nathaniel Heisler, University of Toronto “Hauntings of the Boggieman: The Othering of Islamic Modernity through Yassiin Bey’s Counscious Hip-hop”
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