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Purdue Graduate Symposium

Thank You!

The committee for this year's FLL Graduate Symposium would like to thank the following departments and offices at Purdue for their excellent support and encouragement: 
  • Foreign Languages and Literatures
  • History
  • Comparative Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Office of the Dean of Liberal Arts
Thank you all for making this event possible!

Conference Schedule

Friday, April 3, 2009

1:00 - 1:30: Registration / Meet 'n' Greet
Where: Staaks Lounge, Stanley Coulter Hall

1:30 - 2:00: Opening remarks by College of Liberal Arts Dean John Contreni and Foreign Languages and LIteratures department chair Dr. Paul Dixon
Where: SC G040

2:00 - 3:30: Panel I: Theorizing War
Panel Chair: Sol Neely
Where: SC G040

1. "War and Its Purification" Ethan Sproat, Purdue University

2. "The Moral Significance of Recognizing Violence in Pogge's Borrowing and Resource Privileges" Mark Balawender, Michigan State University

3. "The Torture Memo: A Philosophical Critique" Nathan Stout, Western Michigan University


3:45 - 4:45: Panel II: The Middle East
Panel Chair: Rebecca Nicholson-Weir
Faculty Response: Dr. Alon Kantor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Where: SC 239

1. "Traces of Silvers: Remembrances of Jewish Members of a Moroccan Mixed Ethnic and Religious Community" Cory Driver, Ohio State University

2. "Contested Nationalisms, Conflicted Resistance: The Performance of Violence in Wild Thorns and Waltz with Bashir" Aileen Esmat Genaidy, University of Cincinnati


5:00 - 6:00: Panel III: In Preparation of Violence
Panel Chair: Jessica Raffelson
Where: SC G040

1. "War's Effect on the Masculine Gaze" Owen Horton, Western Michigan University

2. "David Reubeni: Jewish Stateman and Violent Jew" Benzion N. Chinn, Ohio State University


Saturday, April 4th, 2009

8:15 - 9:00: Doughnuts, bagels, and coffee
Where: Staaks Lounge

9:00 - 10:30: Panel IV: War, Colonialism, and Their Aftermath
Panel chair: John White
Where: SC G039

1. "Accommodating Lexical Change in Germany" Jennifer L. M. Gerndt, Purdue University

2. "Irish Historical Studies: Academic History as Peace Building" Shannon Grady Blaha, Northwestern University (CANCELLED)

3. "Hugo Chavez, Wittgenstein, and the Bolivarian Revolution: A Conception of Democracy" Beto Urquidez, Purdue University


9:00 - 10:30: Panel V: Modernity and the Great War
Panel Chair: Jason Baumer
Where: SC G030

1. "Fathers, Sons, and the Generation Gap in World War I: Three Fictional Works" Juan Meneses, Purdue University

2. "An Illusion of Armor: Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and the Crisis of the Haptic Body" Julia Kleinheider, Washington University

3. "Reconstructing the Peace In Our Time: Hemingway, Wilson, and the Interpretation of History" Craig Carey, University of Iowa


10:45 - 11:45: Panel VI: Africa in Perspective
Panel Chair: Richard Beyogle
Faculty Response: Dr. Alicia Decker, Department of History
Where: SC G039

1. "Validating Multicultural Education in the U.S.: Africa in Perspective" Stephen Debar Kpinpuo, Purdue University (CANCELLED)

2. "Girls Fight, Too: An Analysis of the Intersectionality of Gender and Violence Pertaining to Child Soldiers in Paramilitary Groups in Africa" Josh Caplan, Purdue University


10:45 - 11:45: Panel VII: After the 2nd World War
Panel Chair: Michael Schroeder
Faculty Response: Dr. Beate Allert, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Where: SC G030

1. "In Sight and Out of Mind: Contested Memories in Berlin and Poznań" Stephen Naumann, Michigan State University

2. "Terrorize and Rebuild: How Godzilla Redefined Japan's Post-WWII Identity" Jeremy Burgess, University of Louisville

11:45 - 12:45: Lunch (available for conference presenters, faculty members, committee members and assistants)
Where: Staaks Lounge

1:00 - 2:15: Keynote Address: "This Is Not War, It Is the End of the World: The Nature of Historical Gothic" Kevin Cramer, IUPUI, Associate Professor of History
Where: SC 239
2:30 - 4:00: Panel VIII: Moods of Conquest and Domination in Literature
Panel Chair: John Herda
Where: SC G039

1. "War, Peace, and Biopower" Paul Elliot, Purdue University

2. "Expanding the Kingdom of Death: Paradigms of Perception and Space in the Works of Thomas Pynchon" Vit Vanacek, University of Prague / Indiana University

3. "Negotiating the Battlefield of a Militarized Poetics" Dana Bisignani, Purdue University

4:15 - 6:15: Movie screening Goya in Bordeaux
Where: SC 239

6:30 - Whenever: Dinner, drinks, and relaxation
Where: TBA


This schedule is subject to minor changes. Please check back as we will be updating this page with more information, e.g. room numbers and "extracurricular" activities.