Schedule

Location: Boston University Geddes Language Center

685 Commonwealth Ave, 5th floor, Take the elevators by the Tsai Performance Center

All presentations will take place in Room 535B

9:30 - 10:00 : Breakfast and Greetings

10 - 10:30 : Illusion and Delusion in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Literature 

David Poelman (University of Montana Western) – “Dante to Dioneo: Dissolution of Dillusions”

10:30 - 11:30 : Madness and Perversion | Imaginary, Symbolic, and Institutional

Gonzalo Carretero Martínez (Boston University) – “Illusion and Delusion in Don Quixote: construction of a false reality”

Jorge Antonio Rivera Sanchez (Boston University) – “Marked girls: an exploration of violence in the short stories ‘Roberto’, by Agustina Bazterrica, ‘End of course’, by Mariana Enriquez and ‘Butterflies’, by Samanta Schweblin”

Isaque De Moura (Boston University) – Psychiatric Violence and Annihilation of Subjectivities in Guillermo Rosales’ Boarding Home”

11:30 - 12:30 : Deterioration and Delusion

Keyona Fazli (University of St Andrews) – “Blurred Boundaries of Life/Death: Margaret Atwood and Kate Bush’s Female Doubles.”

Shawn Driscoll (UMass Lowell) – “Cities in Dust: Bleakness and Perceptions of Urban Decay in the Films The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Taxi Driver” 

12:30 - 1:15 : Lunch break – Refreshments to be served for those attending in person

1:15 - 2:15 : Keynote Presentation

Dr. Rachel Mesch (Yeshiva University) – “Colette’s Queer Snapshot: Photography and the Illusions of Gender at the Turn of the Century."

2:15 - 3:00 : Patriarchal and Colonial Delusion in Brazilian Literature

Emerson Graig (The University of Iowa) – “Queering the Wild Heart of Joana in Clarice Lispector’s Perto do coração selvagem”

Paulo Acácio Soares (Stony Brook University) – “The making of whiteness in Southern Brazil: deconstructing hegemonic constructs”

3:00 - 3:10 : Break

3:10 - 4:00 Emancipation from Heteronormativity in 17th Century France and Mexico

Rose Tehrani (Boston University) – “Queer(ing) Translation in Mexican Poetry: Pluralism as Activism from Sor Juana to Rosamaría Roffiel”

Madelyn Neal (New York University) – “Dom Juan the Dominant and Dominated: Illusion and Gendered Movement in Molière’s 17th Century Pièce à Machines”

4:00 – 5:00 : Postcolonial Delusion

Kewou Ndeuchi Florence (Rutgers University) – “Interculturality in Mohammed Dib’s novel creation: The Big House”

Alice de Reviers (Rutgers University) – “Neige, After Nedjma: Passing and Inheriting Race in DNA (Maïwenn, 2020)”