Saturday, April 30, 2022
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Chair: Professor Mazen Naous, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Mitia Nath
Inspecting the Contemporary Arab Immigrant Narrative: Nostalgia, Borders, and Hybridity in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home, Shurouq Ibrahim, The Ohio State University
Indentureship, Migration and the Chinese Identity: A Comparison of the Chinese Guyanese and Chinese American Experience in Shinebourne’s The Last Ship and Yang’s American Born Chinese, Scott Ting-A-Kee, University of the West Indies
‘Other’ (Dis)locations: Analysing ‘Belonging’ and Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island, Pooja Yadav, University of Delhi
Chair: Professor Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Rowshan Chowdhury
Arthur Miller’s Gold Coast: British-American Inter-Imperiality in Death of a Salesman, David Buchanan, University of Pennsylvania
Empire and Imperial Sleep: Imperialist Time-lapse in Poe’s “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, Shaibal Dev Roy, University of Southern California
Careening for the Time Being, Karen M. Cardozo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Customs Handed Down to Us: Empire and Vulnerability in Glimpses of my Life in Aran, Theo Campbell, Villanova University
Chair: Professor Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Nicole O'Connell
Beyond the Subject and its Object: Towards a Theory of Abject-Ontology, Sam Davis, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“To choose…and not ever be moved”: Reclaiming the Right to Mobility and Citizenship in Toni Morrison’s Home, Janell Tryon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Juba’s Black Face and Lady Delacour’s Rouged Face: Maria Edgeworth’s Anti-Racist Critique in an Imperial Epoch, Xinyuan Qiu, Binghamton University
Claude McKay’s Aesthetic Home: Vagabondage and the Pursuit of Intrinsic Beauty, Lindsay D. Peart, Rutgers University
Chair: Professor Stephen Clingman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Jarrel De Matas
Spacetimes of Displacement: A Study of Black Geographies and Temporalities in K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents, Alejandro Beas Murillo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
| desire path | reading for queer kinship in the cities of Monique Wittig and Christine de Pizan, Sarah Ahmad, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Neo-Colonial Treks: Sexual Tourism and Dancefloor as Transactional Space, Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki, University of Massachusetts Amherst
World Deconstruction and Reconstruction through science fiction, Marietta Kosma, University of Oxford
Title:
“Poetry, Precarity, and Resilience: Salmon and the Indigenous Food Cycle”
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Wai Chee Dimock
English Department, Yale University, and Center for the Environment, Harvard University.
Introduction by
Professor Laura Doyle
Department of English
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hosts: Rowshan Chowdhury and Jarrel De Matas
Chair: Professor Gordon Fraser, University of Manchester
Moderator: Rowshan Chowdhury
Confronting and Queering the Archive in “Venus in Two Acts” and Proteus (2003), Michael John Kowalchuk, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fugitive Routes to/through “Recovery,” Katie Bradshaw, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Queerness and the Epistolary Form: Cross-temporal, Affective Community Building, Laura DeLuca, Binghamton University
Parallel Histories: Charting the ‘Idea of Pakistan’ through Purana Pakistan and Everyday Pakistan, Jaya Yadav, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi
Chair: Professor Malcolm Sen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Thakshala Tissera
“Is this what motherhood is?”: The Brutality of Motherhood in Salvage the Bones, Michaela Corning-Myers, Northwestern University
Arbo(Real) Entanglements, and Eco-Grief in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Sonakshi Srivastava, Indraprastha University
Matriz Sin Tumba: What Capitalist-colonial Progress Renders Into Trash, Lucila Carballo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair: Professor Jon Berndt Olsen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Shwetha Chandrashekhar
Roberto Bolaño’s Treatment of Monumental History in By Night in Chile, Mohammad Akbar Hosain, Illinois State University
Fictional History-Making: Memory as a Tool in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons and Thomas Gray’s “The [So-Called] Confessions of Nat Turner.” Gillian Wood, Tufts University
“Building Bridges through Music”: Arnold Schönberg's A Survivor From Warsaw, Ester González Martín, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair: Professor Randall Knoper, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Chandler Steckbeck
“funk-tional fashion: crip rips.” Callen Zimmerman, Stony Brook University
Dystopian Collectivity and the Problem of the Body in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Jocelyn Sears, Harvard University
“Break Off Thy Song:” Dangerous Musical Liaisons in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Aidan Selmer, Rutgers University
Radical poets, radical forms: Intermediality as counter-hegemony in the poetic works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and William Blake, Lily Katherine Beckett, King’s College London
Chair: Professor Donna LeCourt, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Ty Smart
Networks of Disruption: Insecurity and Affect in Ex Machina, MacKenzie Patterson, Boston University
In Their Virtual Shoes: Connecting with the Past through Digital Games, Nicole O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Formal and Communicative Disconnection in Mary Jo Salter's Zoom Rooms (2022), Jeffrey Careyva, Harvard University
Chair: Dr. Subhalakshmi Gooptu
Moderator: Manasvini Rajan
Margaret Tait: Master, Makar, Emily Foister, New York University
Recovering the Rural: Deconstructing Women’s Memoir and the “Heartland” in Heartland, Lillian Nagengast, Georgetown University
“Read with Disobedience and Responded to with Revision”: A Look at Jewish Feminist Fairy Tale Retellings, Jayde R. Hoppe, University of St. Thomas