Friday, March 7, 2025

8 AM - 9 AM: Registration and breakfast 

Second floor atrium, Tawes Hall 

9 AM - 10:15 AM: Panel Sessions

• Panel 1: Queer Theory and Embodiment (Tawes 2115)

  • • • Emilee Denslow, Alexander J. Hess, Eran Eads, Abhinav Bhardwaj 

• Panel 2: Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures (Tawes Fishbowl) 

  • • • Estella Jiang, Alice Bi, Matthew Herskovitz

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Panel Sessions

• Panel 1: Reading the Body in Narratives of Difference (Tawes 2115)

  • • • Grace Reeb, Rachael Nebraska Lynch, James Perla

• Panel 2: Rhetoric and the Possibility of Design (Tawes Fishbowl)

  • • • Chase Redd, Funmi Fadairo, Eric Baker

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM: Lunch 

Second floor atrium and Tawes 2115 

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM: MFA Reading (Tawes 2115)
Hear current UMD Creative Writing MFA students share excerpts from works in progress.

• • • • Arielle Cole,  Kivel Carson, Somto Ihezue, Taína

1:25 PM - 2:25 PM: Panel Sessions

• Panel 1: Adaptation, Translation, and Temporality (Tawes 2115)

  • 1. • Charlie Hope D'Aneri, Harley Nguyen, Wang Mengru

• Panel 2: Reading Local: Rhetorical Studies of the DMV (Tawes 2119D) 

  • • • Cameron Orefice, Divya Benezette, Jessica Rucker

• Panel 3: Politics and Ethics in Transnational Literatures (Tawes Fishbowl)

  • • • Nina Mouawad, Tunahan Çakmakçı, Shakiba Sharifpour

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM: Panel Sessions

• Panel 1: Speaking Back: Reconsiderations of the Canon (Tawes 2115)

  • • • Kurtis Parsons, Cairo Maxwell, Lisa Abena Osei, David Kelly Jr.

• Panel 2: Remembering Place, Performing Space (Tawes 2119D)

  • • • Rashi Maheshwari, Ben Desmond, Matthew Riemer, Yohely Comprés

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Keynote 

• All are invited to join us in Tawes 2115 for a reading and Q&A with author Emma Copley Eisenberg. More details may be found on the "keynote" page of this site.