Conference Schedule
Friday, May 13th – In Person Sessions (OSU Campus)
Concurrent Panel 1 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM): Memory: Corpses, Martyrdom, and Gravestones
Location: Derby Hall 080
Moderator: Daisy Ahlstone
10:00 - ILAYDA USTEL, "Martyrdom and Violence: Riot Control Vehicles Named After Police Officers Who Died on Duty"
10:30 - ANDREA N. MENDOZA MELENDEZ, "Addressing Hurricane Maria's Deaths in Puerto Rico: The Role of Remembrance in the Mourning Process"
11:00 - LYDIA SMITH, "Leave No Stone Unturned"
Concurrent Panel 2 (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM): Politics: Pandemics, Medicine/Health, and Constructing Identities
Location: Derby Hall 048
Moderator: Elise Robbins
10:00 - MOHAMMED ADHIL NEROTH, "Social Life of Death: A study of Nipah Outbreak in Kerala"
10:30 - SAVANNAH FINVER, "Envisioning Life: Discourse, Vision, and Reality Construction in Contemporary U.S. Abortion Debates"
11:00 - DEANNA HOLROYD, "Narrating the Disproportionate Death of BAME Communities: A Discourse Analysis of the Evolving Media Narrative of Racial Health Disparities in the U.K. at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic"
11:30 - NICOLE STEVENS, "The Terrible Beauty of Racial Time"
LUNCH (12:00 PM – 1:45 PM)
Location: OSU Campus, Hagerty Hall 455
Concurrent Panel 3 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM): Power: Non-Normative Bodies, Trauma, and Control
Location: Derby Hall 080
Moderator: Ilayda Ustel
2:00 - ABIGAIL MOKRA, "Impulse Control or Taking Control? The Paranoid Death Drive in Short Story Suicides"
2:30 - ALYX MCLUCKIE, "Critical Departures: Making Space for LGBT Elders in the Lifecourse Conversation"
3:00 - NILOU DAVOUDI, "Near Death Experiences: Preparing the Groundwork Research with a Network of Interpretations"
3:30 - SHUROUQ IBRAHIM, "'In My Death, They See Life': Institutional Trauma and Reclamation of the Female Body in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero"
Concurrent Panel 4 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM): Mourning: Cults, Death and Dying, and Power
Location: Derby Hall 048
Moderator: Nicole Stevens
2:00 - ROB BARRY JR., "'For Colored Ghosts Dying to Become Ancestors': Courtney Kemp's Power, Social Death, and the Hauntings of the Afterlife of Slavery"
2:30 - HOLLY PARKER, "'What to do with such sorrow?': Grieving and the Neoliberal Workplace in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed"
3:00 - MARY ANNA BALL, "The Fantasy and Phantom of Death and Resurrection in the Kingdom of the Shades"
3:30 - ALLISON RUMAN, "United in Death: The Success of the Cult of Isis in Rome"
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
The Personification of Death in Paradise Lost and Elsewhere
DR. HANNIBAL HAMLIN
Friday, May 13th: 5:00-7:00 PM
Saturday, May 14th – Virtual Sessions (via Zoom)
Saturday, May 14th – Virtual Sessions (via Zoom)
Concurrent Panel 1 (9:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT): Afterlife: Religion, Power, and Collaboration
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Moderator: Daisy Ahlstone
9:00 - STAMATIS ZOCHIOS, "An exemplary (but temporary) death: Repentance as a return from the Other World in modern Russian visions"
9:30 - DAISY AHLSTONE, "Decomposition: A Model for Concluding Community Projects"
10:00 - LIZ CHAVEZ, "Memory and Death in K-Pop Music: An Analysis of Gender and Online Identity in K-Pop Suicides"
Concurrent Panel 2 (9:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT): Haunting: Remembrance, Monsters, and Phantoms
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Moderator: Nicole Stevens
9:30 - FELICITY T.C. HAMER, "Developing Memory: Remembrance, Embellishment and Hauntography"
10:00 - MINGLEI "HART" ZHANG, "The Phantom of the Living Dead: Estranged Labor and Active Alienation During the Pandemic"
10:30 - TYLER GOLDBERGER, "'Generalísimo Franco is Still Alive!': Hauntings and Historical Memory in Spain's Post-Franco Regime (1975-Present)"
11:00 - ADRIELYS CALDERON-ORTIZ, "Death and Life through Yōkai: Elegant Yōkai Apartment Life and new perspectives on conceptions of the monstrous"
Concurrent Panel 3 (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT): Ritual: War, Art, and Tradition
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Moderator: Shurouq Ibrahim
10:00 - SONAKSHI SRIVASTAVA, "T/easing the Corpse: Delineating the Body Politic and Politics of Death in Ananthamurthy's 'Samskara'"
10:30 - STEFANI PRISKOS, "Walking Each Other Home: The Lasting Impact of Threshold (Hospice Bedside) Singing"
11:00 - ALKHODER ALKHALIFA, "Ritualizing the Dead, Documenting War: Memory, Mghaysil and Death in Sinan Antoon's The Corpse Washer"
11:30 - ZAHRA ABEDINEZHAD, "Women's Participation in Mourning Traditions of Muharram in Contemporary Iran"
LUNCH BREAK (12:00 PM – 1:15 PM EDT)
Panel 4 (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT): Kinship: Grief, Queerness, and Motherhood
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Moderator: Zahra Abedinezhad
1:30 - KOH HUI LING CARINA, "'Grief fills up the room of my absent child.': Maternal Bereavement in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Weavers and Weft"
2:00 - QUINN TERRY, "Queering Loss: Multifocal Grief and the Disruption of Normative Grieving Processes"
2:30 - THULANI BALOYI, "On Corpses, Power and Priority over 'Proper' Treatment of the Dead in Johannesburg."
3:00 - PAULA ANTUÑANO LLANA, "'I Built My Olympia Downstream' Classicism and the Black Lives Matter Elegy in Danez Smith's Poetry"