This event schedule includes times in PT and ET.
Virtual conference link: https://discord.com/invite/mPSzwfTxfE
8:00 - 9:00am PT / 11:00 - 12:00pm ET Check-in + coffee hour (HU 354/ Voorhies 126)
9:00 - 9:15am PT / 12:00 - 12:15pm ET Welcome + opening address (HU 354/ Voorhies 126)
9:30 - 10:45am PT / 12:30 - 1:45pm ET Session I Panels
11:00 - 12:15pm PT / 2:00 - 3:15pm ET Session II Panels
12:30 - 1:30pm PT / 3:30 - 4:30pm ET Keynote Speaker (HU 354/ Voorhies 126)
1:30 - 2:15pm PT / 4:30 - 5:15pm ET Lunch/Dinner (HU 354/ Voorhies 126)
2:30 - 3:45 PT / 5:30 - 6:45 ET Session III Panels
Panel 1: Kinship and Spirituality
Albany Location: HU 112
Davis Location: Voorhies 120
Albany Chair: Minji Huh
Davis Chair: Bowen Du
Presenters:
Grace Ann Miller, “Narratives of Kinship in the Face of Assimilation Trauma”
Jay Starling, “Community and Pride: When Fantasy Becomes Reality”
Prerana Chakravarty, “The ‘Other’ Spirituality: Reading African Mysticism in the Detective Novels of Rudolph Fisher and Ishmael Reed”
Bennett Comerford, “Reimagining Colonial Modernity: Blurred Boundaries Between Religion and Literature in Nineteenth-Century Bengal”
Panel 2: Queer Theory and Intersectionality
Albany Location: HU 113
Davis Location: Voorhies 228
Albany Chair: Megan Wilson
Davis Chair: Melina Rodriguez
Presenters:
Samu/elle Striewski, “Towards a ‘responsible non-monogamie’ – A queerfeminist genealogy of polygamy”
Elias Joel Donstad, “Recovery: Trans and Otherwise”
Abhra Singha Roy, “Queers (of all kinds) Assemble! Connecting the Panthi to the contemporary queer discourse”
Emalee Crews, “CripQueer Radical Mothering: An Analysis of Laura Hershey’s Poetry”
Panel 3: Transnationality and Postcolonialism
Albany Location: HU 114
Davis Location: Voorhies 248
Albany Chair: Christy O’Callaghan-Leue
Davis Chair: Colin Wingate
Presenters:
Marietta Kosma, “Decolonization of borders in Shailja Patel’s Migritude”
Onur Kaya, “A Journey from Inner Mexico to the Inner Self in the USA”
Farhana Islam, “Traveling from Empire to Empire: America, Duality, and Anti-coloniality in Ghosh’s The Glass Palace”
Oyeshi Ganguly and Shriya Dasgupta, “Exploring Revolutionary Networks in Colonial India: The oral history perspective through the lens of Agnijug Archive”
Panel 4: Digital Humanities and Virtuality
Albany Location: HU 115
Davis Location: Voorhies 396
Albany Chair: Brandon Gehres
Presenters:
Bailey McAlister, “Rhetorical Delivery in Post-Pandemic Communication”
Shiva Mainaly, “AI Dilemma or Hamletian Dilemma”
Sof Voet, “Creating and Cultivating Social Connection through Fanfiction Writing”
Rosemond Cates, “Thoreau, Allyship, and New Technologies”
Panel 5: Poetics and Relationality
Albany Location: HU 112
Davis Location: Voorhies 248
Albany Chair: Dr. Eric Keenaghan
Davis Chair: Jeremy Freeman
Megan Wilson, “Resonances Beyond Bounds: Muriel Rukeyser’s Relational Poetics as Counter Containment Imagination”
Nayoung Seo, “Oscar Wilde and BTS: When Stains Become Wings”
Audrey Chiang, “Sent to Voicemail: Reconstructing the Frayed Wires of Connection with Our Inner Child”
Christine Imperial and Sarah Yanni, “persistence & rupture”
Panel 6: National Identity and Nation-making
Albany Location: HU 113
Davis Location: Voorhies 228
Albany Chair: Sudarshan Ramani
Davis Chair: Bowen Du
Presenters:
Ava Walter, “Simultaneity in Postwar Japanese Ceramics and Literature"
Jingwei Zeng, “The Surface Contact: Sino-Western Communication in One Chinese Snuff Bottle”
Aditi Basu, “Connecting the World with Indian Film Industry: Relevance of Bollywood as a Soft Power in Indian Foreign Policy”
Adhithi Anjali, “The Public Body: Developing Identity Through Violation”
Panel 7: Relationships to Land and Earth
Albany Location: HU 114
Davis Location: Voorhies 396
Albany Chair: Christy O’Callaghan-Leue
Presenters:
Clarissa Gucwa, “The Reclamation of Belonging: Indigenous public artworks’ relationship to land and the decolonization movement”
Asa Klein, [no title]
Kelly Xu, “Solace in Nature”
Will Pattee, “'These are the proportions of a war.': Ecopoetics, Politics, and Industrial Violence in Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead”
Panel 8: Rhetoric and Engagement in Academia
Albany Location: HU 115
Davis Location: Voorhies 120
Albany Chair: C. Connor Syrewicz
Davis Chair: Dr. Dan Melzer
Presenters:
Molly Ryan, “Scholarly Soulmates: Connection, Kinship, and Placemaking through Mentorship in Rhetoric and Writing Studies”
Braydon Dungan, “Modern Composition: ABC’s Modern Family as Literature and its Uses in Middle School Language Arts Curriculum”
Adam Riekstins, “Self, Author, Performer: A Metamodern Approach to Rhetoric and Written Relations”
C. Connor Syrewicz, “Empiricism, Creative Writing, and the Metaphysics of Absence: How the Humanities are Helping Me Navigate the Sciences and How the Sciences are Helping Me Understand the Arts”
Panel 9: Game Studies and Technology
Albany Location: HU 112
Davis Location: Voorhies 120
Albany Chair: Dr. Michael Hill
Davis Chair: Dr. Gina Bloom
Presenters:
Luna Loganayagam, “You Won: Wargaming, Tourism, and Play in Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3”
Evan Manzanetti, “‘We’ll Become Warmongers’: The Normalization of American Military Hegemony through Graphical User Interfaces and the Mother Base Menu in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker”
Rajdeep Pathak, “Disconnected: Failure of Intersubjective Connection in the Literature of Transhuman Convergence”
Vaasu Taneja, “Creating ‘Let’s Go Paint!’, a Video Game about Depression, Social Anxiety, and Imagination”
Panel 10: More-than-human Engagements
Albany Location: HU 113
Davis Location: Voorhies 248
Albany Chair: Sudarshan Ramani
Davis Chair: Sumaria Butt
Presenters:
Shaw Patton, “‘I Am Not Ready to Interpret or Experience the Gaze’: The Animal Gaze in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry”
Xinran Lu, “Interspecies Relationships in Buddhism”
Nicole Stevens, “‘Your Earth is Still Your Earth’: Reading Lilith’s Brood and Geological Deep Time as Kinship Possibilities”
Kayla Adgate, “Gothic Ghosts and Castaways in Poe and Defoe”
Panel 11: Cultural Identity and Representation
Albany Location: HU 114
Davis Location: Voorhies 228
Albany Chair: Farhana Islam
Davis Chair: Melina Rodriguez
Presenters:
Abdulaziz Almuthaybiri, “The Uninhabitable Land in Dreaming in Cuban: A Critical Reading of García’s Worldview of Cuba”
Yasmin Mendoza, “We Waka Together: An Exploration of the Epistemology of Love in Robert Harrison’s Star Waka”
Charlie Ward, “Identity and Performance in ‘Sonny’s Blues’”
Panel 12: Social Connections
Albany Location: HU 115
Davis Location: Voorhies 396
Albany Chair: Sof Voet
Davis Chair: Kaceylee Klein
Presenters:
Christy O’Callaghan-Leue, “Connection Through Linked Short Stories”
Alison Lourdes Oses, “Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: Revisions in 19th-c. Children’s Adaptations and Effect with the Governess and Servant Perception”
Kevin Martens Wong, “Another Dreamtiger”
Bing Zhu, “Narrating Desire: Social Mind and Romantic Identity in Bleak House”