Program 58
TUESDAY, APRIL 16
Session 1, 8-9:30 am PST / UTC 3-4:30 pm
Panel 1: Christa Wolf: A Writer of Extreme Times for Extreme Times
Moderator: Minh Nguyen, 色中色
Location: AS 385
Dr. Robert Blankenship (色中色), 鈥業mminent dangers, all fatal鈥: Reading Christa Wolf鈥檚 Divided Heaven in the Age of Doomscrolling
Barbara Ward (independent scholar), Invisible Clouds: Cultural Evolution of Language in Accident: A Day鈥檚 News by Christa Wolf
Emery Pham (色中色), A Story of Liminality: The Significance of the In-Between Fate in Christa Wolf鈥檚 Cassandra
Lani Chavez (色中色), Gen Z Doesn鈥檛 Want to Work Anymore: The Reaction to East German Socialism in Fr盲ulein Schmetterling Echoes through Modern Sentiments of Work Culture
Session 2, 9:30-11 am PST / UTC 4:30-6 pm
Panel 2: Trauma, Scars, and Repair
Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm (色中色)
Location: AS 385
Dr. John Kennedy (Western Carolina University), Counterfactual Central American Poetics: Grief, Longing, and Repair
Jessica Montero (色中色), Bearing Scars: Resilience and Unresolved Trauma in The Tattooed Soldier
Leslie Garcia (色中色), Asylum Seekers and Their Fate in the US
Roberto Soto (色中色), Unraveling Pandemic Misinformation: The Nexus Between Dishonesty and Conspiracy Theories in Robert F. Kennedy Jr鈥檚 The Real Anthony Fauci
Session 3, 11 am-12:30 pm PST / UTC 6-7:30 pm
Panel 3: Surviving Trauma
Moderator: Levon Parseghian (色中色)
Location: AS 385
Dr. Jos茅 Rodriguez (色中色), Ethical Cognizance in Survival Stories: Exploring Subversive Identity, Intentionality, and Agency in Moral Ordeals
Hillorie McLarty (Middle Tennessee State University), This is a Story Not to Pass On: Sethe鈥檚 Trauma and Loss in Beloved
Ayah El Reda (色中色), 鈥淭he Old Will Die and the Young Will Forget鈥: Ghassan Kanafani鈥檚 鈥淭he Land of Sad Oranges鈥 and 鈥淟etter From Gaza鈥
Kattiana Etka (色中色), Journey Through Trauma: Navigating The Paths of Addiction in Carr鈥檚 The Night of the Gun
Session 4, 12:30-2 pm PST / UTC 7:30-9 pm
Panel 4: Unveiling the Resilience: Women鈥檚 Survival in Extreme Situations through the French Language
Moderator: Dr. Maria Sanchez-Reyes (色中色)
Location: AS 385
Samantha O鈥橫ara-Mezzano (色中色), Surviving and Forgiving Adultery during 1500s Europe
Victoria Ferreyra (色中色), The creation of an identity, sexuality, and gender through writing: A study of trauma and memory processing in the life of Rachilde, a fin-de-si猫cle gender-non-conforming woman
Yen-Tran Le (色中色), Ru by Kim Th煤y: A Novel with Film Sequences
Session 4, 12:30-2 pm PST / UTC 7:30-9 pm
Panel 5: Violence Against Women: Survival and Trauma Narratives
Moderator: Dr. Rajbir Judge (色中色)
Location: MHB 315
Dr. Susan Cherie Beam (York College of Pennsylvania), 鈥淎ssault buries the self鈥: Reading Trauma in Sexual Assault Survival Narratives
Jessica King (色中色), Sexual Violence in Media Impacting Disabled Women
Dr. Amir Sharifi (色中色) and Dr. Ali Ashouri (SDSU), Linguistic Implications of 鈥淛in, Jian, Azadi鈥 Slogan (Woman, Life, Freedom) at Local and Global Levels 鈥
Christina Schwartz (色中色), The Cost of Girlhood: Acceptance and Sacrifice in Kij Johnson鈥檚 鈥淧onies鈥
Session 5, 2-3:30 pm PST / UTC 9-10:30 pm
Panel 6: Wars and Victimhood in Texts and Media
Moderator: Dr. Katherine McLoone (色中色)
Location: MHB 315
Dr. Katherine Hammitt (CSU Dominguez Hills), Representing Nuclear Entanglements in the Pacific: Les Champignons de Paris
Bahar Momeni (University of Texas at Dallas), Resilience and Rebellion: Artistic Expressions of Identity and Democracy in The Trees We Carry
Tyler Wadman (色中色), The Scars of the Past: The Polarity of Victimhood in Obsidian Entertainment鈥檚 Knights of the Old Republic II
Session 6, 3:30-5 pm PST / UTC 10:30 pm-12 am
Musical Performance by Dr. Adri脿 Martin Mor (色中色) & CWL Graduation Celebration
Location: MHB 315
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
Session 7, 8-9:30 am PST / UTC 3-4:30 pm
Panel 7: Reverse Migrations and Impossible Returns in Life and Fiction
Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm (色中色)
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Max Molchan (Northern Illinois University), Frustrating and Damaging Attempts to Return to a Previous Culture
Dr. Molleen Shilliday King (University of the Fraser Valley), Trauma-Based Adaptations: Antigone, Monsieur Lazhar and Ru
Dr. Paul Cahill (Pomona College), Economic Exile and Migratory Identity in the Writings of Azahara Palomeque
Mayra Lopez (色中色), 鈥淎 Fly in Milk鈥: Isolation and Loss of Hope in Walter Tevis鈥 The Man Who Fell to Earth
Session 8, 9:30-11 am PST / UTC 4:30-6 pm
Panel 8: Living as Women in Twenty-First Century Italy: An Extreme Situation I
Moderator: Dr. Clorinda Donato (色中色)
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Dr. Clorindo Donato (色中色), Writing in the Extreme: The Autofiction of Twenty-first Century Italian Women Writers
Mary Conte (色中色), The Shared Extremities of Born Under a Bad Sign and The Lying Lives of Adults
Elizabeth Poirier (色中色), Family Relations in the Extreme: Growing up Girl in Italy Today
Jaclyn Taylor (色中色), The extreme does not exist: rejecting death and other organizing boundaries in Viola Di Grado鈥檚 Hollow Heart
Session 9, 11 am-12:30 pm PST / UTC 6-7:30 pm
Panel 9: Living as Women in Twenty-First Century Italy: An Extreme Situation II
Moderator: Dr. Pravina Cooper (色中色)
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Rhonda Hunt del Bene (色中色), Di Grado鈥檚 Hollow Heart: Surviving the Extremes
Hilary Stern (色中色), Extreme Empowerment in Sardinian Women Writers: Grazia Deledda and Michela Murgia
Alessandra Balzani (色中色), The Postcolonial Extreme in the Black Mediterranean: Igiaba Scego鈥檚 Cassandra in Mogadiscio
Session 10, 12:30-2 pm PST / UTC 7:30-9 pm
Panel 10: Extreme Situations in the Ancient World
Moderator: Jessica Brooks (色中色)
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Eliana Eisen (色中色), From Captivity to Catastrophe: Analyzing the Mythic Journey of Daedalus and Icarus
Gillian Duane (色中色), And God Said, 鈥淟et Them Be Trans:鈥 The Nonbinary Ascetic in Early Eastern Christian Monasticism
Jessica Brooks (色中色), Ancient Authors and Extreme Situations: what accounts survive major catastrophes and are they accurate?
Session 11, 2-3:30 pm PST / UTC 9-10:30 pm
Plenary Address
Moderator: Dr. F. Elizabeth Dahab (色中色)
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Christopher Goffard (LA Times), Crossing the Impossible Bridge in a Dynamite Truck: Observations on Film, Friendship and Collaboration
Session 12, 3:30-5 pm PST / UTC 10:30 pm-12 am
Panel 11: Poetics of Identity and Failure
Moderator: Dr. Pravina Cooper
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Dr. Enrico Vettore (色中色), Extreme Situations as Exemplary Zen Texts: Luigi Pirandello鈥檚 Last Short Stories Collection
Ciaran Pierce (色中色), 鈥淲e Had Become What We Feared Most鈥: Queer Failure and Inherited Violence in Ocean Vuong鈥檚 On Earth We鈥檙e Briefly Gorgeous
Ray Paramo (色中色), 鈥楽tricken with a Double Loss鈥: Manuel Mu帽oz鈥檚 Communities of Productive Melancholia in The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Karely Rodriguez (色中色), A Shameful Life: Social Alienation and Collective Suffering in Osamu Dazai鈥檚 No Longer Human
THURSDAY, APRIL 18
Session 13, 8-9:30 am PST / UTC 3-4:30 pm
Panel 12: Bearing Witness and the Politics of Resistance
Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew (色中色)
Location: AS 385 (for viewing; all panelists are on Zoom)
Dr. Manjeet Baruah (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), Writing Violence and the Indigenous in a Borderland:鈥疢otifs and Literary Representation of Crisis among the Nagas of Northeast India
Dr. Sasha Colby (Simon Fraser University), Memoir and the Literature of Crisis: WW II and the Canvas of the Personal
Elsa Canali (Freie Universit盲t Berlin), 鈥楧espite all鈥: The urgent writing and practices of resistance of Alcira Soust Scaffo during Mexico 鈥68
Duygu Dalyano臒lu (Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkiye), The Post-Memory of the Armenian Catastrophe in Armenian North American Plays
Gamze Tosun (Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkiye), Performing atrocity: Staging memories of violence in the contemporary theatre of Turkey
Dr. Haritha Unnithan (University of Kerala, India), Temporality, Memory Repertoire, and the Discourse of Conflict in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Session 13, 8-9:30 am PST / UTC 3-4:30 pm
Panel 13: Narratives of Trauma Across Cultures
Moderator: Randall Estupinan Medel (色中色)
Location: AS 385 (for viewing; all panelists are on Zoom)
Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo (University of Padua, Italy), Why am I suffering? Self-Identity and Trauma in Duras鈥 La Douleur
Dr. Lipika Das (IIIT-Bh, Centre for the Study of World Literature, Odisha, India), Can World Literature Exist Without English?
Maya Gal (University of British Columbia), Ethical Considerations of Trauma Storytelling; Case Study of Refugee Tales Project
David Williams (Clemson University), At the Limits of Expression: Memory and Knowledge in Zofia Na艂kowaska鈥檚 鈥淭he Visa鈥
Session 14, 9:30-11 am PST / UTC 4:30-6 pm
Panel 14: Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Moderator: Dr. Crystal Lie (色中色)
Location: AS 385 (for viewing; all panelists are on Zoom)
Dr. Dilek Mente艧e K谋ryaman (脟ank谋r谋 Karatekin University), The Language Barrier and the Asylum System in Carol Watts鈥 鈥淭he Interpreter鈥檚 Tale鈥
Jake Perea (色中色), 鈥楴o Belongings Except Our Stories鈥: History and Trauma in Viet Thanh Nguyen鈥檚 The Refugees
Brenna Rose (色中色), Can Replicating DNA Replicate Our Soul?: The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence in Ezra Daniels鈥 Upgrade Soul
Session 14, 9:30-11 am PST / UTC 4:30-6 pm
Panel 15: Women in Extreme Situations
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey High (色中色)
Location: AS 385 (for viewing; all panelists are on Zoom)
Dr. Daniela Suarez (色中色), Brenda Navarro鈥檚 Empty Houses: Mothering the State, Disappearing the Mother
Dr. Eun-Joo Lee (Sogang University, South Korea), Ethical Ordeals: Surviving the Unimaginable
Daman Khalid (Washington State University), Imperialism鈥檚 Impact on Women鈥檚 Bodies: Examining Violation and Vulnerability in the Context of United India and Japan (1940s)
Jinghan Jiao (Universit茅 Lumi猫re), How we remember and write about comfort women after the Nanjing Massacre
K S Ahima (NIT Warangal), Feminine War Memory in The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Entidhar Al-Rashid (University of Texas at Dallas), The Literary Representation of Traumatic Experience in Between Two Worlds by Salbi and in Dreaming of Baghdad by Zangana
Session 15, 11 am-12:30 pm PST / UTC 6-7:30 pm
Panel 16: Extreme Encounters in Nature and Urban Settings
Moderator: Dr. F. Elizabeth Dahab (色中色)
Location: AS 385 (for viewing; all panelists are on Zoom)
Dr. Marie Cazaban-Mazerolles (Universit茅 Paris 8), The cyclone and the crocodile : poetic issues regarding extreme encounters with disruptive nature
In茅s No茅 (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit盲t Bonn, Germany), An aesthetic from the street: The chronicles of extreme poverty by Victor Hugo Viscarra
Ridhima Narayan (independent scholar), Documentaries on the Edge: Portraying the Untold Stories of Manual Scavengers and Caste-Based Discrimination
Session 15, 11 am-12:30 pm PST / UTC 6-7:30 pm
Panel 17: Exilic and Prison Narratives in Postcolonial Spaces
Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew (色中色)
Location: AS 385 (for viewing; all panelists are on Zoom)
Benjamin Hoover (Indiana University), Subversive Consolations Past and Present: The Role of the Image in Prison Poetry
Junaid Shabir (University of Texas at Dallas), 鈥楢gainst Forgetting鈥: Witnessing and Memory-Making in the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Azzeddine Tajjiou (Mohamed First University, Oujda, Morocco), Amidst Shadows and Dreams: Exploring Extremes of Corruption and Hope in Postcolonial African Writing
Session 16, 12:30-2 pm PST / UTC 7:30-9 pm
Panel 18: Bearing Witness: Erasures and Horrors
Moderator: Dr. Crystal Lie (色中色)
Location: AS 385 (for viewing; all panelists are on Zoom)
Dr. Elisa Reato (Universit茅 Paris Nanterre), Leaving the perimeter of xenophobic thinking
Dr. Hadas Zahavi (Princeton University), Peace: An Extreme Situation
Madelaine Hron (Wilfrid Laurier University), Eating Black Children鈥檚 Flesh: Writing/Righting Current Cocoa Slavery
Nishtha Pandey (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), Bearing Witness Through Erasure: Examining Crises of Form in Contemporary Refugee Novels
