Schedule of Events

Friday, February 25

3:00-3:30
Welcoming address
Furman Hall 114
3:30-4:30
Plenary address:
"Literary Imaginations of Haiti and the Revolution in Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó, el gran putas"
Antonio Dwayne Tillis, Purdue University
Furman Hall 114
4:45-5:45
Session 1a - Race and Mythologies of Nationhood
  • "Race, Literature and National Mythology" - Maya Smith, Vanderbilt University
  • "An Unequal Equality: Ideas of 'Race' and 'Democracy' in Tocqueville's Democracy in America" - Jessica Hinds, Vanderbilt University
Furman Hall 132

Session 1b - Legacies of colonialism
  • "Free Labor?: Legacies of the Latifundia in Post-Emancipation Brazil" - Gretchen Selcke, Vanderbilt University
  • "Teaching in the Vernacular: Identity and Nationality Based on Language Use" - Louis Rabaut, Indiana University
Furman Hall 325
5:45-6:30
 reception
 1st floor lobby,
Furman Hall

Saturday, February 26

8:00-9:00
registration, continental breakfast, coffee
1st floor lobby,
Furman Hall
9:00-9:50
Session 2a - Orientalisms
  • "Racial Identification in Kipling's Kim" - Timothy Christensen, University of Nebraska
  • "Bajazet: A World in the Inverse" - Sarah Lloyd, Vanderbilt University
Furman 132

Session 2b - Indigenous Voices
  • "Rigoberta and Domitila: Collective Identity Writing and the Subaltern" - Allison Prickett, University of Georgia
  • "Lakota Nationalism" - Debra Back, Vanderbilt University
Furman 325
9:50-10:00
break
1st floor lobby,
Furman Hall
10:00-11:15
 Session 3a - Judaism and Nationalism
  • "Trouble in the Ghetto: Conflicts of Pariah and Parvenu in Gustav Meyrink's 'Der Golem'" - Nathanael Oster, Vanderbilt University
  • "A new and higher type of man, Karl Kautsky: A Marxist view of Judaism" - Kristina Hinneburg, Vanderbilt University
  • "The Face of Ireland: The National Face after Nationalism" - Thomas Halloran, LSU
 Furman 132

Session 3b - France and her colonies
  • "The Myth of the Exotic Woman" - Heather McNeil, Vanderbilt University
  • "C'est plus la médina que Zola: Paris's La Goutte-d'Or Revisited" - Lisa Weiss, UC - Santa Cruz
 Furman 325
11:15-12:15
 Plenary session:
"Race Against Time? Periodizing Race in the Middle Ages" 
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
 Furman 114
12:15-1:30
 lunch by individual arrangement
1:30-2:45
 Session 4a - Bicultural Heritage
  • "Miscegenation and Identity Definitions in La Raza Cósmica, the Chicano Movement and Borderlands/La Frontera" - Mayra Fortes, Vanderbilt University
  • "'Are you mixed?'  Exploring Bi- and Multiracial Identity" - Jennifer Sims, Vanderbilt University
  • "The Whole Life of the Poet: William Carlos Williams and His Bicultural Heritage" - Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Kennesaw State University
 Furman 132

Session 4b - Theories and Ideologies
  • "Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks on Race Consciousness" - Carolyn Cusick, Vanderbilt University
  • "The Immoral Savage: Todorov's Notion of 'Scientism' in Diderot's Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage" - Olivia Grenvicz, Vanderbilt University
  • "Bertolt Brecht's Affirmative Action: Notes Toward a Content-less Racial Coding" - Shaun Haskins, Vanderbilt University
 Furman 325
2:45-4:00
 Session 5a - Blackness
  • "Challenging the Black Perspective in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World" - Crystal Cason, UNC - Greensboro
  • "Framing the Americanness of Black Women's Sexuality: 1869-1903" - Hélène Charlery, Université Paris 12
  • "Orpheus in Brazil" - Matthew Turner, Ohio University
 Furman 132

Session 5b - Rhetoric and Racism
  • "West End Casual Culture, the Far Right and the Hooligan Element at the Chelsea Football Club, 1975-1985" - Michael Booker, UT - Knoxville
  • "The Evolution of German Altruism: Construction of Nazi Solidarity through Emotional Manipulation" - Dustin Feigerle, Vanderbilt University
  • "Expropriating the Organic: Metaphors of Nature and the Organic in Herder and Fichte"- Ryan Johnson, Vanderbilt University
 Furman 325
4:00-4:15
 break
 1st floor lobby, Furman Hall
4:15-5:30
 Session 6a - Race and Gender
  • "Shame and the Other in the Fiction of Philip Roth" - David Tenenbaum, CUNY
  • "Intimate Liaison: Karl May's Performance of Exotic Masculinity" - Vasuki Shanmuganathan, University of Toronto
  • "The Depiction of the African Woman in Hans Grimm's Novella Wie Grete aufhörte ein Kind zu sein"- Kathrin Seidl, Vanderbilt University

 Furman 132

Session 6b - Argentina
  • "Manuel Puig and the sentimental: the role of Pastiche in Boquitas Pintadas" - Susan Savage Lee, Saint Louis University
  • "The Role of Solitude in Ezequiel Martínez Estrada's X-Ray of the Pampa" - Anton García Fernández, Vanderbilt University
  • "Analysis of the Pampas and the Project of Nation in Facundo by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento" - Jazmina Solino
 Furman 325
5:30-6:45
 Session 7 - Asian and Asian-American Identities
  • "The Burning Language of the Native Speaker: a Reading of Native Speaker" - Xiaolun Qi, Vanderbilt University
  • "Beyond the Railroad: Chinese Substrata in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose" - Bruce Esplin, Utah State University
  • "Identities Etched in Stone: Chinese Muslims in Huo Da's The Jade King - History of a Chinese Muslim Family" - Shirin Edwin, Vanderbilt University
 Furman 132



7pm
 Conference banquet - by advance registration only - see organizers if you forgot to register and still want to go.
 Basante's
West End