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5:30-6:30    Keynote Address:

Wlad Godzich
Distinguished Professor of General and Comparative Literature, and Critical Studies at University of California Santa Cruz

Title: “New Mind Identity! Where Are We? A Tale of Lost Bearings.” 

7:30pm    DINNER: Il Fornaio, Palo Alto

SATURDAY, May 1st

9:00am-9:30am      BREAKFAST: èצӰ�� Humanities Center

9:30am-11:00am    PANEL ONE:  Reactions to the Shocks of the Modern World
Moderator: Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, èצӰ��.

“Benjamin’s Distraction, Media, and Life Tourism”
Darin Graber, University of Colorado

“Shock and Revelation in Andre Breton’s Nadja”
Lorenzo Giachetti, èצӰ��

“Spectacular Revolt: Fight Club 9/11 and the Myth of Completion”
David Markus, University of Chicago

11:00am-1:00pm    PANEL TWO:  Modes of Introspection; New Ways of Thinking about the Self.
Moderator: David Palumbo-Liu, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature , èצӰ��.

“The Shifting Paradigm of Self-reflection in Early Modern Italian Epistolary”
Deb Tennen , èצӰ��

“’It Was not Death’ and the Problems of Conceptual Content”
Joshua Adams, University of Chicago

“Hungry like the Wolf-Bodies and the Uncanny in Cho Kyông-ran and Ûn Hûi-gyông”
David Holloway, Washington University, St. Louis

“Doing Things with Words: Introspective and Performative Speech Acts in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! And Arlt’s The Seven Men. “
David King, San Francisco State University


1:00pm-2:00pm    LUNCH: èצӰ�� Humanities Center

2:00pm-4:00pm    PANEL THREE:  Fragmented worlds and constructed stories
Moderator: Nariman Skakov, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Literatures.

“Word Horde, Routine, Cut-Up: William S. Burroughs Engagement with the Cold War”
Steve Carter, University of California Santa Cruz

“No Stories to Live By- Parallel World Making as a Consequence of Trauma”
Christina Mohr, University of Gissen, Germany.

“Breaking the Fourth Wall: Performativity as a Conceptual Displacement in Rothko’s Abstract Paintings”
Miriam Paulo Rosello, University of Pompeu, Barcelona.

“Horror and the Allograft: Separating the Face of Identity in George Franju’s  Les Yeux sans visage.”
Logan Walker, University of California Santa Cruz

4:00pm-4:15pm    COFFEE BREAK   

4:15pm-6:00pm    PLENARY PANEL
THEME: “Why are Shock and Introspection “Turning Points”? How are historical and aesthetic theories of shock and introspection relevant to the  literary world?”
Moderator: Gabriella Safran, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, èצӰ��.

Panelists:

Russell Berman,
Walter A. Hass Professor in the Humanities, Chair of Dept. of Comparative Literature, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, èצӰ��

Charitini Douvaldzi, Assistant Professor of German Studies,
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Ramón Saldivar, The Hoagland Family Professor in Humanities and Sciences, Professor, Dept. of English Literature and Comparative Literature, èצӰ��


6:30pm-8:30pm    DINNER: At Oregon Courtyard, outside of Pigott Hall, Building 260, on èצӰ�� Campus.