Conference Program
(*preliminary; subject to change*)
Friday (March 31, 2017)
* All events take place at the Richard J. Daley Library (1-470) at UIC*
3:00-3:45 pm: Check-in
3:45-4:00 pm: Opening remarks by Prof. Imke Meyer (Director of LCSL)
and Prof. Michal Markowski as well as the conference committee
4:00-5:30 pm: Keynote by video artist and director Emily Esperanza
5:30-6:30 pm: Light reception
Saturday (April 1, 2017)
*All events take place at the Institute for the Humanities (Stevenson Hall, 1st floor & lower level)*
8:30-9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00-10:30 am: Workshop I & II
Workshop I - Beyond Heteronormativity:
Room 103 (Moderator: Meloddye Carpio Ríos, UIC)
Sarah Schaefer (UIC):
"Dangerously Hybrid: Challenging Social Constructs of Sex and Gender in The Marriage of Figaro and The Persian Letters"
Jill Quarles (UIC):
“Marriage as material existence: Rethinking Ideology and Gender within the Early Modern Critical Cannon”
Simon Whybrew (University of Graz):
“'Why were there only two choices, man and woman?' Non-Binary Identity Politics in Maureen F. McHugh's Mission Child”
Workshop II: (Un)Veiling desire - Bodies and Psychoanalysis:
Room 104 (Moderator: Andrei Gorkovoi, UIC)
Luiza Zanchi (UIC):
"The Transgressive Star: Deciphering Desire in Lispector’s A Hora da Estrela"
Sara Rezvi (UIC):
"Cartographies of Race, Gender, and Class in the White (Male Settler) Spaces of Science and Mathematics:
Navigations by Black, Afro-Brazilian, and Pakistani Women"
Lucas Plazek (UIC):
“Social Conscious: A Psychoanalytic Defense of Socialist Realism”
10:45-12:15 pm: Workshop III & IV
Workshop III: Affective Othering:
Room 103 (Moderator: Sharon Weiner, UIC)
Luisa Koo (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee):
“Otherization in Photogénie: The Beauty of Savage Sessue Hayakawa in The Cheat (1915)”
Fredrika Thelandersson (Rutgers University):
“Virtual Negative Affects: Social Media Sad Girls and the Normalization of Sad States of Being”
Adrian Chubb (UIC):
“Whose truth is it anyway? Images of memory and identity in Benjamin Stein’s Die Leinwand (The Canvas)”
Workshop IV: Outsider Bodies:
Room 104 (Moderator: Marina Brafa, UIC)
Andrzej Brylak (UIC):
“I, on the verge of non-existence and being: Biopolitics of Piotruś by Leo Lipski ”
Edith Ritt-Coulter (University of Central Oklahoma):
“Pursuing Manhood: African American Soldiers in the First World War and the Rise of the New Negro movement”
David Cerfeda (University of Melbourne):
“Gender Representation in Report to an Academy and its adaptation”
12:15-1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm: Workshop V & VI
Workshop V: Regulations of the Body:
Room 103 (Moderator: Kelsey Morehead, UIC)
Mariola Szumilas (University of Bonn):
“Between Vulnerability and Inviolability. Employee Working Cultures in the Literature and Film of the Weimar Republic and
Present-day Germany.”
Wentao Ma (Columbia University):
“Practicing Sino-biopolitics: Modern Chinese Calisthenics as Physical Redemption and Re-mediation”
Rebecca Stewart (California State University):
“The Female Body as an Instrument of Freeing the Nation in Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s Bianca Della Porta”
Workshop VI - Bodies in Transition / In-Between States:
Room 104 (Moderator: Dag Lindskog, UIC)
Anne von Petersdorff (Michigan State University):
“Re-Framing the Woman Traveler through Embodied Cinematography”
Shemuelle Dado (UIC):
“Joking as a Revelation in Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg”
Anton Svynarenko (UIC):
“From Apple Cake to Apple Pie: Transcultural Adolescence in David Bezmozgis’ Natasha and Other Stories”
Sara Miller (UIC):
“The Encoded Echoes of War: Goethe's Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten”
3:15-4:30 pm: Keynote by Prof. Mimi Thi Nguyen (Associate Professor of Gender
and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
with an introduction by Prof. Tatjana Gajic
4:30-6:00 pm: Closing remarks by faculty mentor Prof. Heidi Schlipphacke
followed by a light reception
10:00 pm: Social gathering at bar (TBA)
(*preliminary; subject to change*)
Friday (March 31, 2017)
* All events take place at the Richard J. Daley Library (1-470) at UIC*
3:00-3:45 pm: Check-in
3:45-4:00 pm: Opening remarks by Prof. Imke Meyer (Director of LCSL)
and Prof. Michal Markowski as well as the conference committee
4:00-5:30 pm: Keynote by video artist and director Emily Esperanza
5:30-6:30 pm: Light reception
Saturday (April 1, 2017)
*All events take place at the Institute for the Humanities (Stevenson Hall, 1st floor & lower level)*
8:30-9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00-10:30 am: Workshop I & II
Workshop I - Beyond Heteronormativity:
Room 103 (Moderator: Meloddye Carpio Ríos, UIC)
Sarah Schaefer (UIC):
"Dangerously Hybrid: Challenging Social Constructs of Sex and Gender in The Marriage of Figaro and The Persian Letters"
Jill Quarles (UIC):
“Marriage as material existence: Rethinking Ideology and Gender within the Early Modern Critical Cannon”
Simon Whybrew (University of Graz):
“'Why were there only two choices, man and woman?' Non-Binary Identity Politics in Maureen F. McHugh's Mission Child”
Workshop II: (Un)Veiling desire - Bodies and Psychoanalysis:
Room 104 (Moderator: Andrei Gorkovoi, UIC)
Luiza Zanchi (UIC):
"The Transgressive Star: Deciphering Desire in Lispector’s A Hora da Estrela"
Sara Rezvi (UIC):
"Cartographies of Race, Gender, and Class in the White (Male Settler) Spaces of Science and Mathematics:
Navigations by Black, Afro-Brazilian, and Pakistani Women"
Lucas Plazek (UIC):
“Social Conscious: A Psychoanalytic Defense of Socialist Realism”
10:45-12:15 pm: Workshop III & IV
Workshop III: Affective Othering:
Room 103 (Moderator: Sharon Weiner, UIC)
Luisa Koo (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee):
“Otherization in Photogénie: The Beauty of Savage Sessue Hayakawa in The Cheat (1915)”
Fredrika Thelandersson (Rutgers University):
“Virtual Negative Affects: Social Media Sad Girls and the Normalization of Sad States of Being”
Adrian Chubb (UIC):
“Whose truth is it anyway? Images of memory and identity in Benjamin Stein’s Die Leinwand (The Canvas)”
Workshop IV: Outsider Bodies:
Room 104 (Moderator: Marina Brafa, UIC)
Andrzej Brylak (UIC):
“I, on the verge of non-existence and being: Biopolitics of Piotruś by Leo Lipski ”
Edith Ritt-Coulter (University of Central Oklahoma):
“Pursuing Manhood: African American Soldiers in the First World War and the Rise of the New Negro movement”
David Cerfeda (University of Melbourne):
“Gender Representation in Report to an Academy and its adaptation”
12:15-1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm: Workshop V & VI
Workshop V: Regulations of the Body:
Room 103 (Moderator: Kelsey Morehead, UIC)
Mariola Szumilas (University of Bonn):
“Between Vulnerability and Inviolability. Employee Working Cultures in the Literature and Film of the Weimar Republic and
Present-day Germany.”
Wentao Ma (Columbia University):
“Practicing Sino-biopolitics: Modern Chinese Calisthenics as Physical Redemption and Re-mediation”
Rebecca Stewart (California State University):
“The Female Body as an Instrument of Freeing the Nation in Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s Bianca Della Porta”
Workshop VI - Bodies in Transition / In-Between States:
Room 104 (Moderator: Dag Lindskog, UIC)
Anne von Petersdorff (Michigan State University):
“Re-Framing the Woman Traveler through Embodied Cinematography”
Shemuelle Dado (UIC):
“Joking as a Revelation in Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg”
Anton Svynarenko (UIC):
“From Apple Cake to Apple Pie: Transcultural Adolescence in David Bezmozgis’ Natasha and Other Stories”
Sara Miller (UIC):
“The Encoded Echoes of War: Goethe's Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten”
3:15-4:30 pm: Keynote by Prof. Mimi Thi Nguyen (Associate Professor of Gender
and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
with an introduction by Prof. Tatjana Gajic
4:30-6:00 pm: Closing remarks by faculty mentor Prof. Heidi Schlipphacke
followed by a light reception
10:00 pm: Social gathering at bar (TBA)