Saturday, April 1st
Registration and Breaksfast
Landmark at Union South, 8:00-8:30 am
Opening Remarks
Prof. Vlad Dima
8:30-8:45 am
Panel A: Space & Identity
Industry, 9:00-10:15 am
Giordana Poggiolo-Kaftan (Marquette University): Emigrants’ “Doubling” in Crialese’s Golden Door
Sophia Kidd (Sichuan University): Turning Point in China’s Aesthetic of Empire: Spatial Production in Eastern Jin Guo Pu’s River Fu
Rommel Jimenez (UW-Madison): Andronica’s Prophecy: An Ariostean Celebration of Exploration and Inquiry at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century
Panel B: A Turning Point in Life
Agriculture, 10:30-11:45 am
Jarmila Sawická (UW-Madison): The Love I Found on Green Dolphin Street: Jazz as Instigator in Christian Gailly’s Un Soir au club
Anthony Radoiu (UW-Madison): Confinement and Liberty as Turning Points: Tracing the Nuances of Charles d’Orléans’s poetry
Katherine Blackman (UW-Madison): From Shame and Innocence to Transparent Struggle: ‘Révolution subite’ in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse
Panel C: Women, Sexuality, & Identity
Industry, 10:30-11:45 am
Corie Marshall (UW-Madison): ‘Il peso delle parole’: Historical Uncertainty and Defiance of the Patriarchal Storyteller in Anna Banti’s Artemisia
Barclay Spriggs (Louisiana State University): The Boiling Point: From Silence to Violence in Ananda Devi’s Eve de ses décombres and Fabienne Kanor’s D’eaux douces
Hilary Emerson (UW-Madison): Murder by Brooch: A Social and Sexual Crossroads for the Woman Outlaw
Lunch, Landmark at Union South, 12:00-1:30 pm
Panel D: Education Under the Influence
Agriculture, 1:30-2:45 pm
Sarah Gamalinda (UW-Madison): ‘Wait, wait, don’t tell me’: Motivated, Arbitrary, and Believable Discourse in La Princesse de Clève
Kimmy Rooney (UW-Madison): Suspended Between Two Cultures of Learning: The Alienating Effects of Discordant Pedagogies in L’Enfant noir
Charles Kilian (UW-Madison): ‘Comme vos leçons m’enflamment’: Libertine Education in Thérèse Philosophe and La Philosophie dans le Boudoir
Panel E: Propaganda, Production & Technology
Industry, 1:30-2:45 pm
Jeffrey Thomas (UW-Madison): Petit relief arrondi
Alice Main (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Jacobins in Hell: A Case Study in Thermidorian Propaganda
Nicole Fadellin (UW-Madison): Towards a Caribbean Afrofuturism: The Role of technology in Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson and Habana underguater by Erick Mota
Panel F: Man v.s. Nature
Industry, 3:00-4:15pm
Abou-Bakar Mamah (University of Minnesota): 14 Kilometers: cross or die; A Hopeless Marathon across the Strait of Gibraltar through Laila Lalami’s book Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Nathan Germain (UW-Madison): Par-delà nature et culture: The Anthropocene in the 19th century
Logan Smith (Miami University): Evolving Perspectives of Environmental Justice in Film: a Comparative Analysis of The Grey and The Mountain
Roundtable
Industry, 4:30-5:30pm
Professor Robert T. Tally Tr., Texas State University
Professor Joshua Armstrong, UW-Madison
Professor Grazia Menechella, UW-Madison
Closing reception
Landmark at Union South – 5:30-7:00pm