SLLC Graduate Conference 2015 (Day 1)
SLLC Graduate Conference 2015 (Day 1)
This two-day, interdisciplinary conference on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28 will address perspectives on power and all its implications within, but not limited to, political, literary, cinematic and cultural contexts, as well as linguistics.
Friday, March 27, 2015
8:00-9:00 – Registration, Breakfast (St. Mary’s Hall Lounge)
9:00-9:10 – Opening Remarks (St. Mary’s Hall Multi-Purpose Room)
9:10-10:40 - Panel 1: The Melodious Method
Chair: Cybele Arnaud
Gailey Schiltz, Nate – University of Maryland – “The Soundtrack of Japan-Occupied Manchuria: Hearing Imperialism in the 1939 Film Song of the White Orchard”
Lu, Li – Beijing Language and Culture University – “An Elegy of Jazz Age – The Great Gatsby”
Bowman, Daniel – University of Maryland – “The Power of Song: French Anthems of Resistance during World War II”
10:50-12:20 – Panel 2: Pushed-down Power in 20th Century Literature
Chair: Melissa González-Contreras
Balsón, Antonio – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – “The power in absentia of Padre Isla in his “Día Grande de Navarra”
Liu, Lixia – Beijing Language and Culture University – “Dimensions of Truth: Narrative Arts of Julian Barnes”
Edwards, October – Virginia Tech – “Canon vs Fanon: A fight for power”
12:20-1:00 – Lunch (St. Mary’s Hall Lounge)
1:00-2:30 – Panel 3: Symbolic Boundaries: Gender and Identity
Chair: Abby Broughton
Howell, Will – University of Maryland – “To Honor Someone Else’s Path: Lessons in Identification from Ally Actors”
Yanling, Li – Beijing Language and Culture University – “Blurring Boundaries: Freeways, Border and the City in Postmodern Sense in Tropic of Orange”
Scott, Devin – University of Maryland – “Spring Break Forever”
2:40-4:10 – Panel 4: Governmentability: Social and Gendered Power
Chair: Lisa Warren
Rao, Anandi – University of California, Irvine – “Necropower and the Female Suicide Bomber: Haider and Ghazala”
Yue, Cai – Beijing Language and Culture University – “On “Yellow Fever”: Take the Documentary Seeking Asian Female as an Example”
Narayan, Niketa – University of Hong Kong – “Policing the ‘Unprofitable’ in William Makepeace Thackeray: Victorian Power and Social Discipline”
4:30-6:00 – Keynote Address: Dr. Mercédès Baíllargeon – University of Maryland – “From the Intimate to the Political: Disillusionment as the site of Individual and National Identity in “Heartbeats” by Xavier Dolan”