TIME: 12:30-4:00 p.m.
Session I |
Cultures in Contrast
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Brian Conlon, “Dostoevsky’s Dialogic Demons"
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Antonio Haynes, “Black Bodies on Stage: The Perpetual Freak Show”
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Mallory Bucell, “The Tale of Genji as a Cultural Critique: A Dialectical Approach to interpreting the Uji Chapters ”
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Charlotte Melvin, “Surrealist Painters and Use of Space: An Investigation of the Self-Portraits of Dalí, Varo and Kahlo”
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Session II |
History and Culture
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Sara Goico, "The Position of Testimonio Literature in History Writing."
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Omar Figueredo, “The Indigenista Novel and Nationalism in 20th-century Peru: Toward a Re-definition and Re-presentation of Peruvian National Identity”
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Angela Stoutenburgh, “History as Nightmare: Foucault, Nietzsche, Benjamin in Interpreting Leopardi”
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Maria Manni, “Forced to Face the Facts: Griselda Gambaro’s Information for Foreigners: Staging Torture to Create a Responsive Audience”
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Session III |
Life During/After Wartime
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Alex Foard, “Lukacs’s Critical and Socialist Realism in Calvino’s Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno”
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Olga Metelitsa, “Freedom and the Intellectual in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Mandarins”
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Sasha Bilow, “Consumerism and Work in Boris Vian’s L’écume des jours”
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Session IV |
Comparative Visions |
James Letson, “Sex and Surrealism in Jean Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles”
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Ryan O’Dell, “Hay moros en la costa: la figura literaria del flâneur en La colmena y la colección de fragmentos de una sociedad en decadencia” (‘The walls have ears: the literary figure of the flâneur in La colmena and the collection of fragments of a decadent society’) "
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