Please note that this program may be subject to change.
Time |
Event |
Location |
9:30-9:50am |
Registration/Light Refreshments |
CL 501 Corridor |
9:50-10:00am |
Welcome Address by Neepa Majumdar
|
CL 501 |
10:00-11:45am |
Perfect Strangers: Outsiders, Encounters, and Exchange
Moderator: Neepa Majumdar, Department of English
- Adam Hebert (University of Pittsburgh), “In Place of the Parent: There Will Be Blood, the Conflation of Kubrick, and What Nietzche’s Got to do With It”
- Will Schmenner (University of Pennsylvania), “Slapstick’s Radical Homelessness”
- Jesse Anderson-Lehman (University of Pittsburgh), “Genre Contagion in SyFy’s Helix; or, ‘Waiter, There’s a Melodrama in My Sci-Fi!’”
- Devina Chandola (Indian Institute of Technology), “Matrabhoomi: A Story of Motherland Via the Lens of Sexual Taboos”
|
CL 501 |
11:45-1:15pm |
Lunch |
–– |
1:15-3:00pm |
Growing Pains: Development, Disruption, and Legacy
Moderator: David Petterson, Department of French & Italian
- John Taylor (University of Pittsburgh), “Growing Up Maoist: Radical Film and Radical Theory as Teenage Dream”
- Andrew Vielkind (Yale University), “In-Formation Feedback: The Curious Kinship of Stan Brakhage and George Gamow”
- Madison Helman (West Virginia University), “‘Come Home, Come Home, My Little Ones’: The ‘Ballad of the Lawson Family’ and Community Control and Power”
|
CL 501 |
3:00-3:15pm |
Break |
–– |
3:15-5:00pm |
All in the Family: Incest, Media, and the Erotic
Moderator: Lucy Fischer, Department of English
- Maxime Bey-Rozet (University of Pittsburgh), “Raw Images: Watching Irréversible and Baise-moi with Céline”
- Fred Kern (Washington University in St. Louis), “We’re All Made This Way: Incest Fantasies and a Maniac Abstract”
- Olivia Hinkin (Birkbeck, University of London), “Incest in Television Narratives”
- Pedro Noel Doreste (University of Chicago), “Of Blood- and Skylines: Spatial Imperatives within Three East Asian Oedipal Narratives”
|
CL 501 |
5:00–5:45pm |
Break and Head to Performance/Keynote |
–– |
5:45–6:30pm |
Performance: My Family Before Me
Sara Debevec, Performance Artist
|
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium |
6:30–7:45pm |
Keynote: “Kinematics: Adopted Methods, Incestuous Intellectuals, and Ineffable Relations”
Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History of Art
|
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium |
7:45-9:00pm |
Catered Reception |
Frick Fine Arts Atrium |