All panels, coffee breaks and lunches will take place in the West Conference Room. The reception and the keynote will take place in the Rackham Assembly Hall. Both are located on the 4th floor of the Rackham Graduate School. Please see "Ann Arbor Info" section for the campus map.
Friday March 17th
10:00-10:30: Breakfast
10:30-10:45: Opening Remarks
10:45-12:15: Panel #1: Recontextualizing History
1:15-2:30: Panel #2: Visual Intertexts
3:00-4:30: Panel #3: Engagement & Experience
5:30-7:00: Keynote Address: Ilya Kaminsky - How Poets Read (and Take from) Other Poets (Rackham Assembly Hall)
10:30-10:45: Opening Remarks
10:45-12:15: Panel #1: Recontextualizing History
- “The Candles Burn to the Stump”: Reading Márai Sándor in the West/ McKenna Marko, University of Michigan, Slavic Languages and Literatures
- On Reading colonial documents from the subaltern point of view: The hiding of indigenous knowledge/ Laura Pensa, University of Michigan, Romance Languages and Literatures
- How to read Early Modern Ottoman Fiction?/ İpek Hüner-Cora, University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
1:15-2:30: Panel #2: Visual Intertexts
- Chinese Slow Cinema In the Time of the Network/ Jason Lester, University of Oregon, Comparative Literature
- Seven Ways of Looking at an Octopus/ Lauren Benjamin, University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
3:00-4:30: Panel #3: Engagement & Experience
- How to Read a Breitbart Article: A Reading Praxis from a Visually Queer, White, Latinx GSI/ Mariane Stanev, University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
- Making the Sense-able Make Sense: Reading Racist Microaggressions in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen/ Cera Smith, Yale University, English
- Shadows of Fiction: King Lear, The Common Core, and Unreasonable Expectations/ Nick Talbott, University of California, Davis , Comparative Literature
5:30-7:00: Keynote Address: Ilya Kaminsky - How Poets Read (and Take from) Other Poets (Rackham Assembly Hall)
Saturday, March 18th
9:00-9:30: Breakfast
9:30-11:00: Panel #4: Rethinking Poetics
11:15-12:45: Panel #5: Reading Bodies
2:00-3:00: Special Event
3:15-4:45: Panel #6: On Second Reading
7:30pm: Afterparty at Aut Bar (Braun Court on North 4th Avenue): Friends, partners and family welcome - we will be in the upstairs section.
9:30-11:00: Panel #4: Rethinking Poetics
- Rhythm: Form and Formlessness in the Early Yeats/ Felix Green, Brown University, Comparative Literature
- Lyric Conversions, or Shakespeare Without Voice/ Joseph Gamble, University of Michigan, English
- Podrimja Against Podrimja: How to Read “Rewritten” Poems/ Genta Nishku, University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
11:15-12:45: Panel #5: Reading Bodies
- Toward an S/M theory of MacKinnon/ Samia Vasa, Emory University, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Suspended Bodies, Arresting Texts: the Material-Semiotics of Amenorrhea in the Women's Gap-Year Yeshiva/ Shira Schwartz, University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
- Hermaphroditic reading and le Roman de silence/ Shalmali Jadhav, University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
2:00-3:00: Special Event
3:15-4:45: Panel #6: On Second Reading
- Reading for Universality, Universality in Reading: Slippery Surfaces and Significance of Re-reading in Book from the Ground/ Honglan Huang, Yale University, Department of Comparative Literature
- A Writer on the Edge on a Writer on the Edge: Borges as Precursor to Pelevin / David Martin, University of Michigan, Comparative Literature
7:30pm: Afterparty at Aut Bar (Braun Court on North 4th Avenue): Friends, partners and family welcome - we will be in the upstairs section.