The Common(s): Yale University Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference 2018

Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall Street ), Room 208

Friday, March 2nd

1:00 – 1:30 pm: Welcome Reception and Introductory Remarks

1:30 – 3:00 pm: Panel 1: Theorizing the Common(s)

  • Joe Zappa (Cornell University): Rethinking the Common Aesthetic Space: Rousseau, Rancière, and Derrida
  • Ariel Leutheusser (City University of New York):  Silent Dailiness – Monumentalizing the Unwritten Quotidian
  • Harmon Siegel (Harvard University): Monet and Renoir, Visions in Common

Moderator: Joseph North, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University

3:00-3:15 pm: Break

3:15 – 4:45 pm: Panel 2: (Un)common Everyday

  • Jess Shollenberger (University of Pennsylvania): Rose Rocks, or Maybe Rock Roses: Elizabeth Bishop’s Passion for Accuracy
  • Alice Martin (New York University): “Utility and Amusement”: Elevating the Common to Political Purpose in Eliza Cook’s Journal
  • Chloe Estep (Columbia University): Manuscript modernity: the ballpoint pen in Maoist China

Moderator: Marijeta Bozovic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale University

4:45-5:00 pm: Break

5:00-6:30 pm: Keynote Address by Anne-Lise François, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California Berkeley 

7 pm: Dinner for participants

Saturday, March 3rd

10:30 am Breakfast

11:00 – 12:30 pm: Panel 3: Contested Commons

  • Rana Baker (Columbia University): (Media) Technology Constructs Common Sense: Science as Progress and the Printing Press in Nineteenth Century Cairo
  • Ryan Milov-Cordoba (City University of New York): @realCaliph: Hārūn al-Rashīd, Revivalism, and the Arabian Nights
  • Lilith Acadia (University of California, Berkeley): A Private Universal: the Contradiction of Enlightenment Religion Reflected in Contemporary Science Fiction

Moderator: Jill Jarvis, Assistant Professor of French, Yale University

12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm Panel 4: Common·places

  • Apala Das (University of Toronto): Enclosure for Dwelling: The Hall in Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf
  • Alexander Brock (Princeton University): The Theater, the Cave, and the Garden in Corneille’s Illusion Comique
  • Filipa Calado (City University of New York): Speculating upon Virginia Woolf’s “Mark on the Wall”

Moderator: Marta Figlerowicz, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale University

3:00 – 3:15 pm: Break

3:15 – 4:45 pm Panel 5:  Performing in Common

  • Troizel Carr (New York University): unsettle me: a meditation on sex in the under/commons
  • Lyndsey Vader (Ohio State University): Attending to the Dandelions: Theorizing The Common(s) through Performance Practice
  • Emma Ianni (Columbia University): Constructing Outsiders: A Comparative Study of Ritualized Insults

Moderator: Rizvana Bradley, Assistant Professor of Film Studies and African American Studies, Yale University

4:45 pm Concluding Remarks