Program
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