ACLA 2010 New Orleans

Archive – All Seminars (Total: 220)

• General Pool
• “Everything incredible is true!” History and Fantasy in the Literature of the Americas
• “Nations are notions”: Literary Materiality and the 20th Century Nation-State
• “Neutral” Grounds: Rethinking the Limits of Hybridity
• “Proud to Swim Home”: In Search of the Old in the New Orleans
• “Righting” and “Re-Writing” Wrongs
• (Un)Familiar Destinations and the Home Away from Home
• Chicano Narrative Now: Chicana/o Literary Discourses in the Age of Transnationalism
• A Jazzy Reading of Francophone Cinema and Literature/Une lecture jazzique du cinéma et de la littérature francophones
• About Something You Said: Readings on Calamity, Community, & Place
• Affectivity and Aesthetics of the Postnational across Literature, Cinema, and Theory
• Afterlives of the Nineteenth Century
• Aftermath as Affirmation: Re-Thinking the Classic After Hybridity
• Agamben’s Intricate Meanings
• Allegories of Language
• Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances During the Cold War and Beyond
• America’s Civil War Then and Now, Home and Abroad
• An Aesthetics of Openness: Rereading Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Texts
• An Undergraduate Ragout: Teaching Multiple Topics in College Courses
• Analogies of Memory, Catastrophe, and Trauma
• Anarchist Literary Practice
• Anti-Semitism and Anti-Roma in Post-1989 Central and East Europe
• Archival Travels/Traveling Archives
• Atlantic Economies
• Being-in-the-World: Chinese Cinema and Its Cosmopolitan Perspectives
• Berlin’s Imagined Geographies
• Between Alienations: Mimicry, Parody, and Desire in Transnational Spaces
• Beyond Literary Cosmopolitanism: (Non-) Readers of Dante after the Enlightenment
• Bodies in Motion: Corporeality and the Representation of Immigrants, Refugees, and Other Diasporic Subjects
• Breaking Languages, Broken Subjects
• Can the Displaced Return?
• Caribbeanness and the Genres of Peripheral Cosmopolitanism
• Caucasian Crossroads: The Intersection of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism?
• Childhood Cultural Displacement
• Clothing: Re-Creating Our Own Image in a World of Mass Production
• Comics Boundaries: Graphic Narratives through a Cosmopolitan Lens
• Comparative Literature: From Practice to Theory
• Comparative World Literature
• Conceptual Writing and Art Between the Local and the Global
• Cosmo-politan SciFi: Reevaluating the Urban through Technology & Culture
• Cosmopolitan Irreverence: Subversion, Parody, Put Down
• Cosmopolitan Poe
• Cosmopolitanism and Collectivity: Cultural Representations vs. Theories of Community in the 20th and 21st Century
• Cosmopolitanism and Religion
• Cosmopolitanism? Misanthropy In and After Kant
• Creole Europe
• Creole Theory
• Creolization and Languages of Science: Knowledge, Reform, Revolution
• Creolization and Nostalgia: Mimesis, Mimicry, and Parody in New World Literature
• Creolization versus Multiculturalism?
• Creolizing Genre: New Directions in Black Speculative Fiction
• Creolizing Histories
• Creolizing Memory: Transnational Remembrance of Trauma and Violence
• Critical Readings in the Early Modern World
• Cross Dressing in Literature or on Stage, East and West
• Crossing Borders: Personal Narratives of 20th Century Writers/Critical Thinkers
• Cultures of Migration: Local Cosmopolitanisms?
• Cultures of Neoliberalism
• Debating the Parameters of Japanese Modernity
• Diaspora and the Fashioning of Self: the Case of José Manuel Prieto
• Diasporic Acts of Identity: Dialogic Approaches to Translation and Creolization
• Difference Within Language: Emergent Scholars Read (With) Barbara Johnson
• Digital Diasporas: Distances, Cultures, Languages
• Diverse Materials: Reimagining Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Dogs in Art and Literature in the Early Modern Era
• Double-Tongues: Multilingual Novels as Sites of Cultural and Linguistic Resistance
• East-West Cosmopolitanism and Literary Creation
• Ecological Poetry Between Warning, Mourning and Dreaming: Post-Idyllic Landscapes and Contemporary Visions of Paradise
• Estranged Desire: Romance Resisting Romance
• Ethics and Politics of Cosmopolitanism
• Expanding US Latinidad or What’s New about the “New” Latin Diasporas?
• Extending Ourselves: Caribbean Latitudes and Scales, Landscapes and Seascapes
• Fascisms: Past and Present
• Feminist Apprehensions of Cosmopolitanism/Universalism/Modernism
• Fictions of Haiti
• Fictions of the Autobiographical
• Figurative Imaginings in Art, Science, and Politics
• Film Loops
• Flowing Tales, Diverse Resonances
• Food in World Literature
• Form and Content
• Forms of Floods
• French Language (In)Hospitalities
• From Dada into Surrealism: Language of the Avant-Garde
• From Urgent Action to (Time Im)Memorial: Art and Literature of Human Rights In Changing Political Contexts
• Frontiers of Life: Biopolitical Imaginations in Latin America
• Gatekeeper, Mother Hen, Culture Agent?: Selecting the Appropriate Metaphor for Compositionists in the Era of Linguistic Diversity
• Genre Dynamics: Exchange and Transformation
• Global Financial Capital and New Realisms
• Glocality and Narration in Contemporary Cinema: Real Life in Reel Cycle
• Green Literature
• Gross Anatomy: Intervention and Negotiation in Literary/Cultural Representations of Medicine
• Histories of Discoveries, Cultures of Science: Rethinking the Evolution of Knowledge
• History, Loss, Memory: Comparative Diasporas and the Work of Mourning
• Hybrid Chronotopes in Russian Culture
• Hybrid Realism?
• Impure Borders, Mixed Genres: Documentary Fictions in Cinema and Literature
• Intermediality after 1900
• Intertextualities: Text, Image, and Beyond
• Jazz and Communication: Towards a Creolization of the Philosophy of Language
• Jewish Languages: Negotiating Diasporas
• Just Memory: Utopian Fiction and Abraxian History
• Knowledge and the Theatrical Body
• La banlieue parisienne / The Parisian Banlieue
• Landscapes of Cultural Production
• Language in the Quest for Utopia
• Latin Boxers
• Literature and Criticism after Secularism
• Literature and/as the New Media of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• Made in Hong Kong: Language, Literature, and Film from a City in Search of Itself
• Magical Thought
• Marginal Modernities
• Marx OR Spinoza
• Media, Medium, Mediation: Media Aesthetics Before 1900
• Mediterranean Encounters
• Melville’s Cosmopolitan(ism)
• Memory and Representations of Traumatic Events in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
• Mental Geographies: Thinking, Curiosity, and Desire in the Psychological Novel
• Migration, Cultural Production and Resistance
• Mistakes, Mistranslations and Mendacity: The Logic and Language of Cosmopolitanism
• Multilingual Metropolitanisms
• Music or Film: Background or Subtext?
• Narrating the Mind
• National Cinema/Glocal Cinema
• National Languages, Dialects, and Mother Tongues
• National Traumas, Diasporic Encounters: Violence, Memory, and Literary/Visual Culture
• New World Francophonie
• Niki Hoeky—A Consultation, Celebration and Interrogation of the Boolawee
• One Hundred Years of José Lezama Lima
• Other Script Politics
• Paraworlds and Paraliterature
• Performance Poetics in the African Diaspora: From Dialect Verse to Hip Hop
• Poetics of HIV: Modernism Revisited
• Points of Entry into 9/11 Texts
• Political Crisis and Vernaculars of Faith
• Politics and the Corpse
• Politics of Sanctity
• Polluted Places / Impure Spaces
• Post/colonial Film: Imaging Identity and Resistance
• Post/Neo-colonial Narratives: Gender and Sexuality in Crossing
• Postcolonial Italy: The Colonial Past in Contemporary Italy
• Precarious Lives
• Problems in Translation: Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical French Trauerspiel
• Prose By Any Other Frame: Unproductive Reinterpretations in Latin American Cultural Narratives
• Queer Cosmopolitanism
• Radical Diasporas
• Re-conceiving the Urban: Public Space and Public Health
• Re-defining Art: Artistic Genres in Literary Works
• Reading Between the Arts: Multi-Media, Aisthesis, and Interart Studies
• Reconciliation and its Discontents
• Recording Performance
• Refiguring Psychoanalysis, Refiguring Bodies
• Repossessing the Ghosts: Trans-Cultural/National Crossings as Transgressive Possessions
• Representations of Memory and Violence in Literature
• Representations of Migration and Diaspora in Cosmopolitical Texts
• Restrategizing Essentialism
• Retelling: Narrative in Translation
• Rethinking Secularism
• Romantic Revolutionaries at Home and Abroad
• Rural Creole: Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, and Hybridity in Agrarian Literature
• Science Fiction in the Global South
• Souths: A Tea Conversation
• Spinoza’s Modernities
• Spirits, the Supernatural and the Spectator
• Streaming Derrida
• Subterfuge, Slavery, Sabir: The Languages of Deception, Domination and Love
• Survival, Resistance, and Change: Representations of Motherhood in Women’s Poetry
• Syl-la-ble: Performing Syntactic Vulnerability
• Teoria Franca
• Text at the Limits of Language
• The Americas, Otherwise
• The Art of Literary Translation; Literary Translation as Art
• The Aural Archive
• The Contemporary Creole, in Theory: Creolizing Histories II
• The Creole City
• The Creolization of Myth: Between Interculturation and Remediation
• The Cross-Pollination of American Literatures
• The Culture Industry Reconfigured
• The Hidden Voice:Cross- Cultural Women’s Autobiographical Novels
• The Influence of New Orleans Jazz on Creole and French-speaking Literatures
• The Locations of Stardom
• The Malady of Exile — Exile and Melancholy in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
• The Materiality of Subjectivity: Dialoguing with the Sciences
• The Myth and Catastrophe of Communist Revolution: Chinese Red-Classics Revisited
• The Possibility / Impossibility of a National Cinema
• The Question of the Animal
• The Science Fiction Film: Re-making, Revising, Re-envisioning
• The Spaces of Translation: Literature, Genre, and Mental Geographies in Classical and Medieval Literature
• The Struggle For: Reading Literature, Culture and the Arts as Affirmative Resistance
• The Trouble with Health
• The Unreadability of the World
• The Will To Be Deceived: Communal Acceptance of Passing
• The World and the Stage: Reassessing Theatrical Paradigms, Envisioning Global Rights
• Theories of Caribbean Comparatism
• Theory and the Theological
• Time in Global Space
• Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora: Interrogating Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Diasporic Cultural Productions
• Tracing the Caribbean’s Transmissions
• TransAmerican Imaginaries: New Paradigms for Hemispheric Studies
• Transcultures of Literature in Turkey
• Translating the Word(s) of God(s)
• Translation and Cultural Identity: The Case of the Americas
• Translation of Philosophy/ Philosophy of Translation
• Translation of Revolutionary Temporalities: The Aesthetic Avant-garde and the Political Vanguard in Modern Chinese Literature
• Translation, Transliteration, and Virtual Authors
• Transnational Feminist Responses and the Torture of “Enemies”
• Traveling to Louisiana: Cinematic Representation of the Southern Other(s)
• Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn: The Body and the Word, or, Theory à la lettre
• Urban Spaces and Cultural Representations
• Utopian/Dystopian Creoles: Migrating out of the Real
• Varieties of Medical Experience in New Orleans
• Visuality, Visibility, and Glocalization: Transnationalism and Chinese-Language Film Studies
• Welcome: Hospitality, Integration and Assimilation – Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, Montreal, Buenos Aires and Beyond
• Whither Theory?
• Whither/Whence World Literature?
• World Literature: Poetics/Publics/Performance
• Worlded Comparatist: The Intellectual in Exile as Foundation for a New Comparative Literature
• Writing Diasporas and the Shifting Grounds of Middle Eastern Literatures
• Writing in Early Modern Portraiture
• Writing Literature in a Second Language: Transnational, Translational, Translingual