ACLA 2001: University of Colorado, Boulder TOPOS/CHRONOS Aesthetics for a New Millennium Friday, April 20 to Sunday, April 22, 2001 PROPOSED SEMINARS

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1. Americana
2. Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods
3. Colonial/Post-Colonial Studies
4. Cross-Cultural Studies
5. Cultural Studies/Theory
6. Ethics/Scripture/Religion
7. Film and Other Media
8. Literature and Other Disciplines
9. Modernism/Postmodernism
10. Non-European Cultures and Contexts
11. Spatial Forms in Literature
12. Temporal Forms in Literature
13. Theory

1. Americana

• American Chronotopes (D. Kadir/L. Lomas)
• Internationalizing the Study of North American Literatures and Cultures: Identifying Comparative Paradigms (N. Ruttenburg)
• Native American Tradition Enters the New Millennium, the New Canon, and the New Academy (A. Cowell)
• Predicaments of the Exilic Sensibility: Reading Asian/Americans via Film and Fiction (P. Fu)
• Time, 'Space,' Narrative: The World of Stanley Kubrick (E. Acevedo-Muñoz)

2. Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods

• Allegory: Time or Space? (B. Machosky)
• American Chronotopes (D. Kadir/L. Lomas)
• Apocalypse and Literature: Late Antiquity to the Present/Tomorrow (S. Benfell/G. Handley)
• Chinese Imagery (C. Chow/C. Rojas)
• ChronoEthoika: Character and Culture through Time (K. Komar/R. Shideler/K.King)
• The Desire for Theotopos: Deconstructive Approaches to Religion (S. Douglass)
• Dishing out the Past (M. DeForest)
• Imagining the Promised Land (S. Ezrahi/I. Pardes)
• 'Post-modernism' before the Post-modern: The Interconnection of Literature with Society and Politics from Euripidean and Senecan Tragedy to the 20th Century (L. Golden)
• Rethinking Time and Space in Dante's Worlds (H. Hayton/S. Casciani)
• Visible Cities (D. Damrosch)

3. Colonial/Post-Colonial Studies

• American Chronotopes(D. Kadir/L. Lomas)
• Arabic Literature and the Post-Colonial (H. Kadhim)
• The (Post) Modernity of the 'Primitive': The Indigenous, the Traditional, and the Cultural Production of the 20th Century (J. de Castro)
• Native American Tradition Enters the New Millennium, the New Canon, and the New Academy (A. Cowell)
• The Representation of Space in Late Colonial Narrative (K. Seigneurie)
• Sexing Nationalism: (En)Gendering the (Post)Colonial Nation (P. Jha)

4. Cross-Cultural Studies

• American Chronotopes (D. Kadir/L. Lomas)
• Arabic Literature and the Post-Colonial (H. Kadhim)
• The Empire of Space: Narratives, Topographies, and Typologies of 'China" (C. Bush)
• Foreign 'Topos/Chronos' in Japanese Literature, Arts, Film, and Popular Culture (F. Kleeman/C.Reyns-Chikuma)
• Internationalizing the Study of North American Literatures and Cultures: Identifying Comparative Paradigms (N. Ruttenburg)
• Native American Tradition Enters the New Millennium, the New Canon, and the New Academy (A. Cowell)
• Predicaments of the Exilic Sensibility: Reading Asian/Americans via Film and Fiction (P. Fu)
• Queer Times, Diasporic Spaces, Perverse Aesthetics (J. Braziel)
• Textual Spaces (M. Tschofen)

5. Cultural Studies/Theory

• Aestheticizing Politics-Politicizing Aesthetics (B. Hanssen)
• American Chronotopes (D. Kadir/L. Lomas)
• Cooking Times, Dining Rooms: Spaces and Histories of Eating (K. Chapman)
• Dishing Out the Past (M. DeForest)
• Fantasias of the Museum: Showcases of Time and Space (M. du Plessis)
• Foreign 'Topos/Chronos' in Japanese Literature, Arts, Film, and Popular Culture (F. Kleeman/C.Reyns-Chikuma)
• History/Memory in Film Narrative (I. Hedges/B. Rourke)
• Imagining the Promised Land (S. Ezrahi/I. Pardes)
• The Individual in Time and Space: Scenes of Social Convention in the Novel (M. Boelcskevy)
• Internationalizing the Study of North American Literatures and Cultures: Identifying Comparative Paradigms (N. Ruttenburg)
• Modernism's Desires: Aesthetic, Experiential, and Commercial (C. Burns/M. Murphy)
• Postmodern Sites: The City as Simulacrum (J. Ramirez/J. Ward)
• 'Post-modernism' before the Post-modern: The Interconnection of Literature with Society and Politics from Euripidean and Senecan Tragedy to the 20th Century (L. Golden)
• The (Post) Modernity of the 'Primitive': The Indigenous, the Traditional, and the Cultural Production of the 20th Century (J. de Castro)
• Predicaments of the Exilic Sensibility: Reading Asian/Americans via Film and Fiction (P. Fu)
• Queer Times, Diasporic Spaces, Perverse Aesthetics (J. Braziel)
• Set Apart: The Culture and Politics of Confinement (H. Kapstein/G. De Ferrari)
• Sexing Nationalism: (En)Gendering the (Post)Colonial Nation (P. Jha)
• Slouching toward the Post-Secular: Religion, Spirituality, and Contemporary Literature and Film (G. Baker)
• Textual Spaces (M. Tschofen)
• Visible Cities (D. Damrosch)
• Women Playwrights and Modern Drama: Gender, Politics, and Performance since 1789 (L. Wilkinson)

6. Ethics/Scripture/Religion

• Apocalypse and Literature: Late Antiquity to the Present/Tomorrow (S. Benfell/G. Handley)
• Between Loyalty and Responsibility: The Space/Time of Ethics (Y. Wu)
• ChronoEthoika: Character and Culture through Time (K. Komar/R. Shideler/K. King)
• The Desire for Theotopos: Deconstructive Approaches to Religion (S. Douglass)
• Imagining the Promised Land (S. Ezrahi/I. Pardes)

7. Film and Other Media

• Chinese Imagery (E. Chow/C. Rojas)
• History/Memory in Film Narrative (I. Hedges/B. Rourke)
• Predicaments of the Exilic Sensibility: Reading Asian/Americans via Film and Fiction (P. Fu)
• Staging and Stalling Return in Literature and Other Media (K. Sugg/M. Belausteguigoitia)
• Textual Spaces (M. Tschofen)
• Time, 'Space,' Narrative: The World of Stanley Kubrick (E. Acevedo-Muñoz)

8. Literature and Other Disciplines

• Aestheticizing Politics-Politicizing Aesthetics (B. Hanssen)
• Between Loyalty and Responsibility: The Space/Time of Ethics (Y. Wu)
• Comp-lete Theory: Theory and History of the Relation between History and Theory (P. Gordon)
• Cooking Times, Dining Rooms: Spaces and Histories of Eating (K. Chapman)
• The Desire for Theotopos: Deconstructive Approaches to Religion (S. Douglass)
• Fantasias of the Museum: Showcases of Time and Space (M. du Plessis)
• History/Memory in Film Narrative (I. Hedges/B. Rourke)
• Landscape and Literature (M. Giacoppe)
• Literary Cartography (M. Ryan)
• Literary Studies with and against Psychoanalysis (J. Mieszkowski)
• Literature and Systems Science (C. Kuipers)
• Slouching toward the Post-Secular: Religion, Spirituality, and Contemporary Literature and Film (G.  Baker)
• Women Playwrights and Modern Drama: Gender, Politics, and Performance since 1789 (L. Wilkinson)

9. Modernism/Postmodernism

• Modernism's Desires: Aesthetic, Experiential, and Commercial (C. Burns/M. Murphy)
• Postmodern Sites: The City as Simulacrum (J. Ramirez/J. Ward)
• 'Post-modernism' before the Post-modern: The Interconnection of Literature with Society and Politics from Euripidean and Senecan Tragedy to the 20th Century (L. Golden)
• The (Post) Modernity of the 'Primitive': The Indigenous, the Traditional, and the Cultural Production of the 20th Century (J. de Castro)

10. Non-European Cultures and Contexts

• Arabic Literature and the Post-Colonial (H. Kadhim)
• Chinese Imagery (C. Chow/C. Rojas)
• The Empire of Space: Narratives, Topographies, and Typologies of 'China" (C. Bush)
• Foreign 'Topos/Chronos' in Japanese Literature, Arts, Film, and Popular Culture (F. Kleeman/C. Reyns-Chikuma)
• Imagining the Promised Land (S. Ezrahi/I. Pardes)
• Native American Tradition Enters the New Millennium, the New Canon, and the New Academy (A. Cowell)
• Predicaments of the Exilic Sensibility: Reading Asian/Americans via Film and Fiction (P. Fu)
• The Representation of Space in Late Colonial Narrative (K. Seigneurie)
• Sexing Nationalism: (En)Gendering the (Post)Colonial Nation (P. Jha)

11. Spatial Forms in Literature

• Allegory: Time or Space? (B. Machosky)
• The Empire of Space: Narratives, Topographies, and Typologies of 'China" (C. Bush)
• Fantasias of the Museum: Showcases of Time and Space (M. du Plessis)
• Imagining the Promised Land (S. Ezrahi/I. Pardes)
• The Individual in Time and Space: Scenes of Social Convention in the Novel (M. Boelcskevy)
• Landscape and Literature (M. Giacoppe)
• Literary Cartography (M. Ryan)
• Postmodern Sites: The City as Simulacrum (J. Ramirez/J. Ward)
• The Representation of Space in Late Colonial Narrative (K. Seigneurie)
• Rethinking Time and Space in Dante's Worlds (H. Hayton/S. Casciani)
• Set Apart: The Culture and Politics of Confinement (H. Kapstein/G. De Ferrari)
• Textual Spaces (M. Tschofen)
• Time, Place and the Autobiographical Self (S. Hunsaker)
• Travel and Water: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of a Fluid Medium (F. Widmer-Schnyder)
• Visible Cities (D. Damrosch)

12. Temporal Forms in Literature

• Allegory: Time or Space? (B. Machosky)
• Apocalypse and Literature: Late Antiquity to the Present/Tomorrow (S. Benfell/G. Handley)
• ChronoEthoika: Character and Culture through Time (K. Komar/R. Shideler/K. King)
• The Individual in Time and Space: Scenes of Social Convention in the Novel (M. Boelcskevy)
• Rethinking Time and Space in Dante's Worlds (H. Hayton/S. Casciani)
• Staging and Stalling Return in Literature and Other Media (K. Sugg/M. Belausteguigoitia)
• Time, Place and the Autobiographical Self (S. Hunsaker)
• Travel and Water: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of a Fluid Medium (F. Widmer-Schnyder)

13. Theory

• Aestheticizing Politics-Politicizing Aesthetics (B. Hanssen)
• Allegory: Time or Space? (B. Machosky)
• Comp-lete Theory: Theory and History of the Relation between History and Theory (P. Gordon)
• Literary Studies with and against Psychoanalysis (J. Mieszkowski)
• Literature and Systems Science (C. Kuipers)
• Queer Times, Diasporic Spaces, Perverse Aesthetics (J. Braziel)
• Textual Spaces (M. Tschofen)

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