D2: Topos/Chronos: An Historico-Cultural Miscellany
Moderator: Suzanne Magnanini, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (SUITE 331)

Rhonda L. Kelley, University of Georgia: "The Politics of Rape: Augustus' Conquered Territory in Ovid's Metamorphoses"

Pei-jing Li, University of Michigan: "Aestheticizing, Politicizing, Ethicalizing, and Rhetoricizing Woman: The Encoding of a Male Elitism in Chinese Han Rhapsody (Fu)"

Elizabeth Pallitto, Graduate Center, City University of New York: "Metamorphosis and/or Apocalypse: Chronographia and Topographia in Sestine by Petrarca and Tullia d'Aragona"

D3: Folklore and Myth in the (Post)Modern World
Moderator: Andrew Cowell, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM)

Ronald Bernier, University of Colorado at Boulder: "World Views of the Nomadic Maasai Tribe of East Africa"

Charlotte Eubanks, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Folklore in the Service of Fantasy: Re-Writing Gendered Hierarchies in Tsushima Yuko's The Marsh"

Freeman G. Henry, University of South Carolina: "Blasphemous Returns in the Bernard Mathias Trilogy"

August Okereke, Universität Bielefeld: "I Will Start to Narrate the Story of Izuogu and Iheme: Fictionalizing Reality through Oral Performance"

D4: German Visual Culture
Moderator: Elaine Martin, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (EXECUTIVE)

Peter L. Holtgrave, University of Iowa: "Adopting Appropriation and Appropriating Adoption: Justificational Schemes of Berlin Dada"

Eric Matthew Kligerman, University of Michigan: "[Re]membering Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer"

Lida Oukaderova, University of Texas: "Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg and the Photographic Gaze of Modernity"

Elizabeth Van Arragon, University of Iowa: "Renewal of German Culture: Youth and the Avant-Garde in Imperial Germany"

Sabine Wolters, Freie Universität Berlin: "Chronos/Chromos: 'Departing in Yellow' "

D5: Theatrical Chronotopes
Moderator: José del Pino, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (SUITE 231)

Terry L. Price, Baylor University: "Reconsidering Time and Space in Theatrical Production: Virtual Environments and Their Effects on Storytelling"

H. Martin Puchner, Columbia University: "How to NOT Create Art: Artaud, Constant, and the Avant-Garde Manifesto"

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, University of Texas at Austin: "Moscow's Hamlets: Shakespeare and the Superfluous Nation"

Gi chan Yang, University of Georgia: "A Literary Study of the Representation of City Images in Contemporary Theater: A Comparative Study of the Modern American and the Modern"

D6: International Students in Comparative Literature Graduate Programs: New Implications and Opportunities
Moderator: ADPCL

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (ROOM 227)

Caroline D. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania State University: "International Students: Problems and Solutions"

Dorothy M. Figueira, University of Georgia

Ileana A. Orlich, Arizona State University

Steven Ungar, University of Iowa: "Recruitment of Chinese and Other International Graduate Students" (to be read by William Moebius)

D7: The Desire for Theotopos: Deconstructive Approaches to Religion, 1
Moderator: Scott Douglass, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (moved to EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM)

Florin T. Berindeanu, University of Georgia: "Erotic Topographies in Denys the Areopagite"

Alexei Bogdanov, University of Colorado at Boulder: "The Dispersed Traces of God: Dialogism versus Deconstruction"

Jeoff Bull, University of Toronto at Mississauga: "'I Think Chance Might Be to do with Heaven': Post-Secular 'Style' in Nicholas Mosley's Hopeful Monsters"

D8: Imagining the Promised Land, 1
Moderators: Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi & Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University Mt. Scopus

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (SUITE 431)

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus: "Agnon's Jerusalem: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia"

Shai P. Ginsburg, University of Michigan: "The Expulsion from Eden: Dan Miron as Homeless Critic"

Todd Hasak-Lowy, University of California - Berkeley: "National Breakdown and Narrative Disorder in Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous"

D9: ChronoEthotika: Character and Culture Through Time, 1
Moderators: Kathleen L. Komar, Katherine King, & Ross Shideler, University of California - Los Angeles

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (SUNSHINE)

Susan Bausch, University of California - Los Angeles: "Passing Through: The Protest Function of Migration in Hans Massaquoi's Destined to Witness and Peter Gay's My German Question"

Katherine King, University of California - Los Angeles: "Multipley, Madly, Medea"

Kathleen L. Komar, University of California - Los Angeles: "Explorations of Historical Time, Geographical Space, and Cultural Context in Hermann Broch's Die Schlafwander (The Sleepwalkers)"

D10: Between Loyalty and Responsibility: The Space/Time of Ethics, 1
Moderator: Yung-Hsing Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (FLATIRONS)

Monique Rodrigues Balbuena, University of California - Berkeley: "Minor Literatures and Major Laments: On a Poem by Sadia Lvy"

Liz Constable, University of California - Davis [No paper title yet]

Constance Eichenlaub, Trinity Lutheran College/Cornish College of the Arts: "Typologies and Topos: Where Does the Collective Sensorium Reside?"

D11: Utopias, 1
Moderator: Sue Zemka, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (CENTURY)

Robert Doran, Stanford University/Sorbonne Nouvelle-Université de Paris III: "The Anachronism of the Gift"

Jeremy Green, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Unknowable Communities: Postmodern Utopianism in Evan Dara's The Lost Scrapbook"

Philip Mosley, Penn State, Worthington Scranton: "Literature and Botany: Maeterlinck's Model for the Future?"

D12: Historiography
Moderator: Max Friedman, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 4:15-5:45pm (ROOM 229)

John Dolis, Penn State, Worthington Scranton: "Thoreau's Cape: Taking Time by the Forelock"

Hyrum Allen La Turner, University of Chicago: "I Swear to Tell the Truth"

Nicholas Rennie, Rutgers University: "Earthquake and Revolution: History and the Topos of Fractured Topography"

D13: Comprendre le mystère: Honoring J. Hillis Miller
Moderator: Paul Gordon, University of Colorado at Boulder

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (CANYON)

Ellen S. Burt, University of California - Irvine: "Cutting out the Shadow: Rereading Contradiction and Aporia in Miller"

Tom Cohen, State University of New York - Albany

Henry G. Sussman, State University of New York - Buffalo: "J. Hillis Miller and the Task of the Critic"

J. Hillis Miller, University of California - Irvine

D14: The Global and Globalization
Moderator: Christopher Braider, University of Colorado at Boulder

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (SUITE 331)

Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe, University of Illinois - Champaign: "Allegories of Subaltern Geotemporality"

Marike Janzen, University of Texas: " 'Wir sind Nikaragua': German Writers and the Revolutionary Other"

Jay Twomey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Towards an Aesthetics of Globality"

D15: ACLA Graduate Student Caucus
Organizers: Nhora Serrano, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Nancy Pedri, University of Toronto

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (MILLENNIUM)

D16: The Desire for Theotopos: Deconstructive Approaches to Religion, 2
Moderator: Scott Douglass, University of Colorado at Boulder

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (FLAGSTAFF)

Scott Douglass, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Plotinus, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Non-Recuperation of Presence: Gregory's Break with Apophatic Mysticism"

Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Empresses in the Holy Land: The Making of a Christian Utopia in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries"

Jeffrey Smotherman, Independent Scholar: "Defining Ethical Christian Discourse within an Existential/Postmodern Framework"

D17: Imagining the Promised Land, 2
Moderators: Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi & Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University Mt. Scopus

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (SUITE 431)

Barbara Mann, Princeton University: "Tel Aviv and the Poetics of Israeli Space"

Ilana Pardes, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus: "Call Me Jonah: Melville's Exegesis of Biblical Space"

Chana Kronfeld, University of California - Berkeley: "Marking the Unmarked: When a She-Poet Loves a She-Land"

D18: Nomadic, Exotic, Modern: Chronotopes of Travel
Moderator: Jill Heydt, University of Colorado at Boulder

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (SUITE 231)

Stacy Burton, University of Nevada - Reno: "Haunted by Decline: Spengler's Shadow in Travel Literature"

Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia: "The Discourse of Itinerancy and Historical Consciousness in Irish Traveler Drama"

John Zilcosky, University of Toronto: "Exotic Amerika: Kafka's Negro"

D19: ChronoEthotika: Character and Culture Through Time, 2
Moderators: Kathleen L. Komar, Katherine King, & Ross Shideler, University of California - Los Angeles

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (SUNSHINE)

Roberta Micallef, University of Utah: "Turkic Epics - 11th Century through 20th: New Media, Old Texts, or New Interpretations of Old Texts?"

Ross Shideler, University of California - Los Angeles: "P.C. Jersild: Rewriting the Story of Jesus"

Steven P. Sondrup, Brigham Young Unversity: "[no paper title yet]"

D20: Between Loyalty and Responsibility: The Space/Time of Ethics, 2
Moderator: Yung-Hsing Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (FLATIRONS)

Donya Samara, Denison University: "The Hyphen: Constructing Identity Across/Within Space and Time"

Naomi Silver, University of California - Irvine: "Facing Black and Jew: Julius Lester's Lovesong"

Yung-Hsing Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette: "Identity Ethics"

D21: Utopias, 2
Moderator: Sue Zemka, University of Colorado at Boulder

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (CENTURY)

John Pizer, Lousiana State University: " 'Last Austrians' in Turn of the Century: Works by Franz Grillparzer, Joseph Roth, and Alfred Kolleritsch"

Lynn Walford, Louisiana State University in Shreveport: "The Treacherous Utopias of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa"

Gabriele Schwab, University of California - Irvine: "Imaginary Ethnographies: The Boundaries of the Human"

D22: Visual Chronotopes
Moderator: Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado at Boulder

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (TRAILRIDGE)

Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia: "Televisual Chronotopes: Noh Drama, Yeats, Beckett, Deleuze"

Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado at Boulder: "The Place of Art"

Dan Russek, University of Chicago: "The Photographic Imprint in the Short Stories of Horacio Quiroga"

D23: Time, Space, Structure
Moderator: Alan Nagel, University of Iowa

Saturday, April 21 - 3:15-4:45pm (ROOM 229)

Kirk Ambrose, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Time, Foliage, and Program at Vézelay"

Molli Elizabeth Kuenstner, University of Colorado at Boulder: "The Dialectical Relationship of Twelfth-Century Cluniac Domestic Structures"

Peter Schneider, University of Colorado at Denver: "Imagined Worlds: The House at the End of Time"

Roland Racevskis, University of Iowa: "Measurement and Sentiment: Changing Time(s) in the Seventeenth Century"