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THURSDAY May 29th

11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT

ACLA Graduate Student Committee Webinar: "Without Censorship: On Academic Freedom"

Organizer: Karen Emmerich, Princeton University

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT

Opening Ceremony

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

Organizers: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta; Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston; Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM CDT
- “That Day We Read No More”: Textual Mediation and the Border of Language in Inferno 5 Weike Li, University of Pennsylvania
- Moorish Misreadings in Don Quixote Maya Cheikh, Concordia University
- Signing Off: Misreading Kafka’s Castle Emily Trujillo, Rutgers University
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Pre-conference Workshop: "Publishing Your First Article" (Comparative Literature/Comparative Literature Studies)

Organizers: Michael Allan, University of Oregon; Nergis Erturk

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT

Pre-conference Workshop: "Virtuality, AI, and Comparative Literature"

Organizer: Alexa Joubin, George Washington University

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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FRIDAY May 30th

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- El júbilo en el reclamo culinario: Salvadoran American’s Journey Through Recipes and Stories Elena Foulis, Texas A&M University Alexandra Rodriguez, Texas A & M University - San Antonio
- Spanglish-ing home in Bessie Flores Zaldívar’s Libertad Andrea Martinez Teruel, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- The Void of Home in Aria Aber's "Azalea Azalea" Nirvana Shahriar, University of California Santa Barbara
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Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Organizers: Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Oana Panaite, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Remembering childhood to imagine death: how to share the experience of the dying subject with the reader? Aline Lebel, Université Paris 10 - Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
- Keeping Vigil for Reena Virk in the Poetics of Soraya Peerbaye’s Tell Tavleen Purewal, University of New Brunswick
- Munnu as Necrofiction: Tombs/Panels of Aspirations Sahid Mondal, Brandeis University
- Sexology, Tombs, and the Aesthetics of the Serial: C. P. Cavafy's Queer Necropoetics Billie Mitsikakos, University of Oxford
- Queering Death and Waste: Ecological Reimagining in The Waste Tide Carissa Ma, Florida Atlantic University
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Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Organizers: Delia Ungureanu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest); Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Medieval Devotional Poetics in the Modern Lyric: Reading A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
- Mystery into fiction? Religion and the ancient novel Christian Dahl, Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
- Give sorrow words. Writing grief as spiritual practice from Dante to Philippe Forest Despina Jderu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest)
- Dante's Vita Nuova: From the Bible to Literature Carmen Musat, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest)
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Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University; Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Classical Arabic Terminological Tabulation and the Current Intertextual Scene Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University
- Organic Unity in the “Personified Letter” of Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī (d. 837/1434) Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University
- 'The Echo Rings Out in Every Ear': How the Past Haunts Modernist Arabic Poetry Levi Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin
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Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Organizers: Roland Vegso, University of Georgia; Rok Bencin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Age of World Politics Roland Vegso, University of Georgia
- Heidegger’s Weg-Da-Game Fank Ruda, University of Dundee
- What in the World? Enjoyment as X Factor Steven Swarbrick, Baruch College, City University of New York
- Another Subject: Between the Globe and the World Nathan Gorelick, Barnard College
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Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Universität Passau (University of Passau); Shoumik Bhattacharya, Metropolitan State University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Degenerate Bodies and Untimely Belonging in Burgher Writings from Sri Lanka Deborah Philip, CUNY Graduate Center
- The Revolution in Fragments: The Home and the World in Serial Form Michele Chinitz, Universität Passau (University of Passau)
- Fellow Travellers: Feminist Companionship as Communality Beyond Integration in South Asian Literature Philipp Sperner, Universität Konstanz (University of Konstanz)
- Fiction as Protest: Reimagining Collective Action in Zadie Smith's The Fraud Tammy Amiel Houser, The Open University of Israel
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Nature and rurality in contemporary Iberian narrative fiction Angela Fernandes, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA)
- Haunted Trees: Spectrality, Gender and Basque Identity in Asier Altuna’s Amama (2015) Nagore Sedano Naveira, University of Puget Sound
- No hay Escapa(toria): Renegotiating the Rural in Sara Mesa’s Un amor Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University
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Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Organizers: Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich); James Dowthwaite, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Decadent Infrastructure Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
- The Decadent Gaze: The Cinematic Poetics of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Early Short Fiction Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich)
- Decadence in Dialogue: The Tokyo Flâneur, Viennese Modernity, and Transcultural Flânerie Davide Gnoato, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- From Paysage to Pornotheology: Jaan Oks across the Limits of Rural Decadence Ian Gwin, University of Washington
- Art for Anti-Imperialism’s Sake: Sarojini Naidu's Decadent Impressionistic Lies in The Golden Threshold Cherrie Kwok, University of Virginia
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Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South Carolina

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Disputed Border in Omar Pimienta’s Album of Fences César Méndez, Concordia College
- Intermestic Affairs: Problemas de La Frontera and Reyna Grande’s Globalist Solution Brendan Beirne, Palo Verde College
- The Land Between Rivers Amaury Gama, University of Arizona
- Aesthetics of the Abstract in El Mar La Mar Evren Ozselcuk, University of South Carolina
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Broken Middles

Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Philosophy Still in Ruins: Gillian Rose’s Late Modernism Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge
- Law, love and violence: autonomy and the political Rosie Woodhouse, University of Warwick
- ‘– and again and again’: Possibility, Anxiety and Theory from the Broken Middle George Mather
- Love and Recognition in Hegel and Gillian Rose: An Alternative Reading Anna Beria, Kingston University
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Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

Organizer: Titas Bose, University of Chicago

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Defining Literary Culture in the Children’s Periodical Press Kristine Moruzi, Deakin University
- The Unrecovered and Adult-Adjacent in African American Children’s Periodical Literature Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Becoming Part of a Whole: Text-Circulation in the Creation of a Common Christian Identity in Protestant Children’s Magazines Idunn Victoria Rostøl, Universitetet i Oslo (University of Oslo)
- Children’s Periodicals and Ideological Control in the Ottoman Empire: Publishing, Circulation, and Censorship in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries Ali Capar, Cankiri Karatekin University
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China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Xiaolong Hou, Moravian University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Dancing with the World: Chinese Poetry in Multimedia Motion Hangping Xu, University of California Santa Barbara
- The Scholar and the Western Beauty: Wang Tao’s Classical Tales and Chinese Manhood in the New World Order Yingying Huang, Lafayette College
- Lyricism Across Borders and Media: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s New Millennium Films Ziru Chen, University of Oxford
- “I adjust my camera eyes”: Shifting Perspectives on China, the World, and Comparative Media Jacob Edmond, University of Otago
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Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Organizers: Marie Huber, Stanford University; Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Through the Serpentine Tropics: Clashes of Fengto-technics in Amazonian Films Chaorong Hua, Yale University
- The Sublime Space in Ritwik Ghatak's Films Bhairab Barman, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Disorienting Audioscapes & Mise-en-scène Challenge Postcoloniality: Ecofeminist Poetics in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Reassemblage and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama Vivienne Tailor, Independent Scholar
- Rhythm, Affect and Ecology in Contemporary Latin American Experimental Cinema Irene Rihuete Varea, Brown University
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Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizers: Shirl Yang, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Settler Idealism in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Brazil-Maru Mieko Anders, Columbia University
- “The Art of Horse-Whispering a F'ed-off Client”: Financial Speculation and the Emotional Labor of Persuasion Shirl Yang, Washington University in St. Louis
- Satire and Complicity in Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation Joey Kim, University of Toledo
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Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia, The University of New Mexico

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Whiteness and Sexuality in St. Eugenia Sarah Barringer, University of Iowa
- The Villainess Through the Looking Glass: Medieval Europe, Popular Imagination, and the Korean Manhwa Scene Shambhavi [N/A]
- The Coloniality of Being in "Turke and Sir Gawain" Jonathan Correa, Clemson University
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Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Organizers: Michelle Kelly, King's College London; Jarad Zimbler, King's College London

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Pan-African Publishing Networks: Transformative Modes of Collaboration and Circuits of Value Kate Wallis, University of Exeter
- West Africa Magazine and African Writers’ Search for a Medium 'Gbenga Adeoba, Washington University in St. Louis
- The literary production and circulation of Luso-African countries Tingting Lyu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Decolonizing the Margins: Pierre Bourdieu’s Literary Field and the Dynamics of Francophone North African Literature Amine Zidouh, Dartmouth College
- Beyond the French/Francophone Binary: Reassessing the colonial underpinnings of littérature maghrébine Rebecca Glasberg, Stanford University
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Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Organizers: Esther Edelmann, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Thomas Bragdon, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- From Edmund Spenser’s Ireland to Cop City: connecting 16th century civil ideologies to present-day militarized police training facilities. Nora Bonner, Georgia State University
- Negation, (dis)embodiment, and identity in Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Prairies of Fever Andrew Henderson, University of California Santa Barbara
- Framing Protestors with Face Coverings: Affects and Effects of Anti-Democratic Discourse in the Dutch Parliament Thomas Bragdon, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
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Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Narrative of Displacement: Contemporary Refugee Fiction and Combined and Uneven Development Shahab Nadimi, University of Alberta
- Illusion and Disillusionment in the Migrant Experience from Chima Oji’s Unter die Deutschen Gefallen. Erfahrungen eines Afrikaners. Gift Iyioku, Stanford University
- Fortress Europe and the Refugee Crisis: A Dystopian Critique of Europe's Migration Policies in The Hungry and the Fat by Timur Vermes Federica Franze, Columbia University
- Fragmented Belonging: Navigating Identity and Exile in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees NAMRATA DEY ROY, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
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Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Organizers: Michiel Bot, Tilburg University; Dina Zbeidy, Leiden University of Applied Sciences

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Auto-ethnography of speaking, self-silencing and being silenced in Palestine activism at UvA and VU Yolande Jansen, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- Self-Censorship and Repressive Tolerance: Palestine in the Liberal American University Ahmad Diab, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Michiel Bot, Tilburg University
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Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Organizer: Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Atoms & Ecstasy: Epicurean Subjects Craig Carson, Adelphi University
- The Beauty of the Physical World as an Invitation to Transcendence: Eco-Spirituality in Medieval (Western) Christianity June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University Fairfield CT USA
- Singing Down a Paradise: Ecology and Ecstatic Sound Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College
- Greening the Ground: Hildegard’s Viriditas, Eckhart’s Detachment, and Haushofer’s Poet(h)ics of Care Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University; Moinak Banerjee, McGill University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Palestinian Placemaking and Feminist Ecopoetics- The Diasporic Geographies in the Work of Zaina Also Ivanna Berrios, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- The Swamp and the City: English-Language Writing and the Making of the ‘City of Palaces’ Swati Moitra, Gurudas College, University of Calcutta
- Landfills. The elemental assemblages of Arun Kolatkar’s Kala Ghoda Andre Otto, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin)
- Place-making in Historical Fiction: Landscapes of The Glass Palace Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University
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Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Organizers: Ileana Baird, Zayed University; Chrysavgi Papagianni, University of Patras

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Centering Women in Contemporary Gulf Arab Fiction: Jokha Alharthi’s Sayyidat al-qamar (Celestial Bodies) Szidonia Haragos, ShanghaiTech University
- Glocal Narratives: Tradition and Modernity in Jokha Al Harthi's Novels Hulya Yagcioglu, Zayed University
- Shockingly Glocal: Identity Transformation in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf Kimmy Clough, Texas A&M University
- Pushing the Limits of Genre in the 21st Century Arab American Bildungsroman Reem Tasyakan, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
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Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- "Alive in the Writing": Poetry and personhood in the reading practices of anthropologists Roanne Kantor, Stanford University
- Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan and Colonial Ethnography Sezen Ünlüönen, Princeton University
- Autoethnography and Autofiction Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University
- Discovering Talking: exploring the emergence of the autoethnographic impulse Lonnie Monka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen, University of Maryland, College Park

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Eternal Sunshine and the Paradox of Future Memory: Temporal Distortion in Pope's Verse and Gondry's Cinematic Narrative Yu Min Claire Chen, University of Maryland, College Park
- “Let them Study His Memories”: Mourning and Postmemory in Kogonada’s After Yang Seokyeong Choi, Seoul National University
- Beyond the Mnemonic Function of Modern Technological Media of Memory in “the entire History of you”: Recording and being recorded. brahim akaya, Université Ibnou Zohr (Ibn Zohr University)
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Genealogies of World Comparatism

Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana Stan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Living and Writing Outside the Box in Early Comparative Literature: Patterns of Subversiveness and the Figures of Hugo von Meltzl and Sámuel Brassai Levente T. Szabó, Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai (Babe?-Bolyai University)
- Inter-Imperial Comparatism: Thomas Frühm’s Concept of Weltliteratur Emanuel Modoc, Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai (Babe?-Bolyai University)
- The Scandinavian contribution to Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum. Case study: Rasmus B. Anderson Gianina Druta, Oslo Metropolitan University
- Reconsidering the History of Comparative Studies with Acta Comparationis Letitia Guran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Foes to Friends to Ghosts: Assimilation in Resistance to Trauma and Remuneration for Life in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street Shabana Sayeed, Bentley University
- The Roaming Ghosts in Haifa: a reading in Emile Habibi's literature Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin
- Haunted Modernities: Anxiety and Humor in Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s Gulyabani and Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost Çiğdem Buğdaycı, Bo?aziçi Üniversitesi (Bo?aziçi University)
- The Indian Ocean as an Archive in Postcolonial Gothic Sea Fiction Shahrukh Khan, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
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Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Science as revocation: the grand refusals of Cormac McCarthy Rick de Villiers, University of the Free State
- The End(s) of Care in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Carson Hammond, University of Toronto
- Disenchanted to Death: Alfred Seidel and the Perversity of Knowing Kyle Baasch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Global Legal Imagination

Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- On the Proper Inheritance of Constitutional Foundings Anthony Abiragi, University of Colorado Boulder
- Your Return: Poetry, Taxation, and the Languages of Law Maggie Wang, Yale University
- Immigration Law, White Citizenship, and the Border Patrol Memoir Stephen Park, Loyola University Maryland
- Cataloguing Destruction in Sinan Antoon's Book of Collateral Damage Mark Firmani, Amherst College
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Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Being is Eroticism: Octavio Paz’s Carnal Ontological Poetics Prashant Mishra, JK Lakshmipat University
- On the Function of Mind and Individual Freedom: Spinoza’s Influence on Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart Lingchen Huang, University of Oxford
- Cannibal Lispector: Swallowing Spinoza, Forgiving God Sebastián Andrés Grandas, Yale University
- Can the Earth Speak? Pessoa and the Pathetic Fallacy Tarun G, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- Global Modernist Panpsychism: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Shaj Mathew, Trinity University
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Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

Organizer: Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Power Play of Imagination and Resistance: Children's Agency Against Authoritarianism in Ondjaki's AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético Lidiana de Moraes, Vanderbilt University
- Tengo Miedo: Reimagining Children's Power in the Face of Spectacular Violence Laissa Rodriguez Moreno, Coe College
- Making friends under the bombs: a teenager’s view of the Sri Lankan civil war in two coming-of-age novels by Romesh Gunesekera Daniela Spina, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)
- The Young Healer: Exploring Wartime Agency and Ethical Dilemmas in Nellie Campobello's Cartucho George Azcarate, University of Notre Dame
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History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizers: Zachary Hicks, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Post-Revolutionary Novels and the Legacy of Socialist Realism: A New Horizon in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature Pegah Pezeshkighahfarokhi, University of Warwick
- Yuri Rytkheu, Peripheral Realism, and the Second World” Zachary Hicks, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- “Walking on the remains of a dreamed future”: the post-Yugoslavia road novel Myka Tucker-Abramson, University of Warwick
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Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Organizer: Asijit Datta, SRM University-AP (India)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- (Post)Extinction as Strange Loop : Richard Powers’s ‘The Overstory’ and ‘Playground’ by way of Roberto Calasso’s ‘Ka’ Sayan Bhattacharyya, Yale University
- Dendrochronologies: Human-Tree Extinctions in Literature Mark Byron, The University of Sydney
- Preempting Extinction? Multispecies Societies in the Posthuman Novel Nicole Suetterlin, Harvard University
- The Fossilized Legacies of Empire: Ecological Destruction and Extinction in The Nutmeg’s Curse Jamiel Ahmad, University of Kashmir Ameen Parray, University of Kashmir
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Ephemera of Interactive Cinema Marina Hassapopoulou, New York University (NYU)
- The Landscape of Digital Archive Collaboration: Assessing User-Friendly Options for an Interactive Online Exhibit Kathleen Ryan, University of Colorado Boulder Steven Sielaff, Baylor University
- An Alternative Approach to Document the Reality of Rohingya Refugee in Bangladesh Maruf Rahman, The University of Texas at Dallas
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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Catholicism and Caste in an Eighteenth-Century Tamil Jesuit Satire Antony Arul Valan Gnanapragasam, Ashoka University
- Catholicism and the Limits of African Liberation Theology in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Roger McNamara, Texas Tech University
- Caste, Religion, and Identity: Dalit Christians in Telangana Sai Suma Mohan Dharavath, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
- Contours of Caste and Religion: Hybridity in Mukanny Steven George, Jamia Millia Islamia
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Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm College; Ruma Sinha, Rider University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Interpreting Rape in The Search: A Subaltern History of Bangladesh MASRUFA NUSRAT, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Beyond Outraging Modesty: Kashmiri Muslim Women’s tales of Resistance Shabeeh Rahat, CEPT University
- “Holding Space for the Memories of Violence”: Outrage and Storytelling in Sri Lanka Maryse Jayasuriya, Saint Louis University
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Large Language Models and Literature

Organizers: Nina Begus, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Aaron Hanlon, Colby College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Voluble Nonsense: Ontology and Teleology in Large Language Models Daniel Dooghan, University of Tampa
- Technologies of Reading: Practices of Criticism in the Age of Digital Reproduction Tyne Daile Sumner, Australian National University Christian Gelder, Macquarie University
- Embedding Style Beyond Topics: Analyzing Dispersion Effects Across Different Language Models Benjamin Icard, LIP6, Sorbonne University Evangelia Zve, LIP6, Sorbonne University Lila Sainero, LIP6, Sorbonne University Alice Breton, LIP6, Sorbonne University François Maine, LIP6, Sorbonne University Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, LIP6, Sorbonne University
- The Technology Concerning the Question James Draney, Haverford College
- Is LLM Output a Genre? Aaron Hanlon, Colby College
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Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library Clayton Childress, University of British Columbia
- Where Is the Digital in High-school English? Simone Murray, Monash University Alex Bacalja, The University of Melbourne Michelle Smith, Monash University
- CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism Alexander Manshel, McGill University
- Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In Ben Libman, Stanford University
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Albright College; Lisa Luu

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- In Their Own Voices: A Survey of Emergent Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American Writings Lisa Luu
- A Rhetorical Approach to the Unnatural: Ghosts, Indigenous Beliefs, and Vietnamese Identity in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Black-Eyed Women” Mengni Kang, Macau University of Science and Technology
- A Haunting Poetics: The Forever Fractures of the Vietnam War in Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root Fractures Taylor Roberts
- Language in a Loop: Literature(s) of Vietnamese Diasporic Identity MAI NGUYEN
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Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Organizers: Philip Mills, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt); Joel De Lara, Georgetown University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- There's the bit where you say it and the bit where you take it back Ingeborg Löfgren, Uppsala universitet (Uppsala University)
- Falling Short of Language: Studies of Performative Dialogue in William Gaddis’ JR Tucker Conine, University of Colorado Boulder
- ‘Probably Deceitful and Doubtless Wrong’? Perlocutionary Responsibility in Austin, Cavell, & Atwood Erin Greer, The University of Texas at Dallas
- How to Do Things with Animals: J. L. Austin, a Donkey, and J. M. Coetzee Philip Mills, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt)
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Becoming-Other through Mimesis: The Tradition of Mimicry in Modernist Literature Joshua Elwer, Universität Leipzig (Leipzig University)
- Reading for Resonance: The Agency of Friendship Curtis Gruenler, Hope College
- Spiraling Out of Hand: Story of the Eye and the Mimetic Unconscious Menno Lenting, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- The Resistance to Metaphor: Between Mimesis and Metamorphosis in Contemporary Poetry by Natalie Diaz and Yu Jian Siyu Xie, Johns Hopkins University
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Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, University of Chicago; Joseph Staten, University of Illinois at Chicago

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Renewal and Sacrifice in Ali Smith's Spring and the Ballets Russes's The Rite of Spring Patty Argyrides
- Notes on modernist features in Eduardo Coutinho’s "Playing" Vitor Soster, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
- Zoot Suits and Modernist Bodies: On the Reparative Impulse of Troy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye Nate Mickelson, New York University
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Oceanic Humanities

Organizers: Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy; Colin Dewey, California State University Maritime Academy

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- #NotAllShips? The Political Unconscious and Seafaring Today Colin Dewey, California State University Maritime Academy
- Poetics at Sea: Reading the Archive of Slavery and the Oceanic as Method and Mediation in Zong! Monica Ren, Brown University
- Decolonizing the Sea: Memory, Trauma and Resistance in Caribbean Literature Idaliz Roman
- Wood and Water Melissa Gniadek, University of Toronto
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Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Organizer: Yuanfei Wang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Fa'a'a from France: Temaru, Tefana, and Radio Silence Rosemary Peters-Hill, Louisiana State University
- Beyond Surfboards to Sacredness: The Meanings of the Sea in South Africa Lucy Graham, University of Johannesburg
- The Atlantic Ocean and Slave Ships as (non-)places of memory in Black Atlantic literature Aurelia Mouzet, University of Arizona
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Photographic Practices of Repair

Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Repairing the Past: Photographic Representation of the Bosnian War and Srebrenica Genocide Una Tanovic, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Between the Malón and the Awkan: Photographic Traces of the Chilean Invasion of Mapuche Territories Candela Marini, MSOE University
- In Search of ‘My Beloved Pauline’ Hande Sever, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
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Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- What It’s Not Quite Like: Naturalized Negative Qualia in the Poetry of Melville and Hahn Dorin Smith, University of Chicago
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Stream of Consciousness, and the Victorian Poetics of Experience Atti Viragh, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
- The Dialogues of Consciousness in Metapoetry: A Close Reading of Zhang Zao's Works Langqiu Zhang, Newcastle University
- Echoes of Consciousness and Embodied Form in Ovid's Echo and Narcissus Pei He, New York University
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Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rafid C, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- “Literature and Politics?”: Interrogating Plural Identities in Contemporary “Postcolonial South Asian” Fiction Anupama Kuttikat, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India
- Reading the Plurality of Maternal Labour: Representation of Non Mothers/Ayahs in Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Giver and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day. Sanghamitra Baladhikari, Brainware University
- ‘Indian’ identity and Modernity in Postcolonial South Asian/ Indian Literature Abhinaba Chatterjee, Independent Scholar
- “From the Subaltern to the Precariat”: Postcolonial Precarity and the Narratives of Social Identity Jaseel P, NIT Calicut, India
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mimesis and World Literature: The Representation of Reality in an Era of Postnational Capitalism Robert Tally, Texas State University
- Realist Existence and The Politics of Potential Totalities Gabriele Lazzari, University of Surrey
- Toward a Cosmopolitan Listening: Precarity and Openness in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000) Ruochen Bo, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Gurnah and the Silent Compulsions of Representation Ashwin Bajaj, University of California, Irvine
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Rebooting World SF

Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Praiseworthy as Critical World SF Matt Morgenstern, Purdue University
- Rogue Code: World SF through Tropes Cynthia Shin, Indiana University Bloomington
- Postworlding SF Ian MacDonald, Florida Atlantic University
- American Science Fiction Through Other Continents: Vandana Singh’s fiction as American SF, Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction as world SF Shaoni White, University of California Davis (UC Davis)
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Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

Organizers: Jecheol Park, Seoul National University; Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Dream Apparatus (across Film, Video, and Poetry) Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University
- Radically saying no? Agents and the Creation of Cultures of Artificial Intelligence through artistic practices Sonja Thiel, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- The Museum of Failure: Technology, Art, and Posthuman conditions Juhyeon Gu
- Paying Attention: De/Culturing the Global Youth Yu-I (Yvette) Hsieh, Rutgers University
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The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

Organizer: Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- ‘Translation as Negotiation’: Translating Anti-Caste Non-Fiction Aadhavan Pazhani, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Critical Caste Studies and Cinema: Aesthetic, Affective and Ethical Dimensions Manju Edachira, Brandeis University
- Encasted Formalism Notes on Reading Caste Scripts in "Annayya's Anthropology" Vivek V. Narayan, Ashoka University
- Jigsaw of Discolouration: Anti-caste Poetics, Reading and Writing Dickens Leonard, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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The Person in Law & Culture

Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, University of California Santa Barbara; Peter Schneck, Osnabrück University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Form and Politics, Personhood and Plain Style, in the American Slave Narrative Emma Brush, Stanford University
- The Black Jurisprudential Vanguard Jeannine DeLombard, University of California Santa Barbara
- The Loopholes of Personhood Carrie Hyde, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Organizers: Noah Terrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Horrifying Whiteness and Jordan Peele's Get Out Julia Mollenthiel, University of Florida
- Queer Body Horror: Contemporary Mutations of a Political Subgenre Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Body Horror and the Brazilian Gothic: The Haunted Mansion in Clarice Lispector’s O Lustre SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Body Horror and Religion: A Critical Analysis of Posthumous Torture in Film Nurdini Tsabitul Chusna, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
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Translating the Caribbean

Organizers: Simona Bertacco, University of Louisville; Laura Ekberg, Turun yliopisto (University of Turku)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Antilles: Fragments of Translation Giuseppe Sofo, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Reading the Archipelagic: Translation and Creolized Englishes Olga Blomgren, Oregon State University
- Of Reparation and Repair: Colonial Contact Zones and the Wagers of Implicated Translation Elena Basile, York University
- Dante in Caribbean Translations and Into Italian? Roberta Cimarosti, University of Calabria (Italy)
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Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

Organizers: Lucas Klein, Arizona State University; Chris Song, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- From Homosocial Utopia to Heterosexual Socialism: Translations and Transcultural Transformations of Walt Whitman’s “Calamus” in May Fourth and Socialist China Liansu Meng, University of Connecticut
- The Chinese Sonnet: Re-inventing the Invention of Chinese Poetry for Our Time Timothy Billings, Middlebury College
- When the Lyrical Encounters with Anti-lyricism: the Translation of T.S.Eliot’s Poetics of Impersonality and the Anti-Lyricist Poetic Discourse in 20th-century Chinese Poetry(1920-1940s and 1980s-1990s) Wenxin Jin, Ca'foscari University of Venice-Sorbonne Nouvelle University
- Du Fu’s Travels in America and Britain: Text, Context, and Authorial Intent in Translation Lucas Klein, Arizona State University
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TV-Philosophy

Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Elif Sendur, Rutgers University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Twin Peaks as Cinematic Antidote to the Serial Addictions of Traditional Narrative Guillermo Rodriguez, California State University, Northridge
- The Watching Dead: Television Seriality as Zombie Apocalypse Andrea Gyenge, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Providence College; Julia Calderón, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Cleaning up the Crime: Contamination, Purification, and Colonial Hybridity in Victorian Detective Fiction Yixuan Jiang, University of Washington
- Exploring the Backstreets of History: The Spectre of Colonialism Revisited in Contemporary Bengali Detective Fictions Swarnima Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Foreignness and Nationalism: Detective Fiction in Gujarati Post Indian Independence Abhimanyu Acharya, University of Western Ontario
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Varieties of the Impersonal

Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate Center

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Impersonality vs. Mediation: The Eyeball and the Shepherd Tong Liu, Stanford University
- Impersonal Feelings and Forms in German Expressionism Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate Center
- Kannon and Hercules after Lenin: Ekphrasis as Impersonal Aesthetics Alexander Lin, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- The Intellectual’s Impersonal: Adorno’s Minima Moralia and the Problem of Solitude Jason Han, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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What is in Plain Sight?

Organizers: Miryam Segal; Yitzhak Lewis, Queens College, CUNY

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Vigilante Violence: Do You See What I See? Yiru Lim, Singapore University of Social Sciences
- Joseph McElroy’s Cannonball and the Trap of the Visual Meaghan Murphy, Indiana University Bloomington
- The Anatomy of a Family Secret Klara Boger, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Justice at Home Miryam Segal
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Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- James Baldwin: White Racism or World Community in “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” (1965) Ronnel Keith Berry, Austin Peay State University
- The Historical Christian Origins of White Class Development Sharonda Stith, Saint Louis University
- Original Sins: Demystifying Whiteness as Property in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Andrew Hamilton, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- The White Masochism of Hegel’s Theory of the Subject Andres Henao Castro, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Unsettling Whiteness: Hauntings and Racialized Affects in Post-1980 American Fiction Audrey Deveault, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Work

Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- "He's Gonna Try": Work and the Gimmick in Professional Wrestling Brian Jansen, University of Maine
- Memes and Désoeuvrement, or the Absence of Work in Postsocialist China Qianxiong Yang, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Anxious, Depressed, and Exhausted: Representing the Achievement Generation in Contemporary Screen Cultures Salman Rafique, Oklahoma State University
- The Work Image: Representation, Time, and Alienation Jason Read, University of Southern Maine
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Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

Organizers: Marc Botha, Durham University; Heather Yeung, University of Dundee

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Petric Poetics: Rockery Reveries and Sedimental Depositions Paul Harris, Loyola Marymount University
- POETICS IN EROSION: BETWEEN WORDS, IMAGES, MEMORY AND OBLIVION Deborah Castro, UNIFAL-MG
- Melville's Jerusalem: Stony Metropolis of Stones Dafna Shetreet, New York University (NYU)
- Land Claims and Memorialisation in Cree and Settler Lithic Poetics: Three Stones from the Treaty 6 Region Samuel DeMarco
- Deep Lines: Inscribing Fragility in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay Marc Botha, Durham University
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12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Designing “Open” Nationalism: Techno-nationalistic Imagining in Indonesian Free Open Source Software Activism Iskandar Zulkarnain, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Manifesto of a National Defense Cinema: Towards an ‘Artistic Battleline’ and Cinema as Militant Environment in Pre-War Chinese Film Criticism Chuanhui Meng, Brown University
- Playing in the Shadow: Or How a Stolen Police Archive Unscrambles Standard Media Historiographies Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
- Piracy as Praxis: Subverting Archival Constraints in Indian Media Studies Rahul Kumar, University of Pittsburgh
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“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University; Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Ontario

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Cognitive Estrangement and Climate Futures: Speculative Fiction's Role in Reimagining Human Rights in the Age of Environmental Crisis Nimisha Sinha, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Contesting the Humanitarian Imaginary in Recent Refugee-Made Film agnes woolley, University of Southampton
- Privilege, Confession, and the Self-Help Genre: Constructions of the Human Rights Grantmaker Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University
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(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany Buscio

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Un-be-longing: Nostalgia in Diaspora Aliyah Alsaber, Imam Muhammad bin Saud University
- Subalternity of the Philippine Post-War Politics: Narrating Decolonial Political Rhetorics from 1946-1965 Joshua Derick Noveras, Ateneo de Manila University
- Placing Nostalgia: Empire, Home and British Women in India Anuparna Mukherjee, IISER Bhopal
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Qur’anic Cipher-Aesthetic Shawkat Toorawa, Yale University
- Stories of King Solomon in the Tanakh and the Qur'an: A Comparative Reading Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Barnard College
- Revelation and the Limits of Argument Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College
- A Prayer for Mimesis? Reframing Islam in Cinema Michael Allan, University of Oregon
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Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi, Columbia University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The diseuse’s double voicing: Relaying history in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee Penny Yeung, Rutgers University
- Fragmentary Narratives: Blurring Fiction and Non-Fiction in Arantxa Urretabizkaia's Bidean Ikasia Beñat Sarasola, Universidad del País Vasco (University of the Basque Country)
- La mala educación: The Limits and Dangers of Filming Trauma in the Spanish Democratic Transition Pascual Brodsky Soria, University of Southern California
- Mnemonic codification and mnemonic fragmentation: Tracing the Memory Laws in Michelle Maillet’s L’Étoile noire Louis Segura, Stevens Institute of Technology
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After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

Organizer: Laura Ritland, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- English No More: The Rise of Pacific Literature Maebh Long, University of Otago Matthew Hayward, University of the South Pacific
- Transnational Histories and Literary Representations of English Literary Studies in India Anushmita Mohanty, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Decolonising English Studies: A Methodology from the Global South Shantanu Majee, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
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Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Stratigraphic Vision of Blake's Lambeth Works John Vanderheide, Huron University College
- Blake’s Experimental Events: Reading Deleuze’s Event and Time-Image in The Book of Urizen and The Book of Los. Adam Mohamed, Western University
- Thought, Dreams, and Desire in Shelley’s Poetry, from Julian and Maddalo to Prometheus Unbound, with Deleuze and Guattari Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University
- Phrenological Desire and the Head of William Blake David Baulch, University of West Florida
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Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Organizers: Roland Vegso, University of Georgia; Rok Bencin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The World: The Tormented Present of an Inescapable Para-Concept Bruno Besana
- Worlds Beyond Making; or, How to Do Harm with Worlds Grant Dempsey, University of Western Ontario
- The Multiplicity of Worlds: From a Phenomenological Ideal to a Transcendental Condition Rok Bencin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- “Bribes et Morceaux”. Rethinking the Paradigm of Bricolage in a Worldless Age Anna Montebugnoli, NABA - Nuova accademia di belle arti (Rome)
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Reclaiming Castilian Heritage: La Perdiz Roja's Cultural Revival in the Face of Rural Depopulation David Delgado, Carleton College
- Rurality in Exile in Juan Ramón Jiménez’s La isla de la simpatía (1981) Robert Myak, University of Kentucky
- Nostalgia for Freedom: Rebellious Rural Landscapes in the Poetry of Juan Antonio Corretjer Victor Figueroa, Wayne State University
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Body, Language

Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Apostrophe and the Unborn Emily Apter, New York University
- The Dragooned Spectator: La traviata norma's Performative Etiolations Matthew Zundel, Miami University
- The Avoidance of Body Serena Luckhoff, Brown University
- Stone Femme Blues. Masoch and the Pornologos Phyllis Koehler, University of Cambridge
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Breath Poetics

Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Free-Breathings, Breath-Pennings: Alliteration and Labor in the Poetry of William Barnes Timothy Anderson, University of East Anglia
- Breathwork: On respiration, labour, and poetry Mae Losasso, University of Warwick
- The Breath Drive: Vers Libre and the Animation of the Poetic Subject Britton Edelen, Duke University
- Death Gasps and Extinction at the Margins: the Thanaecopoetics of Breathing Orchid Tierney, Kenyon College
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Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Anti-Woke Legislation: Human Rights and the Child-in-Peril Wendy Hesford, The Ohio State University
- Webs of Care in Life Narratives of Child-Changemakers Lena Khor, Lawrence University
- Queering Ecological Futures: Toxic Bodies and the Polluted Wild in Young Adult Fantasy Literature Betsy Kwong, Hong Kong Baptist University
- YA Cli-Fi: Speculations of Children’s & Environmental Rights in the Future Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

Organizers: Michael Reyes, Vassar College; Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate University; Cait Jones, Carleton University; Armin Fardis, San Francisco State University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Caribbean Georgic and Fugitive Personhood Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- RoboCopaganda: Glorification of Police Violence through Technology in the Diamond Age American Comic Books Ibrahim Mertcan Alcinkaya, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
- “One of the Fallen”: Narrative Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Another Country Cait Jones, Carleton University
- “Remember Oluwale”: Caryl Phillips’ Challenge to Policing and/as Nation Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate University
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Comparative Indenture

Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Notes Toward a Global System of Asian Indenture Rebecca Liu, Brown University
- Blurring the Boundaries between Marronage and Vagrancy: Comparing Raphaël Confiant's Case À Chine and David Dabydeen's The Counting House Weibing NI, University of Cambridge
- In Labor Subhalakshmi Gooptu, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology
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Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Comparison and Other Enigmas Rusaba Alam
- Decolonial Cosmopolitan Translation and Detranslation Antonette Arogo, De La Salle University Manila
- Hubert Aquin and Laplanchian "Detranslation": Impossible Association in Trou de memoire Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia
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Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, University of Houston; Sucheta Kanjilal, The University of Tampa

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Comparing Indian Romanticisms Sravanthi Kollu, Boston University
- Hindi on the Hooghly: Calcutta as Comparative Space Rahul Parson, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Yeh Prithvi rahegi?: Planetarity in the Non-Anglophone Imaginary Joya John, Krea University
- Hindi Historical Fiction: Literary Engagements with the Past Sujata Mody, North Carolina State University
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Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Is a Literary Critic an Alter Ego for a Literary Translator? Babak Mazloumi, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
- THE OVIEDO PROJECT: A Collaborative English Translation of Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias, 1526-1558 Lizabeth PARAVISINI-GEBERT, Vassar College
- A Luxury of Translation Collaboration: The Making of the Last Forty Chapters of "The Story of the Stone" Shuang Xiao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- AI and Human Intelligence in Poetry Translation: Towards a Sustainable Future Sohan Sharif, Jahangirnagar University
- Translation Slams as Comparative Collaboration Annelise Finegan, New York University (NYU)
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Cultures of Energy Transition

Organizers: Martin Premoli, Pepperdine University; Izzy Lockhart, New York University (NYU)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Carbon and the Humanities Elizabeth Holt, Bard College
- Energy Transition in Alberta’s Coal Mining Heritage Sites Claire Fox, University of Iowa
- Shifting Imaginaries of Oil: The Chadian Experience in Resource Exploitation Yorbana Seign-goura, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
- Affective Dimensions of Energy Transition: Reading Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud Against its Petrocolonial History Anna Aschauer, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Imagining a Just Transition in Saci Lloyd's The Carbon Diaries Martin Premoli, Pepperdine University
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Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of Houston

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Decolonization and the movement novel Anna Bernard, King's College London
- Israel/Palestine as Allegory Oded Nir, Queens College, CUNY
- Of Muses and Models: Omkara and the Decolonizing Potential of Adaptations Simran Vijan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Diagramming the Borderlands: Multimodal Intersections in Contemporary Experimental Poetry Eirini Panagiotidou, West Chester University
- A diagrammatology of photographic writing Tilo Reifenstein, York St John University
- Figural patterns in breaking language Kiff Bamford, Leeds Beckett University
- Fils, Weavings, Seams – On Texts and Textiles in Deconstruction Eva-Maria Aigner, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- Tracing / designing the figural. Insights from Jacques Rancière’s theory of writing Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts
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Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University; Peter Baker, University of Stirling

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Experience of the University Pedro Aguilera-Mellado, University of Notre Dame
- Community College is for Thinking (about Thinking)! Williston Chase, Southwestern College
- De-schooling Writing, De-schooling Life GABRIELA MENDEZ COTA, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de Mexico
- Reconceptualising polycystic ovaries as sexual variation Emma McCabe, University of Stirling
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Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University; Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “All Wrong Somehow”: Girlhood, Girling, and Gender Trouble in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss Christina Gilligan, Brown University
- Becoming American Girls: Racialized Dollhood in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands Sofia Chavez, Dartmouth College
- Inhabitable Identities of Digital Girlhood Aleksandra Kamińska, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
- Black Girlhood Aesthetics & the Politics of Prefiguration Desirée de Jesús, York University
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Hegel and World Literature

Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College Dublin

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The prodigal daughters of world literature Christina Chalmers, New York University
- Futile Singulars: Alice Neel and the Monadology of “Wageless Life” Andrew Haas, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Hegel's Fantasies; or The Religion of Narcissism Adam Koutajian, Harvard University
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Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Ilios Willemars, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Incompossible maps, weird geographies: Lost, disappearing, and digital islands in real life, literature and virtual reality Maria Boletsi, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
- South Sea-sickness: Virality and Virtuality in U.S. “Hawaiian Fevers” Briand Gentry, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Incompossible Islands: Insurance and Echo in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel Ilios Willemars, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
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Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

Organizers: Rini Tarafder, University of Denver; Amrapali Chatterjee, Western University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sarnath Bannerjee's "All Quiet in Vikaspuri" as Counter-Map: Water Wars in Delhi and the Graphic Narrative Suniti Madaan, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies
- Crumbling Infrastructures: Material Re-imaginings in The Lid of the Pickle Jar Pooja Shah, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- A poetics of anticipation in Zona by Atilio Caballero Nicole Fadellin, Ursinus College
- Infrastructure and the "forefront of progress" in the Modernisms of John Dos Passos Ethan King, Brandeis University
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Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

Organizers: Jean Amato, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology; Kyunghee Pyun, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Portrait of the Artist in the Living Room: Black Mothering, Musical Home-Making, and the Hip Hop Generation Jennifer Stoever, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Repurposing Domesticity for the Digital Age: A case study of Indian Cottage Core Shreya Rastogi, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
- Homemaking in Transit Spaces: Exploring Refugee Agency and Spatial Dynamics in Appadurai Muttulingam’s Where God Began Jenisha T, Central University of Tamil Nadu
- Reclaiming Home: Women's Narratives of Displacement, Survival, and Social Reproduction Baraa Abuzayed, Queen's University Ontario
- Building Black Usonia: 409 Edgecombe Avenue, The Harlem River Houses, and the Architecture of Urban Democracy Edward Pinuelas, California State University, Fullerton
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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The ‘Futures of Labour’ in the Utopian and Political Writings of Mathilde Blind and Eleanor Marx Paula Guimarães, Universidade do Minho
- War Labors: Violence as Women’s Work in Joanna Russ’ The Female Man (1970) Emily Foister, New York University (NYU)
- The Mother Machine in the Garden: Imagining Reproductive Labor in Science Fiction MacKenzie Patterson, Boston University
- Motherhood’s Nightmares: Reproductive Labor in Elaine Vilar Madruga’s El cielo de la selva Emily Maguire, Northwestern University
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Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

Organizers: Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri; José Luis Suárez Morales, Texas Christian University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Institutional Surpluses and Narrative Supplements in Diderot, Deleuze and David Simon Björn Quiring, Trinity College, Dublin
- Abbas Khider’s A Slap in the Face: Institutional Ruins and Refugees Nurettin Ucar, Oklahoma State University
- "La marcha de la gorra" and The Police as Defective Institution Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri
- National Afterlives: Literature and A-ruination in Latin America Sebastian Antezana Quiroga, Brown University
- From Campus Novel to Adjunctroman: "The Groves of Academe" and the University’s Long Downturn Aaron Obedkoff, Emory University
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Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

Organizers: Sarah Vidal Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC); Iker Arranz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Is the Post- in Postmagical Realism the Same as the Post- in Postcolonial and Postmodernism? Cesar Dominguez, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC - University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Strange Worlds: Anomaly Tale Structure as a Magical Realist Medium Daniel Monzingo, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Toward a Vernacular Magical Realism: Notes on the Literary Form in Akhtaruzzaman Elias’ Khoabnama Sandipan Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A New Wave of Fever: Spanish Rewritings, Documentaries, and Literary Pilgrimages to Sanmao Wenxin Liang, Emory University
- La melancolía racial: la identidad chino-española como resistencia y empoderamiento Huei Lan Yen, Grand Valley State University Martha Galvan, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
- Traveling Among Violence and Care: Tourism, Diasporic Memory, and Relationality in Quan Zhou Wu’s La agridolce vita (2023) Hyerim Hong, Northwestern University
- Voices and Visions: The Linguistic and Cultural Portrayal of Chinese in Chinas Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University
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Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Metalcasting, Mimesis, and the Indexical Trace: Jewelry Molds and the Making of Meaning Margaret Graves, Brown University
- Arabic Mimesis in Practice Lara Harb, Princeton University
- Aristotelian Mimesis and the Persian Poetics of Ekphrasis: Inducing Love, Misrecognizing the Object of Desire in Nezāmi’s Khosrow and Shirin Domenico Ingenito, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Is the Beloved Idol an Icon or an Index? On Referentiality and Persian Poetic Convention Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University
- Reed Pipe Metaphors as Mimetic Devices From Hesiod to Rūmī Dustin Klinger, University of Cambridge
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Odd Temporalities

Organizers: Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Scully, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Abyssal Times Matthew Scully, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)
- Reclaiming “Meanwhile” as Non-Normative Temporal Relationship Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Accident, Catastrophe, Gaza Simon Swift, University of Geneva
- Simultaneity Between Wars: Abel Gance and T.S. Eliot Against Causal Time Juan Camilo Velasquez, New York University
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Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Fulbright University Vietnam; Adam Yaghi, New York University Shanghai

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Violence as Seen in Different Aspects: Tehmina Durrani’s A Feudal Lord Mohsina Shafqat Ali, University of Waterloo
- Inarticulate Violence and the Immovable Object in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Cynthia Nazarian, Northwestern University
- “The painter was no god”: Breaking the fourth wall with Hecuba in Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece Elizabeth Liendo, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

Organizers: Steven Maye, Capilano University; Maria Dikcis, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Anational Voices in Korean American Poetry Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz, University of Kentucky
- Reparative Autopoiesis: Rethinking Conceptualism through Recorded and Authorial Voice in Jordan Abel’s NISHGA Jay Ritchie, McGill University
- Dance in Slow Motion: Politics, Aesthetics and Narratives of Caste in Indian Cinema Shikha JHINGAN, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Procedures for an expanded field of poetry in Juan Luis Martínez's “La nueva novela” (1977) Ramiro Caces, University of Maryland, College Park
- Wikipedia’s Voice: Evading Character in Contemporary Writing Steven Maye, Capilano University
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Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

Organizers: Nida Sajid, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Muhammad Numan, University of Management and Technology, Lahore

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “Moner Akalpo”: Architecture, Trauma, Healing and Identity in Tagore’s “Pratham Puja” Aadrit Banerjee, University of Delhi
- De-structuring Memory and the Shifting Affective Terrains: Bengali Identity and Survival in Assam UDITA BANERJEE, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
- Hindi Progressivism and the Bengal Famine of 1943 - Social or Traumatic Realism Justyna Kurowska, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (University of Würzburg)
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Politics and Desire in the Archive

Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Why Do We Queer the Black Archive? Valerie Fryer-Davis, CUNY Graduate Center
- Tituba in Two Acts: Reading Saidiya Hartman Through Maryse Condé Lucas Joshi, Brown University
- Making the Past Speak for the Present: Harlem Renaissance’s Nordic Archives and Transnational Histories of Race iida pöllänen, Tampereen yliopisto (University of Tampere)
- Unsettling Multicultural Palatability in Asian Canadian Performance and Poetics: Living Archives of Haruko Okano and Fred Wah’s High(bridi)Tea Fiana Kawane, Simon Fraser University
- Desire and Jovita González Mireles’s Fragmented Archival Presence Mercedes Trigos, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Postcolonial Formalism in Context

Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of Cambridge

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Misreading Plot Holes for Politics, or Why I Didn't Like The White Tiger: Toward a Hermeneutics of Failure Jason Sandhar, University of Windsor
- Haze as form in Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy Brennan McCracken, Concordia University
- Postcolonial Formalism and Dreams Katherine Hallemeier, University of Geneva
- Revisiting the Revisionary Paradigm: Multiperspectivity as a Negative Strategy in James Gabriele D'Amato, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
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Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

Organizers: George Handley, Brigham Young University; Animesh Roy, St. Xavier's College, Simdega, India

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Earthly Bodhisattva at Green Gulch: Wendy Johnson’s Gardening and World-making Practices Serena Chou, National Taiwan Normal University/Academia Sinica
- Postcolonial Literature, Ecotheology, and Climate Crisis: Beyond the Secular and Sacred Imaginaries of the Anthropocene Animesh Roy, St. Xavier's College, Simdega, India
- Pantheism in the Works of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay: A Spiritual Connection with Nature Bosudha Bandyopadhyay, Amity University, Pujab
- Joyce, Catholicism, and the Environment Christopher McGowan, Yale University
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Reconfigurations of Postcolonial Literary Realism: Form, Aesthetics, Politics Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Supplementing Socialist Realism: The Ups and Downs of Revolutionary Romanticism in Twentieth-Century China Xiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- “Collective Haunting: Maoist voices in contemporary realist fiction” Meghan Gorman-DaRif, San Jose State University
- Mimesis, Aestheticism, Anti-Communism: Negotiating Realism in Socialist Yugoslavia Aleksandar Stevic, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
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Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

Organizers: Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Speculative Johannesburg: Non-realist Form and Mutation as Urban Trope Timothy Wright, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
- Formal Dome City, Informal Utopian Village: Re-mapping the Globe in Kim Cho-yeop's The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth Mi Jeong Lee, Seoul National University
- Open/Closed Cities: Imagined Communities After the City Jacob Soule, Drew University
- Scale and Critical Utopia: The City in Ursula K LeGuin Liam Lanigan, Governors State University
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Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam); Tessel Veneboer, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Disruptive patterns: (re)sexualizing queer theory Jacinta van de Ven
- Meaning it Literally: Feminist Style and Sex’s Semiotics Dana Glaser, University of Chicago
- Sexual difference, Queer Theory, and the Place of Feminist Celibacy Tessel Veneboer, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
- Affirming pleasure: queer theory and ambivalence Marco Borkent, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
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Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Race, Settlement, and the Narrations of Florida’s Citrus Empire Quynh Nhu Le, University of South Florida
- The Testimonio in Rolando Hinojosa’s Korean War Fiction: Linking Multiple Souths of US Empire Sandra Kim, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- Uranium Southscapes, From South Africa to South Carolina Jessica Hurley, George Mason University
- ATLiens, Alabama Saturnians, and the North Carolina Mothership: Reading Black Intergalactic Southscapes Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas
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The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

Organizers: Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside); Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Gabriela Mistral's Mother Tongue: Translation and the Non-Originary Origins Inger Flem, University of Southern California
- Economies of imperial, creolizing and philological translation Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- Symptom and Translation: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Trauma’s Language Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- Poetic translation (the experience of forms) Andrés Claro, Universidad de Chile
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The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “Such Thick Skins”: Recuperating Home and Migrant Intimacy in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift Qiujie Cheng, University College London
- Black Swans and the Ecologies of Displacement and Renewal in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book Pavithra Tantrigoda, University of Central Florida
- Delisted: Form and Failure in Ecological Poetics Kimberly Andrews, University of Ottawa
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The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

Organizers: Carlos Gontijo Rosa, Federal University of Acre (UFAC); Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Eastward Journeys, Digital Returns: Chinese Adaptations of Modernist Drama Hanchen Feng, The Central Academy of Drama
- Dancing With/out Borders: The Theme, Vocabulary, and Cultural Identity in Chinese-style Ballroom Dance Xueting Zhu, Ohio State University
- Opera from the Periphery? Carlos Gomes’s Il Guarany reappropriated Joao Marcos Copertino, Harvard University
- Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with a Brazilian spice Carlos Gontijo Rosa, Federal University of Acre (UFAC)
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Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

Organizer: Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Freedom, or the Spacing of Politics in Derrida and Nancy Matías Bascuñan
- Aversions to Reading Ren Ellis Neyra, Wesleyan University
- Allegories of the Concept: de Man and Balibar Joseph Serrano, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Onanism and Derrida: the Voice of Nature and the Politics of the Supplement in Rousseau's Emile Bianca Messinger, University at Buffalo (The State University of New York)
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Translation and Autotheory

Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of Iowa

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Mónica de la Torre’s Autotranslation as Autotheory Stefania Heim, Western Washington University
- The Translator as Celebrity: Heightened Visibility and Non-Split Subjectivity Jaeyeon Yoo, Duke University
- Not Too Quickly: Translation Memoirs as Errant Practice Derick Mattern, Washington University in St. Louis
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Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

Organizer: Valeria Meiller, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Puerto Rican Woman Writer in the Shadow of the Botanical Garden Olga Nedvyga, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Queering Trees: Silvina Ocampo’s Sensuous Arboretum Lucas Mertehikian, New York Botanical Garden
- Affects of Extinction. Modes of the Vegetal in “Herbaria” and “Atomic Garden”. Irene Depetris Chauvin, Tulane University
- Ecodelic Substances as Biotechnological Devices in Gabriela Damián Miravete's “La sincronía del tacto” (2021) Iván Díez De la Pava, Georgetown University
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Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA); Irene Bulla, Independent Scholar

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Unreliable Narrator(s) in Chateaubriand’s René and George Sand’s Indiana Christopher Bains, United States Air Force Academy
- Who is Reliable? ーAn Analysis of Narrations in The Novels of Henry James and Mark Twain Related to Their Adaptationsー Tomoko Inoue, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- From Naturalism to Experimentalism: Emilia Pardo Bazán's "South-Express" Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University
- Impersonality, Gossip, and Unreliability: The Case of Naturalist Literature Carlo Arrigoni, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA)
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Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Circumscribing Fetishism A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester College
- Sense of Unending Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto
- My Fixations: Reading Time Elissa Marder, Emory University
- After Benjamin Ian Balfour, York University
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We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Emma Lieber

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Hamlet Comes to a Psychoanalytic Institute: Literary Interpretation in the Therapy Room Danielle Drori, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
- From the Real to the Phantasy: Lacan and the Textuality of Desire Syed Haider Ali, McGill University
- Crushing, towards a theory of Ana Schwartz, The University of Texas at Austin
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What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Black or Blackness, Color or Surplus: Moten and the Globally Nonexistent Joseph Shafer, Philipps-Universität Marburg (University of Marburg)
- Racial Conscription and Its Limits: Antinomies of Race in Teju Cole's Open City and Tremor Brenda Tan, Rice University
- Cultural Specificity and the Global Black Imagination: Africanfuturism in Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone Rebecca Amonor, Washington University in St. Louis
- I Am Black Too: How Do Ogbanje, Black Intersectionality, and Migratory Subjectivities Shape the New Black Feminist Library? Hapsatou Wane, Georgia Southern University
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Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Making Race Easy: Whiteness and American Multiculturalism in Bridgerton Anwesha Kundu, Centre College
- Satire not Solidarity: The Indian Burial Ground on T.V. Caitlyn Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Eracing Whiteness: Redescribing Racial Difference in Contemporary American Writing Kevin Trumpeter, Allen University
- Technology of Racialization: Scarlett Johansson’s Performance of Whiteness in Ghost in the Shell (2017) Sheng Chiang, Washington University in St. Louis
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- 'Las brujas saben cambiar de género': The witch as a fluid being in Latin American literary history. Elena von Ohlen, Universität Duisburg-Essen (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Body-territory in Fernanda Melchor's Temporada de huracanes: Transfemicide, Extractivism and Pedagogies of Cruelty Ana Marina Gamba, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)
- Gothic Gender: Vengeance Against Gender Violence in Jayro Bustamante's Film "La llorona" (2019) Vivian Arimany, Columbia University
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2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

(Un)Easy Entanglements: Agency, Alliances, and Affinities of Translators and Language Teachers

Organizers: Shane Carreon, University of the Philippines; Ayelén Rosario Tissera, Instituto de Estudios Superior Clara Janet Armstrong

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- American Phonics: A Roiling Rennae Robinson, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
- Developing intercultural communicative competence at primary and secondary school: a new vision to teaching English as a foreign language Claudia Elizabet Silva, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca
- Teaching a Multilingual Community in English as a Non-Native English Speaker Yeojin Kim, University at Buffalo/SIM
- Interrupting the coloniality of English Instruction – Putting ELT at the Center of Imagining Gabriela Veronelli
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ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

Organizers: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta; Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston; Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Bad Reading and Literary Anxieties in Ottoman Tanzimat Literature: An Analysis of Hayal ve Hakikat Zehra Yedidal, Ibn Haldun University
- Emmas' Illusion: How "Bad Reading" Shapes Contemporary Chinese Literary Trends Yushan Lei, Fudan University Xuanyu Ding, Fudan University
- Negotiating Diasporic Fantasy with Identity Construction - Bad Reading and its Over-correction in Chinese American Literature Shuwen Qi, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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ADPCL Panel: "2024 Survey of PhD Programs in Comparative Literature in the U.S.: Takeaways and Next Steps"

Organizers: Yopie Prins; Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas; Michael Allan, University of Oregon

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Alternatives to Narrative

Organizer: Nina Farizova, Kalamazoo College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Mechanisms of Poetry as Forms of Resistance to Narrativity Roi Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv University
- Rethinking Lyric Identity: The Urdu Ghazal and Non-Narrative Conceptions of Self Nomaan Hasan, Brown University
- Beyond 'He' and 'She': Ungendered Anti-Narrative in Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva Amanda Parente Vieira, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)
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Anti-Fascist Worldmaking

Organizers: Jessy Bell, Northwestern University; Patrick Noonan, Northwestern University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Alonzo Elliott Markham's "Odyssey": Prufrock and Mauberly on The Way to the Spanish Civil War Claudio Sansone, National Central University Taiwan
- Madrid’s Multiple Meanings: Urban Documentary Filmmaking as a Mode of Identifying and Reclaiming Fascist Space Jacqueline Sheean, University of Utah
- Testimonies of Beauty & Witnesses to Terror: Aesthetic Solidarity in the Resistance Writings of Peter Weiss & Rene Char Michael Henderson, Washington University in St. Louis
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Multilingualism of “Francophone” African Literature Cullen Goldblatt, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Swahili and Chinese Shylock: Towards a Discourse of Decolonization Jinjian Li
- The Jealous Princess and the Misled Monk: Multilingualism in Capital Narratives in 6th Century China Hsienmin Mia Chu, Academia Sinica
- Sacred Interplay: An Archipelagic Approach to Multilingual Missionary Novels Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Attending To: Regard and Care

Organizers: Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto; Akosua T. Adasi, New York University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Regarding Mercy in Henry Tanner's The Annunciation Timothy Pantoja, New York University (NYU)
- Discerning Love: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Rafael Campo, and Poetic Methods Cole Adams, Duke University
- The Bed is a Word that is Already Here: Doing Disability Justice & Where Ekphrasis Goes EJ KNEIFEL
- The “Negro Woman Worker” According to the State: Report, Rapport, Regard Tiana Reid, York University
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Black Genres of Political Theology

Organizers: Andrew Kaplan, Emory University; Kevin Pyon, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Realizing the Genre of Black Theology Leonard Curry, Xavier University of Louisiana
- Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Political Theology Allison Cardon, Hamilton College
- The Covenant Theology of the Slave Spiritual Tradition: Towards a Slave Religion of Revelation and Revolution Kevin Pyon, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- The Hindered Hand: Divine Impotence and the Torsions of Empire in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton Griggs Joel Auerbach, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Brazilian Literature in English: Cross-Cultural Dialogues and Polysystemic Perspectives

Organizers: Carolina Magaldi; Larissa Daroda, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities

Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska Omaha

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Burning the Bridge? - The University, the Lecture, and the Politics of Tradition Clara Busch, University of Cambridge
- Adapting, Translation and Teaching: The Global Public in Public Humanities Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Bridging Disciplines and Communities: The Tell All the Truth Project and Public Humanities Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska Omaha
- Place-Based Approaches for the Literary Public Humanities: the Empire State Poetry Project Anastasia Nikolis, St. John Fisher College
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Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Illness as narrative, narrative about illness: Making storied sense of ME/CFS Katharine Cheston
- Intersubjectivity, collectiveness and spaces of individuation in epilepsy narratives: a focus on the seizure diary Claire Jeantils, Durham University
- On Anthologies and Autistic Self-Advocacy crystal Lie, California State University, Long Beach
- Francesc Tosquelles and the Construction of Collectivity Candela Potente, International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
- Illness, Loss, and Relationality: The Audience as Collective in Theatre and Shared-Reading Practices Zoë Ghyselinck, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
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Comparative Caribbean Modernisms

Organizer: J. Dillon Brown, Washington University in St. Louis

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Astrid H. Roemer’s Diasporic Caribbean Modernism Ben De Witte, Columbia University
- Literary Revolution and Evolution in Haiti Chelsea Stieber, Tulane University
- Caribbean Modernism and the Possibility of a (Queer) Creole Poetics Rose DuCharme, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
- Global Style: Caribbean Authors as World Authors Sheri-Marie Harrison, University of Missouri
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Comparative Literature's Cold War

Organizer: Cate Reilly, Duke University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Aoua Kéita, Yugoslav Women, and Global Socialist Feminisms Alexandra Perisic, Univerzitet Singidunum (Singidunum University)
- Crossing the Anti-Gender Line: Queer Studies and ‘Classical’ Russian Literature Alexandra Urakova, Södertörns högskola (Södertörn University)
- Cruse in Korčula: On Non-Aligned Discourse(s) Kaitlyn Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Permafrost as (Planetary) Media: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism and Indigenous Loss in Post-Soviet Sakha Republic Maria Romanova, Northwestern University
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Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema

Organizer: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- History in Meta-fiction: Recreating Chinese Spy Heroine in Lou Ye’s Saturday Fiction Kaby Wing Sze Kung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
- Historical vs. Psychological Narrative in Cheng Er's Spy Film Wu Ming Neil Wright, Eastern Kentucky University
- Another Endeavor Towards Individual Freedom Wenyang Zhai, University of Iowa
- The Historical Hinterland of Espionage in South Korean Spy Novels and Film Choa Choi, Brown University
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Cultures of Monoculture

Organizers: Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Ben Beitler, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The monocultural plaint, or monoculture as problem for description Ben Beitler, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Monoculture reading: Following wheat in Émile Zola’s “La Terre” Abigail Fields, Yale University
- Armed on the Plantation: Sugar Production and the Specter of Revolution David Squires, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- The Sugar Beet Industry and the American West: Hope Williams Sykes’ "Second Hoeing" and Jessica Bruder’s "Nomadland" Peter Erickson, Colorado State University
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Arabesques Around a Center of Emptiness: Pater and Woolf Paint the Seasons Rachel Kravetz, Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library
- Prayer and Ekphrasis in Beckett's ...but the clouds... Conor Carville, University of Reading
- Painting Emotions: Affective Memories and Creativity in John Banville’s The Sea Zengxin Ni, Nanyang Technological University
- Imaging Insanity: The Mad Science of Atlas in James Elkins’s Weak in Comparison to Dreams Yunqian Yang, University College London
- You think remembering me is enough. It’s not: Black British Ekphrasis and Landmark Poetics Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

Organizer: Tatiana Konrad, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Colonialism, Disability, and the Environment across Time and Space Tatiana Konrad, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- Blind Horizons: The Worlds of People with Sight Loss during Scotland’s Long Nineteenth Century Iain Hutchison, University of Glasgow
- The (Un)Making of Voice: Nuclear Colonialism, Disability, and Toxic Environmentalism in Marshallese Music Jessica Schwartz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

Organizers: Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Foot Soldiers of Afro-Asian Solidarity : Subhas Mukhopadhyay’s translation of Nazim Hikmet Srimati Ghosal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Treading the Cold War Border: Liu Yichang and the Literary Publishing World in Hong Kong Yiwen Liu, Simon Fraser University
- Nieh Hualing, Mo Yan, and Iowa Amanda Su, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- What Dissidence Can Mean: Two Indian Writers on Freedom Laetitia Zecchini, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Documentary Fever

Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Project Book Era: Documentary Poetics and Academic Discourse Olivia Evans, Samford University
- Oneiric Documentary Poetry & the Politics of Non-waking Life: Raúl Zurita’s Dream Testimonios & Edgar García’s Skins of Columbus Whitney DeVos, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
- ‘Object maintenance’: Chronicling the body in the conceptual self-portraits of Adrian Piper and Bernadette Mayer Hannah Van Hove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels)
- Documenting Beauty and Social Justice in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway, and Joshua Bonetta and J.P. Sniadecki’s El mar La Mar MARIO JIMENEZ CHACON, Colorado State University
- Documentary Writing and Mediation: A Theoretical Exploration through Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary and Herrera’s A Silent Fury Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston University
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Direct Climate Action

Organizers: Adam Hill, McGill University; Denise Henschel, University of Warwick

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Metabolic Sabotage Steven Watts, Mount Marty University
- Bataille’s eco-anxiety: surplus energy and spectacularized acts of sabotage Adam Hill, McGill University
- Animated Female Eco-Terrorists and the Ethics of (Non-)Violence: From “Princess Mononoke” to “Rick and Morty” Karina Mathew, Harvard University
- Aesthetics of Ecological Vengeance: Micro-Minorities and Environmental Rights Lava Asaad, Auburn University
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Evolutions of Literary Theory: The Afterlives of New Criticism, Structuralism, and Others

Organizer: KATHERIN YU, Stanford University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- AI and the Death of the Author-Function Avery Slater, University of Toronto
- Plath Critics on Web 1.0 Joseph Concannon, University of Washington Seattle
- To History, Through Form: Reconsidering the Diachronic in New Critical and Russian Formalisms Dominick Lawton, Stanford University
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Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century

Organizers: Nicolás Sánchez; Daniel Brandlechner; Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Extracting Humanity: Reading the Human in 19th Century Latinx Literature as Non-renewable Resources Anthony Tello, Rutgers University
- On the Receiving End of Empire: Carolina Coronado's Vision of 19th-Century Spain Carles Ferrando Valero, Bowling Green State University
- Una mirada martiana de la deuda ecológica: monstruos, árboles en el comercio transatlántico Rafael Nunez Rodriguez, McGill University
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Forbidden Roads: Travel as Metaphor in Contemporary Eastern European Cultures and Literatures

Organizers: Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University; Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College & Conservatory

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Routes and Veins: Transcorporeal Itineraries in Georgi Gospodinov’s Writing Mihaela Harper, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
- Time to Stay Home? The Ethics of Travel and Movement in Flights through the Lens of Posthuman Phenomenology Franciszek Dziduch, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- Olga Tokarczuk's "Flights" as an Embodiment of the Myth and Metaphor of Travel Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University
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Great Books? Bad Books? Rethinking our Broken Canons

Organizers: Amanda Malone, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Kenneth Sammond, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- What Can Old Books Teach Us about Rethinking the Canon? The example of the Ovide Moralisé Matthieu Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson University Sarah-Jane Murray, Baylor University
- Too Tragic, Too Pornographic, Too American: Chester Himes's Archive of French Rejection Letters Sybil Cooksey, New York University (NYU)
- Space and Ideological Boundaries: The Rejection and Re-reception of Eileen Chang's Lust, Caution GUANQI LU, University of Edinburgh
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How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections

Organizers: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, University of Oregon; Adrienne Resha, University of Virginia

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- To Be Clear: The Ames Lettering Guide, Comics Lettering, and the Demand for Clarity Alexander Ponomareff, University of South Florida
- Seeing Color: Representing Race in CMYK and Digital Colors Chris Gavaler, Washington and Lee University
- Good is Not a Thing Kamala Khan Is, It’s a Thing Ms. Marvel Does Adrienne Resha, University of Virginia
- Marvel Comics Translations in (Francoist) Spain: Othering Identities in Black and White? Nicolas Martinez, Université catholique de l'Ouest (UCO), France
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Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

Organizers: Semilore Sobande, Brown University; Kinaya Hassane, New York University (NYU)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Incommensurate Images: Photography and Labor in the African Indian Ocean Kinaya Hassane, New York University (NYU)
- Reaching for Opacity in Andrew Salkey’s The Adventures of Catullus Kelly and Come Home Malcolm Heartland Steph Brown, University of Arizona
- Anti-Blackness, Transoceanic Slavery, and the (Pre)Legibility of Desire in Red Island House Jordan Taliha McDonald, Harvard University
- Movement, Corpus, Flow Kimberly Juanita Brown, Dartmouth College
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Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

Organizers: Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University; Jordana Greenblatt, York University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Diagnostic Self-Fashioning: Writing the Self Through Disability Zoë Burgard, Yale University
- Generative Frictions: Cripping Medical Illustration Drew Danielle Belsky
- Either This Wallpaper or Wilde: Victorian Biopolitics at 13 Rue des Beaux Arts Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, UT Austin
- “Lifting Belly”: Doing Queer and Trans, Neurodivergent Circus with Gertrude Stein Jordana Greenblatt, York University
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Intimacies Against Empire, Archives of the Ordinary: Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All that It Holds

Organizers: Mo Pareles, University of British Columbia; Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Queer Balkan Fabulation Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia
- "Don’t you see that this is my land?" Desire and Anticolonial History in Qurratulain Hyder's Sita Betrayed Amal Zaman, Fordham University
- Radical Jewish Diasporism and Kinship in Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All That It Holds Braden Russell, University of British Columbia
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Literature and International Development

Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Howard University; Lauren Horst, Columbia University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- From Community to Development: Relation and Economy in Zambian Participatory Theatre, 1972-2022 Susanna Sacks, Howard University
- Unfolding Development: Literary Methods as Tools for Analyzing International Development Narratives and Cultural Diplomacy Iosefina Blazsani Batto, Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai (Babe?-Bolyai University)
- The Discourse of Scarcity: A Counternarrative of Global Development in 1930s China Kun Qian, University of Pittsburgh
- “No one can escape the plague”: Economics and Eros in Gabriel García Márquez's Narrative Kevin Anzzolin, Christopher Newport University
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Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

Organizers: Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney; Meg Brayshaw, The University of Sydney

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Resource nationalism, leftist sentiment and mid-century Australian realism Meg Brayshaw, The University of Sydney
- Extractive regions in Australian literary practice Emily Potter, Deakin University Brigid Magner, RMIT University
- Gemstone and Geologic Bodies of Resistance in Natalie Diaz's Postcolonial Love Poem Alexander Lalama, Bradley University
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- This City is Not Mine Kit Ying Lye, Singapore University of Social Sciences
- From Peasants to Urbanites: Rural Muslim Identity in Patigul’s Bloodline Tingting Zhong, University of St Andrews
- Dismantling the “G*psy”: Romani literary affirmations of identity and Romanipen Mamen Rodriguez Galindo, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Mediating the Illegible: Theory, Aesthetics, and Activism under Regimes of Capture

Organizers: Rijuta Mehta, University of Toronto; Ani Maitra, Colgate University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Law, Film, and the Struggle for Legibility: Ray Yeung's Suk Suk Marco Wan, University of Hong Kong
- Desiring as Dissent: Feminine Unpleasantness in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool and 7 Khoon Maaf Shwetha Chandrashekhar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- The Visible and the Illegible Kenneth Berger, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
- Looking for My Eyes Prathna Lor
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Mobilizing Gender(s): Neoliberal States and South Asian Cinemas

Organizers: Hena Sarkar, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Angry Young Neoliberal Man: Tracing the Aesthetics of Neoliberal Masculinity in Telugu Cinema Mayadevi Murthy, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Men written by Women and Women written by Women: The Female Gaze and the Subversion of Toxic Masculinity in Kiran Rao’s Laapata Ladies Swati Baruah, Georgia State University
- Hero Masculinity of Manna: Precarity and Violence in Selected Films of 1990s Neoliberal Bangladesh Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Modernism, Religion, and Empire

Organizers: Apala Das, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University); Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary University of London

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- 'Los goces de su encarnación misteriosa': Transubstantiation and Homoerotism in Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia de la muerte Oscar Chaidez, The University of Texas at Austin
- "Ascesis" and Empire in H. D.'s Helen in Egypt Apala Das, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
- Divine Orientalism: Holy Figures in the Religious Dramas of Sadakichi Hartmann Janine Sobers, University of Washington Seattle
- Ethnopoetics of Futurism: Venedikt Mart's Poem K'ian and the Ethnographic Knowledge in the Russian Far East Jiacheng Feng, Tsinghua University
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More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

Organizer: Hsinmei Lin, Edmonds College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Ani(mal)ity and More-Than-Human Poetics: Reimagining Worlding Beyond Boundaries Jun Zhang, Beijing Normal University
- Zoophytographic Indigenous Writing from the Amazon: Márcia Kambeba’s More than Human Poetry Patricia Vieira, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
- Words Grown Flesh: The More-than-Human Materialities in Zuzanna Ginczanka's Poetry and the Question of Language Gilad Shiram, Stanford University
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New Directions in Temporality Studies: Time and the Construction of the Racialized Gendered Subject

Organizer: Elizabeth Rose, University of Pennsylvania

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- An Aztec Invocation: The Afterlives of Conquest and Slavery in the Heterotemporal Dialogue of Francisco X. Alarcón’s “Snake Poems” Jose Ruben Diaz Vasquez, Stanford University
- Title: Transing Our Collective Longing: A Poetics of Lateness Reid Gómez, University of Arizona
- Temporality and Surveillance: Archival Afterlives in Sultana’s Reality Madiha Noman, University of Cambridge
- All of America is Inside of You: Temporal Disruption as Queer Black Looking in Kelly’s Bestiary and Collins’s Undersong Margaret McLaughlin, Indiana University Bloomington
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Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity

Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera, State University of New York at New Paltz

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Work of Letters: Nineteenth-Century Writing and Proletarian Experience Thomas Laughlin, Acadia University
- Bestial Justice: Animality and Worker Resistance in "A Touch of Sin" Yidan Wang, Cornell University
- Circulation Fiction John Macintosh, University of Maryland, College Park
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Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

Organizer: Zach Wagner, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Beyond Form: Tierra Whack’s “Mumbo Jumbo,” Genius, and Radical Black Aesthetics Kayla Boyden, Northwestern University
- Black Noise and a Technopolitical Process of Disruption Ezekiel Dixon-Roman, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Brittle Digital Representation Aden Evens, Dartmouth College
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Public *Environmental* Humanities

Organizers: Yanoula Athanassakis, University of California Santa Barbara; Teresa Shewry, University of California Santa Barbara

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Scales of Ecological Grief: Examining Solastalgia through Flash Fiction Leonardo Nole, University of Southern Denmark Bryan Yazell, University of Southern Denmark
- Outsider Education: (Social) Infrastructures and Place-based Pedagogies Laura Nelson, University of Southern California
- Cedar Point Park: Sketches and Impressions Anna Hill, Vanderbilt University
- Practices of Possibility: Experiments in Aesthetic Education for the Twenty-first Century Kate Stanley, University of Western Ontario
- Post-Colonial Environmental Humanities in South Asia Zunaira Yousaf, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Towards Protocols for Ethical Research in Nuclear Studies Anais Maurer, Rutgers University
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Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America

Organizer: Diego Bustos, Earlham College

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The wall and the archive Henrique Bordini, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
- The Archive of the Unlettered in Mapa Teatro’s Witness to the Ruins Martin Ruiz-Mendoza Ruiz-Mendoza, University of Missouri
- Dreaming an Exit from Neoliberalism: Patricio Guzmán's Imaginary Country Daniel Bataller
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Reading the European Semi-Periphery: Narrative, Legacy, Collective Memory

Organizers: RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB - Autonomous University of Barcelona); Neus Rotger Cerdà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Semi-Peripheral Literary Spaces, Comparative Literature and the Question of Realism Neus Rotger Cerdà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)
- Historical Memory in the Literary Imagination of Southeastern European Literature Eralda Lameborshi, Texas A&M University - Commerce
- Semantization of Space and Identity Quest in Post-Yugoslav Literature RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB - Autonomous University of Barcelona)
- (De)Constructing Historical Continuity of Post-Soviet Czechoslovakia through Novels Jan Váňa, Akademie v?d ?eské republiky (Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Relationality in Queer/Trans Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Cultural Forms

Organizers: stef torralba, Grinnell College; Phuong Vuong, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- “Yellow and Barely There”: Queerness amid the Ruins of Whiteness in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Chris A. Eng, Washington University in St. Louis
- Subjectless or Brown? Toward Asian American Relationality through Queer of Color Critique Lilika Kukiela, University of Toronto
- Feeling Close in Queer and Trans US Filipinx and Indigenous Diasporic Undocumented Literature stef torralba, Grinnell College
- On “Filipinx:” Space, Place, and Critical Togetherness MT Vallarta, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
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Remembering the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory and Realities in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Balkans

Organizer: Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- American Zombies and Balkan Monsters: Immigrant and Refugee Narratives in The Walking Dead - Dead City Dragoslav Momcilovic, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Hungarian poetry from the Soviet Labor Camps Judit Papp, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (UNIOR - University of Naples "L'Orientale")
- Queer Excavation & the Post-Socialist Archive: Imagining Otherwise in Remigiusz Ryziński's Foucault in Warsaw Matthew Mucha, University of Toronto
- Ukraine at War with Its Soviet Past: Liuko Dashvar’s SpADok Lana Krys, MacEwan University
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Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen

Organizer: Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Beyond Borders. Exploring Transcultural Identities in the Works of Maria Kuncewicz and Elisabeth Mann Borgese Matilde Piu
- Deconstructing Citizenship in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient Corinna Cape, Fordham University
- State Violence and Ecological Belonging in Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) Tathagata Som, University of Calgary
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Sensation and/as Method

Organizers: Yanbing Er, National University of Singapore; Hayun Cho, University of Notre Dame

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- (Un)Staged Sensations in Lingering Relay: Ebrat as a Shapeshifting, Reverberant Affect Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari, Brown University
- Between Fact and Fiction: Sensations of Writing in Shin Kyung-sook’s A Lone Room Hayun Cho, University of Notre Dame
- Crying for the Loss: Emotion as a Methodology to Recuperate Hong Kong Cantonese Singing Traditions in Disappearance Ka Lee Wong, New York University Shanghai
- The Sonorous Body That Writes and Reads in Itō Seikō’s “Imai-san” Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
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Speculating Speculative Fiction

Organizer: John Souza, University of Southern California

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Whither Spectacle? Rachel Tay, Duke University
- Speculative/Fiction Annabel Kim, Harvard University
- Science Fiction's Incompleteness Tyler Lutz, University of Chicago
- Prototype Theories of Genre and Octavia E. Butler’s Hybrid “Speculative” Fiction barbara simerka, Queens College, City University of New York
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Surplus Labour and World-Literature

Organizer: Joshua Hambleton-Jewell, University College Dublin

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- “Her womb grew into a churning vortex”: Feminized Body-Horror and the Crisis of Care in Carribean Fragoza’s Short Fiction Madeleine Sinclair, University of Warwick
- Gendered labour precarity and literary form in the Caribbean novel Joshua Hambleton-Jewell, University College Dublin
- Economies of Feeling: Emotional Labour and the Work of Wellness in Catherine Lacey’s The Answers Chloe Green, Australian National University
- Sex, Reproduction and the Abjection of Labour within the Eastern Mediterranean Novel Iris Gioti, University of Exeter
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The End of the Beginning: Post-Soul Humor

Organizers: Alex Valin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jasleen Singh, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Laughing in the Void: Between Black and Dark Humor Mukasa Mubirumusoke, Claremont McKenna College
- Canned Laughter and the Attention Economy amadi ozier, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Shuckin’ and Jivin’: A Journey Toward Palatable Black Masculinity Among America’s Bullsh** Kyle Fox, College of Coastal Geogia
- No Closure: Humor as Post-Racial Refusal in Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Percival Everett's Erasure Esme Feurtado, Queen Mary University of London
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The Poetics of Collecting

Organizers: Guangchen Chen, Emory University; Emma Bielecki, King's College London

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- To in the Ruthless Critique Find Love: Collecting as Critical Epistemology David Seamans, University of Arizona
- Case Files and Accidental Archives: Two Collected Poetics Katherine Payne, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology
- Palimpsests of Silence: Collecting Lost Voices and Bodies from French Archives in Algerian and Korean Narratives Ye Ram Kim, University of Chicago
- Collecting Illusion: The Panoply of Art Collections in The Story of the Stone Dore Levy, Brown University
- Unpacking the Collection With/In Virginia Woolf's Orlando Haley Reed, University of Oklahoma
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Time, Memory, and the Western

Organizers: Jordan Savage, University of Essex; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne; Richard Parker, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- ’49-’17-’68: Ruth Ann Baldwin, Lina Wertmüller and Women’s Memory Westerns Richard Parker, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- Hunting the West: John Williams’ Butcher’s Crossing (1960) and the future of ecological crisis in the Western John Dunn, Universidad de Chile
- Who Framed Liberty Valance? Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

Organizers: Alexandra Brown, Skidmore College; David Vivian, Soka University of America

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Toxicity and Decoloniality David Vivian, Soka University of America
- From Brittany to the Caribbean: Intoxicated Waters, Ecotones, and Land Joelle Vitiello, Macalester College
- Metamorphic Seeds, Metonymic Life: How Toxic Exposure Engenders Life in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation sarah nisenson, Northwestern University
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Translation Futures

Organizers: Anandi Rao, SOAS University of London; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Breaking Barriers: Leveraging Corpus Tools for Cantopop's Global Reach Hiu Chi Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- How to Translate Animals in Eco-translation: Adapting Methods and Strategies from Related Translation Theory? Hongyang Ji, University of Alberta
- Rethinking Translation Pedagogy in the 21st Century: Integrating AI and Digital Tools for Ethical and Critical Engagement Vanesa Cañete Jurado, Purdue University
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Undetermined Promising Futures

Organizer: Michael Turcios, Northwestern University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Anti-Progressive Futurities in Contemporary Palestinian Literature Samuel Aftel, Northwestern University
- Dreaming of Promising Futures in a Promised Land Shruti Shukla, University of Glasgow Jeehan Ashercook, University of Glasgow
- Indigenous Poetic Time, Palestine on Hold Michael Turcios, Northwestern University
- Remembering Our Decolonial Futures Maia Rodriguez, The University of New Mexico
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Utopian Substances in and Beyond the Soviet Empire

Organizers: George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU); Aleksandr Prigozhin, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Grouse or Gruel: Gendered Ideology of Food and Fat in Russian Literature of the 1920s Auriane Benabou, New York University (NYU)
- Ilya Ehrenburg’s Nuclear Nirvana: Utopian Figurations of Radium in Early-Soviet Science Fiction Asiya Bulatova, Södertörns högskola (Södertörn University)
- Grey Matter as Utopian Substance: Lenin’s Cerebrum and Futurist "Mass-Brain" Aurelia Cojocaru, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
- The World of Secrets and Substance: Platonov's Lyric Materialism George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU)
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Ways of Living/Leaving: Intermedial Landscape, Walking and Mapping

Organizers: Irene Artigas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM); Susana González-Aktories, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- What Does Google Maps Have to Do with Literary Realism?: Informational Imagining from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith Dong Xia, University of St Andrews
- Seeing the Broken Circle: Visualising Disaster Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land Maria Rita Campbell, University of Pennsylvania
- Redrawing the Map of Lost Memory: Cinematic Cartography, Deep Mapping, and City Memory Space Keni LI, University of Glasgow
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World Literature and Disappearance

Organizers: Joseph Wager, Stanford University; Peter Leman, Brigham Young University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Silence Equals Death: Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders Cheri Robinson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Transforming Forensic Absence into Narrative Presence: Literary Genealogies of Disappearance in a Global Perspective Joseph Wager, Stanford University
- From Software Update to Unaccounted Bodies: Pain and Temporality of Missing Persons in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier Muhammad Farooq, Seton Hall University
- “I live, as we all live, in the aftermath:” mourning poiesis and forensic imagination in the works of Hisham Matar and Diana Matar Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London
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World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery

Organizer: Arif Camoglu, New York University Shanghai

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Gendering Orientalism in Ottoman Egypt: Representations of Odalisques, Concubines and Eunuchs in Out el Kouloub’s Ramza Ayse Circir, Erzurum Technical University
- The Objecting Concubine: Sexual Slavery, Marital Ethics, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century Oriental Tale Nihan Simge Soyoz, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- The Devşirme System as a Proto-Postcolonial Mechanism: Dracula’s Devşirme in The Historian sennur bakirtas, Ataturk University
- Ottoman Serai and Ruling Slaves Hasan BAKTIR, erciyes university
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Trains, Hindutva, and Gendered Violence in two Contemporary South Asian American literary works. Nalini Iyer, Seattle University
- Policing (Im)Morality: Intersectional Representations of Interracial Relationships in Post-Apartheid South African Literature Jody Metcalfe, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
- Silent Acts of Resistance: Gendered Trauma and the Politics of the Body in Mahasweta Devi’s “The Fairytale of Rajabhasha” and “Behind the Bodice” Mousumi Biswal, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
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4:30 PM CDT - 5:45 PM CDT

ICLA Business Meeting

Organizer: Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 5:45 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Presidential Address: Karen Emmerich

Organizers: Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Karyn Ball, University of Alberta

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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5:45 PM CDT - 6:45 PM CDT

Awards Ceremony

Organizer: Karen Emmerich, Princeton University

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 5:45 PM CDT - 6:45 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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SATURDAY May 31st

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- (Un)Homing the Motherland and Zainichi Identities in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (2017) Hyo Kyung Woo, Texas A&M University-Commerce
- ITALY REVISITED. CONVERSATIONS WITH MY MOTHER BY MARY MELFI, A MEMOIR EXPLORING LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND DISPLACEMENT Rosina Martucci, Università degli Studi di Salerno (UNISA - University of Salerno)
- From Ottoman Empire to American Melting-pot: An Empowering Transcultural Identity- The Case of Selma Ekrem emel zorluoglu akbey, Erzurum Technical University
- Since we know about horror… Memories for the future in Atrás queda la tierra by Arianna De Sousa-García Oriana Mejias Martinez, CUNY Graduate Center
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Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Organizers: Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Oana Panaite, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Ambivalent Poethics of Necrofiction Oana Panaite, Indiana University Bloomington
- Spirited Resistance: Transcending Necropolitics in Elias Khoury’s Yalu Renee Randall, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- "Corpse-land étiquette": Code of conduct in Kashmir's Necropolis Pujarinee Mitra, Texas A&M University
- Death Between Madness and Memory: (Im)possible Commemoration in Jean-Luc Raharimanana’s Za Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- "The Visibility of Death in Alexandre Nanau’s Collective" Letitia Guran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Organizers: Delia Ungureanu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest); Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- A verse at the right moment Francesca Orsini, SOAS University of London
- Rereading Protofeminism: Moderata Fonte and the Sources of Feminism as World Literature Roxana Eichel, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest)
- Translating the Sacred: Nahua and Castilian Concepts of Sacrality in Colonial Nahuatl Religious Theater Rebecca Smith, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Translated into the Present of Another Culture: On the Presentism of Japanese-language Translations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium Manuel Azuaje-Alamo, Waseda University
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Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University; Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Correcting Christians: Louis Cheikho, ʿĪssa Iskandar al-Maʿalūf, and the Curation of Arabic Literary History Allison Gibeily, Northwestern University
- Narrativizing the Ṣuʿlūk Figure in Modern Arabic Fiction Ali Almajnooni, SUNY Binghamton
- Ancient and Modern in Light of Muwaylihi’s Fatra min al-Zaman Evelyn Richardson
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Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Universität Passau (University of Passau); Shoumik Bhattacharya, Metropolitan State University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Jacinto Ventura and the Weaving of Communal Rights into Postcolonial Republics Emmanuel Velayos Larrabure, Hostos Community College, City University of New York
- Absent Bodies, Present Memories: The Visual Politics of Disappearance and Resistance in Chile and Pakistan Aamna Rashid, University of British Columbia
- Leila Sebbar and the Limits of Integration Fadila Habchi, Yale University
- Channeling the Peripheral: Affective Trance and Solidarity in Hamid Ismailov’s Manaschi Jing Wei, Beijing Language and Culture University
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- What the Old Man Knew. Patriarchy, Rootedness, and Modernization in Barranca abajo Emilio Irigoyen, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
- Unruly Rural Landscapes vs. Barbaric Modernity in Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul (2015), Temblores (2019), and La Llorona (2019) Kelly Ferguson, Miami University
- Brazilian Gauchism: Ideology, Detachment, and the Shaping of Southern Brazilian Identity Paulo Soares, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Organizers: Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich); James Dowthwaite, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ruined Splendor and Urban Imaginary: Korean Travelers in Colonial Cities Aliju Kim, University of Toronto
- Beyond Dichotomies: Reframing Decadence in Early Modern Chinese Revolutionary Aesthetics Yijie Zhang, Indiana University Bloomington
- Decadence and Early Twentieth-Century West Indian Print Culture Robert Stilling, Florida State University
- What Book Does This Picture NOT Represent? Decadence, Dada, and the Drawings of Clara Tice Emily Singeisen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South Carolina

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Shifting Borderlands: German Colonialism in Hito Steyerl’s The Empty Center Christiane Fischer, Hamilton College
- Visions of Hope from the Border: The Case of Tim Z. Hernandez's Mañana Means Heaven and Jennifer de Leon's Borderless Cristina M. Gamez-Fernandez, Universidad de Córdoba (UCO)
- The Body as Biometric Border Jennifer Gully, College of William and Mary Lynn Itagaki, Claremont McKenna College
- Animal Imagery as Resistance to Classification for the Deterritorialized Border-Crossing Subject Sophia Lencioni, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Broken Middles

Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Critical Marxism: Between the Critique of Political Economy and the Critique of Political Theology James Callahan, Emory University
- The Brokenness of Value: Of Gillian Rose and Alfred Sohn-Rethel Conrad Bongard Hamilton, East China Normal University
- Economy and the State: Rose, Luxemburg and Arendt Michael Lazarus, Deakin University/Yale University
- Philosophy in the Severe Style: Method and Value in Rose’s Hegel and Marx Rocío Zambrana, Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR - University of Puerto Rico)
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Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

Organizer: Titas Bose, University of Chicago

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Imperial Compassion: Missionary Periodicals, Philanthropy, and Childhood in Colonial India DIVYA KANNAN, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR
- Vernacular Children’s Periodicals in Colonial North India: An Inter-Textual Study of Urdu and Hindi Publications Niyati Gangwar Sharma, University of Delhi
- Making Space for African-American Children’s Literature: The Brownies’ Book, 1920-1921 Paul Ringel, High Point University
- Constructing the Republican Child: National Identity and Modern Childhood in Yavrutürk (1936–1942) İclal Didem Arvas, Boun University Modern Turkish Language and Literature
- Little Red Guards in The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976): Violence, Happiness, and Hatred in Propagandistic Children’s Periodicals leting zheng, University of Oregon
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China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Xiaolong Hou, Moravian University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Remaking the World: Film, Bianxiang, and Comparative Media Anatoly Detwyler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Disrupting Allegory in the Chinese Sitcom Andrew Emerson, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- China and its Forgotten Frontier: Inner/Mongolia in Chinese Cinema and Television (1950s-2010s) Xiaolong Hou, Moravian University
- Reimagining Chinese Culture in Transpacific Sino-American Films Sheldon Lu, University of California - Davis
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Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Organizers: Marie Huber, Stanford University; Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Parables of Self and Other: Early Poetic Ethnographies of the Iranian New Wave Marie Huber, Stanford University
- The Erratically Cine-poetic Indian Biopic Ayesha Barque, University of Arkansas
- Your Own Museum: Absence, Memory and Art Objects in For Your Peace of Mind, Make Your Own Museum Aaron Lacayo, Gettysburg College
- The Mutable Rhythm of Reality: Manoucher Yektai’s Poetics of Overlooked Things Maryam Athari
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Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizers: Shirl Yang, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Translation Fever and the Export of Literary Production in the Philippines’ Guest-of-Honor Program at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair Conchitina Cruz, University of the Philippines
- Complicit Figures, Complicit Readers: Taiwan’s White Terror Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice (2018–2024) Chih-hen Chang, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Ecological Maintainability and Complicit Infrastructures in Utopian Fiction Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University
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Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia, The University of New Mexico

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Problematizing Race Articulations in Bruni’s Panegyric to Florence QUIM SOLIAS, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- You are not the father: or, the Multifaceted Lump Child in The King of Tars Clara Jimenez, University of Pennsylvania
- Facing Opacity: Blackness and the Aesthetics of the Spielraum Dontay Givens II, New York University (NYU)
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Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Organizers: Michelle Kelly, King's College London; Jarad Zimbler, King's College London

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Decolonizing Method: Reimagining Teaching Practices at the University of Ghana Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, University of Ghana
- Cultural Institutions and the Emerging Postcolonial State: Gold Coast/Ghana 1950-1965 Michelle Kelly, King's College London
- Literary Sociologies from the Teaching Archive: World Lit edition Rebecca Roach, University of Birmingham
- Decolonizing the Library Madeline Bedecarre, Davidson College
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Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Organizers: Esther Edelmann, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Thomas Bragdon, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- From Diffusion to Quantum Leap: Is This the Endgame, or What’s Left Out? Esther Edelmann, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
- Censored Tele-visions: On the Structure of Islamophobic Feelings Navid Naderi, Independent Scholar
- The Aesthetics of Minor Feelings in Chinatowns Old and New: Humor in Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Interior Chinatown Zachary Riggins, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
- Hindu Nationalism and the Genre of the Absurd Siddharth Arora, Oklahoma State University
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Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Unspoken Violence of Refugees’ Narratives in Hassan Blasim’s Short Fiction Ne'am Abd Elhafeez
- Colonial Shadows: Politics, Aesthetics, and Identity in Ousmane Sembene’s "Black Girl" Oluwakemisola Adeusi, Stanford University
- Les Héritages du Colonialisme et les Crises Identitaires des Réfugiés dans Jacaranda de Gaël Faye : Une Approche Postcoloniale et Traumatique Chinaza Egere, Purdue University
- Shattered Literary Forms: Refugee Routes in Bekim Sejranović and Hassan Blasim Gorica Majstorovic, Stockton University
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Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Organizers: Michiel Bot, Tilburg University; Dina Zbeidy, Leiden University of Applied Sciences

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- From control to Scholasticide: Israel’s policy towards Palestinian education Dina Zbeidy, Leiden University of Applied Sciences
- Palestine and the Philosemitic University Michael Litwack, University of Alberta
- Managing its ways into meaninglessness: the Australian university and Palestine Sarouche Razi, Australian National University Lina Koleilat, Australian National University
- Violence, to keep you safe: on zionist 'safety' and the demands of anti-racist teaching in this moment Brittany Munro, CUNY Graduate Center
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Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Organizer: Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ecological Ecstasy and Mysticism: Wallace Stevens’ Poetry and the Transcendence of Modern Subjectivity Ruoshui Zhang, University of Cambridge
- Ecstasy and Atmosphere: On Selfhood, Nature, and Religion in Existential Phenomenology and the American Poetic Tradition Thomas Carlson, University of California Santa Barbara
- Ecological Attention and Simone Weil Kathryn Lawson, University of King's College, Halifax, NS
- Bataille as Ecological Mystic: Aesthetics and Negativity William Zeng, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University; Moinak Banerjee, McGill University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Elemental Forces in Niger Delta Literary and Cultural Production Mathias Iroro Orhero, Louisiana State University
- 'We Live As If Divided': Imperialism, Globalism, and Elemental World-Building in Avatar: The Last Airbender Chelsea Keane, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Employing the Elemental: South Asian Novels and Resisting Genre-fication Semanti Basu, Netaji Subash University of Technology
- Monsoon as Setting: Reading Literary Atmosphere in the Age of Climate Change Kritish Rajbhandari, Reed College
- Place-making as Resistance in Environmental Justice Documentary Film Alok Amatya, North Carolina State University
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Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Organizers: Ileana Baird, Zayed University; Chrysavgi Papagianni, University of Patras

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Exploring Glocality in David Malouf’s Ransom: Identity, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Myth vasiliki kotini, Zayed University
- Cinema Under Siege Sheetal Majithia, The Juilliard School
- Isis; Feminism and the Egyptian Myth Heba Embaby Aly, Cairo University
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Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ethnography as a Literary Research Method: A Case Study of Yi Author Yi Wu’s Literary Life Yiyun Zhang, Hunan University
- Fabulations of a Fugitive: The Hijra/Trans Subject and Ethnography as Queer Method Rovel Sequeira, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Genre and/as Devotion: The Māla and Contemporary Muslim Ethical Formation on the Malabar Coast Muneer Aram Kuzhiyan, Aligarh Muslim University
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Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen, University of Maryland, College Park

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Future Memory with Posthuman Apparatuses in Cinematic Dreaming Thomas Mical, Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley
- Memory and Human Moments in the Posthuman: Don DeLillo’s Zero K Ju Young Jin, Soonchunhyang University
- Technologies of Consciousness in Jennifer Egan's "Vision" Trilogy Callie Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Entangled Memory: Zen, Quantum Physics, and Speculative Narrative in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale For the Time Being 冠維黃, National Taiwan University
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Genealogies of World Comparatism

Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana Stan

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Transnational and Comparative Perspectives in Early Hungarian Literary Criticism Zoltán Varga, HUN-REN Institute of Literary Sudies, Research Center for Humanities
- The Many Origins of Comparative Literature: Matija Murko and the early years of Slavia Blaz Zabel, Univerza v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana)
- Polyglottism and anticolonial nationalism in the early Latvian literary culture Karlis Verdins, University of Latvia
- The Scandinavian Model: The North as Terra Comparationis of the Romanian Populists from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Cosmin Borza, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, Sextil Pu?cariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Tibetan Ghosts & Environmental Healing: Readings in Adzom Drukpa's Life Writings Learned Foote, Lawrence University
- "We are ghosts and we should go and haunt the world": Ghosts in contemporary Palestinian cultural production Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University
- Finding Ghosts in Angels: Converting KKK Robes to Angel Costumes in The Prince of Peace Easter Pageant, 1936 Kristin Perkins, Columbia University
- The Spectral Lens: Rethinking Humanity through Ghosts in Post-2000 Korean Literature Soonyoung Lee, Bard College
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Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Paper That Is Not Titled "Giving Up the Ghost": Failed Hermeneutics and the American Gothic Literary Tradition Laura Zebuhr, University of St. Thomas
- Mourning, Giving, and Giving Up in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man Gabriel Briex, University of Toronto
- Colson Whitehead's Racial Realism Rohan Ghatage, University of New Brunswick
- Racial (In)difference and the Stakes of Giving Up on Southeast Asian American Failure Hui Min Annabeth Leow, National University of Singapore
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Global Legal Imagination

Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Imagining and Imaging the New Legal Order: Consent and Sexual Violence in the Courtroom Drama Section 375 Amalie Goul Dueholm, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- The Beasts of the Sovereign: Animality and Legal Narrative in Rómulo Gallegos’s Doña Bárbara (1929) Mauricio Oportus Preller, Northwestern University
- Montaigne's Skeptical Libertinage Nicholas Huelster, Cornell University
- Performative Theft and the Illegalities of Colonial Law Sabine Kim, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)
- Law Beyond Borders Adam Schoene, McGill University
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Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- “Not the Exception but the Norm”: Creolizing Cross-Cultural Influence Gavin Herbertson, Oxford University
- “Poet-Painter of China”: E. E. Cummings’ Daoist Philosophies and Transpacific Modernism Bowen Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Rethinking the Modernist Pollutive in Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal Jacob Sponga, McGill University
- Literature as a tool of Nation-Building Mariia Lupak, University of Cambridge
- Against the Machine: Tagore in Cyberspace Austin Wilson, Trinity University
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Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

Organizer: Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Cycling History: The Child as Historian in "City of Small Blessings" Edward Dehua Wang, Duke University
- Locating the ‘Adult-Child Interplay’: A Study of Select Children’s Fiction of Shashi Deshpande SOUMYADEEP CHAKRABORTY, Vidyasagar University
- Agencies and Resistances of a Street Child in Honduras: Alex Dogboy by Mónica Zak Silvia Ruiz Tresgallo, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ - Autonomous University of Queretaro)
- THE BOOK OF EMMA REYES: AN ACTIVE DISTRUST OF CHILDHOOD MEMORIES Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)
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History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizers: Zachary Hicks, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Between Myth and Folklore: Socialist Realism and Modernist Archaism in the Soviet Georgia Harsha Ram, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Contiguous Internationalism: the Proletarian Culture Movement Esa Purschke, Princeton University
- Late within the Second World: Mail Art and Concrete Poetry in Bulgarian Margarita Delcheva
- Huck Finn Sails the River Sava: Imperial Myths on Two Continents Ena Selimovic, Independent Scholar
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Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Organizer: Asijit Datta, SRM University-AP (India)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Clawing Back the Apocalypse: Technology, Gaia and the cycle of extinction in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard
- Extinction vs. Homo Botanicus: Environmental Aesthetics as Existential Protection Sarah Warren, Siena College
- Rewilding Afterness: Extinction as Regeneration and Speculative Futures Andrea Natan Feltrin, University of North Texas
- The Epistemological Problem of Extinction and Its Ontological Implications Jan Kastner
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Dystopia: Interactive Horrors Ayman Almomani, University of Pécs
- Teaching Literatures of Migration on the Move through Storytelling and Interactivity Apala Kundu, University of Pittsburgh
- The Potential Narrative Complexity of Navigability in Videogames Cassandra Barkman, The University of Melbourne
- From Parlor Games to Larp: Interpreting Adult Pretend Play Evan Torner, University of Cincinnati
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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Badqismath Auratein: Towards the Aesthetics of Dalit Muslim Feminism through Shajahana’s “Laddaaffni” and “Silsila” Badusha Peer Masthan, Siddartha Educational Academy Group of Institutions
- Music & Mysticism: an Anti-Caste Study of Hindustani Classical Arts Izza Ahsan, Yale University
- In Search of Vanshikura: A Critical Reexamination of Scheduled Tribe Demands in Darjeeling Saurav Rai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi)
- Ambedkar - Caste, Religion, and Patriarchy Sunaina Arya, Woxsen University
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Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm College; Ruma Sinha, Rider University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Outrage, Social Media, and Gender-based Violence Turni Chakrabarti, O. P. Jindal Global University
- Recurring Instances of Sexual Violence: A Sign of Biopower? Nupur Chawla, University of Delhi
- Expressions of Outrage and their Consequences: The Importance, Dangers, Silences and Contradictions Somia Bibi
- Outrageous Depictions of Sexual Violence Anja Wieden, Oakland University
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Large Language Models and Literature

Organizers: Nina Begus, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Aaron Hanlon, Colby College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- 'The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction': what literary theory can teach us about AI Tessa Haining, Oxford University
- AI Meets Literature: Comparing Human and AI-Generated Content Based on Alexandros Papadiamantis' Works Katerina Zoi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Dimitrios Mysiloglou, Athens University of Economics and Business
- The Large Language Model and the Workshop: Gwendolyn Brooks, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Community Writing Matthew Kilbane, University of Notre Dame
- Large Language Models are Post-Structuralist Intertexts Patrick Sui, McGill University
- Artificial Humanities and LLMs Nina Begus, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Criticism at Scale: BookTube and Literary Hyper-Abundance Mark McGurl, Stanford University
- The Popular Life of Literary Critical Language J.D. Porter, University of Pennsylvania
- *The Untranslated* and the Art of Amateur Criticism Matthew Eatough, Baruch College, City University of New York
- Televisual Literature: From PBS to Netflix Shakti Jaising, Drew University
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Albright College; Lisa Luu

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Reader Response Theory to the Rescue: Pedagogical Challenges re. Teaching Vietnam-Related Literature in Present-Day American College Settings Marian Wolbers, Albright College Lisa Luu
- The Trial of the Foreign Yan Zhao, Harvard University
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Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Organizers: Philip Mills, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt); Joel De Lara, Georgetown University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Literary "Immodality": A Felicitous Error in Austin? Eric Lindstrom, University of Vermont
- NOTES IN/AND/ON AUSTIN David Rudrum, University of Huddersfield
- The total perspective in the total perspective situation Camila Lobo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)
- Incorrigible Corrigibility and Sensible Sensibility Joel De Lara, Georgetown University
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mimo(n)tologies: the scenic life of concepts Kemal Sultanov, University of Cambridge
- Indian Parasites and Contagious Media: A Study of a Divided Nation under a State of Exception Asijit Datta, SRM University-AP (India)
- Mimesis, Nomadic Thought, and Postdiasporic Dispersion Fatima Festic, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- Witnessing the Contemporary: The Aesthetization of Politics and Meme-esis Benjamin Schoonenberg, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
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Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, University of Chicago; Joseph Staten, University of Illinois at Chicago

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Contemporary Modernism and a Correct Picture of the World Davis Smith-Brecheisen, The University of Texas at Dallas
- "The Essence of All Painting is Quality" Joseph Staten, University of Illinois at Chicago
- MAGAfiction Walter Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Oceanic Humanities

Organizers: Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy; Colin Dewey, California State University Maritime Academy

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mourning the Unseen, Navigating Slow Disaster Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy
- Hydrotextuality: Rethinking Forms of Oceanic Narratives in the Changing Climate Nanthanoot Udomlamun, Kasetsart University
- (Re)Writing the World: Tsunami Disasters in Contemporary East Asian Literature Shelby Oxenford, The University of Texas at Austin
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Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Organizer: Yuanfei Wang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Asia deluged: A long-range perspective Kelly Yin Nga Tse, The Education University of Hong Kong
- The Myth of Luting: Writing the Sea Nomads at the Maritime Frontier Jasmin Law, KU Leuven (University of Leuven)
- Re-mediating and Remedying Traumatized Bodies and Minds Adrfit at Sea: Ikeda Hirochika’s Funaosa nikki (1822) Reconsidered Suiyun Pan, Harvard University
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Photographic Practices of Repair

Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Unmuting the Gaze of Algerian Female Freedom Fighters Sophia Mo, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Photography and Afro-Colombian Self-Representation in the Thousand Days War (1899-1902) Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna College
- Repair, not Recuperation: Twin Sisters breaking the backdrop with their Cameras Suddhadeep Mukherjee, Rutgers University
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Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- (Dis)embodied Consciousness: Two Views from Contemporary Poetry Stephen Ellis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- Substance or Life: The Spinozist Poetics of Clarice Lispector Effy Morris, Concordia University
- Ontology and Visions in Latin American Arts, Literature and Culture Juan David Cadena Botero, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (UAO)
- The Sonnets, the Self, and the Problem of Consciousness Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rafid C, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Tracing the place of Premakhyan in Hindi and Urdu literary histories: Doing "Literary History from Below" Prateek Sharma, Loyola Academy, Hyderabad
- Colonial Indian Novel-- National Or Supranational: Illustrating A History Of Literary Systems Using The "Horizon Of Expectations" As A Tool Through Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third (1896) and O. Chandumenon’s Indulekha (1889) Shreya Dash
- (Re)Writing Area; (Dis)Locating Literature Smitha S Varghese, SOAS University of London
- Teaching the Partition of India in a Literature Department: Praxis, Problems, and Proposals. Ananya Dutta, The NorthCap University
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Stakes of Realist Aesthetics in Global Confrontation DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University)
- Realism and Transcultural Identity in French Migrant Writing Hicham Bouhlal, Indiana University Bloomington
- Metabolizing Realism: Caribbean Narratives Beyond Western Aesthetics in Chamoiseau’s Texaco and Pineau’s La Grande drive des Esprits Nicolas NOE, Indiana University Bloomington
- Arabesque Realism in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin and Voyage de Paris à Java Michelle Lee, Wellesley College
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Rebooting World SF

Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Caribbean Futurisms and the Apocalypse: From Devastation to CoFuturist Utopia Taryne Jade Taylor, Florida Atlantic University
- Nemesis as Saving Grace: Re-Positioning Human for a Truly Global SF Nicola Hunte, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
- World SF as Hyperobject: Locality and Being-in-the-World-ness of Chinese SF Guangzhao Lyu, Fudan University
- Co-Designed Canons: Collaborative Narratives of World SF with Okorafor and Singh Kylie Korsnack, University of Richmond Jessica FitzPatrick, University of Pittsburgh
- American and World SF in Gaming Justice Hagan
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Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

Organizers: Jecheol Park, Seoul National University; Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Cinematic Genesis of the Posthuman World as Emergent Transindividual Individuations Jecheol Park, Seoul National University
- Hauntological Archive and Troubling Histories on East Asian films [email protected] Ahn, Sookmyung Women's University
- Exploring Technicity and the Copernican Turn in a Retro-Futuristic Discourse: Ian McEwan’s "Machines Like Me" Pinar İnceefe, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Return of the obsolete film medium in the age of Posthumanism Yongjin Kim, Chung-Ang University
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The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

Organizer: Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Debrahmanizing Literary Studies: A Critical Caste Approach Ankit Ramteke, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
- Navigating Paradigms: The Influence of Critical Caste Studies on Dalit Studies and Dalit Feminism Megha A G, Central University of Kerala Shalini M., Central University of Kerala
- Varna ≠ Vocation: Resistance against Casteist Labor Subjugation Riya Singh, Presidency College
- Reconstitution of Caste Privilege in Elite Educational Institutions Ravneet Param, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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The Person in Law & Culture

Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, University of California Santa Barbara; Peter Schneck, Osnabrück University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Who's a person, anyway? Law, Lliterature and Subjective Rights Peter Schneck, Osnabrück University
- Reimagining Personhood: Ludic Ubuntu Ethics in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s "Nervous Conditions" and Yaa Gyasi’s "Homegoing" Laura Zander, University of Osnabrueck
- Will and Testaments: The Contemporary Historical Novel and its Inheritances John Quirk, Brown University
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The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Organizers: Noah Terrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- From Gallerte to Financial Spectrality - Notes on A Taxonomy of Contemporary Body Horror Jonathan Greenaway, Independent Scholar
- “To Accommodate the Inhuman”: Julia Armfield’s Slow Body Horror and the Banality of the Anthropocene Benjamin Schluter, New York University
- Aesthetic Experience and the Horror of Anthropogenesis in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future Noah Terrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Translating the Caribbean

Organizers: Simona Bertacco, University of Louisville; Laura Ekberg, Turun yliopisto (University of Turku)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Anglo-Caribbean translation-scape in Sweden 1990–2020 Yvonne Lindqvist, The institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies,Stockholm University
- Shifting trends in Nordic translations of Caribbean literary works Laura Ekberg, Turun yliopisto (University of Turku)
- Multilingualism and Translation in Caribbean Literature Simona Bertacco, University of Louisville
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Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

Organizers: Lucas Klein, Arizona State University; Chris Song, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Translating Ling Yü's Poetry in 2024 Cosima Bruno, SOAS University of London
- Rewriting as a Space of Poetic and Ideological Negotiation: Shi Zhecun’s 1934 Special Issue on “Modern American Poetry” in Les Contemporaines Chris Song, University of Toronto
- National and Regional Poetics in the Sinitic Republic of Letters Daniel Fried, University of Alberta
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TV-Philosophy

Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Elif Sendur, Rutgers University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Being an Android among Androids in Star Trek TNG: Cybernetics, Virtuality, Technopoiesis Sebastian Lederle, Bauhaus Universität Weimar (Bauhaus University, Weimar)
- Character Identification as Plot: Moral Engagement in Sci-fi Thriller Series of the High-Tech Era Heidi Ka-Sin Lee, Sophia University
- What is Televisual Skepticism? Jeroen Gerrits, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Providence College; Julia Calderón, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Polar Crime: Nordic Detectives and Neo-Colonial Narratives Brian Martin, Williams College
- Finding the Lost Ones in Le Vent en Parle Encore Kamelia Talebian Sedehi, Sapienza – Università di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Transnational Pursuits and Postcolonial Shadows: Unveiling Dawa Through the Detective Lens Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Providence College
- Investigating Arranged Marriages in Clément Baloup’s Mémoires de Viet Kieu: Les Mariées de Taïwan Warisara Emily Sawin
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Varieties of the Impersonal

Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate Center

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Murder Revisited: Kokoshka's Play and the Question of "Battle" of Sexuality Jacob Reimer
- Chaste Brevity: Short Form, Literary Recessiveness, and Asexual Style Leland Jasperse, University of Chicago
- Measuring the Impersonal: Economies of Personhood and Race in Fitzgerald and Morrison Conall Cash, St Francis Xavier University
- From Impersonality to Disaffection: The Fallacy of the 'Pensée du Neutre' in Modern French Theory and Literature. Maïté Marciano, Centre College
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What is in Plain Sight?

Organizers: Miryam Segal; Yitzhak Lewis, Queens College, CUNY

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- What is Between the Lines? Aestheticizing Omission and the Readings of Literature Yitzhak Lewis, Queens College, CUNY
- Speculative Forensics. Fiction and Fabulation in Edmond Locard’s L’enquête criminelle et les méthodes scientifiques Arne Sander, New York University (NYU)
- From Blindness to Marriage in Gl’ingannati: Visuality and the Comedic Genre Jeanette Goddard, Trine University
- “It now seems obvious”: Cognitive Dissonance in Brenda Shaughnessy’s The Octopus Museum Susanne Fuchs, Smith College
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Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Model Collapse: On Capital and White Anxiety Brett Zehner, University of Exeter
- Whiteness, Quitting, and Quitting Whiteness in the Writings of Camara Lundestad Joof Olivia Gunn, University of Washington Seattle
- Eternal Flame: The Fire of White Supremacy and the Fragility of Home in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Niia Bishop, Allen University
- Cosplaying White Working-Class Identity Matthew Ussia, Duquesne University
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Work

Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Domestic Worker Novel Annie McClanahan, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
- Women in the Workplace: Looking at the Erotic Thriller After #MeToo Madeline Lane-McKinley, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts
- Emma Cline's The Guest versus the "Trauma Plot" Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University
- Work and the Standardization of Personality: Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman Charles Tyson, Harvard University
- Working Hard or Hardly Working? Precarity In and Out of the Workplace Sean O'Brien, University of Bristol
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Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

Organizers: Marc Botha, Durham University; Heather Yeung, University of Dundee

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Vom Turm ins Land geschleudert: Stone and Current in the Work of Rose Ausländer Aurora Romero
- Poetics of Mourning Between Lithic Inscriptions and Textile Elegies: Gian Maria Annovi and Indira Allegra Adele Bardazzi, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
- From Stone to Paper: Stèles (1912) and Victor Segalen's Project of "Cultural Becomimg" Fangdai Chen, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
- Spolia: Lapidarium, Flight, Echo-Location Heather Yeung, University of Dundee
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12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Listening to the Past: Memory, Migration, and Archives of Sound in Afghanistan Mejgan Massoumi, Stanford University
- What does it mean to think Third Cinema in Relation to Doing Archival Studies and Practices in the Global South? Didi Cheeka
- Ambedkar’s Iconoclasm- Entanglements of Doing, Desecration and Dignity in Contemporary North India Aatika Singh, Stanford University
- Profound Adornment: Building New Archives with Contemporary Maya Glyph Usage Nancy Martínez, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University; Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Ontario

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- "The Mob Lurks Just Under the Skin": Crowd Theory as Melodrama Joseph Bitney, University of Cambridge
- Playing Fast and Loose with 'Tragedy': The Politics of Generic (Un)Scrupulousness in Human Rights Discourse Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Ontario
- Impotent Forms: Crabwalk and the Political Novel Sophie Salvo, University of Chicago
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(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany Buscio

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “Autenticamente nostro”: Nostalgic Repurposing of Dante in Meloni’s Politics of Control Brittany Buscio
- Wartime Domestic Melodrama in Griffith, Gance and Flazer Catherine Enwright, Boston College
- Colonial Nostalgia and National Identity: The Case of the Weimar Republic Gwendoline Choi, University of Oxford
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(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Home as ... : Wasima Badghisi's Elliptical Writings about a Lost Home Anna Learn, University of Washington Seattle
- Navigating Displacement: Exploring Yiyun Li’s Identity, Language, and Homeland in World Literature Lila/Zefang Yang, City University of Hong Kong
- Missing Arrival (fehlende Ankunft): Imagining Home (in translation) in Lina Atfah's “On the Edge of Rescue” (Am Rande der Rettung) Irene Kuo, Wake Forest University
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Islam and Adabiat: The Senses of Literary Islam in the Persian World Abolfazl Ahangari, Tsinghua University
- The Taste of Worship: Seventeenth-Century Persian Poetry of Devotional Experience Jane Mikkelson, Yale University
- Queer Orison in Motion: A Phenomenlogical Approach To Rumi's Practice of Samā Sara Vakili, Temple University
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Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi, Columbia University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Slavery, Childhood, and the Fugitive Account Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
- Literary Representation of Historical Violence as an Alternative Remembering? Representing Tiananmen Square Incident in 1989 in The Crazed Yoo-Hyeok Lee, Pusan National University
- Regurgitating Waters: The Return of the Dead from Lorenzo Latorre's Dictatorship Sofia Masdeu, Yale University
- Loud Silence and Present Absence: The Poetics of Grief in Sara Uribe’s Antígona González Sasha McDowell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

Organizer: Laura Ritland, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “The ample teaching of our improved European literature…”: Literary Pedagogy in Early Nineteenth-Century Bengal Soham Deb Barman, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Literary Criticism and Radio: Teaching Literary Appreciation on the BBC’s Calling West Africa Julie Cyzewski, Murray State University
- Refiguring the Colonial Classroom: E.R. Braithwaite and Stuart Hall’s Teaching in the Metropole Laura Ritland, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Approaching Deleuze’s Aesthetics: Art and Philosophy Jeremy Arnott, Concordia University
- Thinking Difference in Itself with Cixous, Lispector, and Deleuze François Vozel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
- Deleuzian Aesthetic Ontology: On Desiring, Assemblages, & Intensities Zooey Deissler Ziller, University of Cambridge
- The Writer as a Sorcerer: Becoming-Animal and Hybrid Literature(s) in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus Maria Paula del Portillo Cure, Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES - University of los Andes)
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Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Organizers: Roland Vegso, University of Georgia; Rok Bencin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World through Form Alexander Fyfe, University of Georgia
- World Literature at War -- From Agony to Agonism Sorin Cucu, CUNY Graduate Center
- Cannibalizing World and the Extintion of Humanity. Samantha Schewblin's Exquisite Cadaver. Sol Pelaez, Mississippi State University
- Space without World Jan Voelker
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Wild Lands, Tamed Gardens: Resisting Colonial Ontologies Asher Courtemanche, Cornell University
- Rural Chinese Kitsch: Journey to the West and the Critique of Techno-Orientalist Modernity Wujun Ke, New York University Shanghai
- Spatial and Spiritual Liminality in Paradise: Morrison’s Musings of an Abolitionist Future Lauren Sim, University of St. Thomas
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Body, Language

Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Tramp Writes! Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College
- Corpographies of Poetic Gestures Melissa Melpignano, The University of Texas at El Paso Sara Sermini, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI - University of Lugano)
- Captive Negativity / Capting Negatives Patricia Dailey, Columbia University
- Somiosis Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University
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Breath Poetics

Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Blessing and a Scream: Paul Celan, John Coltrane, and the Breath Matthew Smith, Stanford University
- Respiration and Sovereignty in Soraya Maicoño’s Pewma ull Sam Carter, Dartmouth College
- Black Visualsonic-Affective Breath: Critical Resonances of Breathing in Richard Wright’s Realist Narratives Jordan Krohn, York University
- “That moving line of breath”: Wind, Breath, and Vā in Caroline Sinavaina-Gabbard’s Poetics Marlo Starr, The College of Wooster
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Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Place Where No One Hurts You: Examining Insidious Trauma and Transgenerational Violence in the lives of Hazara Refugees Arpita Sen, University of Delhi
- Lost Boys of Sudan or War-Displaced Sudanese Children: Reclaiming Marginalized Voices and Experiences Ademola Adesola, Mount Royal University
- The Racializing Politics of Youth Futurity: Children and the Dramaturgies of the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan
- The right to play: Adinkras and a Halloween celebration in a public school in São Paulo, Brazil Ana Paula Bianconcini Anjos, The Municipal Secretariat for Education of Sao Paulo City Hall
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Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

Organizers: Michael Reyes, Vassar College; Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate University; Cait Jones, Carleton University; Armin Fardis, San Francisco State University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- 'Is Anyone Listening to Me?': Humanizing Incarceration in Clean Break's Sweatbox Courtney Colligan, University of Pittsburgh
- Guantánamo and Experiments in Freedom Zainab Abdali, Rice University
- Visualizing the Carcerality of Northern Ireland’s Troubles in Donovan Wylie’s The Maze Michael Reyes, Vassar College
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Comparative Indenture

Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “One of the best schemes possible”: Comparative Racialization, Caste, and the Indian Coolie Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut
- Knot my Cup of Tea: Coolie Labor and Race-Making in Plantation Worlds Chandrica Barua, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- From Black Coolie to Brown Indian: Race, Caste, and Indenture in the Life Writing of Pandurang Khankhoje Nico Millman, University of Pennsylvania
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Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sex and the Enigma: De-Translating Indigenous Sexuality in Deep Inside Clint Star Madeleine Reddon, Loyola University Chicago
- 1789, an Empty Signifier: Detranslating History in Maryse Condé’s An Tan Révolysion (1989) Annalisa Ciano, University of California Santa Barbara
- Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Hysteria, Mysticism Jennifer Paul, University of Chicago
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Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, University of Houston; Sucheta Kanjilal, The University of Tampa

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Premchand, the Translator: From Rūpāntarakāra to Anuvādaka Archit Nanda, Queen Mary University of London
- Traveling (in) Hindi: Nirmal Verma’s Experiments with Translation Radhika Prasad, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
- आम के वृक्ष to Mangifera: Lothar Lutze’s German Translations of Hindi Poetry Sneha Chowdhury, Brown University
- Yashpal's Prisons: Reading Armed Revolution in Hindi Swarnim Khare, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Mapping the Role of Collaborative Translation in Translating Adivashi Literature in India Sarmila Paul, Rani Birla Girls' College
- Translation as Collaboration: Challenging the Notion of Solitary Translator Rindon Kundu, Sri Sri University
- Inclusivity and Agency in Collaborative Translation: Some Critical Perspectives Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University
- From “Reading” to “Listening”: Collaborative Translation, Inclusivity and Indigenous Oral Literature Saswati Saha, Sikkim University
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Cultures of Energy Transition

Organizers: Martin Premoli, Pepperdine University; Izzy Lockhart, New York University (NYU)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Theorizing the Energy Humanities: Political Ecology, Historical Materialism, and Transition as Revolution Daniel Vitkus, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
- Texas’s Banal Solar Poetics Casey Williams, Rice University
- carrying away the lop and top; energy use and class conflict in the era of parliamentary enclosure Jason Bircea, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Critical Care Infrastructure Izzy Lockhart, New York University (NYU)
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Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of Houston

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Colonialism as a De-Civilizing Mission: Amílcar Cabral and Ghassan Kanafani on the Place of Colonialism in the Philosophy of History Zeyad El Nabolsy, York University
- Decolonization and Totality Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse University
- Decolonization and the Illiberal University Auritro Majumder, University of Houston
- Uneven Circumstances, Necessitated Tragedies: Lamming, Lukács, and Social Realism’s Contemporary Usage Jordan Brown, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The freedom of the diagram as a preparatory process in artworks and in writing ESTHIR LEMI, Ionian University Corfu Greece
- Comics as Translation Peter Rostovsky, The New School
- A Refuge: The Use of Photography in Autotheory in Roland Barthes’ "Camera Lucida" and Jane Gallop’s "Living with His Camera" Eftihia Mihelakis, Brandon University
- Feminine encounters: reading Sophie Calle’s visual practice through Bracha L. Ettinger matrixial theory EVANGELIA DANADAKI, University of Leeds
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Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University; Peter Baker, University of Stirling

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Negative historiography. Another place, other practices, another writing Gordillo Andrés, 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos
- (Trans-)Autographic Praxis and Academic Work Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University
- Academic Ruins and (Trans-)Autographic Praxis Peter Baker, University of Stirling
- Infrapolitical excription Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University; Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Trans-media “Supplément” to Taiwanese Queer Kinship Rex Lin, National Taiwan University
- Flying (Back to) the Cozy Nest: Queer Multimedia Homecomings/Home-Leavings in Crystal Boys Ursula Friedman, Harvard University
- nostALGIA: Suicidal Longing in Queer First Generation Diasporic Taiwanese Literature Lilith Acadia, National Taiwan University
- Retrospection: Taiwan’s ’Queer Past Politics’ in Po Ching Chen’s Zang Dong Xi Wei Yi Chen, National Chengchi University
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Ghostly Triangulation: Catalunya-Sahara-Palestine. The Forgotten Corners of the Mediterranean and the Necessary Work of Nonfiction Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez
- Poetics of Extinction: Reflections on the Destruction of Human Habitats in Spanish Naturalist Literature Diego Baena, Trinity College
- Istanbul and Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism: Revolution, Coexistence, and Utopias Ceylan Ceyhun Arslan, Koç Üniversitesi (Koç University)
- Spectral presences and unmourned lives in the epics of the Conquest of America (16th and 17th Century) Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas
- Storied Ghosts in the Native Pacific: Contemporary Scenes of Resistance to the Specter of Settler Colonialism Nicole Dib, Southern Utah University
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Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Slapstick Girlhoods Katherine Fusco, University of Nevada, Reno
- You’re Standing on My Neck: Daria’s Awkward Adolescence Amanda Greer, McGill University
- Animating Plastic Girlhood: The Aesthetics of Barbie in Life in the Dreamhouse and Vlogs Jacqueline Ristola, University of Bristol
- The Girls Save the World? : The Representation of Girlhood as a Salvation Goddess in Shinkai Makoto's Films Hiroko Matsuzaki, Emory University
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Hegel and World Literature

Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College Dublin

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Onwards, Backwards: The Johnson-Forest Tendency and Hegel’s Aesthetic Idealism Sebastiaan Boersma, Carleton University
- Hegel's Parapraxis, or the 'Absolute' of Absolute Slavery Anisha Sankar, York University
- Tragedies of the Deed: Hegel and Haiti Revisited Carson Welch, Duke University
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Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Ilios Willemars, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Utopian Fugitivity in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Grace Wang, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- The Energy Island as Incomposite Techno-Utopia May Ee Wong, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University) Michaela Buesse, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden)
- Incompossible Island and Ecological Utopia: Huxley’s Island as a Nexus of Isolation, Sustainability, and Global Vulnerability Cui Chen, Shandong University
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Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

Organizers: Rini Tarafder, University of Denver; Amrapali Chatterjee, Western University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Gendered infrastructure: Intertextuality as reproduction and embodiment in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat (2020) and Louisa Hall's Reproduction (2023) Caterina Pan, Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria)
- Glass’s House of Usher: Reimagining Poe’s Infrastructure Christina Reitz, Western Carolina University
- Narrating (In) Transition: Contextual Narratology and the Dialogue Between Formal and Thematic Infrastructures in Gender-Conscious Novels Eftihia Saxoni, University of Edinburgh
- Storying Queer Mobility and Transportation Infrastructure: Uvile Ximba’s “Dreaming in Colour” and Shamim Sarif’s “The World Unseen” Ben Stanley, University of Delaware
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Disruptive Technology in Diasporic Literatures Ar Ducao, New York University
- Generative Interactivity: Duplication, Transgression, and Preservation in Narrative Contexts Justin Carpenter, University of Utah
- Co-creating a space within a space: Exploring Borriaud’s Relational Aesthetics through i-docs. Ozgur Akgun, SUNY Old Westbury
- The Complexity of Larp Critique: Towards a Literature Review of Secondary Larp Criticism Harlin/Hayley Steele, University of California - Davis
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Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

Organizers: Jean Amato, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology; Kyunghee Pyun, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Towards a Critical Mask Poetics: Visuospatial Refractions in Chimamanda Adichie’s Fiction Utitofon Inyang, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Imagined Homecoming: Memorializing and Translating Shanghai in Qiu Xiaolong’s Detective Novels Qianting Lu, Nanyang Technological University
- Chronotopes of Home: Affective Ties and Cultural Memory in Displacement Rume Kpadamrophe, University of South Carolina
- Re-Mapping Home in a Divided Land: Women, Literature, and the Partition of India Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, James Madison University
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Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Ecozombies and Gig Labor in Brazil in Corpos secos e A extinção das abelhas. Mary Elizabeth Ginway, University of Florida
- Labor in Dystopia: Identity, Control, and Precarity in Herbert W. Franke’s Ypsilon Minus* Daniel Quintero Plata, University of Oregon
- Only a Rounding Error?: “Redundant” Laborers in Hao Jingfang’s “Folding Beijing” and Xia Jia’s “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” Eero Suoranta, University of Helsinki
- Labor, Language, and the Undead Maia Gil'Adí, Johns Hopkins University
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Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

Organizers: Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri; José Luis Suárez Morales, Texas Christian University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Growth from Decay in the Mycelial University Katina Rogers, Inkcap Consulting
- Marked Bodies, Bodies in Transition: The Writing of the I-Body in Mariana Enriquez Marcelino Viera
- Colonial Ruins and the Crisis of Modernity in the Caribbean Eduardo Febres, University of Notre Dame
- Breaking the Mirror: Middle Class Novel and Reproduction of Literary Criticism Claudio Aguayo-Borquez, Fort Hays State University
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Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

Organizers: Sarah Vidal Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC); Iker Arranz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Terminological and conceptual demarcation of magical realism in Lusophonia Sarah Vidal Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
- The Netflixization of Magical Realism: about One Hundred Years of Solitude (2024) Paulo Gatica, Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI - University of Oviedo)
- Ben Okri’s Magical Realism: Re-enchantment, Voice, Environment in Global Economy Marjan Mohammadi
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Exploring screen culture interchange between Korea and Spain with a focus on “La casa de papel” (2017) Alvaro Trigo Maldonado, University of Salamanca
- Recrafting the villain: a comparative study of Contratiempo (2016) and Confession (2022). Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University
- La raza malayo-mahometana: Spanish Colonial Anxieties Towards a Religious Race Adelheid Sudibyo, Elon University
- Imperial Anxieties: Representations of the Hispanic Pacific in the Journalistic Work of Benito Pérez Galdós Olga Guadalupe, University of Pennsylvania
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Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Medieval Arabic Critique of Mimesis Avigail Noy, The University of Texas at Austin
- Collective Mimesis in Avicenna's Reception of the Poetics Ryan Milov-Cordoba, Scripps College
- Mimesis, sous rature: Afzal Kāshāni’s case for representation-through-negation Mehvish Siddiqui, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Asaf Halet Celebi (1907-1958), Mystical Poethics, and La Poésie Pure Mehtap Ozdemir, Emory University
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Odd Temporalities

Organizers: Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Scully, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Contagious past and present estrangement: Djuna Barnes's alternative temporalities Alberto Tondello, University of Edinburgh
- "Down Time’s Street": Proletarian Internationalism and Langston Hughes’s Red Temporality Geordie Miller, Mount Allison University Juan Rodriguez Barrera, Illinois Wesleyan University
- Looking through feminist pasts towards feminist futures: The Combahee River Collective “Statement” (1977) and “Feminism for the 99%” (2019) Aleksandra Malinowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
- Kakokairos: A not-altogether-unserious theory of time, language, and autism Sean Yeager
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Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Fulbright University Vietnam; Adam Yaghi, New York University Shanghai

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Inscrutability and Fictive Incoherence in Cynthia Dewi Oka’s A Tinderbox in Three Acts Jasmine An, Fulbright University Vietnam
- How to Read Kazuo Ishiguro?: Systemic Violence and the Limit of Liberal Humanism Qing Liao, University of Pennsylvania
- Archiving Violence, Violating the Archive: Renegotiating the Status of the Victim in Olga Hund’s 'Dogs of Smaller Breeds' and Belén López Peiró’s 'Why Did You Come Back Every Summer' Klaudia Cierluk, Northwestern University
- Torn Limb from Limb on the Alter of Settler-colonial Israel: Stand-up Comedy and Mainstream Media Coverage of the Gaza Genocide Adam Yaghi, New York University Shanghai
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Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

Organizers: Steven Maye, Capilano University; Maria Dikcis, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Ruthless iterations: Reberveration, voice, exhaustion and silence in Kamenszain's The Echo of my mother (2010) Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
- The Evolution of the Aging Voice: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova’s Multiple Temporal Orientations in Kniga detstva (1973-2018) Alex Braslavsky, Harvard University
- Forms of Failure Jonathan Atkins, Stanford University
- Code-Switched: AI, Poetic Voice, and the GPT Divide Maria Dikcis, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
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Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

Organizers: Nida Sajid, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Muhammad Numan, University of Management and Technology, Lahore

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The cracked lens of Maali’s seven moons: memory, transience and permanence Margarida Martins, Universidade Aberta, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
- Psychocultural Trauma in Contemporary Kashmiri Fiction: Re-envisioning Traumascapes in The Half Mother Azka Chaudhry
- The Interplay of Nostalgia and Melancholia in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef Suchetana Sarkar, University of South Carolina
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Politics and Desire in the Archive

Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Compulsive Preservations: Garro vs. Castellanos Archives Alejandra Vela Martínez, Harvard University
- Writing with the Archive: The Desire to Translate Alejandra Pizarnik Georgina Fooks, University of Oxford
- Lesbian History for Everybody: Intuition, Inference, and Allusion as Archival Method Hannah Frydman, Harvard University
- Hopelessly Devoted: Problems of Archival Care Rosa Campbell, University of St Andrews
- Desire In, and Desire For, Carmen Santos' Lost Films Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University
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Postcolonial Formalism in Context

Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of Cambridge

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Playing in the Light: On Formalist Thinking in Derek Walcott’s Omeros Chi Le, Brown University
- The form of context in Derek Walcott's The Rig Aliya Ram, Princeton University
- Neo-Colonialism and Formal Resistance Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Missing Dates: From Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to An Island (2019). Simon van Schalkwyk, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

Organizers: George Handley, Brigham Young University; Animesh Roy, St. Xavier's College, Simdega, India

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Finding the Divine Mother Tree: Reading the Ceiba as Postcolonial Ecotheology George Handley, Brigham Young University
- Beyond Human Domination on Environment: Arboreal Approaches to Ecotheology in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim, Kadir Has University
- Guardians of the Mountains: Environmental Stewardship and Ecotheology in Siddhartha Sarma’s Year of the Weeds MAITRAYEE MISRA, ICFAI University, Agartala, Tripura, INDIA
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Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

Organizers: Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Narrative geographies of home: Inhabiting the urban futures through transcalarity Giada Peterle, University of Padua
- Finding a Way Home: Mobility as Spatialising Practice in South African Narratives of Urban Crisis Sophie Kriegel, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)
- Whose City Is it Anyway: An Alternate Cartography of Twenty-First Century Delhi Shivani Gautam, Shiv Nadar University IoE
- “The Promise of Sunrise and Sanctuary”: The Urban Imaginaries of Leticia Hernández-Linares’s Bay Area Guadalupe Escobar, University of Nevada, Reno
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Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam); Tessel Veneboer, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Towards Sinthomatic Reading Matthew Rana, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- Death Orgy Island: sex between strangers, erotic transference and the internal Other Maeve Mcilwain, Tavistock and Portman Clinic
- The Question of Real Fantasies: Reading Cinema with Sex/Negativity Shiv Datt Sharma, Emory University
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Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- From the U.S. South to the Global South: Translating Toni Morrison Haider Shahbaz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- From River to Sea: Survival and Exclusion in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and the South Mediterranean Mourad Romdhani, École Normale Supérieure, University of Tunis
- Southern Intertextuality: Faulkner and Murakami in Lee Chang-dong’s Burning (2018) Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Historian or Tour Guide? Cathy Park Hong’s Dance, Dance, Revolution and Making Violence from the Global South Part of the Global Literary Landscape Daniel Kim, Brown University
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The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

Organizers: Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside); Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Of naked machines and singularity: How Schleiermacher’s translation theory lays bare LLM translation Douglas Smith, Universidad Católica de Temuco (UCT-Chile)
- Towards the Hard Translation of Persian Poetry: Reviewing Disputes Over Shafīʿī-Kadkanī's Untranslatability Guanyu Shao, Harvard University
- Objectivism and the Limit of Translation Eli Didier, University at Buffalo (The State University of New York)
- Untranslatability as a Form of Resistance: Exploring Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary" Xiaoqing Liu, Butler University
- Untranslatability and the European Border Regime: Cassin, Balibar, Mezzadra/Neilson Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt)
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The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Handmade: Feminist-Arboreal Kinships and Survival in the face of the Sri Lankan Civil War Sreyoshi Sarkar, Ball State University
- Oceanic Displacements of Asian American Poetics Christine Xiong, Stanford University
- The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Ecologies of Refugee Temporality Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University
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The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

Organizers: Carlos Gontijo Rosa, Federal University of Acre (UFAC); Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Chinese revolutionary choreographies in Latin America Rosario Hubert, Trinity College
- Peripheral Performances and the European Gaze: The Complex Dynamics of the Festival International d’Art Dramatique of Paris Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Theorising African Postcolonial Theatre(s): Folkism and the Dramaturgy of Sam Ukala Gideon Morison, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich)
- Resilience and Renewal: Sustainability, Identity and Memory-in-Practice in the Gajan (Hook-Swinging) Festival of Bengal Subhankar Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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The Persistence of Existentialism

Organizer: Ben Roth, Emerson College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Essential and The Contingent in Beauvoir’s Life and Thought: Re-examining Beauvoir’s American Legacy Aurora Laybourn-Candlish, DePaul University
- Inverted Bad Faith in the Novels of Marie NDiaye Ben Roth, Emerson College
- The Ends of Existentialism Michael LeMahieu, Clemson University
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Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

Organizer: Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Ironic Pseudoknowledge and the Usurpation of the Political Saul Anton, Pratt Institute
- Ipseity in Question: Hospitality, Mastery, and the Peculiar Case of Slavery in Derrida's Hospitality Seminars Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, Emory University
- Reading Difference in de Man, Derrida, and Edelman Christina León, Duke University
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Translation and Autotheory

Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of Iowa

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Translating the Soundscapes of Classical Arabic Poetry An Autotheoretical Approach Raja Lahiani, United Arab Emirates University
- Situating the Translator When the Issue is “Race”: An Autotheory of Translation Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, University of Pennsylvania
- The Maternal Scene: Autotheory and Translation in Paloma Vidal's Não escrever [com Roland Barthes] 2023 Pablo Barra Requena, Tulane University
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Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

Organizer: Valeria Meiller, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Around and inside gardens light, people, and plants in Bogotá’s history Diego Molina, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Gardening in the Ruins of the Lettered City: Homero Aridjis, Butterfly Sanctuaries, and the Grupo de los Cien Vaughn Anderson, Maryville University
- Jardín Tríptico: Contesting Spatial Injustice in the Vertical Gardens of Green Neoliberalism Azucena Castro, Stockholms Universitet (Stockholm University)
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Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA); Irene Bulla, Independent Scholar

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Dead Man Talking: Catalepsis and First-Person Narration in E.A. Poe, Émile Zola and Tommaso Landolfi Irene Bulla, Independent Scholar
- Relatable Narrators. Unreliability and Empathy in the Retrospective Novel Lorenzo Mecozzi, Columbia University
- Unreliable Rephrasings: Some Stylistic Remarks on Proust’s Delusional Strategies Chiara Ludovica Maria Nifosi, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA)
- Metafiction: from Modernism to Metamodernism Daniel Adler, University of Nevada, Reno
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Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Drive, They Rd John Mowitt, University of Leeds
- Hearing Things: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness after Sound Studies Andrew Parker, Rutgers University
- On Solicitude David Marriott, Emory University
- Back to the Death Drive: Reading for the Future Nathan Gorelick, Barnard College
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We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Emma Lieber

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Freud's Highway to Hell David Schur, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- The Dream of the Book: Freud and Jung on Interpretation Emma Eigen, University of Chicago
- Literature in the Consulting Room: Form, Setting, and Countertransference Zoë Roth, Durham University
- Letter between Knowledge and Jouissance: Literature and Psychoanalysis through Matheme-atics Arka Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
- Reading Freud Reading: The Primal Scene, The Investigator, and the Antebellum Slave Narrative Juan Gallardo, Brown University
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What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Intractable Nature of Blackness and Global Black Literature Jude Okpala, The University of Texas at San Antonio
- “Family is like the forest”: Theorizing African Diaspora in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Invisible Ink as Opacity: Embracing Incomprehension in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend Marshall Smith, Swarthmore College
- Archive: Global; Cue: Black Tolulope Akinwole, University of British Columbia
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- ‘She’s only macchina!’: Gender Violence in 21st Century Fembot Narratives Faye Lynch, University of Liverpool
- Allegories of a Dead Girl’s Body: Public Perception of Aarushi Talwar and the Representational Circuits of True-Crime Narratives Aiswarya Pradeep, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati Shailendra Kumar Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
- Femi(ni)zide on Stage: The Representation of Gendered Violence in Canonical Theater Judith Goetz, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck)
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2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

(Un)Easy Entanglements: Agency, Alliances, and Affinities of Translators and Language Teachers

Organizers: Shane Carreon, University of the Philippines; Ayelén Rosario Tissera, Instituto de Estudios Superior Clara Janet Armstrong

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Subtitles as Contact Zones: English Translations of Korean Film and Television Series Youn Soo Goldstein, Weber State University
- Anglicizing Psychiatry: When does Depression become Americanization? Chenrui Zhao
- ‘What Russian is to You, English is to Us’: Considerations after an Irish-Latvian Poetry Translation Workshop Ivars Steinbergs, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (ILFA)
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ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

Organizers: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta; Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston; Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- See-through Beings in Gabriel García Márquez´ "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" Sarah Sophie Schwarzhappel, Stanford University
- Roman Holiday: Alienation and Misogyny in Moravia’s Contempt Annala Swafford, Fordham University William Lee, Fordham University
- The Archimboldians: Obsession and Misreading in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 Cannon Sharp, Brigham Young University
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Of Maps and Paintings: Competing Forms of Writing Feba Rasheed, University of Oregon
- The Crisis of Islamic Faith in Post-9/11 Cultural Production Nasia Anam, University of Nevada, Reno
- Islamic Valences of Anti-Colonial Critique: Islah and Taraqqi in Urdu Literature Mariam Nadeem, University of Oregon
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Alternatives to Narrative

Organizer: Nina Farizova, Kalamazoo College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Illusory Nonnarrativity of Gaspar Noé Nina Farizova, Kalamazoo College
- The Constellation Novel: Olga Tokarczuk and Non-Narrativity Daniel Pratt, McGill University
- Finding the Female Voice in Form-- A Feminist-Narratological Reading of “The Glass Essay” Wenyi Xiao, Beijing Foreign Studies University
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Anti-Fascist Worldmaking

Organizers: Jessy Bell, Northwestern University; Patrick Noonan, Northwestern University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Literary Montage and International Form Wendi Bootes, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Black Anti-Fascisms: Zora Neale Hurston, C.L.R. James, and the German-Jewish Refugee Crisis Amy Barenboim, Columbia University
- Miki Kiyoshi’s Conversion from Anti-Fascist Worldmaking to Fascist Worldmaking? Harumi Osaki, Chukyo University
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Multilingualism in Translation: Revealing the multilingual foundations of a 1971 performance of ‘The Triumph of Horus’ Charlie Oubridge, SOAS University of London
- La Dame aux Camélias: Translation as Political Practice in Early 20th Century China and Egypt Haodong Bai, SOAS University of London
- The cosmopolitan language and translanguaging Karla Mallette, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Attending To: Regard and Care

Organizers: Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto; Akosua T. Adasi, New York University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The sentiment of (self) care and the racial images of caste Drishadwati Bargi, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
- Bodies of Evidence: (Against) Reading the Pose Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto
- Juxtaposed regards: the eye and the I in Marie NDiaye's, Autoportrait en vert (Self-portrait in Green, 2005/2014) Gabriella Lindsay, Bard College
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Black Genres of Political Theology

Organizers: Andrew Kaplan, Emory University; Kevin Pyon, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- To Spite Non-Being: Black Religion, Paul Tillich, and the Antiblackness of Creativity Rebecca Wilcox, Princeton Theological Seminary
- Towards a Fugitive Black Theology of Non-Existence Nick Peterson, Christian Theological Seminary
- Critical Fabulation's Black Messianic Poetics Andrew Kaplan, Emory University
- A Guiding Darkness: Nan Dòmi as Black Genre of Endarkenment Isabelle Meyer Ensass, Emory University
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Brazilian Literature in English: Cross-Cultural Dialogues and Polysystemic Perspectives

Organizers: Carolina Magaldi; Larissa Daroda, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Exporting Brazilian Literature - main findings Carolina Magaldi
- Júlia Lopes de Almeida Takes on the Adultery Novel Cintia Vezzani, University of Tokyo
- Translating Brazilian Picture books into English tal goldfajn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Translating Spiral Time: Navigating Monolingualism and Archival Afterlives in Contemporary Brazilian Critical Fabulation Mariane Stanev, Albion College
- Echoes of the past and a possible depiction of Brazil’s future in Ninguém Nasce Herói, a dystopia by Eric Novello Mariana Mello Alves de Souza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - UFJF
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Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities

Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska Omaha

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Broken Middles

Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Gillian Rose’s New Jerusalem and American Jewish Literature Jake Orbison, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Judaism and the Broken Middle: Rose, Weil, and Levinas Rachel Pafe, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- The Jewish Pseudonym Kieran Brown, University of Oxford
- Refusal and a ‘Return to the city’? Collectivity, Failure, and Faith Kate Schick, Victoria University of Wellington
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Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Speaking Alone, Speaking Together: Early Pandemic Writing as a Collective Sara DiCaglio, Texas A&M University
- Prescription for a Sick Empire: Modernizing Institutions and Literature Büşra Şengül, Bo?aziçi Üniversitesi (Bo?aziçi University)
- A Disability-Forward Approach to Collective Illness, Public Health, and Community in Petrarch and “El príncipe melancólico” Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown University
- Communities of Care in the Public Health Novel Derek Ettensohn, Sewanee: The University of the South
- Challenging Narratives: Musicking as Collective Narrative During the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Azerbaijan Aria Torkanbouri, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)
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Comparative Caribbean Modernisms

Organizer: J. Dillon Brown, Washington University in St. Louis

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Son Poets, Black Popular Music, and Caribbean Modernism’s Afro-Cuban Rhythmic Key Charlie Hankin, University of California - Davis
- So far to have made nothing: Merle Hodge’s Translations of Léon-Gontran Damas Leo Dunsker, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Vernacularizing Modernism in Cuba During the Early Cold War: José Rodríguez Feo’s Editorial Vision in Orígenes (1944-1954) and Ciclón (1955-1957) Cesar Salgado, The University of Texas at Austin
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Comparative Literature's Cold War

Organizer: Cate Reilly, Duke University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Quiet Suns: The End of the World Literature and Cold War Imaginaries for the Anthropocene Cate Reilly, Duke University
- World Literature, Translation and the "Historically Open Aesthetic System Of The Truthful Representation Of Life": The Contours of Socialist Realism in Malayalam Literature Siddhi M S, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
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Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema

Organizer: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Relativity of History and Memory: Mai Jia’s Spy Novel The Message Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University
- Red tropes: genealogy of political stylization and contemporary commercialization of geopolitics in Zhang Yimou’s spy film “Cliff Walkers” (2021) Fei Shi, Douglas College
- Path Without End: The Politics of Pseudo-Objective Gameplay in The Red Path of Espionage Bangce Cheng, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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Cultures of Monoculture

Organizers: Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Ben Beitler, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Where is the groundnut? Peanut monoculture as pastoral utopia in Senghor's poetic oeuvre. Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Maize in Midwest Horror and Zak Hilditch's 1922 Stacey Baran, University of California - Davis
- Sheepwrecked: Landscape Memoir and the Conservation Humanities David Huddart, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

Organizer: Tatiana Konrad, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Superfluous: Edward Thomas’s Response to Eugenics and Coloniality in his 1913 novel The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans Anna Stenning, Durham University
- The Damaging Effects of Western Neoliberal Policies and Local Corruption in Indra Sinha's Novel Animal People Suha Kudsieh, Independent Scholar
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Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

Organizers: Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Afro-Okinawan Antagonism and the Militarized Black Pacific Kodai Abe, University of Tsukuba
- The Writer's Freedom Hadji Bakara, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Magong and Naxalite: Human Rights at the Limits and Ex-Guerrilla Literatures Thuyen Truong, University of Toronto
- Reading Communists: Leftists, Dissidents, and Postcolonial Literary Studies Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne
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Documentary Fever

Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Post-Matrix: Documentary and the Real Seunghyun Shin, University of Illinois at Chicago
- “The World Is Watching: Neo-liberalism’s Self-Deception and the Fever Dream of Justice in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing” Sibyl Gallus-Price, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Transborder Mobility: Lim Giong and Midi Z’s Collaborative Documentary Audiovisuality Nien-ying Wang, Providence College
- In Search of the Unsung Verse: Rolando's Documentary Films Haiqing Sun, Texas Southern University
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Direct Climate Action

Organizers: Adam Hill, McGill University; Denise Henschel, University of Warwick

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Parentality and Parataxis Jean-Thomas Tremblay, York University
- Compost as design model for degrowth? : an unflinching look at the ethics of Gaspard Koenig's Humus Michael Overstreet, University of Virginia
- Holding Actions in the Floodplain: Direct Climate Action’s Liquid Aesthetics Georgiana de Rham, McGill University
- Oikology: On Petro-Masculinity, Eco-Fundamentalism, and the Queer Horizon of Climate Action Alexis Radisoglou, Durham University
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Evolutions of Literary Theory: The Afterlives of New Criticism, Structuralism, and Others

Organizer: KATHERIN YU, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- ‘Take care of values. The rest is shopping’: John Ashbery’s Depreciating Appreciations William Burns, University College London
- Beliefs in Aesthetic Unity within Experimental Postwar American Poetry KATHERIN YU, Stanford University
- The Half-Life of New Criticism Leah Allen, Grinnell College
- The Plain Reader and the Bad Poem Naomi Levine, Yale University
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Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century

Organizers: Nicolás Sánchez; Daniel Brandlechner; Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Extractivism in Latin America and Irish Decolonization Maxwell Woods, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
- Electrifying and High-Speed Love Affairs in the 1920s Turkish Novels Sevgin Özer, Sabanc? University
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Forbidden Roads: Travel as Metaphor in Contemporary Eastern European Cultures and Literatures

Organizers: Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University; Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College & Conservatory

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Bored and Broke in Post-Socialism Dragana Obradovic, University of Toronto
- Post-1989 Romanian Migration: Archives of Lives and Stories Ioana Luca, National Taiwan Normal University
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Great Books? Bad Books? Rethinking our Broken Canons

Organizers: Amanda Malone, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Kenneth Sammond, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- CounterNarratives as Great Books Kenneth Sammond, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Rewriting as changing the literary canon Tamar Barbakadze, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Re-Discovery Lit: Second Chance Publishing and the New Reading Landscape Noelle Darling, Rutgers University
- Shared Inquiry, Revised Katharine Streip, Concordia University
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How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections

Organizers: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, University of Oregon; Adrienne Resha, University of Virginia

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Technologies of Misrecognition Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, University of Oregon
- Visualizing everyday life in 21st-century Ivorian bande dessinée Olivia Yoshioka-Maxwell, St. Olaf College
- Technologies of the Hand: From Hand-pointers to the Nail Art of Sha’Carri Richardson Michele White, Tulane University
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Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

Organizers: Semilore Sobande, Brown University; Kinaya Hassane, New York University (NYU)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Writing on the Wall: Strangeness in Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Glenn Ligon's What We Said the Last Time Semilore Sobande, Brown University
- City Girl Summer: The Ones Who Make the Streets Hot Mysia Anderson, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
- Habitations: Dwelling in Feminine Folk Figuration in the Black Diaspora Nadia Ellis, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

Organizers: Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University; Jordana Greenblatt, York University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- “Wild Always Wins”: Feral Creatures, (Dis)ability, and Crip Kinship in Rivers Solomon’s Texts Corinna Wolters, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (University of Münster)
- Pig Tales : Crip and Fat Studies in France Kaliane Ung, University of Pittsburgh
- Queer Crip Intimacies and the Monstrous in Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea and Dominic Mitchell’s In The Flesh Irene Pagano, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- The Sun’s Special Kindness and Paradise Behind the Clouds: Queerness, Disability, and Speculative Externalization of a Loving Self Weston Richey, The University of Texas at Austin
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Intimacies Against Empire, Archives of the Ordinary: Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All that It Holds

Organizers: Mo Pareles, University of British Columbia; Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- On the Rhizomatic Nature of Time, Place, and Empire in Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and all That it Holds Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Ohio State University
- Sarajevo, ljubavi moja/mi kerido: Local and Historical Attachments in The World and All That it Holds Samantha Farmer, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Migrant Translanguaging: TikTok, Hemon, Žlof Denis Ferhatovic, Connecticut College
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Literature and International Development

Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Howard University; Lauren Horst, Columbia University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- “Building a World on Nothing”: Development Planning and Novel Writing as Worldbuilding Lauren Horst, Columbia University
- The Birth of a Loser: South Korean Loser Fiction in the Neoliberal Era Lindsay Schaffer, Harvard University
- All Women Are Equal?: Universal Trauma and Destiny of Womenin Lynn Nottage’s Ruined Sonia Yu Hsuan Hung, National Chengchi University
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Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

Organizers: Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney; Meg Brayshaw, The University of Sydney

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Humboldt’s Extractive Logics Juliane Braun, Auburn University
- Silence is Golden: Violence, Obscurantism and the Making of Extractivist States Emily McGiffin, University of Warwick
- Beyond the Territorial Imaginary: Entangled Environments in Contemporary South African Literature Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney
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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Towards Reclamation: Interrogating the Power-Hierarchy and Dalit Women of Bengal Bidisha Pal, SRM University AP
- Between Sacred and Self: Religious and Queer Identity Conflict in God in Pink Identities in God in Pink Dany Jacob, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
- Reaffirmation of Dominant Societal Narratives in Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 Hyosung Kim, Seoul National University
- Emotional bonds among Nineteenth Century Female Writers: Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Approach to Women Representation in a Patriarchal Society Isabel Velasco Trujillo, University of Pittsburgh
- Hiding in Plain Sight: Afro-Cuban Women’s Autobiographical Poetic Voices Paula Sanmartin, California State University, Fresno
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Mediating the Illegible: Theory, Aesthetics, and Activism under Regimes of Capture

Organizers: Rijuta Mehta, University of Toronto; Ani Maitra, Colgate University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Unruly Subjects: The Subaltern Struggle for Representation During the War on Terror Wazhmah Osman, Temple University
- Queering Wusangwo: A Daoist Poetics beyond Liberal Capture Ying Hu, National University of Singapore
- A countermodel to the nation: Matamoro's Olimpo as queer insurgency Valentina Pucci, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- Knowing Less: Exploring the limits of fascist and secular politics in contemporary India Ishan Mehandru, Northwestern University
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Mobilizing Gender(s): Neoliberal States and South Asian Cinemas

Organizers: Hena Sarkar, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Ungrievable lives: Necropolitical Narratives of the Hijra Precariat in Indian Regional Films Sushree Routray, IIT Roorkee
- Transcending Gender and Subverting the Heteronormative: A study of Select Indian Media Narratives Jagriti Upadhyaya, Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur Manorama Upadhyaya, Mahila PG Mahavidyalaya, Jodhpur
- Rethinking the Closet: Neoliberal Workplace and the Politics of Visibility in Rohin Raveendran’s The Booth. Sucheta Choudhuri, University of Houston-Downtown
- Vulgar/ Behooda Language of Queer Intimacy in Joyland Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Graceland University
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Modernism, Religion, and Empire

Organizers: Apala Das, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University); Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary University of London

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Gnosticism and the Lovecraftian Mythos: Cosmic Horror Aisan Latifi Afshar, University of Tehran
- The Ghosts that We Knew: Jesmyn Ward’s Anti-Secular Realism Matthew Mullins, Oklahoma Baptist University
- The Many Lives of Muhammad: Muir, Syed Ahmed, and John Davenport Abdul Sabur Kidwai, King's College London
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More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

Organizer: Hsinmei Lin, Edmonds College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Harry Thurston’s Ova Aves: Encounters with the Animal Other in the Anthropocene Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba (UCO)
- Botanical Cartographies: Remapping Victorian Worlds Through Women's Poetry and Plant Life Hee Eun Helen Lee, Taejae University
- Lichen Worldings in Precarious Times: Brenda Hillman's Decomposing "undercommons" Elizabeth Smith, University of Warwick
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New Directions in Temporality Studies: Time and the Construction of the Racialized Gendered Subject

Organizer: Elizabeth Rose, University of Pennsylvania

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Deterritorializing the Trans Minor Historical Novel Aaron Hammes
- Temporality as a Narrative Mechanism in Amira Ghnim’s Novel Nāzla dār al-akābir Douja Mamelouk, Le Moyne College
- Deep Time Transition: Callum Angus’s “Rock Jenny” Stefanie Heine, Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
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Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity

Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera, State University of New York at New Paltz

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Signs of the Inhuman: The Figure of the Worker Haunts New Latin American Literature Marcela Romero Rivera, State University of New York at New Paltz
- On the Margins of Democracy: Representations of Working Class Women in Contemporary Indian Fiction Pradarshika Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Truncated Birth: The Emergence of Maya-Tsotsil Fictions in the Era of the Narco-State Andre Nascimento, Cornell University
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Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

Organizer: Zach Wagner, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Drill Rap and Kanye West!?: Repressed Origins, Racial-Violence, and Resisting the Algorithm Christopher Clarke, University of Chicago
- Sensing Empire: Michelle Cliff’s Dancing Organs Ailin Jain, University of Pennsylvania
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Public *Environmental* Humanities

Organizers: Yanoula Athanassakis, University of California Santa Barbara; Teresa Shewry, University of California Santa Barbara

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America

Organizer: Diego Bustos, Earlham College

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Chambacú, corral de negros (1962): Máximo, an Afrourbanita confronts the Peace Corps Yair Cuenu, Texas A&M University
- Writings on Reading: Repertoires of Aspiration, Violence, and Labor in three Narratives in Colombia. Diego Bustos, Earlham College
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Reading the European Semi-Periphery: Narrative, Legacy, Collective Memory

Organizers: RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB - Autonomous University of Barcelona); Neus Rotger Cerdà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Awareness of the Semi-Periphery: The Case of (Euro)Mediterranean Noir Aina Vidal, Universitat de les Illes Balears (University of the Balearic Islands)
- Europe from an island: Sebald’s poetics through the Corsica journey Àlex Moreno Mulet, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)
- The Land of Equality? The Troubles of Europeanization in Basque and Irish Dystopian Fiction Estibalitz Ezkerra, Arizona State University
- A Semi-Peripheral, Historicized Europe in Japanese Imagination Masaki Mori, University of Georgia
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Relationality in Queer/Trans Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Cultural Forms

Organizers: stef torralba, Grinnell College; Phuong Vuong, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Queering the Transpacific Colonial Archives Yunning Zhang, University of Chicago
- “To the Sea and the Journey”: The Migrating Coolie Body in In-Betweens and Oceans Phuong Vuong, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
- Dancing Beyond Borders: Launda Naach and the Reimagining of Queer Afro-Asian Relationalities Urnisa Karmakar, Texas A&M University
- We Are Not American: A Queer Diasporic Reading of Noor Hindi’s Poetry and Malaka Gharib’s Graphic Novel Steven Beardsley, Bucknell University
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Remembering the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory and Realities in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Balkans

Organizer: Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Nostalgia Has Never Traveled This Far: The Slavs from Planet Persuan Eva Hudecova, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Nostalgia, Obsessive Perversion, and Retrofuture Come Reality: Russian Warfare Fictions Maryna Romanets, University of Northern British Columbia
- Remembering the Future: Nostalgia as a Weapon in US and Postcommunist Cultures Oana Popescu-Sandu, University of Southern Indiana
- Know the Enemy: Weaponizing HIV-AIDS and Memory in Contemporary Russia Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin
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Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen

Organizer: Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Staying with Disjunction: On Nation-state, Family, and Plastic Citizens Sirsha Nandi, Texas A&M University
- The im/possibilities of diasporic futurity Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine Academy
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Sensation and/as Method

Organizers: Yanbing Er, National University of Singapore; Hayun Cho, University of Notre Dame

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- An Expanse of Tastes and Smells: Food and the Environmental Imagination in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale Mirja Lobnik, Agnes Scott College
- Moonlight down my spine: reading for the subaltern in speculative archival fiction Moyang Li, California State University
- The Tropics as Method Yanbing Er, National University of Singapore
- Worldmaking with Smell Hsuan Hsu, University of California Davis (UC Davis)
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Speculating Speculative Fiction

Organizer: John Souza, University of Southern California

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Abolitionist Speculation, of The Defamiliarization of Everyday Life Shea Hennum, Texas Christian University
- Obsessive Intellectual Pursuits: Intersections of Speculative Fiction and Dark Academia Alejandra Ortega, College of DuPage
- Speculative Fiction in You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi Maria Andrea Diaz Miranda, Georgetown University
- Speculative Storytelling and Aquatic Futures in Asif Farrukhi’s Stealing the Sea Saba Pirzadeh, Lahore University of Management Sciences
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The End of the Beginning: Post-Soul Humor

Organizers: Alex Valin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jasleen Singh, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Politics of Black Representation: From Erasure to American Fiction Rojda Idil Arslan, University of Connecticut
- Matzoh Ball Soup for the (Post-)Soul: Fran Ross’ Black Yinglish Humor Alex Valin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Post-language, post-soul: New rap and its reception Thomas Britt, George Mason University
- Theoretical Elevators, Practical Jokes: Black Humor and Intertextuality in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist Simone Sannio, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)
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The Poetics of Collecting

Organizers: Guangchen Chen, Emory University; Emma Bielecki, King's College London

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Collecting the Picturesque: Postcard Poetics Claire Grandy, Baruch College, CUNY
- Sherds and Samples: Collecting Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Celia Abele, Boston College
- Collecting Nature: Weimar Cinema, Travel, and Sensationalism isa murdock-hinrichs, Tulane University
- The Collector as Parvenu Annie Pfeifer, Columbia University
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Time, Memory, and the Western

Organizers: Jordan Savage, University of Essex; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne; Richard Parker, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- The Holographic Afterlife of an Actor-President Heleana Bakopoulos, Johns Hopkins University
- Traveling the Genderqueer Slipstream: Embodying Trans Memory in the Western Jordan Savage, University of Essex
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Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

Organizers: Alexandra Brown, Skidmore College; David Vivian, Soka University of America

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Weed Killers and Killer Weeds: Pesticidal Afterlives in the Caribbean Alexandra Brown, Skidmore College
- Hazardous Herding: The Production and Consumption of Bodies in Cadáver exquisito Kathryn Houston, The University of British Columbia
- Reading the Bhopal Tragedy: Leaky Entanglements, Interspecies Exchanges and the Technology of Masculinity Amrita De, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Ethical questions in the writing of “documentary fiction”: the exemple of “Paillages”, a novel about “life and death” of plastic mulch in farming Stephanie Arc, Université de Cergy-Pontoise (Cergy-Pontoise University)
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Translation Futures

Organizers: Anandi Rao, SOAS University of London; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Temporality of gender: Dealing with euphemisms and invisibility of “Chaste” Urdu in translating Sibylle Berg’s Gender Manifesto of the future SYED SALMAN ABBAS, Aligarh Muslim University
- The New Translation Ethics in the Age of AI Stephen Zhongqing WU, Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology
- Translation As An Act of Intelligent Coding Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University
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Undetermined Promising Futures

Organizer: Michael Turcios, Northwestern University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Narratives of Resistance: Gender, Political Identity, and Performative Futures Stefanie Sevcik, Mercer University
- The Poetics of Catastrophic Endings: (Un)determining Possibility From (Un)inhabitable Worlds Alice Turski, University of British Columbia
- [Re]Imagining Muslim Futures: Khayāl and Sci-Fi Sufism as Astro-Activism Mélika Hashemi
- (Un)Promised Futures: Disavowals of Fate and the Power of the Sovereign in "A Threnody for Sohrab" Sareh Afshar, Princeton University
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Utopian Substances in and Beyond the Soviet Empire

Organizers: George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU); Aleksandr Prigozhin, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- A Narratology of the Soviet Closed Ecological Life Support System Mieka Erley, Colgate University
- White Gold unspun: the matter of cotton in postwar Soviet Tajikistan Flora Roberts, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
- Beneath Nature’s Surface: The Material Depths of Andrei Platonov Aleksandr Prigozhin, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
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Ways of Living/Leaving: Intermedial Landscape, Walking and Mapping

Organizers: Irene Artigas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM); Susana González-Aktories, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Leaving/ Living Ruins: Verónica Gerber‘s and Christianne Burkhard’s Ritual Expansions of History and Memory Irene Artigas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)
- Post-Extractive Ways of Living and Mapping the Landscapes in the Intermedial Poetics of Venezuelan Artist Erika Ordosgoitti Carolina Sanchez, Tulane University
- Wandering as a way to rewrite the ruins: intermedial poetics in Veronica Gerber’s La compañía Susana González-Aktories, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)
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World Literature and Disappearance

Organizers: Joseph Wager, Stanford University; Peter Leman, Brigham Young University

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Files, Dust, Law Guilherme Vilaça, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
- 'Standing in a place where no place can be found': Biopolitics, Disappearance, and Habeas Corpus in Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song Peter Leman, Brigham Young University
- Afro-Brazilians, Afrobunkers, and Disappearance in Lázaro Ramos’s 'Executive Order' Jordan Jones, Brigham Young University
- Literature and the Hidden Dimensions of Legal Amnesty After the Evian Accords Rich Cole, KU Leuven (University of Leuven)
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World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery

Organizer: Arif Camoglu, New York University Shanghai

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Staging Atlantic Slavery and the Ottoman Empire: the Case of Oroonoko Angelina Del Balzo, Utah Valley University
- Equiano's Abolitionism and the Ottoman Empire Arif Camoglu, New York University Shanghai
- Love’s Labor Lost: Self-Translating Ottoman Domestic Slavery in Sermed (1918) and Çılgın Gibi (1945) Burcu Gursel, Kirklareli University
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Women's Writings confronting patriarchal and military violence: A comparative reading between Mexico and Argentina Agustina Catalano, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET - National Scientific and Technical Research Council)
- (Re)Writing Patriarchal Violence: Mutilation as Narrative Thread in Vanessa Londoño's El asedio animal Fernando Valcheff Garcia, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Woman Hating, Intercoursing, Scapegoating: Writing the Life of Andrea Dworkin Clara Vlessing, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
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4:30 PM CDT - 6:00 PM CDT

Keynote Lecture: Aslı Iğsiz, "Rethinking Displacement and the Humanities in the Civilizationist Present"

Organizer: Asli Igsiz

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 6:00 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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SUNDAY June 1st

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Organizers: Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Oana Panaite, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Organizers: Delia Ungureanu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest); Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Life, Cultural Memory, and a Critique of Presentism Longxi Zhang, Hunan Normal University
- Sustainable narratives for a livable world Françoise KRAL, Université Paris Nanterre, France
- Towards a Deep History of Presentism: The Poetics of Repetition with Difference in Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Presentism, Philology, History Theodoor Louis Dhaen, KU Leuven (University of Leuven)
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Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University; Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Samih al-Qasim and the Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity in Palestinian Poetic Resistance Angelika Palmegiani, Mohammed V University - Rabat (Morocco)
- Ancient History, Modern Maqāma: Shihāb al-Dīn al-Khafājī’s Allusions of Grandeur Ghayde Ghraowi, Yale University
- Modern Tunisian Fiction & the Revival of Ibn Khaldūn Hanan Natour, Freie Universität Berlin
- Crossed Mirrors: The Ancient, the Modern, and Clashing Intertextuality in Elias Khoury's Childern of the Ghetto Trilogy Daniel Behar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sino-Soviet Leviathan, Chinese Stories, and China Dream Hsiang-Yin Chen, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica
- Language on Trial: Multilingualism in the (literary) courtroom Hannah Scott Deuchar, Queen Mary University of London
- Imagining Lady Tan’s Life in Multilingual Practices Chunhui Peng, San Jose State University
- Iconization of Sherlock Holmes in Chinese translations 1916 yingxin chen, SOAS University of London
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Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Universität Passau (University of Passau); Shoumik Bhattacharya, Metropolitan State University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Art of Indetermination: Contemporary Reading Practices and the I-Jing Una Chung, Sarah Lawrence College
- Realism, the Novel, and Theory-Work in Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and Vauhini Vara’s The Immortal King Rao Sharanya Dutta, CUNY Graduate Center
- Queer Solidarities and Chosen Families in 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' Shoumik Bhattacharya, Metropolitan State University
- Literary Exposure: On Cruising African Book Fairs Tadiwanashe Madenga, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Resisting “Backwardness”: From Fun Home to Appalachian Activism Katie Hogan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Frontier Fantasies: Trans Ecologies in the Nineteenth-Century Dime Novel Western Emily Coccia, Carleton College
- Between the Domestic and the Public: Family Narratives and Gender Politics in Tell It to Women Lin Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Organizers: Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich); James Dowthwaite, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Decadence and Austerity between the Alster and the Elbe: Stephen Spender’s Hamburg James Dowthwaite, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)
- Decadence and Bath: Splendid Villas and Baneful Vice Roslyn Joy Irving, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)
- Decadence in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Transnational Urban Experiences Benjamin Heal, National Chung Cheng University
- Shelley, Swinburne and Decadence in Late 19th-Century Bengali Poetics Abhishek Sarkar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
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Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South Carolina

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The new literary frontiers of Xinjiang; between fiction and reality in Li Juan’s and Yerkesy Hulmanbiek’s work Anne-Kim Tremblay, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Towards a New Land: The Border-Crossings of Jhumpa Lahiri and Claudia Durastanti Cecily Cai, Hamilton College
- Gender, Borders and Inversion of Power Relations in Naomi Alderman's _The Power_ Serena Obkircher, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck)
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Broken Middles

Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- 'Imagination's Mercies': Fiction and facetiousness in Gillian Rose's The Broken Middle Robert Freeman, Oxford University
- Kierkegaard's Middles Louis Klee, University of Cambridge
- Aporetic Hermeneutics: Rose and Kierkegaard on Difficulty and the Philosophy of Reading Elizabeth Li, University of Copenhagen
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Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

Organizer: Titas Bose, University of Chicago

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Distant and Close Reading of Children’s Periodicals: The Case of European Mickey Magazines in 1935 Eva Van de Wiele, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
- The Home and the World: Shuktara and (Inter)national Identity Poushali Bhadury, Middle Tennessee State University
- Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in the 1970s: Cricket Magazine and the American Child Reader Sarah Wadsworth, Marquette University
- “Heaven” vs. “Hell”: Space in Stories about Left-behind Children in Chinese Children’s Magazines Ginny Qian Qian Xu, Tilburg University
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China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Xiaolong Hou, Moravian University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Chinese-Style Horror: Sinicization of Anxieties from Below Xinyue Zhang, University of Hong Kong
- Beyond the Gaze: Ethnic Identity and Feminist Expression in Chinese Social Media Platforms Flora Xu, Duke Kunshan University
- China’s New “Journey to the West” in Black Myth: Wukong: Translation, Cultural Nationalism and Video Game Localisation Yishan Jiang, University College London
- Chongqing (重庆), TikTok, Virtualized Fantasies, and the Great Firewall: Global Asia’s Perspectives on Futurism Majorca Bateman-Coe, The University of Minnesota
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Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Organizers: Marie Huber, Stanford University; Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Walking Against Time: Chan Buddhism and the Politics of Slowness in Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker Series Sihan Wang, Northwestern University
- Rhythm as Rebirth in "The House is Black" Vincent Barletta, Stanford University
- A Rumble from the Core of the Earth: Temporal Multiplicity and Dreaming as Intersubjective Memory in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria Vanessa Holyoak, University of Southern California
- Folds of Time, Folds of Life: Notes on Politics and Poetics of Rhythm in the Modernist Art of the Middle East Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University
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Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizers: Shirl Yang, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- From Catwalk to Tiananmen Square: Mass Ornaments of Complicity in Siegfried Kracauer, Hito Steyerl, and Postsocialist China Rachel Wong, University of Chicago
- Complicit Critiques: Performances of Protest in “Pumzi” and “The Couple in the Cage” Pragati Sharma, University of Toronto
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Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia, The University of New Mexico

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Whiteness, Borders, and the Otherworld: Yvain in the Global North Atlantic Nahir Otano Gracia, The University of New Mexico
- Reframing a Eurocentric Medievalism from the perspective of Augustine's Africanity Gabrielle DaCosta-Yulsman, Columbia University
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Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Organizers: Michelle Kelly, King's College London; Jarad Zimbler, King's College London

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Threshold of Visibility in African Literary Metadata Ashleigh Harris, Uppsala universitet (Uppsala University)
- Collective Writing / Effaced Authorship Hayley Toth, Newcastle University
- "Oral art" and decolonizing examinations in Kenya Asha Rogers, University of Birmingham
- Kamau Brathwaite in Ghana: Migrant Labour in the Literary Field Jarad Zimbler, King's College London
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Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Organizers: Esther Edelmann, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Thomas Bragdon, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- From the reasonable to the merely affective: the angry feminist trope and the exclusion of the economy of reason in the feminist protests in Mexico. Jorge Durán, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
- The Black Lives Matter Movement in Mexico: Community through Social Media, Literary, and Film Production Dustin Dill, University of Pennsylvania
- It was a Question of Inflaming You: Narrative Resistance and Refusal in Experimental Queer Literature Oliver Sage, CUNY Graduate Center
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Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams College

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- “Refugee Futurity”: the Absent Father, the Floating Nation, and Tent City in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again Hujuala Rika Ayu, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Thinking through Skies: Queer Refugee Narratives and the Politics of Mobility Ayse Irem Karabag, York University
- Stories of Survival: Refugee Narratives and Colonial Legacies in Gurnah’s By the Sea Peter Ogunniran, Williams College
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Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Organizer: Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mythic Innocence and the Ecological Self: Challenging Duality through Mystical Symbolism Sarah Runnstrom, Lunds universitet (Lund University)
- Contemplative Ecopoetics Catherine Rigby, Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne)
- “Irish charms will get you nowhere”: religious and ecological thinking in Richard Kearney’s Salvage (2023) Suvankur Sukul, University of California Santa Barbara
- NATURE SPRITUALITY IN AN AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS Roger Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University; Moinak Banerjee, McGill University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Atmospheres and the Mind: The Modernist Urdu Short Stories of India and Pakistan from the 1960s Onwards Fuzail Asar Siddiqi, GITAM (Deemed to be University)
- Where Several Worlds Collide: Reading Tilismi Spaces in Post/Colonial Otherworlds Abiral Kumar, Universität Potsdam (University of Potsdam)
- Lovers in Ratanpur: Interrogating Historical Violence in Assam’s Tea Gardens Priyam Goswami Choudhury, Universität Potsdam (University of Potsdam)
- Translating Riverscape(s): Heteroglossia and Heterotopia in Hansuli Banker Upakatha Moinak Banerjee, McGill University
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Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Organizers: Ileana Baird, Zayed University; Chrysavgi Papagianni, University of Patras

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Bridging Cultures in a Changing City: Fatima Al-Banawi’s Basma and Mahmoud Sabbagh’s Barakah Meets Barakah Hania Nashef, American University of Sharjah
- Beyond Identity Politics: The Male Body in _Warsha_ and _Matryr_ Maya Aghasi, American University of Sharjah
- The Internationalization of Egyptian Women’s Struggles in The Brink of Dreams and Feathers Muhammed Salem
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Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Of Mushrooms and Multiplicity: Polyphony between Ethnography and Literature Brian Fairley, University of Pittsburgh
- Oral Storytelling and Soundscapes in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction and Ethnographic Recordings Shira Levy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Theorizing Techniques of the Body in Dancer Autobiographies Susan Morrow, Princeton University
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Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen, University of Maryland, College Park

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Surveillance Technology and the Coded Language of Survival in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story Nicole Crevar, Miami University
- “We will live!”: (Just) Forgetting for (Self) Liberation in The Sympathizer Thanh-Nhan Le, Fu Jen Catholic University
- … aunque nos impidan acceder a ello. The strategic suppression of memory in Mar Moreno’s El día que nos obliguen a olvidar (2019) Karolin Schäfer, Universität Kassel (University of Kassel)
- Memory Wars: The Battle over Perspectives of Sexual Assault in Shinning Girls (2022) Min-Chi Chen, Independent Scholar
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Genealogies of World Comparatism

Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana Stan

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Salvage Anthropology and Early Comparative Literature: the Acta Comparationis and the Journal of American Folklore. Angus Nicholls, Queen Mary University of London
- The place of Romani Literature in the global context of Wold Literature Medeleanu Medeleanu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest)
- From Mexico City to World Literature: Enrique de Olavarría y Ferrari’s Collaboration with Hugo Meltzl’s Global Literary Project Sarah María Medina Pérez, Washington University in St. Louis
- From Comparative Philology to Comparative Literature: India's Interrupted Transitions since Middle Modernity Vinay Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- A Haunted Narrative: Hebrew as a Spectral Mother in Agnon’s In The Prime of Her Life Roni Henig, New York University
- Ghostly Tongues: Poetic Language from Beyond William Fogarty, University of Central Florida
- A Make-Believe Ghost in a Make-Believe State: Feminist Killjoy Anti-Utopianism in Turkish Cypriot Youth Dramatic Literature Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI - University of Milan)
- Write, Don't Write: Gordonian writerly haunting and Goethe's Dämonisch in two contemporary postcolonial novels Thomas Dayzie, Institute of American Indian Arts
- Spectral Hauntings: What Teaching Speculative Refugee Literature in PWI Classrooms Looks Like. Sarah Zahed, Westfield State University
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Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of Toronto

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Subtle Art of Giving Up on Feminism in Sofia Casanova's 1930s Transnational Fiction Dorota Heneghan, Louisiana State University
- The Novelist as Unwelcome Mourner: Redescribing Peripheral Life after Poetry and Revolution in Orhan Pamuk's Eastern Anatolia Jay Straker, Colorado School of Mines
- On Giving Up in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace Russell Samolsky, University of California Santa Barbara
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Global Legal Imagination

Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

Organizer: Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Playing the Other: Charting Geographies of Otherness through the motif of play in Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella (1971) Amrita Das, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- Rosario Ferré’s “Amalia” and the Dystopian State Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, University of Oregon
- Black Diasporic Folklore as Post-Colonial Care Ethic Wesley Jacques, Wheaton College
- Indigenous Deities and Catholic Prayer: an Undocumented Immigrant Cry for Help in Solito (2022) by Javier Zamora Gabriela Buitron Vera, Loyola University Chicago
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History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizers: Zachary Hicks, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Under the Radar: GDR Publishing, Canadian Writing, and World Literature Martin Breul, McGill University
- Raum, prostor: philosophy and East-Central European spatial education 1960-1980 Igor Marjanović, Rice University Katerina Rüedi Ray, Bowling Green State University
- It Takes a Village: Literature as Civic Infrastructure in the Pages of New Village Eliza Rose, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Organizer: Asijit Datta, SRM University-AP (India)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Victorian Natural History and its Translation of Extinction Kexin Song, University of Washington Seattle
- The Neanderthal That Therefore I Was: A Posthuman Reading of James Bradley`s Ghost Species Aditi Barman Roy, IIT Roorkee
- The Fossilized Self in Marlen Haushofer's "The Wall" (1963) and Jacqueline Harpman's "I Who Have Never Known Men" (1995) Anna Mochar, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- Selective Conservation and Species Extinction: The Whistling Hunters Bidyum Medhi, Johns Hopkins University
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Critical Reading of the Sharana Tradition in Sankranti (1973) and Shivaratri (2009) Aniruddha Nagaraj, Ambedkar University Delhi
- Writing in Absence of Interlocutors: The missing traces of caste in the writings of Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer Shameer K Sulaiman, Other Books, Cactus Communications
- Race, Caste and Religion in B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste SATYANARAYANA KUSUMA, The English and Foreign Languages University
- Translating Karukku ; Tamil, Malayalam and English Comparative Analysis Vismaya Pk, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar University Delhi
- Spiritual Dimensions of Race and/or Caste in Oxherding Tale (1982) and I Have Become the Tide (2019) Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia
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Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm College; Ruma Sinha, Rider University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- #MeToo in the Comment Sections: Exploring Content Ka Keeda’s Short Films on Youtube Nidhi Shrivastava, Sacred Heart University
- Witness, Survivors, Leaders: Dalit Female Journalists Transforming Outrage to Solidarity Ruma Sinha, Rider University
- Where’s the Outrage?: Representations of Rape in Manipuri Cinema Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm College
- Justice and Reparation in the #MeToo Novel Robin Field, King's College, Pennsylvania
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Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Market Research and the Construction of Genre Readers Katherine Deane, University of Birmingham
- Readers Who Know What They Want: Grassroots Genre Shaping in Romance Angelina Eimannsberger, University of Pennsylvania
- Getting On the Same Page? What Book Clubs Can Teach Literary Scholars Rebekah Waalkes, Boston College Maggie Boyd, Boston University
- The Return of Commonplacing: Journaling and Information Management for the 21st Century Julie Rak, University of Alberta
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Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Organizers: Philip Mills, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt); Joel De Lara, Georgetown University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Authorship and Illocutionary Force Mynt Marsellus, University of Toronto
- Acknowledging Passionate Utterances Lisa McKeown, Sheridan College
- Prediction, Projection & Persuasion Nikki Ernst, University of Pittsburgh
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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Violence in and of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea Andrea Opitz, Stonehill College
- The Comical African American Characters in Go Down, Moses Zidong Li, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- Marie Depussé, or the unheard margins of madness: the experience of the La Borde clinic and the death of psychiatry, a “de-coïncidence”? Nicolas Schwalbe, Université Paris 13
- "Transcending Ethnicity and Memory: The Representation of the Komatsugawa Incident in Postwar Japanese Literature and Film" XIYI ZHANG, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s Recuerdos (1875) and the Hemispheric Text-Network Vincent Perez, University of Nevada Las Vegas
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Homo-mēnsus, Homo-mimeticus, Homo-mēnsūra Shan Wu, Harvard University
- “Now What?”: Deconstruction, Mimesis, and the End of Liber Mundi Jacob Levi, Connecticut College
- Mimesis and Biosemiotics: The Paradox of Relational Dynamics in Ecological Systems Mickey Vallee, Athabasca University
- From Hypermimesis to Hyperperformativity: How AI Reshapes the Human Philip Michels
- Mirror Neurons and the Response to Images: Mimesis in the Work of Georges Didi-Huberman Stijn De Cauwer, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
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Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, University of Chicago; Joseph Staten, University of Illinois at Chicago

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hybrid (post)Modernity in Don Delilo's Underworld Timothy McCarthy, University of California Santa Barbara
- Pictorial Metamodernism and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz Christine Fouirnaies, University of Chicago
- Booker Style, or, The Comforts of Residual Modernism Daniel Dufournaud, University of Macau
- The Modernist Sequel Christopher Gortmaker, University of Chicago
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Oceanic Humanities

Organizers: Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy; Colin Dewey, California State University Maritime Academy

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Organizer: Yuanfei Wang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Oceanic World-Literature of the Indian Ocean Tyler Ball, University of Warwick
- The More-than-human Contact Zone: Human-Fish Encounters in Yaşar Kemal’s Deniz Küstü and Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Muge Gedik, Stanford University
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Then and Now: Traversing Oceans and Time Christina (Ting-Ting) Shiea, University of Washington Seattle
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Photographic Practices of Repair

Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna College

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The materiality of abandoned art historical slide libraries: from traces of exclusion to repairing narratives. Slide/Lecture by Susan Dobson Audrey Leblanc, EHESS Paris France, associate research
- On touching images. Traces of potential resistance on historical photography. Catalina Poggio, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
- A Lifetime of Ground to Cover: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Archive Jennifer O'Connor, York University
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Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Speech that Conjures the Speaker: A Phenomenology of the Lyric Gautama Polanki, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
- A Poetics of Self-Reflection: Exploring Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Prose Poetry Mingyi Xiao, University of California Santa Barbara
- Sentient Sentences: Gestures Towards an Enactivist Poetics in Renee Gladman Jay Butler, Duke University
- Thinking through Affective Poetics Mushira Habib, Colorado College
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Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rafid C, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- The Problem of Singular Representation in Peer e Kamil Areej Kiani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)
- Comparative Texts in Purpose-Driven Tune: Interrogating Dalit Voices through Arivu’s Tamil Rap Anil Raj P S, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
- The Modern in Literature – science, urban development and the tussle with modernity in Poornachandra Tejaswi Mythili Bhat, Mount Carmel College (Autonomous)
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Real(ist) Presences : The Transmedial Aesthetics and Poetics of Plurality Ipshita Chanda, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
- Walking Observations in Open City and Standing Heavy Anjalee Nadarajan, York University
- The Colonial Realism Debate: Inter-imperiality and Fiction in Long Ying-zong’s The Caricature of Madame Zhao Alexandra Yan, UC Irvine
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Rebooting World SF

Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Where is the World in WorldCon?: The Global Aims and Contradictions of Science Fiction Fandom. Suzanne Boswell, Independent Scholar
- Access, authenticity, and classification: designing a syllabus on Francophone Maghrebi speculative fiction Erin Twohig, Georgetown University
- Confronting the Elephant in the Room: Reflections on the Bidirectional English-Chinese and Chinese-English Science Fiction Translations YILUN FAN, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- 'Global' Cultural Identity and Anti-Colonial Science Fiction: Teaching Afrofuturism in South Korea Daniel Martin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
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Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

Organizers: Jecheol Park, Seoul National University; Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Technics as Mediation: Rethinking Nature in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle Chen-Kuang Yin, National Tsing Hua University
- When a noun becomes a verb: Ontological possibilities of Simondonian technicity in William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels Amrita Iyer, Nanyang Technological University
- Maxwell's Demon and the Veil of Ignorance Zach Wagner, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- The Proliferation of AI Agents: No Human Needed for Non-human Communication Sangmin Kim, Yonsei University
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The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

Organizer: Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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The Person in Law & Culture

Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, University of California Santa Barbara; Peter Schneck, Osnabrück University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Narratives of Subjectivity and Desire in Abortion Debate Rebecca Wey, University of Arizona
- 'one’s own and unrepeatable territory': The Mapuche che and the territorio cuerpo-tierra Ethan Madarieta, Syracuse University
- Chilled Futures: The Cryopreserved Body Christopher Walker, Colby College
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The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Organizers: Noah Terrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Wound Play and Body Disintegration: A Utopian Rejection of Self-Preservation Júlia Zen Dariva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
- Monstrous Bodies: Body Horror as Social Critique in Graphic Medicine Priscilla Layne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Curiosity and Squeamishness: Singular Bodies in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

Organizers: Lucas Klein, Arizona State University; Chris Song, University of Toronto

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- In-text Translation: Negotiating Between Poetry and Academic Prose in a Translation of a Chinese-language Book on Chinese Classical Verse Joanna Krenz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
- Exile as Translation, Translation as Exile: Yang Lian’s Translational Poetics Federico Picerni, Università di Bologna (UNIBO - University of Bologna)
- Voices from the Past: Translating Yuan Vernacular in Xue Angfu’s Sanqu Songs Tianran Han, Ohio State University
- The liminality of poetry, the centrality of the subject, the dis-location of the Sinophone: Hsia Yü’s First Person 第一人稱 and its multilingualism simona gallo, Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI - University of Milan)
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TV-Philosophy

Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Elif Sendur, Rutgers University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Between Culture and Ontology: TV as Thick Disposition Larson Powell, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- How TV Series Change us, and the World sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Providence College; Julia Calderón, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Neighborhood Holmes: Parody, Translation, and the Politics of Humor in Liu Fu’s The Grand Failures of Sherlock Holmes, 1915-1916 Qi Hong, University of Toronto
- Detecting White Injury: Deon Meyer’s Benny Griessel Novels, Racial Disavowal, and the Post-Apartheid State Marzia Milazzo, University of Johannesburg
- The Corrupt Revolutionary Archetype in Cuban Detective Fiction: Postcolonial Identity in Leonardo Padura’s Personas Decentes Delia García, Florida International University
- The Crime of Touristification in the Detective Saga of Daniel Quirós Julia Calderón, Indiana University Bloomington
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Varieties of the Impersonal

Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate Center

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Misplaced Personality: Foucault’s “Lives of Infamous Men” and Bureaucratic Modernism Alexandra Irimia, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn) Jonathan Foster, Stockholms Universitet (Stockholm University)
- “Pushkin and I Are Chums”: On the Media, Personhood, and Politics in Nikolai Gogol’s Time Bella Grigoryan, University of Pittsburgh
- To Make the Father Forgotten: Gestic Speech, Quotability and Impersonal Style Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University
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Work

Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- On Reproductive Irrealism Alden Marte-Wood, Rice University
- Fear and Self-Loathing: The Call Center in Contemporary Fiction Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- '‘The True Builders’ Names are Always Silenced’: Uncovering the Traces of Immigrant Labor in "The Man Who Stepped Over the Sea.” Patrick Lyons, Case Western Reserve University
- The Presence of Marx’s Stories and Metaphors in the Ideology of Work Samuel Mercer, Liverpool Hope University
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Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

Organizers: Marc Botha, Durham University; Heather Yeung, University of Dundee

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Madame Mao as Durational Performance: Left-wing Cinema, Model Works, and Post-Mao Musicals Karin Inouye, Centre College
- Rumors of Film History: Researching Sex Media Infrastructures in the Global South Ankita Deb, Stanford University
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“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University; Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Ontario

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Disappearing bodies and the rhetoric of vanishing: Notes on Suharto, the Petrus killings in Indonesia (1983-1985), and the Philippine Drug War (2016-present) Vincent Pacheco, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- “Desert Dumps,” Border Control, and Collective Storytelling in the Human Rights Report Alexandra Moore, Binghamton University (The State University of New York) Elizabeth Swanson, Babson College
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(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany Buscio

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- From Phrygian caps to Phryges: nostalgic history and nation-building at the 2024 Paris Olympics Hannah Link
- ‘A Cure Worse Than the Disease’: National Anxiety and Idyllic Nostalgia in Julian Barnes’s England, England Xiaoge Wang, Durham University
- Searching for the Legal Precedent for Prejudice: Contemporary Nostalgia for Anti-Abortion Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century American Legal and Medical Literature Natasha Kinne, McGill University
- Past and Present in Two Medieval Arthurian Traditions Caroline D. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Political Narrative vs. the Politics of Narration of The Sixties' generation of Arab writers SAYED ELSISI, George Mason University
- Narrating the Nation: A Translation of the Homeland Experience in Soha Bechara’s Resistance: My Life for Lebanon Atefa Abdallah, University of Waterloo
- So You Want to Come Home With Me? “Knowing” Home in Dany Laferrière’s Pays sans chapeau Maika Nguyen, University College Dublin
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- ‘Why are Muslim Men and Women Not Writing Novels?’: Exploring the Place of Novels in the Mappila Literary Tradition Musab Abdul Salam, University of Oregon
- Cultivating Universal Values in Moroccan Young Learners : Towards Fostering Peace Education in the Moroccan Primary School Levels : Fi Rihab Attarbia AlIslamiyya (6th Grade) Textbook as a Case Study Azize Kour, ENSIAS Mohamed V University
- Grammars of Belief: On Miracles in Modernity Ifrah Javaid, Brown University
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Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi, Columbia University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Hellfire: the History of a Fragment Stephen Voyce, University of Iowa
- Postmemory of the Armenian genocide in a children's book Anastasia Kostetskaya, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- Affective Landscapes of Violent States – The Uncanny in Mariana Enriquez’s 'Chicos que faltan' Ashmita Chatterjee, Brown University
- The Legacy of a Mnemonic Jigsaw Puzzle in Patricio Pron's El Espiritu de Mis Padres Jeanne Devautour Choi, Columbia University
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After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

Organizer: Laura Ritland, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Teaching Postcolonial Literature at the University of Guyana Romona Bennett, University of Guyana
- BIPOC Voices, Radical Care, and the Decolonization of Generative AI in the Classroom Adrian Wisnicki, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Translation and Global Anglophone Literature Sushmita Sircar, Gettysburg College
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- From Alice in China to Tamerlane in the League of Nations: Mobilising foreign icons as a world literary strategy Alice Xiang, King's College London
- ‘Wha’s Like Us?’: Vernacular Nationalism and the Iconization of New Scots Annie Webster, University of Edinburgh
- Comparative intertextuality and intertextual comparison: Reading Ghazan Kanafani on Mao and Gandhi Peiyu Yang, George Mason University
- The Qalandar: a nexus of languages, faith cultures and literary traditions Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London
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Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines in The Enchanted Mirror (1799) David Sigler, University of Calgary
- Stealing Back the Baby: Reclawing Minority Writing Marc Lynch, University of Calgary
- Cinema’s nonstyle: Cinécriture via Varda Nadine Boljkovac, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
- Concept and Form between Beckett and Schizoanalysis Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Poetics, Placeholder Infrastructure and Rural Placemaking Sarah MacDonell, McGill University
- George William Russell’s "Rural Community" and Irish Modernity Cody Jarman, University of Pikeville
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Body, Language

Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Brecht's Buckow Elegies Anna Hunt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Epilepsy as Form in Thomas Bernhard’s Amras Aviv Hilbig-Bokaer, New York University
- Genre Queer: Adaptation and Embodiment in Fassbinder and Ozon Ian Fleishman, University of Pennsylvania
- Insectum Rose Taury, Brown University
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Breath Poetics

Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Krishna Consciousness and the Beat Poet(h)ics of Breath Sriya Chakraborty, Florida State University
- Listening to “letter-spirits”: The Poetics of Inspiration in the Performances of Susan Howe and David Grubbs Anne Marie Thompson, St. John's College
- “and I stopped breathing”: Breath, Death and the End of the Line Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago
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Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Building the Future, Reproducing the Past: Girls and Society in Francophone African Fiction, International Children’s Rights Law, and Developmental Discourse Kate Mackenzie, University of St Andrews
- Children Are/As Robots: dehumanization, personhood, and the ethics of futurity Julia Empey, University College Cork (UCC)
- Youth Voices in AI: Shaping an Ethical Future Harveer Saini, National AI Youth Council
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Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Genetic Narratives between Cloning and Infection in The Tiger Flu Ningning Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Relational Storytelling and Transgenerational Trauma in the Works of Igiaba Scego and Katja Petrowskaja Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, Durham University
- Disenchanting Illness as Personalised Metaphor: Discursive Transformation in Disease Narratives in Chinese Literature and Art of the Last Decade Chen Wang, Emory University
- Immanent Transcendence and Nested Narration in Phasawne Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow Psyfun Mustary, University of British Columbia
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Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

Organizers: Michael Reyes, Vassar College; Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate University; Cait Jones, Carleton University; Armin Fardis, San Francisco State University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Are We Being Educated or Schooled? Lessons from the Inside Jung Choi, San Diego State University
- Reading Like Fanon: Interpellations of the Literary in the Incarcerated Tradition Sarah Snyder, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- "Carceral Marronage: George Jackson’s Carceral Insurgency and A Revolutionary Ethics of Comparison” Armin Fardis, San Francisco State University
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Comparative Indenture

Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Writing the Earth: Post-Indenture Geographies in V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and K.S. Maniam’s In a Far Country Devin Choudhury, Wesleyan University
- Asian Indenture as a Literary Expression of Caribbean Nationalism XU PENG, University of Connecticut
- The Contract and the Collective: A Prehistory of Asian Indenture in the Early Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Catherine Peters, College of William and Mary
- Global Indenture, Globalizing Indenture Atreyee Phukan, University of San Diego
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Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Enigmatic Message of Racial Difference Sheila Giffen, Capilano University
- Enigmatic Wish Fulfillment in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams Bobby Malone, Simon Fraser University
- Radical Transference as Detranslation Claudia Grigg Edo, Columbia University
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Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, University of Houston; Sucheta Kanjilal, The University of Tampa

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Feminist Resistance, Translation and the Politics of “Dhvani” in Geetanjali Shree’s Ret ki Samadhi (Tomb of Sand) Abhipsa Chakraborty, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
- Too Big and Too Straight: Motherhood and Literary Form in the Hindi Novel Ulka Anjaria, Brandeis University
- Premchands at Home: Gender, nation and tradition in a woman’s memoir Vandana Saxena, Universiti Malaya
- Fear and Caste-anxieties in Hindi Dalit Short Fiction Tarjanee Parmar, Western University
- The Elephant-God and a Window of small things Sushil jha, Washington University in St. Louis
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Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Cultures of Energy Transition

Organizers: Martin Premoli, Pepperdine University; Izzy Lockhart, New York University (NYU)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of Houston

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Bolsonarism's Strategies of Recolonization Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
- ‘Indigeneity’ as a Framework for Decolonization: Adivasi, Palestinian, and Haudenosaunee Paradigms of Collective Belonging Mukti Mangharam, Rutgers University
- Putting Solidarity in Its Place: Us, them, and Other Affective Injustices Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Performing Against Disappearance: Visibility, Violence, and Decolonization on Turtle Island and India-occupied Kashmir Sheetala Bhat, York University
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University; Peter Baker, University of Stirling

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Precarious Concepts: experiment, displacement, and collaboration Noraeden Mora Mendez, University of Southern California
- Desiring the Ruin as Outrunning the Ruin: np:'s Opening to Reset in the Critical University Tim Roberts, np:
- Anti-Neoliberal Organizations and Initiatives: Notes Derived From The Experience of 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes, 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos
- Restoring the Past in Order to Hear the Female Artist Claudia Marques-Martin, University of Dundee
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Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

Organizers: Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Antipolitical Imagination: From East-Central Europe to the Global South Brian Goodman, Arizona State University
- Cold War Emergencies: Authoritarianism and Modernism in Postcolonial India Preeti Singh, Duke University
- “Crossing the 38th Parallel in Japan”: Zainichi and the Promise of Citizenship Jiaxin Yan, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University; Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Contesting Chrononormativity: Vicarious Kinship and Unofficial Historiography in Anna Kim’s Novel Die große Heimkehr (The Great Homecoming, 2017) Qingyang Freya Zhou, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Queer Homemaking Yun Peng
- Queer women prefer older sisters: Mediating queer sisterhood in Chinese women game live streamers’ stardom and fandom Jamie J. Zhao, City University of Hong Kong
- Skinship and Queerness: Decentering Home in Ekuni Kaori’s Twinkle Twinkle Flora Roussel, LaSalle College Montreal
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Ghostly Qarina in Modern Arabic Gothic Fiction Shurouq Ibrahim, Ohio State University
- Haunted Creators: Ghostly Figures and Lost Desires in W.G. Sebald’s Vertigo RAM BASHAN, Tel Aviv University
- Ghosts of 1971: Retribution and Memory in Bangladeshi War Fiction Madhurima Sen, University of Oxford
- Ghosts of the Jungle: hauntings and epidemics in Maupassant's The Horla and Coelho Neto's The Plague Aureo Lustosa Guerios, University of Padua
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Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- "Weird, Filthy, Fancy Things": Reading Lolita Through Thing Theory Rachel Windsor, University of Toronto
- Against Lesbian Distinction: Aftersun and Queer Girlhood Desire Erin Nunoda, University of Glasgow
- Dirty Girls and Wolfish Appetites: Queer Abject Aesthetics in Anuja Varghese’s “Milk” Rachel O'Brien, McMaster University
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Hegel and World Literature

Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College Dublin

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Self-Alienated World Literature: Hegel and Schwarz on Formation Tavid Mulder, Emerson College
- Adorno's Blindspot: Art and Organism in Hegel's Aesthetics Jensen Suther, Harvard University
- World Literature and Absolute Method Thomas Waller, University College Dublin
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Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Ilios Willemars, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Cartographies of Resistance: Island Ecologies and the Novel Form in The Last Wave and Latitudes of Longing Sejal Mahendru, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ecologies of Confinement and the Reality of the Unreal Neni Panourgia, Columbia University
- Culture(d) Medicinal Practices: Transcorporeality and Resilience on Zakynthos Island, Greece Sophia Emmanouilidou, Ionian University, Greece, Department of the Environment
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Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

Organizers: Rini Tarafder, University of Denver; Amrapali Chatterjee, Western University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- An Analysis of the Infrastructural Details in terms of Disability in Daralan Suzan Deniz, Tekirda? Nam?k Kemal University
- Ministering to Power: Greeks, Jews and Historical Fiction at the Persian Court Sara Johnson, University of Connecticut
- The Pharmakon’s Residue: infrastructure, media and metaphor Kendra Atkin, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

Organizers: Jean Amato, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology; Kyunghee Pyun, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Other at Home: Servants, Spaces, and Objects in Urban Domesticities Samiksha Samiksha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- The Limits of Chremamorphic Reconfiguration: Disruption of National Identity in the Manor House in Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) Soham Sinha, Syracuse University
- Home through Absence: Longing for a Displaced Primordial Homeland in Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen Shiqi Xu, Duke University
- Constructing Oriental Nostalgia: Heritage, Gender and Material Culture in M. Iordanidou’s Loxandra Foteini Lika
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Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Blenders and Love: Reimagining Domesticity and Queer Desire in Vagabunda Bogotá’s Post-Work Future Natalia Aguilar Vasquez, Emerson College
- Cozy Work, If You Can Get It Mitch Murray, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Cyberpunk Models of Post-Capitalist Labor in Caja de fractales (2017) Winnie Pérez Martínez, University of Virginia
- Labor Ecologies and Roboticization in the Speculative Fiction of Hiroko Oyamada and Pabsi Livmar Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University
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Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

Organizers: Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri; José Luis Suárez Morales, Texas Christian University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Reading Small-Scale Institiutions with Tommy Orange Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University
- Worlds Apart: Mass Tourism and the Crisis of Travel in the Post-Pandemic Yucatán Peninsula Matt Johnson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- Monumentalizing Memory: Crisis, Symbolic Struggles, and Urban Landscapes in San Salvador José Luis Suárez Morales, Texas Christian University
- Expansive Ruins and Ruins “Under Construction” a note on Aira’s Los fantasmas and Danielewski’s House of leaves Jose Ricardo Garcia Martinez, University of British Columbia
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Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

Organizers: Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney; Meg Brayshaw, The University of Sydney

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Out from Under: Indigeneity, the Nonhuman, and Life Under Extraction in the work of Seba Calfuqueo Nico Fonseca, Northwestern University
- Unsettling the Canadian Settler Colonial Narrative Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser University
- At What Cost? The Dystopian Future of Extraction for Indigenous Population in The Marrow Thieves Alyssa Froemel, East Carolina University
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Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

Organizers: Sarah Vidal Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC); Iker Arranz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Feminist Pasts and Diasporic Futures: Magical Realism and Hindu Mythology in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City Uttara Rangarajan, Fordham University
- Rural or Urban? The answer is Magical. Bernardo Atxaga’s proposal as a fantastic no-answer for a Basque intra-journey Iker Arranz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- 'We were never meant to survive' : Futurities of difference in Speculative Fiction from the Global South Patricia Vidal, University of St Andrews
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Chinese Transparency, Mexican Deceit: The Meaning of Clothing in El Periquillo Sarniento Blake Seana Locklin, Texas State University
- Coincidence or Influence? The Interaction of Chinese Loong and Mesoamerican Serpents Bingli Liu, University of Alberta
- Intersectionality and Gendered Immigrant Experience in El Futuro Perfecto Qing Ai, Farmingdale State College (State University of New York)
- Julia Wong and the Paradoxes of Representation Paula Park, Rice University
- Linguistic China in 17th-century Spanish Texts: Aspects of a Hauntology Dinu Luca, National Taiwan Normal University
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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Hortomimesis: representing the gardener in ancient China and Augustan Rome Beth Harper, The University of Hong Kong
- Mimesis and Political Representation in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger Michael Clarke, University of Calgary
- Mimesis, Resistance, and Identity: Exploring the Role of Imitatio in the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani, Simon Fraser University
- Between Tongue and Taste: Persian Jones and the Non-Mimetic Aesthetics Taymaz Pour Mohammad, Northwestern University
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Odd Temporalities

Organizers: Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Scully, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Feeling Queasy, Feeling Utopia: Impossible Temporalities in Love Lies Bleeding Erin Schlumpf, Ohio University
- Temporal Disruptions: Media and Violence in Sara Eliassen's "Images [and Talking Back to Them]" amanda macedo macedo, Brown University
- Film’s Treachery: The Politics of Panahi’s Temporalities Ahmad Nadalizadeh, University of Wyoming
- Senescent Time of a Future Past: Biopolitical Impasse and Legitimacy Crisis of Working-Class Communities in Shanghai and Paris Xiaojiao Wang, New York University Shanghai
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Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Fulbright University Vietnam; Adam Yaghi, New York University Shanghai

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “Nor Certitude, Nor Peace, Nor Help for Pain”: Children and Families of the Troubles in Anna Burns' Milkman Yian Zhu, Tongji University
- “Autobiographic pages of unkept diaries:” Agency in Children’s Drawings During the Spanish Civil War Anita Rescia, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- Picturing Violence Against Children: The Child in a Live-Streamed Genocide Mary Gryctko, Baruch College, City University of New York
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Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

Organizers: Steven Maye, Capilano University; Maria Dikcis, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

Organizers: Nida Sajid, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Muhammad Numan, University of Management and Technology, Lahore

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- "From Erasure to Embodiment: Curatorial Expressions and Post-Memory of the 1947 Partition" Rituparna Rana
- Memoryscapes in Post-9/11 South Asia Beyond Trauma: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Vernacular Poetry Muhammad Numan, University of Management and Technology, Lahore
- Narratives of Migrant Foodscapes: Memory, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging Pawan Sharma, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Politics and Desire in the Archive

Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Postcolonial Formalism in Context

Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of Cambridge

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Towards a Postcolonial Aesthetics of Form Thando Njovane, Rhodes University
- Formalism and Allegory: Revisiting J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians Pratistha Bhattarai, Grand Valley State University
- Nadine Gordimer's Black Eagle Dominic O'Key, University of Cambridge
- River as Form in Gabriel Okara's The Fisherman's Invocation Ryan Topper, Western Oregon University
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Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

Organizers: George Handley, Brigham Young University; Animesh Roy, St. Xavier's College, Simdega, India

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Reimagining Postcolonial Folktales in the Planetary Crisis: Tracing the Anthropocene in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle nama Manvi Sharma, Amity University Punjab Ajay K. Chaubey, Jananayak Chandrashekhar University, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh Surendra Singh, National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand
- The Hungry Tide as the Intersection of Ecotheology and Postcolonial Ideas Niğmet Metinoğlu, Kastamonu University
- Tribal Ecotheology and the Uncanny in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey Dr. Asis De, Mahishadal Raj College, West Bengal, India
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Forms and Perspectives of Literary Realism in the Global South Natasha Belfort Palmeira, Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Between Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment in Documentary: World Society or the Fable of a World Turned into Fiction? Luigi Storto, Universitè de Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)
- Embodied Eco-Realism in Ochy Curiel’s Ode to Berta Caceres Indrani Mukherjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Pedagogical Realism: Orature and the Question of Belief in Two East African Novels Ruth S. Wenske, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

Organizers: Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- “Terrorist Geographies” of the Algerian War: Reading Cities Transhistorically through Photography and Fiction Danielle Hanzalik, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Microspaces and Guerilla Urbanism: Scale Effects in Contemporary French Rap Lyrics Olivier Sales, Florida International University
- The Fire-Eaters: Urban Ecology, the Lumpenproletariat, and the Cultural Politics of the Lumpenproletariat in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Fiction Somak Mukherjee
- Scale, Place, and the Ethics of Terrorism in Mahi Binebine’s Horses of God Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara
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Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam); Tessel Veneboer, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Animalistic Desire: Consent and Coherence at the Limits of the Human with Marian Engel's 'Bear' Jo Giardini, Allegheny College
- Sex Without Bodies: Beckett’s Breath Brooke Clark, Rice University
- Sex, Lies, and Autofiction: Reading Love Me Tender Aristotelis Tokatlidis
- Less and More than Men: The Queer Sex of the Castrato Carole-Anne Tyler, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
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Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Routing South-South Solidarity: Vietnam-Palestine, Third World Travel Narratives, and Subaltern Internationalism Anh Nguyen, New York University (NYU)
- Archaeology of Decolonization in Jeju Art Jeong Eun We, Northwestern University
- Uchinānchu American Literature: Representing Hajichi Revitalization in Japan’s Southernmost Prefecture Cassie Miura, University of Washington Tacoma
- “What does a Global Southscape Look Like?” Nienke Boer, The University of Sydney
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The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

Organizers: Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside); Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- The Culinary Art of Horror: Displacement and (Re)Orientation in Hannibal Series Azra Ghandeharion, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
- The Wind Blossoms Blue: Yiddish Women Poets in New York Rebecca Weingart, Washington University in St. Louis
- Entangled Presence: A Red Reading of A.E. Housman’s “The Merry Guide” Lucien Darjeun Meadows, University of Denver
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The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

Organizers: Carlos Gontijo Rosa, Federal University of Acre (UFAC); Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Dismantling the Center-Periphery Binary in Roma Theatre: Giuvlipen’s Counter-Discourse Diana Benea, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest)
- Canon and periphery in Armando Martins Janeira’s work on Gil Vicente and Noh theatre Robin Driver
- Reconstructing the Intercultural Debate Through World Systems Theory Souradeep Roy, Queen Mary University of London
- Our Emperor, Ourselves Andrew Schlager, Princeton University
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The Persistence of Existentialism

Organizer: Ben Roth, Emerson College

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Revival of Kierkegaardian Existentialism in Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore Adelheid Rundholz, Johnson C. Smith University
- From Mishima to Murakami: Living with the Debris in Post-War Japan George Cai, Washington University in St. Louis
- The Persistence of the Human -- Humanism and the Legacy of Existentialism Lior Levy, University of Haifa
- Existentialism in the Margins: Taşra and Alienation in Atılgan’s Anayurt Oteli and Camus’s The Stranger Evren Akaltun Akan, Yaşar University
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Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

Organizer: Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- De Man Listening to the Poets Cynthia Chase, Cornell University
- The Time Of Our Reading – Reading Out Of Time – Understanding ‘Nothing’ Soelve Curdts, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- Pictures at an Exhibition: Four Resplendent Text-Windows Henry Sussman, Rutgers University
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Translation and Autotheory

Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of Iowa

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- SKAM MANIFESTO, OR THE ALBANIAN LESSON Ami Xherro, University of Toronto
- ‘Shifty translation’ or what is gained in practicing and thinking of translation from a queer, creative and autotheoretical perspective. Vincent BROQUA, Université Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis
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Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

Organizer: Valeria Meiller, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A Tree is not a Forest: A Phytopoetic Critique of Capitalism Regina Pieck, Stanford University
- Interstitial Gardens: The (Geo)Politics of Land Defense in Cecilia Vicuña’s Ephemeral Forests Valeria Meiller, The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Defiant Gardens as Eco-Feminist Archival Spaces in Francesca Momplaisir’s The Garden of Broken Things Safaa Mohamed, Cairo University
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Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA); Irene Bulla, Independent Scholar

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Extreme and Postmodern Types of Unreliable Narrator Brian Richardson, University of Maryland, College Park
- The Reliability of Counterfact: Translation, Mediation and Narrative Strategy in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome Craig Smith, Northwestern Polytechnic
- Unreliable Omniscience: Power, Gender, and Narrative Authority in Muriel Spark’s The Comforters Morgan Lehofer, Boston University
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Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Points of Departure Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston
- Life Reading: Asiancy, Speculation, Recovery Larissa Lai, University of Toronto
- Driving in Palestine, with thanks to Rehab Nazzal and Adania Shibli Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia
- Vicissitudes of the Manichean Opposition Abdul R. JanMohamed, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Emma Lieber

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Shelf Zones, Deep-Sea Zones and Abyssal Zones in Psychoanalytic Writing Dana Amir, University of Haifa
- Prosopopoeia and Intersubjectivity: Expanding Auto/biographical Boundaries in Yael Neeman's Once There Was a Woman Vered Shimshi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Literary Studies based upon my book Psychoanalysis and Narrative. Literature, Film and Autobiography (2024) jorgelina corbatta, Wayne State University
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What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Violence Against Women: Writing Gender Violence in South Korea JUNG CHOI, Harvard University
- Poetry and feminicide in contemporary Mexico Karen Genschow, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Unsettling the ‘Gendered Grammar of Violence:’ Women as Agents of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Women’s Writing Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT

ACLA Board Meeting

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT

ACLA Graduate Student Committee Webinar: "Without Censorship: On Academic Freedom"

2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT

Opening Ceremony

3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

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6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT

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10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Broken Middles

Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Genealogies of World Comparatism

Ghost Figures in World Literature

Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Global Legal Imagination

Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Large Language Models and Literature

Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Oceanic Humanities

Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Photographic Practices of Repair

Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Rebooting World SF

Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

The Person in Law & Culture

The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Translating the Caribbean

Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

TV-Philosophy

Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Varieties of the Impersonal

What is in Plain Sight?

Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Work

Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam