Friday, April 19, 2013
Linsly-Chittenden 319 (63 High Street)
9-9:30am INTRODUCTIONS
9:30-11:00am PANEL ONE SHADES OF WORLD HISTORY
Oliver Baker University of New Mexico
“‘In the old days we were free’: Frontier Anxiety and Monopoly Capitalism in S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema”
Ben Bascom University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Museum/ Empire: The Last American and World Culture”
Hadji Bakara University of Chicago
“Ahab After Evil: Moby–Dick, Global New Left, and the Limits of Liberal Imagination”
Respondent: Jordan Brower
11:15am-12:45pm PANEL TWO OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD
Kate Huber Temple University
“Incommensurability and Empire: The Failure of Translation in Cooper’s Mercedes of Castile”
Lindsay Van Tine Columbia University
“Old World Romance, New World History, and the Geography of Genre in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Calavar”
Brian Goodman Harvard University
“Josef Škvorecký’s American Epigraphs: Hemingway, Mezzrow, and the Dangers of Influence in Communist Czechoslovakia”
Respondent: Ryan Carr
1:45-3:15pm PANEL THREE THE AMERICAS
Marvin Campbell University of Virginia
“’Our Spanish Side’ in Wallace Stevens’ Key West: Toward a Hemispheric Modernism”
Abigail Droge Stanford University
“I love you all I can, I think: Transnational Humor in Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazilian Poetry”
Angela S. Allan Brown University
“Slouching Towards Neoliberalism: Joan Didion and Transnational Democracy”
Respondent: Sarah Robbins
3:30-5:00pm PANEL FOUR ACROSS THE PACIFIC
Katherine Bishop University of Iowa
“’They Passed in Review’: Hybrid Bodies in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator”
Jang Wook Huh Columbia University
“A Trans-Pacific Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Korea, and the Trope of Overlapping Dispossessions”
Palmer Rampell Yale University
“Kilroy Was Here: Faulkner in Japan, August 1955”
Respondent: Merve Emre
5:00-6:00 pm PUBLICATION WORKSHOP
Led by Gordon Hutner, Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Editor of American Literary History
6:00-7:00 pm RECEPTION