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UCI Student Center, Newport Beach Room C

UCI Student Center, Newport Beach Room B

9:00-9:15

Breakfast and registration

 

9:15-9:30

Opening remarks

 

9:30-10:45

Figures of Criminality

Panelists:

Lucas Chan, “Defining Humanity by Studying Criminals and Outcasts”

Bryan Ho, “Power, Law, and Crime in a Case of 18th Century Parricide”

Aaron Ponoroff, “Homo Sacer and the Sacred Outlaw”

Chair: Aaron Winter

 

11:00-12:15

The Cultural Dynamics of Subjection and Transgression

Panelists:

D. Christian Quezada, “The Martyr and the Marketplace: The Language

   of Ambiguity in Early-Christian Martyr Narratives”

David Alexander Cary, “Blanche Under Scrutiny: Looking at A Streetcar 
   Named Desire Through the Lens of Sartre's Being and Nothingness
Toshi Tomori, “In the Shape of the Negress:  Kara Walker and the 
   Pathologies of the Black Female Body”

Chair: Erin McNellis

Self, Community, and the Ethics of Belonging

Panelists:

Jason Ian White, “Kierkegaardian Existential Despair and the Knight of 
   Faith”
Bryon Riggs, “A Passage beyond India: Looking to Neighbor Love for 
   Possibilities of Friendship within the Political”
Floreana Edwards-Younger, “Alienated or Aloof?:  Rousseau and Genet 
   Pursue Perfection”

Chair: Eric Titterud

12:15-12:30

A word from Rei Terada, Director of the Critical Theory Emphasis and

   Professor of Comparative Literature

Lunch will be available in Newport Beach Room C from 12:15 to 2:00

 

12:30-1:45

 

Voice and the Materiality of Language

Panelists:

Jeff Liu, “Le détour: Examining Nietzsche's Ethics By Way of Rhetoric”

Elaine Chou, “Joyce and Derrida: Linguistic Origin, Birth and Creation in

   ‘The Oxen of the Sun’”

Jonathan Radocay, “Time in Voice: Religious Redemption in The Sound and

   the Fury

Julie Pang, “Whispering Voices, Rustling Language: The Aural Subtext in

   Paco's Story”

Chair: Brent Russo

2:00-3:15

Transformations in Spectatorship

Panelists:

Jordan Schonig, “From Apocalypse to Entertainment: Art and Kitsch in

   the Hollywood Machine”

Aylin Zafar, “Subjectivity Renewed in Deconstruction: Victor Burgin's

   Giving Back of the ‘Self’ to Women in the Office Space”

Dawn McCutcheon, “The Gaze and the Intersubjective Production of

   Meaning”

Quynh-Ahn Nyugen, “The Distance From the Screen”

Chair: Lindsay Puente

 

3:15-3:30

Break for coffee and cake

 

3:30-4:45

Fate, the Death Drive, and Literature

Panelists:

Angelica Pinedo, “Uncanny Encounter: Narrative and the Death Drive in

   Goethe’s Elective Affinities

Mark Moubarek, “Internalization through Psychoanalysis in Mourning 
   Becomes Electra
Christine Verango, “I am Man. See me War.: The Necessity for Violence 
   in Mourning Becomes Electra

Chair: Tim Wong

 

5:00-6:00

Post-conference wind-down at the Anthill Pub & Grille