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UCI
Student Center, Newport Beach Room C |
UCI
Student Center, Newport Beach Room B |
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9:00-9:15 |
Breakfast and registration |
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9:15-9:30 |
Opening remarks |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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12:30-1:45 |
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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 |
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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 |
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3:15-3:30 |
Break for coffee and cake |
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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 |
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5:00-6:00 |
Post-conference wind-down at the Anthill
Pub & Grille |
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