Friday, May 12 - 13th 2017

Location: Humanities Gateway 1030

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FRIDAY, MAY 12th

1:00 Introduction: Virginia Jackson (UCI)
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1:30 Frances Ferguson (U of Chicago)
   "The Memoir, Historically Considered: Telemachus Enters"
   Introduction by Rei Terada (UCI)
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3:15 Sara Mesle (USC)
"Pretty Little Dystopias," Introduction by Catherine Liu  (UCI)
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5:00 Aamir Mufti (UCLA)
   "The Genres of Fascism," Introduction by R. Radhakrishnan
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6:30 Reception
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SATURDAY, MAY 13th

9:30 Coffee
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10:00 Ted Martin (UCI)
    “The Detective Exits: Crime and Genre in the 1950s” Introduced by Oren Izenberg (UCI)
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11:45 Michael Warner (Yale)
    “Conversion,” introduced by Jerome Christensen (UCI)
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1:15 Lunch
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2:30 Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary, UL)
    “Time, Theatre, Genre: on ‘the performance situation’ and ‘uneven development,’” Introduced by Martin Harries (UCI)
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4:15 Carolyn Williams (Rutgers) “Histories of Melodramatic Form” Introduced by Virginia Jackson  (UCI)
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5:45 Rountable of All Speakers
    moderated by Martin Harries (UCI)
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6:30 Reception