UCI Comparative Literature Undergraduate Conference in Critical Theory Schedule

10:30 AM | Coffee and Pastries

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10:45 AM | Introductory Remarks

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |

PANEL 1: "Conceptualizing Gender"

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Moderator: Iris Morrell

• Jewel Alexandria Loya, UCI, "Corporeal Accomplishment, Fictive Sex: Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
• Audrey Lin, UCSB, "Scrutinizing the Inscrutable"
• Chutian Shi, UCLA, "Postcolonial Linguistic Hegemony: A Spivakian Critique of Gendered Language in Chinese LGBTQ+ Discourse"
• Ria Singh Thakur, UCI, "Mind the Gap: Anna Karenina’s Parallax"

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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |

PANEL 2: "Ways of Haunting"

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Moderator: Olamina Jiménez Sánchez

• Alinur Isakov, UCI, "The Ostent Evanescence of Money: A Bride for Rip Van Winkle & Karl Marx"
• Fei Yang, UCI, "Spectrality and The Figure of the Lesbian in Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963)"
• Lucille Lorenz, UC Berkeley, "Play on Words: A Shakespearean reading of Oscar Wilde"
• Jennellee Samkhem, UCI, "'You Are Hungry': Insight into Isolation and the Relatable Hikikomori Experience in Omori (2020)"

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch

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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 

PANEL 3: "Bio/Necropolitics"

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Moderator: Dylan Taylor

• Sissi Kang, UCI, "Between Ecstasy and Destruction: Transgression and Baroque Sensuality in Cagnacci’s David with the Head of Goliath"
• Lisa Nguyen, UCI, "Lynching as Archive"
• Dario Omar Cavaliere, Cal Poly SLO, "Suicide Bombing and Necro-Spatial Resistance"
• Ariana King, Euis Muljono, and Kara Terray (Research Group), IVC, "The Violence Against Vaginas: The Dehumanization of Black Women in Reproductive Care"

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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |

PANEL 4: "Liquidity and Ecocriticism"

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Moderator: Carolin Huang

• Aaron Morgan, Pomona College, "Donna Haraway's Colonial Ecology: Ontology and Climate Anxiety in Critical Environmental Theory" 
• Emilio Esquivel Marquez, Pomona College, "Actual Fantasies: Fanon, the Ávila Runa, and Postcolonial Dreaming"
• Yen-Vy Tran Ngo, UCI, "Plotting Bodies of Women and Water"
• Lauren Taylor, UCSD, "Permeating Racial Boundaries: The Multiracial’s Deconstruction of Colonial Racialization Via the Third Space"

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4:30 PM | Keynote

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by Catherine Malabou

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5:00 PM | Reception

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