Schedule - English - Florida State University

Thursday, 1 February, 6:00pm
Student Life Building Auditorium
Conference Welcome and Introduction:
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Joseph Travis
Event Introduction: Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University
Keynote: Dudley Andrew, Yale University
“The Scale of The World and the Weight of Cinema”
Thursday, 1 February, 6:45pm
Screening of Film: Jia Zhangke’s The World (2004)
Followed by a reception
Friday, 2 February
9:15-10:45am
Shifting Worlds: African Theater Traditions in a Post-Colonial World
Room: 118
Panel Chair: Heike Schmidt, Florida State University
Kimi Johnson, Florida State University, “Wazobia’s Women: A Feminist Call to
Arms?”
Jennifer Parker, Florida State University, “Crossing the Line”
Gibson Cima, Ohio State University, “Is My Context as an Artist Irremediably
Bourgeois?”
The City, 1
Room: 244
Panel Chair: Phil Steinberg, Florida State University
Susan Scrivner, Bemidji State University, “Immigrant Cities: Dual Worlds in
British Films”
Roman Zylawy, University of Virginia-Wise, “The Farm and the City in Jean
Renoir’s The Southerner”
Deniz Bayrakdar Sevgen, Kadir Has University, “Cinematic City Istanbul”
Hande Tekdemir, University of Southern California, “Cosmopolitan Melancholy in
the Works of Elif Shafak and Orhan Pamuk”
Citizenship
Room: 107
Panel Chair: Luis Roniger, Wake Forest University
Alexander Hartwiger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Considering
Cosmopolitan Communities: Juxtaposing Communities in Midnight’s Children
and Texaco”
Tammy George and Ricky Varghese, University of Toronto, “On a Possible
Transgression of the Myth of the Nation: Contemplations toward a
Cosmopolitical Future”
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Luis Roniger, Wake Forest University, “Latin American Political Exiles,
Cosmopolitanism, and Multiple Modernities”
Ethics and Environmentalism
Room: 115
Panel Chair: Stacey Suver, Florida State University
Lisa Eck, Framingham State College, “Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom:
Orientalism’s Other Ism”
Namrata Mitra, Purdue University, “A Conversation Between Three National
Fantasies in White Teeth and Kant’s Cosmopolitanism”
MaryAnn Snyder-Koerber, Freie Universität Berlin, “The Ethical Turn of the
Inversion: From Henry James to James Baldwin”
Joya Uraizee, Saint Louis University, “Resisting Global Capitalism: Ecological
Warfare in Glen Ellis’ Delta Force”
Division of Labor
Room: 110
Panel Chair: Jennifer Proffitt, Florida State University
Grace Brockington, Cambridge University, “Women’s Art Clubs and their
Cosmopolitan Aspirations”
Charles Robinson, Syracuse University, “The Contradictions of the Oompa-
Loompa(s): Children’s Fantasy, Class Mobility, and the Third World Worker”
Jamil Khader, Stetson University, “Engendering Cosmopolitanism: Third World
Women, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism”
Friday, 2 February
11am-12:30pm
The City, 2
Room: 244
Panel Chair: Barney Warf, Florida State University
Ketevan Kupatadze, Emory University, “Cosmopolitans in the City: Urban
Narratives of Project Año 0”
Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico, “Cynical City Cinema”
Michael Mayne, University of Florida, “New York City as Dialectical Ground in
Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York”
Homer Pettey, University of Arizona, “Noir Cityscapes and Ornamental Theories of
Space”
Gender and Genre
Room: 123A
Panel Chair: Sarah Fryett, Florida State University
Dennis Bingham, Indiana University, Indianapolis, “The Biopic Gets the Guillotine:
Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette”
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Aron Bederson, Florida State University, “Theoretical Influences on Lars Von
Trier’s Dancer in the Dark”
Tennille Lambert, “Men-Women and Dancing Mirrors”
Carolyn Joan “Kay” Picart, Florida State University, “Mestisaje: Dancing Through
Different Worlds”
Filming National Conflict
Room: 115
Panel Chair: Bradley Lenz, Florida State University
Peter Morey, University of East London, “You’ve Been Framed: Stereotypes and
Performativity in Yasmin”
Daniel Lehman, Ashland University, “Boundaries of Forgiveness: Painful Memory
in the New South Africa”
Karl Schoonover, Michigan State University, “Ambidextrous Empathies: Italian
Neorealism, U.S. Markets, and Imaginings of Global Spectatorship”
Susan McFarlane-Alvarez, Georgia State University, “Joebell and America:
Postcolonial Desire and the Countering of Globalization”
Global Longing for Form
Room: 118
Panel Chair: Weihsin Gui, Brown University
Weihsin Gui, Brown University, “Kazuo Ishiguro: National Cosmopolitical
Impressions”
Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Brown University, “Toward a Nomadic Poetics: Abdellatif
Laabi’s Le Spleen de Casablanca”
Wendy Lee, Brown University, “The Unintentional Comedy of Teaching World-
Respect in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle”
Indigenous Cosmopolitanism
Room: 110
Panel Chair: Maricarmen Martinez, Florida State University
Allen Chun, Academia Sinica, “Identity as Geopolitical Process: Discursive Origins
of Cosmopolitanism in Hong Kong”
Jared Champion, Syracuse University, “Native Americans Playing Domestic: Early
Documentary, Urbanization, and Masculinity in the 1920s”
Gail Russel, University of Toronto, “Indigeneity Meets Transnationalism: An
Informative Politics for a Global Cosmopolitanism”
Huei-ju Wang, University of Florida, “Foreclosure of the Native/Other in the Age
of Globalization: A Study of Two Contemporary Films by Alexander Payne and
Zhang Yimou”
De-Stalinization and the Czech Republic
Room: 107
Panel Chair: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University
Tracy Cox-Stanton, Savannah College of Art and Design, “Socialist Realism,
Hollywood, and the Avant-Garde in Vera Chytilova’s Daisies (1966)”
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Irina Stakhanova, Bowling Green State University, “In Search of La Belle Image:
Russian National Cinema and European Other”
Chad Newson, “Young, Male, and Czech: The Ideal Protagonist for Black Peter and
Closely Watched Trains”
Friday, 2 February
2-3:30pm
Botched Communications: The Technics of Beheading and Sacrifice
Room: 110
Panel Chair: Craig Campbell, University of Alberta
Craig Campbell, University of Alberta, “Beheading”
Amy Swiffen, University of Alberta, “Sovereignty”
Charles Barbour, University of Alberta, “Sacrifice”
Liquid Modernity
Room: 115
Panel Chair: Frederick Von Drasek, Florida State University
Nicole Richter, University of Miami, “The Ambiguity of Otherness in Sophia
Coppola’s Lost in Translation”
Davis Brown, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “‘This Looks Familiar’:
Transnationality and Globalization in the Films of Jim Jarmusch”
Brigitte Fielder-Montero, Syracuse University, “Liquid Communities: Space and
the Community of Modernity in Raymond Williams, Zygmunt Bauman, and
Arjun Appadurai”
Frederick Von Drasek, Florida State University, “Walter Benjamin’s Berline
Childhood and the Topography of Memory in Ciaran Carson’s Star Factory”
The Military and Militarism
Room: 123A
Panel Chair: Jason Grant McKahan, Florida State University
Debra White-Stanley, Indiana University/Purdue University, “Home at War:
M*A*S*H, Intertextuality, and Vietnam Nursing Narratives”
Heike Harting, University of Montreal, “Military Cosmopolitanism,
Humanitarianist Capital, and the Western Spectacle of the Rwandan Genocide”
Timothy Bengford, Florida State University, “Burning the Flesh: Constructions of
Masculinity in Marine Culture in Jarhead”
Colleen Tremonte and Linda Racioppi, Michigan State University, “Spy Guys and
Bond Girls: The Gender Politics of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism”
National Longing for Form
Room: 118
Panel Chair: Dan Vitkus, Florida State University
Michael Laramee, University of Miami, “Bye Bye Africa: Deconstructing Cultural
Boundaries with Cinema”
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Cheira Belguellaoui, Florida State University, “From Allouache’s Bab el Oued City
to Mokneche’s Viva Laldjerie: The Unveiling of Algeria’s Transnationalism”
Adania Shibli, University of East London, “Humiliation, Imagination, and the
Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Cinema and Literature”
Corporations and Cosmopolitanisms of Early Hollywood
Room: 123B
Panel Chair: Mark Garrett Cooper, Florida State University
Mark Garrett Cooper, Florida State University, “Universal City: ‘A True
Cosmopolis’”
Simon Joyce, College of William and Mary, “Silent Cinema and the Corporate
Body: Adam Kessel and the New York Motion Picture Company”
Laura Isabel Serna, Florida State University, “Cinelandia: The Cosmopolitan Space
of 1920s Hollywood as Seen from the Other Side of the Border”
Immigrants
Room: 107
Panel Chair: Ann Mikkelsen, Florida State University
Ann Mikkelsen, Florida State University, “The Aesthetics of Empathy: Anzia
Yerzierska, Early Hollywood, and the Plight of the Jewish American Immigrant”
Asdghig Karajayerlian, Case Western Reserve University, “World(s) in Dialogue:
Stereoscopic Cultural Coding and the Cosmopolitical in Nadine Gordimer’s The
Pickup”
Hsiao-yin Huang, National Taiwan Normal University, “Written on the Body: Body
as a Site of Identity Formation in Swallowtail Butterfly”
Amina Yaqin, University of London, “Rewriting ‘Honour Killings’ in Salman
Rushdie’s Shame and Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers”
Spaces and Places
Room: 244
Panel Chair, Dominika Wrozynski, Florida State University
Dominika Wrozynski, Florida State University, “Constructing Cosmopolitanism in
Victorian Entertainment Venues: The Role of Vauxhall Gardens”
Chi-she Li, National Taiwan University, “H. G. Wells and Contemporary
Cosmopolitanism”
Emily Johansen, McMaster University, “Here, There, and Everywhere?:
Territorialized Cosmopolitanism in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane”
Akin Adesokan, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Nomad at Home, Poet at Heart:
What is Abderrahmane Sissako After?”
Friday, 2 February
3:45-5:45pm
Room: Auditorium
Introduction: Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University
Keynote Address: Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota
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“Politics or Ethics?”
Respondent: John Marx, University of Richmond
Friday, 2 February
8-10pm
Room: Auditorium
Introduction: Andy Opel, Florida State University
Film Screening, Hubert Sauper’s Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
Friday, 2 February
10:15pm-?
Cash Bar Reception at the Park Plaza Hotel
Saturday, 3 February
8:30-10am
Postcolonial Possibilities: Transculturation and Transnational Identities in
Jamaican Popular Culture
Room: 107
Panel Chair: Santa Arias, Florida State University
Sara Salih, University of Toronto, “‘Our People Know the Difference, Black Is
a Race, Jew Is a Religion, F*g**tism Is a Sin’: Jamaican Dancehall and
Queer Postcolonial Hermeneutics”
Leigh Edwards, Florida State University, “Transculturation and Jamaican Popular
Culture: Bob Marley and Johnny Cash”
Candace Ward, Florida State University, “‘We Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run We’:
Dickie Jobson’s Countryman and the Resistances of Rasta”
Thinking Beyond Nation: East Asian Cinema and Literature (Panel A)
Room: 123A
Panel Chair: Victor Fan, Yale University
Victor Fan, Yale University, “Post-Apocalypse NOW – America and Its Leadership
in Global Re-Vision (Infernal Affairs and The Departed)
Jinying Li, New York University, “New Space, Old Genre: Gendered Spatial
Representation in New Hong Kong Gangster Films”
Seung-hoon Jeong, Yale University, “Ontological Remapping of Postmodern
Geopolitics: The Beast in the Jungle and Tropical Malady”
Jihoon Kim, New York University, “Affect as Geopolitical Aesthetic: Reframing
Theoretical Stalemate in Contemporary World Cinema”
Insecurity in Identity: Negotiating a Changed World
Room: 115
Panel Chair: Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University
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Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University, “Confounding Stereotypes: Cosmopolitan
Aesthetics in Percival Everett’s Suder”
Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky, “Negotiated Boundaries: John Sayles’s Lone
Star and the Culturally Borderline Personality”
Lee Quinby, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, “Transmitting
Insecurity: Viral Assaults on Cosmopolitan Citizenship”
William S. Burroughs and Cosmopolitanism
Room: 244
Panel Chair: Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University
Christopher Sekulski, Florida State University, “‘Who Programs You’: Burroughs
Breaks Down the Control Machine”
Stacey Suver, Florida State University, “Wild Boys and Pirates: Urban
Abandonment and Burroughs’s Alternative Societies”
Jonathan Dean, Florida State University, “The Politics of Burroughs’s Interzone:
Language, Liminality, and Subjectivity”
Dustin Anderson, Florida State University, “‘The Landscape of Romance’”
Burroughs’s [cinematic] Arcades Project”
Minority Literatures
Room: 118
Panel Chair: Molly Hand, Florida State University
Ania Spyra, University of Iowa, “Cosmopoetics of Relation: Ntozake Shange’s A
Daughter’s Geography”
Neha Malshe, Ohio State University, “Issues of Boundaries in Minority Literature:
Das Kamel mit dem Nasenring by Salim Alafenisch”
Belle Harrell, Florida State University, “Multiculturalism Must Come to a Truce: No
Need for Crashes”
Benjamin Thevenin, Florida State University, “Sharkboy Saves the Day: New
Multiculturalism in the Children’s Films of Robert Rodriguez”
Civil Society
Room: 110
Panel Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University, Southeast
Karen Fang, University of Houston, “Beyond the Republic of Letters”
Jungwon Park, University of Pittsburgh, “Cosmopolitan Ghost on the Forgotten
Border in De Nadie/No one (2005)”
Christa Zorn, Indiana University, Southeast, “Globalization and Cosmopolitanism in
Times of Crisis: The Public Intellectual and World War I”
Robert Pirro, Georgia Southern University, “Italian Neorealism in the Light of
Greek Tragedy: Italian Film Transcending National Borders”
Saturday, 3 February
10:15-11:30am
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Thinking Beyond the Nation: East Asian Cinema and Literature (Panel B)
Room: 123A
Panel Chair: Ryan Cook, Yale University
Ryan Cook, Yale University, “Free for the Taking: The Subsidized Circuit of
Japanese Culture in the World”
Naoki Yamamoto, Yale University, “Struggles for Cinematic Coalition: From Red
Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War to Here and Now”
Olga Solovieva, Yale University, “Ethically Revised Modernism: Dostoevsky,
Kurosawa, and Postwar Cultural Criticism”
Sangjoon Lee, New York University, “Korean National Cinema and the Denial of
the East Asian Cinematic Sphere”
Modernism
Room: 244
Panel Chair: Andrew Epstein, Florida State University
Aram Shepherd, University of North Carolina, “Cosmopolitan Imperialism:
Locating Latin America in U.S. Expatriate Modernism”
Patrick Flanagan, University of Minnesota, “Satyajit Ray’s Modernity”
Gaurav Majumdar, Whitman College, “Portmanteau Revisions: A Formal Model
for Cosmopolitanism”
Paul Kintzele, University of Houston-Downtown, “Auxiliary Languages, James
Joyce, and the International Reader”
Zombies, Terrorists, and Patriots: Performing Identity on the Transnational
Stage
Room: 123B
Panel Chair: John Fletcher, Louisiana State University
John Fletcher, Louisiana State University, “‘There Are Terrible Things in Our
Country’: Notes on Zombie (non)Citizens in Liberal Democracy”
Jay M. Gipson-King, Florida State University, “Factual History, the Path to 9/11,
and the Reality Effect: Reinscribing National Borders”
Natalya Baldyga, Florida State University, “Stages of Negotiation: National
Identity, American Theatrical Performance, and a Diplomatic Upbringing”
Celebrity and High Society
Room: 107
Panel Chair: Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College
Maya Wakana, Ritsumeikan University, “Transatlantic Civility in Henry James:
The Case of An International Episode”
Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College, “Press Junket: Gloria Swanson as Paramount’s
Good Will Ambassador”
Rasha Ramzy, Georgia State University, “The Space In Between: How Nationalism
and Cosmopolitanism Can Co-Exist”
Catherine Webster, University of Central Oklahoma, “Cosmopolitanationalism?:
Sacha Guitry and World War II”
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The Cosmopolitan Renaissance
Room: 115
Panel Chair: Anne Coldiron, Florida State University
Amy Stahl, Florida State University, “Shakespearean (Re)Valuation: Women,
Embodiment, and Disfigurement”
Olga Godoy, Florida State University, “Storytellers and Stories in the Film
Secondhand Lions and the Novel Don Quixote”
Celia Daileader, Florida State University, “My Day in Court with Othello, or, What
Are We Doing Here?”
Science Fiction
Room: 110
Panel Chair: Kristin Barton, Florida State University
Kristin Barton, Florida State University, “Cosmopolitanism in Science Fiction:
How Joss Whedon’s Serenity Presents a Global Approach to the Future”
Alfredo Suppia, State University of Campinas, “‘Breathe, Baby, Breathe!’:
Brazilian Science Fiction Dystopian Film”
Metin Bosnak, Fatih University, “The Modern Metropolis as Totalitarian Cage in
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner”
John Turner, Goucher College, “Code 46: Anti-Cosmopolitanism, Global Genetics,
Surveillance”
Europe
Room: 118
Panel Chair: Robert Romanchuk, Florida State University
Gyöngyvér Hervai Szabó, Kodolanyi Janos University College, “Europe and
Cosmopolis Narratives: Cosmopolis as a Region-State?”
John Woodward, Florida State University, “‘Citizens of the Earth’… within
Reason: The Cosmopolitical Borders of Europe in Michael Haneke’s Caché”
Susan Ingram, York University, “CosmoEuropTrash: A New Political Imaginary in
Film”
Susan Buzzelli, University of Michigan, “The Postcolonial-Transnational: The
Changing Face of European Film”
Saturday, 3 February
1-3pm
Room: Auditorium
Introduction: Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart, Florida State University
Keynote: Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“Women, Cosmopolitanism, and Popular Culture”
Respondent: Mark Garrett Cooper, Florida State University
Saturday, 3 February
3:15-4:45pm
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Religion
Room: 123A
Panel Chair: Masood Raja, Kent State University
Masood Raja, Kent State University, “Islamic Cosmopolitanism and Neoliberal
Order: Problems and Possibilities”
Ali Altaf Mian, University of Louisville, “Gender Trouble in Islamicate Societies:
Ashraf Ali Thanawi on the Body, Gender, and Sexuality”
William Franke, Vanderbilt University, “Postmodern Identity Politics and the
Social Tyranny of the Definable”
James Royal, University of Florida, “Allen Ginsberg as Religious Cosmopolite in
the Supermarket of World Religions”
Cosmopolitanism and Auteurship
Room: 123B
Panel Chair: Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University
Glen Brewster, Westfield State College, “Sexual Personae: Variants of the Lamia in
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive”
Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University, “Three Auteurs, Three National
Cinemas?: Cosmopolitanism in the Anthology Film Eros (Wong Kar-Wai/Steven
Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni, 2004)”
Roberta Tabanelli, Christopher Newport University, “Beyond National
Filmmaking: The Italian-Argentinean Cinema of Marco Bechis”
19 th Century American Cosmopolitanism
Room: 118
Panel Chair: Peter Reed, Florida State University
Peter Gibian, McGill University, “Melville’s Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms:
Negotiating Western and Non-Western Models of Cultural Mediation”
Nikhil Bilwakesh, City University of New York, “Cosmopolitan Nationalism in
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Young American”
Yvonne Pelletier, University of Tennessee, “The Young American Cosmopolitan:
Teuflesdreck and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century American Writing”
William Nesbitt, Beacon College, “‘Serfs of the Soil’: Urbanization, Citizenship,
Labor, and Consumption in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden”
Queer Cosmopolitanism
Room: 110
Panel Chair: Yarma Valasquez, Florida State University
Kristi Marie Steinmetz, Florida State University, “The Age of Innocence: Countess
Olenska and Newland Archer as International LBGT Activists”
Christian Gay, University of Miami, “Blurred Borders: National and Sexual Identity
in Happy Together and Tu Mama Tambièn”
Larry Johns, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, “Segregation, Integration, and New
Urbanism: The New (Gay) Southern Gothic”
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Eser Selen, New York University, “Chains of Repression: The Politics of Survival
in Kutlug Ataman’s film Lola and Bilidikid”
France
Room: 244
Panel Chair: Cheira Pelguellaoui, Florida State University
William Rothman, University of Miami, “The French New Wave Revisited”
Martine Chaudron, Paris7-Denis Diderot University, “Why the Category of ‘Film
d’auteur” Is Essential, Especially in France?”
Robert DeLellis, University of Miami, “Transnational War Cinema: Jean-Pierre
Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement”
Sophie Ganachaud, University of Florida, “Utopian Race and National Dystopia:
The French Thriller in the Early 2000s”
Universalism and Reason
Room: 115
Panel Chair: Peter Dalton, Florida State University
Carole Policy, Palm Beach Community College, “‘I Attract Crowds, Mostly
Rabble’: Anne Royall and Cosmopolitan Satire”
Amit Baishya, University of Iowa, “Re-conceptualizing the ‘Post-National’: The
Immanent Critique of the Nation-Form in Shadow Lines”
Lou Caton, Westfield State College, “The Politics of Reason in the Cosmopolitan
Dream”
Alexa Weik, University of California, San Diego, “Prejudice and Emotion: The
Irrational Ends of Cosmopolitan Conversations”
Travel
Room: 107
Panel Chair: Aimee Boutin, Florida State University
Stephanie Boluk, University of Florida, “Under the Banner of the Great Juche Idea:
Cosmopolitanism’s Crosscurrents”
Kirsten Simonsen, Florida State University, “Bali, Indonesia: Tourism and the
Search for the Authentic”
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, University of Montreal, “Nations Unplugged: Media
Relations in Nigerian Literature”
Saturday, 3 February
5-7pm
Room: Auditorium
Introduction: Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University
Keynote Speaker: Wendy Chun, Brown University
“Imagined Networks”
Respondent: Amit Rai, Florida State University
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Sunday, 4 February
8:30-10am
Italian Cinema and Lyric Poetry
Room: 244
Panel Chair: William Leparulo, Florida State University
Josef Chytry, University of California, Berkeley, “Cosmopolitanism in the Age of
Italian Neorealism, 1945-1964: Art, Politics, and Spirituality”
Carla De Bellis, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, “Veiled and Unveiled Lyric
Poetry”
Neria de Giovanni, “Cesare Zavattini, beyond Neorealism”
William Leparulo, Florida State University, “Memory Loss, Disorder, Confusion
and Corruption in Nanni Moretti’s Paolombella rossa and Federico Fellini’s 8½”
Spectatorship
Room: 123A
Panel Chair: Erika Johnson-Lewis, Florida State University
Dana Janbek, University of Miami, “Paradise Now”: Virtual Cosmopolitanism and
the Quest for Peace”
Laura Dixon, Emory University, “Resisting the Happy Ending: Suzana Amaral’s
Hour of the Star as a Counter Narrative”
Lee Easton, Mount Royal College, “‘I’m Not an American, I’m a Nymphomaniac’:
Spectatorship, Cosmopolitanism, and Trans Identities”
David Johnson, Salisbury University, “Charlie Chaplin’s Kid Auto Races and What
It Means to Be a Cinematic Accident”
Multiculturalism and Multilingualism
Room: 123B
Panel Chair: Timothy Bengford, Florida State University
Debra Henderson, University of Guelph, “Continuous Negotiations: Policy,
Cinema, and the (Re)Ordering of Priorities”
Deborah Geis, DePauw University, “Love(ly) in the Big City: Girl 6 and the Racial
Politics of Phone Sex”
Ania Spyra, University of Iowa, “Multilingual Cosmopoetics in Christine Brooke-
Rose’s Between”
Alexander Hartwiger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Cosmopolitan
Pedagogy: A New Approach to Diversity in the Classroom”
Border Culture
Room: 110
Panel Chair: Genevieve Brackins, Florida State University
John Schwetman, University of Minnesota, Duluth, “Scenes from a Culture War:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Cosmopolitan Nightmare”
Paola Prado, University of Miami, “Three Burials and a Rebirth: Discovery of a
New American Identity in the Modern Western”
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Lena Suk, Emory University, “Massacre and Revolution in an Invisible Mexico:
Dislocated Referents in The Wild Bunch”
Consumerism and Taste
Room: 107
Panel Chair: Hala Herbly, University of Texas
Hala Herbly, University of Texas, “The Rebels Were Waltzing on Air: Vivienne
Westwood’s Pirates and the Problem of Nationhood”
Kristin Jones, Glendale Community College, “Global Consumption and the
Breakdown of Cross Cultural Conversations”
Kevin Sweeney, University of Tampa, “Wine and Cosmopolitan Culture: Sideways
and Betrayal
Laura Woodruff, “Notes from the Padded Cell: Production & Consumption of
Horror in John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness”
Censorship
Room: 118
Panel Chair: Travis Timmons, Florida State University
Chris Jordan, Saint Cloud State University, “Copyright Ownership in the Digital
Age: Huntsman v. Soderbergh”
Keller Jones, “Glamour and High Stakes in Baby Face and Possessed: Due
Recompense”
Tianhai Xie, Florida State University, “Between Voyeurism and Nationalism: The
Exploitation of the Female Body in Arras Kiariostami’s Red Cherry”
Sound and Vision: Electronic Texts
Room: 115
Panel Chair: Paul Booth, Manchester Metropolitan University
Paul Booth, Manchester Metropolitan University, “States of Trance –
Representations of Post-Rave Culture in Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later”
Victoria Steinberg, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, “Hate: Calling Out of
Bounds”
Jamie Skye Bianco, Queens College, “Modes of Deferral and Movement in Mark Z.
Danielewski’s Only Revolutions
Sunday 4 February
10:15am-12:15
Room: Auditorium
Introduction: Masood Raja, Kent State University
Keynote Speaker: Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley
"What is a World?: On the Possibility of World Literature Today"
Respondent: Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University
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