Schedule - English - Florida State University

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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