SCHEDULE & PROGRAM
This event schedule includes times in PT and ET. Find both the Discord links and physical locations at the respective campuses for each panel and event here.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
SCHEDULE
8:00 - 9:00am PT / 11:00 - 12:00pm ET Check-in + coffee hour
9:00 - 9:15am PT / 12:00 - 12:15pm ET Welcome + opening address
9:30 - 10:45am PT / 12:30 - 1:45pm ET Session I Panels
11:00 - 12:15pm PT / 2:00 - 3:15pm ET Session II Panels
12:30 - 1:30pm PT / 3:30 - 4:30pm ET Keynote Speaker
1:30 - 2:15pm PT / 4:30 - 5:15pm ET Lunch/Dinner
2:30 - 3:45 PT / 5:30 - 6:45 ET Session III Panels
PROGRAM
SESSION I
Panel 1: Kinship and Spirituality
Albany Location: HU 112
Davis Location: Voorhies 248
Link: TBD
Grace Ann Miller, “Narratives of Kinship in the Face of Assimilation Trauma”
Jay Starling, “Community and Pride: When Fantasy Becomes Reality”
Prerana Chakravarty, “The ‘Other’ Spirituality: Reading African Mysticism in the Detective Novels of Rudolph Fisher and Ishmael Reed”
Bennett Comerford, “Reimagining Colonial Modernity: Blurred Boundaries Between Religion and Literature in Nineteenth-Century Bengal”
Panel 2: Queer Theory and Intersectionality
Albany Location: HU 113
Davis Location: Voorhies 120
Link: TBD
Samu/elle Striewski, “Towards a ‘responsible non-monogamie’ – A queerfeminist genealogy of polygamy”
Elias Joel Donstad, “Recovery: Trans and Otherwise”
Abhra Singha Roy, “Queers (of all kinds) Assemble! Connecting the Panthi to the contemporary queer discourse”
Emalee Crews, “CripQueer Radical Mothering: An Analysis of Laura Hershey’s Poetry”
Panel 3: Transnationality and Postcolonialism
Albany Location: HU 114
Davis Location: Voorhies 396
Link: TBD
Marietta Kosma, “Decolonization of borders in Shailja Patel’s Migritude”
Onur Kaya, “A Journey from Inner Mexico to the Inner Self in the USA”
Farhana Islam, “Traveling from Empire to Empire: America, Duality, and Anti-coloniality in Ghosh’s The Glass Palace”
Oyeshi Ganguly and Shriya Dasgupta, “Exploring Revolutionary Networks in Colonial India: The oral history perspective through the lens of Agnijug Archive”
Panel 4: Digital Humanities and Virtuality
Albany Location: HU 115
Davis Location: Voorhies 308
Link: TBD
Bailey McAlister, “Rhetorical Delivery in Post-Pandemic Communication”
Shiva Mainaly, “AI Dilemma or Hamletian Dilemma”
Sof Voet, “Creating and Cultivating Social Connection through Fanfiction Writing”
Rosemond Cates, “Thoreau, Allyship, and New Technologies”
SESSION II
Panel 5: Poetics and Relationality
Albany Location: HU 112
Davis Location: Voorhies 248
Link: TBD
Megan Wilson, “Resonances Beyond Bounds: Muriel Rukeyser’s Relational Poetics as Counter Containment Imagination”
Nayoung Seo, “Oscar Wilde and BTS: When Stains Become Wings”
Audrey Chiang, “Sent to Voicemail: Reconstructing the Frayed Wires of Connection with Our Inner Child”
Christine Imperial and Sarah Yanni, “persistence & rupture”
Panel 6: National Identity and Nation-making
Albany Location: HU 113
Davis Location: Voorhies 120
Link: TBD
Ava Walter, “Simultaneity in Postwar Japanese Ceramics and Literature
Jingwei Zeng, “The Surface Contact: Sino-Western Communication in One Chinese Snuff Bottle”
Aditi Basu, “Connecting the World with Indian Film Industry: Relevance of Bollywood as a Soft Power in Indian Foreign Policy”
Adhithi Anjali, “The Public Body: Developing Identity Through Violation”
Panel 7: Relationships to Land and Earth
Albany Location: HU 114
Davis Location: Voorhies 396
Link: TBD
Clarissa Gucwa, “The Reclamation of Belonging: Indigenous public artworks’ relationship to land and the decolonization movement”
Asa Klein, [no title]
Kelly Xu, “Solace in Nature”
Will Pattee, “These are the proportions of a war.”: Ecopoetics, Politics, and Industrial Violence in Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead”
Panel 8: Rhetoric and Engagement in Academia
Albany Location: HU 115
Davis Location: Voorhies 308
Link: TBD
Molly Ryan, “Scholarly Soulmates: Connection, Kinship, and Placemaking through Mentorship in Rhetoric and Writing Studies”
Braydon Dungan, “Modern Composition: ABC’s Modern Family as Literature and its Uses in Middle School Language Arts Curriculum”
Adam Riekstins, “Self, Author, Performer: A Metamodern Approach to Rhetoric and Written Relations”
C. Connor Syrewicz, “Empiricism, Creative Writing, and the Metaphysics of Absence: How the Humanities are Helping Me Navigate the Sciences and How the Sciences are Helping Me Understand the Arts”
SESSION III
Panel 9: Game Studies and Technology
Albany Location: HU 112
Davis Location: Voorhies 248
Link: TBD
Luna Loganayagam, “You Won: Wargaming, Tourism, and Play in Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3”
Evan Manzanetti, “‘We’ll Become Warmongers’: The Normalization of American Military Hegemony through Graphical User Interfaces and the Mother Base Menu in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker”
Rajdeep Pathak, “Disconnected: Failure of Intersubjective Connection in the Literature of Transhuman Convergence”
Vaasu Taneja, “Creating ‘Let’s Go Paint!’, a Video Game about Depression, Social Anxiety, and Imagination”
Panel 10: More-than-human Engagements
Albany Location: HU 113
Davis Location: Voorhies 120
Link: TBD
Shaw Patton, “‘I Am Not Ready to Interpret or Experience the Gaze’: The Animal Gaze in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry”
Xinran Lu, “Interspecies Relationships in Buddhism”
Nicole Stevens, “‘Your Earth is Still Your Earth’: Reading Lilith’s Brood and Geological Deep Time as Kinship Possibilities”
Kayla Adgate, “Gothic Ghosts and Castaways in Poe and Defoe”
Panel 11: Cultural Identity and Representation
Albany Location: HU 114
Davis Location: Voorhies 396
Link: TBD
Abdulaziz Almuthaybiri, “The Uninhabitable Land in Dreaming in Cuban: A Critical Reading of García’s Worldview of Cuba”
Adriana Juárez, “‘We Were Here’: How Indigenous Latin American Resistance Movements Used Music as a Political Tool During the 1960s-1980s”
Yasmin Mendoza, “We Waka Together: An Exploration of the Epistemology of Love in Robert Harrison’s Star Waka”
Charlie Ward, “Identity and Performance in ‘Sonny’s Blues’”
Panel 12: Social Connections
Albany Location: HU 115
Davis Location: Voorhies 308
Link: TBD
Christy O’Callaghan-Leue, “Connection Through Linked Short Stories” (creative writing)
Alison Lourdes Oses, “Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: Revisions in 19th-c. Children’s Adaptations and Effect with the Governess and Servant Perception”
Kevin Martens Wong, “Another Dreamtiger” (creative writing)
Bing Zhu, “Narrating Desire: Social Mind and Romantic Identity in Bleak House”