Preliminary Program
(Updated March 7, 2012)
All rooms are located in Victoria College
Thursday, March 8 | Friday, March 9 | Saturday, March 10
9:00-10:00 Registration and Coffee
Victoria College: Main Foyer and Alumni Hall
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10:00-10:30 Opening Remarks (Alumni Hall)
Neil ten Kortenaar, Director, Centre for Comparative Literature
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10:30-11:45 Towards a Metaphysics of Absence (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Prof. Ann Komaromi
Andrew Kingston (University of Western Ontario)
“The Space of Poetry and the Poetry of Space: ‘Nothing’ in Derrida and Baudrillard”
Brendon Wocke (EMJD Interzones Program, Université Paris X) “Derrida at Villette: columns framed by holes”
Margeaux Feldman (York University)
“‘To See the Nothingness. That is vision’: Absent Presences, Desire, and Jouissance in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School”
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11:45-1:00 Lunch
Centre for Comparative Literature: 3rd Floor, Isabel Bader Theatre
Art Installation: Faye Mullen (University of Toronto), “à jamais (to never forever)”
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1:00-2:15 Théâtre et performance de l’absence (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Richard Spavin
Cosmin Toma (Université de Montréal)
“‘Neither’: quelques réflexions autour de la musicalité dans l’oeuvre de Samuel Beckett”
Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard (Université de Toronto)
“‘Memphis Skyline’ ou comment la perte d’Eurydice peut motiver un discours autoréflexif en chanson”
Sarah Alharbi (Université de Montréal)
“Quand la mémoire de l’être absent et la survivance de l’image du passé font l’histoire-récit : un essai d’interprétation herméneutique de l’idéologie de “cristallisation” de Stendhal (1822)”
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2:15-2:30 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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2:30-3:45 Re-membering: From Memorial to the Archive (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Prof. Rebecca Comay
Ronald Ng (University of Toronto)
“Negating Memorial, Memorializing Negation: Berlin Bebelplatz”
Kate Brackney (Yale University)
“Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing a Third Way Between Redemptive and Melancholic Readings of Photographs from the Lodz Ghetto”
Brianne Bilsky (Stanford University)
“Paper Cuts: Tree of Codes and the Future of the Book”
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3:45-4:00 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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4:00-5:15 Keynote Address : 4th Annual Linda Hutcheon and J. Edward Chamberlin Lecture in Literary Theory (Alumni Hall)
Introduction: Ronald Ng
Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto)
“Proust’s Remains”
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5:30 Opening Reception: 44 St Joseph St., 4th Floor Party Room
8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee (Main Foyer/Alumni Hall)
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9:00-10:15 Bodily Absences (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Prof. Jill Ross
Rachel Stapleton (University of Toronto)
“The Absent Body in Medieval Love Letters”
Ann Wallace (New Jersey City University)
“Inheriting ‘A Garment of Scars’: The Persistence of Absent Memories in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”
Darcy Gauthier (University of Toronto)
“Taken-Away to Mann’s Magic Mountain”
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10:15-10:30 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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10:30-11:45 Panel A (Alumni Hall): Ambiguous Absences
Moderator: Kristina Syvarth
Joaquin Terrones (Harvard University)
“The Diaphanous Self: AIDS and Absence in Severo Sarduy and Félix González-Torres”
Casey Stepaniuk (University of Western Ontario)
“‘But there are no words’: Silence, Trauma, and Sexual Identity in Jim Grimsley’s Dream Boy”
Olivia Gunn (University of California, Irvine)
“The Matter of Literary Impressionism and the Queer Body of Herman Bang’s Katinka”
Panel B (Victoria Chapel): Altérité et mémoire
Moderator: Antonio Viselli
Élise Couture-Grondin (Université de Toronto)
“Absences interculturelles: Aimatau! Parlons-nous! et l’émergence d’un dialogue québécois-autochtones”
Ourdia Djedid (Université de Western Ontario)
“La double absence dans Talismano d’Abedelwhab Meddeb: Étude des espaces-temps scipturaires”
Eileen Lohka (Université de Calgary)
“Écrire l’absence”
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11:45-1:00 Lunch
Centre for Comparative Literature: 3rd Floor, Isabel Bader Theatre
Art Installation: Faye Mullen (University of Toronto), “on hearing”
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1:00-2:15 Absent National Narratives: Canada’s Past and Future (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Élise Couture-Grodin
Nicole Go (University of British Columbia)
“Scott Pilgrim vs. the Multiculturalist State: Race, Space, and the Reimagined Past”
Alicia Fahey (University of British Columbia)
“Monuments and Memorials: Canadian Master Narratives of the First World War”
Rachel Cyr (Trent University)
“Witnesses to Absence”
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2:15-2:30 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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2:30-3:45 Panel A (Alumni Hall): The Sound of Absence
Moderator: Sam Caldwell
Alison Howard (University of Pennsylvania)
“Silence and Stillness: The Function of Verbal and Visual Absence in Robert Wilson’s Deafman Glance and Samuel Beckett’s Not I”
Kenneth Hartvigsen (Boston University)
“An Affecting Absence: Pink Floyd’s Disembodied Performance Aesthetic”
Clark Lunberry (University of North Florida)
“Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage”
Panel B (Victoria Chapel): Absence and Ability
Moderator: Jeannine Pitas
William Kanyusik (University of Minnesota)
“Censorship, Masculinity, and the Treatment of Battle Fatigue in John Huston’s Let There Be Light”
Christina McCollum (CUNY)
“The Lure of the Interior: Exoticism, Absence, and the Outsider Artist”
Judith Roof (Rice University)
“Absence, Negation, and the Negation of Absence”
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3:45-4:00 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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4:00-5:15 Keynote Address (Alumni Hall)
Introduction: Prof. Victor Li
Anne-Lise François (University of California, Berkeley)
“Shadow Boxing: Empty Blows and Practice Steps from Wordsworth to Benjamin”
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6:30 Banquet: Sorrel, 84 Yorkville Ave
8:30-9:00 Coffee (Alumni Hall)
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9:00-10:15 Theorizing the Absent (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Matteo Scardellato
Erik Spigel (University of Toronto, Scarborough)
“L’empereur petit a: The Literature of Heian and Discourse of the Analyst”
James Brandon Pelcher (Johns Hopkins University)
“Forgetting and Reification”
Christopher Langlois (University of Western Ontario)
“Hermeneutical Terror and the Aesthetic Construction of Absence”
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10:15-10:30 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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10:30-11:45 (An)Aesthetics of Ecology (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Catherine Schwartz
Charles Hoge (University of Denver)
“The Absent Dodo in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Exploration of the Gray Ghost Outside the English Sentimental Eye”
Annie Moore (University of Victoria)
“Listening for Lost Creeks: Recollecting Absence in Eirin Moure’s Sheep’s Vigil”
Ben Woodard (University of Western Ontario)
“Glaciating Nature: Schelling’s Natural Aesthetics and Melancholic Ecology”
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11:45-1:00 Lunch
Centre for Comparative Literature: 3rd Floor, Isabel Bader Theatre
Art Installation: Faye Mullen (University of Toronto), “to be veiled”
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1:00-2:15 Visual Representations of Absence (Alumni Hall)
Moderator: Natalie Pendergast
Nikki Cesare (University of Toronto)
“Detritus, Decomposition, and Deconstruction: Things that Disappear”
Elizabeth Berkowitz (City University of New York)
“Malevich, Mondrian, and Ideological Abstraction”
Katherine Lawless (University of Western Ontario)
“After-images: Alfredo Jaar and the Politics of Trauma”
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2:15-2:30 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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2:30-3:30 Panel A (Alumni Hall): Postcolonial Absences
Moderator: Myra Bloom
Ana Mateos (LMU Munich)
“The colonial as an absence in Galdós”
Penny Siganou (University of Toronto)
“Reading Silent Reconciliation in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace”
Panel B (Victoria Chapel): Between East and West
Moderator: Darcy Gauthier
Alexander Verdolini (Yale University)
“Transmissible Absences: On Araki Yasusada and ‘The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry’”
Emir Benli (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
“From Melancholy to ‘Hüzün’ and Back: The Hermeneutics of Absence in the Istanbul of Orhan Pamuk’s Memoir”
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3:30-3:45 Coffee Break (Alumni Hall)
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3:45-5:00 Keynote Address (Alumni Hall)
Introduction: Neil ten Kortenaar
J. Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine)
“‘L’absente de tous bouquets’: Literature as Real, Fictive, and Imaginary”
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5:00 Closing remarks (Alumni Hall)
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5:30 Closing Reception: Jackman Humanities Instititute, 170 St. George St., Room 100
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