2014 JOY / LA JOIE conference
Centre For Comparative Literature
Alumni Hall, Victoria University at the University of Toronto
Thursday, February 27 | Friday, February 28 | Saturday, March 1
Note: All keynotes lectures will take place in Alumni Hall, Vic 112
Thursday, February 27, 2014 – Day 1
9:30am – 10:15am
Registration and Breakfast
Victoria College Foyer
10:15am – 10:30am
Opening Remarks
Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Acting Director, Centre for Comparative Literature
10:30am – 12:00pm
Panel 1A (Alumni Hall): Caring about Humans
Moderator: Jessica Copley (University of Toronto)
Dominique Hétu (Université de Montréal)
“‘The Occurrence of Joy’: Relatedness, Perpetual Breaches and What Matters in the novels Home and Lullabies for Little Criminals”
Caroline Holland (University of Toronto)
“Passage of Joy, Pursuit of Happiness: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Passionate Passing of Self in Salinger’s Seymour”
Shaun Lalonde (Independent researcher)
“Birds, Song and Joy in Leopardi’s ‘La quiete dopo la tempesta’ ”
10:30am – 12:00pm
Panel 1B (Victoria Chapel): Ecstasy and jouissance
Moderator: Kristopher Poulin-Thibault (University of Toronto)
Damien-Adia Marassa (Duke University)
“Stealing (Away) Home: Time Signature, Improvisation, and the Joy of Black Gathering”
Fan Wu (University of Toronto)
“Habit of You: The Queer Ecstasies of Burroughs, Arthur Russell and My Beautiful Laundrette”
Lauren Beard (University of Toronto)
“The Joy of Text: Towards a Postmodern Praxis of Reading in Calvino’s Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore.”
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm – 2:45pm
6th Annual Linda Hutcheon and J.Edward Chamberlin Lecture in Literary Theory (Alumni Hall)
Veronika Ambros (University of Toronto)
“The Joy of Comparison”
2:45pm – 3:15pm
Coffee Break
3:15pm – 4:45pm
Panel 2A (Alumni Hall): Traumatic joys
Moderator: Madeleine Jane Wall (University of Toronto)
Irina Sadovina (University of Toronto)
“Joy and Trauma in Siberia: Vladimir Sorokin’s Bro and Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales”
Andrea C. Valente (York University)
“The ‘Joy of Soccer’ in German and Brazilian Cinemas: Screening Ambiguities from Individual and Historical Narratives”
Gustavo Llarull (Cornell University)
“A More Nuanced Palette of Affective Attitudes: Bleeding, Clenched-Teeth Joy in Laura Alcoba’s Manèges and Albertina Carri’s The Blondes”
3:15pm – 4:45pm
Panel 2B (Victoria Chapel): Laughter, performance and pedagogy
Moderator: Noam Lior (University of Toronto)
Ann Dunn (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
“The Marriage of Joy and Tragedy: ‘We were as twinned lambs’ ”
Anne-Claire Marpeau (University of British Columbia / École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
“Teaching with joy, teaching joy… ‘The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.’ (Shakespeare)”
Jeannine Pitas (University of Toronto)
“Joyful teaching, joyful learning: On love, laughter and pedagogy in Plato’s Phaedrus”
5:00pm
Opening reception
Victoria College Foyer
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Friday February 28, 2014 – Day 2
9:00 – 9:30am
Registration
9:30am – 10:45am
Panel 3A (Alumni Hall): Temporality: Death and Life
Moderator: Martin Bastarache (University of Toronto)
Amina Ben Braïek (University of Manouba / Fayetteville State University)
“The Joyful ‘[easeful] Death’ of John Keats in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ ”
Kimberley Griffiths (McMaster University)
“‘The Most Exquisite Moment of her Whole Life’: Temporality and Joy in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
Cameron Ellis (Trent University)
“Jouissance and Utopia between Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 and Shaman”
9:30am – 10:45am
Panel 3B (Victoria Chapel): Joyful activism: Subjectivity, History, Philosophy
Moderator: Katie Fry (University of Toronto)
Hugh English (Queens College, CUNY)
“‘Open-eyed in the face of apocalyptic events’: Joy as a Practice”
Natasha Hay (University of Toronto)
“Child’s Play: Benjamin on Perception, Creativity, and Time”
Tim Clarke (University of Ottawa)
“Grievous Joy and Elegiac Affirmation: Spinoza and the Process of Mourning in the Whitmanian Elegy”
10:45am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:15pm
Panel 4 (Alumni Hall): Freedom
Moderator: Mark Chetcuti (York University)
Felicia Martinez (Saint Mary’s College of California)
“Joyful Madness and Narrative Disruptions in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote”
Kevin Mitchell (Trent University)
“Camus’ Imperative: Ontological Joy and Existential Absurdity”
Ruth Levai (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem)
“Seeds of joy in Dostoevsky and Bernanos”
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm – 2:45pm
Panel 5A (Alumni Hall): Joies fugaces
Modératrice: Isabella Huberman (University of Toronto)
Nicolas Picard (Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
“La joie des bêtes dans la littérature animalière de langue française”
Laura Tusa Ilea (Concordia University)
“Figures et stratégies du comique dans le roman La lenteur de Milan Kundera”
Lucie Taïeb (Université de Brest)
“Joie, fleurs, pleurs : Virginia Woolf et Friederike Mayröcker, phénomonologues d’un état instable”
1:30pm – 2:45pm
Panel 5B (Victoria Chapel): Liminal joys
Moderator: Richard Spavin (University of Toronto)
Stefanie Heine (University of Zürich)
“Liminal Joy, Trembling Breath”
Margeaux Feldman (University of Toronto)
“When Joy becomes Jouissance: Lana Del Rey, Death Drive, and the American Dream”
Victoria Cate May Burton (University of King’s College)
“Joy as Intensity”
2:45pm – 3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Performance (Victoria Chapel)
Maxine Heppner
“How to Recognize Joy?”
3:45pm – 5:00pm
Keynote Address (Alumni Hall)
Vivasvan Soni (Northwestern University)
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Saturday March 1st, 2014 – Day 3
9:15am – 11:00am
Panel 6 (Alumni Hall): Space matter(s)
Moderator: Kate Sedon (University of Toronto)
Stephanie Fung (University of British Columbia)
“(Re)Worlding Space, (Un)Doing Joy: Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and “Exquisite Corpses” in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”
Julia Polyck-O’Neill (Brock University)
“Civil Delirium: Lisa Robertson, Douglas Coupland, and the ‘Joy’ of the Vancouver Suburbs”
Sarah Piazza (Yale University)
“Music and Metafiction: Creative Listening in Caribbean Narrative”
Elizabeth Geary Keohane (University of Toronto)
“Inscribing joy into journeys : Michaux, Paulhan and Bouvier”
11:00am – 11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15am – 1:00pm
Panel 7 (Alumni Hall): Politiques de la joie
Modératrice: Joëlle Papillon (McMaster University)
Rohini Bannerjee (Saint Mary’s University)
“Les Rides aux Lignes de Rire : Retrouver la Joie dans Indian Tango et Les Jours Vivants d’Ananda Devi”
Michaël Trahan (Université de Montréal / Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7)
“La cure d’idiotie de Valère Novarina : une politique de la joie”
Isabelle Galichon (Université Clermont-Ferrand)
“ ‘Si mes phrases sourient, c’est parce qu’elles portent du noir’ ”
Simon Harel (Université de Montréal)
“La joie simple des Montréalais”
1:00pm – 2:15pm
Lunch
2:15pm – 3:30pm
Panel 8 (Alumni Hall): Affirmative Ethics
Moderator: Élise Couture-Grondin (University of Toronto)
Alla Ivanchikova (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
“Dangerous Feminisms and the Politics of Joy”
Raili Marling (University of Tartu)
“Killjoys and joy in feminist politics, art and fiction”
Grant Dempsey (University of Western Ontario)
“Becoming and Compassion: On the Importance of Joy”
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm – 5:00pm
Keynote Address (Alumni Hall)
Dina Al-Kassim (University of British Columbia)
Note: This program is subject to change and will be updated regularly. There will be no printed program during the event.
Updated: February 23, 2014