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 – 5:00pm
Panel 2B (Victoria Chapel): Laughter, performance and pedagogy
Moderator: Marketa H. Holtebrinck (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