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: Julie Haring (University of Toronto)
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)