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Conferences

The Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture has sponsored / co-sponsored or will be sponsoring / co-sponsoring several

conferences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, including the following:

 

CLTC SPRING CONFERENCE

9:00 A.M.- 5:00 P.M, MCCUNE CONFERENCE ROOM

8:30 am-9:00 am- Conference registration; coffee and breakfast foods available

9:00 am -9:30 am- Keynote speaker, Enda Duffy, Department of English, UCSB

9:45 am-11:15 am-PANEL ONE

David Platzer, moderator

-John Carpenter, UCLA, "Descending Leaf Studies/Peripeteia."

-Carol Fischer, UCSB, "Dramatic Time."

-Kim Beil, UCI, "Motion-blur and the Representation of Movement."

11:30 am-12:30 pm- PANEL TWO

Carol Fischer, moderator

-Summer J. Star, UCSB, "'Because I could not stop': Eternity and the Corpse in Emily Dickinson's Post-Mortem Lyric."

-Aimee Woznick, UCSB, "'The Undiscriminated, Tangled Actual': Temporalities of Newness in Henry James's The American Scene."

12:30 pm-1:30 pm- Lunch break

1:30 pm-3:00 pm-PANEL THREE

Marthine Satris, moderator

-Sabine Zubarik, University of Erfurt (Germany), "Broken Narrations: about Footnotes, Typography, and Time."

-Christopher Hagenah, UCSB, "The Paradox of Contingent Futures: Time and Truth in Deleuze, Borges, and 'Run, Lola Run.'"

-Heather Murray, UCI, "'Nostalgia for the Absolute': Biometric Temporality in Post-9/11 America."

3:15 pm-4:45pm-PANEL FOUR

Beth Wynstra, moderator

-Annette Rubado-Mejia, UCI, "Counter-History and Social Practice: Problematics and Possibilities of Thinking Testimonial with La Noche de Tlatelolco."

-Matthew Mewhinney, UCSB, "Colonial Chronotopes: Ambivalent Modernities in Taiwanese Narratives."

-Marzia Milazzo, UCSB, "The 'Museification' of the Indian: Indigenous Time, Mexican Assimilation Policies, and Western 'Imperialist Nostalgia.'"

4:45-5:00-Wrap-up and concluding remarks.

Epistemologies of Torture: Limits, Bodies, Black Sites
April 6th, 2007
Centennial House

Steal this Conference: Transnational Culture Jamming
May 31st, 2006
McCune Conference Room

Architectures of Power: Third Annual CLTC Graduate Student Conference
May 6, 2005
McCune Conference Room

The Sacred and Profane: Second Annual CLTC Graduate Student Conference
May 21, 2004
McCune Conference Room

Irreconcilable Differences? Jacques Derrida and the Question of Religion
October 23-25, 2003
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mind and Body: First Annual CLTC Graduate Student Conference
November 1, 2002
McCune Conference Room