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Conference Schedule

Architectures of Power
Consortium for Literature Theory and Culture
University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Student Conference

May 6th, 2005, McCune Conference Room, IHC, HSSB

8:30 - 9:00 - Coffee and Pastries

9:00 -10:30 - Moderator - Tracy Jameson, Classics

Randy Pogorzelski, Comparative Literature: "Green Politics in 'Aeolus': Joyce's 'Parable of the Plums' and Virgil's First Eclogue"

Nathan Henne, Comparative Literature: "Atavistic Implosions: The Classic Maya and Faulkner's South"

Ottiliana Rolandsson, Dramatic Arts: "The Tension Between Structure and Allegory in Homer's Story About Odysseus and Kalypso"

Alex Kennedy, Classics: "Rewriting Iliad 10: What Nisus and Euryalus Mean for the Self, the Enemy, and the Individual in Aeneid 9"

10:30-12:00 - Moderator - David Roh, English

Mac Oliver, English: "Endowed in Perpetuity: The Urban Cemetery (with notes on the Egyptian Revival)"

Jack Tabor, English: "Stones of Memory: Edwin Lutyens, Rudyard Kipling, and the Inscription of Space"

Jeremy Douglass, English: "The Architecture of Disability: Alienation in Interactive Fiction Protagonists"

Mike Frangos, English: "Secrets of Home Architecture: J.G. Ballard and the Science Fiction Drive"

12:00 -1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 - Key Note Speaker, Sabine Fruhstuck

2:00 - 3:30 - Moderator - David Rosenberg, German

Katherine Voll, English: "Whistle Blowing: The Railway as
Imperial Technology in 'Penelope'"

Benjamin Shockey, English: "Mr. Willet and Mr. Walsh: Time, Space, and the Technology of Empire in Mrs. Dalloway"

Susan Cook, English: "Refracting Modernity: Lighthouses and Dislocation in Nostromo"

3:30 - 4:00 - Coffee

4:00 - 5:30 - Moderator - Marta Wilkinson, Comparative Literature

Kenneth Brown, Comparative Literature: "Lust in Space: Illicit Desire in The Chinese Cityscape"

Wei Wei Ren, Comparative Literature: "Time and Space in the Dream of Hua [Dongjing menghua lu]"

Paolo Moreira, Comparative Literature: "The Black Atlantic and Cultural Erasure - The Post-colonial 'Invisible Man'"

Claudio Dell'Oca, French: "Recreating public spaces in the suburbs of French cinema"

5:30 - 6:00 - Wine and snacks