Conference Schedule
Steal this Conference: Transnational
Culture Jamming
Consortium for Literature Theory and Culture
University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Student Conference
May 31st, 2006, McCune Conference Room, HSSB
8:30 - 9:30 - Coffee and Pastries
9:30 -11:00 - Panel 1 – Literary Graffiti
Moderator: David Rosenberg, German
Jennifer D. Caldwell, Dramatic Art
“Deconstructing Margins in Feudal Narrative: 13th
Century France and the 21st Century United States”
Danielle La France, Comparative Literature
“Narratives that Subvert Gender: Women Authors in
Mexican Literary Magazines, 1945-1958”
Marthine Satris, English
“A New Tongue: Rewriting history in Irish women's
poetry”
Randall Pogorzelski, Comparative Literature
“Against the Soldiers, Not the War: Virgil and the
Politics of War in Joyce's Ulysses”
11:00-12:00 - Keynote Speaker, Wilton N. Alethea
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 - Panel 2 - Massing the Absurd
Moderator: Lisa Swanstrom, Comparative Literature
Art Kolzow, French & Italian
“What Fell through the Cracks: A Discussion of the
Sokal Affair”
Yan Liang, Comparative Literature
“The Monkey in All of us: Two Film Adaptations of
the Monkey King Story in the 20th-Century China”
Hank Willenbrink, Dramatic Art
“Fugazi and DIY Performance”
Nathan Henne, Comparative Literature
“The Plurals Bar: Pick-up Lines for Non-Binary Duality
in K’iche’ Language Games”
2:30 - 4:00 - Panel 3 – Smart Mobs: The Play’s
the Thing
Moderator: Beth Wynstra, Dramatic Art
Adrienne MacIain, Dramatic Art
“Parody at Play: (Re)Fin(d)ing Nemo at Halloween in
Isla Vista”
Marc E. Shaw, Dramatic Art
“Parodies of Homecoming: Pinter’s and Ravenhill’s
Family Jamming”
Heather Fife, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
“Resisting a Hostile Environment: The Use of Theatre
in the Chinese American Community”
Torsten Sannar, Dramatic Art
“Legal Storytelling in Practice: The Performance of
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission”
4:00 - 5:00 - Reception
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