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19 February, 9:00am–4:45pm
Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Missed Connections
Tenth Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference
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| 9:00–9:30: Coffee and Remarks |
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9:30–11:30: Session I
"Can You Hear Me Now?"
Respondent: Sharrona Pearl, Asst Professor of Communication |
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Megan Cook, English, Penn
The Non-History of the Non-Reading of Thomas Usk’s “Testament of Love” |
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Neil Crimes, Music, Penn
The First Cut is the Deepest: On Lacan’s Splitting and Music in the Margins |
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Emily Hyde, English, Princeton
“Heroic Cutting:” Auden in China |
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Tal Kastner, English, Princeton
Bartleby and Boilerplate: Paradigms of Failed Connection? |
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| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
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12:30-2:30 | Session II
Corporal Boundaries and Un-bound Bodies
Respondent: Salamishah Tillet, Asst Professor of English |
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Denise Dahlhoff, Communication, Penn
Converting Strangers to Intimates: Cultural and Societal Implications of
Online Dating as Shortcut for Romantic Connections |
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Yumi Lee, English, Penn
Identifying Across in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black |
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Christine Marks, English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Closed, Open, and Overmixed Bodies in Siri Hustvedt’s Novel What I Loved |
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Lisa Mendelman, English, UCLA
Reading into Silence: Desire and Intimacy in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus |
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| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
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2:45-4:45 | Session III
Coalitions and Their Failures
Respondent: Jeffrey Green, Asst Professor of Political Science |
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Peter Clericuzio, History of Art, Penn
Art Nouveau and French Connections with Alsace-Lorraine, ca. 1900-1914 |
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Scott De Orio, German, Penn
Is Pederasty Gay? Discourses about Male Intergenerational Intimacy during
the Early German Homosexual Emancipation Movement |
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Elias Saba, Near Eastern Language and Civilizations, Penn
Heroes, History, and Fiction: Rereading and Rewriting History in Ba’thist Iraq |
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Jason Saunders, English, UVA
“Imperial Boyhood”: Masculine Rivalry, Interracial Desire, and the Limits
of Empire in Absalom, Absalom |
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| 5:00–6:30 | Keynote |
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Laura Otis, Professor of English, Emory University
Reconnecting Verbal and Visual Thinking |
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