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17 February 2012 | 9:00am–4:45pm
Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Twelfth Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference
Conference is open to students, faculty,
and invited guests
from Penn and other universities. The 5:00 Keynote is open to the public.
9:00–9:20a |
Coffee and Remarks |
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9:20-10:50 | Session I
TECHNOLOGIES OF ADAPTATION
Moderator: Jason Zuzga, English, Penn |
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Jonathan Rey Lee,
Comp Lit, UC, Riverside
Playing Media: Interactive Narrative in Lego Adaptations |
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Tara Mendola,
Comp Lit, NYU
Tropophilia: Catachresis and Its Ab(uses) in Contemporary Literary-Critical Discourse |
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Mihaela Mihailova,
Film, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale
From the Fairy Woods to the City Jungle: The Evolution of the Cartoon Pin-up Girl in Tex Avery’s Animated Shorts |
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11:00a–12:30p |
Session II
SELF-WRITING
Moderator: Courtney Rydel, English, Penn |
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Nicole McCleese,
English, Michigan State
Contemporaneous Adaptations: Masochistic Time in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless |
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Katie Price, English, Penn
The Adaptations of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Fidget |
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Ben Tam, English,
Cornell
From Memoirs to Case History: De-casing Daniel Paul Schreber |
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| 12:30-1:30p | Lunch |
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1:30–3:00p | Session III
ADAPTING VISUALITY
Moderator: Avram Alpert, Comparative Literature, Penn |
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Shana Cooperstein,
Art History, Temple
Scientific Manipulations of Astronomical Photography |
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Monica Hahn, Art History, Temple
The Adaptable Image: Performance, Manners and Agency in Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai |
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Shana Klein, Art, Art History, University of New Mexico
The Fruits of Empire: A Study of Foreign Food in Nineteenth-Century American Still-Life Painting |
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3:15–4:45p | Session IV
TRANSLATIONS
Moderator: Claudia Consolati, Romance Languages, Penn |
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Christa DiMarco,
Art History, Temple
Living in Paris: Van Gogh’s Adaptation of Signifying Modernist Ideals |
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Steve Dolph, Romance Languages, Penn
Edges of the Zone: Sawako Nakayasu’s Mouth: Eats Color |
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Rachel Epstein, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Penn
Japanese Poetry and the English Language |
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| 5:00–6:30 | Keynote |
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Rey Chow,
Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature,
Duke University
Documentary Realism Between Cultures |
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