1 March, 2013 (Friday)

8:00-9:30 Registration, Lincoln Center Plaza and 3rd Floor Lounge 9:30-10:45
A.1

Session A
Past Identities: Resisting and Reconciling Moderated by Tony DAgostino LL606

"They Have Enough of Our Blood on Their Hands Already: Gay Memory and the F.D.A.'s Anti-Gay Blood Ban" Allen Strouse, City University of New York Dress, Memory, and National Identity: Remembering Turkeys Diplomatic Fashion Shows Rustem Altinay, New York University Unearthing Trauma, Imagining Closure: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as a Testimony by Proxy Alice Hofmann, American Studies Leipzig, Germany Reclaiming Corporeality: Meta Warrick Fuller and Mary Turner Caitlin Beach, Columbia University

A.2

Sites of Violence: Practices of Memorialization Moderated by Dan Olson-Bang

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Memorialization as Pharmacon in Battlefields: Remembering and Forgetting War in the Landscape of Gallipoli Campaign Ahenk Yilmaz, Izmir University of Economics The Little Economic Engine That Could: Las Vegas Search for Water Security Under the Shadow of Owens Valley George Rozsa, California State University, Fullerton Competing for the Past: Narratives of an Industrial Past in Northern Turkey Hande Ozkan, Yale University

11:00-12:00
B.1

Session B
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Affectivity, Pleasure, and the Imagination Moderated by Corey McEleney

Experiencing Memory as Affect in Tom Ford's A Single Man Brandon Arroyo, Concordia University

Turning: Dementia and the aging body (An audio installation) Aynsley Moorhouse, University of Toronto Funambules:Counter-Imagination in Les Enfants du Paradis'. Vivian Appler, University of Pittsburgh

B.2

Media, Resistance, and Collective Memory Moderated by Thomas Lay

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Fighting for a Place in History:The Commemoration of 1948 in Southern Israeli Kibbutzim Anat Marle Heffetz, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Memory and Performance in Text: A Media Users Thoughts about the Nazi Past and the Student Movement Present, 1968-1969 Todd Goehle, University of Binghamton German-Americana and the Holocaust: German-American politics of memory (19702012) Julia Lange, Harvard University

B.3

Reappropriation of Holocaust Memory & Literature LL902 Moderated by Anna Beskin

Forgotten Victims - Remembering Concentration Camps and the Exclusion of Former Prisoners with the Green Triangle Dagmar Lieske, Freie Universitt Berlin Toward a New Intertextuality: Bruno Schulz, Ugo Riccarelli, and the Authorship Debate Kirk Morrow, University of Toronto I mean, reality is too complex for comics: Art Spiegelmans Maus, second-generation remembrance, and the ethico-aesthetic space of the comic book Madeline MacNab, University of Kings College

12:00-1:00

Lunch Break: See Registration Packet for nearby dining options

1:00-2:15
C.1

Session C
Memory and Literary Fragmentation Moderated by Rachael Faith Hilliard LL606

Unmarked Graves: Forgetfulness and Failed Memorials in Elizabeth Gaskells Sylvias Lovers (1863) Camilla Cassidy, University of Oxford Contemporary Mourning: Curating Memory in Nox Rebecca Macmillan, University of Texas, Austin Larval entities waiting for a live one: Whitman, Burroughs and the Metonymic Dissolution of Self and Nation Shelby Trygar, Fordham University Archival Modernism: T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and the Poem as Dossier Rachael Gardner, University of British Columbia

C.2

Visual Culture and Postmemory Moderated by Felisa Baynes

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Sebalds Work of Melancholy and the Photographic Gaze: Rings of Saturn Remembered" Hillel Broder, City University of New York Memories Without Images Harun Farocki and the Constitution of Memory Collectives Jana Schmidt, SUNY Buffalo No mans land still crying and burning / Inside our house: The Great War and Postmemory in Ted Hughes and Fay Godwins Elmet Sheila Giffen, University of British Columbia

C.3

Music and Memory Moderated by Sharon Harris

LL902

Music, Memory (and Oblivion). Methodological challenges for musicology Melanie Unseld, Carl von Ossietzky Universitt, Oldenburg Musical Memorial Cultures and Gender around 1800: Activities of Constanze Mozart as the composer's widow Gesa Finke, Carl von Ossietzky Universitt, Oldenburg Music, Exile and Memory: Forgetting musical action in Parisian exile 1933-1939 Anna Langenbruch, Carl von Ossietzky Universitt, Oldenburg

2:30-3:45
D.1

Session D
Genre and Self-Writing Moderated by Melissa Tyrrell Hurwitz LL606

Here comes your baby: Infantilization and the Fear of Incest in Giovannis Room Kevin Stevens, Fordham University The Mask of War: heroism and the transformation from civilian to soldier in WWII German soldiers memoirs Hope Sneddon, University of Newcastle "Reworking the Twill": The Mnemonic Present in Steins The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Hejinians My Life and A Border Comedy. Amy Thompson, Washington University St. Louis

D.2

Narratives of State Power Moderated by Michelle Germinario

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Remembering freedom and forgetting slavery: the rewriting of George Moses Horton Tim McMillan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lost Voices of Nanking in Cinema: Issues of Affective Haunting, Political Ideology, and National-Transnational Memory Production Nathan To, Goldsmiths, University of London Imagining Tragedy as Moral Victory: The Warsaw Rising Museum and Polish National Identity Erica Fontana and Monika ychliska

D.3

Temporal Displacement: Memory In and Out of Time Moderated by Samantha Sabalis

LL902

Disseminating Memory : Film as a Means of Reflecting the Past and Projecting the Future Dr. Sharron Greaves, Nyack College The Philosophical Dynamic of Memory: From Plato to Gadamer on Remembering through Forgetting Tom Kiefer, Fordham University Utopian Temporality and Memory Making in Troilus and Criseyde Devon Wallace, Loyola University Entangled Memories: Performing Transnational Memory in Spanish Literature' Marije Hristova, Institute for Language, Literature and Anthropology;

Spanish High Council for Scientific Investigation

4:00-5:00 Special Session: Postmemory Studies Roundtable 12th Floor Lounge Sponsored by the Fordham Graduate English Association Moderated by Christy Pottroff Come join us for a roundtable discussion founded in the field of postmemory and the work of Professor Marianne Hirsch. Featuring Shea Boresi, Caitlin Cawley, Michele Germinario, Caroline Hagood, Boyda Johnstone, Steven Kanneh, Liz Porter, and Kevin Stevens

5:15-6:15 Keynote Address: Professor Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University "Framing Children: School Pictures and Their Afterlives"
Reception to follow, 6:15-7:30 8:30-10:00 Fordham Graduate English Associations Beer n Books: Beer 'n Books is a monthly social gathering, started by the GEA in 2011, that tours the city's bookish bars in an attempt to strengthen community and take advantage of the wide range of libations throughout the city.

2 March, 2013 -- Saturday

8:00-9:30 Registration, Lincoln Center Plaza and 3rd Floor Lounge 9:30-10:45
E.1

Session E
Remembering Trauma, Reshaping Cultural Memory Moderated by Elizabeth Cornell LL606

The Responsibility of Remembering: Traumatic Memory and War in The Hunger Games Erin Holzer, California Polytechnic State University Memoryof Trauma in Nation-Building: The Case of Chernobyl in Belarus Ekatherina Zhukova, Aarhus University, Denmark Crafting Identity Through Memory in Joan London's Gilgamesh Monica Sommerville, University of Calgary Shock Experience and Towards a Melancholic Recovery of Memory in Szilard Borblys Berlin-Hamlet Jen Haller, City University of New York

E.2

Temporality and Genre Moderated by Jordan Windholz

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The Imagined After: Reconceptualizing Memory and Space in the Contemporary PostApocalypse Narrative Amanda Wicks, Louisiana Sate University The Continuous Present as Detective Work in Blood on the Dining Room Floor Danielle Solomon, Hunter College The Poetry of Time Travel: Exploding the Continuum of History in Slaughterhouse 5 Elizabeth Gumm, University of California, Riverside Haunted by the Future: Gothic Foresight in the Lonely Eighteenth Century Richard Moore, Fordham University

11:00-12:00
F.1

Session F
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Rehearsing, Re-membering, and Re-Performing Memory Moderated by Shoshana Enelow

Remembering the Genocide in Rwanda: Memorials, Dance and Public Participation Ariane Zaytzeff, New York University Dancing and Re-membering Gede in Boston: Practices of Memory in Jean Appolons Haitian Dance Classes Dasha Chapman, New York University Exile and the Point of Return: Memory and the Public Sphere in Patricio Guzmns Memoria Obstinada Kaitlyn McNally-Murphy, New York University

F.2

Witnessing the Past: Sociological Approaches Moderated by Samya Seth

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The 'Memory crisis of Italian psychiatry: Re-constructing the past through absences, silences, and crumbling walls. Elena Trivelli, Goldsmiths, University of London Examining autobiographical memory, experience and identity in stories about problematic childhoods: the case of young people in detention homes and their life narratives Zulmir Becevic, Linkping University, Sweden Witness Testimony: A Sociopsychological Analysis of Trauma-Influenced Memory Regression Christine Bowden, Ohio State University

F.3

Tracing Race: Memory and Inheritance in African-American Literature and Popular Culture Moderated by Christi Spain-Savage

LL902

From Fragments: Recovering Personal Narratives in Toni Morrisons Tar Baby Julia Kaziewicz, The College of William and Mary Black Rue: The Hunger Games and Rhetorics of Innocence Avril Fuller, University of Memphis A Kind of Literary Archaeology: Forgetting Slavery's Picture in Paul Laurence

Dunbar's Civil War Photo-texts

Kya Mangrum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

12:00-1:00 Lunch Break: See Registration Packet for nearby dining options 1:00-2:15
G.1

Session G
Archival Practices from the Restoration to Facebook Moderated by Malkah Bressler LL606

The Poke of Traumatic Memory: A Facebook Experience in Transitional Peru Margarita Saona, University of Illinois, Chicago Saw this and thought of you: mediating memory and ubiquity in the digital age Nicky Bird, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland My Memory in This Needs No Refreshing: Remembering to Forget Trauma in Samuel Tukes The Adventures of Five Hours Anthony Brano, Fordham University The Lost Memory of the Emergence of Liberation Theology Ulf Borelius

G.2

Literary Reconstructions: Shaping Identity in the Atlantic World Moderated by John Bugg

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Recovering and Reconstructing African Memory through Literature: The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and Ngugi wa Thiongo & The Autobiography of Malcolm X Mark Malisa, To Not Tell the Story that Must Be Told: Surrogation and Subversion in M. NourbeSe Philips Zong! Heather Devries, Independent Scholar And all that now America men call: Providence, History, and the New World in Spensers The Faerie Queene Joshua Wisebaker "Subject/Abject Relations: Remembering and Reconfiguring Colonial American Identities." Elizabeth Geist, Fordham University

G.3

Textual Trauma and Recuperation Moderated by Leslie Carpenter

Generations of Guilt: Rahner, Dubus, and the Memory of Sin Paul J Schutz, Fordham University

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Japanese Gardening, Memory, and Imagination: Remembering and Forgetting in Tan Twan Engs The Garden of Evening Mists (2012). Zach Goh Cheng Fai Literary Exercise: Remembering Reading and Health in Father and Son Andrew Willson, Borges the Memorious: Blindness and Perfect Memory Rebecca Dewald, University of Glasgow, Scotland

2:30-3:45
H.1

Session H
Materiality and Memory: Literary Space and Architecture Moderated by Heather Dubrow LL606

The Talent of Good Memory: Mental Space in the Didactic Programs of Isaac Watts and Lewis Carroll Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, Cambridge University Writing as Forgetting: Memory and the Archive in Book II of Spensers Faerie Queene Amy Cooper, Rutgers University The House that Hawthorne Built Julie Fifelski, Fordham University Anatomizing Memory in Thomas Williss Anatomy of the Brain (1664) Clarissa Chenovick, Fordham University

H.2

Sites of Ruin/Urban Spaces Moderated by Tara Foley

[Untitled Paper] Alexis Carozza, City University of New York Reinventing the urban narrative: Pozna and Krakw (1867-1914) Piotr Kisiel, European University Institute Street View: Mapping Ruins in the South Bronx of the 1980s Pete LOfficial, Harvard University Upcycled Walls: Athenian Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble

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Sarah Rous, Harvard University

4:00-5:30

Special Session:

Third Floor Lounge Digital Traces: A Roundtable Discussion

Sponsored by the Fordham Graduate Student Digital Humanities Group

Moderated by Sarah Cornish and Jane Van Slembrouck

Does the increasing accessibility of data affect the way we remember? How will the myriad tracks we leave online shape the historical practices of the future? How do innovative methods of creating and collaborating move from being novel experiments to transparent modes of learning? Join us for a dynamic discussion about the evolving field of the Digital Humanities with presenters Jason Martin Lipshin (MIT), Patrick Burns (Fordham University), Kate Wilson (Adelphi University), Jefferson Bailey (Metropolitan New York Library Council), Elizabeth Cornell (Fordham University) Refreshments will be served following the event.