Conference Schedule

8:30 - 9:00: Light breakfast and check-in, 3rd floor, Shapiro Campus Center


9:00 - 10:00: On the Screen, In the Papers – Shapiro Campus Center Room 313
Brandeise Monk-Payton, New York University, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, "Oops…I Did it
Again (and Again): Crisis Female Celebrity and the Case of Britney Spears"
Kathleen Davies, University of Pittsburgh, Department of English, "Supreme Discomfort: The Drama of the Anita
Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings”
Zdenko Juskuv, Boston College, Department of English, "Speech and World in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red
Line
"
Chaired by Kyle Wiggins

Imperial and Post-Colonial Crises – Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery
Alden Wood, San Francisco State University, Department of English, “Moving Beyond the Palimpsest: The
Repudiation of Fundamentalism and Hybridity through the Redemptive Power of Aesthetics in Salman
Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh"
Greg Londe, Princeton University, Department of English, "Enduring Crisis in the Work of Aimé Césaire”
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Yale University, Department of Comparative Literature, "'We Drifted Along with the
Crowd': White South African Literature and the Re-Negotiation of the Public Sphere"
Chaired by Lydia Fash


10:15 - 11:15: Inside a Sexualized Position – Shapiro Campus Center Room 313
Christopher Madson, University at Buffalo, Department of English, "Codifying Prostitution and Disease in Thomas
Dekker's Westward Hoe"
Cory Nelson, Brandeis University, Department of English and American Literature, "This Game Isn't Seven-Card
Stud: Re-Reading Blanche DuBois"
Nino Testa, Tufts University, Department of English, "AIDS and the Genre Crisis, or, How to Have Elegy in an
Epidemic”
Chaired by Daniel Donatacci

The Wor(l)d of God – Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery
Jesse Rainbow, Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, “Crisis and the
Emergence of Scripture"
Matthew Sherrill, Rutgers University, Department of English, "Population Crisis and Sustainability in Milton's Hell"
Mark David Kaufman, Tufts University, Department of English, "'The Path of Letters': Clarissa and Kabbalah"
Chaired by Tina Van Kley


11:30 - 12:30: Plenary — Edward Glaeser, Department of Economics, Harvard
University – “The Lessons of America’s Great Housing Crash”
– Rapaporte Treasure
Hall


12: 30 - 1:30: Lunch for panelists and paid conference attendees; Shapiro Campus Center, 3rd floor


1:30 - 2:30: The Politics of Communication – Shapiro Campus Center Room 313
Jodie Austin, Brandeis University, Department of English and American Literature, "To Turn It In—Or Not To
Turn It In: The Crisis of Containment, Access, and Student Rights in a Digital
Age”
Niamh Slevin, New York University, Department of English, "'From Our World to Other Worlds':
Globalization, Translation, and the Politics of Ethnic-Language Writing”
Daniel R. Mistich, Syracuse University, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, "A Crisis of
Sovereign Power: Political Parrhesia in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld"
Chaired by Nick Van Kley

The Machines of War – Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery
Susan Andreas, Fordham University, Department of English, "Recognizing Men and War Writing in Miss
Ravenel's Conversion

Alana Brooks Smith, New York University, MA Program in Humanites & Social Thought, "This is Our Emergency:
Creatures of the Night are Calling—Political Wolf-Men from Homer Sacer to the Caves of al-Qaida"
Roy Scranton, The New School, Department of Liberal Studies, "Memories of My Green Machine: Posthumanism
at War"
Chaired by Jon Sudholt


2:45 - 3:45: Thinking Religion in a Postsecular Moment – Shapiro Campus Center Room 313
Tim Donahue, Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature, "‘How a Resurrection
Really Feels’": The Hold Steady and the Politics of Postsecularism”
John Hay, Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature, "Veritas E(s)t Caritas: Pope
Benedict XVI and Gianni Vattimo on the Direction of Religion in the Twenty-First Century"
Lucas Kwong, Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature, "Christianity without
Christendom: Situating Lamin Sanneh in Postsecular Thought”
Chaired by Adam Rutledge

Crises in Modernist Texts – Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery
Margaret Carkeet, Brandeis University, Department of English and American Literature, "Crises of Authenticity in
Heart of Darkness"
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Northeastern University, Department of English, "Intimacy in Mrs. Dalloway
Arielle Zibrak, Boston University, Department of English, "Kissing a Photograph: Fin de Siecle Destructive
Desire”
Chaired by Jesse Foster-Stout


4:00 – 5:00: Plenary – David Sherman, Department of English and American Literature,
Brandeis University – "Overheard Music: Crisis Management in Modern Faith"
– Rapaporte Treasure Hall

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