(Light Lunch provided for the first 35 participants)

ADPCL Round Table – The Art of Writing Successful Grant Proposals

Session Organizers: Caroline D. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania State University & Corinne Scheiner, Colorado College

This session, sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL), presents three perspectives on opportunities for funding humanistic study and research, and on the characteristics of persuasive grant proposals.

Chair: Caroline D. Eckhardt

Panelists:
Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies

Ross Shideler, Professor of Comparative Literature and Scandinavian, University of California – Los Angeles; Associate Dean, University of California – Los Angeles Graduate Division; NEH Reviewer

Tim Wright, Program Officer for U.S. Fulbright-García Robles Grantees COMEXUS

Description: Es notoria la decisiva influencia de Petrarca en la formación de la cultura literaria del Renacimiento español, en particular la de sus obras en lengua vulgar (toscana) y más concretamente de sus Trionfi. Esta serie de “visiones” relativas al transcurso de la vida humana, construidas de conformidad con el modelo de los desfiles triunfales de la antigua Roma, alegorizan los sucesivos triunfos del Amor (concupiscente), la Castidad, la Muerte, la Fama, el Tirmpo y la Eternidad. Los Ttriunfos se tradujeron dos veces al español durante el siglo XVI: en 1512, en coplas castellanas, y en 1554, ya en endecasílabos de cuño italianizante; de ambas se hicieron repetidas ediciones que, desde luego, circularon por toda la América virreinal. El influjo de los Trionfi, no menos que del Canzoniere, no se redujo al ámbito de la producción poética, sino que se proyectó abundantemente al terreno de las artes figurativas, de modo que -al igual que en Europa- tamibén en América sus temas dieron lugar a diversas versiones iconográficas, todas ellas cargadas de la intencionalidad filosófica y moral característica del poema de Petrarca. En la Nueva España ha sobrevivido un programa de pintura mural basado en dichos Triunfos: el de la Casa del Deán de Puebla, que data de fines del siglo XVI.

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Stream B

Saturday, April 21st, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Chair: Karl Kohut, Cátedra Guillermo y Alejandro de Humboldt, Colegio de México

Title: Los Triunfos del Deán: riesgo y fortuna de la interpretación simbólica
Author: José Pascual Buxó
Affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Email: pbuxo@axtel.net

Title: De la Visión al Triunfo: estrategias imitativas del petrarquismo
Author: Alicia de Colombí
Affiliation: SUNY (State University of New York)
Email: amonguio@aol.com

Title: Entrada de las Parcas de Pieter Coecke van Aelst en la Casa del Deán de Puebla
Author: Helga von Kügelgen
Affiliation: Asociación Carl Justi
Email: tlamatini@t-online.de

Title: Resonancias del paisaje flamenco en los murales de la Casa del Deán
Author: Elena Estrada de Gerlero
Affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Email: gerlero@prodigy.net.mx

Description:

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Stream A

Friday, April 20th, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Subjects in Transit: Migrations, Homes, and Belonging
Chair: Zahid Chaudhary

Title: Airports, gas stations, parking lots and highways: I Am Only Private In Public
Author: Maria Berns
Affiliation: University of Texas at El Paso
Email: mrberns@utep.edu

Title: There is No Place Like Home: Georges Perec’s La Vie Mode d’Emploi
Author: Stefanie Sobelle
Affiliation: Columbia University
Email: ses77@columbia.edu

Title: Asian American Discovering Asia: The “Homecoming

Description:

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Stream B

Saturday, April 21st, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Chair: Steve Buttes

Title: Citas(+)instantáneas: la fotografía como traducción y transgresión en “Las babas del diablo” de Julio Cortázar
Author: Ivonne Saed
Affiliation:
Email: isaed@comcast.net

Title: Fantasizing the Feminine: Sex and Gender in Donoso’s El lugar sin límites and Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña
Author: Jessica Burke
Affiliation: Hamilton College
Email: jessicaburke@gmail.com

Title: Lenguaje y revolución en la Venezuela actual
Author: Juan Carlos Pérez Toribio
Affiliation: Universidad Simón Bolívar
Email: jcperez@usb.ve

Description: This seminar will consider emergent questions about the poetics, politics, and practices of representation within a wide array of texts and contexts related to the Middle East. Assuming with Said that the epistemologies and imaginative geographies of Orientalism continue to be durable and powerful, the seminar will grapple with questions of methodology and critique that usefully challenge the uneven exchanges of power (political, intellectual, sexual, cultural, and ethical) that bolster Orientalist discourse. A broad rubric such as “(Neo) Orientalisms

Description: One of the most salient features of modern Southern Cone literature highlighted by critics is the way in which it seeks to represent and engage with the real. Whether it is addressing changes brought on by modernization, creating a Latin American subjectivity, rejecting traditions of state sponsored violence or addressing current realities of economic inequality, writers have created a tradition of confronting
changing social and economic realities through their literary representations. Formal and generic considerations, however, inevitably mediate, enable or prohibit an effective engagement with the reality these writers seek to represent. The present panel seeks to explore the way in which “the literary” questions, addresses and resists societal and economic changes while also questioning the limits of, and some cases the violence committed by, literature which attempts to represent and resist real social inequality.

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Stream B

Friday, April 20th, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Chair: Emilio Sauri

Title: Readers turned Voyeurs: La invención de Morel and the Loss of The
Author: Fiorella Cotrina
Affiliation: USC
Email: cotrina@usc.edu

Title: National and Literary Perspectives: Cortazar and the ideology of form and politics of identity
Author: Eugenia Demuro
Affiliation: University of Sydney
Email: edem3374@usyd.edu.au

Title: Ramón Díaz Eterovic y Roberto Bolaño: rearme y desarme del relato policial latinoamericano
Author: Mabel Vargas
Affiliation: Universidad de Chile
Email: mabel.vargas@gmail.com

Title: “Haciendo verdad un modelo literario y literaria una forma de verdad

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Stream A

Saturday, April 21st, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Chair: Nataly Tcherepashenets

Title: Becoming our own Devils: A Study of Violence and Redemption
Author: Kristen Roney
Affiliation: Gainesville State College
Email: kroney@gsc.edu

Title: Love and Death in Louisa May Alcott’s Sensationalist Stories
Author: Michaela Keck
Affiliation: I-Shou University, Taiwan
Email: michaela.keck@gmail.com

Title: The Gift of Sex
Author: Tracey Sedinger
Affiliation: University of Northern Colorado
Email: tracey.sedinger@unco.edu

Title: Un-dead, Un-real: Edward Stachura’s Poetic Experiment
Author: Sylwia Ejmont
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Email: sylwia@umich.edu

The Genesis of Comparative Literature: A Mexican Tributary
Djelal Kadir
Penn State University

Moderator: David Damrosch, Columbia University

Respondents:
Daniel Chamberlain, Queens University, Canada
Federico Patán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston
Enrique Pérez Castillo, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Luz Aurora Pimentel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Michael Schuessler, Barnard College
Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College

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Stream A

Friday, April 20th, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Chair: Simona Livescu

Title: “The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time”: The Disappearance of Temporality in the Age of the War on Terror
Author: Christopher Pavsek
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Email: cpavsek@sfu.ca

Title: Rules of Cultural Engagement: Humanitarian Imperialism and Perpetual Security
Author: J. Paul Narkunas
Affiliation: Princeton University
Email: narkunas@princeton.edu

Title: Epistemic Terror: Identity Production and the Threat of Violence in the Ripples of 9/11
Author: Randy Cota
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Email: randyrene@excite.com

Title: Where do we go from here: Past, Present and Future at Ground Zero
Author: Yifat Gutman
Affiliation: The New School for Social Reseach
Email: gutmy472@newschool.edu

Saturday, April 21st, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Chair: Randy Cota

Title: The Theater of War in Lebanon 2006: Discrepancies in Mediatic Portrayals of Traumatic Identities
Author: Simona Livescu
Affiliation: UCLA
Email: slivescu@ucla.edu

Title: Operation Back to Life: Bio-Power, Necropolitics and The Intelligibility of State Violence in Turkey
Author: Elif Babul
Affiliation: Stanford University
Email: embabul@stanford.edu

Title: Trick of Memory and Historical Narrative of 1945
Author: Zhuo Liu
Affiliation: New York University
Email: zl297@nyu.edu

Title: Writers and Whores: Anti-Logocentrism in The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Author: Sebastiao Alves Teixeira Lopes
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Piaui (UFPI)
Email: slopes10@uol.com.br

Description: This panel explores the role of power in the interplay between subjectivity and subjection, particularly with regard to questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Drawing upon a wide range of scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the panel collectively theorizes the workings of power insofar as it is exercised in the service of diverse forms of constraint. Whether in relation to geographical borders, labor contracts, the rhetoric of rights, or even clothing practices, all of the papers deal with the ways in which modes of constraint imposed upon women and colonized and/or racialized subjects are mediated precisely by intervening in the codes which typically define gendered normativity. Together, the papers explore the means by which such constraints become most rigorously enforced at the limits of what can be recognized and regulated as normal. Without relegating class and race to the periphery, the papers examine the policing of gender and sexuality as constituent to the enforcement of normative structures of power more broadly.

Topics to be considered include:

* Crossing borders of gender and geography

* Constraints upon women’s bodies

* Race and gender ambiguity

* Race, gender, and forced labor

* Women’s rights and human rights

* Cyborgs and the limits of the feminine

* Dystopic feminisms

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Stream A

Saturday, April 21st, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m

Chair: Leila Neti

Title: Emigration, Gender and Amphibious Identity: Isabelle de Charriere on the Border of Fiction
Author: Marie-Paule Laden
Affiliation: San Francisco State University
Email: mpladen@sfsu.edu

Title: Death by Corset: Gendering and Domestic Ideology beyond the Victorian Cage
Author: Marta Wilkinson
Affiliation: Wilmington College
Email: marta_wilkinson@wilmington.edu

Sunday, April 22nd, 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Chair: Marie-Paule Laden

Title: Sugarcane Subjection: Subjectivity and Indentured Servitude in Indo-Caribbean Fiction
Author: Leila Neti
Affiliation: Occidental College
Email: lneti@oxy.edu

Title: Countertechnologically Human: The Cyborg as Discursive Site of Technophobia and the Redemptive Feminine
Author: Keridiana Chez
Affiliation: The CUNY Graduate Center
Email: kerychez@gmail.com