Conference Schedule!

Friday 3/30

9:00a-4:00p Conference Registration (Hoosier Room, IMU)

8:30a-9:30a Breakfast (Hoosier Room, IMU)

9:30a-10:45a Panel 1 "Time, Trauma, and Violence" (Oak Room, IMU)

"How Zone One Uses Speculative Realism to Confront the Present" Stephanie Sivak, Purdue University Northwest (English)

"’The Poison Could Leach into the Water System’: Slow Violence and Nonhuman Beings in Tropic of Orange" Kevin Cody, California State University, Long Beach (English)

"’We Left Everything There, In The Unending September’: Temporalities of Ruin in Serhiy Zhadan’s ‘Zhyttia Marii’" Daria Eldridge, Stanford University (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

11:00-12:15p Panel 2 "Literature Then and Now" Oak Room, IMU

"Fragile Immortalities: Enduring Genius and Apocalypse in British Romantic Literature" Christie Debelius, Indiana University-Bloomington (English)

"Revealing the Lack Within the Lack: from Frankenstein to Never Let Me Go" Sophie Yu-Wen, National Chengchi University (English)

"Drugs, Gender, and The Body as a Site of Traumatic Memory in Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’" Meagan Meylor, University of Southern California (English)

"An Alternative Mythology: The Plan to Recapture Reality in Parable of the Sower" Kelly Carty, University of Louisville (English)

12:15p-2:00p Lunch (Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU)

12:30-1:45p Creative Panel (Oak Room, IMU)

2:00p-3:15p Panel 3 "The Female Body and Trauma" (Oak Room, IMU)

"Beyond the Death Drive: Criseyde's Desire for Nonexistence in Chaucer's ‘Troilus and Criseyde’" Caitlin Mahaffy, Indiana University-Bloomington (English)

"’Floating Downside Up’: The Catastrophic Liminality of Adolescence in ​A Girl is a Half-formed Thing" Sara Loy, Indiana University-Bloomington (English)

"Biological Warfare and Trauma: An Insight into the Zika Virus and the Pregnant Female Body" Teresa L. Jackson, Indiana University-Bloomington (Gender Studies)

"Living Ghosts of Stalinism: Language, Trauma, and Survival in Moscow Chorus" Lenora Murphy, Stanford University (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

3:30p-4:45p Panel 4 "Potential Annihilation by Us or Others" (Oak Room, IMU)

"’More Teeth’: Biopolitical Calamity and the Obduracy of the Gene in Jurassic World" T.j. Martinson, Indiana University- Bloomington (English)

"'Speculative Annihilation': On the Origin, Extinction, and the Reproduction of Species in C20 Science Fiction" Jill Gilmer, Indiana University-Bloomington (English)

"Robot Citizenship" Arjun Sawhney, Queen’s University (Philosophy)

"Words to Thrive by Amid Biological Annihilation" Katie Lind, Indiana University-Bloomington (Communication and Culture)

5:00p-6:30p Keynote Lecture (Ballantine Hall 310)

“Catastrophe and Vocation”

Dr. Seo-Young Chu, Associate Professor, Queens College CUNY

7:00p-9:00p Reception: Grazie!

Saturday 3/31

9:00a-4:00p Conference Registration (Hoosier Room, IMU)

8:30a-9:30a Breakfast (Hoosier Room, IMU)

9:30a-10:45a Panel 1 "Inside the Forgetting Machine: Representations of Global Violence and Empire's Many Ends" (Oak Room, IMU)

"Listening for Space, Watching for Time: Visual Postwar Subjectivity" Nicola Chávez Courtright, University of Southern California (American Studies and Ethnicity)

"Violence’s Visions: Archiving and Approaching Combat Footage in the Apocalyptic Present" Luka Miro, Concordia University (History)

"Imagining Bali Bombing Terror and the Tainted Paradise: the politics of terror representation in Long Road to Heaven (2007)" Teraya Paramehta, University of Southern California (American Studies and Ethnicity)

11:00-12:15p Panel 2 "The Nuclear and the Natural" (Oak Room, IMU)

"Nuclear" Njoki Mwangi, The Ohio State University (Computer Science & Engineering)

"’Your World is So Chaotic!’: Technological Futures and Fears in Adventure Time’s ‘Islands’" Kathryne Metcalf, Bowling Green State University (American Cultural Studies)

"South Korean Zombie Cinema: Consumerism, Carnivores, and Ecocriticism" Lindsay Roberts Jolivette, University of Southern California (East Asian Languages and Cultures)

12:15p-2:00p Lunch (Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU)

2:00p-3:15p Panel 3 "Biopolitics and Biopoetics" (Oak Room, IMU)

“Feast against Famine: Bataillean Eroticism and Degrowth.” Ray Huling, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Communication)

"Badiou and Apocalypse: the Absolute Event?" J. Reese Faust, The University of Memphis (Philosophy)

"Resignation Syndrome and the Psychopolitics of Petrification" Daniel G. Butler, University of California, Santa Cruz     (History of Consciousness)

""An Eerie Hubbub": Exclamation and Enervation in Post-War Absurdist Fiction" Steve Nathanial, Indiana University-Bloomington (English)

3:30p-4:45p Pedagogy Roundtable (Oak Room, IMU)

5:00p-7:00p Happy Hour: The Tap