| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 4, 2016 | 9:00AM - 9:30PM | External Event, Alumni Hall Victoria University 91 Charles St. West |
| Saturday, March 5, 2016 | 9:00AM - 9:30PM | External Event, Alumni Hall Victoria University 91 Charles St. West |
| Sunday, March 6, 2016 | 9:00AM - 9:30PM | External Event, Alumni Hall Victoria University 91 Charles St. West |
26th annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature
All panels are held in Alumni Hall, Room 112, Victoria College, unless otherwise indicated
8:30-9:00 Coffee and snacks
9:00-10:30 Cinema
Sensuous Translation: The Dubbed Foreign Film in 1950’s China
Thomas Chen – Comparative Literature, University of California Los Angeles (USA)
Transparent Mediums: Ghosts in Post-War Japan
Darcy Gauthier – Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Images traversing texts
Karin Janker – Languages and Literatures, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)
10:30-12:00 Aesthetics
Lunarian Transcendence: bill bissett’s Language as Poetic Resistance to Mental Ableism
Andrew McEwan – Interdisciplinary Humanities, Brock University
Immanence and Transcendence in Aestheticism
Katie Fry – Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Transmediality, Remediation, and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Hypermediacy and the recent work of
Dana Claxton and Jennifer Chan
Julia Polyck-O’Neill – Interdisciplinary Humanities, Brock University
10:30-12:15 Literature and Critical Theory (Undergraduate Panel)
** Held in Room 215, Victoria College
Translating the Object Oriented Ontology into Theology: A Calvinist Account of Realist Magic
Ella Wilhelm – Literature and Critical Theory, University of Toronto
Talmudic Transformation: ‘Niddah’
Tova Benjamin – Literature and Critical Theory, University of Toronto
On Transgression, by way of the Odyssey
Khashayar Zayyani – Literature and Critical Theory, University of Toronto
Transience in Oedipus the King
Lorina Hoxha – Literature and Critical Theory, University of Toronto
12:15-13:30 Break with lunch
13:30-15:00 Keynote Address II
Salvaging Israel/Palestine: Art, Collaboration, and the Binational State
W. J. T. Mitchell – English and Art History, University of Chicago (USA)
15:00-16:30 Mobility
Ecstasy of the Road: Play-Space and Desire in Nabokov’s Lolita and Cortázar’s Hopscotch
Ivan Babanovski – English, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
Transnational Outlaw-Lawman: Ralph Connor and His Border Crossing
Joel Deshaye – English, Memorial University
“I fight mine legacy, mine curse”: transgressive transnational poetics in the works of Cathy Park
Hong
Héloïse Thomas-Cambonie – Études des mondes anglophones, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
16:30-17:00 Break with snacks
17:00-18:30 Keynote Address III
Edging, Drawing, the Common
John Paul Ricco – Comparative Literature, Art History, and Visual Culture, University of Toronto
18:30-19:30 Screening of Akin by Chase Joynt & Discussion
Chase Joynt – Film, York University
Hannah Dyer – Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University
Dina Georgis – Women & Gender Studies, University of Toronto
19:30 Closing remarks
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