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9:00-9:45 Registration and coffee

9:45-10:00 Opening remarks

Jill Ross, Director, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

10:00-11:30 Translation

Linguistic Markedness in Translation: Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros
Mélissa Gélinas – Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (USA)

I Make Myself the Cave to Catch your Echo: Three Poetics of Translation
Fan Wu – Independent Scholar

Translation as a Lens for Cultural Negotiation
Paula Karger – Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

11:30-13:00 Identities

‘What I Wanted to Wear’: The Battle for Self-Expression Amidst Transphobic Street Violence
Anna Kozak – Literatures of Modernity, Ryerson University

Transcending Race: Suheir Hammad’s Construction of Black(ness)
Denijal Jegić – Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
(Germany)

Black Transhumanism, Technoculture, and New Negro Modernity: Afro-postmodern politics of
race in George Schuyler’s Black No More
Myungsung Kim – English, Arizona State University (USA)

13:00-14:30 Break with lunch

14:30-16:00 Trans- en français

Transcription du Sourd: La trace du corps dans la langue
Lisanne Larivière – Litérature Comparée, Université de Montréal

Récits transmis, mélangés, différés: quelques adaptations cinématographiques de romans à tiroirs
Jessy Neau – French, University of Western Ontario/Université de Poitiers

Postcolonial Space in a Global Network: Trans-national connexions in the French banlieue
Christina Horvath – French, University of Bath (UK)

16:00-17:00 Break with snacks

17:00-18:30 Keynote Address I

Operatic Transformation: Translation, Adaptation, Transladaptation
Linda and Michael Hutcheon – English, Comparative Literature and Medicine, University of
Toronto

18:30 Wine and cheese social with cello and viola da gamba performance by Felix Deak of the IFURIOSI Baroque Ensemble
Centre for Comparative Literature
Isabella Bader Theatre, 3rd Floor
93 Charles Street West, Toronto

20:30 Theatre Performance – In Sundry Languages
** Registration required
Luella Massey Studio Theatre
4 Glen Morris Street, Toronto

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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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The current Syrian crisis has alerted us once again to the plight of the tens of millions of displaced people who in recent times have been forced to seek refuge from political persecution, wars, and violence. Yet too often mainstream representations of generic “refugees” have figured them as merely objects of pity and benevolence, or in the worst cases into populations whose diasporic condition is in part a result of their own inability to survive in the modern and contemporary world. This symposium takes last year’s fortieth anniversary of the official end of the Vietnam War as an occasion to question mainstream memories and representations of the wars in Southeast Asia, while also calling attention to the resilience, alternative memories, and self-making of those who have relocated to the United States and Canada.

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM – Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Lecture
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Panel Discussion
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Reception

The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es): The Production of Memories of the “Generation
After”

Yen Le Espiritu, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Focusing on the multiple recollections of the US War in Vietnam, this talk examines the ways in which the mutually constituted processes of remembering and forgetting work in the production of official discourses about empire, war, and violence as well as in the construction of refugee subjectivities. Challenging conventional ideas about memory as recuperation, this talk analyzes the production of the “postmemories” of the post-1975 generation: the young Vietnamese who were born in Vietnam or in the United States after the official end of the Vietnam War.

Please note that the lecture and panel each require a separate registration.

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The history of early Japanese America was deeply intertwined with that of Japanese imperialism even though a spatially-organized way of scholarly research has rendered the two histories almost completely separate. Inspired by the success of Anglo Saxon colonialism in its settler societies, the first group of self-styled Japanese “frontiersmen” congregated in California and its vicinity between the mid-1880s and the 1910s, regarding their own agrarian colonization and settlement in the New World frontier to be an integral part of Japan’s “overseas development.” This paper sketches out the transpacific mobility of those resettlers, who refashioned their identity as “pioneers of overseas Japanese development” in various parts of the Asia-Pacific region from the 1890s on after race-based exclusion from white settler societies of North America.

Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Term Chair Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford, 2005) and a co-editor of Yuji Ichioka, Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History (Stanford, 2006) and the Oxford Handbook of Asian American History (Oxford, 2016). He has a number of peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, including the Journal of American History, Journal of Asian Studies, and Pacific Historical Review.

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How did self-determination get written into human rights? And by whom? In her lecture, Lydia Liu reopens the story of how the postwar norms of human rights were radically transformed by unexpected clashes with the classical standard of civilization in international law. She analyzes the drafting of the document of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the UN debates surrounding it to explore the translingual forging of universalism in the multiple temporalities of global history.

Lydia H. Liu is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in 1997 and a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2004-05. Her publications include The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (2010), The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (2004), and Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity (1995). Recently, she published a co-edited volume called The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (2013) with Rebecca Karl and Dorothy Ko.

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