Friday, March 7th, 3:30pm – 6:00pm, Pyle Center
Registration, 3:30pm, Room 335
Keynote Address, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, Room 335: Professor Hadji Bakara (University of Michigan): “Refugee Futures and the Politics of Time”
Reception, 5:15pm – 6:00pm, Outside of room 335
Saturday, March 8th, 7:00am – 6:00pm, Pyle Center
Breakfast: 7:00am – 8:00am, Pyle Center, Lee Lounge (1st Floor)
Registration: 7:30am – 8:00am, Pyle Center, Room TBA
MORNING SESSION
8:00am – 9:00am – Panel 1, Room 335
Liminality and Migration
- Sara Hosseini (McGill University): “When Time Lingers: Temporalities of Work Among Female Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Iran.”
- Wahid Al Mamun (McGill Univrsity) : “Haunted Precarities: Ghostly Temporalities of Migrant Worker Poetry in Singapore”
- Yijing Li (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh): “Liminality within immigrants’ family portraits”
9:15am – 10:15 am – Panel 2, Room 335
Liminality and art
- Xavier David Schultze (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Art and Aesthetic Agency”
- Ellinee Nelson:(University of British Columbia) « Curating the Threshold: Liminality and Embodied Practice in Claudia Cuesta: Of Being Between »
10:30am – 11:30am – Panel 3, Room 335
Liminality and the self
- Fabien Siles (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Healing in liminality: Sylvain Tesson’s “On the Wandering Paths”.
- Laetitia Chance (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “From Slave to Superorganism: Liminality, Porosity, and Rhizome in Chamoiseau’s Slave Old Man”
LUNCH BREAK
11:45am – 1:00pm, Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:00pm – 2:00pm, Panel 4, Room 335
Liminal landscapes
- Peter Russella (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “The lighthouse on the edge”
- Shimon Likhtman (University of Michigan): “Life/ជីវិត: Liminal Temporalities on the Tonlé Sap Lake, Cambodia”
- Cole Roecker (Northwestern University): “Liminal Limnology: A Watery History of Horicon Marsh and the Trouble with ‘Restoring’ Land”
2:15pm – 3:15pm, Panel 5, Room 335
At the threshold of the literary text
- Hallie-Blair Quatro (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) :“Exploring the Liminal in French and Francophone Literature: The Porosity of Genre”
- Amanda Parraguez (Northwestern University): “From Threshold to Void: Exploring Liminality in Georges Bataille’s Madame Edwarda”
- Delaney Uronen (University of Nevada-Reno): “Écriture Ferrante: Sublimity, Abjection, and the Limitations of Trauma’s Deferred Action in My Brilliant Friend”
3:30pm – 4:30pm, Panel 6, Room 335
Liminality and transformation
- Evan Shulman (San Diego State University): « Dancefloors, raves, festivals: transformational liminal spaces »
- Jay Dart (York University): “Can machines help us find “it”? Discussing Lynda Barry’s “What It Is” and Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
- Jorge Arana (San Diego State University): “The Liminal Campus: Higher Education as a Rite of Passage in Jude the Obscure”
ROUND TABLE
5:00pm – 6:00 pm
Professor Joshua Armstrong (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Professor Hadji Bakara (University of Michigan)
Professor Kristin Phillips-Court (University of Wisconsin-Madison)