Friday, March 6th, 3:00pm – 6:00pm, Pyle Center
Registration, 3:00pm, Room 335
Welcome & Keynote Address, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Room 335: Professor Chelsea Largent (Columbia University): “Going Vegetal: Rooted Self-Exile”
Reception, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Outside of Room 335
Saturday, March 7th, 8:00am – 5:30pm, Pyle Center
Breakfast: 8:00am – 9:00am, Pyle Center, Location TBA
Registration: 8:30am – 9:00am, Pyle Center, Room 335
MORNING SESSION
9:00am – 10:15am – Panel 1, Room 335
Politics and Exile
- Andrei Kureichik (University of Chicago): “Exile, Underground, Solidarity: The Cultural Front of Belarusian Resistance“
- Faraz Saberi (Northwestern University): “Kurdish Diasporization and the Making of ‘Pan-Kurdishness’: Layered Otherness, Resistance, and Futurity Across Transnational Space“
- Ash Goar (University of Oregon): “Lovecraft’s Alien and the Muse Brother’s Alienation: The Rhetoric of the Speculative and Illegal Alien“
10:30am – 11:30am – Panel 2, Room 335
On the Periphery
- Jess Dubie (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Empowerment in Spite of Marginalization: Women in Maryse Condé’s An tan révolisyon“
- Kaeda Sabrwing (University of Minnesota): “Periphery and Citizenship: A Geography of Queerness Not Yet Here“
- Patrizia de Luca (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Physical and emotional exile in Cesare Pavese’s The Moon and the Bonfires“
LUNCH BREAK
11:30am – 12:30pm, Pyle Center, Location TBA
AFTERNOON SESSION
12:30pm – 1:30pm – Panel 3, Room 335
Productions of the Earth and Eco-Criticism
- Cole Roecker (Northwestern University): “Making Time for the Margin: Answers to Environmental Crisis in John Clare’s ‘Bird Nesting’ Poems“
- Emma Gibb (University of British Colombia): “Reassembling the Self: Land/Sea and Life/Death in Atlantiques (2009)“
1:45pm – 2:45pm, Panel 4, Room 335
That Which Lingers
- Urvi Kaul (University of Connecticut): “Intergenerational Storytelling: Disciplining Narratives of Collective Trauma”
- Saira Salman (University of Minnesota): “Liminal Citizens: Refugee Exile, Subalternity, and Permanent Temporariness“
- Najma Ibrahim (Marquette University): “Magical Realism and Postmemory in Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country“
3:00pm – 4:00pm, Panel 5, Room 335
Myth and Religion
- Daniel Zimmerman (University of California, Santa Barbara): “The First and Eternal Exile: Evaluating Sophia’s Liminal Identity in ‘Gnostic’ Mythology“
- Athar Ngazou (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “The tension between the Here and There in the Crusade Songs in Old French“
- Giulia Schimmenti (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “The un-American Dream: otherness in Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Umbertina“
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Professor Nevine El-Nossery (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Professor Chelsea Largent (Columbia University)
Professor Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin-Madison)