Keynote Address

"Dis-Placing Subjectivities: Affective Labor and the Production of Experience in Indian Call Centers"
Aimee Carrillo Rowe, University of Iowa
Shambaugh Auditorium
Introductions: Naomi Greyser, University of Iowa

Registration and Refreshments

English Philosophy Building 102

English Philosophy Building (EPB) Panel Sessions

Narrating at the Limits: Trauma & Wound Culture
EPB 104
Chair: Min Gan

"'It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream': Violence as Narrative Construction in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now"
Adele Holoch, University of Iowa

"School Shooting: Narrative, Wounds, and Morals in Iowa City"
Daniel Bulger, University of Iowa

"Experiencing the Past and the Social as Wound: Bong Joon-Ho's Salinui chueok (Memories of Murder)", 2003"
Ju Young Jin, Indiana University Bloomington

Imperial I’s: Creative Presentation on Contemporary Travel Writing
EPB 106
Chair: Matthew Gilchrist

"Learning Kichwa Family Style"
Carol Severino, University of Iowa

"In Search of Dreadlocks (And Captain Zero)"
Jeremy B. Jones, University of Iowa

"Disconnect"
David T. Peters, University of Iowa

EPB Panel Sessions

Capturing Bodies: The Ethics of Cinematic Representation
EPB 104
Chair: Erica Stein

"The Shadow, Up Close: On the Loss (and Salvation) of the Face in Contemporary Post-Noir"
Mauro Resmini, Brown University

"Preaching Sexuality: Neo-Missionary 'Development' Films and the Bodies of Sub-Saharan African Women"
Allison McGuffie, University of Iowa

"Traumatic Memory, Haunted Histories, and Anticipated Arrival: Towards an Affective Politics in Third Cinema"
Nilo Couret, University of Iowa

Textual Sur/render: An Erotics of Translation
EPB 106
Chair: Elizabeth Carroll

"Love, Power, and Betrayal: The Tropes of Translation"
Andrea Rosenberg, University of Iowa

"To Breathe With: Celia and Louis Zukofsky's Catullus"
Diana Thow, University of Iowa

"A Satire of Satire Translating Enrique Jardiel Poncela's Espérame en Siberia, vida mía"
Leah Leone, University of Iowa

Lunch Break

EPB Panel Sessions

Moving Theory: Performance and Revision
EPB 106
Chair: Jessica Lawson

"She Watches Herself Do Theory: The Student of Theory in a Hall of Mirrors" Emily Roehl, Mills College

"Process or a State of Being (Present)"
Erica Damman, University of Iowa

"Mother Tongue: Exploring Language and Identity"
Kristina Gordon, University of Iowa

Return to Sender: Dis-Placed Memoirs
EPB 104
Chair: Jennifer Teitle

"Affect and Nation: Thematizing Sentiments and Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée"
Yu-yen Liu, National Chiayi University

"The Raising of Consciousness through Displacement: Rigoberta Menchú and Okonkwo Fight Back"
Gleidson Gouveia, University of Northern Iowa

"Challenging Boundaries: Captivity, Domesticity, and Narrative in Post 9/11 America"
Jessica Love, University of Northern Iowa

"Elia Suleiman: The Scene of Writing and the Formation of a Palestinian Subject"
Alison Wielgus, University of Iowa

Break for Dinner

Keynote Address

"LOVES' LABORS LOST
The logos and pathos of empire"
Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research
Shambaugh Auditorium 7:00 pm

Reception

Refreshments

Hoover Room (255)
Beginning at 9:00am

IMU Panel Sessions

Border Trouble
Iowa Room (335)
Chair: Andrew Crooke

"Good Fences, Queer Neighbors: American Empire, Border Theory, and James Schuyler"
Jason Lagapa, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

"'The Loudest Machine': The Imperial Soundscape of Frank Norris's The Octopus"
Christine Norquest, University of Iowa

"'All Are Hosts and Guests': Equality, Fraternity, and Empire in William Dean Howells's Utopian Hospitality"
Craig Carey, University of Iowa

Romantic World-Making
Penn State Room (337)
Chair: Jillian Walker

"The Glow Beyond the Gray: Domestic Dreams and Infinite Opportunity in Howards End" Cassandra Bausman, University of Iowa

"Gender and Performance in the Invention of a World City: A Reading of Pierre Corneille's Seventeenth Century Parisian Comedies"
Leah Pesola, University of Iowa

"'I love you, but I have to leave you.': Love Letters from the Colonist to Cape No.7" Ying-bei Wang, University of Iowa

IMU Panel Sessions

Ghostly Histories: Affect and Re-Membering
Iowa Room (335)
Chair: Mary Hickman-Fernandez

"Frank Norris' Epic of Conquest"
Ross Salinas, University of Iowa

"Sentiment, Media and the 1890 Ghost Dance"
Sarah Dees, University of Iowa

"Revising the Anglo Empire: Colored American Magazine and the African American Response to U.S. Imperialisms, 1900-1904"
Melanie Reichwald, University of Iowa

Exhausting Humanity: Disavowed Ethics, Discerned Subjects
Penn State Room (337)
Chair: Kevin Kopelson, Professor of English, University of Iowa

"Writing a Letter that Requires an Answer: Affect and the Storied Relationship to Place in Barry Lopez's Resistance"
J.D. Schraffenberger, University of Northern Iowa

"Wound in the Word: A Study of Christomimētēs in Jack Spicer's The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether"
Francisco Guevara, University of Iowa

"Touching to Empires: Virilio and Baudrillard on the Telepathic Catastrophe"
Apple Igrek, Seattle University

IMU Panel Sessions

Paperweight: Creative Presentations on Memory and Harm
Wisconsin Room (339)
Chair: Sonia Johnson

"Being Margaret"
Margaret MacInnis, University of Iowa

"King of Achill"
Kerry Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder

"Dear Nature Valley, Dear Sleep, Dear Wild"
Isaac Sullivan, University of Iowa

"Digression"
Dani Norton, DePaul University