Don't forget to RSVP to Roderick Ferguson' plenary talk, "To 'Post' the Nation: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Not-Yet-Imagined."
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The finalized schedule for EGSA's annual symposium, "Post-ing: A Symposium on What Comes After" is below. Don't forget to RSVP! We look forward to seeing you there!
Post-ing: A Symposium on What Comes After
February 7, 2014
The George Washington University
Rome Hall 771
Panels
& Schedule:
9:30 –
10:00 am: Welcome & Breakfast
10:00
am – 11:00 am: “What Comes After the Conference Paper: A Series of Ignite Talks
on ‘Post-ing’”
Leigha McReynolds, moderator
Emily Russell, George Washington University,
“Phantasmic Affections”
Erin Vander Wall, George Washington University,
“Monstrous Geographies”
Leigha McReynolds, George Washington University,
“Mesmerized”
Lori Brister, George Washington University, “After
Tourism”
11:00
am – 12:00 pm: This Time is Out of Joint: Post-Temporal
Shyama Rajendran, moderator
Nora Alfaiz, George Washington
University, “‘The Point Where the Imperfections of Memory Meet the Inadequacies
of Documentation’: The Unstable and Unreliable Memories in The Sense of
an Ending”
John Polanin, Villanova
University, “‘A wound that’s bled for a hundred years’: The Ethics
of a Post-Teleological
Periodization in Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s Planetary”
Sukshma Vedere, George
Washington University, “Translating Morals in Tales of Bidpai”
Patrick Henry Thomas, George
Washington University, “Detective Fiction and the Revision of National History: Proving
the Innocence of Richard III in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time”
12:00 –
1:00 pm: Lunch (provided)
1:00 –
2: 00 pm: Post-Sexuality/Post-Queer
Maia Gil’Adi, moderator
Laura Christiansen, College of
Staten Island, “Postfeminism, Retrosexism, and Shit Girls Say”
Kimberly Pendleton, George
Washington University, “Saving the Strip: Evangelical Outreach to the Contemporary
Sex Industry”
Lee Nevitt, “The Great Gay
War: A Post-Queer Reading of Virginia Woolf and Ford Maddox Ford"
2:00 pm
– 3:00 pm: Harrowing Transformations
Haylie Swenson and Alan
Montroso, moderators
Samantha Vitale, George
Washington University, “Time Traveling with Darwin: Anti-teleology in The Time
Machine”
M.W. Bychowski, George
Washington University, “Quantum Medievalism: Merlin and the (Meta)physics
of Superposition”
Alan S. Montroso, George
Washington University, “Dead Birds/New Objects: Contact and Sympathy in Marie
de France’s Yonec and Laüstic”
3:00 – 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Losing Sight of Race: Past, Present, Future
Justin Mann and Molly Lewis, moderators
Justin Mann, George Washington University, “Against the Odds: Postracial America and The Hunger Games Controversy”
Jason Demeter, George Washington University, “Racial Profiling: Embodied Identity in the Performance Archive”
D. Gilson, George Washington University, “Temporal Disavowal from the American Dream: Occupy Wall Street, Hipster Bodies, and the White Rhetoric of Revolution”
Molly Lewis, George Washington University, “Modern Critical Race Theorists and their Preracial Middle Ages”
5:00 – 6:00 pm: Keynote Speaker, Roderick Ferguson
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Losing Sight of Race: Past, Present, Future
Justin Mann and Molly Lewis, moderators
Justin Mann, George Washington University, “Against the Odds: Postracial America and The Hunger Games Controversy”
Jason Demeter, George Washington University, “Racial Profiling: Embodied Identity in the Performance Archive”
D. Gilson, George Washington University, “Temporal Disavowal from the American Dream: Occupy Wall Street, Hipster Bodies, and the White Rhetoric of Revolution”
Molly Lewis, George Washington University, “Modern Critical Race Theorists and their Preracial Middle Ages”
5:00 – 6:00 pm: Keynote Speaker, Roderick Ferguson
“To ‘Post’ the Nation: Race,
Gender, Sexuality, and the Not-Yet-Imagined”
International
Brotherhood of the Teamster, Gelman Library 702
6:00 –
7:00 pm: Reception, Rome Hall 771
