9:00-10:15
Room 8400 Staging Deception: Genre, Gender, and Fictionality in Modern and Contemporary Theater. Chair: Michele Ponti
– Goutierre, Juliette (Columbia University). “Theatrical Illusion and False Impressions in Tristan L’Hermite’s Tragedies”
– Soto, Patrick (Yale University). “Masculine Delusions: Genre Anxiety in The Winter’s Tale and Il marescalco”
– West, Charlie (Yale University). “Back to Basics: Lorca’s Puppetry and the Limits of Theatre”
10:25 – 11:40
Room 8400 Meaning, desire, suspicion: Text and Transmission in 20th Century Literature and Media. Chair: Peter Kurtz
– Ciambella, Matteo (New York University). ”The Paranoid Style in Italian (Radical) Politics”
– Horowitz, Daniel (CUNY – Graduate Center). “The Crossword and The Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”
– Vicars, Brittany (CUNY – Graduate Center). “Modern Metaxy: From The Trenches to Texting. Investigations of Intimacy, Loneliness, and Simulations of Proximity in Wartime Letters for an Age of Digital Distortion”
Room 8402 Museums as Spaces of Recreation, Imagination, and Timelessness. Chair: Joanna Ligon
– Risak, Sam (The Ohio State University). “An Illusive Remembrance: How Comics and Museums Spatialize Memory.”
– Shaffer, Caroline (Montana State University). “Entrapping Fantasy: Real and Imaginary Boundaries in the American West”
11:50-13:05
Room 8400 Wording Subjectivities: Body, Language, Memory in Irish Literature. Chair: Beatrice Carnelutti
– Gerardin, Michela (Boston University). “Illusions of Access and the Primordial Language of Poetry”
– Kulczycky, Olivia (Boston University). “‘Coming undone’: Deterritorialized Sound and Body in Beckett’s Ghost Trio”
– McCabe, Abigail (University of Massachusetts). “Westering Out: Mythic Recollections of Ireland from Heaney’s Berkeley Year”
Room 8402 Reading Beyond the Human: AI, Mythology, and Animal Ethics. Chair: Anna Aschauer
– Joshi, Manu (Indian Institute of Technology). “The gift of illusion: Narrative (re)constructions of animal self-reflexivity in J.M. Coetzee.”
– Mendez-Correa, Emma Louise (New York University). “Ovid’s Black Mirror: Pygmalion/Narcissus and Spike Jonze’s her.”
13:10 – 14:10 – LUNCH
14:15 – 15:30
Room 8400 Mediating Paranoia: the Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Body and Text. Chair: Dana Burns
– Luo, Tianren (Brown University). “The Computational Paranoia: (Post-)cyberpunk fiction and the illusion of frictionless sovereignty”
– Rees, Will (University College London). ‘“Suspended in Darkness”: The Hermeneutics of Hypochondria”
– Voinich, Uladzislau (University of Massachusetts). “Re-generative Illusions and Narrative Terrorism in Larissa Sansour’s In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain”
Room 8402 Creating Utopia: Instances of Resisting, Hoping and Building in Dystopian Spaces. Chair: Emilia Gambardella
– Aşar, Yıldız (University of Bamberg). ‘“Can’t You Envision This Possibility?”: Latinx Girlhood, Eco/Political Disillusionment, and Toward Egalitarian Kinship in Lilliam Rivera’s Dealing in Dreams”
– Cheng, Lifei (Columbia University). “The Architecture of Desire: Queer Spaces and Utopian Illusions in Experimental Cinema and Performance”
15:40 – 16:55
Room 8400 Doubled Geographies: Liminality, Concealment, and Defiance in Regional Imaginaries. Chair: Ellina Efimenko
– Gianello, Veronica (CUNY – Graduate Center). “Being from Naples, belonging to Naples: Urban fabric of illusions in Mario Martone”
– Ibrahim, Shurouq (Ohio State University). “Representations of Ambivalence and Disillusionment in Mansoura Ez Eldin’s Fiction”
– Soucanh, Clara (Princeton University). “Unveiling The Double Nature Of Camouflage: Suzanne Césaire’s Eco-Poetics Of Resistance In The Great Camouflage (1945)”
Room 8402 Problems in Aesthetics: Novelty, Fantasy, and Semblance. Chair: Parker Thomas
– Egan, Liam (Princeton University). “A Modest Defense of Semblance: Exemplarity in Hegel and Naipaul.”
– Zemenkov, Vladislav (University of Chicago). ‘“The Day I Had Ended The Regime of Aloofness:” Exploring Bovarysme in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita”
– Zhou, Wangchen (Yale University). “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — Reading Du Bois’ Aesthetics with Adorno”
17:05 – 18:20
Room 8400 Constructed Togetherness: Identity and Violence Through Time and Space. Chair: Constance Ker Hsu
– McKelvie, Nick (NewYork University). “‘Tis as common to err in frailty as to be a woman:” The Tenuous Illusion of the Gender Binary in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore”
– Ramazzotti, Clara (CUNY – Graduate Center). “Unite Against Each Other: How Flanagan’s Midnight Mass depicts the monstrosity of religion and small communities”
– Raup, Samantha (Columbia University). “Voices Unbound? The “African Novel” in France, 1921-2021”
Room 8402 Dignity and Deceit at the Turn of the Century. Chair: Nick Henke
– Garcia-Moreno, Ana (Princeton University). “Illusions of Dignity in The Golden Bowl”
– Peschl, Mareike L. (Princeton University). “Why is it Illusions and Not Deceit? Remarks on the German Translation of James Sully’s Illusions (1881)”
– Seerung, Iana (Brandeis University). “Dissenting Homophonics, Or, Reading Against the Grain of Liberalism”
18:30 – KEYNOTE – 9100
Panels to run concurrently during time-slots
