New schedule for the SLLC Graduate Student Conference on April 9, 2010

Dear Presenter,

Schedule for the SLLC Graduate Student Conference on April 9, 2010, at the University of Maryland is ready.

Presenter, please note that you may send us your bibliography (no more than 200 words) and your paper to us at SLLC-GRADCONFCOMM@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU by April 7, 2010. Thank you for your participation and let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to seeing you on April 9!

Best regards,
SLLC Graduate Student Conference Committee


8th Annual School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Graduate Student Conference

Friday, April 9, 2010, St. Mary’s Hall

8-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-8:45 Welcome Remarks
Kristen Gunderson, Committee Member, Department of French and Italian
Dr. Mossman, Director of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of Maryland
Dr. Caramello, Dean of Graduate School of the University of Maryland

8:45-10:45 Panel 1 Hybrid Spaces: Crossing All Boundaries
Panel Moderator: David Libber, Committee Member, Department of Second Language Acquisition
Khady Diene, University of Maryland: “Post colonialism and the Question of Identity”
CJ Gomolka, University of Maryland: “Hushed Bodies, Screaming Narratives: The Reconstruction of Transsexual Identity Through the use of Narrative Space in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sand Child”
Anna Lukyanchenko, University of Maryland: “Learning Spatial Relationships in a New Language”
Sunyoung Lee, University of Maryland: “Perceptions of Spatial Relations by Heritage Speakers”

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Panel 2 Geography: Space as Places
Panel Moderator: Rebecca Cheek, Department of French and Italian
Tzvi Raphael Rivlin, University of Montréal: “Heterotopias of Triestine Literary Space”
Cécile Cristofari, University of Aix-en-Provence, France: “Realism in Fantasy, Metaphor in Geography: The Maps of High Fantasy Literature”
Jillet Sam, University of Maryland: “Grobalization in the Layered City: The Global-as-Spectacle in Hitec City, Hyderabad”

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:30 Panel 3 Walls vs. Opened Spaces
Panel Moderator: Oscar Santos-Sopena, Committee Member, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Chiann Tsui, Stanford University: “The Significance of Space in Kafka’s Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer”
Marie-Hélène Charron-Cabana, University of Montréal: “To Write in Closed Rooms”
Lucia Reinaga, Duke University: “Seremos capaces de bailar por nuestra cuenta: Bridging Time and Space Gaps and Building a Communal Space in a Café Tacvba Concert”
Anna Bachman Barter, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “Prison or Paradise?: An Examination of the Philosopher’s Study in George Sand’s Les Sept cordes de la lyre”

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-5:15 Panel 4 Narrative space: culture throughout the Americas
Panel Moderator: Ina Sammler, Department of Germanic Studies
Julia Burstein, University of Maryland: “Discursive Space and the Antillean Identity quest in Two Novels by Simone Schwarz-Bart”
Hilary Levinson, University of Michigan: “Space, Sound, and Self in the Works of José María Arguedas”
Laura Quijano, University of Maryland: “El rebozo: Sandra Cisneros and transfronterista feminisms”

5:15-6:00 Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres

6:00-7:00 Keynote Speaker, Dr. Roberto Dainotto, Professor of Romance Languages at Duke University
Introduction of Dr. Dainotto by David Libber, Committee Member, Department of Second Language Acquisition

7:00 Closing Remarks, Katherine Tek, Committee Member, Department of French and Italian