Schedule Conference

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. Carol Mossman, Director of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of Maryland
Dr. Charles Caramello, Dean of Graduate School of the University of Maryland

8:45-10:45 Panel 1 Hybrid Spaces: Crossing All Boundaries
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
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: Òscar 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
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