13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?
Implications, Complications, and Situations
Schedule
Friday, February 16, 2007
5:30 - 7:30pm - Faculty Roundtable Session - CDS 13 (formally ARCH)
"Interdisciplinary Scholarship"
Join us for a roundtable discussion on the nature and implications of interdisciplinary scholarship with distinguished Arizona State University faculty from across the disciplines.
7:30pm - Sonoran Prize presentations and awards - Bison Witches
Writers from our top-ranked MFA program will be reading their award winning poetry and prose. Also, our keynote speaker, R. Clifton Spargo, will present his own published fiction. Join us for food and fine literature!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
8:30-4:30 - Registration in LL316
All panel presentations will be in the G. Homer Durham Language and Literature Building, located on University Drive (across the street from the Foundation/Fulton building and College Ave.)
9:00 am
Room A: LL264 - Rhetoric I: Pedagogy, Audience, and Consideration
Moderator: Kirsti Cole
“How Useful are Text-based Analysis in Rhetoric? Variations in Rhetorical Indicators Across Registers as Demonstrated with Rhetoristics”
“In An Effort to Sleep: Considering Pedagogies of Audience”
“Border Pedagogy: Changing the Status Quo in the Composition Classroom”
Room B: LL268 - Social Coding in the Works of Chrétien de Troyes
Moderator: Vernon Dickson
"Perceval and the Quest for Self"
“‘I Must Defend My Own Name’: Gawain and the Maintenance of Social Role in Chrétien’s Conte du Graal”
"Sense, Matter, Song: An Interpretation and Performance of Lancelot: the Knight of the Cart, by Chretien de Troyes"
10:30 am
Room A: LL264 - Rhetoric II: Critical Theory and Analysis
Moderator: Elizabeth McNeil / Cindi Calhoun
"A Genealogy of the Ethical Criticism Debate 1997-2007"
“Neither are My Ways Your Ways, Saith the Lord: A Burkean Analysis of the Words of God in Milton’s Paradise Lost”
“Emulate Pride: Emulation, Rhetoric and Ethics in Hamlet”
Room B: LL268 - Violence I: Narrative and Rupture
Moderator: Sean Bolton
“Composing Complicity: Rhetoric and Revolt in Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘You Must Remember This’”
“The Case of Raymond K. Hessel: Nietzsche, 9/11, and the Terrorism of Tyler Durden”
"The Divergent Politics and Letters of Edmund Wilson and Archibald MacLeish: Why their feud amounted to so much more than just an ‘Omelet'"
Lunch
1:30 pm
Room A: LL264 - "Angry Young (Wo)Men": Theatrical Violence as Ethical Debate
Moderator: Kiva James
“Pinter Revisited: Room Plays, Room for (Masculine) Play, and Un-doings as Doings in Neilson’s Penetrator”
“Theatrical Violence as Scapegoat: James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing Beyond the Martin vs. Malcom Debate”
“From Coal Mines to Field Mines: Double Violence and Parallel Ritual in Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America”
Room B: LL268 - The Gothic and the Sublime: Romance, Reason, and Religion
Moderator: Bina Mehta
“The Kantian Sublime”
"Contemplations of Mortality: The Marriage of Gothic and Romantic in John Keats"
“Sacred Romance: Romantic Religion in The Minister’s Wooing, Norwood and the Bostonians”
Room C: LL270 - Representation
Moderator: Cambria Stamper-Santana
"Drowned: An Experiment"
“How Important is the Line? Dualism and the New Mestiza Consciousness in Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera”
“Commercial Sterilization?: Acts of Resistance in Shepard Fairey's Obey Giant Street Art Campaign”
3:00 pm
Room A: LL264 - Pass, or Not? - Implications and Ethics
Moderator: Sarah Dean
“Ain’t I a Woman: The Politics of Lesbian Femininity”
“The Ethics of Passing”
Room B: LL268 - Ethics of Borders and Postcolonialism Beyond
Moderator: Caitlin Horrocks
“Okonkwo’s Absent Sense of Other – Achebe’s Looking Glass for Western Readers in Things Fall Apart”
“Border Thinking is Everywhere: Ethical Considerations of Border Studies”
Room C: LL270 - Question and Answer Session
Following up his reading from Friday night, keynote speaker and published fiction writer R. Clifton Spargo will participate in a question and answer session open to all creative writers.
4:30 pm
Room A: LL264 - Pedagogy
Moderator: Cynthia Simmons
“Forms of Inquiry, Funding, and Resistance in Academia”
“'Ethical Dilemmas': The Religious Student, Academic Freedom, and The New American University”
Room B: LL268 - Violence
Moderator: Robin Gillium
“The Work of Truth: The Ethical Subject in Foucault’s History of Sexuality”
“Ethos of Engagement: An Internationalist Ethic”
“Welcome to the Jungle: A Strategic Response to Rhizomic Ideologies”
6:00 pm in CDN 68
(formally ARCH)
Keynote Address
R. Clifton Spargo, "Violence and the Ethical Event"
Dr. Spargo's books will be available for purchase following his presentation.
Keynote Dinner @ Bamboo Club
following the keynote presentation
Sunday, February 18, 2007 - There are no events scheduled for this day.