The Departments of English & Comparative Literature and Rhetoric & Writing Studies are proud to present the 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: San Diego State University Crisis Carnival 2006An interdisciplinary discussion of the humanities Saturday, October 21st, 2006aesthetic INVASIONS / articulate EVASIONS
An interdisciplinary discussion of the humanitiesCHANGE OF LOCATION ANNOUNCEMENT!
CRISIS CARNIVAL NOW AT SCRIPP'S COTTAGE!
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
SCRIPP'S COTTAGE - Admission Free
(Lunch Tickets can be bought by contacting us via email)Featuring the artwork, photography, poetry,
short fiction, essays, and multimedia presentations
of graduate students from SDSU and around
the globe, as well as guest lectures by
SDSU faculty members!Keynote Speaker
Steve Tomasula
Associate Professor at the University of
Notre Dame and author of the novels The
Book of Portraiture (FC2); IN & OZ (Ministry
of Whimsy Press); and VAS: An Opera in
Flatland, an acclaimed novel of the biotech
revolution that has recently been re-released
in paper by The University of Chicago Press.Email us at crisiscarnival@gmail.com
or visit our website: http://crisiscarnival.sdsu.eduNOTE: The Keynote Address will be held in Storm Hall 247 from 1:15 to 2:30; The Panels will be held in the neighboring rooms, Storm Hall 240 & Storm Hall 243A; We will have sentries posted at Scripps Cottage all day to direct traffic.
The lineup!!!
Session 1: 9:00 -10:15:
Panel 1: “re [re-ing] POSTmodernism”
Faculty Panelist: Peter Atterton, Philosophy Dept
.
Minnie Scott: “That story goes on still”: Sheherezade by Holly Anderson and Janet Zweig”
Tina Cabrera: “I Remember…”
Siobhan White: “Authorial Self-Consciousness in Nabokov’s Lolita: Why the self cannot exist in a vacuum”
Mike Rancourt: Selected Poetry
Panel 2: "Science & The Psyche"
Rebecca Sweet: “Worthless Woman: Surreptitious Phallocentrism in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies”
Amanda Opperman: “A Clinical Study of the Psyche”
Danny Weaver: Selected Poetry
Kevin Marzahl: “Motifs of the Good European Father”
Session 2: 10:30-11:45:
Panel 3: "Jacques Derrida as Companion"
Faculty Panelist: Dr. Bill Nericcio, English Dept.
Mark Young: “Wrestling with Proteus: An Intertextual Face-off between Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano and the Philosophical Gaze of Jacques Derrida”
Anna Marin: “Navigating the Labyrinth: Chasing and Tracing Jacques Derrida & Jorge Luis Borges”
Jim Ricker: “Desert Thirst: Treating Archive Fever on The Old Yuma Trail”
Panel 4: “Re-Lighting the Canon”
Bojan Misic: “The Annihilation of the Self in D.H. Lawrence’s “Rocking-Horse Winner”
Michelle Perry: “The Wisdom of Idiots”
Sean Wheaton: Devouring Landscape: “Consumerism and Nature in the Poetry of Walt Whitman”
Neli Koleva: “Proust’s Way: Aesthetic invasion and interpretation in Marcel Proust’s Combray”
Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00
Scripp’s Cottage
Keynote Address: 1:15-2:30
Scripp’s Cottage
Steve Tomasula of Notre Dame University
Session 3: 2:45 – 4:00:
Panel 5: Head Trauma/Heart Trauma
Faculty Panelist: Dr. Jane Robinett, RWS & English Depts.
Tria Ximena Hernandez: “Dantean Love: The Madonna/Whore Dialectic in the Works of D.G. Rossetti”
Drew Huffine: “Women in Love and Macbeth, Modern Tragedy, Tragic Modernity”
Panel 6: "Adaptations of Eras"
Jetta Posey: “RUMOR: An Aesthetic Invasion of Virgil’s Aeneid “
Sara Martin: “Beowulf: The Haunted Mere”
Rob Swart: “Aesthetic Context: Mending the Wall between Authorial Arrangement and Editorial Selection”
Justine Kemlo: “Adaptation: Invasion of images or evasion from text?”
Session 4: 4:15 - 5:30:
Panel 7: "Translations of Identity"
Faculty Panelist:
Suzanne Allan: “Translating the Untranslatable: Discerning True and Real in Hélène Cixous’s Un vrai jardin”
Josh Hall: “Creating Identity: Stages of Self-Construction in Lucy”
Allan Silva: “Secret Life”
Panel 8: “Re-Invading the Colonies"
Rebecca Hopkins: “Colonial Invasions and Postcolonial Evasions in Italophone Literature: the Works of Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Ribka Sibhatu”
Emily Schnarr: “Nisaiyat and Hanan al-Shaykh’s Community of Women”
Kathy Salvatore: “Martin R. Delany: Radical Invasion of the Servile Mind”
Deniz Perin: Selected Poetry
ARCHIVE
Scholars (both Graduate Student and Professors) from all fields are invited to submit: papers, poetry, fiction, artwork & films!
Art itself is invasive. The act of creating art is an invasion of identity, of the subconscious, of the status quo. The productive or destructive interplay between various forms of artistic media exemplifies the complexity of socially constructed notions of art forms and the subtle duality of the creative process. This process can be exploitative, or otherwise insensitive, employing skillful elusion and manipulation. This can occur through political subterfuge and/or authorial masking, with subversive values encoded within the seemingly innocuous.
A work can also invade the reader/viewer's mind with its vivid sensory impressions, beauty, and/or terror, helping assemble in the reader's imagination something intense and personally meaningful that otherwise would not exist in the "uninvaded" mind.
The viewing of art can be similarly invasive. The reader invades the work with personal experiences and creates a highly individualized network of connections and images in response to the text. This allows for much debate in the realms of both the foundations of aesthetic appreciation (is this why works can matter to us so much? is it because we ARE the work to a large extent?) and the critical debate over textual appropriation.
Potential topics include:
Ethnic Studies, gender relations, multimedia, literature and the arts, public vs. private space, identity politics, voyeurism, surveillance, postmodernism, Orientalism, regionalism, postcolonialism, world literature, religion and the sciences.
Each submission should include:
One cover page and one 250 word abstract for a 10-12 page paper, short story, poetry, or a 15 minute film. Please include your title, contact information, and area of study on your cover page.
Artwork should be submitted as photos with the titles written on the back. Each performance piece is limited to 15 minutes; please send a video tape. A $30.00 registration fee must be paid prior to presenting at the conference.
This fee includes a presenter/faculty luncheon and a copy of the proceedings.
The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2006.
Send electronic submissions and/or questions to : crisiscarnival@gmail.com,
Send physical submissions to:
Crisis Carnival Committee
Dept. Of Rhetoric & Writing StudiesSDSU / 5500 Campanile DriveSan Diego, CA 92182
