FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013 | Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
12:30-1:30
Faculty Panel I: Crisis and/in Counternarratives
The Falls of Rome: Responses to Crises, 270-604
Michele Salzman, History, UC Riverside
The French Connection: Henri Corbin and Iran, Islam, Philosophy and Revolution
Roxanne Varzi, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Growing Up with the Country
Kendra Taira Field, History, UC Riverside
Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany
Frank Biess, History, UC San Diego
1:30-2:15
Graduate Panels I | A: Scenes of Cultural Exchange
Reorienting Khrushchev’s Russia: Indo-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1948-1968
Jeremiah Wishon, History, UC Riverside
Assembling Maori Architecture: Indigenous Knowledge and Expert Collaboration in an Emerging Science
Jacob Culbertson, Anthropology, UC Davis
The Art of Parties: Downtown New York Cultural Scenes, 1978-1983
Kristen Galvin, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
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B: Acting and Expressing the Self
Disciplinary Measures: Temporal Metrics and the Time Standard
Anna Finn, English, UC Irvine
Embodied Rational Agency
Yannig Luthra, Philosophy, UCLA
In Corporation: Lecoq-Based Pedagogy’s Body-Bound Theory and Cognitive Science
Maiya Murphy, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego
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2:15-3:15 pm
Faculty Panel II | Textual Excavations/Resistant Histories
The Worlding of Marco Polo
Sharon Kinoshita, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Insurgency Interrupted: Cuban Slaves and the Resistance Movements of 1843-1844
Aisha Finch, Gender Studies and Afro-American Studies, UCLA
The Origins and Evolution of Journalistic French: From the First Periodical to the French Revolution
Mairi McLaughlin, French, UC Berkeley
Lia Nicole Brozgal, French, UCLA
3:30-4:15 PM
Graduate Panels II | A: Language, Cinema, and Literary Effects
Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Immediacy
Daniel Clinton, English, UC Berkeley
A Theory of Nominal Concord
Mark Norris, Linguistics, UC Santa CruzIn the Realm of the Sexes: Cinema and the Liberal Sexual Subject
Damon Young, Film & Media, UC Berkeley
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B: The Local Community In Distress
National Reform and Municipal Revolt in a Revolutionary Spain: Seville and Western Andalusia, 1766-1823
Charles Nick Saenz, History, UC San Diego
Seeing Through Violence: Murder and Gentrification in West Oakland
Jeffrey Schonberg, Medical Anthropology, UC San Francisco
The Smell of Petroleum: Citizenship, Health, and Insecurity in “Revolutionary” Ecuador
Nicholas Welcome, Cultural Anthropology, UC Riverside
4:15-5:00 pm
Graduate Panels III | A: Virtual Reproductions
Pavneet Aulakh, English, UC Santa BarbaraTalking about Things: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Heritage and Material Culture Studies in Archaeology
Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, World Cultures, UC MercedPsychonautic Media
Anastasia Yumeko Hill, Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
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B: Literacies of Geographic Spaces
Sentimental Literacies: Grief, Writing, and American Indigenous Rights, 1820-1920
Sarah Klotz, English, UC Davis
On the Threshold of Eurasia: Intersecting Discourses of Empire and Identity in the Literature of the Russian Empire
Leah Feldman, Comparative Literature, UCLA
Wetland Americas: Mapping a Literary History of New Orleans
Matthew Suazo, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
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5:00-6:00 pm
Faculty Panel III | Playing with Time/Space/Matter/Identity
New Urban Practices and Configurations of Public Space in São Paulo
Teresa Caldeira, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
Too “Chinese” to play a “Chinese”: Anna May Wong, the Segregationist Era, and American Cinema
Yiman Wang, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter
Colin Milburn, English, UC Davis
Consciousness and the Passage of Time
Geoff Lee, Philosophy, UC Berkeley