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Friday, October 14th, 2005:
3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

3:00 - Welcome and introduction by Professor Jacques Lezra and Peter Straub

3:15-4:45 - Communities Across Time: Early Modern and Beyond

Milton, the Apocalypse, and Popular Culture
Aaron Brown, Ohio State University

"None of Us Will See Heaven:"
The Cycle of Revenge in Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Film
Jim Condon, University of California, Riverside

The Power of Stories / The Stories of Power: or, What did Shakespeare Think of Steichen's Photographs?
Professor Heather Dubrow,
University of Wisconsin - Madison

5:00-6:30 - Keynote Speech

The Ideograph's Face: On the History of Western Reactions to Chinese Torture
Professor Eric Hayot, University of Arizona

6:45 - Reception in 7191 H. C. White Hall



Saturday, October 15th, 2005:
9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Pyle Center

9:00-10:30 - Culture Makers: Reading Authorities, Reading Communities

Michael Chabon's "Curatorial Culture:" Panels, Pulitzers, and the Blurring of Literary Divides
John Joseph Hess, University of Notre Dame

Virginia Woolf/Lawrence Summers: Literature as Feminist Map for Current Controversies
Jen McDaneld, UC Davis

The Lives of a Cell: Multigraphic Accumulation as the Language of Comics
Jack Dudley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:30-12:00 - Cult Fictions: Fantasy and Horror in Popular Media

The Fate of the Unnarrated
Professor Gary Wolfe, Roosevelt University

When Pastorals Attack: Polluted Innocence in an Era of Monsters
Sarah "Otto" Marxhausen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yuppies, Cannibals, and Psychos: Constructed Identities in Contemporary Pulp Fictions
Delores Amorelli, University of Florida

1:30-3:00 - Otherness and Other Worlds: Late 20th-Century and Beyond

Replaying Star Wars, Again
Professor Brian Edwards, Northwestern University

Mediated Bodies: Pleasure and Pain in Roy's The God of Small Things
Kate Merz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The "Z" Factor: How Gilbert Hernandez's "Palomar" Differs from the Work of Garcia Marquez - and Why We Should Care"
Brett Burns, Loyola University

3:00-4:45 - Genre and Difference: Music, Film, and Literature

Your Dreams or Mine?: Formulas and Genres as Tools for Cultural Analysis
Professor Brian Attebery, Idaho State University

Injecting a Slushy Fade-Out: Film's Reverse Colonization of Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned
Jon Enfield, University of Chicago

Diminished Things?" Frost, Poe, and Skip James in the Music of Don Howland
Brent Mix, Northwestern University

5:00 - Drinks and dinner for speakers and organizers

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