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						2010 Conference Program Intersections Mind, Body, Time, Space March 11-13, 2010 - El Paso, Texas Conference Headquarters: The Camino Real Hotel Sponsored by the Humanities Education and Research Association
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						HERA Conference Overview Wednesday (March 10) HERA Board Meeting 3:00 PM Thursday (March 11) 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration/Book Exhibit 9:00 - 10:30 AM Session I (Sections A-C) 10:30 - 10:45 AM Break 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session II (Sections AC) 12:30 - 2:00 PM Session III (Sections AC) 2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IV (Sections A-D) 3:45 - 4:00 PM Break 4:00 - 5:30 PM Session V (Sections AD) 7:00 PM Open Plenary Session/Welcoming Reception Friday (March 12) 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration/Book Exhibit 9:00 - 10:30 AM Session VI (Sections AD) 10:30 - 10:45 AM Break 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session VII (Sections AD) 12:30 - 2:00 PM Session VIII (Sections AD) 2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IX (Sections AD) 3:45 - 4:00 PM Break 4:00 - 5:30 PM Session X (Sections AD) 5:30 - 6:30 PM UTEP Tour and Reception Saturday (March 13) 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 PM Conference Registration/Book Exhibit 9:00 - 10:30 AM Session XI (Sections AD) 10:30 - 10:45 AM Break 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session XII (Sections AD) 12:30 - 2:00 PM Closing Luncheon (on HERA)
						HERA 2010 Conference Program Intersections Mind, Body, Time, Space March 11-13, 2010 - El Paso, Texas Conference Headquarters: The Camino Real Hotel Sponsored by the Humanities Education and Research Association Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration and Book Exhibit 9:00 - 10:30 AM - Session I - Thursday TBA Room: Section A Trans-border Collaborations: The Power and Problematic of Bi-National Art Kerry Doyle, Assistant Director, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts Leon De La Rosa, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez TBA Room: Section B Cultural Crossovers Bruce Louden, University of Texas at El Paso Greek Myth and the Bible: Euripides' Alcestis and John's Lazarus (John 11:1-44, 12:1-8) David Hatch, University of South Carolina The Carnival Mirror: Ideological Twists on the Feast of Fools in Literature and Film Robert L. Neblett, Washington University in St. Louis Visions of Rukujo: Spectral Manifestations of Jealousy, Revenge, and Redemption in Classical, Modern, and Contemporary Noh Drama TBA Room: Section C Blurred and Destabilized Boundaries in Literature Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett, University of California, Berkeley Intersections of Body and Text: Corporal Fragility and Dialogic Unity in Montaigne's Essays Alma Bennett, Clemson University Mary Gordon and the Art of Trespassing and Resetting Boundaries Ali Sperling, San Francisco State University The Orlando Case: Sex, Gender, and the Patriarchal Worlds of Woolf's Orlando and Freud's Dora 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM - Session II - Thursday TBA Room: Section A Contemporary Dilemmas in Film and Theatre Geoffrey Green, San Francisco State University Choosing "between the morality of the law and the morality of simple justice": the Intersections of Culture, Justice, and National Identity in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith Suspended Motion in Title Scene from The Day the Earth Stood Still TBA Room: Section B Nationalism/Nations Divided I Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh, City University of New York Torture: Time, Body, and Space Halted Alden Wood, San Francisco State University Anarchist People of Color (APOC) at the Intersection of New U.S. Anarchism(s) TBA Room: Section C Navigating Dualities: Current Complexities of Life in Zacatecas Chair: Phillip Ryan, Union University Emily Harper, Union University Conducting Intercultural Research in Zacatecas: Introduction Presenters: Emily Harper, Union University Christina Mosley, Union University Sarah Wiemero, Union University This panel presentation is based on a five-week qualitative research project conducted by graduate student researchers in Zacatecas, Mexico that integrates select disciplines in social sciences and humanities. Presenters first frame the research project and then explore Zacatecan participants' perceptions of the complexities of their own personal and cultural identities. 12:30 - 2:00 PM Session III- Thursday TBA Room: Section A Challenges to the Literary Canon Wynn Yarbrough, University of the District of Columbia Black and Blue: Jazz Poetics, American Poetic Culture, and Teen Literacy Kimberly Freeman Downing, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith A. Edward Newton, Advertising, and the Expository Essay Senen Carlo, University of Pennsylvania Human Migration and the Dissemination of Ideas: Lugones and the Influence of European Science in the Development of 19th-Century Narrative Discourse TBA Room: Section B Nationalism/Nations Divided II Hazal Yolga, Georgetown University The Divided Capital of Cyprus: Interactions and Intersections through Border Crossings in Nicosia John H. Haddox, University of Texas at El Paso Jacques Maritain: Person-Centered Political Theory and Immigration Rights TBA Room: Section C Linguistic Borders and the Arts Don Menn, San Francisco State University Across the Borderline Jessica Mosby, San Francisco State University Two Cultures and No Place for Ernesto: Deep Rivers Displaced Protagonist Gavin Xiaoyue Bei, Chinese University of Hong Kong Formality in Second Language Discourse TBA Room: Section D The Old is New Again Andrea Rubin, San Francisco State University Access to the Metaphysical - The Library and The Book as Postmodern Spaces and Postmodern Objects in the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges and Susan Howe Samuele F.S. Pardini, Elon University The Automobile, Speed, and the Politics of Writing: On Proust and Marinetti 2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IV - Thursday TBA Room: Section A Intersections of Past and Present Viola Lasmana, San Francisco State University Borderlines in New Media, Culture, and Representation Sarita Cannon, San Francisco State University Organic Food for the "Lunchables" Generation: Encouraging Critical Multiculturalism in the New Millennium Leticia Orueta, University of Texas at El Paso Gender Patterns in College TBA Room: Section B Literary Communities Ryan G. Young, San Francisco State University The Alfalfa Fields of Pomona: California's Exceptional State Lydia Whitt Rice, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Where Language and Photographic Image Intersect: Ellen Gilchrist's Literary Excursions into Clarence Laughlin's Photographic Landscape of New Orleans Monet Munoz, University of Texas at El Paso The Emergence of Chicana Feminist Print Culture TBA Room: Section C Altered States in Drama Jim Bell, Grand Valley State University Shrew You: Juggling Gender and Comedy in a Production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew Matthew Bowman, Lansing Community College "Another Helping, Please": Cannibalism on Stage in Sarah Kane's Blasted and Fernando Arrabal's The Emperor and the Architect of Assyria TBA Room: Section D Interrogating Communication Ross Whyte, University of Aberdeen Fog Kevin Cassell, MTU Seeing Through Light: Interfacing Luce Irigaray's Optics of Being with Ritual Views of Communication Michael E. Allsopp, Mercy College What is Critical Thinking? 4:00 - 5:30 PM Session V - Thursday TBA Room: Section A Performance of/and the Body and Mind Peter Ned Buskirk, San Francisco State University The Lisp in Eighteenth-Thentury Literature: A Symbol for Sexual Deviation Jennifer Nye Walsh, San Jose State University Triple-Threat Therapy: Healing Elements of Musical Theatre Teresa Quezada, University of Texas at El Paso Trust in the Composition Classroom TBA Room: Section B Urban Spaces: Exterior and Interior Ken McGraw, Roanoke College Mapping the Molly: Spatial Corruption at the Metropolitan Margins Marci R. McMahon, University of Texas, Pan American Patssi Valdez: Domestic Interiors and Geographies of Memory in the Museum and Hollywood TBA Room: Section C The Difference Within: Literature and the Intersection of Religion, Race, and Culture Ezra Cappell, University of Texas at El Paso Border-Crossing in Philip Roth's The Human Stain Ruben Espinosa, University of Texas at El Paso "All the Water in Wye": Resisting Assimilation in King Henry V Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso Rama in the Holy Land: Religious and Cultural Difference and Sacred Space in Melville's Poetry TBA Room: Section D Women at the Crossroads Sponsored by the Women's Studies Honor Society Triota at University of Texas at El Paso Chair: Lee Ann E. Westman, University of Texas at El Paso Carmen M. Meza, University of Texas at El Paso "Chicana + Attitude + Lesbian = Latitudinarian": Sexual and Cultural Principles along the U.S.-Mexico Border in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands: The New Mestiza Randi Bossie, University of Texas at El Paso La Llorona: Victim/Victimizer, Mother/Monster Christine Endlich, University of Texas at El Paso Women and the Holocaust: Gender and Personal Narratives of Survival 7:00 PM TBA Room Plenary Session - Thursday Welcome - Therese Tomaszak, President Presentation of Awards-Marcia Green, Executive Director Keynote Speakers: Dr. Maceo Dailey, Jr. Director of African-American Studies at University of Texas at El Paso Editor, Sweet Earth Flying Press Sondra Banfield Dailey Publisher of Sweet Earth Flying Press University of Texas at El Paso Boy of the Border by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes Penned in the 1930s by two famous African-American writers, the original manuscript was uncovered in the Langston Hughes Papers reposed at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library by Sweet Earth Flying Press. 8:30 PM TBA Room Welcoming Reception Friday, March 12, 2009 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration and Book Exhibit 9:00 - 10:30 AM Session VI - Friday TBA Room: Section A Intersections of Music and Text Fred Thompson, Peninsula College The Intersection of Text and Music in Opera Marcia Green, Executive Director, Humanities Education and Research Association "This is my creed: Man [as] the sport of Evil Fate" - The Intersection of Fate and Human Action in Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello Doré Ripley, California State University, East Bay & Diablo Valley College Stuck Between Time, Space, and Traditions in Sir Orfeo TBA Room: Section B Intersections of Music and Science Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson, Brigham Young University Language-Music Relations in China: Areas for Potential Interdisciplinary Cooperation Between Musicology and Neuroscience Barbara Hassid, San Francisco State University Rethinking Beethoven's "Heroic" Style: What the Latest Research in Psychiatry and Neurobiology Reveals about Beethoven's Musical Creativity TBA Room: Section C A Reading Roundtable: Ekphrastic and Critical Responses to Poetic Texts John LawsonRobert Morris University (Chair) Ferris Crane, Robert Morris University Heather Pinson, Robert Morris University Ken Gargaro, Robert Morris University Craig Smith, Palisade Press Roundtable panel participants will read and offer both critical and ekphrastic responses to works by poet-photographer Milton Rogovin and graphically enhanced works by other poets. Attendees will be invited to join the discussion. The session will provide opportunities to consider, among other topics, 1) the relationships between poetic texts and various forms of visual accompaniment (e.g., pen-and-ink sketch, photograph, computer-mediated textual enhancement), and, 2) the relationships between ekphrastic responses and more traditional forms of commentary on/criticism of artistic works. TBA Room: Section D The Pirate/Piracy in Contemporary Cultural Expressions Patrice Nganang, SUNY-Stony Brook A Geopolitics of Foes: Reading Coetzee's Foe Matt Gosney, SUNY-Stony Brook [Pirate]: The Theater of Bracketing in Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth Michael D. High, SUNY-Stony Brook The Pirate as Parasite: The Relations of the Maritime and the Digital 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session VII - Friday TBA Room: Section A Student Tastes and "Culture": Intersections and Collisions John Lawson, Robert Morris University Does Reading Matter Matter? Heather Pinson, Robert Morris University The Adorno Channel on Pandora Internet Radio Ken Gargaro, Robert Morris University From Hip-Hop to Classical TBA Room: Section B The Making of New Rwanda: Discovering and Recovering Humanity After Violence Part I Sarah Ryan, University of Texas at El Paso Letitia Nyinawamwiza, National University of Rwanda Remaking Rural Rwanda: The Human Side of Scientific Advancement in Women's Agronomy Groups Della Saju, Baruch College Jennifer Walker, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Macro and Micro-Development: The Challenges of Assessing "Pro-Poor" Human Development TBA Room: Section C Dissociation and Reconciliation Wai-Leung Kwok, San Francisco State University Romanticism and the Refusal of Art Shawn Tucker, Elon University The Dynamics of Dissociation: Radiohead's "How to Disappear Completely" and Jasper Johns' Device Paintings Jerry Espinoza Rivera, University of Costa Rica Love or Desire?: The Critique of the dissociation between corporal and spiritual love in Octavio Paz's "The Double Flame" TBA Room: Section D The Layers of Rome: Part I Ronald Weber, University of Texas at El Paso Intersecting the Physical Space of Historical Rome: The Crypto Balbi Museum Jessica Scheetz-Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma From Imperial to Eternal: Rome to London and Beyond David Hulm, Kirkwood Community College Mediating Metamorphoses: "Reading" Bernini and Domenichino or What's Lust Got To Do With It? 12:30 - 2:00 PM Session VIII - Friday TBA Room: Section A The Making of New Rwanda: Discovering and Recovering Humanity After Violence Part II Annie Balocating, City University of New York Planned Remembrance: The Visual, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Genocide Memorials Austin Berescik-Johns, Quinnipiac University School of Law Sarah Ryan, University of Texas at El Paso The System and Its Lawyers: The Human Side of Rwandan Legal Education TBA Room: Section B Resistance, Resilience, and Defiance: Flipping the Script Brenda Risch, University of Texas at El Paso Fat Ladies Weigh In: Kit Reed's Narrative Defiance of Gendered Beauty Norms Kathryn Schmidt, Valdosta State University Beyond Angry Avengers and Interrupted Innocents: Creating Narratives of Real Change in Responses to Sexual Assault DeAnna Varela, University of Texas at El Paso Not Your Mainstream Media TBA Room: Section C The Layers of Rome: Part II Renee Schlueter, Kirkwood Community College The Grand Tour Mary Brodnax, University of Central Oklahoma Reading Rome's Piazza Venezia as Political Space Margaret Musgrove, University of Central Oklahoma The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Campidoglio: Political, Religious, and Artistic Symbolism in Rome from Ancient to Modern Times TBA Room: Section D The Intersections of Time, Space, Body and Mind in the Holocaust Chaired by: Dr. Ezra Cappell, University of Texas at El Paso Erin Coulehan, University of Texas at El Paso Coalescence: The Intersection of Chemistry and Poetry in Primo Levi's Surviving Auschwitz Rebeca Nunez, University of Texas at El Paso Erasing Silence is Making History: the Intersection of the Body and Time through the Mind Thomas Hammerbeck, University of Texas at El Paso Food as Physical and Psychological Torture: Understanding the Effects of the Holocaust on the German, Jewish, and Liberators 2:15 - 3:45 PM Session IX - Friday TBA Room: Section A Representing Conflict, Conflicted Representations: Sri Lanka, Mexico/US, Haiti/Dominican Republic Marion Christina Rohrleitner, University of Texas at El Paso Breaking the Silence: Testimonio, Revisionary Historiography, and Survivor's Guilt in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and The Dewbreaker Maryse Jayasuriya, University of Texas at El Paso Witness to Atrocity in the Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict Meredith Abarca, University of Texas at El Paso Engaging Eating as Medicine Against Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Violence TBARoom: Section B *From Imagination to Habitus: National Identity Construction through Bourdieu's Lens in Fields of Ideology and Text* Chair: Mirjana Dedaic, Georgetown University Habitus and National Identity Cynthia Ferman, Georgetown University Anti-Americanism: Why Don't They Like Us? Joshua Scacco, Georgetown University Constructing American Exceptionalism: The Bipartisan Habitus of the Shining City on the Hill TBA Room: Section C The Mind: Levels of Consciousness Alfredo Urzua, University of Texas at El Paso Nancy Drescher, Minnesota State University TBA Room: Section D Jim Bell, Grand Valley State University Performed Reading and Discussion of Autumn in the Valley, Parts I-II 4:00 - 5:30 PM Session X - Friday TBA Room: Section A Media Representation on the U.S. Mexico Border: Historical Memory as a Function of Dialogue Carlos F. Ortega, University of Texas at El Paso Chicano Studies and the Historical Memory Nancy Aguirre, University of Texas at El Paso Historical Memory and Transnationalism: The Case of Porfiristas in Mexico and United States Christina Galvan, University of Texas at El Paso Historiography: The War by Ken Burns Frank G. Perez, University of Texas at El Paso Selling Fantasy Heritage in West Texas: Heritage Tourism, the First Thanksgiving in West Texas and the Legacy of Juan de Onate TBARoom: Section B *From Imagination to Habitus: National Identity Construction through Bourdieu's Lens in Fields of Heritage and Narrative* Chair: Mirjana Dedaic, Georgetown University Habitus and National Identity Rebecca Jakob, Georgetown University Habitus and National Identity: Iraq's National Library and Archive and the Quest for a "True" Cultural Heritage Suzanne Shenk, Georgetown University Eugene Delacroix's Lady Liberty Iconography: A Memorialized National Emblem TBA Room: Section C The Mind: Levels of Consciousness Jessica Schad Manuel, San Francisco State University The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Michael Hagan, Saddleback College How N.I.C.E.!: The Intersection of Self and World as a Novel, Irregular, Creative Emerging in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Shininchi Hisamatsu, and G.H. Mead Krista Rodin, Northern Arizona University Stages of Mantra Mind and Bion's Grid TBARoom: Section D Jim Bell, Grand Valley State University Performed Reading and Discussion of Autumn in the Valley, Parts III-IV 6:00 PM UTEP Tour and Reception - Visit the Bhutanese-style campus to see a newly-opened student show in the art gallery. A reception will be held in Centennial Museum Garden feturing local desert fauna. Local author, Marcia Daudistel will be speaking. If you are interested in this tour, please contact: Ron Weber at rweber@utep.edu. Saturday, March 13, 2009 9:00 - 10:30 AM Session XI - Saturday TBA Room: Section A Interactive Workshop Chris Hamstra, Davenport University Storytelling as Foundaton: The Intersection of Mind, Body, and Heart Parry suggests that "people follow organizational stories as much as they follow people, so organizational stories can be considered as leadership." Participants will engage the storytelling process by exploring the theory and thought of storytelling, then practice building and sharing their own stories to highlight the possible intersections of storytelling in their lives. TBA Room: Section B Interactive Workshop Emily J. Morgan, University of Texas at El Paso Making Contact, Making Dance The conference theme is a definition of dance—intersections of mind, body, time, and space. Yet the physical body, the body's capacity of movement, is often overlooked or ignored. The participants of the session will collaboratively create a site-specific dance using a combination of pedestrial movement and contact improvisation, making several literal intersections—between particpants' physical bodies, between body and mind, space/site, and time. No dance experience is required. Particpants should wear comfortable clothes and be ready to take off their shoes and move. TBA Room: Section C National Industries/National Values Barry Peterson, University of Nevada, Reno The American Military Tradition Applied to Invigorate Congruent National Identity Michael Call, Brigham Young University Science and Art At the Crossroads of Mutual Annihilation: Monet's Orangerie Project as War Memorial Kristina Marie Darling, University of Missouri-St Louis "I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion:" Industrialization, Solitude, and the Pastoral in Henry David Thoreau's Walden TBA Room: Section D Film Screening and Discussion: Ella es el Matador (She is the Matador): "For Spaniards-and for the world-nothing has expressed the country's traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador. So sacred was the bullfighter's masculinity to Spanish identity that a 1908 law barred women from the sport. This film reveals the surprising history of the women who made such a law necessary, and offers fascinating profiles of two female matadors currently in the arena, the acclaimed Maripaz Vega and neophyte Eva Florencia. These women are gender pioneers by necessity, confronting both bull and social code." From Women Make Movies 10:45 AM -12:15 PM Session XII - Saturday TBA Room: Section A Interactive Performance Todo esta siempre bien & then it ain't: A Live VideoRant Performance Leon De La Rosa, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez Gabriela Duran, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez Guillermo Ramirez, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez The concept of VideoRanti refers to an audiovisual artifact in which poetry, in the form of rants, work side by side with experimental video pieces in order to create something reminiscent of a narrative broken up into acts or pieces, also referred to as chapters. The 25-minute performance will be followed by a 20-minute session of Q & A so the audience can interact directly with the three people involved in the performance—spoken word performer, VJ & illustrator. TBA Room: Sction B Approaches to Teaching Diversity: An Interactive Workshop Therese Tomaszek, Davenport University Collen Coughlin, Davenport University Neil Shepard, Davenport University Erica Kubik, Muskegon Community College Participants will engage both in theoretical discussions and hands-on work that will help them to develop strategies for teaching diversity within their own specific discipline and university setting. The workshop will focus on learning outcomes, applications, and assessments that can be used in specific courses and across the curriculum. TBA Room: Section C Poemales at farm.stand: A Collaborative Performance Christine Foerster, University of Texas at El Paso http://christinefoerster.com/poemales.html Rosa Alcala, University of Texas at El Paso The poemales (like tamales, these are poems wrapped in corn husks) will be locally produced poems by students, faculty, and El Paso residents who answer our call to generate poems about food, agribusiness, politics of food, localvorism, labor, and cultivation. Participants are invited to not rely simply on what they think they know about food, but to ask questions that will reveal what is normally obscured in the production and distribution of foods. As such, they will engage in investigative poetics. In turn, the farm.stand collective will host a writing workshop, allowing conference attendees to create their own "poemal," which will be sent back to those person who initially submitted a poem. TBA Room: Section D Film Screening and Discussion Continued (WWM matador film) Closing Luncheon 12:30 - 2 - Saturday Optional Tour 3:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Tour of Southern New Mexico Winery and Old Mesilla Town. Dininer at Il Posto Restaurant. Tour and Dinner at participants' expense. Please RSVP by February 25, 2010. Cost should be about $15 plus dinner. If you are interested, please contact Ron Weber at rweber@utep.edu. Dr. Weber needs to know how many people will be going so that he will be able to arrange the transportation and the reservations. Artwork by Candy Mayer, El Paso, Texas.