| Time |
Session |
Presenters |
| 9:30-9:45 a.m. |
WELCOME, LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, AND COFFEE |
| 9:45-11:05 a.m. |
Panel 1: Re/membering Ruptured Time
Chair: Alex Lukawski
1 hr presentations
20 min
Q&A
|
Hanna Protasova
"Towards a Multidirectional Memory: How Ukrainian Literature Reflected on the Holocaust in the 1940s–1960s"
Mohammad Muneeb Ur Rehman
"Legacies Entangled and Reshaped: The Case of Muhammad Ali, Media Technologies and the Digital Remaking of Sport Icons Through Algorithms and AI"
Dakota Jabbour
"'There is No Escape': Memory (Re)play as Narrative in Hades"
Yijing Li
"Re/Membrance within Immigrants' Family Portraits"
|
| 11:05 a.m.-12:25 p.m. |
Panel 2: Authorial Agency and Narrative Re/Membrance
Chair: Marisa Bordonaro
1 hr presentations
20 min
Q&A
|
Max Soucie
"False Memory and Forced Reconciliation in The Yogurt Shop Murders"
Sammy Hacker
"Investigating the Anthological Contours of Joseph Leftwich’s The Golden Peacock: An Anthology of Yiddish Poetry (1939) and The Golden Peacock: A Worldwide Treasury of Yiddish Poetry (1961)"
Nathan Hoar
"You Rebuild Me with Such Questions: Trauma, Memory and Affect in Maus"
Amy Skodak
"Archiving Grief: Anne Carson’s Nox and the Artist’s Book as Alternative Archive"
|
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. |
LUNCH |
| 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
Keynote Address |
Professor Marianne Hirsch |
| 2:30-3:45 p.m. |
Panel 3: Re/Membering Colonial Narratives
Chair: Fatima Abdallah
1 hr presentations
20 min
Q&A
|
Mara González González
"A Daughter’s Discourse: The Absent Mother in Isabel Zapata’s Empty Pool (2019)"
Michaela Maxey
"'No Revolution is Perfect': Monsters, Memory, and Justice in Akwaeke Emezi's Pet"
Tatiana Jahromi
"To Speak with the Land: Reclaiming Indigenous Voice in Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe"
Rania Saleh
"Ecological Re/Membrance in Yara El-Ghadban’s Literary Work of Resilience"
|
| 3:45-4:00 p.m. |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:00-5:00 p.m. |
Roundtable/Workshop with Prof. Hirsch
Facilitator:
Dr. Sakiru Adebayo
|
"Stateless Memory and the Future of Memory Studies"
|
| 5:00-5:15 p.m. |
CLOSING REMARKS |
