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2008 Annual Conference

Vernal Temporalities: Imagining the New in Literature

Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference

May 3, 2008
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library

10:45–noon

Session 1: Bodies

  • Moderator: Marie Rutkoski, Brooklyn College
  • Laurynn Lowe, Brooklyn College, "The Necessity of the New in Richard II and Hamlet, or Making the Real by Way of Nothing"
  • Steve D'Amato, Brooklyn College, "The Work of Milton's Alchemy: A Reexamination of Paradise Lost"
  • Nairobi Walker, Hunter College (CUNY), "Apocalypse in Milton's Lycidas and Tennyson's In Memoriam"

Noon–1 p.m.

Lunch Break

1–2:15 p.m.

Session 2: Places

  • Moderator: Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College
  • Patrick Nugent, Brooklyn College, "Gifts for the Great Potluck: Metaphor and Form in Gary Snyder's Danger on Peaks"
  • Risa Shoup, Brooklyn College, "a+b=c An Examination of Shirin Neshat's Adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men"
  • Brian Lane, Brooklyn College, "'Beyond the Jumna, All Is Conjecture': British Travel Writing in Afghanistan, 1783–1842"

2:20–3:35 p.m.

Session 3: Selves

  • Moderator: Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College
  • Jarad Krywicki, Brooklyn College, "A Cool Spring in a Well-Lit Summer"
  • Yasser El Hariry, New York University, "The Gift of Newness in the Work of Stéphane Mallarme"
  • Ryan Dobran, Brooklyn College: "Imagination and America: Autonomy and Unity in Cane and Spring and All"

3:35–4 p.m.

Break

4–5:45 p.m.

Keynote Presentation

Michael Stone-Richards, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, "Un nouveau temps du verbe être [a new time/tense for the verb to be]: Surrealist nature and the time of the subject in Prynne"

Panel Discussion

  • Michael Stone-Richards
  • James Davis, Brooklyn College
  • Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College

Vernal Temporalities was organized by: Steve D'Amato, James Davis, Ryan Dobran, Timothy Holland, Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Patkowski, Deb Travis, and Sally White.

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