Schedule
All events will take place in room in 370, Dwinelle Hall
Friday, April 27
12:30-1:00pm - Registration
1:00-2:30pm
Genre: The Porous and the Opaque
Aubrey Gabel, Moderator
“Elegy for R(h)ome: Emmanuel Hocquard’s Echo-poetics”
Raluca Manea (New York University)
“‘iPads don’t orgasm’: Opacity and Female Jouissance in Dangerous Liaisons”
Nancy Knezvenic (University of Chicago)
“Imbricated Absolutes: Language, Affect and Generic Contortion in Kateb’s Le cadavre encerclé”
Victoria Bergstrom (UC Berkeley)
3:00-4:30pm
Madness: The Edges of Reason
Travis Wilds, Moderator
“Overexposure in Rimbaud and Trakl”
Seth Meyer (UC Berkeley)
“Positioning Silence in the Animal Rationale: To Dream the Stone Can Speak”
Susie An (Yale University)
“Wolfson’s Language Barrier”
Kevin McCann (New York University)
5:00-6:30pm
Keynote lecture, introduction by Michael Lucey
Geranium Logic: Intensity and Indifference in Emmanuel Hocquard
Ann Smock (Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley)
Saturday, April 28
9:00-10:30am
Time and Exposure
Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell, Moderator
“I am, was and will be sitting in a room; Brian Dillon and the ‘24-hour-book’ series”
Matthew Evans (UC Berkeley)
“On Waiting Death: Between Heidegger and Derrida”
Paul Nadal (UC Berkeley)
“The Eclipse of the Event and the Alienation of Time” Elizabeth Romanow (Stanford University)
10:30am-12:00pm
Edges of the Collective
Anna Skrzypczynska, Moderator
“Coteries and International Publics in Bill Luoma's Poetry"
Matt Smith (UC Berkeley)
“A Culture of Messages: Slam Poetry and Community in Madagascar”
Hallie Wells (UC Berkeley)
“Decadent Confession: Self-Exclusion and Limits of Disclosure in Huysman’s En route”
Daria Samokhina (Stanford University)
12:00-1:00pm Break for lunch
1:00-2:30pm
Keynote Lecture, introduction by Debarati Sanyal
"Lire, cette pratique": Exposé, à partir de Béguin, Paulhan, et quelques autres encore
Éric Trudel (Bard College)
2:30-4:00pm
Bodies Inside (and) Out
Vanessa Brutsche, Moderator
“‘J’ai un coq dans les entrailles’: Bodily Invasion in the
Short Stories of Gisèle Prassinos”
Bonnie Ruberg (UC Berkeley)
“Telegraphic Style and Post-war Topography: Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Textual Landscapes”
Lisa Ann Villarreal (Stanford University)
“Chasing the First Kiss: Claire Denis’s Trouble Every
Day”
Michael Colasurdo
4:00-5:30pm
Voices Elsewhere
Maria Vendetti, Moderator
“‘Entendre votre voix’: The (Non)Exposure of Emotion at the end of Marguerite Duras's L'Amant and L'Amant
de la Chine du Nord”
Kathryn Levine (UC Berkeley)
“Lines of Light and Language in Jacques Roubaud, 1986-1991”
Liesl Yamaguchi (Princeton University)
“‘Cordes faites de cris’: Lyric Address and the Wireless
Imagination”
Julia Nelsen (UC Berkeley)
6:00-7:30pm
Keynote Lecture, introduction by Suzanne Guerlac
The Edge of Nothing
Martin Crowley (Queens’ College, Cambridge)
7:30-8:30pm
Reception