FRIDAY 9/14: Farnsworth Pavilion (In Rice Memorial Center, 62) and The Founder’s Room (In Lovett Hall, 46)
SATURDAY 9/15: Farnsworth Pavilion (In Rice Memorial Center, 62) and The Kyle Morrow Room (In Fondren Library on the 4th floor, 25–enter from the courtyard, not from the side nearest Brochstein Pavilion, 9)
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On Display: “Real Love is When You Feel Soft All Over: A Children’s Book for Adults” by Sara Griffin
Sara Griffin
On the Bar: Ample refreshments and libations
A selection from Genet’s The Maids Performed by Bonnes: Philomena Bradford and Aaren Pastor
Photo: Alanna Beroiza
Friday September 14th
Locations: Farnsworth Pavilion and The Founder’s Room
9:30 – 10:00 COFFEE SERVICE (Farnsworth and Founder’s)
10:00-12:00 POLITICS (Farnsworth) SPECIES (Founder’s)
12:00- 13:00 LUNCH (Farnsworth)
13:00-14:40 MEDIA (Farnsworth) TIME (Founder’s)
14:40-15:00 BREAK
15:00-17:00 METHOD (Farnsworth) NONHUMAN TEST. (Founder’s)
17:00-18:30 ART and COCKTAILS (Farnsworth)
18:30-19:15 PERFORMANCE: Genet’s The Maids (Farnsworth)
19:15-21:00 DINNER (Farnsworth)
Saturday September 15th
Location: Farnsworth Pavilion and The Kyle Morrow Room
9:00- 9:30 COFFEE SERVICE (Farnsworth and Kyle Morrow)
9:30-11:00 POWER (Farnsworth) MILIEU (Kyle Morrow)
11:00-11:30 BREAK
11:30-13:30 REPRODUCTION (Farnsworth) STYLE (Kyle Morrow)
13:30-14:30 LUNCH (Kyle Morrow)
14:30-16:00 KEYNOTE (Kyle Morrow)
16:00-16:30 BREAK
16:30-18:00 ROUNDTABLE (Kyle Morrow)
REPRODUCTION
Abby Goode, Rice University, Melville’s Reproductive Waste
Benjamin Bagocius, Indiana University, Semen Unsexed: Darwin’s Queer Pangenesis
Mica Hilson Ph.D., Indiana University, Cuckoos of the World, Unite!
Megan Fernandes, University of California Santa Barbara, Transgenic Poetics
POLITICS
renée c. hoogland Ph.D., Wayne State University, Becoming Queer/Queer Becoming: Art, Affect, and the Dissolution of Being (Human)
Kendall Gerdes, University of Texas Austin, Butch(er)ing Subjectivity: Between Masculinity and Misogyny
Mary Bunch Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, A (Post) Queer Politics of the People-to-Come
POWER
John W. Ellis-Etchison, Rice University, Charles Butler’s Apiary Femtopia: Towards a Poetics of Posthuman Sovereignty
Larry Butz, Rice University, Power, Agency, and the Posthumanist Interjection
Sophia Hsu, Rice University, Moving On: National Inheritance and the Displaced Child in Bleak House
NON-HUMAN TESTIMONY
Peter Cibula, Georgetown University, ‘No Fitter Match than a Puppet’: Unmarked Non-Humans in Early Modern England
Amanda Davis, University of Chicago, Sci-Fi Queered
Svitlana Matviyenko Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, The Castle in Ruins: Nonhuman Tesitmonies
TIME
Matthew Halse, University of Western Ontario, On ‘Ephemeral Shards’: Generational Memory and the AIDS Memorial
Sarah Giragosian, SUNY Albany, Queer Temporalities and Anachronistic Creatures in Djuna Barnes’ Poetics
METHOD
Megan Obourn Ph.D., SUNY Brockport, Do Not Create a Hunger: Vapirism as Social Disability in Gomez’s The Gilda Stories
Shawna Lipton, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Queer Theory and the Modernist Author
STYLE
Scott St. Pierre Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, Not Intended for Small Boys: Henry James’s Queer Stylistics
Hillary La Mont, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The Existence of Dualistic Absurdism: Presented by Albert Camus and Generatively Absented by Edward Albee
Christian Hite Ph.D., California Institute of the Arts, After the Shat in Shattering: Endnotes on The Expelled (Beckett+Bersani)
SPECIES
Robert Azzarello Ph.D., Southern University at New Orleans, Desiring Species: Darwin, Freud, and Environmental Ethics
Marcel LaFlamme, Rice University, Furry/Hairy Life
Michelle Siobhan O’Brien, University of British Columbia, Architectures of Life in Asian North American Texts: Convergences of Racial Bodies, Alternate Sexualities, and the Nonhuman
Dolleen Manning, University of Western Ontario, Queering Settler Spectacles: An Indigenous Critique of Post-(De)humanism
MILIEU
Diane Belzil, McGill University, ‘Broken flesh with one another’: Uncovering the Ecstatic Self in Mina Loy’s Poetry
Sydney Boyd, Rice University, Opera: The old Magician, The Rattlesnake of Death
Heather Houser Ph.D., University of Texas Austin, The Discordant Natures of David Wojnarowicz Jan Zita Grover
MEDIA
Jordan Youngblood, University of Florida, ‘You Needen’t Suffer Anymore’: Persona 4, the Digital Body, and Impossible Queer Utopias
Hannele Kivenen, York University, Re-coding Desire in the Digitization of Bodies: Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook
Dan Adleman, University of British Columbia, Seduction and Mastery: The UFC as Jouis-sens Event
ROUNDTABLE
Judith Roof Ph.D., Rice University
Colleen Lamos Ph.D., Rice University
James Faubion Ph.D., Rice University
Timothy Morton Ph.D., Rice University
Joseph Campana Ph.D., Rice University
renée c. hoogland Ph.D., Wayne State University
PERFORMANCE
Philomena Bradford and Aaren Pastor, Bonnes, Rice University, “A selection from Genet’s The Maids”
ART
Sara Griffin, “Real Love is When You Feel Soft All Over”
We are delighted to announce the title of Professor Lee Edelman’s keynote address: “Occupy Wall Street: Bartleby and the (In)Humanities”
Thank you for your interest in the 2012 Rice University English Symposium. The deadline for paper proposals has passed and we are no longer accepting new proposals.
Please note that the original May 15 deadline has been extended to June 1. We look forward to reading your submissions!
Thus far, we’ve confirmed the following participants for the roundtable discussion that will conclude the conference:
Dr. Judith Roof, Dr. Timothy Morton, Dr. Colleen Lamos, Dr. Joseph Campana, and Dr. Renee Hoogland
Our keynote speaker this year will be Professor Lee Edelman (Tufts University). Author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004), Professor Edelman continues to be the source of challenging scholarship that re-thinks queer theory. We are very pleased, and excited, to host him as a keynote speaker at our event.