2 0 1 3
Discourses on the Self (4.614) Moderator: Dr. Andy Amato (UT Dallas) M. Lance Lusk (UT Dallas) – “‘Here Let Us Stand’: An Investigation of the Chorus in T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral” Dessie Sanders (UT Dallas) – “African American Identity and Womanism” Ashlie Contos (UT Tyler) – “I Just Want To Believe: Modern Myths and the Double-‐Blind of Metamodernism”
Discovering the Individual in the Virtual (JO 4.122) Moderator: Dr. Frank DuFour (UT Dallas) Alexander Swaim (UT Dallas) – Paper title TBA Janet Montealvo (UT Dallas) – “Perceiving Reality and Identity in Computer Simulations” Mona Kasra (UT Dallas) – “The Power and Politics of Digital, Networked Images”
Creative Writing Workshop with Desmond Egan (JO Performance Hall) prior registration required
“Incontestably the most brilliant of all the writers who have taken workshops in Irish literary festivals, poet Desmond Egan's commitment to his students is legendary and his improvisational skills have power to stun the budding writer…”
-‐-‐ The Irish Literary Supplement (USA)
4:45 pm – Concurrent Sessions The City in Context (JO 3.516)
Moderator: Dr. Nils Roemer (UT Dallas) Sahalie Hashim (UT Dallas) – “Dallas Morning News: Subtle Champion of White Superiority” Amal Shafek (UT Dallas) – “Desert Cities” Jill Johnson (UT Dallas) – “Reviewing the Waters of Babylon and Zion” Jessica Miller (UT Dallas) – “Colorful Translations”
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Humanist Education (JO 4.614) Moderator: Dr. Andy Amato (UT Dallas) Finney Premkumar (Azusa Pacific U) – “Re-‐engaging the Academy: The Humanities as an Unarticulated Constituent and the Emergence of a Truly Interdisciplinary Perspective” John Radcliff (UT Dallas) – “Blended Learning – A Different Perspective” Karen Doore (UT Dallas) – “"Exploring ATEC / EMAC International Collaboration Relationships Through Visualizations”
Literature Across Time and Space (4.122) Moderator: Dr. Clay Reynolds (UT Dallas) Mike Schraeder (UT Dallas) – “The Chicken Coop Stratagem: A Screenplay” Adam Cheney (UT Dallas) – “The Zamboni Tautology” Anjanette Shake (UT Dallas) – “The Drama of the Commonplace: A Critical Analysis of Anton Chekhov’s Influence on Horton Foote” Melinda Creech (Baylor U) – “Slow Walking Texas”
6:00 pm – Closing Remarks (Jonsson Performance Hall) Desmond Egan has published twenty-‐three collections of poetry; two of prose and two translations of Greek plays. He is a full-‐time writer living and working near Newbridge in County Kildare, Ireland. Egan's poem, PEACE was adopted as part of a celebration of Peace for the Millennium and was translated into thirty-‐five languages. Egan is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival. Collections of his poetry, in translation, have appeared in book form in France (5); Germany (2); Japan; China; Italy (4); Greece; Netherlands; Poland; Luxembourg; Croatia; Spain; Czech Republic (2); Hungary; Russia; Bulgaria -‐ all, in dual-‐language format. A documentary on Egan was filmed in 2007: Desmond Egan: Through the Eyes of a Poet. “A major Irish poet, his poems represent an enormous advance. I know of nothing quite like them: it makes me think we have moved a generation beyond even the accomplishment of Heaney.” -‐-‐Hugh Kenner
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUM ANIT IES TH E U N I V E R S I TY OF TE X A S A T D A L L A S
FR I D A Y M A R C H 2 2 & S A TU R D A Y M A R C H 2 3 , 2 0 1 3
i n t e r d i s c i p l i n a r y r e / m e d i a / t i o n
RESEARCH • ART • WRITING GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Thank you for joining us at the fifth annual RAW: Research, Art, Writing Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium. This year’s conference features new and exciting work from graduate students from the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as students from other institutions. The keynote speaker is the acclaimed Irish poet Desmond Egan, who will also lead a writing workshop. In addition to the keynote and workshop, we have 58 presenters on 18 panels. For 2013, we have extended the conference to Friday night and have added a call for art. We offer Mr. Egan and all our guests a warm welcome and our thanks for traveling to Dallas to speak to us about the future of the humanities. This event is made possible by the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as the Graduate Student Association Executive Board and the RAW Committee. We would like to especially thank the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, Dr. Dennis Kratz; the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Dr. Michael Wilson; and the staff in the A&H department: Alice Salazar, Karen Trousdale, Michelle Lemon, Lisa Lyles, and Beth Young. We also want to thank our faculty moderators, who gave their guidance as students prepared for the conference and their time to facilitate our panels today. On behalf of the GSA Executive Board and the RAW Committee, thank you all for your support and attendance at RAW 2013. Courtney Dombroski GSA Vice-‐President and RAW Committee Chair
KE
EP
IN TO
UC
H W
ITH TW
ITTER
HA
SH
TAG
#RA
WC
ON
F, @U
TDG
SA
, FAC
EB
OO
K.C
OM
/UTD
GS
A, O
R A
T UTD
GS
A.C
OM
/RA
W
RAW FR I D A Y , M A R C H 2 2 5:00 pm – Registration (Jonsson Performance Hall)
6:00 pm – Concurrent Sessions
How Culture is Mediated Through Humanity (JO 3.516) Moderator: Dr. Maximillian Schich (UT Dallas) Valarie Broderick (UT Dallas) – “Digital Transformations” Will Broderick (UT Dallas) – “Gamifying Culture” Dax Norman (UT Dallas) – “Dax Norman, Artist” Shawn Meyer (UT Dallas) – “Folk Games”
Translating Humanity (JO 4.614) Moderator: Dr. Rainer Schulte (UT Dallas) Michele Rosen (UT Dallas) – “Marguerite Yourcenar and Basho on the Road” Shelby Vincent (UT Dallas) – “Translating Colonial Memories into a Post-‐Apocalyptic Future” George Henson (UT Dallas) – “HOMOcide: The Death of the Latin American Gay Subject by Translation”
The American Legacy in Words and Music (JO 4.122) Moderator: Dr. Milton Cohen (UT Dallas) April Collie (UT Dallas) – “Live Music vs. Recorded Music: Emotion, Memories, and the Senses” Rosalyn Mack (UT Dallas) – “Wealth, Privilege, and the American Dream in Richard Wright’s Native Son” Jay Webb (UT Dallas) – “’Breaking Bad’: Transcending Habit in Emerson” Mark Allen Jenkins (UT Dallas) – “Worse Places Than Zanesville, Ohio”
7:30 pm – Poetry Reading by Desmond Egan (Jonsson Performance Hall) Reception following (Jonsson Performance Hall Lobby) SA TURDA Y , M A RCH 23 8:30 am – Registration (Jonsson Performance Hall)
9:00 am – Opening Remarks (Jonsson Performance Hall) Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas: Dr. Michael Wilson
Graduate Student Association President: Lora Burnett Graduate Student Association Vice President and RAW Committee Chair: Courtney Dombroski
9:30 am – Concurrent Sessions British Literature Reimagined (JO 3.516)
Moderator: Dr. Timothy Redman (UT Dallas) Carroll Savant (UT Dallas) – “’Whistle While You Work’: The Construction of the Myth of Englishness through the
Working Soundscapes in George Eliot’s Adam Bede” Matthew Brumit (U of Dallas) – “How the Card Games in Pride and Prejudice Teach Us About Ourselves” Jeremy Larson (Baylor U) – “Decentering a Privileged Patience”
Portraiture, Then and Now (JO 4.614) Moderator: Dr. Mark Rosen (UT Dallas) Margaret DeBosier (UT Dallas) – “Every Face Tells a Story” Debbie DeWitte (UT Dallas) – “The Portraits of Lytton Strachey” Peter Wonica (UT Dallas) – “The Avatar as a Guide Through Adolescent Identity Exploration”
Landscapes in Flux (JO 4.122) Moderator: Dr. Jessica C. Murphy (UT Dallas) June Owens (UT Dallas) – “Afterimages and Echoes: Drawing Parallels between the Depression and the Recession in
Rural America” Amanda Ledwon (UT Dallas) – “If Poetry Were a Mix Tape, It Would Sound Like This: The Edited Poetry Of 1985 Mexico
City” Sean Sutherlin (UT Dallas) – “Urbanism and the Emergence of Science Fiction”
10:45 am – Concurrent Sessions Identity Under Analysis (JO 3.516)
Moderator: Dr. Betty Wiesepape (UT Dallas) Kristin Huntley (UT Dallas) – “’A Being Next to Devil’: Evil, Motivation and Psychopathy in Shakespeare’s Don John and
Iago” Shamim Hunt (UT Dallas) – “Eros and Thanatos in Sex, Lies, and Videotape” Janet Broihier (UT Dallas) – “Same Difference? Exoticism and Alterity in Twentieth-‐Century French Culture”
Memory Remediated Across Time and Space (JO 4.614) Moderator: Greg Metz (UT Dallas) Jennifer Hudson (UT Dallas) – “The Russians Are Coming! American Depictions of Russian Settlers in Literature, Film, and History” Danielle Georgio (UT Dallas) – “The Ephemeral Performance: An Art World Mythology (Or, “I don’t have time for a happening right now.”) A Case Study—HARAKIRI: To Die For Performances” Poe Johnson (UT Dallas) – “Cultural Memory as Fan Ideology in the Remediated World”
Systems Failure: Both Real and Virtual (JO 4.122) Moderator: Dr. Theresa Towner (UT Dallas) Toni Loftin (UT Dallas) – “In the Bowels of the Beast: El METRO as Mediator of the Megacity” Kimberly Nofal (U of Florida) – “A Critical History of the All-‐Sided Façade: From van Doesburg to El Lissitzky”
12:00 pm – Lunch (McDermott Library Suite 4.4)
1:00 pm – Keynote Address (Jonsson Performance Hall)
Desmond Egan
2:15 pm – Concurrent Sessions
Art and the Machine: Ruminations on Relationships (JO 3.516) Moderator: Dr. Peter Park (UT Dallas) Erin Naler (UT Dallas) – “Epic [A]esthetics: God’s, Airplanes, and Spinning Stages” Isaac Karth (UT Dallas) – “Ergodic Agency”
Representations in Magic and Medicine (4.614) Moderator: Dr. Richard Brettell (UT Dallas) Rebecca Sader (UT Dallas) – “Lessons from a Curandera” Monica Salazar (UT Dallas) – “Goya and the World of Medicine” Marina Botros Jenkins (UT Dallas) – “Witchcraft Imagery”
Spatial Dislocations: Finding Yourself Away From Home (4.122) Moderator: Dr. Dennis Walsh (UT Dallas) Ken Morrow (UT Dallas) – “The Defining Power of the Humanities in Tang China: How the Church of the East Experienced the Opening and Closing of Chinese Identity” Emeka Ikebude (UT Dallas) – “Rise of the Ruins: The Missing Limbs of Digitally-‐Reconstructed Places” Sarah Valente (UT Dallas) – “Im migration”
3:30 pm – Concurrent Sessions
Gender in Motion: The Female Identity Under Construction (3.516) Moderator: Dr. Emire Muslu (UT Dallas) Stacy Chen (UT Dallas) – “Intertextual Narrative and the Action Heroine: Gazing at Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Resident Evil” Merry Jett (UT Dallas) – “Mind over Matter: Female Philosophical Idealists and Materialists Reconstructing Gender in
American Thought 1875-‐1925” Elizabeth Ranieri (UT Dallas) – “Helen Corbitt: A New American Cook”
Twitter: #rawconf
Top Related