The Ph.D. Program in the Humanities and Association of Humanities Academics (AHA) at U of L Present the Graduate Conference in Humanities
Graduate student presentations all day
12pm: Keynote speaker, Dr. Blaine Hudson, Ed.D, Activist, and Dean of University of Louisville College of Arts & Sciences will present:
“The Legacy of the Underground Railroad: Researching, Interpreting and Teaching the ‘Other Side’ of American History”
Friday April 16, 2010
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Chao Auditorium
Ekstrom Library
For more info: www.ahalouisville.com
Anti: Revisions, Reconstructions, Refutations: Chao Auditorium APRIL 16, 2010
Session 1 8:30-9:45 Revisions I
“Revisions of Pragmatism: Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Truth” John Dryden University of Louisville
“They Will Have Landed”: Virginia Woolf’s Modern Revision of Romantic Ideals in To the Lighthouse” Brett Seybert, East Tennessee State University
“Re-visiting and Re-visioning the Kitchen: Understanding the Food Narrative in African American Women’s Novels” Maegan Mitchell Mississippi College
Session 2 9:50-10:45 Reconstructions I
“Female Gothic, Chinese Style—Zhang Ailing’s Chuanqi in Comparison with Stories by Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers.” Caroline Ma University of Louisville
“Writing What One Knows: The Written Document Within Restoration and Sentimental Comedies” Katherine Wagner, University of Louisville
Session 3 10:50-11:45 Refutations I
“It Turns out Aristotle was Right All Along: Theseus as the Tragic Hero of Euripides’ Hippolytus.” Jeremy Killian, University of Louisville
“Only Our Citizens May Kill Themselves: Suicidal Capacity and Social Membership” Michael Lewis, Indiana University
11:45-12 Break
12-1 Keynote Speaker Dean Blaine Hudson: “The Legacy of the Underground Railroad: Researching, Interpreting and Teaching the ‘Other Side’ of American History”
1-1:30 Lunch
Session 4 1:30-2:20 Revisions II
“Resolved Dependence: Axiologus Meets the Other” T. Renee Harris, University of Arkansas
“‘The Old and the New’ Ekphrasis: Randall Jarrell’s Problematic Intervention” Joshua Steffey, Marquette University
Session 5 2:25-3:40 Reconstructions II
“Uncertainly, Lord: The ‘Radical Reordering’ of Black Church Tradition in Women’s Black Arts Movement Poetry” Charisse Montgomery, University of Toledo
“Child-free Women & ‘Womanhood’” Tanya Watson, University of Ottawa
“Instigations, Corruptions and Monstrous Births: Critique as Desire and Deformation in Friedrich Nietzsche and Georges Bataille” Elijah Pritchett, University of Louisville
Session 6 3:45-5 Refutations II
“Critical Thinking in the Humanities: Can the Paul-Elder Critical Thinking Framework Bridge the Gap?” Brian Barnes, University of Louisville
“White, Not Quite; Black, Get Back!: Ambivalence, Posturing, and Signifyin(g) in the Poetry of Langston Hughes” Jason Hertz, Western Carolina University
“Religious Practice in Transatlantic Perspective: The Case Study of Nineteenth-Century Louisville (Anti)-Catholicism” Jeffrey Bain-Conkin, University of Notre Dame
Closing reception 5-7pm
Humanities Building-Room 300
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