Anti:Revisions, Reconstructions, Refutations

Anti:Revisions, Reconstructions, Refutations

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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