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Events
Director: David A. Powell, PhD
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| Thursday, October 11 Axinn Library, 10th floor |
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| 9-9:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:30-10:15 a.m. | Panel A: Greece Chair: Robert Sulcer, Department of English, Hofstra University |
| Betsy Nies, Department of English, University of North Florida "Bringing Greece Home: William Alexander Percy's Challenge to Traditional Southern Mores" |
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| Steven D. Smith, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, Hofstra University "Figuring the Exotic Boy in Antiquity and Beyond" |
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| Mark John Isola, Tufts University "From These Deconstructed Shards: The Burgeoning New Queer 'Mestizo' Consciousness in Charles Warren Stoddard's 'Chumming With a Savage'" |
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| 10:30 a.m.-Noon | Panel B: Marginalization and The Unlikely Exotic Chair: Guillermo G. Caliendo, Department of Speech Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Hofstra University |
| Serkan Gorkemli, Department of English, University of Connecticut (Stamford) "From Traditional to New Media: The Advent of Lesbian and Gay Identities in Turkey" |
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| Sofia Ruiz-Alfaro, Department of Spanish, Franklin & Marshall College "Coming Out in the Jungle: Stories of Desire and Survival" |
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| Raul Rubio, Department of Spanish, Wellesley College "On Stage and In Life: Mediating Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Queer Rights Through Stand-Up Comedy" |
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| Tamara Powell, English Department, Louisiana Tech University (with Erica Aupied, Sarah Blanchard, Amanda Carley, Christine Cormigidore, William Haywood, Carrie Patterson and Jenna Steward) "Foreigners in Our Own Land: The Louisiana Tech Gay Straight Alliance" |
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| 12:15-1 p.m. | Panel C: Queer Exoticism and the Law Chair: Holning Lau, Law School, Hofstra Univeristy |
| Stephanie Hsu, Department of English, New York University "The Role of the Erotic in Asylum Law and Queer Immigrant Rights Activism" |
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| Frank Salamone, Hofstra Law School, Hofstra University "Looking to the Northern Lights: Lessons From Norwegian in Overcoming Evangelical Opposition to Same-Sex Partnerships" |
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| 1-2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:30-3 p.m. | Conference Opening Dr. Bernard J. Firestone, Dean, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| 3-4:15 p.m. | Panel D: Queer Empire Chair: Patricia Smith, Department of English, Hofstra University |
| Laurie Marhoefer, Department of History, Rutgers University "The Queer Empire: How Imperial Imaginings Were Inscribed Into the Concept of Biological Homosexuality in Weimar-Era Germany, 1918-1933" |
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| Stephen da Silva, Houston Community College "Minor Trouble, Queer Trouble in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh" |
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| Frederick S. Roden, Department of English, University of Connecticut "Maarc-André Raffalovich: A Russian-French-Jewish-Catholic Homosexual in Oscar Wilde's London" |
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| 4:30-6 p.m. | Dance Presentation "Like Electricity," Gregory Youdan, Choreographer |
| "Corporate Playground" Taylor Brandon and Gregory Youdan |
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| "Pursuit of Loneliness" Gregory Youdan Music: Contemplation by Tim Wheater |
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| "… still you're near" Benjamin Myers and Gregory Youdan Music: Brothers, Leaving by Duncan Sheik |
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| "What Remains" Edward Brito, Scott Corr, Benjamin Myers, Matthew Hanley, Chaz Fenner-McBride, Gregory Youdan Music: Matthew Ferry (Original Score): Untitled |
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| 7-9 p.m. | Banquet |
| Friday, October 12 Axinn Library, 10th floor |
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| 9-9:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:30-10:15 a.m. | Panel E: North America Chair: |
| Sam See, Department of English, UCLA "The Jungles of Henry James' Queer 'Beast'" |
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| Tyler T. Schmidt, Graduate Center, CUNY "'behind or between the lines': Forgotten Black Queer History in John A. Williams's Clifford's Blues" |
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| 10:30-11:45 a.m. | Panel F: The French Connection Chair: Gail M. Schwab, Associate Dean, Hofstra University |
| Brian Martin, Department of Romance Languages, Williams College "Desert Passions: Homoerotic Sexploitation from Balzac to Iraq" |
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| Philippe Dubois, Department of Foreign Language Programs, Bucknell University "Disturbingly Exotic: Queer Antics Next Door" |
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| David A. Powell, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University "11,001 Parisian Nights: Writing the Exotic in Michel Tremblay's News From Édouard" |
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| Ellen Mae Polglaze, University of Wisconsin-Madison "The Collard Phenomenon: Identity and Difference in Post-HIV France" |
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| Noon-1:15 p.m. | Panel G: Spain Chair: Pepa Anastasio, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University |
| Eric Keenaghan, Department of English, SUNY Albany "Some Queer, Deep Songs About the End of Empire: Life Lessons From the Poetic Disinterment of Federico Garcia Lorca During the Cold War" |
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| Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University "A Medieval Mirror: Courtly Love and Sodomy in Medieval Catalonia" |
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| Alejandro Varderi, Department of Spanish, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY "The Gaze Abroad: Bliss and Pleasure in Severo Sarduy's Cobra" |
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| 1:15-2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:45 p.m. | Panel H: Film I Chair: Miguel-Angel Zapata, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University |
| Hiram Perez, Department of English, William Patterson University "Queer Hybridity: The Exotic in Alea's Fresa y chocolate and Martí's 'Nuestra America'" |
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| Margaret Sönser Breen, Department of English and Women's Studies, University of Connecticut "Trussed-Dressed in Translation" |
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| Alexandar Mihailovic, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, Hofstra University "The Marketing of Desire: The New Russian Consumerism and the Bisexual Triangle in Olga Stolpovskaya's Film You I Love" |
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| 4-5:15 p.m. | Panel I: Film II Chair: Gregory Pell, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University |
| Julián Guttiérrez-Albilla, Department of Spanish, Newcastle University "Ethnic Fetishes/Ethnic Reals?: A Queer Re-Reading of the Construction of Carmen Miranda's Sexuality and Ethnicity in Hollywood" |
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| Caetlin Benson-Allott, Department of English, Cornell University "Removing Sex Sells: The Video Censorship of Queer Foreign Films in the United States" |
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| 6-7 p.m. | Closing Reception |