Friday, September 30

9:00-10:30	The Short Session
	Denis Allen (West Virginia)	5-minute papers on the Lacanian short session
	Robert Caserio (Penn State)	chaired by Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
	Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
	Lydia Kerr (Utah Valley)
	Masha Mimran (Princeton)
	Seth Morton (Rice)
	Judith Roof (Rice)
	Atia Sattar (Penn State)
10:45-12:15	Performing Comparisons
	Jo Guidi (Chicago)	Microsoft Kinect-based performed talks
	Kara Oehler (independent radio producer)	chaired by Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard)
	Joana Pimenta (Harvard)
	Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard)
	Jesse Shapins (Harvard)
12:30-1:45	Lunch / Buffet for presenters, Atherton Hotel
2:00-5:00	China Connections
	Andrea Bachner (Penn State)	Interactive, recursive redistributions of topics
	Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Duke)	via audience response
	Michael Gibbs Hill (South Carolina)	chaired by Carlos Rojas (Duke) and Andrea
	David Porter (Michigan)	Bachner (Penn State)
	Calvin Hui (Duke)
	Haiyan Lee (Stanford)
	Jie Li (Harvard)
	Petrus Liu (Cornell)
	Carlos Rojas (Duke)
	Shuang Shen (Penn State)
	Richard Jean So (Chicago)
	Weijie Song (Rutgers)
	Jonathan Stalling (Oklahoma)
	Chien-hsin Tsai (Texas)
	Xiaojue Wang (Penn)
5:15-6:30	Reception / Atherton Hotel, open to public

 

Saturday, October 1

9:00-10:30	Debate
	David Damrosch (Harvard)	Stakes-clarifying arguments around the stakes
	Mara de Gennaro (Bucknell)	of language mastery for scholarship
	Frances Ferguson (Johns Hopkins)	chaired by Eric Hayot (Penn State)
	Haun Saussy (Chicago)
	Joseph Slaughter (Columbia)
10:45-12:15	Cinema/Media
	Pamela Fernandez (George Washington)	mixed-media presentations on the postcolony
	Jeffrey Middents (American)	chaired by Sophia McClennen (Penn State)
	Jennifer Wenzel (Michigan)
12:30-1:30	Lunch / on your own
	afternoon sessions at Hintz Alumni Center
1:45-2:45	Tricontinental Archives
	Madhumita Lahiri (NYU)	A multi-continental archival research archive
	Katherine Baxter (Northumbria)	chaired by Tom Beebee (Penn State)
3:00-4:20	Visualizing Comparisons
	Ed Finn (Arizona State)	Experiments in the visual representation of literary
	Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard)	data
	Denis Tenenboym (Columbia)	chaired by Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard)
4:30-5:30	E(x)change	Ex-post Facto
7:00-9:00	Banquet / for participants, Hintz Alumni Center