Conference Information

The Sixth Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, "Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics: The Production of Knowledge and the Future of the University" will be held March 8-9, 2013 at the University Downtown Center.

Information on accommodations will be updated soon.

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Conference Information

The Sixth Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

Binghamton University (SUNY)

Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics:

The Production of Knowledge and the Future of the University

March 8th-9th, 2013

Venue: The University Downtown Center (UDC 220 A + B)

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Friday, March 8

Panel 1 "Methodologies of Resistance"

Jason Parry (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

• "Learning to be Scale-Free: Network Science for a Spontaneous University"

Steven Warech (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

• "Patenting Forms of Knowledge in a Disciplinary Framework: The Potentially Bleak Future of Interdisciplinary Studies"

Kai Wen Yang (Binghamton University, Sociology):

• "A Thought Provoking Camel: Marx and the Concept of Class"

10:30-11:45

Panel 2: "The Inscriptions of Power: The Discourse of Writing Instruction within Academia"

Special Speaker Prof. Gayle Whittier (Binghamton University, English), introduced by Ross Lipton (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

Keynote Address

Prof. Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University, Latin America Studies)

Panel 3 "Literary Studies: Genealogies"

Yang-Eun Koo (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

• "Research in the Humanities as a Philosophical and Rendering Question"

Joseph North (Colombia University, English and Comparative)

• "Literary Studies in the Neoliberal Period: A Brief History of the Turn to Scholarship"

Julia Ludewig (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

• "Disciplinary differentiation from a sociological perspective"

5:00-6:15

Panel 4 "The Crisis of the Global University"

Anastasia Lyubas (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

• "The Experience of the Interdisciplinary Programs in the Humanities in Central and Eastern Europe"

Professor Ali Zaidi (SUNY Canton, Humanities)

• "An Alternative Response to Austerity Budgets at Public Colleges in New York"

Muna Husain (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

• "Prosecuting the University: Post-revolution student movement in Egypt"

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Saturday, March 9

Panel 5: "The Academic Novel"

Kyle King (Penn State University, English)

• "The Academic Novel and the Culture Wars"

Kerstin Petersen (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

• "Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and Dietrich Schwanitz's Der Campus: The Campus Novel and the Problem of Performing Identity"

John Weaver (Binghamton University, English)

• "The Veritas Conflict: God and Demons at Harvard"

10:15-12:15

Round table "The Production of Knowledge and the Future of the University" with students and faculty

Prof. William Haver (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

Prof. Dara Silberstein (Binghamton University, Women's Studies)

Prof. John Tagg (Binghamton University, Art History)

Matt Applegate (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

Steven Warech (Binghamton University, Comparative Literature)

Evrim Engin (Binghamton University, Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture)

Lunch 12:15-1:30