Acacia
Conference 2006: Politicizing Texts
February
17th and 18th 2006, Titan Student Union (TSU)
FRIDAY
TITAN STUDENT UNION THEATRE
(Check-in directly outside TSU Theatre)
FRIDAY I
9:00am-10:30am
Expressions of Mourning
PANEL CHAIR: Kim Volmer
Stacy Swenck: Rhetoric of Mourning: Cindy
Sheehan Redefines the Politics of Grief
Molly Clay: Mourning Transition
Vicky Yau: The Art of Healing Through
Autopathographical Writing
FRIDAY II
10:30am-12:00 noon
Creative Writing
PANEL CHAIR: Alex Engebretson
Tony Trapolino: Can You Keep a Secret?
Lincoln McElwee: Still Life
Therí Pickens: The Moment Replays
NOON Break for Lunch (on campus) until 2:00pm
FRIDAY AFTERNOON I
2:00pm-3:30pm
Visions of Perfection
PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Marlin Blaine
Vic Carriere: "Grazia sola di su": The
Inadequacy of Earthly Love in Milton's Italian Love Sonnets
Brian Garcia: The Catholic and the
Communist: Two Views of Utopia
Chris Black: Prosperity in a New World: The
Economy of Sir Thomas More's Utopia
FRIDAY AFTERNOON II
3:30pm-5:00pm
Medieval Interdepartmental Lecture and
Discussion Donna Von Mizener, (CSUF College of the Arts)
Dr. Jurgen Burgtorf (CSUF History
Department)
Dr. Ellen Caldwell (CSUF English
Department)
5:00pm-7:00pm Reception TSU Garden Patio
SATURDAY
GABRIELINO 8:00am-8:30am Check-in
and Breakfast
GABRIELINO 8:30am-9:15am Breakfast
Address: Kim Burrows and Dr. Kay Stanton
SATURDAY MORNING I
SATURDAY I
9:30am-11:00am
ALVARADO B Strategic
Representations of Pop Culture
PANEL CHAIR: Danna Voth
Tony Cook: "Let's Make the Myths":
Literature vs. Real Life(?)
Virginia Gannaway: Tolling for the Mute,
Mistreated, Aching Ones: The Reluctant Hero, Bob Dylan
David Banuelos: The Battle for Lovecraft:
Criticism, Content, Context, and Canon
ONTIVEROS A Fantastical Devices in
Literature
PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Joanne Gass
Kim Burrows: Magical Realism: The Spiritual
Perspective
Dan Threet: The Fictions of Subordinate
Gods: Borgesian Skepticism and Postmodern Fantastic
Devona Mallory: The Bitter Butter Knife:
Puttermesser's Problematic Paradise in Women's Spirituality and Magical
Realism
ONTIVEROS B Identity Construction Costs
PANEL CHAIR: Chris Black
Deborah Hallett: Confessions of A
Shopaholic: Consumerism and Women's Collective Identity
Aysegul Turan: Identity (Re)Construction in
Exile: Memoirs of Fawaz Turki and Edward W. Said
Sacha Moore: Good Mourning: Subject
Reconstruction via Emotional Articulation in DeLillo's The Body Artist
ONTIVEROS C Moving Beyond Gender
PANEL CHAIR: Kim Volmer
Amy Dickinson: Hemingway's Femi-Hero: A New
Perspective on Lady Brett, Catherine Bourne and Catherine Barkley
Susan Johnson: "Look Up and Share the
Wonders I Have Seen:" Farscape Dismantling the Gender Binary
Chava Roth: Beneath Galloping Ghosts:
Marginalized Men and Emasculating Preoccupations with the Past in
William Faulkner's Light in August
SATURDAY MORNING II
SATURDAY II
11:00am-12:30pm
ALVARADO B Crossing/Merging Disciplinary
Boundaries
PANEL CHAIR: Ashley Bootman
David Banuelos: A Tapestry of Tales: Greek
and Shakespearian Drama in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman
Eva Hedger: "A Horse! A Horse! My Kingdom
for A Horse": How the Horse Was Used in 16th and 17th Century English
Literature
Chris Bell: Re-examining Toni Morrison's
Jazz Aesthetic
ONTIVEROS A Gender Mavericks
PANEL CHAIR: Kim Volmer
Jack Shear: Tipping Gender-Gender
Performance and the False Self in Tipping the Velvet
Tom Do: Male Hegemonic Order: Turning the
Screw on Victorian Patriarchal Society
James Eberlein III:
raceclassgendersexualty.porn
ONTIVEROS B Rewriting Myths
PANEL CHAIR: Kim Burrows
Shannon Marie Barbour: When the Poet Iqbal
Christina Ames: Re-imagining Truth:
Feminist Appropriation of Myth in Comfort Woman and The Woman Warrior
Kayodo Omoniyi Ogunfolabi: The Influence of
"Abiku Myth" on Ben Okri's Fiction
ONTIVEROS C British Literature Through
Theory
PANEL CHAIR: Dr. Hollis
Kenneth Dane Menke: Colonialist Teleology
and the Agency of the Other in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Sana Sayed: Demeaning Language, Fluctuation
of Power, Game Play, and Erotic Power Differences: Male-Female
Relationships in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Shirley
Danna Voth: Deconstructing Doubles in
Frankenstein
12:30pm-1:00pm GABRIELINO Lunch
1:00pm-1:45pm GABRIELINO
Keynote Address: Dr. Joanne Gass,
reading from her work on autobiography; "The Designated Crier:
Confession in The Harp and the Shadow, I, the Supreme, Autumn of the
Patriarch, and Terra Nostra," and introducing Dr. Erin Hollis,
next year's Acacia Faculty Advisor
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
SATURDAY AFTERNOON I 2:00pm-3:30pm
ALVARADO B Tethering the Imagination
PANEL CHAIR: David Banuelos
Lindsay Ludvigsen: Vader Lust
Rob MacDonald: Shadow of Desire
ONTIVEROS A Generative Language
PANEL CHAIR: Christina Lang
Jasper Cross: Writing for Teacher
Lindsay Nemetz: Van Dusen Gardens
Otis Bardwell: Memory Locked in Language
ONTIVEROS B Creative Writing
PANEL CHAIR: Kristin Seiler
Herschel Greenberg: For Maria
Eva Hedger: The Shootin' of Jack McKay
Suzanne Allen: The Poette and the Penis:
Another Tale of A Woman in a Man's World
SATURDAY AFTERNOON II
3:30pm-5:00pm
GABRIELINO POETRY: Dr. Irena Praitis
and Dr. Stephen Westbrook read
their own work and talk about writing poetry
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