Acacia
Conference 2007
April 6th and 7th
Theme:
Impasse and Ambivalence: Re-defining
Ethics
Tentative Acacia
Conference Schedule and Room Assignments
Friday, April 6th
9:00 am
Welcome
9:15-10:30 Panel
1: Ethics and Popular Culture
Theater
Chair: Lindsay
*Corby
Tushla: "Exploitation
Run Amok: Ramifications of Truth-Bendingin James Frey's A Million Little Pieces"
*Janae
Dimick: "Reality TV and
Ethics: Is There Hope?"
*Susan
Johnson: "The Ethics of
Insurgency: Battlestar Galactica and the War in Iraq"
10:30-12:00 Panel
2: Gender
Theater
Chair: Amy
*Aaron
Hurtado: "Somewhat Damaged: "You have given more than your life": Jake Barnes as emasculated steer in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises"
*Cathie Allman: "Frankenstein
and the Feminine of Humanity"
*Jennifer
James O'Grady: "Janie’s Heroine Horizons: An Ecocritical Criticism of Their Eyes Are Watching God"
*Ryan Neil: "Your Sister Is the Better Soldier”: Marriage, Competition, and Lear’s Older Daughters"
12:00-2:00
Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Panel
3: Language Theater Chair:
Eva
*Barbara
Collins: "Dissent from Camelot: The Language of Opposition in the Literature of World War I"
*Jackie
Mijares: "The Masculine Pen: Character and Correspondence in Pride and Prejudice"
*Liz
Parks: "David Milch’s Deadwood: Profanity, Soliloquy and Art"
3:30-5:00 Panel 4:
Cinema and Ethics
Theater Chair: Aaron S.
*Sommer
Coston: "The Impasse of
Individuality and Socialization"
*Shannon
Sanchez: "Transitions in Consciousness: Enlightenment in Fight Club and American Beauty"
Saturday, April 7th
8:30 Welcome &
Breakfast
9:30-11:00
Theater Panel
1A: Historical Manipulation
Chair: Corrine
Jackson
*Jennifer
Bradley: "A “Woeful Pageant”: The Manipulation of History in Shakespeare’s Richard II"
*Shannon
Sanchez: "Seductive Illusions: American Myth in Jack London’s Martin Eden"
*Virginia
Gannaway: "Henry
V: The Making of a King"
Bradford
AB Panel 1B:
Genre Chair: Dr. Erin Hollis
*Aaron Schmidt: "Confession and Narration in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood"
*David
Christian: "Untitled-Uncle Tom's
Cabin"
Gilman
AB Panel 1C:
Desire Chair: Dr. Irena Praitis
*Kenneth
Stern: "Parson Adams Ethics and His Violent Acts of Love in Joseph Andrews"
*Nooshin
Zardinejad: "Ethical Negotiations, Translations, and Hafez"
*Roger
Perez: "Movement and Desire for Free Sex: A Closer Look at Songs to Joannes by Mina Loy"
Tuffree
AB Panel 1D:
Post Colonial
Chair: Deidre
O'Neill
*Chris
Johnson: "Light My Way: The Failure of Racism in the Darkness"
*Jesse
Latour: 'The Sadness of Geography': Maps and Mapmaking in The English Patient and Waiting for the Barbarians"
*Tim
Wildermuth: "Canonicity: The Ghost of Eurocentric Imperialism"
11:00-12:30
Theater
Panel 2A:
Ethical Conflict in Literature Chair: Donna Thune
*Rebecca
Roberts: "Thomas More or Less: The Maintenance of Ethical Tension in Utopia"
*Jennifer
Givhan: "A Marriage of True Minds (not Bodies) in Milton’s Paradise Lost"
*Lisa Nicole
Jones: "Ethical satire (?): Slippery ambivalence in Jonathan Swift"
Bradford
AB Panel 2B:
Identity and Clothing
Chair: Cathie
Allman
*John Terranova: "Wearing
Huck"
*Rachel
Murphree: "Conspicuous Lack of Consumption and the Gendering of the Victorian Female Body"
Gilman
AB Panel 2C:
Miscellany Chair: Cynthia Fearn
*Jennifer
James O'Grady: "Our Unethical Environmental Decisions: A Psychoanalytic Criticism"
*Karenina
Lines: "Secrecy and Concealment in The Blithedale Romance"
TuffreeAB
Panel 2D: Fantasy Chair: Lindsay
*Danny
Keener: "The Changing Role of the Wizened Guide: Observations on Contemporary Representations of Merlin and the Golem"
*Janae
Dimick: "Eówyn: Tolkien’s Answer to Shakespeare’s Ophelia"
Lunch
12:30-1:00
First Keynote
1:00-1:45
Dr. Erin Hollis: "TBA"
Afternoon Panels
2:00-3:30
Theater Panel 3A: Anti-Heroine Chair: Virginia
*Corby
Tushla: "Heroic Subversion within and around Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
*Cynthia
Lyles-Scott: "Heeding the
Anti-Heroine's Call"
*Lindsay Ludvigsen: "Byronic Beatrices: A Look at the Byronic traits of Beatrice Cenci From Shelley’s 'The Cenci' and Beatrice Kiddo from 'Kill Bill'"
Bradford
AB Panel 3B:
Creative Writing Chair: Rachel M.
*Corinne
Jackson: "Loss for Words"
*Eva
Hedger: "Tears of Sorrow"
*Dr.
Irena Praitis: "TBA"
Second Keynote 3:30-5:00
Dr.
Steve Westbrook: "Day Minder: The New Poetry Game Show"
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