9.05 - 10.05 AM

1. Localities of space: asylums, reservoirs, and sports arenas

Chair: Nikolina Dobreva

"The Oral Majority: Rhetoric of the Water Fluoridation Debate"

Brianne Goodspeed

"Billionaire Whiners and Their Overpriced Stadiums:
Public Financing of New Sports Venues"

Jordan Kingdon

"Steps into Oblivion: Conflicts of Recognition
and Perception in Urban Exploration"

Christopher Sparks

**

10.10 - 11.10 AM

2. America: fast cars, violence, and choreographed sports

Chair: Christopher Michalski

"Is the ‘Heartbeat of America’ Really ‘Like a Rock’,
or Is Ford ‘Built Tougher’?"

Sarah Bramley

"The Great American Façade: Fight Club and
the Fabrication of an American ‘Normalcy’"

Janet Thomson

"Professional Wrestling: Where Has Its Viewpoint Taken Us?"

Eric Estremera

**

11.15 - 12.15 PM

3. Freedom, art, and (digital) technology

Chair: Anita Mannur

"Henri Chopin: Sound Poetry After Auschwitz"

Phinehas Roy

"Fluxus and Its Internet Descendents"

Joseph Housley

"The Duality of Jedi Lucas and Darth Lucas"

Jerome Kirkpatrick

**

1.15 - 2.05 PM

4. Conflicts of race, history, & national identity:
African cinema and Southern Literature

Chair: Géraldine Vatan

"Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty:
Postcolonial Conflicts Between Tradition and Modernity in Film"

Michael Laramee

"Conflicts in American Southern Literature:
The Process of Finding the Distinctive Voice"

Lori Latimer

**

2.10 - 3.00 PM

5. Gender in cyberspace: camgirls and the swan

Chair: Iris Bonaldo

"The Rape of Björk?"

Kimberly Durand

"Camgirls: Doing Gender 24/7 on the World Wide Web"

Melissa Grant

**

3.05 - 4.05 PM

6. Education from the Womb to the Virtual Classroom

Chair: Beverly Weber

"Online Intangibles: Adult Education in the Information Age"

Nelson Cole

"Creative Movement: From the Womb to Age Five"

Sarah Murphy

"Denmark’s a Prison: The Rule of
Critical Theory in the Classroom"

Caitlin Quinn

**

Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Massive acknowledgment of thanks for their
invaluable advice and support in the organization
of this colloquium:

Prof. William Moebius

Linda Papirio

Alice Bishko

OPDiCS

Dale Hudson,
colloquium director

For further information, contact daleh@complit.umass.edu or 545.0929

Free and open to the public.