SPELLING DISASTERS
A Conference hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
SATURDAY, APRIL
29, 2006
Browsing
Lounge 238
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.: Keynote Address
“Depression as Public Feeling”
Ann Cvetkovich, Depts. of English
and Women’s Studies,
10:30 – 12:00 p.m.: Managing Disasters
“Made
with Love: Life in a Temporary Volunteer
Community”
Robert Gardner, Dept. of Sociology
and Anthropology,
Subarna N. Mathes, Evans
“The
U.S.-Mexico Border: The Socio-Economic
Disaster, the Trauma, and the Question of Benefits”
Virginia Ulrich, Dept. of English,
Moderator, Robert Gardner, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.:
Catherine Kernodle, Dept. of
English,
“Rhetoric
of Trauma: Narration, Recognition, and Response”
Elizabeth Harazim, Dept. of
English,
Tom Fisher, University Studies,
Christian Ravela, Dept. of
English,
Moderator, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Dept. of English
**CONCURRENT ROUNDTABLES START AT
3:15 P.M.**
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.: Teaching Disaster: A Roundtable
Browsing
Lounge 238
Elliott Young, Dept. of History,
Katja Garloff, Dept. of German,
Gregory F. Goekjian, Dept. of
English,
Naomi Zack, Dept. of Philosophy,
Moderator, Linda Isako Angst,
Dept. of Anthropology
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.: Theorizing Disaster I: A Roundtable
Cascade Room 236
Marcia Klotz, Dept. of English,
Bob Goldman, Dept. of Sociology,
Lee Medovoi, Dept. of English,
Moderator, Lee Medovoi, Dept. of
English
SUNDAY, APRIL 30,
2006,
Browsing
Lounge
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.: Geographies of Disaster
"The
Light on the Horizon: Imagining the Death of American Cities"
Carol Abbott, Dept. of Urban
Studies and Planning,
“Gojira
vs. Godzilla: Atomic Trauma and the
Remaking of National Disaster”
Molly
Brown, Dept. of Film Studies,
Peter C. van Wyck, Dept. of
Communication Studies,
Moderator, John Trombold, Dept. of English and Foreign Languages
10:45 – 12:00 p.m.: Spectacles of Trauma
“The Burning Library”
Daniel Rosenberg, Dept. of History,
“Lucy
Lies: Narrative Unreliability and Trauma
in Villette”
Heide Bauer, Dept. of English,
Katy Brundan, Program of
Comparative Literature,
“Moby-Dick and U.S. Imperialism”
John R. Eperjesi, Dept. of
English,
Moderator, Oscar Fernández, Dept.
of Foreign Languages
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 – 3:00
p.m.: Theorizing Disaster II
“Political Philosophy and Disaster”
Naomi Zack, Dept. of Philosophy,
“Lawful Injustices: Lacan and the Juridical Responses to Tragedy and Trauma”
Scott Kerman, Dept. of English,
Jan Mieszkowski, Dept. of German,
"The New
Robert Bennett,
Moderator, Oren Kosansky, Dept. of Anthropology
3:15 – 4:45
p.m.: Responding and Anticipating: The Challenges of Disaster Relief
Nick MacDonald, “TBA”
Mercy Corps,
“Emerging Diseases: The Avian
Influenza Epidemic”
Jan Semenza, Dept. of Community
Health and Urban & Public Affairs,
Moderator, TBA
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