ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

This panel explores the intersection between the human and its others by examining the problematic relationship between the inside and outside, understood variously as a relative distinction and an absolute relation. Among other focal points, we will look at the human traveling outside the familiar, human haunting, the outside of the writing/reading human, and human encounters at a threshold.

Friday, March 24

Shaun Ramdin, University of Western Ontario
“Impossible Testimony: Witnessing Trauma in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick”
Stephanie Frampton, Harvard University
“A Theoria of Possession: Negotiating the Foreign and the Familiar in Medieval Travels”
Nancy Shawcross, University of Pennsylvania
“The Gothic Other in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy”

Saturday, March 25

Whitney Braun, UCLA
“Implications of Metafiction: An Examination of the Space of the Author-Function in Foucault’s “What is an Author?”
Tyler Kessel, Hudson Valley Community College
“Interruption at the Threshold: Welcoming Derrida’s Arrivant”
Mathais Warnes, Concordia University
“Intimacy, Exteriority, and Community in Holderlin’s Poetics”
Sol Neely, Purdue University
“Otherwise Than Utopia: The Möbian Conditions of Exteriority (in Levinas’ Phenomenology of Sociality”