ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006
Seminars
Last modified February 27, 2006
Alphabetical Index
Stream Index
Title Index
B07
East Pyne 023Aestheticism: De-humanizing or Re-humanizing Art, the Artist, and the Artistic Receptor?
Seminar Leader(s):
Kelly Comfort, Georgia Institute of TechnologyB31
East Pyne 023The Aesthetics and Politics of Gender Representation
Seminar Leader(s):
Marie-Rose Logan, Soka University of AmericaC32
Frist328
After the Humanistic Tradition: How We Teach What We Teach
Seminar Leader(s):
Patricia Armstrong, Vanderbilt UniversityKatherine Stanton, Princeton University
D07
East Pyne 027After the Post-Human, Beyond the “Cyborg Manifesto”
Seminar Leader(s):
Katherine Arens, University of Texas at AustinD01
Dickinson Hall G02Alien Worlds: Human Contact with Alien Others in Works of Science Fiction
Seminar Leader(s):
Liesl Owens, Rutgers UniversityD13
East Pyne 239Altars behind Idols: Non-Western Myths in American Dress
Seminar Leader(s):
Michael Schuessler, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityLois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston
D03
Scheide Caldwell 103The Animal in a Post-Human World
Seminar Leader(s):
Kari Weil, California College of the ArtsB13
East Pyne 235The Animal Other in Literature, the Arts, and Culture
Seminar Leader(s):
Steven F. Walker, Rutgers UniversityJanet A. Walker, Rutgers University
C13
East Pyne 235Animal Whites: Whiteness, Animals, and the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Lucia Hodgson, University of Southern CaliforniaD12
East Pyne 235Animals and Globalization
Seminar Leader(s):
Neel Ahuja, University of California-San DiegoA29
Joseph Henry House 016Anthropology and Cultural Theory
Seminar Leader(s):
Robert Doran, Middlebury CollegeEric Gans, University of California, Los Angeles
C06
East Pyne 023Beauty as Philosophy of Art, Literature, and Music
Seminar Leader(s):
Rosina Neginsky, University of Illinois at SpringfieldD18
East Pyne 321Beyond a Binary: Refiguring the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Shaden M. Tageldin, University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesA02
Marx Hall 101The Body in the Digital
Seminar Leader(s):
Gauti Sigthorsson, University of Greenwich, UKA06
East Pyne 023A Cabinet of Curiosities: Objectifying the Human from the Renaissance to the 21st Century
Seminar Leader(s):
Nhora Lucia Serrano, University of Wisconsin-MadisonJanelle A. Schwartz, Hamilton College
B05
Joseph Henry House 015Choreography and Poetics
Seminar Leader(s):
Virginia Jackson, New York UniversityB08
East Pyne 027Civilization and the Uses of the Primitive
Seminar Leader(s):
Nicoletta Pireddu, Georgetown UniversityA17
East Pyne 245Creativity and the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Neil Pischner, State University of New York at AlbanyB28
Chancellor Green 103Cyborgs Old and New
Seminar Leader(s):
Stefani Engelstein, University of MissouriCarsten Strathausen, University of Missouri
C30
McCosh Hall B11Ecocriticism and its Postcolonial Futures
Seminar Leader(s):
George Handley, Brigham Young UniversityC09
East Pyne 039Ecologies of the (Post) Human
Seminar Leader(s):
William Castro, Northwestern UniversityD26
McCosh Hall B12Essaying the Human/Nonhuman
Seminar Leader(s):
Mark M. Freed, Central Michigan UniversityC01
Dickinson Hall G02The European Union: its Supranational Symbols and its Others in its Literatures, Films, and Media
Seminar Leader(s):
Cris Reyns-Chikuma, Lafayette CollegeD08
East Pyne 039Exapropriating the Human: Tele-technologies, Postcolonialism, and their Convergence in Contemporary Globalization
Seminar Leader(s):
Bram Ieven, Leiden University (The Netherlands)Kristian Van Haesendonck, Villanova University
D16
East Pyne 161The Faust Legend and the Human, Part II
Seminar Leader(s):
Iclal Vanwesenbeeck, SUNY FredoniaB18
East Pyne 245Figures and Figurations of the Undead
Seminar Leader(s):
Julia Hell, University of MichiganRobert Buch, University of Chicago
C18
East Pyne 245Figures and Figurations of the Undead II
Seminar Leader(s):
Christina Kraenzle, York UniversityD05
Scheide Caldwell 209Filthy Types: Technology, Reproduction, and Monstrosity in the Romantic Period
Seminar Leader(s):
Dermot Ryan, Columbia UniversityAlexandra Neel, Princeton University
C23
McCosh Hall 26Form, Formalizing, The Formulaic
Seminar Leader(s):
Soelve Curdts, Princeton UniversityC34
Joseph Henry House 016From E-pistles to E-mail: The Role of the Post in Relaying the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State UniversityA18
East Pyne 321Ghosts, Gender, History I
Seminar Leader(s):
Sladja Blazan, Humboldt University, BerlinB19
East Pyne 321Ghosts, Gender, History II
Seminar Leader(s):
Eugenia Gonzalez, The Ohio State UniversityC19
East Pyne 321Gods Absent and Present
Seminar Leader(s):
Jay Twomey, University of CincinnatiW. David Hall, Centre College
D29
McCosh Hall B11Homo economicus
Seminar Leader(s):
Michael Mirabile, Reed CollegeJan Mieszkowski, Reed College
A08
East Pyne 039Human Communities and their Others
Seminar Leader(s):
Naomi E. Silver, University of MichiganC22
Chancellor Green 105Human Difference/La Différence Humaine: Session A
Seminar Leader(s):
Steven Yao, Hamilton CollegeD21
Chancellor Green 105Human Difference/La Différence Humaine: Session B
Seminar Leader(s):
Anindita Banerjee, Cornell UniversityB12
East Pyne 233The Human Drama of the Family as Portrayed in the Visual Arts
Seminar Leader(s):
Wendy C. Nielsen, Montclair State UniversityGail Finney, UC Davis
B14
East Pyne 239The Human in Posthuman Technology
Seminar Leader(s):
Steven A. Benko, Meredith CollegeB09
East Pyne 039Human Language and Language Reform
Seminar Leader(s):
Nergis Ertürk, Columbia UniversityBrian Lennon, Pennsylvania State University
C14
East Pyne 239Human Natures: On Technics and Technical Definitions of the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
György Fogarasi, University of SzegedC29
Chancellor Green 103Human Rights: “Lost” in Translation?
Seminar Leader(s):
J. Paul Narkunas, Pratt InstituteA16
East Pyne 161Human Time: Mediality and Culture
Seminar Leader(s):
Stephanie A. Glaser, University of CopenhagenSabine Doran, University of California, Riverside
D31
East Pyne 129The Human, the Not Human, and Cultural Contact
Seminar Leader(s):
Jonathan Hart, University of AlbertaIrene Sywenky, University of Alberta
B27
McCosh Hall B13Humanism and the Global Hybrid
Seminar Leader(s):
Mina Karavanta, National & Kapodistrian University of AthensNina Morgan, Kennesaw State University
D28
Chancellor Green 103Humanists, Humanitarians, and Other Travelers: Postcolonial and Postmodern Encounters with Otherness
Seminar Leader(s):
Ayo Abietou F. Coly, Dartmouth CollegeD06
East Pyne 023The Humanizing Mission: Dalit Literature in Context
Seminar Leader(s):
Shalini Ramachandran, San Diego State UniversityToral Gajarawala, University of Oregon
A09
East Pyne 043Humans and the Incorporeal: Translations of the Supernatural
Seminar Leader(s):
C. A. Prettiman, Cedar Crest CollegeC10
East Pyne 043The Idea of the Holocaust and the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Michael Schuldiner, University of AlaskaC16
East Pyne 127Imagining Our Others: A Cultural Ethics
Seminar Leader(s):
Colene Bentley, Rice UniversityB16
East Pyne 127Imagining Our Others: A Literary Ethics
Seminar Leader(s):
Ann Jurecic, Rutgers UniversityAnne Caswell Klein, Princeton University
Amanda Irwin Wilkins, Princeton University
D15
East Pyne 127Imagining Our Others: A Philosophical Ethics
Seminar Leader(s):
Val Vinokur, The New SchoolC20
East Pyne 339The (In)Human Outside: Welcoming, Traveling, and Writing
Seminar Leader(s):
Tyler Kessel, Hudson Valley Community CollegeC11
East Pyne 215Indigenous language rights movements and the growth of written indigenous language literature in Central and South America
Seminar Leader(s):
Hana Muzika Kahn, Rutgers UniversityD24
McCosh Hall 34Individuals, Groups, Multiplicities: Humans and Others
Seminar Leader(s):
Catherine Liu, University of California, IrvineB20
East Pyne 339Intimacy and Exteriority
Seminar Leader(s):
Sean Alexander Gurd, Concordia UniversityC31
McCosh Hall B12Knowledge and “the Grey Zone”: Limit Situations and the Human Condition
Seminar Leader(s):
Colman Hogan, University of TorontoMarta Marín-Dòmine, Wilfrid Laurier University
B10
East Pyne 043Language Ideology and the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Sanja Bahun, Rutgers UniversityDušan Radunović, University of Sheffield
D10
East Pyne 215Language, Mysticism, and Iconography: Exploring the Cultural Interface Between East and South Asia
Seminar Leader(s):
VG Julie Rajan, Rutgers UniversityHelen Asquine Fazio, Rutgers University
D17
East Pyne 245Language, Technics, Memory: Testimony at the Limits of the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Patrick Dove, Indiana UniversityKate Jenckes, University of Michigan
B03
Scheide Caldwell 103Literary Perversions: Reconfiguring the Limits of the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
David Sigler, University of VirginiaD11
East Pyne 233Literary Tropes and Molecular Biology in the Postmodern Era
Seminar Leader(s):
Priya Venkatesan, Dartmouth Medical SchoolB15
East Pyne 111Literature and the Sovereign Individual of Modernity
Seminar Leader(s):
Zubin Meer, York UniversityC15
East Pyne 111Literature and the Sovereign Individual of Modernity II: Individualized Modernity and the Frankfurt School
Seminar Leader(s):
Zubin Meer, York UniversityC26
McCosh Hall 24Literature and the Sovereign Individual of Modernity III: Individualized Early Modernity
Seminar Leader(s):
Vivasvan Soni, University of Michigan, Ann ArborD25
McCosh Hall 24Literature and the Sovereign Individual of Modernity IV: Individualized Late Modernity
Seminar Leader(s):
David Anshen, University of Texas-Pan AmericanD14
East Pyne 111Literature and the Sovereign Individual of Modernity V: Individualized (Post)coloniality
Seminar Leader(s):
Lucy McNeece, The University of ConnecticutA12
East Pyne 235Man and Madness: Written
Seminar Leader(s):
Melanie D. Holm, Rutgers UniversityKelly Baker Josephs, Rutgers University
D27
McCosh Hall B13Mestizaje, Mestiçagem, and Miscegenation: Mixing with the Other in the Americas
Seminar Leader(s):
Rex Nielson, Brown UniversityEmron Esplin, Michigan State University
D09
East Pyne 043Metamorphosis across Cultural Margins: Translation, Transculturation, and the Transformation of Critical Discourse and Literary Form
Seminar Leader(s):
Sharon Lubkemann Allen, SUNYB01
Dickinson Hall G02The Mysterious Unknown: The Gothic and Its Human Others
Seminar Leader(s):
Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Villanova UniversityB32
McCosh Hall B11Natural Subjectivity: The Textual Making of the Human or Natural Subject
Seminar Leader(s):
Patricia Ferrer-Medina, Rutgers University/Trinity CollegeJackie Loeb, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
A13
East Pyne 239Neurology and Literature, 1800-present
Seminar Leader(s):
Anne Stiles, UCLAMaria Farland, Fordham University
B25
McCosh Hall 34The Open: Art and Thought at the Threshold of Being
Seminar Leader(s):
Reingard Nethersole, Univ. of the Witwatersrand and Univ. of RichmondPaolo Bartoloni, The University of Sydney
A11
East Pyne 233Other Dreams
Seminar Leader(s):
Margaret Cotter-Lynch, Southeastern Oklahoma State UniversityC25
McCosh Hall 34The Other Medievalisms
Seminar Leader(s):
Nadia Altschul, The Johns Hopkins UniversityKathleen Davis, Princeton University
B02
Marx Hall 101The Othering of (and Othering within) Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Eurasia
Seminar Leader(s):
Vlatka Velcic, California State University, Long BeachC02
Marx Hall 101The Othering of (and Othering within) Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Eurasia II
Seminar Leader(s):
Vlatka Velcic, California State University, Long BeachC28
McCosh Hall B13Otherworldly Alterity: Faith, Supernaturalism, and the Formation of Identity
Seminar Leader(s):
Paulo Lemos Horta, Simon Fraser UniversityChelva Kanaganayakam, University of Toronto
A10
East Pyne 215The Perennial Other: Yiddish Literature in Comparative Contexts
Seminar Leader(s):
Marc Caplan, Harvard UniversityC33
East Pyne 129Poetry — Epic, Emblematic, Political, and Liminal
Seminar Leader(s):
Gerhard F. Strasser, The Pennsylvania State UniversityA22
McCosh Hall 26“Poetry is what is lost in translation”: Translating the Poetry of Other
Seminar Leader(s):
Seanna Sumalee Oakley, University of Nebraska-LincolnA25
McCosh Hall 24The Point of the Human: Gestures, Intentionality, and the Possibility of Literary Criticism
Seminar Leader(s):
Paul North, Northwestern UniversityAnthony Adler, Loyola University, Chicago
B21
East Pyne 205Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death
Seminar Leader(s):
Masha Mimran, Princeton UniversityMagda Romanska, Cornell University
Walter Johnston, Princeton University
C21
East Pyne 205Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death II
Seminar Leader(s):
Yaoci Pardo, University of Western OntarioB22
Chancellor Green 105Protean Humanity in Premodern Literary Cultures
Seminar Leader(s):
Christopher Braider, University of Colorado, BoulderA14
East Pyne 111Psychoanalysis and the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Sanja Bahun-Radunovic, Rutgers UniversityChad Loewen-Schmidt, Rutgers University
A01
Dickinson Hall G02Re/Valuing the “Human”
Seminar Leader(s):
Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Binghamton UniversitySabine I. Gölz, University of Iowa
A28
Joseph Henry House 015Realism’s Others
Seminar Leader(s):
Geoffrey Baker, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyA05
Schiede Caldwell 209The Relevances of Raymond Williams
Seminar Leader(s):
Keith O’Regan, York UniversityC27
McCosh Hall 40Renaissance Humanism and Critical Theory
Seminar Leader(s):
Regina Schwartz, Northwestern UniversityChristopher Dean Johnson, Harvard University
D20
East Pyne 205Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror
Seminar Leader(s):
Henry Morello, Pennsylvania State UniversityA20
East Pyne 205Representing Medicine: Literary, Interdisciplinary, and Cross-Cultural Connections
Seminar Leader(s):
Carl Fisher, California State University, Long BeachA23
McCosh Hall 30Revolution and Its Others in East Asia
Seminar Leader(s):
Xin Ning, Rutgers UniversityAnne Xu, Rutgers University
C04
Scheide Caldwell 203Revolution of the Senses
Seminar Leader(s):
Eyal Peretz, Harvard UniversityEmily Sun, Colgate University
D04
Scheide Caldwell 203Revolution of the Senses II
Seminar Leader(s):
Stefanie Harris, Northwestern UniversityA04
Chancellor Green 105Sacred Other: Boundaries and Pores in the Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an
Seminar Leader(s):
Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las VegasB29
McCosh Hall 40Sacrifice and the Human Relationship to Violence
Seminar Leader(s):
David Pan, Pennsylvania State UniversityA24
McCosh Hall 34Stories of Radical Alterity: Literatures, Films, and Derrida’s Cloture of Western Metaphysics
Seminar Leader(s):
Hector A. Torres, University of New MexicoRandall Gann, University of New Mexico
Justin Parks, University of New Mexico
B04
Scheide Caldwell 203Symptomatic Reading and Its Discontents
Seminar Leader(s):
Sharon Marcus, Columbia UniversityD23
McCosh Hall 30Technically, Monstrous
Seminar Leader(s):
Paul Fox, Zayed University, United Arab EmiratesTiffanie Townsend, Georgia Southern University
C05
Scheide Caldwell 209Theatricality and the (In)human
Seminar Leader(s):
Gillian Pierce, Boston UniversityB06
Scheide Caldwell 209Theatricality, History, Theory
Seminar Leader(s):
Andrew Parker, Amherst CollegeMartin Harries, New York University
C24
McCosh Hall 30Topographies and Temporalities of the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Dale Shin, York UniversityD19
East Pyne 339Trans-Pacific Configuration of Gender and Nation
Seminar Leader(s):
Hisayo Ogushi, Keio UniversityYuko Shibata, Cornell University
Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree, Syracuse University
C12
East Pyne 233Transferring Bodies: Affect and the Translation of the Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Ignacio Infante, Rutgers UniversityD02
Marx Hall 101Translation and Metamorphosis
Seminar Leader(s):
Suzanne Jill Levine, University of California, Santa BarbaraDominique Jullien, University of California, Santa Barbara
B26
McCosh Hall 24Translation as Metamorphosis and an Ethics of Difference
Seminar Leader(s):
Rosemary Arrojo, SUNY BinghamtonC03
Scheide Caldwell 103Twisted Minds, Deviant Writings
Seminar Leader(s):
Francisco Villena-Garrido, Princeton UniversityB11
East Pyne 215Vampires, Predation, and the Proto-/Post-Human
Seminar Leader(s):
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, University of Texas, AustinC07
East Pyne 023Where is the Human? Borders, Frontiers, and Limits of Humanness
Seminar Leader(s):
Róisín O’Gorman, University of MinnesotaA26
Chancellor Green 103Will Any Humanism Be Possible?
Seminar Leader(s):
Antonio A. Garcia, University of Houston-DowntownB24
McCosh Hall 30Writing at the Limits of Sanity
Seminar Leader(s):
Rachel Galvin, Princeton UniversityB30
Joseph Henry House 016Writing the Divine: Literary Meetings of Humans and Gods
Seminar Leader(s):
Jay Twomey, University of CincinnatiW. David Hall, Centre College
