SLLC Graduate Conference 2015 (Day 2)
SLLC Graduate Conference 2015 (Day 2)
This two-day, interdisciplinary conference on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28 will address perspectives on power and all its implications within, but not limited to, political, literary, cinematic and cultural contexts, as well as linguistics.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
8:00-9:00 – Registration, Breakfast (St. Mary’s Hall Lounge)
9:00-10:30 – Panel 1: Remapping Conflict: Historic and Diasporic Discourses
Chair: Kayla Watson
Smith, Sophie – Duke University – “The Desert: Landscape and Violence in the US-Mexico Border Zone”
Glynn, Doug – University of Maryland – “Saint Patrick’s Battalion: Fictional Representations of Liminal Diasporic ‘Irishness’”
Castro-Klarén, Alexandra – University of Pittsburgh – “Hiram Bingham, Machu Picchu, and the Making of Modern Pilgrimage”
10:40-12:10 – Panel 2: Narrative and Linguistic Power in Film
Chair: Brian Real
Sun, Siqi – Beijing Language and Culture University – “When History Meets Fiction”
MacKenzie, Jordan – University of Florida – “Depictions of the Alienation of the Individual under Duvalier’s Dictatorship in Raoul Peck’s L’Homme sur les Quais”
Yang, Liu – Beijing Language and Culture University – “A Cognitive Analysis of Figurative Language in Daily Conversation”
12:10-1:00 – Lunch (St. Mary’s Hall Lounge)
1:00-2:30 – Panel 3: Linguistic Power in Communicative Exchanges
Chair: Petra Volkhausen
Ying, Liping – Beijing Language and Culture University – “Systemic Functional Contextual Approach to the Translation of Diplomatic Euphemism”
Deng, Xin – Beijing Language and Culture University – “Aspects of Chinese Culture-Loaded Expressions: An Analytical Approach to Jeanne Kelly’s Translation of Fortress Besieged”
2:40-4:10 – Panel 4: Rethinking Gender
Chair: Jill McAlister
Zhou, Zije – Beijing Language and Culture University – “Fitzgerald's View of Women in the 1920s”
Thompson, Justin – University of Maryland – “From Woman to Man: Gender, Position and Knowledge in Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man”
Reinstrom, Lindsey – University of Maryland – “The Power of Fairy Tales: Nelly Arcan’s Putain as a Post-Modern Conte de Fées”
4:20-5:50 – Panel 5: Empowering Narrative Techniques
Chair: Doug Glynn
Galeano Sánchez, Juan Camilo – University of Cincinnati – “Antioquia and Its Irresistible Power: A Character Rather Than a Vivid Space in Fernando Vallejo’s works”
Zhao, Weirong – Beijing Language and Culture University – “Break through the Night Cage to Welcome the Daylight: On the Poetic Creation Relationship between Sylvia Plath and Zhai Yongming”
McQuoid-Greason, Lauris – Virginia Tech – “The Power of Work and Leisure in the Self-Writings of Montaigne and Levrero”