THURSDAY 20
1: 00 PM
Introductory Remarks
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1: 30 PM
Panel: World-Making
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Kaiyang Xu (USC), “Writing Precarious Temporality in Future-imagining: On Chinese Film Extras and Self-made Video”
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Chenglin Lee (CSU Fullerton), “Lost in a Sea of Seeming: Metaphor, Representation, and Recognition in 2666”
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Spencer Adams (UC Berkeley), “A Science Fictional Place: History, Projection, and Accumulation in the Modelling of California Drought”
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Respondent: Christopher Tzechung Fan (UCI English)
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3:00 PM
15 Minute Break
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3:15 PM
Panel: Flashes
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Talin Abadian (UCI), “‘The Blue Girl’ on Fire: The Paradoxical Self-Assertion of Iranian Women Through Self-Immolation”
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Mo/e Gámez (CSU Long Beach), “‘The permanent is ebbing’: Gleaming and the Anthropocene Poetics in Jorie Graham’s Sea Change”
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Shiqi Lin (UCI), “Cut! Community, Immunity, Vulnerability in the Time of Coronavirus“
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Respondent: Gabriele Schwab (UCI Comparative Literature)
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4:45 PM
15 Minute Break
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5:00 PM
Keynote and Q&A:"Is There a Moment When Things Break?"
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Dr. Eleanor Kaufman, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies, UCLA
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6:30 PM
Dinner & Reception
Many thanks to our sponsors, the UCI Humanities Center, UCI Comparative Literature, UCHRI, the International Center for Writing and Translation, UCI English, Postmodern Culture, UCI East Asian Studies, UCI History, UCI Gender & Sexuality Studies, and UCI Psychological Science. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Comparative Literature administrative personnel for their help in putting this event together. The Moment of Danger conference organizers are Ashley Call, Shiqi Lin, Gayatri Mehra, Anannya Mukherjee, Ann Tran, and Alexandra Yan.
FRIDAY 21
10:30 AM
Breakfast
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11:00 AM
Panel: Melancholia​
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Aaron Eldridge (UC Berkeley), “Abiding Ruins: On Dispossession and Theophany in Lebanon”
Steffi Lang (CU Boulder), “Towards Immanent Gardens: Finding Walter Benjamin’s Angel in Sufi Conceptions of the Ineffable”
Williston Chase (UCI), “Anti-fascist despair in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Panic Signs”
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Respondent: Jane O. Newman (UCI Comparative Literature)
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12:30 PM
Lunch​
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1:30 PM
Panel: Reorientations
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Will Saladin (UCI), “Subtle Re-Orientations: Social
Survival in Négar Djavadi’s Désoriental”
Jiaqi Wang (CU Boulder), “Form Matters: The Private Interpretation of Public Infrastructure in The Road”
Rosalena Ruiz (CSU Long Beach), “‘It wasn’t
destroying. It was making something new’: Confronting Anthro-Mort and Conceptualizing Life/Death Through Annihilation”
Respondent: Margherita Long (UCI East Asian Studies)
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3:00 PM
15 Minute Break
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3:15 PM
Dangerous Moments
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Amy Lantrip (UCI),“ Writing Science Fiction and Satire in Our Moment of Danger“
Marcus Clayton (USC), “The Good Hair“
Ella Turenne (UCI), “Migrant Sound(e)scapes“
AJ Urquidi (CSU Long Beach), “Smothering Climates“
Brooklynn Johnson (Ali Youssefi Project), “Weather“
Respondent: Ketu Katrak (UCI Drama)
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5:15 PM
Closing Remarks
Dr. Annie McClanahan, Associate Professor of English, UCI
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