Thursday, March 12th
9-10
Registration and Coffee & Bagels
10-11:15
Special Session
- Professor Zahi Zalloua, "Violence, Resistance, and Disruption in Fanon and Žižek"
11:30-12:15
Session 1: Cycles of Harm and Healing
- Lisa Faith Jordan, "Chasing Dragons: Drugs and Greif in 'Demon Copperhead'"
- Olivia Peters-Rivera, "Breaking the Chain: Creative Writing as a Tool for Disrupting Patterns of Inheritance
- Dylan Cohen, "Resounding Birthright"
Session 2: Technology, AI, and the Disruption of the Human
- Julia Annunziato, "The Overrated Flesh and Blood: SOMA's Redefining of What it Means to be Human"
- Alyssa Marquez, "What Gives Fanwork Value? Fan Perceptions of AI, Labor and Authenticity"
- Jonathan Hawks, "Reflection in Still Waters: A Production of Language
1-2:15
Session 3: Entangled Worlds
- Monyka Manoyrine, "Medium as Ecosystem: Portraying the Anthropocene Through Novel and Film Annihilation"
- Dr. Amrita Ghosh, "Multispecies Cohabitation and Ethics of Care in All that Breathes"
- Ana Valdes: "Interspecies Entanglement and Anthropocentrism in 'The Squire's Tale' by Chaucer"
2:40-3:45
Session 4: Rage and Resistance
- David Schwartz, "The Binding Thing"
- Dr. Christian Beck, "Views of Violence; Images that Disrupt and Pacify
- John Alloway, "Ten Pounds of Rage: David Wojnarowicz's 'Life of Disruption'"
Friday, March 13th
9-10
Registration and Coffee & Bagels
10-11:15
Session 5: Queer Bodies and Gender Revolt
- Amina Kotenko, "The Forbidden Fruit of Hedonism: Gender Fluidity and Moral Disruption in The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- Sara Grace Westmoreland, "Monster Fucker: Monster Romance as a Depiction of Accepted Feminine Rage"
- Isabelle Parm, "The Disneyfication of Snow White: Reimagining the Female Fairytale Protagonist"
Session 6: War, Time, and Ideological Fracture
- Fotima Akbarova, "War and Temporal Dislocation in Jane Austen's 'Persuasion'"
- Dr. Joseph Shack, Temporal and Narrative Disruption in the Gnomic Digressions of 'Beowulf'"
11:30-12:15
Session 7: Disrupted Perception
- Kassadra Faylun, "Disrupting the Fear of the Other in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness"
- Favour Boluwade, "Poetry as Data: Exploring the Impact of Migration on International Students' Identity"
- Dr. Sonia Stephens, "Disrupting the Experience of Nature: How AI-driven Species Identification Apps Affect Nature Observing Practices."
Session 8: Bounded Bodies and Worlds
- Karrington Tabor, "Laced Bodies, Oriented Desires: Corset and Romantic Legibility"
- Seven Garcia, "Fantasy Fiction and Utopia: A Close Reading of Kamome Shirahama's 'Witch Hat Atelier' and Its Usage of Fantastic Elements as a Vehicle for Social Criticism"
- Sarah Gilley, "Reclaiming the Orchard: Sustainable Ecofeminist Practices in 'Prodigal Summer'"
1-2:15
Session 9: Colonialism and Structural Violence
- Minah Patel, "Disruption of the Dalit Mind: the Double Colonized Subject in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable"
- Rhys Plantilla-Petit, "A Postcolonial Examination of the Unreliable Narrator in Tagore's 'Kabuliwala'"
- Grace Amui, "Eden"
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