9:00–9:30: Coffee and Remarks

9:30–11:30: Session I
"CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"
Respondent: Sharrona Pearl, Asst Professor of Communication

• Megan Cook, English, Penn
  The Non-History of the Non-Reading of Thomas Usk’s “Testament of Love”
• Neil Crimes, Music, Penn
  The First Cut is the Deepest: On Lacan’s Splitting and Music in the Margins
• Emily Hyde, English, Princeton
  “Heroic Cutting:” Auden in China
• Tal Kastner, English, Princeton
  Bartleby and Boilerplate: Paradigms of Failed Connection?

11:30-12:30 | Lunch

12:30-2:30 | Session II
CORPORAL BOUNDARIES AND UN-BOUND BODIES
Respondent: Salamishah Tillet, Asst Professor of English

• Denise Dahlhoff, Communication, Penn
  Converting Strangers to Intimates: Cultural and Societal Implications of Online Dating as Shortcut for Romantic Connections
• Yumi Lee, English, Penn
  Identifying Across in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black
• Christine Marks, English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
  Closed, Open, and Overmixed Bodies in Siri Hustvedt’s Novel What I Loved
• Lisa Mendelman, English, UCLA
  Reading into Silence: Desire and Intimacy in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus

2:30-2:45 | Break

2:45-4:45 | Session III
COALITIONS AND THEIR FAILURES
Respondent: Jeffrey Green, Asst Professor of Political Science

• Peter Clericuzio, History of Art, Penn
  Art Nouveau and French Connections with Alsace-Lorraine, ca. 1900-1914  
• Scott De Orio, German, Penn
  Is Pederasty Gay? Discourses about Male Intergenerational Intimacy during the Early German Homosexual Emancipation Movement
• Elias Saba, Near Eastern Language and Civilizations, Penn
  Heroes, History, and Fiction: Rereading and Rewriting History in Ba’thist Iraq
• Jason Saunders, English, UVA
  “Imperial Boyhood”: Masculine Rivalry, Interracial Desire, and the Limits of Empire in Absalom, Absalom

5:00–6:30 | Keynote
Laura Otis, Professor of English, Emory University
Reconnecting Verbal and Visual Thinking