Schedule - Overview of Sessions

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Please send notice of cancellations to Craig Svonkin at svonkin@netzero.com.

Conference Registration: Hampton Room, 2nd floor, Malott Commons
Book Exhibit: Humanities Faculty Lounge, 2nd floor, Edwards Humanities Building
Coffee Stations: Hampton Room, 2nd floor, Malott Commons; Balch Hall 2nd floor; Edwards Humanities Building

Important Reminder: At 2 am (very late Saturday night, or very early Sunday morning, depending on your way of thinking) Daylight Savings Time Ends. This means that you should “fall back”—set your clock back from 2am to 1 am, thus traveling back in time (and gaining an extra hour for sleeping or socializing)!

Friday 6:30-9:00pm

Executive Committee Meeting (Balch Conference Room (BL 133))

Session 1: Saturday 8:30am - 10:00am

1 -01 A la (re)découverte de l’œuvre de Mohammed Dib / (Re)discovering Mohammed Dib’s Works (Balch Hall 220)
1 -02 American Literature after 1865 I: Interrogating the Postmodern (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
1 -03 Contemporary Music (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
1 -04 Ecocriticism I (co-sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
1 -05 Fictions of Peace (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
1 -06 Film and Literature (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
1 -07 Folklore and Mythology I: East Asian Varieties (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
1 -08 Germanics I (Balch Hall 218)
1 -09 Italian I: Literature (Balch Hall 219)
1 -10 Materialisms in Victorian Literature and Culture I (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
1 -11 Pi Delta Phi: Informational Meeting I (Balch Hall 208)
1 -12 Regional Poetry and the West Coast Poetry Renaissance (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
1 -13 Scandinavian Literature (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
1 -14 Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) I (Edwards Humanities Building 119)
1 -15 Travel and Literature I (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
1 -16 Women in Literature I: Self-Reconfigurations of Reputations (Edwards Humanities Building 203)

Session 2: Saturday 10:15am - 11:45am

2 -01 American Literature after 1865 II: Re-reading Modernisms (Balch Hall 220)
2 -02 Asian Literature and Culture I: Transcultural Practice in Modern China (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
2 -03 Beowulf and Related Topics (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
2 -04 Contemporary Italian Cinema (Balch Hall 219)
2 -05 Directions and Discoveries in Humor and Satire (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
2 -06 Documentary Films I (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
2 -07 Future Scholars Session: Interpreting Fairy Tales (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
2 -08 Hybrid Genres: Latin America (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
2 -09 Japanese-American Internment in Literature and Film (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
2 -10 Literature and the Other Arts (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
2 -11 Mid-Twentieth Century Poets and Cultural Change I: Mid-Century Innovators (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
2 -12 Modern Austrian Literature (Balch Hall 218)
2 -13 Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture I (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
2 -14 Pi Delta Phi: Informational Meeting II (Balch Hall 208)
2 -15 Science Fiction I: Body Politics (Edwards Humanities Building 203)
2 -16 Voices of Women in the Americas I (Balch Hall 203)
2 -17 Women in French I: Le corps féminin …et ses dimensions politiques (Edwards Humanities Building 119)

Saturday 11:45am - 1:15pm

Presidential Address Luncheon (Hampton Room, 2nd floor, Malott Commons)

Session 3: Saturday 1:30pm - 3:00pm

3 -01 "ABC, It’s Easy as 123”: Fun Activities for the Pre-Reader (Balch Hall 208)
3 -02 Bollywood Cinema (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
3 -03 Comparative American Ethnic Literature: States of National Belonging (Balch Hall 203)
3 -04 First Fiction: Remembering and Forgetting (Balch Hall 220)
3 -05 Folklore and Mythology II: Ritual and Archetype (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
3 -06 French (Balch Hall 218)
3 -07 Germanics II (Vita Nova 100)
3 -08 Gertrude Stein I (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
3 -09 Illustration as Interpretation: Paradigms in Reading Pictures and Re-Viewing Texts (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
3 -10 Italian II: Between History, Literature, and Film (Edwards Humanities Building 119)
3 -11 Materialisms in Victorian Literature and Culture II (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
3 -12 Medieval Literature I: A Cosmopolitan Middle Ages (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
3 -13 Neo-Nostalgia: Re-evaluating Nostalgia in Literature and Cultural Studies (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
3 -14 Science Fiction II: Young Adult and Mainstream SF (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
3 -15 Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) II (Balch Hall 219)
3 -16 Teaching Big Novels in Developmental Writing Classes? Seriously (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
3 -17 Voices of Women in the Americas II (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
3 -18 Women in Literature II: Gender Transformations and Contestations (Edwards Humanities Building 203)

Session 4: Saturday 3:15pm - 4:45pm

4 -01 American Gothic (Balch Hall 220)
4 -02 Asian Literature and Culture II: New Visions on the Silver Screen (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
4 -03 Chaucer and Related Topics (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
4 -04 Classics (Greek) (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
4 -05 Cultural Memory and Nation in Texts for and about Children (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
4 -06 Documentary Films II (Balch Hall 219)
4 -07 Ecocriticism II (co-sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
4 -08 Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Literature (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
4 -09 Gertrude Stein II: "Meditation meditation": A Joint Talk (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
4 -10 Graphic Novel: World Meets Image (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
4 -11 Literature and Religion (Balch Hall 208)
4 -12 Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture II (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
4 -13 Staging the Self in European Literature and Film (Edwards Humanities Building 119)
4 -14 Teaching Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures with YouTube (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
4 -15 Television (Balch Hall 203)
4 -16 Travel and Literature II (Edwards Humanities Building 203)
4 -17 Women in French II: Le Souvenir en littérature et cinéma A (Balch Hall 218)

Saturday 4:45pm - 5:00pm

PAMLA General Membership Meeting (Humanities Auditorium, Edwards Humanities Building)

Saturday 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Forum (Humanities Auditorium, Edwards Humanities Building)

Saturday 6:15pm - 7:30pm

Reception (Clark Museum, 2nd floor, Edwards Humanities Building)

Saturday 8:30pm-10:30pm

Graduate Student Mixer (Orchard Restaurant and Lounge, Doubletree Hotel Claremont)

Session 5: Sunday 8:15am - 9:45am

5 -01 American Literature before 1865 I (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
5 -02 Ancient-Modern Relations (Balch Hall 203)
5 -03 Child Figures in Literature I (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
5 -04 Comparative Media (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
5 -05 Composition and Rhetoric I: Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom (Vita Nova 100)
5 -06 Eve Out of Eden: Her Natural Place (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
5 -07 Fantasy and the Mundane in 19th Century Realism (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
5 -08 Film Studies I: Art, Ideology, and Image (Balch Hall 218)
5 -09 Food and Culture: Between Local Identities and Transnational Perspectives (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
5 -10 Hybrid Genres: Europe (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
5 -11 La Fontaine and Pascal: Ambiguity of the Ekphrastic “Hateful Self” in an “Imago Dei” World (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
5 -12 Linguistics (Balch Hall 208)
5 -13 Medieval Literature II: Texts, Audiences, and Afterlives (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
5 -14 Poetry and Disability (Balch Hall 219)
5 -15 Reading the Room: Literature and Architecture (Edwards Humanities Building 203)
5 -16 South Asian and Southeast Asian Literatures (Balch Hall 220)
5 -17 Virginia Woolf I: The Individual and the Group (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
5 -18 Women in French III: Le roman policier (Edwards Humanities Building 119)

Session 6: Sunday 10:00am - 11:30am

6 -01 African American Literature I: Constructing Blackness (Balch Hall 203)
6 -02 Alfred Hitchcock's Lesser Hollywood Films (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
6 -03 Child Figures in Literature II (Balch Hall 220)
6 -04 Classics (Latin) (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
6 -05 Composition and Rhetoric II: Rhetorical Analyses in Pedagogy and Practice (Vita Nova 100)
6 -06 East-West Literary Relations (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
6 -07 English (to 1700) (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
6 -08 Global Perspectives in Theatre (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
6 -09 Hybrid Genres: Asia (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
6 -10 Latina/o Literature and Culture I (Balch Hall 219)
6 -11 Mid-Twentieth Century Poets and Cultural Change II: Robert Lowell (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
6 -12 Postcolonial Literature I (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
6 -14 Romanticism (Balch Hall 208)
6 -15 Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular) I (Balch Hall 218)
6 -16 Wide Open Spaces I: Spaces in Literature (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
6 -17 Women and Work I (Edwards Humanities Building 203)
6 -18 Women in French IV: Le Souvenir en littérature et cinéma B (Edwards Humanities Building 119)

Sunday 11:30am - 1:00pm

Plenary Address Luncheon (Hampton Room, 2nd floor, Malott Commons)

Session 7: Sunday 1:15pm - 2:45pm

7 -01 African American Literature II: Mobilizing Race (Balch Hall 203)
7 -02 American Literature before 1865 II (Balch Hall 220)
7 -03 Autobiography (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
7 -04 Children's Literature I: Violence, Trauma, and Crisis (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
7 -05 Creative Writing: Prose Fiction (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
7 -06 Dialogues of Love: An Early Modern Best-Seller (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
7 -07 Film Studies II: Sex, Violence, and Society (Edwards Humanities Building 119)
7 -08 French Gastronomy and Culture: Culinary Resistance and Assimilation / Gastronomie et Culture Francaise: Resistances et Assimilations culinairies (Balch Hall 218)
7 -09 Germanics III (Vita Nova 100)
7 -10 Jewish American Writers (Balch Hall 208)
7 -11 Literature and Science I (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
7 -12 New Cinema of the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (Balch Hall 219)
7 -13 Poetry and Poetics I: The Here, the Feminine, and the Sublime (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
7 -14 Teaching with the Internet and Technology (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
7 -15 Transtemporal, Interdisciplinary Images of al-Andalus (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
7 -16 Wide Open Spaces II: Legible Spaces (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
7 -17 Women and Work II (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
7 -18 Women in Literature III: Across Time and Space (Edwards Humanities Building 203)

Session 8: Sunday 3:00pm - 4:30pm

8 -01 Animals as Self/Other I: Politics and Spirituality (Balch Hall 203)
8 -02 Asian American Literature (Balch Hall 220)
8 -03 Children's Literature II: Uses of History and Genre (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
8 -04 English (1700 to present) I: Liminality and Identity (Edwards Humanities Building 201)
8 -05 Filmic Failings: When Literary Adaptations Miss the Mark (Balch Hall 219)
8 -06 Gender and Sexuality Theory (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
8 -07 History in the Hands of American Women Writers (Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers) (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
8 -08 Hybrid Genres: US and Canada I (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
8 -09 Jewish Literature and Culture in "Trans-Iberia": Spain, Portugal and Latin America (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
8 -10 Latina/o Literature and Culture II (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
8 -11 Poetry and Poetics II: Poetics of Rhythm, Landscapes, Documentary, and Time (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
8 -12 Postcolonial Literature II (Edwards Humanities Building 119)
8 -13 Shakespeare and Related Topics (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
8 -14 Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular) II (Balch Hall 218)
8 -15 Stories and Histories: Narratives in Literature and Historiography (Edwards Humanities Building 203)
8 -16 Virginia Woolf II: Creating Persons (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
8 -17 Walter Mosley's World (Balch Hall 208)

Session 9: Sunday 4:45pm - 6:15pm

9 -01 A Novel Genre? Reading the "Fiction" in Creative Nonfiction (Balch Hall 203)
9 -02 Animals as Self/Other II: Social Critique (Balch Hall 220)
9 -03 Comparative Literature (Edwards Humanities Building 204)
9 -04 Converting Cultures, Building the Empire: American Missionaries in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Edwards Humanities Building 101)
9 -05 Critical Theory (Edwards Humanities Building 102)
9 -06 English (1700 to present) II: Gender and Cultural Expression (Edwards Humanities Building 119)
9 -07 Film Studies III: Adaptation and Society (Balch Hall 218)
9 -08 Hybrid Genres: US and Canada II (Edwards Humanities Building 103)
9 -09 Les Mots pour le dire: Narrating the Algerian Civil War (Edwards Humanities Building 104)
9 -10 Literature and Science II (Edwards Humanities Building 105)
9 -11 Oceanic Literatures and Cultures (Edwards Humanities Building 120)
9 -12 Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d (Edwards Humanities Building 202)
9 -13 Poetry and Poetics III: Poetic Expression, Activism, Exile, and Grief (Balch Hall 219)
9 -14 Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (Edwards Humanities Building 121)
9 -15 With Pens and Forks: A Frank Look at American Food Writing (Edwards Humanities Building 201)