Second Annual Modern Languages Graduate Student Conference
Program
PANEL 1 VIVA VOCE
9:30-10:50
Moderator: Richard Work
1. What can Causative Errors in Hebrew Teach us about Causative Acquisition?
Shiri Katz-Gershon- Wayne Sate University, Linguistic Program.
2. Negative Idioms in German: an Argument for Lexical Decomposition.
Marie Klopfenstein-Wayne State University, Linguistic Program.
3. Ukrainian Possessives and the Uniqueness of the Third Person Possessive Pronouns.
Olexandra Geddeon-Wayne State University, Linguistic Program.
PANEL 2 GERMAN AND FRENCH NARRATIVE
11:00-12:40
Moderator: Theresa Jordan/ Elsa Della Torre
1. Das Hildebrandslied or The Lay of Hildebrand.
Candace Beutell Gardner-Wayne State University, German and Slavic Studies.
2. The War on Terror: A Progress Report from 1932.
Seth Knox-Wayne State University, German and Slavic Studies.
3. Francois le ChampiON: Comparing the Status of the Peasant with George Sand and Honore de Balsac.
Theresa Jordan-Wayne State University, Romance Languages.
12:45-1:15 LUNCH
1:15-2:00 Keynote Speaker: Professor Guy Stern
Introduced by Nicola Work
Exile Literature across Nations: Past-Present-Future.
PANEL 3 NARRATIVE, FILM AND MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA
Moderator: Bernadette Grech
1. Writing with the Body.
Elaine Zendlovitz-Wayne State University, Romance Languages.
2. Untangling the Web of the Spider Woman.
Silvana Sarmiento-McGillis-Wayne State University, Romance Languages.
3. His Singing Island: Post-colonizing Caetano Veloso.
Sandro Barras- University of Cincinnati.
PANEL 4 THE ART OF READING
Moderator: Shonu Nangia
1. Teaching Receptives Skill Strategies for Beginning Foreign Language Students.
Bernadette Grech-Wayne State University, Romance Languages.
2. Shattered Glass and White Spaces: The Novel City of Glass and the Poetry of Paul Auster.
Kathy Szerszen-Wayne State University, Romance Languages.
3. Cultural Studies, a Dialogical Reflection between Stuart Hall and Charles Stivale.
Maria Constanza Perez-Parish-Wayne State University, Romance Languages.
4. Elements of the Logic Discourse in Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."
Mihai Corobana-Wayne State University, Romance Languages.
5:00-6:00 RECEPTION