THIRD ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, APRIL 2ND, 2005
ROMANIAN ROOM AND FRENCH ROOM, 4TH FLOOR MANOOGIAN
PROGRAM
9:00-9:30         REGISTRATION

PANEL 1: 9:30-10:50  GENDER STUDIES
Moderator: Eglee Colmenares
1. The Absent Referent in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Motel Hell and The Hills Have Eyes.
Margaret McGuirre ­ Wayne State University.
2. Homeless Bodies and Body-less Homes: Embodied Identities and Gendered Interventions in
Mira Nair's The Perez Family.
Parvinder Metha- Wayne State University
3. A Sois Belle et Tais-Toi: Delie, Sceve's Silent Woman.
Darlynn Griffin - WayneStateUniversity

PANEL 2: 11:00-12:40  MYSTERY IN NARRATIVE
Moderator: Nicola Wok
1. The Detective and the Criminal: Otherness in Detective Fiction
Lourdes Torres- WayneStateUniversity
2. Pass the Mystery On: The Liberation and Cultivation of Julia Alvarez's Literary Voice
Stefanie Wielkopolan - University of Michigan,  Dearborn
3. The Danger of Knowing: The Self as Other in Nuruddin Farah's Secrets and Jacques Derrida's The Gift of Death .
Sara TheresaFaraj - Wayne State University
12:45- 1:15 Lunch
1:15- 2:00 Keynote Speaker: Professor Gabrielle Scarlatta Eschrich, University of Michigan - Dearborn
The Other's Anthology: Domenichi's Collection of Women Poets (1559) and The Creation and Circulation of a Community of Letters. Introduced by Theresa Jordan

PANEL 3 2:10-3:30 ART THROUGH HISTORY
Moderator: Richard Work
1. Pizan's translation of Boccaccio's Griselda in The Book of the City of Ladies
Rachael Edford - University of Michigan  Dearborn
2. Ionel Teodoreanu's Grai Dulce: OeHearing as' in Lorelei.
Doris Runey - Wayne State University
3. Crawling from the Wreckage: The Ethics of the Avant-Garde
Joel Levise - Wayne State University

PANEL 4 3:40-5:00  TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES
Moderator:  Bruce Fox
1. The Descent of Europe: Pastiche and Arabic Travel Writing
Shashi Thandra - Wayne State University
2. The Chronicles of Narmia: Teaching Redemption to Children as an Opposition to the Other Kimba Levitt - University of Michigan  Dearborn
3. Ethnic Problem in Simon Bolivar's Independence Project
Eglee Colmenares - Wayne State University.
4. Social Perceptions and Bi-dialectal Students in the Urban American Classroom
Holly Walter-Cote -Wayne State University

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. RECEPTION
The Modern Languages Graduate Forum would like to express its thanks and appreciation to the following for their continuing help and support: The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The Department of German and Slavic Studies, El Club Hispano, Professor Gabrielle Scarlatta Eschrich, Professor Donald Schurlknight, Professor Donald Haase, Assistant Professor Anne Duggan, and the Graduate Student Conference Committee: Elsa Della Torre, Eglee Colmenares, Holly Walker Cote, Theresa Jordan, Luisa Quintero, Maria Ramos, Bruce Fox, Nicola Work, Richard Work, Jamila Doppke.

Co-sponsored by:
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of German and Slavic Studies
El Club Hispano
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