The Colloquium Committee proudly presents the sixth Annual Concordia Graduate Colloquium, "Anatomy of Passions."
The conference will take place on March 28 and March 29 in room H-762, and features graduate students from Concordia University and universities abroad. Please see the schedule below for more information.
For anyone who happens to be in Montreal next weekend...
We look forward to seeing you there,
English Graduate Colloquium Committee:
Bassel Atallah, Jennifer Baker, Jean-Francois Bernard, Lizzy Edwards, Megan Findlay, Caitlin Hartnett, Rachel Kyne, Jean-Marc Leblanc, Colin Martin, Valerie Medzalabanleth, Kathleen Ogden, Simon Reader, Katye Seip
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CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
SIXTH ANNUAL GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
ANATOMY OF PASSIONS
FRIDAY MARCH 28th
All panels held in Room H-762 (Hall Building)
PANEL 1: PENNING PERVERSION 11:30am – 1:00pm
Chair: Colin Martin
Sarah Cochrane, (University of British Columbia)
Psychopathic Feeling: Representations of Affect and Abnormality in Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
Mariiane Mays, (University of Manitoba)
Blood Runs Thicker Than Water: Perverse Humour(s) in Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion
Holly Luhning, (University of Saskatchewan)
Humanization of the Rake: Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess
PANEL 2: INSIDE OUTSIDE UPSIDE DOWN 2:15pm – 3:30pm
Chair: Caitlin Hartnett
Philip Koch, (University of Manitoba)
Dark Matters: Architectural Resistances and the Productions of Space
David Rozon, (Concordia University)
Architectural Personalities: Deviance in Norman Mailer's The Armies of
the Night
Jennifer Baker, (Concordia University)
Small Sources of Power: 18th Century Service and the Economy of
Information
KEYNOTE LECTURE 4pm – 5pm
Professor Allan Pero (University of Western Ontario)
"A Corporal Radioscopy": Lacan, Badiou and Baroque Love
EVENING RECEPTION 8pm
Irish Embassy Pub & Grill—1234 rue Bishop
SATURDAY MARCH 29TH
All panels held in Room H-762
PANEL 3: EXECUTION OF FEELING 10:45am – 12:15pm
Chair: Kathleen Ogden
Stephanie Yorke, (University of New Brunswick)
Affect and Representation in Two Accounts of the Execution of Mary Stuart, or Mary Stuart: Beheaded, and Still Talking Out Both Sides of Her Mouth
Nathan Szymanski, (Concordia University)
Anti-Catharsis and the Passions in Marlowe's Edward II
Rachel Price, (Concordia University)
Stoic Agency in John Donne's View of Death
PANEL 4: MASSIVE MANIPULATIONS 1:45pm – 3:15pm
Chair: Jean-Francois Bernard
Kate Trebuss, (University of Toronto)
Ordering the Elements of Affect: The Language of the Passions in
Paradise Lost
Chris Dilworth, (University of Montreal)
Drives and Affect: Motivation in the Theories of Butler and Sedgwick
Colin Martin, (Concordia University)
When Logic Fails: Nationalism, Marxism and a Place for Poesy
PANEL 5: SHOCK THERAPY: READING, REACTING AND REINTERPRETING 3:30-5:00pm
Chair: Valerie Medzalabanleth
Tine Appelman, (Concordia University)
Samuel Pepys: "all alone, like a man out of the world
Natalie Huffels, (McGill University)
Tracing the History of Trauma in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White
Joan Wry, (McGill University)
Shelley's Mont Blanc: Romantic Affect and the Negative Sublime
THIRD ANNUAL YEAR END GRADUATE READING 8PM
Arts Café—201 Fairmount Ouest
