The EGSO presents its sixth
annual conference…
Constructing the Body, Constructing
the Text:
Literary
and Scientific
Discourses of the Human Body
Keynote Lecture:
Judith Halberstam
“Bees,
Bio-Piracy and the Art of Cross Pollenation.”
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Standish Room,
Science Library
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222
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Keynote Information
Judith
Halberstam is Professor of English and Gender Studies at USC and works
in the areas of popular, visual, and queer culture with an emphasis on
subcultures. She is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology
of Monsters (1995), Female
Masculinity (1998), and In a Queer
Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005). She is co-author of The Drag King Book (1999) and Posthuman
Bodies (1995). Her talk, “Bees,
Bio-Piracy and the Art of Cross Pollenation”, uses Sarah Franklin's definition
of the "transbiological" as a new formulation of the relays between
science and the body, biology and the human.
Professor Halberstam's speculative investigation of bees examines new
and fruitful ways of thinking about culture and science alongside one another
in an extended imaginative loop.
Ultimately, therefore, the bee represents a kind of queer
creature--female, group-oriented, busy, pollinating rather than reproductive,
helpful, productive of pleasure or nectar, bumbling yet organized, buzzing, and
always, dangerous.
Schedule
of Events
9:45-10:15
A.M. Breakfast
and Registration (Standish Room)
10:15-10:30
A.M. Opening Remarks (Standish Room):
Richard
Barney (UAlbany)
10:30-11:45
A.M.
Panel I (Standish Room):
Poetics and Narratives of the Body
Moderator: Illiu Ratiu (UAlbany)
~Alexander Moudrov (CUNY):
“Medical Treatises as Popular Literature in Early
Modern Europe and Colonial America.”
~Sam Truitt (UAlbany): “The
Body’s Pathogen: Its Composition at the Edge of
Speech.”
~Thomas Reese (CUNY): “The
Erotics of the Godhead: Queer Theory and
Biblical Narrative.”
Panel II (SL 320): The
Spectacle of the Body
Moderator: Rebekah Bale (UAlbany)
~Anne-Marie Thweatt (St.
Rose): “Diane Arbus’ An Apeture Monograph:
The
Real Behind the Illusion.”
~Ann Torrusio (St. Louis U):
“Dwarfs in Modern Literature: Voicing the
Marginalized in The Old Curiosity Shop and A
Prayer for Owen Meany.”
~Sarah Lennox (Clark U): “Victorian Approaches to Physiognomy in Jane
Eyre, The Mill on the
Floss, and The Woman in White.”
12:00-1:15
P.M.
Panel III (Standish
Room): Agency and Non-Transcendent
Bodies
Moderator: Steve Weber (UAlbany)
~Chris Rizzo (UAlbany): “The Management of Desire: Olson, Ethics, and the
Situation of
Biopower.”
~Steve
Weber (UAlbany): “The Drunken Prosthesis: A Conception
of the
Self/Body as
both Prosthetic and Intoxicated.”
~Jonas Williams (UAlbany): “Bodily Learning, Experimentation, and Higher-
Order Change.”
~Michael Peters
(UAlbany): “Lectures from Elsewhere to Hear, Quantum
Mind/Body of
Sun Ra as Catalytic Index for Sound-Environment-
Programming: An
Identified Flying Object, circa 1979.”
Panel IV (SL 320): The Body in Crisis
Moderator: Darcy
Mullen (UAlbany)
~Kaylan Isenberg (Chapman U): “Inaction as
a Result of Sexual Identity
Crises: Examining the Conflicts of the
Body, Gender, and Sexuality in
Cherrie Moraga’s Heroes and Saints.”
~Yin-Wei Earl Liao (CUNY):
“Body Imaged: Shame and Cultural
Contrivance in Shakespeare’s Venus and
Adonis.”
~Gina Occasion (CSU,
Fullerton): “‘I was just another man’:
Faulkner’s The Unvanquished and the
Threat of Gender
Ambiguity.”
1:15 – 2:15
P.M. Lunch (Standish Room)
2:30-3:45 P.M. Roundtable Discussion: “Dissecting the Body.”
(Standish Room)
Moderator: Steve Weber (UAlbany)
Featuring UAlbany Professors: Richard
Barney, Patricia Chu, Eric
Keenaghan and James Lilley.
4:00-5:15 P.M.
Panel V
(Standish Room): The Body Transformed
Moderator: Jonathan Coller (UAlbany)
~Dana Lawton-Balejko
(UAlbany): “‘You’ve stolen my heart’: Shelley’s ‘Heart’s
on Fire’ and Romanticism’s Disembodied
Bodies.”
~Lucas Hardy (UAlbany): “From ‘Traiterous Eye’
to ‘Sinking Heart’: Anne
Bradstreet’s Turn from External Perception
to Inner Feeling.”
~Erin Casey (UAlbany):
“Writing the (Grotesque) Body: Incontinence, Allegory
and Transformation in Henryson’s The Morall Fabilis of Esope.”
Panel
VI (SL 320): The Spectacle of the Body
Moderator: Deeanna Rohr (UAlbany)
~Minjeong Kim (SUNY,
Binghamton): “The Return of the New: A Woman-
Machine.”
~Kate Broad (CUNY): “Female
Bodies, Female States: Fantasies of Science in
Mary E. Bradley Lane’s Mizora: A Prophecy.”
~Melissa Dennihy (SUNY,
Binghamton): “The Politics of Gendered
Bodily
Control: Anorexia/Bulimia as both
‘Symptom’ and ‘Cure’ in
Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.”
5:15-5:45
P.M. Coffee Break (Standish Room)
6:00-7:00
P.M. Keynote
(Standish Room)
Judith Halberstam
(USC): “Bees, Bio-Piracy and the Art of Cross-
Pollenation.”
Special Thanks to…
Sponsors
SUNY-Albany Graduate Student Organization
EGSO
Atheneum International
English Department
Sociology Department
Women’s Studies Department
EGSO Committee
Joshua Bartlett
Jonathan Coller
Lucas Hardy
Dana Lawton-Balejko
Darcy Mullen
Steve Weber
Faculty Advisors
Richard Barney
Michael Hill
Logistics and Parking
The Standish Room is on the third floor of the Science Library (see link below to the campus map: north of University Field and east of Dutch Field). Parking is available for free at Visitor Lot P2 (in green on the campus map: east of the Science Library).
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