Conversions Conference Schedule – Stanford University
Friday, January 26, 2006
8:00 Introductions
SELF
8:20 Mary Druyvesteyn (University of Chicago) -- “1848: The Crisis of the Authorial Self: Alphonse de Lamartine and l'Histoire de la Révolution de 1848”
8:40 Mélanie Giraud (Johns Hopkins University) -- “La Chapelle des abîmes” dans Au château d’Argol de Julien Gracq : errance trans(formative) ou versions et conversions du Soi”
9:00 Hervé Picherit (Stanford University) -- “…Et Destouches devint Céline: Le Voyage de celui qui est ‘mal dans sa peau’”
9:20 Q & A
9:40-10:00 Coffee break
TRANSLATION
10:00 Allison Crumly (University of California, Los Angeles) – “An Ethics of Imaginative Identification: Temporality, Translation, and the Artist in Waberi's Aux États-Unis d'Afrique”
10:20 Rocco Lacorte (University of Chicago) – “The Concept Conversion-Translation in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks”
10:40 Sara Kippur (Harvard University) – “From Yo to Je: Hector Bianciotti's Linguistic Conversion”
11:00 Q & A
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Keynote Speaker – Albert Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley) “Conversions of Reading: From Dante to Tasso”
1:30 – 1:50 Questions
DEATH
1:50 Marco Scalvini (New York University) – “Sin, Repentance, and Death: Conversion in the AIDS Epidemic”
2:10 Monica Olaru (University of Chicago) – “I Dedicate My Death to Literature: Conversion, Death, and Dénouement in Stendhal's The Red and the Black”
2:30 Yoon Sook Cha (University of California, Berkeley) – “Decreation and the Consent to Not ‘Take’ Communion: Simone Weil's ‘Spiritual Autobiography’”
2:50 Q & A
PERFORMANCE
3:10 Georgia Duan (Stanford University) – “Singing the Lectura Dantis: Conversion of the Voice in the Divine Comedy”
3:30 Tolga Akgun, Suzanne Loomis, Michel Bondurand (San Francisco State University) – “Découvrir le concept de ‘ conversion ’ dans les contes de fées à travers les voix des conteuses du XVIIème siècle”
3:50 Cosana Eram (Stanford University) – “Serate and Soirées -- Futurist and Dadaist Conversions”
4:10 Q&A
4:30 – 4:45 Coffee break
STRUCTURE
4:45 Amy Elghoroury (Stanford University) – “The Providential Structure of Giambattista Vico's Vita scritta da sé medesimo”
5:05 Dana Shelley (University of California, Berkeley) – “Cartesian Conversions”
5:25 David Marno (Stanford University) – “The Soul of the Decameron and Fiammetta's Conversion”
5:45 Q & A
Saturday, January 27, 2006
8:00 Introductions
RELIGION
8:20 Alexander Hampton (Stanford University) – “Dante's Own Personal Jesus: Apophatic Conversion in the Divine Comedy”
8:40 Andrew Hui (Princeton University) – “Petrarch's Unconversion from Augustine”
9:00 Tim Freiermuth (Brown University) – “Vers quoi se tourner? Impasse et Conversion dans deux romans décadents: A Rebours et Méphistophéla”
9:20 Florian Klinger (Stanford University) – “Augustine's Poetics of affectio”
9:40 Q & A
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
BODIES
10:30 Wei Hu (Dartmouth College) – “ ‘Idole Faire’: Spenser, Arcimboldo, and the Making of the False Florimell”
10:50 Pauline de Tholozany (Brown University) – “Traduction et conversion dans le texte des Mille et une nuits d'Antoine Galland: le rôle des animaux fabuleux”
11:10 Christy Wampole (Stanford University) – “Semiosis in Italian Literary Conversion”
11:30 Kris Trujillo (Harvard University) – “Out of the Closet and Baring It All: The Ethics of Gay Conversion”
11:50 Q & A
12:10 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 Keynote Speaker -- Françoise Meltzer (University of Chicago) “Theories of Desire: Antigone Again”
2:15 – 2:30 Questions
EROS
2:30 Jennifer Tamas (Stanford University) – “Declaration of Love as Conversion”
2:50 Karen Turman (University of California, Santa Barbara) – “The Codependency and Mutual Exclusivity of Love and Art”
3:10 Elizabeth Emslie (University of California, Los Angeles) – “The Form of Conversion / Converting the Form: From Erotic Religion to Divine Love in Dante, from the Vita Nuova to the Commedia”
3:30 Kathleen Tierney (Stanford University) – “Eros and Evil in Iris Murdoch’s Spiritual Vision”
3:50 Q&A
4:05 – 4:20 Coffee break
SPACE
4:20 Marianne Blanchard (Stanford University) – “La vie d’immigrés dans un squat de la région parisienne : Quand la transformation de l’esprit passe par la conversion de l’espace”
4:40 Paola Bonifazio (New York University) – “Marshalling Cavemen into Housing Projects: Post-War Films about the Reconstruction Program (1948-1953)”
5:00 Dina El Dessouky (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Gauging La Force de Frappe: Changing Spaces and Identities in the Fallout of French Nuclear Testing in Te Ao Maohi / French Polynesia”
5:20 Sarah Carey (University of California, Los Angeles) – “Pier Paolo Pasolini's Rome: Conversions of Peripheral Space / Ragazzi di vita: Conversions of Genre”
5:40 Q & A