MOSAICS |difference|diversity|assemblage| Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, February 24, 2017

Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh

8 am – 9 am, Humanities Center, Cathedral of Learning 602

conference check-in and breakfast

9 am – 10:30 am, Cathedral of Learning 602

welcome and session I: panel 1: Representing the Other: Language, Culture and the Politics of Difference moderator: Jennifer Boum Make 1 Jason Hong, Yale University The Web of Antillean Identity in Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle 2 Russell Stephens, University of British Columbia Quels sont les plus Chinois? Or, the great “debate” on race, class, and difference between the caricaturists Honoré Daumier and Cham 3 Grace Duval, Pennsylvania State University Paradis Blues: Female Representation, Language, and Subversion

10:45 am – 12:00 pm, Cathedral of Learning 602

session II: panel 2: Mapping Bodies: Between Text and Flesh moderator: Brendan Ezvan 1 Camille Chanod, Duke University/Université Paris Diderot Dancing on Checkerboard: Freedom and Diversity 2 Jonah Clifford, University of Victoria Mind Mapping Agamben 3 Marine Theunissen, Université du Québec à Montréal La figuration érotique et charnelle de corps composites : L’orgie, le monstre et l’hybridation du corps augmenté

12 pm – 1:15 pm, Frick Fine Arts Cloister

lunch

1:30 pm – 2:45 pm, Cathedral of Learning 602 and 501

session III: panel 3 (room 602): Historiographies of Form: Temporality and Narrative in Italian Fiction moderator: Eleonora Carboni 1 Eufemia Baldassarre, University of Chicago L’epistolario di Niccolò Machiavelli: un’auto-biografia 2 Fadil Moslemani, University of Chicago Morselli ucronico, o l’impiego di una temporalità dissimile 3 Donatella D’Aguanno, University of Pittsburgh Incontro metaletterario: l’Inferno dantesco e La Strada di Cormac McCarthy

MOSAICS |difference|diversity|assemblage| Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, February 24, 2017

Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh panel 4 (room 501): Proust and Céline: Mosaics of Text, Image and Sound moderator: Jonathan Devine 1 Giorgia Bordoni, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The “petite musique:” Céline’s literary machine as assemblage of intensities 2 Marine Authier, University of Kent The Image in Pieces: The Movable Mosaic in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu 3 Masnoon Majeed, Miami University of Ohio The Musical Phenomena: The Authenticity of Musical Experience in Swann's Way and Nausea

3 pm – 4:15 pm, Cathedral of Learning 602

session IV: panel 5 Narrativizing Space: Intertextuality and Genre moderator: Emma BenHadj 1 Delphine Piétu, Université Paris Diderot Mosaïque des espaces et des loisirs dans les espaces verts parisiens (de 1880 à la Seconde Guerre mondiale) 2 Marie Raulier, McGill University L’intertextualité des Comptes amoureux de Jeanne Flore : bigarrure et modernité 3 Maryse Sullivan, Université d’Ottawa Recyclage et assemblage : la construction des “mondes des contes” dans les récits de voyage imaginaire pour la jeunesse

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Cathedral of Learning 602

keynote address: Dr. Alison James

University of Chicago Assembling the Infinite: Lists and Limits in Experimental Writing

closing address:

Dr. Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh

7:00 pm, Bridges

happy hour

The Conference Committee would like to thank: Dr. Alison James, University of Chicago Monika Losagio Liz Conforti Alana Dunn Lydia Heyliger Dr. Lina Insana Heinz Memorial Chapel Our sponsors: Year of Diversity, Humanities Center, World History Center, University Center for International Studies, European Studies Center, Program of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies Program, Film Studies Program, Department of Classics, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Department of Linguistics