Program

Inter(Action)

All events take place in 1501 UH unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, April 11 Heading link

8:45 • coffee and light pasteries

9:15-10:30 • Voicing and Silencing Narratives (Chair: Karina Hoffmann)

Adrian Chubb (Germanic Studies)
“You keep out of this” – Silence, violence and [the lack of] pain in Günter Grass’s Local Anesthetic
Zachary Fitzpatrick (Germanic Studies)
New Media, New Perspectives: Public Funding and the Redefining of Germanness on YouTube
Krishni Burns (Classics and Mediterranean Studies)
The Living Odyssey Project: Preliminary Results

10:45-12:00 • Breaking and Remaking Norms (Chair: Katarzyna Bojarska)

Michał Markowski (Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures)
Modern Hatred, or When Life Became Unbearable
Andrzej Brylak (Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures)
Prostheses, Caretakers, Editors, and other Mediations: Leo Lipski’s Creative Process
Sara Hall (Germanic Studies)
Babylon Berlin: Pastiching Weimar Cinema

12:00-1:00 • Lunch and Undergraduate Research Poster Session [1750 UH]

1:00-2:15 • Interrupted Expectations (Chair: Michał Markowski)

Katarzyna Bojarska (Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures)
Art that interacts with memory: the painful in-betweenness and the possibilities of self-criticism
Dianna Niebylski (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Lucrecia Martel’s Zama: An Adaptation
David Rodriguez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
El cerco de Numancia: The Subversive Interactions of Miguel de Cervantes

2:30-3:45 • Interactions in Linguistic Use (Chair: Iwona Lech)

Giedrius Subačius (Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures)
Points in historical sociolinguistics on the 19th century Lithuanian manuscripts
Lidia Aguilera Lora (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Pronoun use among third generation Spanish-speakers in Chicago
José Sequeros-Valle (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Discourse-free Intonation at the Spanish Left Periphery

4:00-6:00 • Keynote [Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall]

Barbara Di Eugenio (UIC Computer Science)
MyPHA: Mediating the language of doctors, nurses and patients

9:30 • coffee and light pasteries

10:00-10:45 • The Traverse of Meaning (Chair: Daiva Litvinskaite)

Patrick Fortmann (Germanic Studies)
The Stillbirth of World Literature in 1835/36: Goethe’s Idea and German Censorship
Brian Zdancewicz (Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures)
Lexical Borrowing in Russian and Polish from Scythians to Selfies

11:00-12:15 • Style, Subversion, and Self (Chair: Yann Robert)

Raisa Shapiro (Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures)
“The peculiar turns of that potentially revelation-bearing utterance”: Buber-Rosenzweig Leitwort Style and the Task of Translating Bruno Schulz
Sebastián Eddowes Vargas (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Teatro La Plaza: An Unconventional Strategy for Public Debate
John Ireland (French and Francophone Studies)
Missed Interaction: Malraux’s Aborted French Resistance Novel

12:15-1:15 • Lunch [1750 UH]

1:15-2:45 • Interactions in Language Learning (Chair: Briana Villegas)

David Abugaber (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Implicit Learning in an Artificial Language: A Replication and Extension of Batterink et al. (2014)
Claudia Fernández (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Reinas sin corona: Structured Input activities and their underestimated role in instruction
Angela Betancourt and Megan Marshall (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Addressing intra-Latino racism: A curricular unit for heritage speaker courses

3:00-5:00 • Academic Publishing Roundtable

Panelists

Open to all graduate students!