Program

Rethinking Aesthetic Paradigms – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

9:30-11:00am

Moderator: Phill Cabeen (Germanic Studies)

• Steven Marsh (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
  “Landscape as Event: Geometrics and Geopoetics in Contemporary Spanish Cinema”
• “But Is It Art? Female Esthetics in 19th Century German Narrative Literature”
  Karina Duncker-Hoffmann (Germanic Studies)
• “Narratives of stillness: The ‘passing’ of one’s own life in The Portuguese Woman by Rita Azevedo Gómez”
  Jhon Freddy Hernández Alvarez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

Panel: Relevance of linguistic and cross-cultural appropriateness in communication during the pandemic – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

11:30am-1:00pm

Moderator: Margarita Saona (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

Presenters:

• Liliana Sánchez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
• Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University)

Revisiting and Reshaping Foundations – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

1:30-2:45pm

Moderator: Yann Robert (French and Francophone Studies)

• Michal Markowski (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)
  “Hysteria, Psychosis, and Neurosis, or Polish Literature under the Pressure of Globalization”
• David Diego Rodríguez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
  “Christopher Columbus: Man or Monument?”
• “Can a 17th Century Nun be a Feminist? The case of Sor María de Ágreda”
  Rosilie Hernández (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

Guest Presentation – https://go.uic.edu/kim-2-28-22

3:00pm • Hybrid Event (1501 UH and online)

• Eunice Kim
  Assistant Professor of Classics, Furman University
  “Killer Heroes in a (De)Colonized Curriculum” (abstract and details)

Reaching Students and the Public – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

9:00-10:15am

Moderator: Lara García Gómez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

• Elizabeth Dolly Weber and Jessica Hoselton (French and Francophone Studies)
  “Emphasizing Inclusivity and Diversity While Creating an Open Education Resource: A Story of Student Success”
• Krishni Burns (Classics and Mediterranean Studies)
  “Classics, Children’s Literature, and Public Outreach: Developing Calliope’s Library”
• Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies / Fulbright)
  “Building dialogue between young adults from Poland and Israel through educational projects––good practices and challenges”

Roundtable: Reflecting on Two Years of Teaching in Basic Language Programs – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

11:00am-12:30pm

Moderator: Polina Peremitina (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)

Participants:

• Lara Carina Schlömer (Germanic Studies)
• Kelsi Morefield (Germanic Studies)
• Vladislav Zemenkov (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)
• Polina Peremitina (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)

Featured Presentation – https://go.uic.edu/inbetween-alfaro

1:00pm

UIC Faculty Discussant: Young Kim (Classics and Mediterranean Studies)

• Luis Alfaro
  MacArthur fellow and associate professor of dramatic writing in the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California
  (additional details)
  ^{Co-presented by the Luis Alfaro Residency Project, which is supported by a grant from the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.}

Reading (and Writing) about Health and Disability – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

10:00-11:00am

Moderator: Anna Torres Mallma (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

• Margarita Saona (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
  “Hosting the Other’s Heart: Organ Transplantation from an Ettingerian Perspective”
• Lara Carina Schlömer (Germanic Studies)
  “Functions of Dis/ability in Contemporary German Literature”

Science Fiction and the Fantastic – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

11:30am-12:30pm

Moderator: Julianne Angeli (French and Francophone Studies)

• Margaret Miner (French and Francophone Studies)
  “On Revolving and Reviving: Some Attempts to Collar Death”
• Brian Zdancewicz (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)
  “Face-to-Face with an Alien World: Levinas and the Parable of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris”

Faculty Book Showcase #1 – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

1:00-2:15pm

Moderator: Karen Underhill (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)

• Patrick Fortmann, Kristallisationen Von Liebe: Zur Poetik Des Gefuhlswissens Zwischen Romantik Und Realismus (Crystallizations: On the Afterlives of Romantic Love)
• John Ireland, Translation and critical edition of Noureddine Aba’s La Récréation des clowns (Clowns at Play)
• Michal Markowski, Polska, rozkosz, uniwersytet (Poland, Pleasure, University)
• Margarita Saona, Despadre: La masculinidades, travestismo y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana

Undergraduate Student Research #1 [poster session] – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

3:00-4:30

Moderator: Keith Budner (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

For details see the dedicated page.

Walter Benjamin, translations, and originals – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

10:30-11:45am

Moderator: Vladislav Zemenkov (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)

• Polina Peremitina (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)
  “We Find Ourselves Part of the Tree of Codes”: Benjamin, Schulz, and Foer on the Inaccessibility of the ‘Original’”
• Wiktoria Adamczyk (Germanic Studies)
  “Explication as a Translational Strategy: An Analysis of the Polish Translation of the novel Vielleicht Esther by Katja Petrowskaja”
• Hannah Gadbois (Art History)
  “Giving Pause: Walter Benjamin and Montage’s Caesura”

Faculty Book Showcase #2 – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

12:00-1:15pm

Moderator: Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies / Fulbright)

• Young Kim, Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea
• Ellen McClure, Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy
• Junaid Quadri, Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity
• Xuehua Xiang, Language, multimodal interaction and transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese Marketplace

Undergraduate Student Research #2 [poster session] – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

2:00-3:30

Moderator: Roselyne Gérazime (French and Francophone Studies)

For details see the dedicated page.

Roundtable: Student Diversity, Demographics, Curriculum – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

9:00-10:30am

Moderator: Elizabeth Loentz (Germanic Studies)

• José Camacho (Hispanic and Italian Studies; Director, School of LCSL)
• Chiara Fabbian (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
• Sara Hall (Germanic Studies)
• Young Kim (Classics and Mediterranean Studies)

Queer Studies – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

10:30-11:45am

Moderator: Erin Gizewski (Germanic Studies)

• Heidi Schlipphacke (Germanic Studies)
  “Lesbian Desire and the Jump Cut”
• Paula Moreno Malo (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
  “Wild Subjects in Spanish Cinema of the 60s”
• Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick (Germanic Studies)
  “Queer Post-Migrant Utopia and Fan Practices in the Transmedial Web Series DRUCK”

Indigenous Languages – https://go.uic.edu/join-inbetween2022

12:30-1:30pm

Moderator: John Escalante Martinez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

• Rosela Romero Cervantes Rodríguez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
  “A state of the art review: recognizing speakers of indigenous languages in Chicago”
• Jefferson Imbaquingo (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
  “Haiga and haya as conjectural markers in Ecuadorian Kichwa-Spanish contact”

Guest Presentation – https://go.uic.edu/rutler-3-4-22

2:00pm

• Tracy L. Rutler
  Assistant Professor of French and Women’s Studies, Penn State University
  “Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature” (abstract and details)

Workshop: Developing Teaching and Diversity Statements for Academic Job Applications – https://go.uic.edu/inbetween-cirtl

3:00pm

Lead by CIRTL@UIC

Workshop Facilitators:

• Lauren Woods, PhD, Associate Director for Teaching Development Pathways & CIRTL@UIC
• Jackson Bartlett, PhD, Associate Director for Instructional & Professional Development in Inclusive Teaching

Workshop Pre-Work:

Please complete two short readings:

• O’Neal, Chris, Meizlish, Deborah, and Kaplan, Matthew (2007). Writing a Teaching Philosophy for the Academic Job Search. CRLT Occasional Papers. No. 23. University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
• Golash-Boza, Tanya (2016, June 10). The Effective Diversity Statement. Inside Higher Ed.

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