Program

All events take place in 1501 UH unless otherwise noted.

8:30–8:45am
BREAKFAST

8:45–9:00
WELCOME
José Camacho, Director
School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics

 9:00–10:45am
UNDERGRADUATE PANEL #1
Moderator: Elizabeth Loentz (Germanic Studies)

V Thonukunuri, “Learning Languages: Memory, Multilingualism, and Metalinguistic Awareness”
Advisor: Kara Morgan-Short

Brett Simon, “From Campus Job to Career Preparation: A Longitudinal Assessment of the LLA Program”
Advisor: Dolly Weber

Kanimoli Parthiban, “Retaining Student Engagement in a College-Level Beginner Language Class”
Advisor: Dolly Weber

Stephanie Montreuil. “Oracle Bones and the Journey to the East”
Advisor: Duosi Meng

Gabriella Cantu, “The Nahual as a Shield Against Colonization”
Advisor: Margarita Saona

David Todd, “Communicating Misogyny Through Looksmaxxing: How You Can Be a Better-Looking Misogynist”
Advisor: Krishni Burns

11:00am–12:00pm
MULTILINGUAL POETRY READING
Organized and moderated by Mariam Babiker (Classics and Mediterranean Studies)

12–12:45pm
LUNCH (1750 UH)

12:45–1:45pm
UNDERGRADUATE PANEL #2
“Language and Discrimination”
Moderator: Jill Hallett (Linguistics)

Kaden Grandinetti, “Linguistic Discrimination in the Courtroom”

Zoe Gray, “Pathologizing language in SLP”

Maghnus Hannaway, “A tale of two countries: Colonial and language revival policy approaches
to the Irish language”

Rae Reynolds, “GED Math Prep for Emergent Multilingual Students”

2:00–3:15pm
PAPER PANEL #1
Moderator: Beth Maldonado (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

Agnes Sobolewska (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies):
“’A Multilingual Ear’ of Psychoanalysis: Centers and Margins in the International World of Psychoanalytic Language”

Jessica Hoselton (French and Francophone Studies):
“Living in More than One Linguistic World Through Study Abroad”

Claudia R. Fernández (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Listening to Our Students: Exploring Goals, Attitudes, and the Value of Multilingualism in Beginning Spanish”

3:30–5:00pm (1501 UH)
PAPER PANEL #2
“Literary Translation: Theory and Practice”
Moderator: Dianna Niebylski (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

Maddox Arnold (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Translating Diana Gurrola’s Poem, ‘Armagedón,’ from Spanish to English”

Diana Gurrola (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Armagedón: A Response to Maddox Arnold’s translation”

Bianca Miguel (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Hunter or Prey: Translating Ambiguity in Lygia Fagundes Telles’s A caçada”

Ipsita Mukherjee (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Translating Julio Cortázar’s Historias de cronopios y de famas into English”

3:30–5:00pm (1750 UH)
PAPER PANEL #3
Moderator: Yann Robert (French and Francophone Studies)

Karina Duncker-Hoffmann (Germanic Studies):
“From Moor to Megastage: Droste-Hülshoff, Taylor Swift, and the Poetics of Vulnerability”

Rose Gérazime (French and Francophone Studies):
“Southern Bloods, on Blood and Identity in Kanor’s Louisiane”

Sofiia Osokina (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies):
“Revolutionary Poet or Imperial Voice? Pushkin in Polish Discourse of the 1930s”

Zoey Grant (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies):
“Towards Rhythm: From Witold Gombrowicz’s Ślub to its Spanish Work El casamiento”
(Lightning Talk)

8:30–9:00 am
BREAKFAST

9:00–10:15am
PAPER PANEL #4
Moderator: Luis Lopez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

Krishni Burns (Classics and Mediterranean Studies):
“Nomenclature of the goddess Cybele”

Umar Shareef (Religious Studies):
“Governing from Within: How ‘Restricting the Permissible’ (Taqyīd al-Mubāḥ) Reframes Siyāsa in Islamic Law”

Falaiye Ruth Ireti (Germanic Studies):
“Kinship and Transatlantic Friendship in Kafka’s ‘Das Urteil’”

10:30–11:45am
PAPER PANEL #5
Moderator: Krishni Burns (Classics and Mediterranean Studies)

Nahia Frias Bilbao (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Processing Counterevidence in a Second Language: The Role of Emotional Resonance in Belief Updating”

Luis López (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“I would rather see more bullshit”

Andrew Modaff (Germanic Studies):
“Reading Alsatian women during the Reichsland-era and World Wars (1871 – 1945) through the lens of Chicana Feminism”

11:45am–12:30pm
LUNCH

12:30–1:45pm
PAPER PANEL #6
Moderator: Matthew Kendall (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)

Ekaterina Petrenko (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies):
“Mediating AIDS Crisis: Non-Verbal Visual Language in AIDS Films in 1987-1992”

Dagmara Rode (Polish, Russian and Lithuanian Studies):
“Wanda Gościmińska, a member of parliament. Notes to the Polish abortion history”

Alena Kiianichenko (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies):
“From Cine-Eye to Inter-Face: Dziga Vertov’s Aspirations in the Era of Smartphones”

 2:00–3:45pm
UNDERGRADUATE PANEL #3
Moderator: Xuehua Xiang (Linguistics)

Johaness Kwon & Roselynn Perez, “KPop Demon Hunters: Expanding the Korean Wave (Hallyu)”
Advisor: Hanae Kim

Isaac Gelman, “Catullus and Politics in the Late Roman Republic”
Advisor: Krishni Burns

Alex Tomy, “Sickly Sweet Sycophancy”
Advisor: Xuehua Xiang

Wendy Schwartz, “Laughter Tokens as Pragmatic Markers in Online Conversation: A Quantitative Corpus of a Discord Group Chat”
Advisor: Xuehua Xiang

Daniella Galvan. “Semantics of Subtitling”
Advisor: Xuehua Xiang

Susie Summerlot, “Activeness and Passiveness of Catullus in the Basia Poems.”
Advisor: Krishni Burns

4:00–5:15pm
A TOAST TO RESEARCH (with refreshments)
Moderator: Tatjana Gajic (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

FACULTY BOOK SHOWCASE

Krishni Burns (Classics and Mediterranean Studies):
Bringing their Mother Home: Roman Multiculturalism and the Mother of the Gods (U of Michigan Press, 2025)

Young Kim (Classics and Mediterranean Studies):
Reimagining Classics, the Classroom, and Community with Luis Alfaro, edited by Young Richard Kim (Routledge, 2026).

3-MINUTE DISSERTATION PRESENTATIONS

Patrick Cook-White (Germanic Studies):
“The Economic Functions of the Literary Gypsy”

Karina Duncker–Hoffmann (Germanic Studies):
“Managing Feelings: Emotional Labor and the Hausfreund in Nineteenth-Century Realism”

Erin Ritchie (Germanic Studies):
“Corporeal Excess: The Minor Agencies of Non-Normative Bodies”

Charlie Smith (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies):
“The Socialist-Surrealism of Andrei Platonov”

Anna Torres Mallma (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Tracing Dystopian Walking in Contemporary Latin American Narratives”

Jess Ward (Hispanic and Italian Studies):
“Third Language Acquisition in Heritage Speakers Across Morphosyntactic and Phonological Domains”

Thank you to The Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Effectiveness for their generous support of this portion of the In/Between conference!

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