2024 Conference

Thursday, April 4, 2024
In/Between 2024: Translation
Unless otherwise indicated, all panels take place in 1501 University Hall

Thursday, April 4
8:30–9:00 am: Coffee and breakfast
9–9:15 am: Welcome
Prof. Ellen McClure (French and Francophone Studies and History)
Director, UIC Institute for the Humanities

9:15–10:45 am: Paper panel #1
Moderator: Phill Cabeen (Germanic Studies)
Tatjana Gajic (Hispanic and Italian Studies): Visuality and Thought: Materiality of Earth in Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman’s Video Art
Luis López (Hispanic and Italian Studies): Misleading is and is not lying
Andrew Modaff (Germanic Studies): Ambiguity and Contradiction in Grillparzer’s Ahnfrau
Folorunso Odidiomo (Germanic Studies): Adoption, Affect, and Accumulation in Kleist’s Der Findling11:00 am–12:00 pm

Undergraduate student panel:
Translating linguistic discrimination into activism
(Faculty mentors: Jill Hallett, Liliana Sanchez)
Moderator: Jill Hallett (Linguistics)
Joshua Amyx: Perceived Language Hiararchy Among Heritage Speakers and its Impact on Acquisition
Mythreyi Namuduri: Multilingualism as an Asset for Language Revitalization
Kat Pope-Keegan: The case for offering ASL as a language requirement-fulfilling course at UIC
Elise Hotchkiss: Love in the Age of STEMinism: Crip Linguistics Perspectives of Contemporary Romance
Aditi Dhandapani: Discriminatory Behaviors in AI Chatbots

12:00–1:00 pm: Lunch
1750 University Hall

1:00–2:30 pm: Paper panel #2Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke (Germanic Studies)

Karina Duncker-Hoffmann (Germanic Studies): Die Gartenlaube (arbor) – liminal space on the threshold between nature and culture: How a 19th century trope regained relevance after 2020
Young Richard Kim (Classics and Mediterranean Studies): Thoughts on Translation, A View from Classical Studies
Ipsita Mukherjee (Hispanic and Italian Studies): Translating Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “60” from Bengali into Spanish Through English: Brian Zdancewicz (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies)
Time, Genre, and Transmission in Yuri Rytkheu’s The Last Shaman

2:45–3:45 pm: Strategic Planning
Open discussion on curriculum
Moderator: José Camacho (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

4:00–5:00 pm: Lecture
Nicole Wicha (University of Texas, San Antonio): Electrophysiological signatures of cognitive development and bilingualism in processing simple arithmetic
Sponsored by the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience
This event takes place in SELE 4289.Friday, April 5, 2024

Friday, April 5 8:45–9:15 am: Coffee and breakfast

9:15–10:45 am: Undergraduate research forum #1
Moderator: José Camacho (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Lisset Rodriguez: Role understanding of Spanish medical interpreters within the healthcare team and its effects on
interprofessional collaborative practice (Advisor: Diana Gonzalez-Cameron)
Chloe Swerdlick: Additive multilingualism: The role of proficiency in multiple languages in learning an additional
language (Advisor: Kara Morgan-Short)
Eliza Apavaloaiei: Musical Legacies: Children in the Reformation and its Contemporary Counterpart (Advisor: Ellen McClure) Bernadette Pitt-Payne: The Face of an Empire: Material Culture and the Image of Queen Victoria in the British Raj,
1857-1901 (AdvisorJunaid Quadri)

Ivan Tedrowe: “Opulent Textures”: Tolstoy, Wagner, and the Aesthetics of Expansiveness (Advisor Michal Markowski)

11:00 am–12:15 pm: Paper panel #2
Moderator: Ipsita Mukherjee
Jill Hallett (Linguistics): Translating the transnational: Migrants’ situated meaning-making of the plurilingual landscape
Jessica Hoselton (French and Francophone Studies): Crafting Practical Magic: Navigating Humanities Education in a Post-AI Era
Jeff Imbaquingo, Daniel Perez, Keyra Colón, Liliana Sanchez, Helen Koulidobrova (Hispanic and Italian Studies): COVID knowledge in indigenous communities

12:15–1:00pm: Lunch
1750 University Hall

1:00–2:30 pm: Undergraduate research forum #2
Moderator: Luis Lopez (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

Yael Lenga: Learning Languages with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Role of Feedback (Advisor: Kara Morgan-Short)
John Parisi: Propaganda and Rhetoric without Logic: From the Weimar Republic to Today (Advisor: Heidi Schlipphacke)
Hazal Su Ceylan: Self-Confidence and Language Skills of Language Learning Assistants at UIC (Advisor: Elizabeth Weber)
Hazal Su Ceylan and Daisy Munoz: The relationship between second language proficiency and neurocognitive processing (Advisor: Kara Morgan-Short)
Jimmy Del Re: The Language of Music Pedagogy: A Comparative Study of the Language of Academic and non-Academic Music Instruction (Advisor: Xuehua Xiang)

2:45–3:45 pm: Roundtable: Translation in/as Research and Teaching
Moderator: Elizabeth Loentz (Germanic Studies)Keith Budner (Hispanic and Italian Studies)

John Ireland (French and Francophone Studies)
Young Kim (Classics and Mediterranean Studies)
Dianna Niebylski (Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Konstantin Mitroshenkov (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies