The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 28th Annual Conference
The Ocean and the Seas
Where:
Victoria College
University of Toronto
91 Charles Street West
February 23-24, 2018
Open Registration
Schedule (to download the schedule, click here: Conference_schedule)
Friday, February 23
9 am Registration and coffee
9:30 am Welcome Address
10 am – 11:30 am Seacraft: Poetics Unmoored
Clara Chang (University of Toronto)
Open-Ocean Survival in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, Minecraft, and Subnautica
Nathaniel Harrington (University of Toronto)
Tha fhios gu bheil fàire / eile air fàire: Borders, boats, islands, oceans
Leila Crawford (University of Otago)
“I caught a tremendous fish”: Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, and the Problem of the Hydrocommons
11:45 am – 1:15 pm Migritude and the Contemporary Politics of the Mediterranean
Ashna Ali (CUNY)
New Migrant Docudramas of the Black Mediterranean
Hadji Bakara (University of Michigan)
Refugee Futures, Non-Sovereignty, and Muriel Rukeyser’s “Mediterranean”
Julia Hori (Princeton University)
Tourist and Refugee as Indices of Maritime Mobility in Luca Duadagnino’s A Bigger Splash
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Lunch at the Centre for Comparative Literature
2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Floating, Diving, Sailing: Remembering Through Water
Maxwell Uphaus (University of Toronto)
Oceanic Histories and Maritime Homelands from Froude to Walcott
Jonathan Howard (Boston College)
Blue Inquiry: Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
Corinne Lajoie (Université de Montréal)
Of Bodies as Ballast: Sharpe and Bergson on the Weight of Memory
4 pm – 5:30 pm Whose Sea Is It? The Ocean and the Political Imaginary
Minke Jonk (Leiden University)
The Suez Canal and Maritime Fiction
Lily Tarba (University of Toronto)
“Who Has a Sea Like Ours?”: The Imagery of the Black Sea in Galaktion Tabidze’s Poetry
Yutaka Yoshida (Tokyo University of Science)
Sea as Governmentality: East Asian Traces of the Cold-War Militarization and Racialization in Early-1950s Caribbean Literature
5:45 pm – 7:15 pm
Keynote Address: Mary Nyquist (University of Toronto)
Atlantic Crossings: Cartography, Slavery, Insurgency
7:15 pm Wine Reception at Victoria College
Saturday, Feb. 24
9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration and coffee
9:30 am – 11:00 am Writers’ Panel: Mémoires de l’océan
Clement Cecilia Titilyo Alero (University of Ibadan)
Secrets in the Sea: Slavery and the Lost History of an African Returnee Family
Marianne Apostolides (novelist)
The Stand of the Tide: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Deep Salt Water
Sebastián Ibarra Gutiérrez (Université Laval)
Traduire l’océan: le parcours linguistique et phonétique dans l’édition bilingue du recueil de poèmes L’océan à contretemps
9:30 am – 11:00 am Literature and Critical Theory Undergraduate Panel
[Presentations will be announced shortly]
11:15 am – 1:15 pm Aqueous Aesthetics: The Possibilities and Limits of the Oceanic
Metaphor
Panel with: Jayne Wilkinson (Independent Scholar), Neil Surkan (University of Calgary), and Mikka Jacobsen (University of Calgary)
Followed by: Maura Coughlin (Bryant University) and Emily Gephart (School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University)
Fish Tales: Shoreline Encounters with Symbolist Mer-Creatures
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Lunch at the Centre for Comparative Literature
2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Keynote Address: Karin Amimoto Ingersoll (author of Waves of Knowing)
Seascape Epistemology: An Embodied Knowledge of and Movement through the Sea
4 pm – 5:30 pm Food, Fuel & Futures
Aaron Sawatsky (Independent Scholar)
Transnational and Environmental Determinism in British Columbia’s Salmon Fisheries, 1875-1901
Saba Pirzadeh (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Literary Waters, Petro-Violence and Ecological Ethics in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawaii Manoa)
Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise
6 pm – 7:30 pm
Keynote address: Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)
Tailings, Embankments, Strainings: Political Concepts for a Geontological World
8:00 pm Drinks, pizza and games at Track & Field (860 College West)
The Ocean and the Seas / L’océan et les mers 