Saturday, October 18
8:15-9:00
Registration

9:00-10:15 (Parlor)
Session 1A—Special Session:
“Speaking ‘Bulgarian’ on Slavi’s Show: Revising Gender and Nation in the Post-Communist Diaspora
Chair: Joseph Nnadi (U of Winnipeg)

Kathleen Dixon, Anelia Dimitorva, Juliana Gencheva, Neli Gogovska, Daniela Koleva (U of ND)—“Bulgaria’s History, Political and Mass-Mediated”
Dixon, Dimitorva, Gencheva (U of ND)—“Slavi’s Show in Bulgaria as Transnational Communal Enterprise”
Dixon, Gogovska, Koleva (U of ND)—“Slavi Trifonov and Mythic Masculinity”

9:00-10:15 (Terrace)
Session 1B—Women of the Future Present: Science Fiction
Chair: André Lebugle (U of ND)

Jane Huenneke (NDSU)— “‘Reading’ the Body: Resisting the Messages of Misogyny in the Star Trek: TOS* Episode, ‘Turnadot Intruder’”
Sherry Stoskopf (Minot State U)—“Marjorie Westriding Yrarier: A Mirror of the Modern Women’s Movement?”

Saturday, October 18, 2003
10:15-11:00
Welcome
by Daniel N. Erickson, LCMND President
&
Martha Potvin, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UND

Coffee Break

11:00-12:15 (Terrace)
Session 2A—The Painted Word: Twentieth Century Art
Chair: Sherrie M. Fleshman (U of ND)

Raymond Spiteri (U of ND)—“The Putrescent Ass: Salvador Dalí and the Paranoiac Body”
Kathleen Vacek (Independent Scholar)—“Twentieth Century Propaganda Art in Spain and China”

11:00-12:15 (Parlor)
Session 2B—French Literature
Chair: Juli A. Kroll (U of ND)

Joseph Nnadi (U of Winnipeg)—“Women Poets of the Restoration: From Revolution to Revolution”
Vincent Schonberger (Lakehead U)—“The Ontological Problem of Autogenesis in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos”
André Lebugle (U of ND)—“Trois comédies contre les puissants

Saturday, October 18, 2003
12:15-2:00
Lunch
in area restaurants
(There are several restaurants within easy walking distance of the Lakeview Inn and Suites.)

2:00-3:15 (Parlor)
Session 3A—Feminist Literature and Theory
Chair: Bill Cosgrove (NDSU)

KrisAnn Norby (NDSU)—“Reconstructing Female Identity in The Bell Jar”
Juli A. Kroll (U of ND)—“Carmen Bullosa’s Heretical Theater”
Jacqueline McLeod Rogers (U of Winnipeg)—“Growing Feminist Narrative Research Methodology and Discourse: Some Personal, Rhetorical and Personal Grounds”

2:00-3:15 (Terrace)
Session 3B—The Aesthetics of Poetry
Chair: Robert Kibler (Minot State U)

George Slanger (Minot State U, Emeritus)—“Filling in the Gaps: Jacques Maritain and Modernist Aesthetics”
Debra Maury (U of ND)—“The Ars Poetica of the Avant-Garde: Vicente Huidobro and Pablo Neruda”
Ben L. Collins (U of ND, Emeritus & Florida Atlantic U)—“ Billy Collin’s Ars Poetica: Our Laureate’s Poems on Writing and Teaching”

3:30-4:45 (Terrace)
Session 4A—Classical Studies
Chair: Debra Maury (U of ND)

Daniel N. Erickson (U of ND)—“Lysias’ For Mantitheus”
Peter Haugen (U of ND)—“Hamartia and Hubris in the Story of Oedipus”
Theodore Messenger (U of ND)—“Previous Logics: Prescient or Passé?”

3:30-4:45 (Parlor)
Session 4B—Comparative Literature
Chair: Jacqueline McLeod Rogers (U of Winnipeg)

Eric Furuseth (Minot State U)—“If heav’n thou can’st not bend/Hell thou shalt move: The Inferno and Book Three of the Dunciad”
Robert Kibler (Minot State U)—When a Good Raft and Compass Won’t Do: Ezra Pound’s Reliance in The Cantos on Guan yin, Chinese Patron-Goddess of Those Who Travel by Sea”

Saturday, October 18, 2003
6:00 Dinner
Brannigan’s Restaurant, Private Dining Room
3415 32nd Ave S.
(Across the street from the Lakeview Inn and Suites)
Host: Daniel N. Erickson, President, LCMND

Sunday, October 19

9:00-10:15 (Terrace)
Session 5A—Violence and Destruction in the Novel
Chair: Elizabeth Dawes (U of Winnipeg)

Tom Matchie (NDSU)—“Love and Death: A Woman’s Response to Violence in Louise Erdrich’s The Master Butcher’s Singing Club”
Sherrie Fleshman (U of ND)—“The Destructive Force of Desire in La nièce de l’imam”
Claudia Routon (U of ND)—“A Black Novel and The Dirty War: Luisa Valenzuela Discusses Confession in Novela negra con argentinos (1990)”

9:00-10:15 (Parlor)
Session 5B—Gender Studies and Queer Literature
Chair: Chandice Johnson (NDSU, Emeritus)

Michelle M. Sauer (Minot State U)—“Writing the (Queered?) Other: Displaced Sexuality & Masculinized Discourse in Women’s Novels”
Sarah Aleshire (Minot State U)—“The Queerest Sport: John Irving’s Wrestling Match with Gender”
Christopher Lozensky (Minot State U)—“‘I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you’: Pseudo-Sadomasochism and Erotic Misery in Whitman”

Sunday, October 19, 2003
10:15-10:45
Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 (Terrace)
Session 6A—Popular Linguistics and Folk Language
Chair: Tom Matchie (NDSU)

Erik Luther Williamson (U of ND)—“Jon Norstog: Defender of a Norwegian Folk Language; Crafter of His Own Literary Language in North Dakota”
Elizabeth Dawes (U of Winnipeg)—“English and Latin Anti-Proverbs in the French-Language Press”

10:45-12:00 (Parlor)
Session 6B—Writings on the American Plains
Chair: Claudia Routon (U of ND)

Carolyn Baker (U of ND)—“More than Just a Cup of Coffee: An Analysis of Native Minnesotan Playwright and Humorist Howard Mohr’s Presentation of ‘Accepting Food on the Third Offer’ Appearing in His Book How to Talk Minnesotan”
Eunice Johnston (NDSU)—“The Public and Private Henry A. Boller, 18th Century Traveler to the Upper Missouri”

Sunday, October 19, 2003
12:00 Lunch
(catered by Brannigan’s restaurant),
followed by
LCMND Business Meeting