Registration fee: $35 for faculty, $15 for students |
Friday
October 21 Welcome Dinner
Candlelight Room, International Inn
7:00-7:30: Cocktails
7:30-8:30: Dinner
|
Schedule
of Presentations
Saturday October 22 |
9:30
to 11:00 Sessions |
I
Audubon RoomChair: Robert Kibler
"Who Aint A Nobody?": The Problem Of Identity In Melvilles
Israel Potter
Bethany Andreasen (MSU)
Performance, Growth, and Independence: Marjorie Westriding Yrarier in
the Works of Sheri S. Tepper.
Sherry Stoskopf (MSU)
Something Rotten in America: Decadence in Poe and Faulkner
ShaunAnne Tangney (MSU) |
II
Missouri RoomChair: Amanda Moser
Ambiguous Gender and Obscured Sexual Identity in The Sun Also Rises
Jeanette Lardinois (MSU)
A Queer Eye for Chaucer / Chaucers Queer "I": A Feminist
Re-Vision of The Book of the Duchess
Christopher Lozensky (MSU)
Sardanapalus, the Man-Queen: Questions of Identity in Byrons Closet
Drama
Eric Furuseth (MSU) |
11:15
to 12:45 Sessions |
I
Audubon RoomChair: Christopher Lozensky
Unhinging Gender and Unveiling Homoeroticism
in Thomas Heywoods
A Woman Killed With Kindness.
Melissa Harris (MSU)
Queer Virginity: Medieval Representations of The Visitation
Michelle M. Sauer (MSU)
Sexual Conservatism, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Preference for Temporary
Relationships: Determinants of Mens Promiscuity
Shyamal Kumar Das (MSU) |
II
Missouri RoomChair: ShaunAnne Tangney
Suicide as an Act of Dissent Among The Naxi Tribespeople of Southern
Tibet Province.
Robert Kibler (MSU)
The Thing about Girls and Their Horses: Dissent in the Poems of Lisa
Lewis
Cynthia Nichols (NDSU)
Dissenting with Dissidence: The Haiku Poetry of Fort Lincoln Internee
Itaru Ina
Dr. Carolyn D. Baker (MaSU) |
2:00 to 3:30 Sessions |
I Audubon RoomChair: Elizabeth Dawes
The Tradition of Bättruäf of Central Switzerland:
Disseminating Vocal Differences through the Reiteration of Performatives
Barbara Hauser and Gustav Arnold (UND)
Decadent Times in Dachau: How the Future Dadaist Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
Met Her Jugendstil Architect Husband August Endell
Gaby Divay (Univ. Manitoba)
Henry Hammond Ahl: "In the Shadow of the Cross""
Marilyn Baker (U. Manitoba) |
II Missouri RoomChair: Daniel Ringrose
Kinshasa, Tales of the Invisible City: The Productivity of Degradation
Scott Sigel (MSU)
How pernicious is this commerce? Foreigners and smuggling in eighteenth-century
Brazil
Ernst Pijning (MSU)
Eye Candy: An Exhibition of Sexuality and Sensuality in the pre-Lenten, Trinidad
Carnival.
Johnny Coomansingh (MSU) |
III Metigoshe Room
Panel Discussion:
Womens Space in the Arts and Sciences
Moderator: Jane Laskowski (MSU)
Chris Beachy, Sherry Stoskopf, Joseph Jastrembski, and Linda Olson (all MSU) |
3:45 to 5:15 Sessions |
I Audubon RoomChair: Scott Sigel
Québécois Variants of French Proverbs
Elizabeth Dawes (U. Winnipeg)
QUERELLES DES ANCIENNES ET DES MODERNES : DISSIDENCE, DISSONANCE ET DÉCADENCE
DANS LA POÉSIE FÉMINISTE OUEST-AFRICAINE
Joseph Nnadi (U. Winnipeg)
French Letters and Youthful Dreams: The Secret Lives of Boarding School Families
in Nineteenth Century France
Daniel Ringrose (MSU) |
II Missouri RoomChair: Martha Berryman-Mayou
Aschenbach's Reading--and Ours: Aspects of Decadence in Thomas
Mann's "Death
in Venice"
George Slanger (MSU)
Mocking the Cultural Cold War, Dissenting from the Party Line:
GDR Screenwriter Manfred Bielers Banned Parody of the Hollywood Blockbuster
Pillow Talk
Dr. Maila Zitelli (MSU)
Jesus out of Babylon: A call for a melodic reformation of the institutional
captivity of incarnation metaphor
Rick Watson (MSU) |
III Metigoshe RoomChair: Ernst Pijning
Margaret Meads Coming of Age in Samoa: Stories, Facts and
Falsehoods in Ethnography
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (U. Winnipeg)
The Shoshone Creation Story: Coyote's Medicine for Vagina Dentata
Ron Fischer (MSU)
Documenting and Restoring Mandan Stories: The (Re)creation of Culturally
Relevant Texts
Joseph Jastrzembski (MSU) |
Saturday, October 22
Evening
Event
Dinner, 6:30-8:00, including wine and beer for evening
Coffeehouse/Party, 8:00-open
Robert Kiblers House
702 2nd Avenue SE, in Eastwood Park
(701 838 3001 or 701 720 2716 for directions
Map will be handed
out)
*Hourly Shuttles to and from hotel and Roberts house
*Please register and pay for dinner ($16) at beginning of conference.
*Please think about a poem to read, a song to sing. |
Schedule of Presentations
Sunday October 23 |
10:00-11:30 Sessions |
I Audubon RoomChair: Margaret Sherve
Social Reform as Dissenting Society: Ambrose Bierces
Fiction
Jonathan Schechter (MSU)
Feminism as Defiance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novels
Chrystal Ruby (MSU)
Deviant Authorities in Hawthornes Blithedale Romance:
Priscilla and Zenobia as Covert and Overt Characters
Krista Barnick (MSU)
Homesteaders Defy Laws: Deviant Behavior in Sandoz Old
Jules
Margaret Sherve (MSU) |
II Missouri RoomChair: Jeannette Lardinois
Sentence Level Syntax and the complexity of the Alpha-Beta Clause
Complex
Karen Malcolm (U. Winnipeg)
"You Might be a Redneck If
": An Examination of Positive
and Negative Dialect Prestige in Contemporary Films
Patti J. Kurtz (MSU) |
12:00-1:30 Lunch and Business Meeting
International
Inn, Reflections Lounge |
For
More Information
contact:
Robert Kibler
E mail: Robert.Kibler@minotstateu.edu
Phone: 701 858 3876 |