LCMND Conference, September 27-29, 2007

Thursday

On-site Registration: 12:00-1:00 pm Thursday, September. 27, 2000, Alumni Center Atrium

Session A: 1:00-2:15 pm, Thursday, September 27

Panel 1: Memory, Detection, and Freedom, Reimers E, Lower Level

Chair: Andrew Trump, North Dakota State University

Alan Macdonell, University of Manitoba
"Summing Up in the Detective Novels of San Antonio"

Vincent Schonberger, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
"Jean-Paul Sartre's Conception of Art as a Political and Psychological Liberator"

Panel 2: Landmarks and Memory, Klefstad, Upper Level

Chair: Bruce Maylath, North Dakota State University

Sally Booth, University of Guelph
"In-Between: Narrating Toronto's Landmarks"

Anthony Arrigo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Desert: The Memorial Function of Hoover Dam--A Rhetorical Perspective"

Fredessa Hamilton, North Carolina State University
"Chiseled in Stone: The Presence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as Represented in the Washington, DC, King Memorial"

Panel 3: Memory and Eastern Europe, Reimers W, Lower Level

Chair: Muriel Brown, North Dakota State University

Sylvia Mittler, University of Toronto at Scarborough
"Memorializing the Trivial: Carnivalesque Historiography, Popular Identity and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos"

Maila Zitelli, Minot State University
"Border Calls for Reckoning: German, Czech and jewish Voices on the (Phone)line in L. Aškenazy’s The Conversation Will Be Charge to Your Account"

John K. Cox, North Dakota State University
"A Man on the Brink: Remembering Ismail Kadare's Personal Cold War"

Session B: 2:30-3:45 pm, Thursday, September 27

Panel 1: Stylistics and Memory, Klefstad, Upper Level

Chair: James J. Floyd, University of Central Missouri

Mark William Brown, Jamestown College
"'Slipp'd from Oblivion': Atavism, Archaism, and Allusion in Robert Bridges' 'Low Barometer'"

Russel Hirst, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Brevity as Virtue and Aid to Memory"

Bruce Maylath, North Dakota State University
"The Words That Jog Our Memories--and Those that Don't"

Panel 2: Prosthetic Memory, Reimers E, Lower Level

Chair: Miriam Mara, North Dakota State University

Christina Weber, North Dakota State University
"Social memory and the Shaping of American Masculine Identity: An Analysis of War Veteran Memoirs"

Sarah Burcon, Wayne State University
"Spaces of Memory: Performance as Feminist Praxis in Gayl Jones's Corregidora"

Joy Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
"Making Prosthetic Memory: Difficult Images, Disturbing Artifacts"

Panel 3: World Literatures in French and Spanish, Reimers W, Lower Level

Chair: Marie Vautier, University of Victoria, BC

Mamadou Samb, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"Mémoire et Ethnologie: du gauchissement des Règles Anthropologiques
dans L’écriture de Michel Leiris "

Rafael Hernandez, Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
"Time and Memory in Garcia Marquez's Living to Tell the Tale"

Marie Vautier, University of Victoria, BC
"An Examination of Pierre Nepveu's Des Mondes peu habités"

Reception: 4:00-5:00, Alumni Center Atrium

Friday

Session C: 9:15-10:30 am, Friday, September 28

Panel 1: Violent Events and Aftermaths, Klefstad, Upper Level

Chair: Elizabeth Wright, River College

Merry Rendahl, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"Students Remembering Students: Student Speeches Memorializing Individuals from Virginia Tech"

Gordon Coonfield, Villanova University
"'We Will Never Forget': Virtual Past and Visual Memory in the Performance of Post Traumatic Space"

Panel 2: Ambiguity in National Identity, Reimers E, Lower Level

Chair: Andrew King, Louisiana State University

Carolyn D. Baker, Mayville State University
"Whose City is it Anyway"

James J. Floyd, University of Central Missouri
"Charismatic Terms and Cultural Amnesia in America"

Katherine Cruger, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Don't Forget the Air Force: Making Meaning at the United States Air Force Memorial"

Panel 3: Irish Literature, Reimers W, Lower Level

Chair: Sarah Burcon, Wayne State University

Ben Collins, University of North Dakota (Emeritus), Florida Atlantic University
"John Millington Synge's Attempts at Irish Tragedy"

Michelle Forness, North Dakota State University
"The Negative Impact of Memory and Identity: Ireland and the Clutches of Nationalism"

Miriam Mara, North Dakota State University
"Remembering Identity: Irishness and Globalism in Nuala O'Faolain's Memoirs"

Session D: 10:45-12:00 noon, Friday, September 28
Century Theater, Memorial Union, second floor

Plenary Session: Michael Halloran, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Remembering the Battles of Saratoga: ad Bellum Purificandum”

Business Meeting: 12:30-1:30, Room of Nations

Memorial Union (main floor at north end of main floor at top of ramp and to the right). Bring your own lunch from food court on lower level of union.

Session E: 2:00-3:40 pm, Friday, September 28

Panel 1: Death and Loss, Reimers E, Lower Level

Chair: Karen Malcolm, University of Winnipeg

Dorothy Holley, Jamestown College
"Memories: Motif and Metaphor in Creative Nonfiction"

Monique Dumontet, University of Manitoba
"Mourning, Memory and Art in Urquhart's The Stone Carvers"

Brooke Hessler, Oklahoma City University
"Artifact as Eulogy in the Oklahoma City National Memorial Gallery of Honor"

Kimberly K. Porter, University of North Dakota
"Awakening the Dead: Revitalizing Memory"

Panel 2: Fictional and Archival Memories, Reimers W, Lower Level

Chair: Sylvia Mittler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Alex McEllistrem Everson, University of North Dakota
"Politics of Displacement in Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow"

Ying Kong, University of Manitoba
"Resisting the Fixity of memory: The Tension between History and Fiction in Carol Shields's Happenstance"

Gaby Divay, University of Manitoba Archives
"FPG (Greve/Grove)'s Autobiographies, 1927 & 1946: Memories Corrected"

Panel 3: Holocaust, Klefstad, Upper Level

Chair: Maila Zitelli, Minot State University

Paula McHarg, Villanova University
"'Gray Zones' in Holocaust Resistance and Rescue: The Crena de Iongh Family and 'Zwartboek"

Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, University of Winnipeg
"Re-Membering the Holocaust in Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower: Helping Students Link the Historical wit the Ineffable and Provisional"

Miriam Raethel, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
"Traumatic Memory as Inheritance: Remembering the Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated and The Dark Room"

Amanda Yannella, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"A Thread of Hope: A Historical Narrative of the Holocaust"

Banquet: 5:30-8:00, Friday, September 28, Alumni Center Atrium

Saturday

Session F: 9:10-11:00 am, Saturday, September 29

Panel 1: Images and Death, Reimers E, Lower Level

Chair: Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, University of Winnipeg

Alison Dean, University of Guelph
"What the 'Body Knows' and the 'Camera Shows': Death and Memory in Personal Portraiture"

Elizabeth Wright, River College, Nashua, NH; Mary Fitzgerald; R. Michael Jackson, University of New Hampshire
"Remembering the Body: The Body as Sacred and Profane"

Jeff Ward, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"Memory, Memorializing: Spaces of and for Remembering"

Karen Malcolm and Barbara Becker, University of Winnipeg
"Historical Insights into Suspended Conversations of Edwardian Postcards"

Panel 2: Memory and Community, Reimers W, Lower Level

Chair: Amy Rupiper Taggart, North Dakota State University

David Gilbert, Maine Maritime Academy
"The Slow Food Movement: Commemorating the (Re)Past"

David A. Godfrey, Jamestown College
“A History Turns Around in His Mind”: Re-Membering in Wendell Berry’s Remembering.

Karen Espiritu, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
"Tapestries of Remembrance: Memorial Quilts and the Political Work of Mourning"

Andrew King, Louisiana State University
"Arts & Crafts as a Means of Recovering Communal Memory: Ruskin and Morris and the Socializatoin of the British Artisan"

Panel 3: First Nations, Klefstad, Upper Level

Chair: Gordon Coonfield, Villanova University

L. J. McLauchan, York University English Department
"Whitestream Modernity Meets First Nations: Re-membering 19th Century Canadian Literature"

John Peacock, Maryland Institute College of Art
From "Story of Dakota Origins, Imprisonment, and Exile": a Poetry Reading

Session G: 11:15-12:30 (or until finished), Saturday, September 29

Panel 1: Performance and Memory, Century Theater, Memorial Union, Second Floor

Chair: Dale Sullivan, North Dakota State University

Rick Watson, Minot State University
"The Lost Colony: Remembrance, Memory, Space and Fantasy." Selections of Poetry and Song

Adonica Schultz Aune, University of North Dakota
Calling Gordon Kahl, a performance.

Panel 2: Recovering Composition's Past, Klefstad, Upper Level

Chair: Seth Archer, North Dakota State University

Amy Rupiper Taggart, North Dakota State University
"Remembering Discourse Communities: Declared Dead Too Soon?"

Andrew Flood Mara, North Dakota State University
"The Muscular Memory of Activity Systems"

Panel 3: Memory and the Medieval, Reimers W, Lower Level

Chair: Merry Rendahl, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Christopher Lozensky, Minot State University, Minot, ND
"Forgetting (Queer) Chaucer?: Re-membering the Hom(m)oerotic Subject of The Book of the Duchess"

Michelle M. Sauer, Minot State University
"Enclosed Warfare: Hermit Crusaders in Late Medieval England"

Bobbi Dykema Katsanis, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley California
"The Preacher, The Panther, and the Wolf: Memory and Theology in Medieval Bestiaries"

2007 President
Chandice Johnson
Local Arrangements Chair
Dale Sullivan dale.sullivan@ndsu.edu 701.231.7144