Thursday, September. 27, 2007
On-site Registration: 12:00-1:00 pm

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

Panel 1: Memory and the Medieval

Christopher Lozensky, Minot State University, Minot, ND
"Forgetting (Queer) Chaucer?: Remembering 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 Preacer, The Panther, and the Wolf: Memory and Theology in Medieval Bestiaries"

Panel 2: Landmarks and Memory

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

Sylvia Mittler, University of Toronto at Scarborough
"Memorializing the Trivial: Carnivalesque Historiograph, 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"

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

Panel 1: Stylistics and Memory

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

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 Posthetic Memory: Difficult Images, Disturbing Artifacts"

Panel 3: World Literatures in French and Spanish

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"

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Reception: 3:45-5:00

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

Panel 1: Violent Events and Aftermaths

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

Zipporah Lax Yamamoto, UCLA
"Public Testimony"

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

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

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"

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Session D: 10:45-12:00 noon
Friday, September 28

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

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

Panel 1: Death and Loss

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

Monique Dumonet, 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

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"

Elizabeth D. Woodworth, Texas Christian University
"Remembering the Brownings and (Re)membering the Brownings: The Recovery of Literary History through Archival 'Memory'"

Panel 3: Holocaust

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

Jacqueline McLeod Rogers, University of Winnipeg
"Re-Membering the Holocaust in Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower: Helping Students Link the Historical with 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"

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Banquet:
5:30-8:00, Friday, September 28

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

Panel 1: Images and Death

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

Elizabethada 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

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

David Godfrey, Jamestown College
"A History Turns Around in His Mind: Re-Membering 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 Socialization of the British Artisan"

Panel 3: First Nations

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

Sheila Simonson, University of Manitoba "Everyday Insidious Trauma and First Nations' Creative Writings/ Rightings"

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

Sylvia Terzian, Wilfrid Laurier University
"'The Mother's Legacy': Postcolonial Memory and Female Subjectivity in Lee Maracle's Daughters are Forever"

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

Panel 1: Performance and Memory

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

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, Detection, and Freedom

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"

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Business Meeting: 2:00-3:00 pm

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