Full Schedule
39th Annual Convention, April 10-13, 2008 Buffalo, New
York
Thursday, April 10
3:00-6:00
Registration,
Sungarden
4:00-6:00
Session 1:
Seminars
4:00-6:30
University
of Buffalo Poetry & Rare Book Room Tour
Lecture:
"Gems of the Poetry and Rare Book Room at the University of
Buffalo."
Michael
Basinski, Ph.D., Curator of Poetry & Rare Book Collection.
Reservation required.
6:30
Welcoming Reception and Poetry Reading, Buffalo Room
Pete
Ramos, Buffalo State College
Carl
Dennis, University of Buffalo
Wine
and cheese served.
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Friday, April 11
8:00-5:00
Registration, Sungarden Book Exhibits, Grand A
8:00-9:00
Continental breakfast served, Grand A
8:30-10:00 Session 2
10:15-11:30 Session 3
11:45-1:15 Session 4
1:00 -2:00 Afternoon
snack served
1:30-2:45
Session 5
3:00-4:30
Session 6
4:45-6:15
Session 7
7:00-8:00 p.m. Keynote Address, Grand Ballroom
"Geographies of Difference: Race, Language,
and Imagination"
Alexis DeVeaux, Global
Gender Studies, University of Buffalo
8:00-9:30 p.m. Keynote Reception Hors d'oeuvres buffet
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Saturday, April 12
7:00-8:15 Women's Caucus
Breakfast, E.B. Green's
8:00-5:00 Registration,
Sungarden
8:00-5:00 Book Exhibit,
Grand A
8:00-9:00 Continental
Breakfast served
8:30-10:00 Session 8
10:15-11:45 Session 9
12:00-1:30 Session 10: Featured Panels and
Special Events
Light lunch served
Sessions include:
"To Read or Not To Read: A
Question of National Consequence"
Sunil Iyengar, National
Endowment for the Arts Niagara Room
Ecocritical Section
Sponsored Session
"Our Energy Future:
Addressing Global Climate Change on our Campuses and in our
Homes"
Walter Simpson, SUNY
Buffalo Nan Simpson, Western New York Climate Action Coalition
Regency A
Postcolonial Section
Sponsored Roundtable
"Diaspora and
Transnational Directions in the 21st Century"
Chair: Carine Mardorossian,
University at Buffalo
Gita Rajan, Fairfield
University
Hershini Bhana Young,
University at Buffalo
Elaine Savory, The New School
Popular Culture Section
Sponsored Session, Co-Sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus
"Black Sex
Rinaldo Walcott,
University of Toronto Grand E
First Last Words: A
Reading by Christine Hume and Christina Milletti Grand F
Poster Session
University at Buffalo, English Dept. Graduate
Students
Grand A
1:45-3:00 Session 11
3:15-4:45 Session 12
5:00-6:15 Session 13
Suite 1 C*A*I*T*Y Caucus Reception and Business
Meeting
Grand E
Homage to Cervantes
Scholar Tom Lathrop
Presentation during the
NEMLA session: "Cervantes' Don Quixote: The Discourse of
Culture and History"
6:30
p.m. Spanish Language Section Event and
Reception, Grand E
"El Mundo Poetico De
Aurora Luque Ortiz" Sesión homenaje a la escritora y a su
obra
Chair: Enrique
Ruiz-Fornells, Emeritus University of Alabama NEMLA Bienvenida
Monica Leoni, University of Waterloo Presenters: Josefa Alvarez,
LeMoyne College, Syracuse María Cardona, Saint Louis
University
Response: Aurora Luque
Ortiz
German Language Section
Event and Reception, Regency B
"German Soundscapes:
Pankow/Schönhauser Allee 2004"
Composer: Jean-Paul
Perrotte, University of Iowa
Introduced by Florence Feiereisen, Middlebury College
Co-Sponsored by
Middlebury College.
7:00 p.m. Plenary Speaker, Grand B
"Threat to
Coherence"
M. Nourbese Philip
Co-sponsored by the
Women's Caucus and the C*A*I*T*Y Caucus
7:00
p.m. French Language Section
Event
Marivaux's Le jeu de
l'amour et du hasard
Théâtre de la Chandelle
Verte
Shea's Smith Theatre -
660 Main Street
Performance will be
followed by a meet-and-greet with the actors in the center's
newly-restored bar.
7:30 p.m. Special Receptions:
Italian Language Section Reception, Regency C
LGBTQ Caucus Reception, Suite 1
8:00 pm Graduate Student
Caucus Business Meeting/Reception Gabriel's Gate, 145 Allen Street (meet
in Hyatt lobby at 7:45)
9:00
Niagara Falls Evening Tour Reservation required.
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Sunday, April 13
8:00-10:15 Registration, Sungarden
8:30-10:00 Session 14
9:30-11:30 Session 15: Seminars
10:15-11:45 Session 16
12:00-1:00 NeMLA Membership Meeting and
Brunch Ellicott Room
1:00-2:30 Visit to The Mark Twain Room at the
Buffalo andErie County Public Library
Lecture: "How Jim Plays Huck."
Neil Schmitz, University of Buffalo Reservation required.
Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House Reservation
required.
