WLSC 2015
On What Needs Saying:
Literature, Film and the Image
Conference Program
A1: After the Post-Colony
Moderator: Jasmin Ring
1. Jacqueline Parsons (A Spectacle of Power: An analysis of performance as state propaganda in North Korea) *
2. Carmen Saltel and Jennifer Huang (Conscientiousness and Chronology: The Significance of Word Order in Voyage in the Dark)
3. Iulia Sincraian (Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman: A Political Commentary) *
4. Marianela Capelo (Body as Border in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians) *
5. Andrew James (Assimilate or Secede: Reviewing Touchstone’s “Voodoo in New Orleans”)
A2: Society and Struggle
Moderator: Ken Ip
1. Christian Smith (Deconstruction of Language in Vincente Huidobro's Altazor) *
2. Beatrice Kan and Melody Nguyen (Voyage in the Dark: Anna Morgan, the Product of Alterity)*
3. Elda Hajdarovac (The Gardener and its Garden: The Internalization of Man in Friedrich Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals) *
4. Melanie Hiepler (Beyond Lonely Starbucks Lovers: Agency and Persona in Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” Music Video)*
5. Natalie Reid (Illegitimating Voice to Justify Violence: Othering in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians)
B1: Alienated Communities
Moderator: Melanie Hiepler
1. Kelsey Wilson ("Jack-in-the-Box": The Hypocrisy of Concept Boxes in Nietzsche's On Truth and Lying in a Nonmoral Sense) *
2. Jaiden Dembo (Welcome to Purgatory: Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel)*
3. Carina Yuen (The Classification of a Modernist Protagonist: Gifted Loner or Selfless Manic – Hamlet and Voyage in the Dark)
4. Michaela (German Cabaret: Social Commentary and the film Cabaret) *
5. Jasmin Ring (Hairspray: An Exposé of Segregation in 1960s Baltimore) *
B2: Defining Character: On the Depths of Existence
Moderator: Pardeep Barn
1. Ken Ip (From Nietzsche's Memory of Fear to the Tragic Construction of Character through J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace) *
2. Brigitte Malana (The Blurred Dichotomy Between "Good" and "Bad" in Hippolytos and The Sun Also Rises)
3. Alicia Blimkie (Imagined Poetics: The Role of Writer in Exposing Reality and Reconstructing the Social Imaginary in Turkey and Iran)*
4. Roberta McMorran (The Commodification of Interiority: Psychological Distancing and Political Divides in Vietnamese Fiction) *