CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Conference Date: Wednesday, March 30th 4-6PM
"The beaty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness" - Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff's quotation invites us to consider the notation of how completeness transcends fragmentation. Are not fragments themselves beautiful? How can the way in which we tell stories expose the beauty in fragmentation? In the midst of the current global pandemic and an escalating climate crisis, our world seems more divided and yet more inextricably entangled than ever. Conversations such as these inform the theme of the 2022 World Literature Student Conference.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
LONG ROOM I — 4:00PM
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Dean pro tem of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Peter Hall
Director of Strategic Academic Planning and Student Affairs Dr. Bettina Cenerelli
WLL chairs Professor Ken Seigneurie & Associate Professor Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
WLLSU president Kayla Tso
WLSC Faculty Liaison Dr. Mark Deggan
LONG ROOM I — 4:20PM
Unravelling Ecologies / MODERATOR: Amy Groves
Richa Kalpesh Daiya
Scotland Galloway
Callie Cheng
Sabian St Prix
Ksydalg Henry
Brent Wang
Kaya Hunter
Alissa Wong
Fragments of unity from a dead country
How Public Art Can Effect the Rhythm of Place
Of Men and Machines: The Emotive Quality of Non-Human Art
“Planet Earth” & Planet Earth: Nature Documentaries’ Role in the Fight Against Climate Change
Splicing the Genome: Science in Culture
Beautiful fragments throughout the Odyssey
Rewilding Literature: Translating the Untranslatable
Highway 163: Connecting People to Place
ROUND ROOM I — 4:20PM
Modulating Culture / MODERATOR: Dixon Cohee
Jeraldynne Gomez
Carina Rawal
Daniel Keomanivong
Joy Sheau-Han Kuang
Aaron Oxley
Sara Aristizabal Castaneda
Lyka McAllister-Borchert
Rachel Morse
The Universal Language of Art: How Parasite Presents the Universal Class Struggle
Greetings and Gol Gappe: Food as a Means of Creating Connection
Connection Through COVID-19’s Fragmentation
Sociolinguistic Identities & Kawabata’s Snow Country
The Human Artifice of the World
Letter to a Shadow: “El Olvido Que Seremos,” An Account of Love, Violence & Pain
Norwegian Wood as a Story of Loss
More Questions than Answers: Understanding Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz's The Answer through Modern Identity
LONG ROOM II — 5:30PM
Breaking the Fourth Wall / MODERATOR: Callie Cheng
Sean Orr
Monique Chan
Denyses Barthelemy
Zoe Braithwaite
Rowan Duncan
Vincent Tram
Fear of the Impermanent: Colonialism & Connections from Europe's Migrant "Crisis" to Tent Cities
Mati Diop's Atlantique: Frustrations and Empathy Through Sound.
Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See
Public Performance: A Container for Intersubjectivity
Art in Your Brain: The Hippocampal Critic
Mending the Self Through the Single Eye in Julian Schnabel’s “The Diving Bell & the Butterfly”
ROUND ROOM II — 5:30PM
Transcending Social Boundaries / MODERATOR: Gabriella Bowers
Farah Messan
Ananyya Sethi
Daniel Cheung
Sarah Badley
Eddie Chu
Emily Norman
Jessica Nguyen
Finding Comfort in One Another
The Soul of Untouchable
Life in Fiction: The Weaving of Film and Reality in Millennium Actress
Beauty in Fragments
How can Art Bring People Together?
Empathy Through Globalism: How the Effects of COVID-19 Opened Our Eyes
Men Written by Women: Embracing Male Identity Through an Approach to “Me Before You”
