Unlovable: The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 31st Annual Conference
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Unlovable
The Centre for Comparative Literature's 31st Annual Conference
March 24 & 25, 2023 | University of Toronto
Thank you to our sponsors at the University of Toronto: Centre for Comparative Literature; The Comparative Literature Course Union; Cinema Studies Institute; Department of Philosophy; Women and Gender Studies Institute; Department of French; Department of East Asian Studies; Department of English; Office of the Principal, Victoria College; Office of the President, University of St Michael's College; Department of Art History; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Department of Italian Studies; Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Anthropology; Department of Classics, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Contact: unlovabletoronto@gmail.com
Schedule
All conference proceedings are open to the public unless otherwise indicated. No prior registration is required.
Friday, March 24, 2023
9:00AM - Check-in for Panellists
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building, University of Toronto
9:30AM - Opening Remarks
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
10:00AM - Panel 1. Ghosts, or the Impossible Object of Love.
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
Moderator: Zichuan Gan
Divya Menon. "Searching for Sylvie."
Hongyang Irene Cai. "Phantasmal Love: Knowledge-making and the Spatiality of Emotion in 'Nie Xiaoqian'/A Chinese Ghost Story."
Fan Wu. "Life Where Love Was: Barthes and Zhuangzi."
Héctor Hernández. "El esmudge: Despairing Before Wittgenstein's Puzzle-Picture Puzzle in Borges and Kafka."
12:00PM - Lunch for Panellists
Location: Centre for Comparative Literature, Isabel Bader Theatre (3rd Floor), 93 Charles Street West
1:00PM - Panel 2. Melancholia.
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
Moderator: Hong Liu
Yasmine Lucas. "Post-Holocaust Melancholia: The Case of Jewish and Zionist Feelings in America."
Ivanna Berrios. "Dignifying Terrorists: Shame and Affect in a Peruvian Civil War Memoir."
Jacob Hermant. "Hate: What is it Good For? Benjamin and Adorno on Hatred."
Florian Endres. "Losing What One Never Had: Melancholia and Real Abstraction."
3:00PM - Keynote. Alexander García Düttmann. "Does Truth Make Lovers Unlovable?"
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
5:00-7:00PM - Break
7:00PM - Film Screening (film TBA)
Location: Alumni Hall 400, 121 St Joseph Street
Introduction by Dillan Newman
Saturday, March 25, 2023
10:00AM - Panel 3. The Self(ie).
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
Moderator: Imane Al Kaisy
Monika Zaleska. "“I Love X”: The Wartime Diaries of Józef Czapski."
James Levinsohn. "You're Shit and I'm Champagne: Identifying with the Unlovable in Happiness (1998)."
Parisa Rose Ahmadi. "Lovin' me or my Reflection?: Black Women’s Negotiation of Subjectivity through Digital Portraiture and Aesthetic Self-Making."
Adam Barbu. "Far From Myself: Curating After the Trans Origin Story."
12:00PM - Lunch for Panellists
Location: Centre for Comparative Literature, Isabel Bader Theatre (3rd Floor), 93 Charles Street West
1:00PM - Panel 4. Lessness, or Ego Dissemination.
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
Ganga Rudraiah. "Not Kanye."
Jury Kobayashi. "John Cage’s Dispassionate Approach to Composition: Unpacking Indeterminacy Through the Lens of Unlovability."
Helen Abbot. "Silence and the Unlovable Child in 'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D. H. Lawrence."
Colin Buist. "Ignorant Love."
Gasira Timir. "E-mail My Achy Breaky Heart."
3:00PM - Faculty Panel. Images of the Unlovable.
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
5:00PM - Closing Remarks
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
