Location: Mandel Reading Room (Room 303)

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9:30-10:00 – Coffee and refreshments

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10:00-10:05 – Welcome remarks

 

Session 1: Moderator Yi He

10:05-10:25 – Summer Cardarelli (Boston College)

• “What It Feels Like to Want to Wag Your Tail”: Inhabiting Animal Subjectivity in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

10:30-10:50 – Renee Runge (Simmons University)

• Positioning Walter Potter: Taxidermy and Children's Nursery Rhymes

10:55-11:15 – Eric Hollander (Brandeis University)

• Meditations in a Noise: The Turtle’s Word and World

11:15-11:35 – Discussion

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11:35-11:50 – Coffee Break

 

Session 2: Moderator Rachel Dale

11:50-12:10 – Walter Quiller (University of South Carolina)

• Human Calculus and the Shortcomings of Humanity

12:15-12:35 – Stacie Cruz (Rice University)

• Beast-becoming-human as “infected carrier of the past”: Animality and Disability in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

12:40-1:00 – Daniel Dougherty (Boston College)

• Consciousness and the Animal/Child Boundary in A High Wind in Jamaica

1:00-1:20 – Discussion

 

1:20-2:00 – Lunch Break

 

Keynote Address:

2:00-2:45 – Kari Weil (Wesleyan University)

• If the Animal in the Mirror Spoke…

2:45-3:00 – Discussion

 

Session 3: Moderator Daniel Schwartz

3:05-3:25 – Kelsey Quinn (Boston University)

• Wordsworth’s Urban and Pastoral Animals

3:30-3:50 – Mary Bradford (Harvard University)

• Commodification and Subjectivity: The Trapping(s) of Nonhuman and Human Animals in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers (1823)

3:55-4:15 – Daniel Leonard (Boston University)

• Lives Talk: Lydia Davis, Livestock, and the Porous Self

4:15-4:35 – Discussion

 

Dinner!