Program 47
Drawing the Line(s): Censorship & Cultural Practices
91ÖÆƬ³§, 1-3 March 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Registration 8:30 am-6:00 pm Karl Anatol Patio
Session #1: 9:30 am-10:45 am
Panel 1A: Contemporary Displays & Containments AS 384
Moderator: Chelsea Moser, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Talinn Grigor, Brandeis University
Closeted Art in Contemporary Iran: "Boxes are fine, since you can hide (in) them"
Mysoon Rizk, University of Toledo
"Silence Still = Death": Speaking Up for David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly
Panel 1B: Collaborative Feminisms Against Censorship in Chile Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Lucian Gomoll, UC Santa Cruz
Jane Griffin, Bentley University
Underground Under Dictatorship: Feminism and the Illegal Auto-Edición
Lissette Olivares, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, NYU
Making Space for Feminism and Democracy in Ergo Sum's Talleres
Lucian Gomoll, UC Santa Cruz
Ergo Sum's Evasive and Intersubjective Echoes
Session #2: 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Panel 2A: The Pictorial Doth Protest AS-384
Moderator: Damaris Leal, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Laura Meixner, Cornell University
French Realism, American Radicalism & the Espionage Act
Judith Saltman and David Wadell, University of British Columbia
Censorship and the Canadian Picturebook
Dexter Hough-Snee, University of California Berkeley
Recasting the Peruvian Colonial Text: Esteban de Terralla y Landa's Lima por dentro y fuera and its Illustrations
Panel 2B: Theoretical Concerns & Praxis of Censorship Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Kari Duffield, 91ÖÆƬ³§
José I. RodrÃguez, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Censorship of Authenticity and the Cultural Practice of Hypocrisy in Academia
Rute Rosas, University of Porto, Portugal
Self-Censorship as Processual Poetic Agent in Sculpture Creation
Clover Bachman, Independent Scholar
From Censorship to Sensus Communis: Kant and Lucretius
Lucile Dupraz, Dar-Al Hekma College
Censorship as Cross-Cultural Negotiation: Art Books for Academic Use in an Islamic Context
Opening Reception: 12:30 pm-1:45 pm Karl Anatol Patio
Welcome: Carl Fisher, Chair of Comparative World Literature and Classics
Session #3: 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Panel 3A: Religious (Im)Proprieties Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Kari Duffield, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Alberto Villate-Isaza, St. Olaf College
Apocalypse or Politics? The Censorship of Jerónimo de Mendieta's Historia Eclesiástica Indiana
Mary Coyne, 91ÖÆƬ³§
A Roman Orgy: The Censorship of Marcantonia Raimondi's I Modi
Martina A. Pfleger Hesser
Self-Censorship as a Pathway to Self-Improvement
Panel 3B: Cultural Propagandas & Dilemmas AS 384
Moderator: Chelsea Moser, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Daniela Simoes, University of Lisboa
Architecture & Political Dictatorship in Portugal
Jong Chul Choi, University of Florida
Ten Years After 9/11: Iconoclasm in America and its Cultural Dilemma
Session #4: 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Panel 4A: Resisting Female Narratives Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Hillary Morimoto, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Nancy Bird-Soto, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
As If Her Opinion Mattered: Censorship, Resistance and Gender in Esmeralda Santiago's Conquistadora
Julia Burstein, University of Maryland
Rupturing Silence in the Works of Chantal T. Spitz
Nino Kebadze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Elliptical Patterns: Reading Censors in Spanish Context
Panel 4B: Cultural Identities & Peripheries AS-384
Moderator: Alejandra Campoy, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Graciela Susana Boruszko, Pepperdine University
Small Global Neighborhoods' Journey Towards Validation Through Translation Into 'Universal Language': Cultural Censorship?
Erik Chandler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
'I had nearly said a Christian!': Owen Wister and the Unspeakable Jew
Tesfalidet Tezera Habitegiyorgis, Università Degli Studi Di Padova
Visual and Literary Representations of Censorship in Ethiopia
Session #5: 5:00 pm-6:15 pm
Panel 5A: Film Screening: Censorious Karl Anatol Center
Roundtable Discussion following screening
Moderator: Mary Coyne, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Carol Jacobsen, The University of Michigan
Shaun Bangert, Saginaw Valley State University
Marilyn Zimmerman, Wayne State University
Panel 5B: Roundtable: Censorship in the Creative Marketplace AS-384
Moderator: Omar Zahzah, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Mike Buckley, CSU Dominguez Hills
Tyler Dilts, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Paul Tayyar, Goldenwest College
José Maldonado, Independent Writer
Friday, March 2, 2012
Registration: 8:30am-6:00 pm Karl Anatol Patio
Session #6: 9:30am-10:45 am
Panel 6A: Inquisitorial Censorships AS-385
Moderator: Eloisa Guaniao, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Erin Graff Zivin, University of Southern California
Beyond Censorship: Allegory, Ruins and the Logic of Haunting
Massimiliano Adelmo Giorgini, Purdue University
Ekphrasis and the Subversion of Inquisitorial Censorship in Don Quixote
Elena Deanda, Washington College
The Politics of Name: The Inquisitorial Censorship of Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo
Panel 6B: Music & Lyrical Censorships Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Chelsea Moser, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Claudia Jansen van Rensburg, Stellenbosch University
Julius Malema's 'Kill the Boer': Censoring Political Heritage or Inciting Genocide in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Katherine Horn, Framingham State University
The Double-Crossed Lyrics and Life of Tupac Shakur: Facing Censorship Dead and Alive
Rahima Schwenkbeck, George Washington University
Running with the Hatchet Man: The Life and (Presumed) Crimes of the Juggalo
Panel 6C: From Canon to Cannons: Censorship in the Ancient World AS-122
Moderator: Kathryn Chew, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Sarah McGinnis, 91ÖÆƬ³§
In or Out? Banned Books from the Bible
Samantha Rosso, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Keeping it PG: Making Myths More Appropriate
Erin Yarborough, 91ÖÆƬ³§
No Ifs, Ands or Butts: Banned Poems in the Editions of Catullus
Andy Hogan, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Man[etho] vs. Food Time: The De Facto Censorship of Ptolemaic History as see in the Epitome of Manetho
Session #7: 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Panel 7A: Freedom of Expressions AS-385
Moderator: Joe Capezzuto, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Jordan Carrol, UC Davis
The Sex That Passes the Censor: Naked Lunch and the Legal Defense of Poetry
Jason Schulman, Emory University
The Red Flag Case Revisited: Young Communists and the First Amendment
Panel 7B: Sexual Politics & Bodies Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Hillary Morimoto, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Anja Foerschner
Sex, Violence and the Human Body: Disgust and Censorship in Art
Olivia C. Pipe, Concordia University
On Dresses and Diadems: Female Discourse and the Politicized Body in Jana Sterbak's Thread Drawings and Artwords
Rachel Middleman, Utah State University
The Fight Censorship Group: Defending Sexual Art in the 1970s
Amanda Wada, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Anita Steckel: A Tale of Feminist Otherness
Panel 7C: Fun with Phalluses and Philosophy: More Censorship in the Ancient World AS-122
Moderator: Kathryn Chew, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Stefanie Trutanic, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Hard Times: Women in Greek Pub(l)ic Art
Lannibeth Monjaras, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Sappho Schoolmistress: Censorship and Sex Ed in Antiquity
Heather Blanchard, 91ÖÆƬ³§
No Girls Allowed!: Gender Discrimination and the Erotic Exhibits of Pompeii
Elena Harris, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Up in Smoke: The Burning of Gnostic Texts by the Roman Empire
Melissa Sanchez, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Singing the Blues: Women, Stockings, and Censorship in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Luncheon: 12:30 pm-1:45 pm Karl Anatol Patio
Plenary Talk: 2:00 pm-3:15 pm Karl Anatol Center
Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
In Praise of Censorship
Session #8: 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Panel 8A: Arresting Art, Striking Expressions Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Joe Capezzuto, 91ÖÆƬ³§
James Eastman, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Censorship as Medium: The Work of Edward Kienholz
Inaki Estella, Columbia University
The Publicity of the Fluxus Body ca. 1967: In and Around Moorman, Paik, Maciunas and Watts
May Ketpongsuda, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Exploring the Semiotics of Propaganda: Posters form the Chinese Cultural Revolution and National Socialist Party
Ann Curry, University of Alberta
Bums, Poops and Pees: A Scholarly Examination of the Scatological in Children's Literature
Panel 8B: Censorship of Sexual Practices: Gays in American Culture AS-122
Moderator: Vlatka Velcic, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Erica Medrano, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Illuminated Darkness: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Question of Obscenity in the 1950s America
Declan Murphy, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Men in Chains: Robert Mapplethorpe's Homosexual S&M Photos Entering the Public Sphere
Kim Galarpe, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Self-Censorship as Self-Preservation: Homosexuality in Transition in Contemporary American Society
Panel 8C: Political Commentaries & Historicity AS-385
Moderator: Eloisa Guaniae, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Kristi Eastin, CSU Fresno
Ab Urbe Condita, Book 1: Propaganda, Invective or Speculum Principis?
Dan Mills, Clayton University
James Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana and Counter-censorship of Interregnum Political Writings
Kristen McCLeary
Commercial Theater and the Redefinition of Censorship in Early Twentieth Century Argentina
Session #9: 5:00 pm-6:15 pm
Panel 9A: Movies on Demand Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Alexandra Sciarra, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Alexis Tsachres, Chapman University
The Penalties of Consumerism in Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, and The Terminator: What It Means To Be a Modern Incarcerated Cyborg
Daniel Irving: Binghamton University
Implication and Meaning, Separated at Birth: Long-Term Harm of Cinematic Censorship
Yu-Sheng Chen
Lou Ye's Aesthetics of Existence Under China's Censorship: The Pursuit of an Ethical Subject
Nicola Gavioli, Florida International University
The Censors' Pandora Box Liberated: The Brazilian Website Memória de Censura no Cinema Brasileiro 1964-1988
Panel 9B: From Mind Control to the Internet: Censorship in Contemporary Global Culture AS-122
Moderator: Vlatka Velcic, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Levon Parseghian, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Filtration as Censorship: Is the News Media Censoring the Newsreader, or Is the Newsreader Censoring the News Media?
Christine Rivera, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Language Controls Thought: An Analysis of Orwell's 1984 and Contemporary Culture
Matthew Gonzalez, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Book Burning as a Gesture: An Analysis of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Amanda Sarmiento, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Cleaning Cartoons: Where Do We Draw the Line in Animation?
Panel 9C: Language & Translation Practices AS-385
Moderator: Joe Capezzuto, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Denise Markle, Université de Moncton
Censorship and/in Translation: Past, Present, Future
Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, Roger Williams University
Literary Dark Matter: Reading Pre-Censorship in the Obverse of Translationscapes
Thomas Chen, UCLA
Keyword: Censorship
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Registration: 8:30am-6:00 pm Karl Anatol Patio
Session #10: 9:30am-10:45 am
Panel 10A: Self-Exile, Self-Censorship Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Michael Wilde, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Morehshin Allahyari, University of Northern Texas
Self-Exile and the Iranian Woman Artist
Gelare Khoshgozaran, University of Southern California
Self-Exile and the Iranian Woman Artist
Nooshin Rostami, Brooklyn College
Self-Exile and the Iranian Woman Artist
Panel 10B: Dialogues, Storytelling & Narratives AS-243
Moderator: Kari Duffield, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Christina King, Chapman University
The Literary Stage and the Performance of Censorship
Omar Zahzah, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Mise en Silence: The Double Root of Silence in Wajdi Mouawad's Incendies
Carlos Lin, University of Southern California
Tales That Cannot Be Told: The Strange Case of Japanese Kaidan Tales
Session #11: 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Panel 11A: ¡México! Karl Anatol Center
Moderator: Michael Wilde, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Magdalena Cervantes, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Anti-Mexican Sentiment During the Great Depression: The Censorship of América Tropical
Adriana Ortega, Université de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle
Diego Rivera's Nightmare of War, Dream of Peace: A Censored Transnational Mural
Angelica Becerra, 91ÖÆƬ³§
³§Ã³±ô´Ç con la Censura: A Portrait of Cultural Sabotage in 1990s Mexico
Panel 11B: Innovative Women AS-243
Moderator: Eloisa Guaniao, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Danieal Ionescu, 91ÖÆƬ³§
Censorship in a Totalitarian Regime: Three Women's Stories of Creative Resistance in the Socialist Republic of Romania
Alejandra Campoy, 91ÖÆƬ³§
The Veil, the Sword, and Self-Censorship in Catalina de Erauso's Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
B-Word Project Event: 8:00 pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
"An Evening With Azar Nafisi"
