The New York University Department of Comparative Literature
Waiting Time
April 16-18, 2009
Graduate Student Conference
Thursday, April 16
Location: 53 Washington Square South, King Juan Carlos Auditorium
6:30 pm Opening Remarks
John Hamilton (New York University)
7:00 pm Keynote Speaker
Marshall Berman (CUNY)
7:30 – 8:30 pm Reception
Friday, April 17
Location: 42 Washington Mews, Deutsches Haus
9:00 am Breakfast
9:30 – 11:00 am Panel I: Erotics of Waiting
Moderator: Sonia Werner (NYU)
Béatrice Laurent (Asst. Prof. Université des Antilles et de la Guyane)
"Wan with Waiting": The Erotics of Expectation in Victorian Art
Christina Loughrey (NYU)
“Death and the Madeleine: The Tension Between Existence and Dying in The Erotic” Jane Shmidt (CUNY)
“Waiting for Consummation: Desire and Deferral in The Princesse de Cleves and The Heptameron”
11:00 – 12:30 pm Panel II: Politics of Waiting
Moderator: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (NYU)
Brady Smith (University of Chicago)
“Are we there yet?: Children and the Time of Radical Politics”
Nicholas Hauck (University of Toronto)
“The politics of the Event and Messianic Time: Badiou on Benjamin, Benjamin on Badiou”
Brett Parker (University of Calgary)
“A Specter is Haunting Deconstruction: The Specter of Revolution”
12:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:30 pm Panel III: Waiting Nations
Moderator: Ozen Nergis Seckin (NYU)
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (NYU)
"La nuit dure longtemps: Narrative, Dictatorship, Deferral in Ahmadou Kourouma’s En Attendent la vote des bêtes sauvages”
Noam Gal (Yale University)
“White Waiting: J.M. Coetzee's On-hold Apartheid”
Minna Neimi (University at Buffalo)
“The Logic of Messianic Hope and the Promise of a Just Future in the Work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o”
On Barak (NYU)
“Procrasti-Nation: Revolution and Feminine Flirtation in Colonial Egypt"
3:30 – 5:30 pm Panel IV: Waiting & Memory
Moderator: Benedict Hunting (NYU)
Silia Kaplan (University of North Carolina)
“Modalities of Temporality in Ingeborg Bachmann's "A Place for Incidents”
Katalin Orbán (Eötvös Loránd University)
“Best Before Oblivion: Delayed Memories and Instant Memorialization”
Lauren Walsh (Adjunct Prof. The New School)
“When Waiting Is An Act of Survival:Killing Time in Sebald’s The Emigrants”
Saturday, April 18
Location: 42 Washington Mews, Deutsches Haus
2:00 – 4:00 pm Panel V: Waiting Spaces
Moderator: Anastasiya Osipova (NYU)
Katherina Baier (University of Konstanz)
“The Administration of Time: The motif of waiting and making someone wait as institutional effects”
Rosa Ainley (The Architectural Association School of Architecture)
“Playing Patience: Design for Waiting Room”
Jessica Santone (McGill University)
“The Delayed Event: Community Between Performance and Document”
Gabriel Levine (York University)
“Time for Play: the Profanations of Tati and Petit
4:00 – 6:00 pm Round Table
Moderator: Paul North (NYU)
Anthony Vidler, Ben Kafka, Ken Wark, Joe Milutis
6:00 – 7:00 pm Wine and Cheese Reception
