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