INDIANA UNIVERSITY INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jo Ann Archibald (Q’um Q’um Xiiem), Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education
Friday May 13th – Saturday May 14th, 2022
(Online, zoom links to panels below)
/ CALL FOR Papers
The conference theme seeks to address questions surrounding how stories are crafted, shared, remembered, and revised. Why do the stories we tell ourselves – and others – matter? This conference will attempt to theorize the spaces between a story told about oneself and a story told about another, and how these stories could help or hinder us as we try to make sense of the so-called unprecedented times in which we live. How do certain types of narratives both reflect and shape certain realities? And in the classroom, how might questions of narrative be addressed through antiracist and anticolonial pedagogies? Papers may choose to investigate how storytellers of various kinds respond to the crucial political and social challenges of our time through histories, accounts, and recitations – spoken, written, embodied, or otherwise expressed.
Relevant topics may include (but are by no means limited to):
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The relationship between past and future
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Theater and performance
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Theories of collectivity and collaboration
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Autotheory
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Generational memory
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Autoethnography
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Auto/biography
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Worldbuilding
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Library sciences
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Technologies
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Fanfiction
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Archival studies/the archive
Proposals might also consider how the virtual sphere has changed the ways in which we have told/retold, recorded, and distributed our individual and collective stories over the past two years. We seek proposals that wrestle with these (or related) questions about what it means to impose a narrative, establish a record, or compose a history. Papers that bring together critical and creative elements are also encouraged.
We invite proposals for both individual papers and organized panels:
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Individual scholarly papers and creative works (15-minute presentations; please submit a 250-word abstract)
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Panels organized around a thematic topic (three 20-minute papers or four 15-minute papers; please submit a 350-word panel abstract as well as a 100-word abstract for each individual paper on the panel)
Email your submission to iugradconference@gmail.com by February 1st, 2022. In your email, please submit your abstract (both in the body of the email and as a Word attachment), along with your name, institutional affiliation, email, and phone number. Please note that both the keynote and the panels will be given synchronously via Zoom.
Land acknowledgment
Although this conference is being held online, it is being hosted by Indiana University Bloomington, which is built on Indigenous homelands and resources. We wish to acknowledge and honor the Indigenous communities native to this region. We recognize the myaamiaki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa people as past, present, and future caretakers of this land.
We are dedicated to centering Indigenous voices & perspectives, improving community relationships, correcting the narrative, and making the IUB campus a more supportive and inclusive place for Native and Indigenous students, faculty & staff. We encourage everyone to engage with contemporary communities, to learn the histories of this land, to look at who has and does not have access to its resources, and to examine your own place, abilities, and obligations within this process of reparative work that is necessary to promote a more equitable and socially just Indiana University Bloomington. As an online conference, we encourage presenters from other universities to undertake this important work on their own campuses.
Adapted from the IU First Nations Educational and Cultural Center,
https://firstnations.indiana.edu/land-acknowledgement/index.html
/ Access Statement
Our conference is committed to fostering a hospitable and engaging experience that will allow everyone to participate fully and comfortably. We strive to create a universally-accessible conference experience ito facilitate an open exchange of ideas and networking. To this end, we invite all conference presenters and attendees to help create this shared space by:
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Notifying us of your access needs upon acceptance to provide us with adequate time to meet them;
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Providing transcriptions of talks that will be read aloud;
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Speaking at a volume adequate for the Zoom captioning system to pick up your voice;
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Providing audio descriptions, including verbal descriptions, of any visuals;
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Making all Powerpoint presentations as visually clear as possible. You can do this by using a high-contrast color scheme, using a 17-point (or larger) sans-serif font, and providing minimal text on each slide;
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Speaking slowly and clearly in your presentation and accounting for this in your time allotment;
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Being aware of personal privilege and the fact that the groups your paper might discuss could be in your audience or a fellow-presenter.
The above is adapted from:
The Society for Disability Studies, Accessible Presentations. 22 Jan. 2014.
/ Schedule
Friday, May 13th
(all times below are in US Eastern Standard Time)
Zoom Link for Panels: https://iu.zoom.us/j/84963308528?pwd=cGZsUUY5K1l0WmY3Sml1U3NBWXhHQT09
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Opening Remarks from Sarah Schmitt, Conference Organizer
IU Bloomington Department of English
Transcript of opening remarks:
Panel 1: Re-Mediating Inequalities and Social Injustice
9:00am - 10:30am.
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“Protest Narratives in the Digital Age: How Social Media Activism Redefines Storytelling,” Abby Breyer, University of Kansas
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“‘Weaving Stories’: Narrating the Self in The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs,” Swarnika Ahuja, University of Delhi
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“Zooming Out: The Homeless Utopia of Digital Deliberations," Jason Michálek, Indiana University
Panel 2: Re-Telling, Re-Membering Tragedies of Racial Violence
10:45am – 12:15pm.
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“We Dreamed American Dreams Then: Repair and Refusal in Japanese American Narratives,” Lisa Doi, Indiana University
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"The Constraints of Refugee Narrators in Combating Neo-Imperial Erasure," Austin Cobb, Miami University
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“Music and Reconciliation: A Bassoonist's Story of Devising Collaborative Theater to Commemorate the Rwandan Genocide," Midori Samson, Oklahoma State University
Panel 3: Narrating Environments in the Anthropocene
12:30pm – 2:00pm.
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"Intimate Loss: The Importance of Language Specificity for Climate Justice in Elizabeth Rush’s Rising," Sarah Lawler, Indiana University
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“‘Everything is connected’: Anthropocene Narratives in Complex TV," Evelyn Mohr, University of Konstanz
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“The Narrativity of Trees?: Michigan’s Hartwick Pines and the Conservation Site as Narrative Environment," Tyler Eyster, Miami University
Afternoon Break, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Panel 4: (Counter)narratives, (Counter)histories, (Counter)methods
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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“A Decolonial Counterstory: Tracing Decolonial Historical Methods," Charles Martin, University of Arizona
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“Beyond Narrative: Dis/continuity in Reading and Walking," Levi Sherman, University of Wisconsin—Madison
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“Re:Collection: Rewriting Time in The Ride Together," Wei-Hao Huang, University of Connecticut
Panel 5: Salvaging the Past, (Re)creating Futurities
4:15pm – 5:45pm
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“Jewish Memory and Second Temple Ossuary Burial," Brady W Schuh, Harvard Divinity School
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“Ruining and Retelling: Myth-Breaking and -Making in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011),” Samantha English, Northwestern University
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“(Re)worlding Imaginary Futures," Elyse Longair, Queen’s University
Graduate Student Social, 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Social Zoom Link:
https://iu.zoom.us/j/86027865103?pwd=bExOa05Eby9aTWdUdXpEOHI3MGF3dz09
Saturday, May 14th
Zoom Link for Panels: https://iu.zoom.us/j/84963308528?pwd=cGZsUUY5K1l0WmY3Sml1U3NBWXhHQT09
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Panel 6: Necessary and Yet Incomplete: The Limits of the (Auto)Biographical
7:00am – 8:30am.
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“The Person in Question: Vladimir Nabokov and the Subject of Autobiography,” Anibal Goth, University of Delhi
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“Reading J.M. Coetzee’s Scenes from Provincial Life," Advika Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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“Trying to Tell the Lives of Others: David Malouf's Johnno and Child's Play” Chinmaya Lal Thakur, La Trobe University
Panel 7: Collective Memory, Moral Injury, and the Body
8:45am – 10:15am.
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"Moral Injury and Collective Forgetting: The Case of Dersim," Claire Jacobson, Indiana University
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“Bodily Autonomy and Women: Reconfiguring Collective Discourse of ‘Structured Subordination’ in Select Indian Films," Parvathy N. and Priyanka Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology—Patna
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“From Property to Kin: Matrilineal Knowledge and Inheritance in The Woman of Colour,” Emma Swidler, Indiana University
Panel 8: Collective Memory, Moral Injury, and the Body
10:30am – 12:00pm.
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“Bird’s Sheppard Lee: The Tragicomic Story of Jacksonian Capital," Sami H Atassi, Indiana University
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“The Ghosts of Detective Fiction: The Clash of History and Capital in Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel (1878)," Eser Pehlivan, Istanbul University
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“Forensic Activism in Animal’s People," Robert Metaxatos, Indiana University
Panel 9: New Approaches to Adaptation and Performance Studies
12:15pm – 1:45pm
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“Ten Minutes (Or Six Decades) Ago, I Saw You: Three Television Musical Adaptations of a Fairy Tale and their Cultural Revelations,” Sarah Lawson, Indiana University
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"Tholomea: A Case-Study in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Performance," Alex Thomas, University of Texas—Austin
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“Urban Bachata and Diasporic Community: Race and the Rearticulation of Dominican Identity in New York," Madison Kim, Independent Scholar
Keynote Address: 2:00-4:00pm.
Keynote Address Zoom Link:
https://iu.zoom.us/j/83435718572?pwd=OGpuZE5qVk1aakg3eko5WVMvYjF3dz09
Dr. Jo Ann Archibald (Q’um Q’um Xiiem)
Dr. Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, is a member of the Stó:lō First Nation, and has Indigenous/St’at’imc ancestry in British Columbia, Canada. She holds an appointment as Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. Over a 45-year educational career, Q’um Q’um Xiiem has been a school teacher, curriculum developer, researcher, author, university leader and professor. Her scholarship relates to Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous storywork/oral tradition, transformative education at all levels, Indigenous teacher and graduate education, and Indigenous methodologies
Panel 10: Pedagogic Re-Formations
4:15pm – 5:45pm
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“Reducing the Viral Load: ‘World’-Traveling in the Secondary Classroom,” Julia Reade, Murray State University
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“Students as Story-Tellers," Elizabeth Kempton, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
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“Imagining Tender Queer Futures in the Classroom: A Pedagogical Reflection,” Ariel Estrella, Cornell University
Closing Remarks, Jason Michálek
Conference Organizer, IU Bloomington Department of English
Closing remarks transcript: