CRISIS CARNIVAL 2008 | Transgressions of the Sacred & Profane

POSTER!


Events Schedule

Introduction to Crisis Carnival 2008 | Love Library 430 (LL-430, The Leon Williams Room, fourth floor of the older stacks area of Love Library)

Nathan Leaman
11:00am

Transgressions of Cultural Taboos | Love Library 430 (LL-430, The Leon Williams Room, fourth floor of the older stacks area of Love Library)

11:10 – 12:15
Between the Sacred and the Profane: Writing as a Technology for Transgression
-Natalya Androsova, University of Toronto
Constructions of Female Identity: Women of Sand and Myrrh
-Sarah Ellen Hickle, SDSU
Lost Words: Language and Silence in Contemporary Irish Famine Literature
 -Katie Ness, SDSU
Rhythm of Silence: The unCaged Chora of Clarice Lispector’s The Stream of Life
 -Kevin M. Gossett, SDSU
Once Upon A Time, I Became a Woman*
 -Andrea Knab, SDSU

The Semantics of Visual languages | Love Library 430 (LL-430, The Leon Williams Room, fourth floor of the older stacks area of Love Library)

12:25 – 1:00

Spontaneous Expression: Facing Semantic Empiric Differentials in the Facial
Cast of Empiredumb
 -Andy O’Clancy, SDSU
“Don’t Tase Me, Bro!”: The State Sponsored, Sexually Charged, Electro-Spectacle  
 -Orin Weintraub, SDSU
Taking Images Litera[ri]lly*
-Nathan Leaman, SDSU
Inner Light, Outer Plight: An Analysis of Flor Garduño in Response to Playboy
Magazine*
-Kacie Flowers, SDSU


Lunch | Scripps Cottage
1:10-1:45
Food from Ponce’s Mexican Restaurant
Please take this time to inspect the visual art of Ben Schneider, Los Angeles



A World of Translation | Scripps Cottage
1:45 - 2:45

Living Memory, Deathly Silence:Oral/Textual Authoritative Discourses in
Things Fall Apart
-Gaelan Gilbert, SDSU
The House That Neruda Built: Translating “No Hay Olvido”
-Michelle Franklin, SDSU
Creative Work
-Lisa Hemminger, SDSU  
Creative Work
-Chrissy Rikkers, SDSU
Cherrie Moraga: Performing and Redefining the Ethnic Body by Resisting Translation in the Textual Body of Loving in the War Years*
-Ranmali Rodrigo, SDSU

Contemporary Transgressions | Scripps Cottage
2:45 – 3:30

Ethnic Madness
-Josue Arredondo, SDSU
Creative Work
-David Martinez, SDSU
Creative Work
-Alegra Marcel Bartzat, SDSU


Religious Studies Panel | Scripps Cottage
3:45 – 5:15

Sex and the Siddhi: Pornography as a Substitute for Sex
-Dr. Wilburn Hansen, Religious Studies, SDSU
Vasistha and Borges: In Quest of Postmodern Enlightenment
-Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina, Religious Studies, SDSU
The Sacred and the Profane in Wilson Harris's Jonestown
-Dr. Rebecca Moore, Chair, Religious Studies, SDSU
The Bible in Hip-Hop Music: How KRS-One Overcomes the Sacred-Profane Dichotomy
-Roy Whitaker, Lecturer, English and Religious Studies, SDSU
Does God Sleep Alone or Sleep Around? Between the covers of William Dever's Did God Have a Wife?
-Dr. Pam Fox Kuhlken, Lecturer, English and Religious Studies, SDSU


Keynote
5:25 – 6:25

Introduction to Keynote Speaker: The Celebrity and the Sacred
-Dr. William Nericcio, Chair, English & CompLit, SDSU

Keynote Speaker Dr. Mark Dery, Professor, NYU
In Case of Rapture, Car Will Be Driverless: Waiting for the End of the World in ‘70s Southern California

*Tentative/May Change