The document outlines the schedule and program for a humanities conference taking place on May 19, 2011 in Humanities 1, Room 210. It includes four panels on various literature topics from 9:00 AM to 3:50 PM, with moderators and presenters listed for each panel. There will be an opening remarks session, four panel discussions on topics like morphologies, Pacific crossings, creative writing, and negotiating identity. A lunch buffet will be served from 12:10-12:55 PM. The event is free and open to the public.

1. Thursday, May 19, 2011
Humanities 1, Room 210
Opening Remarks
9:00 – 9:10 a.m.
Karen Bassi, Chair, Literature Department
Panel One: Morphologies
9:10 – 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: John O. Jordan
Kirby A. Conrod Dialog and Morphology in the Novel
Nicole Green Explorations of the Nature of Reality in To the Lighthouse
Ashley Overhouse Read Between the Paratexts: Resistance in the 19th
Century Race Novel
Alicia Roll Poetic Inspiration
Panel Two: Pacific Crossings
10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Moderator: Tim Yamamura
Alyssa Benveniste The Body of a Woman: Exploring the Nation in Chang Rae Lee's
A Gesture Life
David Manalo An Investigation Into The Literary Sublime of the 21st Century
Asian Diaspora
Kyle Murphy Kerouac and Oriental Worlding
Lunch Buffet
12:10 – 12:55 p.m.
Panel Three: Creative Writing
1:00 – 2:20 p.m.
Moderator: Juliana Leslie
Johan Flyvbjerg Flakes and Cherries
Katharine Elyse Wheeler-Dubin Inside Games
Jessica Jones The Garden Not Forgotten
Panel Four: Negotiating Identity
2:30 – 3:50 p.m.
Moderator: A. Hunter Bivens
Julia Franceschini Comic-book Cinema: How Maus Captures Reality
Brenda Houser Zoot Suit: Pachuco Mythology and the Redefinition of Chicano Identity
Jessica Mead Liberating Cuba: The Use of Historical Romance to Imagine a Nation
Megan Susman Jews, Errants, Disaster: From the Destruction of the Second Temple to
Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay
FREE and open to the public. All are invited!
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