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2. Welcome to the 8th Annual
EGO/LASGO Conference!
Friday, October :
Q & A Orr Steve
214 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Morgan 109 7:00-9:00
SteveTomasula.
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.Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels The ofPortraiture
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"Body Animations lullaby for Fallujah)"
and
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theory; critical studies of
on con­
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Saturday, October 22nd
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8:00-8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
9:00-10:20 a.m.
10:39-11:59 a.m •
12:99-1:09 p.m.
1: p.m.
2: 3: p.m.
4:00-5:00 p.m.
ence and Dsvchiatrv: and cultural led bv Steve and JacRie Orr
Hall 5:30 p.m.
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1: The of R2nr2S
of Herman and
Chair: Room 027
"'I do venders how that 'ill vork': Race and
Class Distinctions Dialect in Lippard's
The Ouaker City; or, The Monks
Sarah Illinois
of Black in.
: Queequeg and as
Ends of the Spectrum of Antebellum Black
I(evin Western Illinois
~~ Slave Law of 185a and Class Protest:
Sourcing bPnrpp Ambivalences"
Western Illinois
Panel 2: The of Comics
Chair: Morrow Room 014
in the a~""nnl in Joe Sacco's
Gorazde"
Steve Western Illinois
New Sense of Sense and
through the Novel"
Schroeder, Western Illinois
Madness: Genre Confusion and the
Fantastic in Swallow Me Whole"
Western Illinois University .
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Panel 3: The Intersection of Science and
Chair: John Simmons Room 327
"The Intersection of Science and
John Simmons. Western Illinois
"The. Brain"
Sue Western Illinois
"The Crossroads of Science and I~.I..I.~.I.UI Within The Body"
Shannon Western Illinois
Roundtable discussion with:
Althea Alton, Western Illinois
Shannon Reed, Western Illinois
Shawn Western Illinois
Panel 4: Human Animals and
Chair: Andrea Room 214
<"The of Nature': The Inr'!IlI"nT of
in Theodore Dreiser' s The Titan"
Jose Northern Illinois
"The Rhetoric of New Media Animal and Environmental Ac­
tivism: Events~"
Violence and : Mala's Territorial Art of Sur­
in Shani Mootoo's Cereus BLooms at Night'>
Western Illinois University
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5. " 3: -
Panel 1:
and
Chair: Jannell McConnell Room 027
(f Secrets of Dark Wi
Secret
ll Be the Truths of
Eavan Boland's Domestic
Jannell State
landscape: Irish and the
Western Illinois
"The Politics of the Booker: How Two Award Winners
Have Changed Face of and World
Western Illinois
Panel 3: the
Room 327
"The Commod
Anna Western Illinois
of Bodies: International
Trade in PadmanabhanJs Harvest )"
"Woman as : The Zombie Female Body"
Melissa Wangall, Western Illinois
Bodies of the State: the South African
Mirror and Global
Andrea
Panel 4: , J and
Moderator: Wilson-Jordan Room 214
Panel 2: s The Watchmen
Chair: 014
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"The line RA+.MAAn
"The
"A
Mind"
Western Illinois
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6. Session lI. : 2:30 .. 3:50 p.m.
1: the in
American s
Chair: Room 027
"Three Antebellum of Womanhood in Harriet
Jean Western Illinois
of in the
Novel"
Michelle Western Illinois
"An of the Slums in Antebellum New York: A
Female
Western Illinois
2: Out of the Wild and Down on the Farm:
in Thoreau's and Cather's
Chair: Dan Malachu~ Room 014
nel!J.ul
Grant Wood"
Catherine Western Illinois
«(More Natural' Nature: Thoreau's and
Scientific Through Reversion"
Western Illinois
"Fierce and Beauty: and the
Land in Willa 5 0 Pioneers! and Mv Antonia"
Leah Christensen, Western Illinois
and the Farm"
Dan Malachu~. Western Illinois
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3: of
Co-Chairs: Jessica and Lisa Room 327
and Disaster in Southern Poetry"
Jessica State
"The of Disaster: Public and
Loss in the Poetry of Bob Hicok and Natasha
Lisa State
"The Thomas on the Couch"
Marc Western Illinois
4: Modern and
Chair: Bill Room 214
"The E Cock: Male Homoeroticism in D. H.
Lawrence's
Merrill
" and Sadism and Nar-
Davtcl Western Illinois
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7. Conference Roundtable: 4:0D - 5:DO p.m.
Steve Tomasula Orr
Room 014
Reception : 5:00 p.m.
located Taylor Hall~ 125 S. RandolDh Street
of the Sebastian Melmoth Prize to the Best
MedialnstaDation
A on the ::IU1.:lIlIll[O"JLawuerinD towards a Rm;:ursiveUrbanism
"A WalRon the towards a Recursive Ur­
street The
"recursive urbanism" uses the street as: I) an search
a tableau you drift as you move, 2) a
and 3) a
into how Rit edits-us. Videos and
a of
a digital tog. This streetscape is now snared
in in St. Louis. St. Louis is where Marshal McLuhan did
foundational media WOfR. McLuhan that the
diet for the elite" would thwart art as radar. uThe installation tracRs
how a idea of a lawsuit, and a St.
Louis elite decided to forfeit and obliterate McLuhan's St. Louis
acy. And do it in to celebrate his 2011 Centennial.
Paul Guzzardo is Fellow Geddes Institute for Urban Research.
based in St. Louis and Buenos Aires.
state of the American public He's
interested in and where urban creative
and collectors and or in a zoomed out
jzed culture. His research is out on the street. His in-
outdoor multimedia street-front me-
remix concerts, installations and
these venues and to de-
gear _ maps_ for n;:"/i,,::>tin(1
minefield.
·This installation was installed earlier at Culture Lab OnSite New­
castle and will open at Western Illinois University Macomb lIIinois.
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8. English Graduate Organization r...UiUI
Co-Presidents: Melissa Maria DeRose
Schoon
Mutchler
Jessica
Uberal Arts and Graduate
Organization (LASGO)
President: Reed
Vice President: Andrea
LASGO and Faculty Advisor: David with
to Alton
Interdisdplinary English and Arts
Society (IDEAS)
1/I'rl"""I1,,, Stevens
Treasurer: Steve
Melissa Graven
"This event is co-sponsored byEGO, LASGO, the Department of English and Journalism,
the UniversityTheme Committee, The ViSiting Lecturers Committee, The College ofArts
and Sciences, the Provost's Office, as well as Digital Commons."
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Il.Jr Speakers
Sue Adams
Allison Morrow
AI-Mutairi Marl< Mossman
Althea Alton Sarah
David l3anash Mutchler
Laura BlacR Michael Palmer
Catherine Bodenbender
13rinl<man Kevin Rach
Budruweit Shannon Reed
Cheron Shazla Rahman
Anna Dee Robinson
Leah Christensen Ramona
Merrill Cole Jessica Scadden
John Schoon
Jose Fernandez Schroeder
Marc Fortuna Lauren Sciascia
Aaron GraF John Simmons
Paul Guzzardo Andrea
Everett Hamner Michelle Stevens
judith
Jean Kern
Utle
Steve
Dan MalachuR Wilson-Jordan
Zertuche
Panel Chairs and Moderators
David Banash Morrow
Everett Hamner Shazia Rahman
Andrea
Lisa Wilson-Jordan