All Expenses Paid trip to Rochester Conference

As part of the University's partnership with Cornell and the University of Rochester to create a
"humanities corridor" in Central New York, funded by the Mellon Foundation, the college has
access to funds to send graduate students to the upcoming interdisciplinary conference at
Rochester next weekend, paying for lodging, travel, and sponsoring a reception Friday night to
allow Syracuse and Rochester grads to begin building connections between departments. If you
are interested in attending, please let me know via email: mddwyer (at) syr.edu.

I'm attaching the conference announcement beneath.
m-

The English Department and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester present  
An Interdisciplinary Conference, held as part of The Humanities Project:

The Archive of the Future / The Future of the Archive

The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7, 2007 and will include a roundtable discussion
on the future of the archive (with an opening address by Johnathan Massey, Assistant Professor of Architecture at
Syracuse University, along with a roundtable made up of faculty, librarians and graduate students) and an
opening reception on Friday, which will showcase Marsha Kinder's digital and interactive *Labyrinth Project*.
Saturday's events include a keynote address by Marsha Kinder, Professor of Cinema, Comparative Literature
and Spanish, at the University of Southern California, as well as 12 presentations by an interdisciplinary and
international group of graduate students on topics as diverse as Popular Culture and New Media,
Politics and Society, Visual Culture, and History, Revision and Memory.  

Please see
http://www.rochester.edu/College/humanities/projects/?archive
http://www.rochester.edu/College/humanities/projects/?archive&conference 
for more information (including specific times and paper topics) and to REGISTER. 
 
This conference, including Friday's reception and Saturday's lunch, is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. We do
ask, however, that you register using the form on the website so we have a sense of how many people to expect.


Please free to contact the organizers at futureofthearchive@gmail.com with any questions or comments.

Syracuse English @ the MLA

Syracuse made an excellent impression at the 2006 annual conference of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia. Graduate students, faculty, and some recently departed department alumni delivered presentations, interviewed, and crashed an Ivy League party.

• Gina Liotta, MA '06, on the Early Twentieth Century African-American Children's Literature panel, delivered her presentation, "A New Narrative: Reading Langston Hughes Literature for Children as Imagetext". This paper was originally composed for Susan Edmunds' Harlem Renaissance course and was initially delivered in a 2005 Negotiations panel. Gina is currently enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Oregon Education program.

• Professor Susan Edmunds was busy at the MLA--sitting on the "Posthuman, All Too Posthuman" roundtable, as well as giving a paper entitled "A New Beauty: Anzia Yezierska's Immigrant Women and the Making of Modern America".

• Cindy Linden, fresh off her dissertation defense, appeared on the Pain and Disability panel. Cindy presented her paper, "In the Interests of Normativity: A reconsideration of Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain".
  

• Appearing on the Names, Language, and Theory panel, Amy Leal presented ""The Cockney School of Naming: Keats' Political Allegory in 'Caps and Bells'". Amy has also had an article published in The Chronicle of Higher Ed entitled "Who Killed John Keats?".
  

• Former Emerson Fellow Sarah Brouillette, who is now an Assistant Professor of Literature at MIT, appeared on the Spectacles of Violence panel with her paper, "The Culture Industries of Northern Ireland: Specularity, Violence, and the Conviction Plays".
  

• Professor Monika Wadman chaired a panel on the Native American artist Jimmie Durham. Monika's paper was entitled "Indian Playing Indian? Jimmie Durham's Columbus Day".

• Finally, former EGO facilitator, MA 2006, and current Cornell PhD Jon Senchyne not only delivered a paper entitled "Class, Sexuality, Hypervisibility: Complicating 'Diversity' with Everything I have is Blue", a paper that emerged from his experiences teaching at Syracuse, but also extended the invite to many Syracuseans to Cornell's Friday night party. Thanks, Jon!