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Recently Updated Sessions
Thursday, 5 January
1. Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates
8:30–11:30 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton
4. Preconvention Workshop for Job Seekers in Foreign Languages
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., 2A, WSCC
20. Public Discourse, Islamism, and the Arab Revolutions: On Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals (session canceled)
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton
32. Slave Emancipation and Projects of Citizenship
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 613, WSCC
39. Where New European Literature Begins . . .
1:45–3:00 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton
43. Making a Case for the Humanities: Advocacy and Audience
1:45–3:00 p.m., 612, WSCC
50. Writing Lives, Living Lives in French: Camille Delaville, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marjane Satrapi
1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton
68. What Works? Integrating Culture into First-Year English and Foreign Language Courses
1:45–3:00 p.m., 613, WSCC
70. Multimediated Brecht
3:30–4:45 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton
87. Digital Literary Studies: When Will It End?
3:30–4:45 p.m., 304, WSCC
91. Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Americas
3:30–4:45 p.m., 619, WSCC
123. Comparing Modern Literatures Worldwide: Can It Be Done within the Current MLA Structure?
5:15–6:30 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton
134. Goethe and Islam: Beyond the Orientalism Aporia?
5:15–6:30 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton
136. Modeling Girlhood: Reassessing Martha Finley's Elsie Dinsmore Series
7:00–8:15 p.m., 308, WSCC
141. What Popular Culture Suggests about Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice . . . and Vice Versa
7:00–8:15 p.m., 618, WSCC
143. A Creative Conversation: Ruth Ozeki with Susan Squier
7:00–8:15 p.m., 604, WSCC
149. The Environment, Trauma, and Contemporary Fiction
7:00–8:15 p.m., 606, WSCC
162. Comparative Conversion
7:00–8:15 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton
CELJ Awards Ceremony
8:45–10:00 p.m., Seneca, Sheraton
Cash Bar: Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Women in French, Women in German, and Feministas Unidas
8:45–10:00 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton
Friday, 6 January
170. Queering Value
8:30–9:45 a.m., 619, WSCC
174. The Opera Libretto
8:30–9:45 a.m., 620, WSCC
181. Graphic Narratives Retelling History: Germany
8:30–9:45 a.m., University, Sheraton
194. Activism in the Academy: Generational, Historical, and Theoretical Perspectives
8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow B, Sheraton
199. Reading Langston Hughes in the Age of Barack Obama
8:30–9:45 a.m., 614, WSCC
201. Translating and Translation in Israeli Literature
8:30–9:45 a.m., Seneca, Sheraton
Business Meeting of the Reception Study Society
10:15–11:30 a.m., Kirkland, Sheraton
226. West Asia and the World Literature Debate (session canceled)
10:15–11:30 a.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton
266. Realisms after Modernisms
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 616, WSCC
275. Recognition as Critique
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton
301. Reconfiguring Publishing
1:45–3:00 p.m., Grand A, Sheraton
303. On War: Classical and Modern Perspectives
1:45–3:00 p.m., University, Sheraton
306. Provocative Feminisms
1:45–3:00 p.m., 612, WSCC
325. Ireland and the Politics of Language
3:30–4:45 p.m., 304, WSCC
334. A Comparative View of Passion and Affect in Early Modern Tragedy
3:30–4:45 p.m., Ballard, Sheraton
345. Animals, Machines, Forces of Nature: Alternative Agencies in Arthurian Literature
5:15–6:30 p.m., 308, WSCC
346. New Temporalities of Old Age
5:15–6:30 p.m., 620, WSCC
349. Digital Pedagogy
5:15–6:30 p.m., Grand A, Sheraton
358. Scrittura e cultura in movimento: Italophone Literatures, Literatures of Italian Diaspora
5:15–6:30 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton
359A. Scholarship, Censorship, and Academic Change: The Case of A. K. Ramanujan
5:15–6:30 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton
360. Expanding the Language Mission across the Disciplines: A Session in Honor of John Grandin
5:15–6:30 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton
Cash Bar Arranged by the Discussion Group on Scottish Literature
7:00–8:15 p.m., 212, WSCC
Cash Bar Arranged by the University of Washington English Department
7:00–8:15 p.m., 213, WSCC
Saturday, 7 January
399. How Seattle Changed Comics
8:30–9:45 a.m., 303, WSCC
404. Frost and the Politics of Poetry
8:30–9:45 a.m., 309, WSCC
406. Courtly Values in Medieval Courtly Literature
8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow B, Sheraton
444. Preservation Is (Not) Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
10:15–11:30 a.m., 307, WSCC
450. Digital Faulkner: William Faulkner and Digital Humanities
10:15–11:30 a.m., 615, WSCC
453. Why Teach Literature
10:15–11:30 a.m., Grand A, Sheraton
459. Work
10:15–11:30 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton
460. The Academic Workplace 101
10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbia, Sheraton
463. Luncheon Arranged by the Conference on Christianity and Literature
12:00 noon, Washington Athletic Club
478. Material Translations in Early Modern Theater
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton
501. Using Your Foreign Language Proficiency and Cultural Expertise in the Federal Government
1:30–3:30 p.m., 2B, WSCC
521. Rethinking Fascism and Communism: Eastern European Film since 1980
1:45–3:00 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton
527. Democracy, Language, and Literature
1:45–3:00 p.m., Metropolitan A, Sheraton
539. #alt-ac: Alternative Paths, Pitfalls, and Jobs in the Digital Humanities
3:30–4:45 p.m., 3B, WSCC
542. Exaltadas: Women and Transcendentalism
3:30–4:45 p.m., 308, WSCC
549. Imaginarios puertorriqueños del fracaso
3:30–4:45 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton
567. Pinter in Seattle: A Creative Conversation with Frank Corrado and Harry Burton
3:30–4:45 p.m., 608, WSCC
570. Ethnographic Encounters: Jewish American and Italian American Graphic Narratives
3:30–4:45 p.m., 307, WSCC
582. Reception for Patricia Yaeger Arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board
5:15–6:30 p.m., Princessa Ballroom, Grand Hyatt, 721 Pine St.
594. Alternative Ancestries
5:15–6:30 p.m., 620, WSCC
596. Language, Literature, Learning: New Research in Celtic Studies
5:15–6:30 p.m., 306, WSCC
605. Modern East Asian Literature, World Literature
5:15–6:30 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton
Cash Bar and Awards Dinner Arranged by the Keats-Shelley Association of America
Cash bar at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:00 p.m., Alexis Hotel Seattle, 1007 1st Ave.
611. MLA Awards Ceremony
6:45 p.m., Metropolitan A, Sheraton
Reception Arranged by the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of English
7:00–8:15 p.m., 205, WSCC
Dinner Arranged by the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Dinner at 7:00 p.m., 95 Pine St., Pike Place Market, Steelhead Diner
624. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
7:00–8:15 p.m., 212, WSCC
625. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on the Victorian Period and the Division on the English Romantic Period
7:00–8:15 p.m., 214, WSCC
Cash Bar Arranged by ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
8:45–10:00 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton
Informal Gathering, Networking Meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
8:45–10:00 p.m., Boren, Sheraton
Business Meeting of the Wallace Stevens Society
8:45–10:00 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton
Business Meeting of the Margaret Atwood Society
8:45–10:00 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton
Cash Bar Arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages
8:45–10:00 p.m., Metropolitan B, Sheraton
Open Business Meeting of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
8:45–10:00 p.m., Leschi, Sheraton
Cash Bar Arranged by the South Central Modern Language Association
8:45–10:00 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton
Reception Arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
8:45–10:00 p.m., 202, WSCC
Business Meeting of the Doris Lessing Society
8:45–10:00 p.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton
Sunday, 8 January
654. "Continuous Voyage Orders": From Komagata Maru to the Aftermath of 9/11
8:30–9:45 a.m., Ballard, Sheraton
655. Unemployment
8:30–9:45 a.m., 617, WSCC
706. Dynamic Learning for Advanced Proficiency
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton
728. New Paths of Flânerie: Crossings of Gender and Space and the Nineteenth-Century French Flâneur/Flâneuse
1:45–3:00 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton
737. Cultural Consumption, Lifestyle, and Values
1:45–3:00 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton
745. Affecting Affect Theory
1:45–3:00 p.m., 615, WSCC
2012 Program
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