The Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Symposium

Saturday, March 16

9:00 - 3:30

new location this year

The Formal Lounge of the Women's Building

Narratives - Translations - Performances

Mary Linxweiler,  "Neruda, Macchu Picchu, and the Translator’s Task"

Anastasiya Lakhtikova,  "The Problem of Methodological Motivation in Nabokov’s Eugene Onegin Project"

Yasuko Sensui,  "The Invention of Love: An Analysis of ‘Love’ in the Modern Vernacular Translation of The Tale of Genji by Yosano Akiko"

Kamaal Haque,  "Making Rome Talk: Visual and Corporeal Spatial Perception in Goethe’s Roman Elegies"

Zhang Jing,  "Exchange and Qing in Feng Menglong’s Gu Jin Xiao Shuo"

Daniel L. Medin,  "Kafka’s ‘Hovering Trope’""

Heidi E. Spear, "Pretense or Reality?  Pirandellian Cinema as demonstrated in Six Characters in Search of an Author “

Jerry McAdams, "From Theory to Practice: From Artaud’s ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ to Peter Brook’s Theatre of Cruelty"

Jonathon Graas,  "The Performativity of Invasion and Resistance in To Be or not To Be and Hangmen Also Die"

Mark Ferguson, "Politicizing Visual Pleasure: Identity vs Identification in A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White"

Vicki Rapti, " What’s the Matter with Karen Finley? Bo(aw)dy Politics and Female Representation"

The Fifth Annual William H. Matheson Seminar in Comparative Arts

 March 26, 2002

5:00 PM

May Auditorium in Simon Hall

Professor Homi K. Bhabha

Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and Visiting Professor in the Humanities at University College, London.  He has published and lectured extensively in Britain and America over the past decade. Educated at the University of Bombay and the University of Oxford, Bhabha advises key arts institutions which include the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, the Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has published widely in journals including New Formations, October, Oxford Literary Review and Screen. His work has also appeared in a number of collections and anthologies, including Questions of Third Cinema (London: BFI 1990), Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory: Thresholds (London, Macmillan 1991), and Redrawing the Boundary of Literary Study in English (New York: MLA, 1992). He sits on the editorial board of, amongst others, October, Critical Inquiry, and New Formations, and is a regular contributor to Artforum. Bhabha has recently been awarded a fellowship from Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He has been given the honor of delivering the Beckman Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, the Du Bois Lectures at Harvard University, the Presidential Lectures at Stanford University, and most recently the Wellek Library Lectures at the Critical Theory Institute of University of California, Irvine.  He is also scheduled to give the Clarendon Lectures at the University of Oxford. The author of The Location of Culture (Routledge 1994) and editor of the essay collection Nation and Narration (Routledge 1990), Bhabha is currently at work on A Measure of Dwelling, a theory of vernacular cosmopolitanism forthcoming from Harvard University Press and The Right to Narrate, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.  In addition to his numerous academic accolades, Bhabha has been profiled in such publications as Newsweek, which named him one of “100 Americans for the Next Century,” Chicago magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New York Times, and has appeared on numerous radio broadcasts on the BBC and elsewhere.

Seymour Chatman

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

"What Happens When a Novel is Translated into a Film?

The Case of Henry James' WASHINGTON SQUARE"
April 15, 2002 4:00 pm
118 Brown Hall

"How Should the Heroine of WASHINGTON SQUARE

Look on the Screen?"
April 16, 2002 1:00 pm
200 Cupples II

Seymour Chatman is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film and Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote "A Theory of Meter" (Amsterdam, 1965), "The Later Style of Henry James" (Oxford, 1972), "Story and Discourse" (Ithaca, 1978), "Antonioni, or the Surface of the World" (Berkeley, 1985), and "Coming to Terms" (Ithaca, 1990). He is the author of numerous articles on narrative structure and the relation of novels to films. He edited (with Samuel R. Levin) "Essays on the Language of Literature" (Boston, 1967), "Literary Style: A Symposium" (New York, 1971), "Approaches to Poetics: Selected English Institute Essays", (New York, 1973), (with Umberto Eco) "Proceedings of the First International Congress on Semiotics" (Milan, 1979), and (with Guido Fink) "Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura: A Screenplay", (New Brunswick, 1989). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Melbourne, Zurich University, and the University of Venice.