Plenary/Special Event Sessions
ACLA 2012 Plenary/Special Event Schedule
Thursday 3/29
5:00-6:30pm ADPCL Teaching Roundtable
Challenges and Successes: How Comp Lit Departments Thrive
Caroline Eckhardt, Penn State University
Christopher Bush; Northwestern University
Bella Brodzki; Sarah Lawrence College
Ann Rosalind Jones; Smith College
Françoise Lionnet; University of California, Los Angeles
Yopie Prins; University of Michigan
Julia Watson; The Ohio State University
Arnold Weinstein; Brown University
The Grand Ballroom, 17th floor, Biltmore Hotel
6:30-8:30pm Welcome Reception
With Welcome Address by Ruth Simmons, President, Brown University
L’ Apogee, 17th and 18th floor, Biltmore Hotel
Friday 3/30
1:00-2:30pm Business Meeting
Room 001, Salomon
3:15-5:15pm ADPCL and Graduate Caucus Roundtable
Non-Tenure Track Job Market
David Damrosch, Harvard University;
Martina Kolb, Penn State University;
Adam Miyashiro, Stockton College
Room 106, Smith-Buonnano Hall
3:30-5:00pm Literary Arts Reading: “Translucinations: Innovative Translations from French, Spanish, Japanese”
Brian Evenson, Brown University
Forrest Gander, Brown University
C.D. Wright, Brown University
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
5:30-7:30pm Plenary Roundtable: “Africa in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring”
Neil ten Kortenaar, University of Toronto
Eileen Julien, Indiana University
Moderated by Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University; Olakunle George, Brown University
Room 101, Salomon
Saturday 3/31
8:30-10:00am ADPCL Breakfast meeting
101 Thayer Street, Room B
(For departmental chairs and program directors)
1:00-3:00pm ACL(x) panel
This panel, which will draw on the lessons learned at the recent ACL(x) conference on new models for academic exchange, will feature 5-minute talks and group discussion.
Room 106, Smith-Buonnano Hall
3:30-5:00 Film Screening
Auf Wiedersehen—Till We Meet Again, directed by Linda Mills, New York University
Room 101, Salomon
4:00-5:00 ICLA Meeting
A Special Meeting of the Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Chaired by William Spurlin, Brunel University, London
Room 202, Pembroke Hall
5:30-7:00pm Plenary Panel: “Thinking Disaster”
Avital Ronell, New York University
Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine
Moderated by Marc Redfield, Brown University
Room 101, Salomon
7:00-8:00pm Presidential Address
On Liquid Ground: Shipwrecks, Archives, Comparison
Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles
Room 101, Salomon
8:30-11:00pm Banquet and Awards Ceremony
The Dorrance, 60 Dorrance Street, Providence 02903