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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2025 CLIFF Conference: \"Science—literature—technology: rupture\, relation\, constellation\"
DESCRIPTION:29th Annual CLIFF Conference\nRackham Assembly Hall\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\nMarch 21-22\, 2025\nKeynote Speaker: Dr. Tung-Hui Hu\, Department of English Language & Literature\, University of Michigan\n\nCLIFF 2025\n\nscience—literature—technology\nrupture\, relation\, constellation\n\nMarch 21-22\, 2025 | Rackham Assembly Hall\n\nProgram of Panels\nFriday\, March 21\, 2025\n\n9:00 am - 9:30 am       Breakfast\n9:30 am - 10:00 am     Opening Remarks\, Professor Yopie Prins\n\n10:00 am - 11:45 am   Panel 1: Optics\, Perception\, and Memory\n\nRespondent: Mike Brier\nPresenters:\nKatherine Tapia (University of Michigan\, Comparative Literature)\, Time Fluttered Round\, Whiskered\, and Unbinding: Atemporality and Uncertainty of Memory in Pearl\n\nBen Woodworth (University of Michigan\, Comparative Literature)\, Messiaen’s Synopticon: visual programming for multimedia performance and analysis\n\nTrey Roark (Georgetown University\, Data Sciences)\, The Lumpen Variable - Reimagining Queerness in Machine Learning\n\nNathan Bailey (University of Michigan\, German)\, Optical Obsessions: Scopophilia\, Scopes\, and Schisms in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann\n\n11:45 am - 12:30 pm  Lunch\n12:30 - 2:15 pm          Panel 2: Philosophies\, Rhetorics\, Uncertainties\n\nRespondent: Ben Woodworth\nPresenters:\nAnaís Martinez Jiminez (Princeton University\, Comparative Literature)\, Traces of the Unconscious: The Liminal Place of Psychoanalysis in North America\n\nWeilin Kao (University of Washington\, Asian Languages and Literatures)\, The Dialectics of '反' (fan) in the Dao De Jing: Rhetoric\, Rupture\, and Relational Dynamics Beyond Dualism\n\nSarah Valdman (University of Michigan\, Philosophy)\, The Impossibility of Common Sense\n\nJenna Novosel (Indiana University\, English)\, Affliction of the Uninitiated: Mesmeric Entrainment in Teresa Brennan’s Transmission of Affect in Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni (1842)\n\n \n\n2:15 pm - 3:30 pm      Panel 3: Intersections in 20th and 21st Century Literatures\nRespondent: Professor Yopie Prins\n\nPresenters:\nClaire Patzner (Indiana University\, English)\, Translating in the Dark: Investigating Tracy K. Smith’s Translations of Yi Lei\n\nIvan E. Parra Garcia (University of Michigan\, Comparative Literature)\, Writers\, Readers\, and Essayists: The Mystery of Menard’s Don Quixote Writing Project\n\nDelsa Lopez (University of Michigan\, Comparative Literature)\, Japan\, Zombies\, and Garbage: The Insatiable Waste While Playing Siren 3\n\n \n\n3:30 pm - 3:45 pm      Coffee Break\n3:45 pm - 5:30 pm      Panel 4: Humans\, Literature\, and the Environment\nRespondent: Caroline Sullivan\n\nPresenters:\nJessie Croteau (Johns Hopkins University\, Political Science)\, The Potential of Decline: Lucretian Unbecoming and the Toxic Immortality of Plastics\n\nKirill Veselkin (University of Texas\, Comparative Literature)\, A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Post-Nuclear Poetics in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest\n\nJulianne Angeli (University of Michigan\, French)\, Human-Environment Interaction and Social Incompatibility in Bilge Karasu’s “Incitmebeni” and Boris Vian’s L’écume des Jours\n\nNoah Baum (New York University\, English)\, Making Sense: Nuclear Aesthetics in Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge\n\n5:30 pm - 7:00 pm      Reception\n\n\nSaturday\, March 22\, 2025\n\n9:00 am - 9:30 am       Breakfast\n9:30 am - 11:00 am     Keynote Address and Q&A by Professor Tung-Hui Hu (University of Michigan\, English)\, At the Ends of Exhaustion\, A Door\nRespondent: Professor Christi Merrill\n\n11:00 am - 11:15 am   Coffee Break\n11:15 am - 1:00 pm    Panel 5: Speculative Histories\, Speculative Futures\nRespondent: Dr. Ali Bolcakan\nPresenters:\nSanjana Ramanathan (University of Michigan\, Comparative Literature)\, Classics and Controllers: Playing in/with Ancient Pasts\n\nAnnie Birkeland (University of Michigan\, Linguistic Anthropology)\, Once Upon an Archipelago… Alternative Origin Stories of Cabo Verde\n\nLinda Huber (University of Michigan\, School of Information)\, “AI” as a Scrying Mirror - for the University We Want\, and the University We Have\n\nSam Patwell (University of Washington\, Asian Languages and Literatures)\, A Foundational Mirage: Exploring the First Science Fiction Magazine Published in Taiwan (1990-1992)\n\n1:00 pm - 1:45 pm      Lunch\n1:45 pm - 3:00 pm      Panel 6: Archival Evidence and Ethnography\nRespondent: Dr. Dina Mahmoud\nPresenters:\n\nSrimati Ghosal (University of Michigan\, Comparative Literature)\, “Science for the Household” and Technology for the Nation: Soviet Science and Technology Textbooks in Cold War India\n\nSara Ruiz (University of Michigan\, Slavic)\, Forensic Memory: Technologies of Witnessing in Soviet War Crimes Trials\n\nLai Wo (University of Michigan\, Anthropology)\, Ethical Uncertainties within Intimate Labor Migration between East Java and Hong Kong\n\n3:00 pm - 3:30 pm      Closing Remarks
UID:132918-21872067@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132918
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Anthropology,comparative literature,Conference,Culture,Department Of American Culture,Digital Culture,Digital Studies Institute,Food,Free,German,Graduate School,Humanities,Information And Technology,Linguistics,Literature,Meal,Panel,Rackham,Scientific Humanities,Student Org,Technical Communications
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall
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