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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence\, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
DESCRIPTION:Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers\n23rd Annual CLIFF Conference\nUniversity of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\nMarch 15-16\, 2019\nKeynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz\n\nIt was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich\, “Cartographies of Silence”\n\nSilence is not an absence\, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes\, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature\, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices\, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular\, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive\, in the text\, in the subject\, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars\, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself?\n\nProfessor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature\, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country\, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility\, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year\, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking\, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx\, where she attended public schools\, a Yiddish shule\, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave\, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement\, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism\, Israeli/Palestinian peace\, Jewish identity\, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture. \n\nKlepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine\, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges\, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology\, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays)\, and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).\n\nSCHEDULE:\n15th March\, Friday \n10 am - 10.30 am Breakfast \n10.30 am -10.45 am Opening remarks \n10.45 am - 12.15 pm \nPanel 1: Justice and Activism\nRespondent: Antoine Traisnel\nPanel Papers:\nMina Khalil: “Presenting the Criminal Defendant in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: the Presumption of Innocence as Silence”\nElisa Corona Aguilar: “Fists up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City´s Post- Earthquake Rescuing Activities”\nSeon-Myung Yoo: “The Deafening Silence of Comfort Women Survivors”\n12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Lunch\n1.15 pm - 2.45 pm \nPanel 2: Untranslatability\nRespondent: Maya Barzilai\nPanel Papers:\nCorbin Allardice: “Di Rayze Aheym: Yiddish Heteroglossia as State Critique in Sutzkever’s Gaystike Erd”\nAaron Coleman: “The Role of Literary Translation in Witnessing the African Diaspora: Neglected Legacies of Black USAmerican Poets translating AfroCuban Poets”\nElias Pitegoff: “What Remains\; On the Memorial Addressed to Nothing in Particular”\n2.45 pm - 3 pm Coffee Break\n3 pm - 4.30 pm \nPanel 3: Violence and Witnessing\nRespondent: Tatjana Aleksić\nPanel Papers:\nMartha Henzy: “Real Violence” and Virtual Reality: Jordon Wolfson’s Theater of Cruelty\nNina Jackson Levin: The Worst Loss\, Silenced: Problematizing the Social and Archival Silencing of Grieving Mothers”\nKristina Krasny: “Vertretung and Darstellung in the Poetry of Hester Pulter”\n4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Reception\n5.30 pm - 7 pm\nKeynote- Irena Klepfisz “The 2087th question\, or when silence is the only answer”\n\n16th March\, Saturday:\n9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast \n9.30 am - 11 am \nPanel 4: Sounding Queer Desire\nRespondent: Shira Schwartz\nPanel Papers:\nBenjamin Hollenbach: “Silent Faith: Mainline Protestants\, LGBTQ Inclusion\, and Religious Devotion”\nLars Stoltzfus-Brown: “Why White People Love the Amish: Settler Colonialism\, Violence\, and White Heteronostalgia”\nAmanda Kubic: “‘Neither honey nor the bee for me:’ Silence and Desire in Fragment 113”\n11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break\n11.15 am - 12.45 pm\nPanel 5: Poetics  \nRespondent: Yopie Prins \nPanel Papers:\nLisa Levin: Notes on Notes on Speechlessness\nJasmine An: “‘the model minority disability disability creation’ – a mixed media experiment in digital storytelling”\nSara Deniz Akant: “One Sea Leads to Another: Approaching Memory and the Unsayable in Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery”\n12.45 pm - 2 pm Lunch \n2 pm - 3 pm A Reading and Conversation with Irena Klepfisz  \n3.15 pm - 4.45 pm \nPanel 6: Silence\, Address\, Redress\nRespondent: Liz Wingrove\nNathaniel Harrington: “Cànan a’ bhreithneachaidh (The language of criticism)”\nLuiza Caetano: Contradiction as strategy: Germaine de Staël’s “Three Novellas”\nGrace Zanotti: “Reading Through the Lacuna: Anne Carson’s Pinplay and Euripides’ Bacchae”\n4.45 pm - 5 pm Closing Remarks\n7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Literati Bookstore\n\nGrace Zanotti\, Genta Nishku\, Shalmali Jadhav\, Shira Schwartz\, Duygu Ergun\nCLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nUniversity of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\ncliff.complit@umich.edu
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