B12: Remembrance of Places Past: Departures, Migrations, and Returns

Seminar Leaders: Asli Igsiz, University of Michigan and Lily Chiu, University of Michigan

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Bangor

Christine Cao, University of California – Los Angeles: “The Foreign and Familiar in Pham Van Ky’s Fréres de Sang”

Reshmi Dutt, Hamline University: “The Arrival and the I-94: Predicaments for Entering and Leaving”

Susan Gorman, University of Michigan: “The Problems of Presenting the Past in Camara Laye’s Dramouss”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Bangor

Asli Igsiz, University of Michigan: “Politics of Genre and Narratives of Return”

Jutta Lorensen, Pennsylvania State University: “Remembering from Afar: Second Generation Remembrance and the Photographic Episteme”

Caroline A Mohsen, Pennsylvania State University: “Revisiting the Places of the Past: Imagination, Memory, and Identity”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Bangor

Constanza Svidler, University of Michigan: “Land (E)scapes, Linguistic Games, and Self Confrontations: Unearthing Memory in Sylvia Molloy’s El comun olvido”

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University: “The Rhetoric of Displacement and Return: Reading Contemporary Russian Exilic Writing”