B14: Violence and Ethics

Seminar Leader: Naomi Mandel, University of Rhode Island

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

Sheldon Lu, University of California – Davis: “‘Beautiful Violence’: War, Peace, Globalization”

Matthew Cleveland, St. Cloud State University: “Hegemonic Dilemmas: Lacanian Ethics and Contemporary Terrorist Violence”

Scott Schaffer, Millersville University of Pennsylvania: “Resisting the Rut: Ethics and Violence in/to Everyday Life”

Shelly W. Chan, Kalamazoo College: “The Extravagance of Violence: Revenge in Mo Yan’s Fiction”

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

Alain-Philippe Durand, University of Rhode Island: “Beyond the Extreme: Frederic Beigbeder’s Windows on the World and Bernard-Henri Levy’s Who Killed Daniel Pearl?”

Jen Caruso, SUNY – Buffalo: “‘A Necessity as Powerful as One of the Elements…’ Duras’ Albert of the Capitals”

Gabriele Schwab, University of California – Irvine: “Children of Perpetrators: Ethical Dilemmas of Negative Identity Formation”

Cheryl Suzack, University of Alberta, Canada: “Postcolonial Ethics and the Violence of Legal Epistemes: The Case of Leonard Peltier”

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

Shireen R.K. Patell, New York University: “Voicing Violence: Levinas, Slave Narrative, and the Subject of Persecution”

Naomi Mandel, University of Rhode Island: “‘Right Here in Nowheres’: The Sick Twisted Ethics of Brett Easton Ellis”

Lucian Ghita, Purdue University: “Raping/Wrestling/Reading the Body: An Approach to Stage Representations of Violence in Titus Andronicus, King Lear and The Spanish Tragedy”