C3: “Perverse” Desires and Trans/national Politics

Seminar Leader: Andrea Bachner, Harvard University

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Grande Ballroom 3

Andrea Bachner, Harvard University: “The Cutting Edge of History: Masochism and National Trauma in Thomas Hettche’s Nox and Yu Hua’s ‘The Past and the Punishments’“

Ryan Kernan, University of California – Los Angeles: “Perpetual Pornography: The Blue of Noon in Pantagruel’s Mouth”

Itziar Rodriguez de Rivera, University at Albany: “Lesbos/L’esboss: Reimagining Lesbian Desire in La passio segons Renee Vivien de Maria Merce Marcal”

Keja Valens, Harvard University: “Queering Caribbean History”

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Grande Ballroom 3

Brian Carr, Duke University: “Modal Differences and Interpretive Exposure”

Huw Edwin Osborne, Royal Military College of Canada: “A Welsh Dandy: The Art of Being Gay in the Rhondda”