Forked Tongues: The Role of (Foreign) Languages in Literature, Film, and the Arts
2022 GCLR Graduate Student Conference
Slavs and Tartars. "Mother Tongues and Father Throats". 2012. Carpet. Image courtesy of Raster Gallery.
2022 Theme: "Forked Tongues"
2022 GCLR Distinguished Keynote Speaker: Professor Yasemin Yildiz (UCLA)
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*Updated Schedule of Events*
Welcomes and Acknowledgements - 8:00 am PDT
GCLR Director, Professor Sven Spieker and GCLR Coordinator and Conference Organizer, Rachel Feldman (gclr@complit.ucsb.edu)
“Forked Tongues” Special UCSB Undergraduate Panel: 8:15 am - 9:30 am PDT
Chairs: Rachel Feldman ( rachelfeldman@ucsb.edu ) and Lily Ortiz ( lilymortiz@ucsb.edu )
“Translations of Shibata Shōkyoku’s The Museum of the Weird (Yōi Hakubutsukan 妖異博物館, 1963), Timothy Roberts (UCSB Japanese & Translation Studies), timothyroberts@ucsb.edu / Mentor: Professor William Fleming
“Gorky’s Torture Techniques in ‘Old Izergil’: Translation Methods and the Ethics of Responsibility,” Vardui Sargsyan (UCSB Linguistics with Slavic Emphasis) varduhi@ucsb.edu / Mentors: Professor Sara Pankenier Weld, Arpi Movsesian, Rachel Feldman, and Dustin Lovett
“The Translatability of the Fool in Armenian Literature,” Ani Ordubekyan (UCSB), aniordubekyan@ucsb.edu / Mentor: Arpi Movsesian
"The Translation Process of Japanese Folktales," Sage Hinskey (UCSB), sagehinsley@ucsb.edu / Mentor: Dustin Lovett
“Writing with the Body as an Act of Reclamation in Cixous’ “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Delgado’s “Our Language,” and Yuknavitch’s “Second Language”, Lila Velasquez Singh (UCSB-CSS Writing & Literature), lsingh@ucsb.edu / Mentor: Margarita Delcheva
Break - 9:30-10 am PDT
Keynote Address and Discussion - 10 :00 am - 11:00 am PDT
Professor Yasemin Yildiz (UCLA) yildiz@humnet.ucla.edu
Graduate Panel 1, Literary Multilingualism Focus: 11 am -12:20 pm PDT [2 pm EST/ 8 pm Berlin-CEST]
Chair/Respondent: Margarita Delcheva (delcheva@ucsb.edu)
1A: “Visual Aphasia: Feeling Lost Around Words and Faces in Agnès Varda’s Los Angeles,” Tobias Rosen (Freie University, Berlin) tobias.rosen@fu-berlin.de / Timezone: CET (Central European Time - Berlin) [20 min.]
1B: “‘I speak with language, sometimes she answers’: Multilingualism in Barbara Köhler’s MUSE, POLYTROP (2007)”, Lena Grimm (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) lkgrimm@umich.edu / Timezone: EST
1C: "Colonialism's Forked Tongue: Multilingualism in Eileen Chang's Hong Kong Tales", Vanessa (Yee Kwan) Wong (University of California Irvine) yeekw@uci.edu / Timezone: PST
1D: “British Indian Multilingual Literary Modernity,” Bennet Comerford (Harvard University) bec500@mail.harvard.edu / Timezone: PST
Lunch Break - 12:20- 1:30 pm PDT
Graduate Panel 2, Nationalism and Language Focus: 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm PDT
Chair/Respondent: Reem Taha ( reemtaha@ucsb.edu )
2A: “Ethnocentrism vs. Multiculturalism in Khaleeji Musalsalat: Nationalism and Pluri-Arabism,” Richard Nedjat-Haiem (University of California, Santa Barbara) richard_nedjat-haiem@ucsb.edu / Timezone: PST
2B: “Speaking the Same Language: Parallels in Freedom Rhetoric from the Yucatan Peninsula and the Thirteen American Colonies,” Gregory Combes (CSUN) gregory.combes.903@my.csun.edu / Timezone: PST
Break - 2:15-2:45 pm PDT
Graduate Panel 3, Disability Studies Focus: 2:45 -3:45 pm PDT [3:45 pm MDT/MST, 5:45 pm EST]
Chair/Respondent: John Schranck ( jschranck@ucsb.edu )
3A: “The ‘Dragging Foot’ of José Garcia Villa’s Performative ‘Comma Poems’”, Katie Bradshaw (University of Southern California) kbradsh7@vols.utk.edu / Timezone: Mountain MDT/MST
3B: "Tongue Tied: Stuttering and Making a Metaphor of Disabled Language", Jeff Careyva (Harvard University) jcareyva@g.harvard.edu / Timezone: EST
3C: “Displaced Boundaries: The body and language in Michel de Montaigne’s Travel Journal,” Krystin C. Christy (New York University) kcc460@nyu.edu / Timezone: PST
Break - 3:45-4 pm PDT
Graduate Panel 4, Translation Studies Focus: 4:00-5:00 pm PDT [June 5th at 7:00 pm EST / June 6th 7:30 am - Macau/CST*]
Chair/Respondent: Jordan Tudisco ( jtudisco@ucsb.edu )
4A: “Transcending Chineseness from Novel to Film: The Politics of Authenticity,” Le Li (Binghamton University - SUNY) lli109@binghamton.edu / Timezone: EST/ No Recording*
4B: “How does Transcultural Poetics Function? Translating Humanistic Spirit of Wenxin Diaolong from Hermeneutic Phenomenology,” Shuying Liang (University of Macau) 1910691344@qq.com / Timezone: CST*
4C: “The Transgender Translator’s Task,” Em Roalsvig (University of California, Santa Barbara) eroalsvig@ucsb.edu / Timezone: PST
Farewells: 5:00 pm
Farewells from Rachel, Sven, and the GCLR Advisory Board!
Graduate presenters can check HERE for information about revising your conference paper for inclusion in the new GCLR graduate student journal Exchanges.