1. Art and Diseño

Mardi Gras Conference 2015
February 12 & 13, 2015
Louisiana State University
LSU Student Union
PROGRAM
Thursday, 2/12
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Capital Chamber (329)
Check-in and welcome
9:00-10:20
Red River (323)
SPATIALIZED SELVES
Chair: Lindsay Dearinger
Ambient Ecologies: The Recreation and (Re)creations of Space and Self
Ryan James McGuckin, Louisiana State University
The human body, the space and the identity: What links the urban man’s identity to the spatiality
and how the desire for alterity is born in this case?
Mehdi Alizadeh, University of Limoges (France)
10:30 AM-11:50 AM
Red River (323)
SOCIAL/PUBLIC SELVES
Chair: Brandon Kyle
About Facebook: Re-Viewing Black Women's Subjectivity on Social Media
Sarah Webb, Louisiana State University
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Aestheticized Violence in Hip Hop Music
David Hill, Louisiana State University
Identity Mischief: Where Play Challenges Reality in the Yes Man
Matthew Tougas, Louisiana State University
10:30 PM-11:50 PM
Castillian (304)
OBJECT ORIENTED SELVES
Chair: Daren Hutchinson
Guerilla Poetry: Ashbery, Deleuze, Harman and the Allure of the Object
Zach Tavlin, University of Washington
Tristan Garcia and the Persistence of Objects
Mark Ohm, Louisiana State University
The Strange Glimmer of the Twilight: The Potentiality of Tension in the Works Jacques Derrida
and Derek Walcott
Daniel Benyousky, Baylor University
1:30 PM-2:50 PM
Orleans (302A)
(Re)ORIENTING SELVES
Chair: Cristina Rosell
“What shall be our sport?”: Playing Games in As You Like It and La dama duende
Kristina Sutherland, University of Georgia
The Object Identified Object, or the Woman-Oriented Ontology: An Inquiry into Orientation
Annie Atura, Stanford University
1:30-2:50
Caddo (305)
EXISTENTIAL and ETHICAL SELVES
Chair: Amanda Swenson
Possibilities and Limits of Ethical Subjectivity in Coetzee’s Disgrace
Min Kyung Boo, Sung Kyun Kwan University (Korea)
A Defense of No-Self
Kimberly Mae Dill, University of Texas at Austin
“But There was No Other Change in Nature”: The Refusal to Accept Change in The Turn of the
Screw
Clare Chiappetta, Our Lady of the Lake College
1:30-2:50
Castillian (304)
PERFORMATIVE SELVES
Chair: Ben Bergholtz
Heaven Is for Real, and So am I: Perverse Faith Narratives, Reproduction, and Belief in the
'Real' American Male
Laura Clapper, Indiana University
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke: A Gag Reflex to the Masculinity Crisis of the 1990s
Sheridan Santens, Texas A&M San Antonio
The Confidence Man in Antebellum American Literature: An Exploration of the Nexus between
Individual and National Faith
Caleb Doan, Louisiana State University
3:30 PM – 4:50 PM
Capital Chamber (329)
Dr. Ian Bogost, Keynote Speaker
The Mistrust of Things
How can we learn to live with things, where ‘things’ means stuff rather than ideas and events?
How do we approach a world so replete, so overburdened with stuff that it's literally falling apart
from the wear? How do we think of ourselves as really just another thing among others, rather
than their masters and mistresses? How can we respect things for what they are, irrespective of
our contact or concern, and how do we really do so, not just late one weird night, but every day,
habitually, for real? And how do we do so without descending into the anguish of nihilism,
without simply concluding that the universe is fundamentally indifferent?
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Keynote Dinner
The Chimes Restaurant (3357 Highland Road)
Friday, 2/13
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Capital Chamber (329)
Check-in and welcome
9:00-10:20
Red River (323)
IDENTIFYING SELVES
Chair: Mary Pappalardo
When Ripley Looks: Female Gaze and Liminality in the Alien series
Amandine Faucheux Louisiana State University
“But Edna. My goodness. She was a Birthmother”: An Examination of Othering the Birthmother
in Lois Lowry’s The Giver
Lisa Sanna, Texas A&M San Antonio
The Pseudo-Liberation of Aunt Jemima through Art and Nomenclature
Brittany Walker, Emory University
9:00 AM-10:20 AM
Castillian (304)
TRANSNATIONAL SELVES
Chair: Stacey Amo
Warriors, Weirdos, and Weakling: The Roles and Revelations of Women’s Identity Portrayal in
Virgil’s Aeneid
Brittany N. Krantz, Stephen F. Austin State University
Re-Examining the Female Futurist: Valentine de Saint-Point and the Atlantic World
Charla Hughes, Louisiana State University
New Names to Old Faces: Cultural Blending of the Identities of the Black Madonna of
Czestochowa and Ezili Dantor
Alexandra Torres, Louisiana State University
10:30 AM-11:50 AM
Red River (323)
PROFESSIONAL SELVES (PROFESSIONALIZATION PANEL)
1:30-2:50
Vieux-Carre (325)
MEDIATED SELVES (SCREENING PANEL)
Chair: Dustin Zemel
The Subtlest Barometer: Mothers and Daughters
Brenda Burmeister, Duke University
Tiptoe: On “Becoming” a Woman of Color
Robin McDowell, The University of Texas at Austin
This Is a Longing For-Muriel Leung, Louisiana State University
Kimberly Jones, Louisiana State University