2022 Symposium

Day 1

Wednesday, June 8

4:30-5:00 PST: Opening Remarks: Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld (Pomona College)

5:00-7:00: “Provocations” Presentations by:

Adhaar Noor Desai (Bard College), Nedda Mehdizadeh (UCLA), and Ross Lerner (Occidental College)

Day 2

Thursday, June 9,

10:00-11:30 PST: Keynote Address by Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University, Newark), “Editing Othello”

1:30-3:30: Concept-piece Seminar led by: Emily Vasiliauskas (Williams College), Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld (Pomona College), and Tessie Prakas (Scripps College)

4:00-6:00 PST: Keynote Address by Joan Pong Linton (Indiana University), “The Student as Parasite: Commonplacing from our Classrooms Towards a Hospitable Public Discourse”

Day 3

Friday, June 10,

9:30-10:30 PST: Pedagogy Workshop by Joan Pong Linton: “Student as Parasite.”

11:30-12:30 PST: Keynote Address by Nan Z. Da, “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear.”

1:30-3:30 PST: Seminar Discussion of “Mother of Stories” by Alice Dailey (Villanova University)

4:00 PST: “Renaissance Futures”: discussion led by Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College)

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