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Graduate Student Conference 2010
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on

=**Troubling Reality: (Re)Imagining Realms of the Real**= Hosted by Brandeis University's Interdisciplinary M.A. Program in Cultural Production At [|Brandeis University], Waltham, Massachusetts Conference Email Address

March 13, 2010-9:30-5:30pm ([|Slosberg Musical Hall], Brandies University)**
 * March 12, 2010- 7:00-9:00pm ([|255 Washington Street, Somerville, MA])

The "real" and the realm(s) in which it exists cannot be understood as fixed. Rather, they are preconceived notions - social constructions that perform and produce an imagined reality and thus generate “reality” as an unstable and fragmented entity.
 * Conference Topic**

How do formations of the real and unreal help constitute social bodies, social consciousnesses and social forms? In what ways might the contentious space between real and unreal, signifier and signified be understood as liminal? How are notions of the real embedded in everyday concepts of space, time and bodies? Is there room for the imagination, and, if so, what is its role in these constructions?

Keynote address:

Dr. Amila Buturovic. (Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies)
 * "SARAJEVO ROSES: THE BOSNIAN WAR AND THE SPACES IN BETWEEN"**

Troubling Reality: (Re)Imagining Realms of the Real will take place in Waltham, Massachusetts on March 12th and 13th, 2010. On Friday, March 12th there will be an art exhibit from 7:00pm-9:00pm, that will include artists talks, a gallery walk, along with free food and drinks (location TBA). The conference, including paper presentations, will be held on Saturday, March 13th from 9:30am-5:30pm at Brandeis University’s [|Slosberg Music Hall] and a complimentary breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be offered. Please see below for a more in-depth schedule.
 * Conference Schedule and Panels**

For the paper panels, each presenter will have 15 minutes to present their work. After all presenters have presented there will be a 20 minute discussion section, led by a professor from Brandeis University (professors for each section TBA).

Branvan Shuttle leaves from Waltham and goes to Cambridge/Boston (only Friday).
 * Conference Schedule Friday, March 12th, 2010**

[|Art Opening] 7:00-9:00pm 255 Washington Street Union Square, Somerville, MA

Gary Duehr --- @http://www.garyduehr.com/liminalities.html Ethan Moses --- www.ethanmoses.com --- @http://1d2d3d.wordpress.com/ Benjamin Louis Aron
 * Artists**

MBTA Train Schedule: [|Outbound Schedule] and [|Inbound Schedule]
 * Conference Schedule Saturday, March 13th, 2010 - [|Slosberg Music Hall]**


 * Breakfast Meet and Greet 9:30-9:55am**

//The Problem of Interiority in Freud and Lacan//-David Rodick- Boston College //Fathoming the Mystery of Japanese Shadows//-Ryo Morimoto-Brandeis University //Cartographers of Violence: Congress, Abu Ghraib, and the Construction of an ‘Isolated Incident’//-Jared Del Rosso-Boston College //The Production of Space: Aragon’s ‘Le Paysan de Paris’//-Martina Tanga-Boston University
 * Panel #1: Bringing the Outside In: Mapping Forms, Mapping Spaces at** **10:00-11:20am**

//TwiHards and Fangbangers: The Role of the Fangirl at Comic-Con//-Nicole March-Brandeis University “//Is he gay?” – The Many Faces of David Bowie’s Many Faces//-Chris Patrello-Brandeis University //Community is Another Country: Visualizing Memory and Creating Connection//-Claire Mauro-Brandeis University
 * Panel #2: Seeing or Believing: Visualizing the Past, Future, and the Great Beyond** **at 11:25-12:30pm**


 * Lunch 12:35-1:10pm**


 * Keynote Speaker- Amila Butorvoic. 1:15-2:15pm**

//Divine Right, Abolition and the Status of the Black Body: Shifting Realities of Power in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko//-Jonathan Turbin-Brandeis University //“If the Holy Grail Itself”: Toward a Conceptualization of the Traumatic Real in Tennyson’s ‘The Holy Grail’//-Laura Hill-Brandeis University //Lies, Stories, Fantasies, Parables: Christianity and the Reality of Fiction//-Emily Ronald-Boston University
 * Panel #3: “All That Is Solid”: Literature of the Real** **at** **2:20-3:40**


 * Break 3:45-4:00pm**

//Doubling the Real: Slavoj Žižek and Julia Kristeva on the Structure of Desire//-Elizabeth Purcell- Boston College //Shared Reality in an Age of Virtual Overlay: Augmented Reality Technologies in Fact and Fiction//-Caitlin Myers-Brandeis University //Offline: the Facebook Afterlife of Two Young Men//-Alicia Watkins-Brandeis University
 * Panel #4: We the People: Communities of the Real** **at 4:05-5:20**


 * Closing Remarks 5:25-5:30pm**