B12: Remembrance of Places Past: Departures, Migrations, and Returns

Seminar Leaders: Asli Igsiz, University of Michigan and Lily Chiu, University of Michigan

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM� � 12:30 PM, Bangor

Christine Cao, University of California � Los Angeles: �The Foreign and Familiar in Pham Van Ky�s Fr�res de Sang�

Reshmi Dutt, Hamline University: �The Arrival and the I-94: Predicaments for Entering and Leaving�

Susan Gorman, University of Michigan: �The Problems of Presenting the Past in Camara Laye�s Dramouss�

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Bangor

Asli Igsiz, University of Michigan: �Politics of Genre and Narratives of Return�

Jutta Lorensen, Pennsylvania State University: �Remembering from Afar: Second Generation Remembrance and the Photographic Episteme�

Caroline A Mohsen, Pennsylvania State University: �Revisiting the Places of the Past: Imagination, Memory, and Identity�

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Bangor

Constanza Svidler, University of Michigan: �Land (E)scapes, Linguistic Games, and Self Confrontations: Unearthing Memory in Sylvia Molloy�s El comun olvido�

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University: �The Rhetoric of Displacement and Return: Reading Contemporary Russian Exilic Writing�