B14: Violence and Ethics

Seminar Leader: Naomi Mandel, University of Rhode Island

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

Sheldon Lu, University of California � Davis: ��Beautiful Violence�: War, Peace, Globalization�

Matthew Cleveland, St. Cloud State University: �Hegemonic Dilemmas: Lacanian Ethics and Contemporary Terrorist Violence�

Scott Schaffer, Millersville University of Pennsylvania: �Resisting the Rut: Ethics and Violence in/to Everyday Life�

Shelly W. Chan, Kalamazoo College: �The Extravagance of Violence: Revenge in Mo Yan�s Fiction�

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

Alain-Philippe Durand, University of Rhode Island: �Beyond the Extreme: Frederic Beigbeder�s Windows on the World and Bernard-Henri Levy�s Who Killed Daniel Pearl?�

Jen Caruso, SUNY – Buffalo: “‘A Necessity as Powerful as One of the Elements…’ Duras’ Albert of the Capitals”

Gabriele Schwab, University of California � Irvine: �Children of Perpetrators: Ethical Dilemmas of Negative Identity Formation�

Cheryl Suzack, University of Alberta, Canada: �Postcolonial Ethics and the Violence of Legal Epistemes: The Case of Leonard Peltier�

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

Shireen R.K. Patell, New York University: �Voicing Violence: Levinas, Slave Narrative, and the Subject of Persecution�

Naomi Mandel, University of Rhode Island: ��Right Here in Nowheres�: The Sick Twisted Ethics of Brett Easton Ellis�

Lucian Ghita, Purdue University: �Raping/Wrestling/Reading the Body: An Approach to Stage Representations of Violence in Titus Andronicus, King Lear and The Spanish Tragedy�