C3: �Perverse� Desires and Trans/national Politics

Seminar Leader: Andrea Bachner, Harvard University

Friday, April 16, 2:00 � 4:00 PM, Grande Ballroom 3

Andrea Bachner, Harvard University: �The Cutting Edge of History: Masochism and National Trauma in Thomas Hettche�s Nox and Yu Hua�s �The Past and the Punishments��

Ryan Kernan, University of California � Los Angeles: �Perpetual Pornography: The Blue of Noon in Pantagruel�s Mouth�

Itziar Rodriguez de Rivera, University at Albany: �Lesbos/L�esboss: Reimagining Lesbian Desire in La passio segons Renee Vivien de Maria Merce Marcal�

Keja Valens, Harvard University: �Queering Caribbean History�

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 � 4:00 PM, Grande Ballroom 3

Brian Carr, Duke University: �Modal Differences and Interpretive Exposure�

Huw Edwin Osborne, Royal Military College of Canada: �A Welsh Dandy: The Art of Being Gay in the Rhondda�