SCHEDULE.
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FRIDAY, JAN 29
9:00-Until
Registration
9:00-10:30am
Session Ia
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Amanda Bruce, Florida Polytechnic University, “Transforming Children’s Play into Serious Business during Radio’s Golden Age”
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Asbjørn Grøstad, University of Bergen, “Songs of Faith and Devotion: Low’s Double Negative (2018) and the Poetics of Opacity”
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Øyvind Vågnes, University of Bergen, “Face and Mask: Preliminary Reflections on Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen (2019)
Session Ib
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Theresa Flanigan, The College of St. Rose, “Humors and the Humorous: The Scientific and Social Significance of the Grotesque Body in Renaissance Art”
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Marshall Bruce Gentry, Georgia College, “Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor’s Grotesque and Predicting the Future of O’Connor Studies”
11:00-12:30am
Session IIa
Poetry and Fiction Readings
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Nathan Long, Stockton University
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Catherine Swender, Spring Hill College
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Patricia Waters, Troy University
Session IIb
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Gregory Michna, Arkansas Tech University, “Reverence and Obedience: Stephen Williams’s Moderate Loyalism and Revolutionary Stirrings in the Connecticut River Valley”
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Annelle Curulla, Scripps College, “Profane Recreations: Religious Masquerade on the French Street and Stage”

2:00-3:30pm
Session IIIa
“Negotiating the Sacred and Profane in the Visual and Performing Arts”
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Kaia L. Magnusen, University of Texas at Tyler
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D.L. Simmons, University of Texas at Tyler
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Kathryn Robinson, University of Texas at Tyler, “Francisco Goya’s Burial of the Sardine: Exploring Enlightenment Ideals During a Pious Rule”
Session IIIb
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Brett Bebber, Old Dominion University, “No Reverence for British Traditions: The Government’s Discovery of Black Migrant Life in Postwar Britain”
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Kristi L. Anderson, Louisiana State University, “A Systemic and Systematic Approach and Understanding of Educating African Americans and How it has Affected Interest and Entry in Today’s Medical Schools”
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Yasmeen Chism, New York University, “Black Presence and Black Dis/ Placement in North Carolina’s Piedmont Region”
4:00-5:30pm
Session IVa
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C. Wylie Lenz, Florida Polytechnic University, “R&B, Revelry, and Respectability Politics: The Music of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins”
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Laura Nieves, Tulane University, “Finding Caímoní: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Transforming Identity Through Bomba as a Music of Resistance in the Diaspora”
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Jasleen Kohli, Johnson C. Smith University, “Transformation and Self- Reflection in Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek and Iruka Maria Toro’s The Iruka Elvis Spell”
Session IVb
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Linnéa Franits, Utica College, “This is My Body, Broken for Who?: Disability and Celebration”
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Susan Cumings, University at Albany, SUNY, “Madness and Revelry and Reverence: Lessons from the Treatment of Hearing Voices in the BBC Series River (2015)”
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Nathan Long, Stockton College, “Focus Pocus: The Magic of (Un)Focusing and the Creative Process”
6:30-8:00pm Plenary
Open Mic
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Steven Specht
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Catherine Swender
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Esther Murillo-Miklic
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Mary Ann Janda
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Nathan Long
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Floyd Miklic
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Paige Erickson

SATURDAY, JAN 30
9:00-10:30am
Session Ia
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Gilbert Jones, Case Western Reserve University, “Movement, Piety, and an Explosion: The Medieval Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday Processions in Florence”
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Jason R. Denman, Utica College, “Reverential Rhyme: A Close Reading of Donne’s Holy Sonnet 5 (1633)”
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Lucy Bowditch, College of St. Rose, “Meaning and Crisis in Emil Nolde’s Pentecost (1909)”
Session Ib
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Floyd Miklic, “The Dow Jones: Are We Entering Another Roaring Twenties?”
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Esther Murillo-Miklic, “Agustín de Salazar y Torres: his Life, Early Works, and First Comedia, Elegir al Enemigo”
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Keith Hamon, Middle Georgia State College, “Reverence, Revelry, and the Southern Humanities Conference”
11:00-12:30pm
Session IIa
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Rachel Dressler, University of Albany, “Sex on the Edge: Sexuality on the Margins of Medieval Art”
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Xabier Granja, University of Alabama, “Irreverent Sexualities: Religion, Law and Gendered Immorality in Early Modern Spain”
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Catherine Swender, Spring Hill College, “Revelry and Reverence in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
Session IIb
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Mary Ann Janda, Utica College, “Why am I Laughing, and Why Can’t I Stop”
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Steven Specht, Utica College, “High Priests and Acid Tests: Reverence and Revelry in the Context of LSD Experiences”
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Jaclyn Maraldo, Tulane University, “Charivari and Mardi Gras: Sinners and Saints in Francophone North America”
2:00-3:30pm
Session IIIa
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Roxane Pickens, University of Miami, “Festive Correctives and Playful Inscriptions: Claiming Black Revelry and Joy with Harlem Renaissance Artists”
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Delphine Leone Ngoko Djomo, University of Miami, “From Bondage to Beychella: the Significance of Artistic Revelry and Entertainment to the Salvation of Black Folk”
Session IIIb
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Paige Erickson, Purdue University Global, “Adventures in the Hungarian Language: A Revelry of Failure and a Reverence for Fourty-Four Letters”
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Leslie Anne Boldt, Brock University, “Mapping Fear and Awe Within and Beyond the Bounds of ‘Outsider’ Art”
4:00-5:30pm
Session IV
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Mark Ledbetter, “Beholden”
7:00-8:00 Plenary
The Forrest Shearon and Percy Miller Memorial Event
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Alice Friman, Poems from Blood Weather