Hello all,

I’m writing to remind you that the annual graduate student conference, In Other Worlds, will take place next week on Wednesday, 3/27.

The conference will be held in the Presidential Conference Room 2, on the fifth floor of the Rosenthal Library, from 10:30 to 6 pm.  We’ll have a lunch as well as an evening reception that will end just before NK Jemisin’s reading at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum in Klapper that evening. 

I’ve pasted the day’s program below. I have also attached the conference poster and the poster with information about Jemisin’s reading.

We’ll have presenters from Queens College’s MA and MFA programs, as well as from St. Johns, Fordham, NYU, Hunter, Pace, Brooklyn College, and Western Washington University.  We hope that you will be able to attend the conference for all or part of the day.  Further information about the conference is also available on the conference website.

We also still could use some students to help with the festivities. If you are able to assist that day, please get in touch with me. 

Best,
Bill

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William Orchard

Associate Professor                  

Director, MA Program              

Department of English             

Queens College, CUNY

FINAL SCHEDULE

IN OTHER WORLDS CONFERENCE

10:30 – 10:45 am: Welcome

10:45 – 12:00 pm Panel I : World Order and Disorder

• Chair: Professor Caroline Hong
• Noah Baum, “Tidalectic Intersubjectivity: Caribbean and Black Models of Oceanic Being”
• McKenzie Mann-Wood, “Creation at the End of (This) World”
• Amanda Long, “From Slow Death to Revolutionary Awakening: Melancholia as Dialectical Image”
• Sana Younis, “Critical Resistance: Imagining Muslim Worlds in Speculative Fiction”

12:15 – 1:30 pm Panel II: Suspensions of Time and Space

• Chair: Professor Omari Weekes
• Brandon Borcoman, “The Swerve That Started It All”
• Julie Goodale, “Taking Up Space: Extending the Document into Multiple Dimensions”
• Sarina Sandwell, “Critical Fabulation as Utopian Hypothesis in Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives”
• Mosammat Z. Sultana, “Otherworlding of the Sea: Custance’s Miraculous Sea Sailing in Chaucer’s The Man of Law’s Tale”

1:45 – 2:45 pm Lunch (Klapper Hall 710)

3:00 – 4:15 pm Panel III: Remaking Institutions

• Chair: Professor Chamara Moore
• Hayley Blair, “Captain America v. Peacemaker”
• Richard Prins, “Kusadikika and Walenisi: The Purpose of Utopia in the Swahili Novel”
• Sal Sayema,“Leaving Machine Politics: Demanding Bangladeshi Student Autonomy”
• Elle Schwetz, “Awareness, Apparatuses, Alienation, and Aliens!: Applying Theory of Ahmed, Althusser, and Marx to Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’”

430 – 6:00 pm Panel IV: Afterlives of Empire

• Chair: Professor Megan Paslawski
• Lily Alvarado, “From Bushwick to Portland: Bori Girls of the Diaspora Revolutionizing Puerto Rican Narrative”
• Zaira Bardos, “Marginal Worlds: Redefining “Home” Within the Filipina Body”
• Kayla Baur, “Mixed Feelings: The Emotional Appeals of Zitkala-sa’s American Indian Stories”
• Lilian Chines Marzo, “Mother-Daughter Dynamics Towards a ‘Broken Language’ Repaired”
• Yasmin Tehrani, “Ocean Vuong’s Entanglements in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

6:00 – 6:45  pm Closing Reception & Awards (Klapper Hall 610)

7:00 – 8:30  pm NK Jemisin Reading (Godwin-Ternbach Museum)