Wednesday, May 4th @ 10AM – 4PM
Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Klapper Hall 4th Floor
FREE
Come one, come all! The English honors program is having their annual conference; this year, Beauty, Its Opposite, And Their Others, will bring you a day of performances and dialogues from our honors students at QC.
This event is free and open to the public–and sure to be fascinating!
Check out more information, and let us know you’re coming, on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/687864428017957/
UPDATED SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
10:00–10:20am COFFEE and BREAKFAST
10:20am THE BIOATO VIDEO (with thanks to seminar members
for footage and special thanks to Summer Medina for
editing the video into a work of art!)
10:30 – 11:15am The BIOATO Morning Talk Show!
Starring: Steven Kruger (Professor, Acting Chair of English Department),
Jason Tougaw (Professor, Chair of English Honors Committee), Summer
Medina (Honors Cohort Member), Tzipora (Mimi) Nissan (Honors Cohort
Member)
11:15am–12:15pm BEAUTY,—
Jamila Avalon, “The Aesthetics of Identity”
Cheyenne Bacchus, “The Desire to Edit Flesh”
Tzipora (Mimi) Nissan, “Parallel Portrayals: Aesthetic Desire in Song of Songs
and Salome”
Cyan Estevez, “Female Beauty”
12:15–1:00pm —ITS OPPOSITE(s?),—
Steven Dourountoudakis, “The Aesthetics of Video Games”
Cassandra Price, “Look Around at How Lucky We Are to be Alive Right Now:
The Aesthetic Necessity for Theatre in a Technology-Obsessed World”
1:00–1:20pm LUNCH
1:20–2pm —ITS OPPOSITE(s?), continued,—
Brian Dunlop, “Artful Hells”
Ayala Schnaidman,“The Perks of Being a Worm: The Aesthetics of Gross
Organisms in World War I Poetry”
José Faña, “The Undiscovered Country”
2:00–3:15pm —AND THEIR OTHERS
Daria Kaczorowska, “Drawing the Perfect Line Between Humans and Other
Uncanny Figures: Analyzing a Linear Relationship Between Symmetry,
Beauty, and the Uncanny”
Saleemah Shazeem, “Grotesque”
Emily Quantum Dickinson, “Possible Intermission—?”
Evy Michalos, “Loss and Restoration: The Aesthetics of Fragility in Virginia
Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”
Willnide Lindor, “The Aesthetics of Confusion”
Summer Medina, “The Aesthetics of Hope: The Importance of Queer
Sidekicks and Dreams”
3:15-3:45pm Closing Remarks! The Poetics of Error
Starring: Jason Tougaw (Chair of Honors Committee), Jeffrey Cassvan
(Professor, Faculty Member of Honors Committee), José Faña (Honors Cohort
Member)
3:45pm RECEPTION
Starring: pie, candy, and other aesthetically stimulating edible objects!
