CONFERENCE

Please join us next Saturday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 pm in the Gerlinger Lounge, for the living-dead conclusion of this year's NOMAD Mentorship Program.

Over the course of the day, in four separate panels (see below), the thirteen undergraduate NOMAD "mentees" will be presenting their work. These students have spent the past six months developing, researching and crafting scholarly essays. On the Sunday following the conference, the editorial board of NOMAD The Comparative Literature Program's Journal of Undergraduate Writing, will meet to determine which of these essays will be published in the Fall 2009 Undead Edition of NOMAD.

THE UNDEAD CONFERENCE
Gerlinger Lounge
May 16, 2009
9-10:30 "Border Crossings"
Rick Buhr, Katie Dwyer, Felicia Rogers
10:30-11 Coffee Break (Allan Bros. brew and sweets)
11-12:30 "(Un)Dying Desire)
Anna Waller, Leslie Weilbacher, Brooke Woolfson
1:45-3:15 "The Post-Human"
Rebecca Baker, Kristin Mitchell, Glen Prather
3:30-5 "De-Composition"
Kaila Fromdahl, Mary Renolds, Cameron Thurber, Jeff Williams

About THE UNDEAD: 
As we see it, if comparative literature is about crossing boundaries—be they linguistic, national, cultural, generic, or theoretical—what about the boundaries that define being human itself? This year's mentorship program & lecture series asks students to step outside the chalk circle. THE UNDEAD appear throughout history, in all kinds of media and generic forms, all over the globe (and even beyond it). They inhabit our metaphors and our dreams as much as they populate our myths and our horror films. What is it to live a half-life or a non-life, to live by consuming brains or flesh or blood, to live without a body or with the body of a machine? The broad interpretability of this theme invites the critical precision, theoretical rigor, and playful creativity of comparative investigation. 

Sponsored by the friendly folks in COLT, and by revenants everywhere....