An Interdisciplinary Conference
at the University of Texas at Austin
October 10th-12th, 2008

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND ABSTRACTS  

LAST-MINUTE ADDITION:

• Session 7G: Dustin D. Stewart
  < dustin.stewart [ at ] mail.utexas.edu >
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Acts of Reading, Legacies of Interpretation in the Late Poetry of Thomas Merton

• Kamran Asdar Ali
  < asdar [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator, Panel on South Asia in 1968


• Marco Alves
  < marco.paulo [ at ] mac.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Two Feminist Moments: Brazil and Portugal in 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Carlos Amador
  < carlosamador [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Aricó, Althusser, and Sovereignty


• Katie Arens
  < k.arens [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator: Staging 1968: Theater and Society


• Anthony Arroyo
  < aparroyo [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator: Street Music: The Rolling Stones


• Andrew Ascherl
  < aascherl [ at ] unm.edu>
  SUNY-Buffalo/University of New Mexico
  Insurgent Investigations: Paco Ignacio Taibo II and the Event of 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Adria Battaglia [and John McKenzie]
  < adriabattaglia [at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  "It does not seem like a prison until you try to break out": Prison Reform versus Cultural Revolution in the 1968 repeal of the Muncy Act
  Abstract (pdf)


• Kelly Baum
  < kbaum [ at ] Princeton.EDU>
  Princeton University Art Museum
  Militant Masculinity: The Case of the Situationist International
  Abstract (pdf)


• Andrew Belton
  < andrew.belton [ at ] gmail.com>
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  It's a Rap! Misogyny, Homophobia, and a Second Look at Revolutionary Values: Rescuing Hip-Hop's Aesthetics from the Myopic Legacies of Black Liberation
  Abstract (pdf)


• Sara Bennett
  < seb55 [ at ] uakron.edu>
  The University of Akron
  Roles of Women: The Cross-Influence of Tillie Olsen and Second Wave Feminism
  Abstract (pdf)


• Cate Blouke
  < utcate [ [at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator: "68 Performances: Politics of Performing"


• Kelly Booker
  < kbooker [ at ] law.utexas.edu >
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panelist: "SDS and Student Activism Today"


• Bradley Boovy
  < bboovy [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Casting Culture in the 60s: Alexander Kluge and Cultural Revolution in West Germany
  Abstract (pdf)


• S. Pearl Brilmyer
  < s.pearl.brilmyer [ at ] mail.utexas.edu> THe University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator: "Feminist International"


• Dolph Briscoe IV
  < dbriscoe [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Robert F. Kennedy's Changing Opinion Regarding American Involvement in the Vietnam War
  Abstract (pdf)


• Jerry Bump
  < bump [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panelist: "Berkeley in 68"


• Evan Carton
  < E.CARTON [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Organizer of Round Table "The American War in Vietnam: Unlearned Lessons"


• Nicolaas Barr Clingan
  < nickbarr [ at ] berkeley.edu>
  University of California, Berkeley
  The Frankfurt School and Student Politics in the Netherlands
  Abstract (pdf)


• Dana L. Cloud
  < dcloud [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Organizer and Moderator: 1968 in Political and Popular Culture
  Moderator: SDS and Student Protest Today


• J. Michelle Coghlan
  < jcoghlan [ at ] Princeton.EDU>
  Princeton University
  Moderator: "Che: Impacts of a Martyr"


• Yekaterina Cotey
  < banshee206 [ at ] yahoo.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  From 1968 to 1825: Impact of Prague Spring on Dissident Poetry
  Abstract (pdf)


• Cyrus Stephen Cousins
  < cycousins [ at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Argentina 1968: Political Halcyon, Anticommunist Legislation and Frustrated, "Immoral" University Students
  Abstract (pdf)


• Nunzio N. D'Alessio
  < ndalessio [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Response for "Roman Catholicism in 1968: Trajectories and Legacies"
  Abstract (pdf)


• Naminata Diabate
  < namidia [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Country Report -- Cote d'Ivoire


• Jennifer Dilley
  < jdilley1 [ at ] satx.rr.com>
  University of Texas, San Antonio
  Remember the Tlateloloco Massacre: How the 1968 Student Movement Changed Mexican Identity
  Abstract (pdf)


• Thorne Dreyer
  < tdreyer [ at ] austin.rr.com>
  Austin, Texas
  Panelist: "SDS and Student Activism Today"


• Marc H. Ellis
  < Marc_Ellis [ at ] baylor.edu>
  Baylor University
  1968: Reflections on the Emergence of Holocaust Theology
  Abstract (pdf)


• Alice Embree
  < alice [ at ] nuevoanden.com>
  Austin, Texas
  Panelist: "SDS and Student Activism Today"


• Barry J. Faulk
  < bfaulk [ at ] fsu.edu >
  Florida State University
  New Left in Victorian Drag: The Case of The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus
  Abstract (pdf)


• Betty Sue Flowers
  < bflowers [ at ] uts.cc.utexas.edu>
  The LBJ Library and Museum, Austin
  Panelist, "The American War in Vietnam: Unlearned Lessons"


• Jim Franklin
  < jimfranklin709 [ at ] gmail.com>
  Austin, Texas
  Panelist: Austin in 1968: When Anything Seemed Possible . . .


• Julia Friday
  < friday [ at ] ohio.edu>
  Binghamton University, SUNY
  Prague 1968: Spatiality and the Tactics of Resistance
  Abstract (pdf)


• Jim Garrison
  < jdgar[ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator and organizer for panel "Berkeley in 68"


• Michael Gott
  < mgott [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Order in the Streets: May '68, the Unpatriotic foule, and Melville's Personal "Resistancialisme"
  Abstract (pdf)


• Karen Grumberg
  < keren [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator for panel "Changing Artistic and Political Modalities in the 1960s Middle East and North Africa"


• Josh Hanan
  < jhanan1982 [ at ] hotmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  1968 and the Economic Shift toward Postmodernization
  Abstract (pdf)


• Barbara Harlow
  < harlow [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  1968: An Africa Report -- Egypt


• Susan Heinzelman
  < sheinz [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator: 1968: Not the Best Year for Women


• T. Walter Herbert
  Panelist, "The American War in Vietnam: Unlearned Lessons"


• Hala Herbly
  < halah [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator for panel on Situationist International


• Mason Hickman
  < masonsmailbox [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  GDR Rock Music: A Conscious Effort
  Abstract (pdf)


• Neville Hoad
  < nhoad [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  1968: An Africa Report -- South Africa


• John Hoberman
  < hoberman [ at ] mail.utexas.edu >
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panelist, "Berkeley in 1968"


• Hafeez Ahmed Jamali
  < hafeezjamali [ at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Reading the Future of the 'National Question' in Pakistan through the Past: Politics of Balochistan Popular Liberation Front (BPLF) in 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Beryl Johnson
  < rungill [ at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Organizxer: 1968 Music


• Michael Johnson
  < mjohnson [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator for panel "Ruptures and Reacitonaries: 1968 in French Cinema"


• Claire Jones
  < clairejones [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  From Besançon to the Bay: Marker, Varda, and the French Documentary in '68
  Abstract (pdf)


• Omi (Joni) Jones
  < jonijones [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panelist: 1968: Not the Best Year for Women


• Daniel Kahozi
  < danielkahozi [ at ] yahoo.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Transnational Africa: Congo Crucible


• Terry Kahn
  < tkahn [at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panelist: "Berkeley in 68"


• Adam Kaiserman
  < akaiserm [ at ] uci.edu>
  University of California, Irvine
  'Cool' Aesthetics and Media Rhetoric: The Yippies, Richard Nixon, and Marshall McLuhan
  Abstract (pdf)


• Martina Kaller-Dietrich
  < martina.kaller-dietrich [ at ] univie.ac.at>
  University of Vienna, Austria
  Biographical Sketch of Ivan Illich – A Radical Critic of Institutions in the 1960s
  Abstract (pdf)


• Kim Kattari
  < kkattari [ at ] hotmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Divergent Directions in Popular Music: James Brown and the Beatles
  Abstract (pdf)


• Peggy Kelley
  Poet


• Somy Kim
  < somyk [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Unsettling Binaries: Ebrahim Golestan's The Brick and the Mirror
  Abstract (pdf)


• R. Patrick Kinsman
  < rkinsman [ at ] indiana.edu>
  Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
  "Trapped Within the Fortress?": The Radical Cinemas of 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Aaron Klink
  < Aaron.Klink [ at ] duke.edu>
  Duke University
  Heralding Sanctity: Catholic Bioethics After 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Rob Kohn
  < rgkohn [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  All Grown Up: The Triumph of Non-Violence over Leftist Terrorism in The Edukators
  Abstract (pdf)


• Peter Kovacs
  < kovacsp [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  The Grinch and Capitalism: How Volkswagen America Stole the Spirit of the 1960s
  Abstract (pdf)


• Judith Kroll
  Poet


• Joe Kruppa
  < joekruppa [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Roundtable moderator: Austin in 1968: When Anything Seemed Possible . . .


• Marilyn Lehman
  < m.lehman [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  The Amish in 1968: Civil Order/Disorder in a Sectarian Society
  Abstract (pdf)


• Ameem Lutfi
  < ameem [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Questioning the "Discipline" of Colonial Knowledge: Student Movement against Dictatorship in Pakistan in 1968 (tenative title)


• Saikat Maitra
  < saikatmaitra [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Naxalbari and its Aftermath
  Abstract (pdf)


• David Martinez
  < terryanddavid [ at ] davidbmartinez.com>
  Austin, Texas
  Panelist: Austin in 1968: When Anything Seemed Possible . . .


• Rosario Martinez
  < rosario[ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panelist: "SDS and Student Activism Today"


• Robert McDonald
  < robertmcdonald [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Asiatic Modes of Resistance: SDS and the NLF
  Abstract (pdf)


• [Adria Battaglia and] John McKenzie
  < jmckenzie2 [ at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  "It does not seem like a prison until you try to break out": Prison Reform versus Cultural Revolution in the 1968 repeal of the Muncy Act
  Abstract (pdf)


• [Sean Tiffee and] Kristyn Meyer
  < kemeyer [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Looking Through the "Terrorscope": The Horror Cinema Turn of 1968 and the Function of Horror as Illuminating Trauma
  Abstract (pdf)


• Lanie Millar
  < lmillar [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator, Mixing Art And Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean


• Aragorn S. Miller
  < asm667 [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Divided Vanguards: Che Guevara, Venezuela, and the Dialectic of Revolutionary Communism, 1966-1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Lisa L. Moore
  < llmoore [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator of Film Showing and Round Table on Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community


• David Moorman
  < dmoorman [ at ] texasmonthly.com>
  Austin, Texas
  Panelist: Austin in 1968: When Anything Seemed Possible . . .


• Neil Nehring
  < neilnehring [ at ] sbcglobal.net>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  The Evolution of "Street Fighting Man"
  The Situationist International and the May Revolution
  Abstracts (pdf)


• J. Richard Peet
  < mailtrpeet [ at ] clarku.edu>
  Clark University
  1968: We Were Trying to Produce a New Society


• Hana Pichova
  < pichova [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator, Panel on "The Prague Spring"


• Michal Raizen-Colman
  < micra [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  From Paris to Al-Quds With Love: An Afterword to 1967 in Eli Amir's Yasmine
  Abstract (pdf)


• Emmanuel Ramírez-Nieves
  < eramirez [ at ] fas.harvard.edu>
  Harvard University
  Dionysus in '69: Richard Schechner's Politics of Ambiguity
  Abstract (pdf)


• Robert P. Resch
  < rpresch [ at ] tamu.edu>
  Texas A&M University
  Althusser, Badiou and the Events of May, 1968


• Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
  < emrg [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Organizer of Roundtable on the Peace Movement; and Presenter:
  Pardon My French: Soviet and British Theatrical Censorship in 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Christina Rudosky
  < Christina.Rudosky [ at ] Colorado.edu>
  University of Colorado, Boulder
  Situationist Poetry: Revolutionary Practice in Language and the Textual Works of Jenny Holzer
  Abstract (pdf)


• Georgina Ruff
  < gruff3 [ at ] uic.edu>
  University of Illinois in Chicago
  Light Art: Environments of Perception
  Abstract (pdf)


• Henry I. Schvey
  < hischvey [ at ] wustl.edu>
  Washington University in St. Louis
  1968: A Theatre of Revolt?
  Abstract (pdf)


• Shannon Sedwick
  < esthersfollies [ at ] aol.com>
  Esther's Follies, Austin, Texas
  Roundtable panelist: Austin in 1968: When Anything Seemed Possible . . .


• Katerina Seligmann
  < katerina.seligmann [ at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Singing out of Tune: The Padilla Affair in Cuba, 1968-1971
  Abstract (pdf)


• Johanna Sellman
  < sellmanj [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  The Man in Rubber Sandals: Local and International Solidarities in Kateb Yacine's Turn toward Popular Theater
  Abstract (pdf)


• Simone Sessolo
  < sessolo [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Even Uncertainty Is Oriented
  Abstract (pdf)


• Farkhondeh Shayesteh
  < shayesteh [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Revolution in Iranian Female Identity as Reflected in Golshiri's Shazdeh Ehtejab [Prince Ehtejab]
  Abstract (pdf)


• Ryan Skinner
  < rts2104 [ at ] columbia.edu>
  Columbia University
  Artists, National Belonging, and State Patronage in Postcolonial Mali
  Abstract (pdf)


• Julia Sloan
  < jlsloan [ at ] cazenovia.edu>
  Cazneovia College
  The Making of Post-1968 Mexico: International Myths and Domestic Realities
  Abstract (pdf)


• Stephen Sonnenberg, MD
  Panelist, "Unlearned Lessons of the American War in Vietnam"


• Noel C. Stahle
  < stahlen [ at ] wmpenn.edu>
  William Penn University
  Lessons Not Yet Learned: State Violence in 1960s Cambodia and 1980s South Africa
  Abstract (pdf)


• Janet Staiger
  < jstaiger [ at ] uts.cc.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panelist: 1968: Not the Best Year for Women


• Paul Stekler
  < stek [ at ] mail.utexas.edu
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Filmmaker: "The Promised Land, 1967-68"


• Adrian Switzer
  < adrian.switzer [ at ] wku.edu>
  Western Kentucky University
  Nietzsche and the French Academy: 1964-1972
  Abstract (pdf)


• Ousseynou Sy
  < osy [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  May 1968: The Senegalese Student Strike, a Step toward Democratization


• Sean Tiffee [and Kristyn Meyer]
  < seantiffee [ at ] hotmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Looking Through the "Terrorscope": The Horror Cinema Turn of 1968 and the Function of Horror as Illuminating Trauma
  Abstract (pdf)


• Nancy Tille-Victorica
  < ntillevictorica [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Tlatelolco and its Impact on Mexican Intellectuals: The Cases of Elena Poniatowska and Octavio Paz
  Abstract (pdf)


• Eliot M. Tretter
  < etretter [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Organizer and Moderator, Panel on Urban Reverberations of 1968
  


• Matt Tribbe
  < tribbe [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  The Anti-1968: The Apollo 8 Moon Flight and the Triumph of the Squares
  Abstract (pdf)


• Edward Troy
  < troye [ at ] cc.wwu.edu>
  Western Washington University
  Frantz Fanon and Yambo Ouologuem: Political Frustration and Sexual Violence
  Abstract (pdf)


• Jamie Tyo
  < jamie_tyo [ at ] hotmail.com>
  Western Washington University
  Yambo Ouologuem's Game: Irony and History in The Duty of Violence
  Abstract (pdf)


• Jan Uelzmann
  < januelzmann [at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Moderator: "Before and After the Wall: 1968 in Divided and United Germany"


• Anthony Warnke
  < warnkea [ at ] cc.wwu.edu>
  Western Washington University
  Constructing Whiteness in La Lettre à la France Negre
  Abstract (pdf)


• Robert Weeks
  < rweeks88 [ at ] gmail.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003): Memories of 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Danielle Wells
  < dwells2020 [ at ] yahoo.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Duchamp and Gender: Reading Etant donnés and Rrose Sélavy, 1968-2008
  Abstract (pdf)


• Tim West
  < twest [ at ] princeton.edu>
  Princeton University
  Destiny as Alibi: Milan Kundera, Václav Havel and the "Czech Question" after 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Gillian Whiteley
  < g.whiteley [ at ] lboro.ac.uk>
  Loughborough University School of Art and Design
  The Subversive Thread of Imagination and Affect: Jeff Nuttall and 1968
  Abstract (pdf)


• Zipporah Wiseman
  < zwiseman@ [ at ] aw.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Roundtable Participant: 1968: Not the Best Year for Women


• Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski
  < gemelli [ at ] mail.utexas.edu.
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Organizer and Moderator for "Austin and UT in the 1960s"
  


• Margaret Woodruff-Wieding
  < mwieding [ at ] austin.rr.com>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Panel Organizer and Moderator and Organizer of Film Series

• Jonathan Brown
  < j.brown [ at ] austin.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  The Martyr of '68: The CIA, the Special Forces, and the Death of Che Guevara
  Abstract (pdf)


• Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales
  < theolog [ at ] sympatico.ca>
  St. Paul University
  The Poor Will Always Be with Us: On the Preferential Option for the Poor
  Abstract (pdf)


• John Hartigan
  < hartigan [ at ] mail.utexas.edu>
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Detroit in 1968 (tentative title)
  


• Perry Johansson
  < johanssonperry [ at ] yahoo.com>
  Stockholm University
  What Was China's Role in the Creation of a Swedish Maoist Movement and for the Radicalisation of Sweden after 1968?
  Abstract (pdf)