Unlovable: The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 31st Annual Conference

When and Where

Friday, March 24, 2023 9:00 am to Saturday, March 25, 2023 5:00 pm
Alumni Hall
Victoria College
91 Charles Street West

Speakers

Various

Description

Unlovable

The Centre for Comparative Literature's 31st Annual Conference

March 24 & 25, 2023 | University of Toronto

​Thank you to our sponsors at the University of Toronto: Centre for Comparative Literature; The Comparative Literature Course Union; Cinema Studies Institute; Department of Philosophy; Women and Gender Studies Institute; Department of French; Department of East Asian Studies; Department of English; Office of the Principal, Victoria College; Office of the President, University of St Michael's College; Department of Art History; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Department of Italian Studies; Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Anthropology; Department of Classics, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

​Contact: unlovabletoronto@gmail.com          

 

Schedule

All conference proceedings are open to the public unless otherwise indicated. No prior registration is required.

Friday, March 24, 2023

9:00AM - Check-in for Panellists

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building, University of Toronto ​

 

​9:30AM - Opening Remarks

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

 

​10:00AM - Panel 1. Ghosts, or the Impossible Object of Love.  

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

Moderator: Zichuan Gan

Divya Menon. "Searching for Sylvie."

Hongyang Irene Cai. "Phantasmal Love: Knowledge-making and the Spatiality of Emotion in 'Nie Xiaoqian'/A Chinese Ghost Story."

Fan Wu. "Life Where Love Was: Barthes and Zhuangzi."

Héctor Hernández. "El esmudge: Despairing Before Wittgenstein's Puzzle-Picture Puzzle in Borges and Kafka."

12:00PM - Lunch for Panellists

Location: Centre for Comparative Literature, Isabel Bader Theatre (3rd Floor), 93 Charles Street West

1:00PM - Panel 2. Melancholia.

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

Moderator: Hong Liu

Yasmine Lucas. "Post-Holocaust Melancholia: The Case of Jewish and Zionist Feelings in America."

Ivanna Berrios. "Dignifying Terrorists: Shame and Affect in a Peruvian Civil War Memoir."

Jacob Hermant. "Hate: What is it Good For? Benjamin and Adorno on Hatred."

Florian Endres. "Losing What One Never Had: Melancholia and Real Abstraction."

3:00PM - Keynote. Alexander García Düttmann. "Does Truth Make Lovers Unlovable?"

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

5:00-7:00PM - Break

 

7:00PM - Film Screening (film TBA)

Location: Alumni Hall 400, 121 St Joseph Street

Introduction by Dillan Newman

Saturday, March 25, 2023

10:00AM - Panel 3. The Self(ie).

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

Moderator: Imane Al Kaisy

Monika Zaleska. "“I Love X”: The Wartime Diaries of Józef Czapski."

James Levinsohn. "You're Shit and I'm Champagne: Identifying with the Unlovable in Happiness (1998)."

Parisa Rose Ahmadi. "Lovin' me or my Reflection?: Black Women’s Negotiation of Subjectivity through Digital Portraiture and Aesthetic Self-Making."

Adam Barbu. "Far From Myself: Curating After the Trans Origin Story."

12:00PM - Lunch for Panellists

Location: Centre for Comparative Literature, Isabel Bader Theatre (3rd Floor), 93 Charles Street West

1:00PM - Panel 4. Lessness, or Ego Dissemination.

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

Ganga Rudraiah. "Not Kanye."

Jury Kobayashi. "John Cage’s Dispassionate Approach to Composition: Unpacking Indeterminacy Through the Lens of Unlovability."

Helen Abbot. "Silence and the Unlovable Child in 'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D. H. Lawrence."

Colin Buist. "Ignorant Love."

Gasira Timir. "E-mail My Achy Breaky Heart."  

3:00PM - Faculty Panel. Images of the Unlovable.

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

5:00PM - Closing Remarks

Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building

 

Contact Information

Sponsors

Centre for Comparative Literature

Map

91 Charles Street West

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