Reading Terror: Representations and Resistance
On November 5th and 6th, 2015, City University of New York (CUNY) will be hosting “Reading Terror: Representations and Resistance,” an interdisciplinary conference that will address questions such as: What is the nature of terror? How have representations, definitions and our understanding of terror changed over time? How is terror used aesthetically, politically and socially? How is terror translated textually and visually? What are some of the modes of resistance to terror, through literature, art, and the media?
Panels and Presenters (in order of schedule)
Thursday
Breakfast (9:00 – 10:00, room 4116)
Welcome Panel – “Constructing and Inhabiting the Spaces of Terror” (10:00, rooms C204/205)
1A. Terror Today (11:45 – 1:15, room 8301)
1B. Turning Terror into Text (11:45 – 1:15, room 8304)
1C. Terror on the Stage (11:45 – 1:15, room 8400)
2A. Terror and the Body (2:15 – 3:45, room 8301)
2B. Terror and Trauma (2:15 – 3:45, room 8304)
2C. The Revolutionary Spirit of Terror (2:15 – 3:45, room 8400)
3A. Terror in Latin America (4:00 – 5:30, room 8301)
3B. Existential Terror (4:00 – 5:30, room 8304)
3C. Terror/Transformations (4:00 – 5:30, room 8400)
Keynote Event – Robin Wagner-Pacifici (6:00 – 7:30, room C202)
Evening Reception (7:30 – 8:30, room 4116)
Friday
Breakfast (9:00 – 10:00, room 4116)
Welcome Panel – CUNY Faculty Panel – Title TBD (10:00 – 12:00, The Segal Theater)
4A. Pop Terror (1:15 – 2:45, room 8301)
4B. Terror, Horror and the Sublime (1:15 – 2:45, room 8304)
4C. La Terreur (1:15 – 2:45, room 8400)
5A. Terror: Storytelling the Ineffable (3:00 – 4:30, room 8301)
5B. Faces of Terror (3:00 – 4:30, room 8304)
Evening Reception (5:30 – 7:00, room 4116)