neMLA: Regional Wounds, Universal Traumas, and the Possibility of Empathy
Regional Wounds, Universal Traumas, and the Possibility of Empathy (Part 2)
Roundtable with:
Chair: Maryam Ghodrati, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair: Rachel Dale, Brandeis University
Location: ORLEANS (Media Equipped)
Comparative Literature & Interdisciplinary Humanities
“Chang-rae Lee and the Traumatic Affect of the Gesture” Susan Moynihan, Tennessee Technological University
“Narrativizing Empathy in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” Sabiha Anum, Government College University Lahore Pakistan
“Art from Guantánamo Bay: The Figural Unsettlement of Western Hegemonic History” Macy McDonald, SUNY University at Buffalo
“Past Dark: War and Armenian Genocide Postmemory in Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Daydreaming Boy” Lisa Gulesserian, Harvard University