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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

8:30am– Bagels and coffee

9:00am-10:15am
Cheryl Boyle
Sleepers, Awake (!): Luis Buñuel’s Surrealism—Finding Purity Through Perversity in Viridiana’s three “White Dress” Scenes
Robin Morrissey
Sitting before the page: Symbolist painting as literary technique in Proust’s les recherches du temps perdu

10:30am-11:45pm
Aram Mrjoian
Introducing Readers to Unknown History: Narrative Structures of Diasporan Armenian Literature
Devin O’Shea
There's No Such Thing As Truth: Amy J. Elias and the Historical Sublime

11:45am-12:30pm
Lunch - Provided

12:30pm-1:45pm
Alexis Puzon
Finding a Collective Russian National Identity through Myth and Symbolism in Alexander Pushkin’s “The Bronze Horseman”
Emily Naser-Hall
I Am Not Who I Am—The Postmodern Spectral Woman

2:00pm-3:15pm
Amy Bowden
“Something Light and Sad”: The Mutual Portraiture of Dorothy Brett and Katherine Mansfield
Barbara Egel
“Amphibious and Ambivalent: Shifting Structures in Stevie Smith’s ‘The Frog Prince’”

Hosted by Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies
To learn about academic programming at SPS, visit:
http://sps.northwestern.edu/program-areas/