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8:00–9:15. Places and Non-Places
- Ankana Das and Vageesh Vishnoi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. “Mapping the Ephemeral ‘Field’.”
- Ji Soo Lee, Michigan State University. “Creating ‘Non-Place’: A Reflection of Anthropocentric Visual Hierarchy based on Non-Presentational Theory.”
- Chayana Mondal, Jadavpur University. “River Routes: Envisioning Cognitive Mapping of Communities.”
- Sohini Sengupta and Sourav Chattopadhyay, Presidency University. “Archived Spaces: Digitising Monuments, Mapping Stories in The Presidency Plaques Project.”
9:30–10:45. Spaces of South Asia
- Lyla Amir, University of the Punjab. “Cognitive Mapping: Redefining Geo-historical Spatial Geometries in Latitudes of Longing by Shubhagni Swarup.”
- Shreyashi Mandal, Jadavpur University. “The Narrative Space in Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto.”
- Anfal Mooliyathodi, Maulana Azad National Urdu University. “Place of Falling People: Jannat House as a Spatial Revival in Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.”
- Aishwarya Subramanian, O.P Jindal Global University. “Delhi’s Heterotopias.”
11:00–12:15. Literary Spaces I
- Bridget F. Bergin, University of Minnesota. “Thomas Hardy’s Enclosed Universe.”
- Alina Cojocaru, Ovidius University. “Mind the Map: Crossing Landguage Borders in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.”
- Amany Ahmed Abdel Fattah, Ain-Shams University. “A Geocritical Reading of A Doll’s House.”
- Ekaterina Pshenitsyna, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature. “‘An island warm with sunshine in the midst of cold grey waves’: “Projected Places” in Lydia Maria Childs’s “The Eglantine.”
12:30–1:45. Plenary Address I (Robert T. Tally Jr., presiding)
Thadious Davis, University of Pennsylvania. “Contending with Force: Spatial Imaginative Freedom.”
2:00–3:15. Spaces of Hybridity
- Akosua Adasi, Ryerson University. “The Wandering Imagination: Female Flânerie in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.
- Pavel Andrade, University of Pennsylvania. “A Dialectics of Enclosure and Openness, or, the Spatial Logic of Peripheral Modernization.”
- Hajer Ben Hadj Salem, High Institute of Humanities of Tunis. “Rethinking the Post-1965 Immigrant Muslim Communities’ Presence on the American Sacred Ground.”
- Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, National Autonomous University of Mexico. “Queering the Heterotopia in Migrant Short Fiction: Carlos Fuentes and Viet Thanh Nguyen.”
3:30–4:45. Philosophy and Space
- Aurosa Alison, Politecnico di Milano. “From Bachelard’s Poetics of Space to Architecture’s Aesthetics of Atmospheres.”
- Michael Deckard, Lenoir-Rhyne University. “Sublime Spaces: The Pedagogy of Community and Belonging from Copernicus to Bachelard and Arendt.”
- Elektra Jordan, Texas State University. “Mapping Despair: Literary Cartography in Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death.”
- Zara Richter, George Washington University. “Being-in-Motion in Johnson and Rexroth: Beating Sedentarisms and the Rhythm of the Beats.”
5:00–6:15. Modernist Spaces
- Miao Dou, Washington University in St. Louis. “Imagining the Modern World Through Literary Geography: Youth, Travel, and Liang Qichao’s Fifteen Little Heroes in Japan.”
- Laura Hope-Gill, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville. “Thomas Wolfe’s Asheville.”
- Sirsha Nandi, Texas A&M University. “Embodied Space(s): Spatiotemporal Interpolation in Joyce’s ‘Araby’.
- Glenn S. Ritchey III, University of Central Florida. “Spatiality in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Topology of a Phantom City.”