FRIDAY:
Gerber Lounge: 304 English Philosophy Building (EPB)
8:30 Registration
8:45 Welcome to Participants.
9:00-9:45 Paper I: Amy Lynne Barr (U of Iowa), “An Implicated Distance: the bridge, the closet, the shelf, the couch, to build something else…the revolving door, home”
9:45-10:30 Paper II: Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College), “Alt + Home: Digital Homecomings”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Paper III: Forrest Clingerman (Ohio Northern University), “Homecoming and the Half-Remembered: Environmental Amnesia, the Uncanny, and the Path Home”
11:30-1:30 Lunch
Auditorium, 101 Becker Communication Studies Building (BCSB)
1:30-2:15 Paper IV: Thomas K. Dean (U of Iowa), “The Geography of Wholeness: Uncanny Homecoming
as/and Sense of Place”
2:15-3:00 Paper V: Joni L. Kinsey (U of Iowa), “Revolt against the City? Art and Home in Iowa”
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Paper VI: Dan Price (U of Houston), “The Aesthetics of Apocalypse, the Gestures of Homelessness”
4:00-4:45 Paper VII: Thomas J.J. Altizer, “Homecoming as Damnation”
5:00-7:00 Dinner on your own
7:00 Keynote Presentation I: David Jasper (U of Glasgow), “Knowing for the First Time” (101 BCSB)
9:00 Reception at the Bluebird Diner for registered guests: 330 E. Market St, Iowa City
SATURDAY:
Adler Journalism Building (AJB)
Session I: 8:30-9:30
A: Ecological as Home Room E120 AJB Chair: Forrest Clingerman
Sam Mickey (U of San Francisco), “Our Planetary Home: The Anthropocosmic Vision of Religion and Ecology
Ryan T. O’Leary (U of Iowa), “Returning to Gaia: Coming Home to the Earth Mother on the Other Side of Estrangement”
B: Language as Home I: Mediation of Symbols Room E126 AJB Chair: Rachel Wagner
Liberty Kohn (Winona State University), “Signifying Emptiness: Cognitive Stylistics, Embodied Conceptual Metaphor, and
Buddhist Dharma Poetry”
Jennifer Shook (U of Iowa), “Into the Forest (for the trees): Cultivation and Wilds in Fairy Tales”
C: History I: Defining Community in Literature Room E132 AJB Chair: Ray Mentzer
Kerry Delaney (U of Iowa), “Green World Agnosticism: Fletcher’s Jacobean Catholic Pastoral”
Jayme M. Yeo (Rice University), “Sacred Homecoming in Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judeorum”
Session II: 9:45-10:45
A: Dysfunctional Homes Room E120 AJB Chair: Rachel Wagner
David Seamon (Kansas State University), “Gaston Bachelard’s Topoanalysis in the 21st Century: Home and Inhabitation as Portrayed in Alan Ball’s HBO Television Series, Six Feet Under”
Christine Mazurkewycz (U of Iowa), “Home in a Scream: A Study of Moderato cantabile by M. Duras”
B: Language as Home II: Philosophical Dwellings Room E126 AJB Chair: Dan Price
Dan Boscaljon (U of Iowa), “Dwelling Beyond Poetry: The Uncanny Houses of Hawthorne and Poe”
Robert Fernandez (U of Iowa), “ ‘The One Was the Other and Both of Them No One’: Jack Spicer and the Politics of Estrangement”
C: History II: Heavenly Homes Room E132 AJB Chair: Ray Mentzer
Kyle Dieleman (Calvin Theological Seminary), “John Calvin on the Home of the Old Testament Patriarchs”
James Lambert (U of Iowa), “‘It paseth all understanding’: The Search for Heavenly Joy in post-Reformation England”
Session III: 10:55-11:55
A: Synechdoches: No Place Like Home Room E120 AJB Chair: Rachel Wagner
Michael Baltutis (U of Wisconsin at Oshkosh), “Ecological Dissonance and Architectural Therapy: Reconstructing an Urban Home as a
Response to Crisis”
Sage Elwell (Texas Christian University),“ ‘There’s No Place Like Home,’ From Oz to Antichrist: Searching for God and Finding the Devil”
B: Language as Home III: Poetic Homes Room E126 AJB Chair: Dan Price
Hanna Janiszewska (Stanford University), “Poetic Habitats, Impossible Homecomings”
Tim Lavenz, “In Light of u-topia: Place, Poetry, and Personhood in Paul Celan’s ‘Meridian’ Speech”
C: Icons of Home Room E132 AJB Chair: Forrest Clingerman
Eric Rothgery (Roanoke College), “Re-Imaging Home: Patronage of the Arts as a way to Regain Wellbeing in a Sufi Tomb in India”
Marwood Larson-Harris (Roanoke College), “The Ambiguity of Homecoming in the Zen Oxherding Pictures”
12:00-2:00: Lunch
Session IV: 2:00-3:00
A: Home Alone: Existential Exiles Room E120 AJB Chair: Thomas Dean
C. Ryan Knight (Randolph Community College), “ ‘Notoriously Homeless’: The Place of Lvov in Adam Zagajewski’s Poetry”
Robert Albanese (U of Iowa), “The Non-Self Heads Not-Home: the Impossibility of Regression in Stephen Wright’s Going Native”
B: Language as Home IV: Narrative and Community Room E126 AJB Chair: Dan Price
Verna Marina Ehret (Mercyhurst College), “Home Is Where the Mediation Is: Trans-contextual Narratives of Integration”
Jennifer Loman (U of Iowa),“‘a vision of itself/[himself] entire’: Homecoming in Rodriguez’s ‘Late Victorians’ and Augustine’s City of God”
C: Colonized Homes I: Native American Identity Room E132 AJB Chair: Claire Fox
Andy Dorsey (California State University, Stanislaus), “ ‘I prayed not for the love of God, but for the love of the place I lived in’: Hypocrisy, Home, and the Transformation of ‘Praying Indian’ Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England”
Dorothy Wolfe Giannakouros (U of Iowa), “ ‘Teaching the Grass about Green’: The Homecoming of the ‘big-time artist’ in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water”
Session V: 3:15-4:15
A: Welcome Home? Room E120 AJB Chair: Forrest Clingerman
Justin Cosner (U of Iowa), “Nothing Sacred: Satire and Sanctity in A Handful of Dust”
Paul Gleason (U of Virginia), “Can the Black Church Come Home to Gilead?”
B: Re-Imagining Theological Visions of Home Room E126 AJB Chair: Dan Price
Michael Zeigler (Concordia Seminary Graduate School), “At Home in God or the World? Homecomings in Moltmann, Gerhard, and Plotinus”
Kimberly Carfore (California Institute of Integral Studies), “The Paradox of Homecoming in Deconstruction and Phenomenology”
C: Colonized Homes II: Ghosts in the Literary Imagination Room E132 AJB Chair: Claire Fox
Deborah Jordan (U of Queensland) “Finding a Spiritual Home in the Environment: Australian Interwar Writers of the 1920s and 1930s”
Ayesha Malik (SUNY, Buffalo) “James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’: The Uncanny Existence of the Colonized”
Session VI: 4:30-5:30
A: Trans-temporal Reflections of/on Home Room E120 AJB Chair: Rachel Wagner
Erik Davis (Rice University), “Awakening text: Hearing the Letter in The Hymn of the Pearl”
Brad Pickens (The Farmhouse Mission), “Home, in Time: The Paradise of Ephrem the Syrian’s Hymn and the Broken Worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Cinema”
B: Mediating Home Room E126 AJB Chair: Dan Price
Michele Petersen (U of Iowa), “Seeing and Being Seen: Contemplating a Theological Vision of Home”
Nathan Eric Dickman (Young Harris College), “Faith or Friendship: On Integrating Possibilities for Self-realization in Kierkegaard and Aristotle”
C: Home is Where the Heart Is Room E132 AJB Chair: Forrest Clingerman
Janet Donohoe (U of West Georgia), “Coming Home and the Act of Mourning”
Ann S.F. Swaner (Barry University), “Pilgrimage: Finding a Home in Sacred Space and Time”
6:00-8:00 Dinner at Orchard Green521 S. Gilbert St., Iowa City
SUNDAY:
Adler Journalism Building (AJB)
Session VII: 9:00-10:00
A: Roads without Ends Room E120 AJB Chair: Dan Price
Justin W. Baker (Gilman School), “Evoke the Forms: The Resurrection and Reconciliation of Myth in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”
William Closson James (Queen’s University), “The Long Journey Home in The Wreckage and Three Day Road”
B: The Quest to Regain One’s Home Room E126 AJB Chair: Rachel Wagner
Katherine Bishop (U of Iowa): My Space and Social Networking: a Mediated Narrativity of “Home” in Tom Sawyer Abroad
Jessica L. Osnoe (Campbell University) “‘A Scottish Girl in an English Village’: The Search for Home in Doctor Who”
C: Home Economics Room E132 AJB Chair: Thomas Dean
Andrew Williams (U of Iowa) “Uncanny Islands: The Religio-political Implications of Crusoe’s Un-Home-Like Homes”
Julia Madsen (Brown University) “The Difficulty in ‘Exchang[ing] Meaning’: Gertrude Stein’s Return to the Home in Tender Buttons and the Uncanny Critique of Capitalism”
10:00-10:15 Break
Auditorium, 101 Becker Communication Studies Building (BCSB)
10:15-11:00 Paper VIII: Priya Kumar (U of Iowa), "Deconstructing the 'at home': Karachi as Home and the Uncanny Homecoming
of Muhajirs in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography."
11:30-1:00 Keynote Presentation II: Christopher Merrill (U of Iowa), “Staying Found”
