8:30-9:00

Breakfast
Schaeffer Hall, Room 302

9:00-9:15

Opening Remarks
Schaeffer Hall, Room 40

Dr. Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Student Success, Graduate College
Dr. Emilie Destruel, Chair of Department of French and Italian
Dr. Anny-Dominique Curtius, Director of Graduate Studies

9:15-10:30

Panel 1: Translation as Care, Care as Translation
Schaeffer Hall, Room 40

Chair: Dr. Jan Steyn, Translation
Timekeeper: Katie Gilbert

All presenters are from the University of Iowa
Fion Tse: a translation of《拾香紀》, or Attending Fragrances
Emma Murray: a translation of María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s 1637 The Enchantments of Love
Fabienne Rink: a translation of Swiss author Simone Lappert’s poetry collection long overdue feralization
Erel Michaelis: a translation of Hebrew evidence in the International Court of Justice’s case Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel).

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:00

Panel 2: Masculinities
Schaeffer Hall, Room 40 – Hybrid

Chair: Dr. Rosemarie Scullion, French & Italian
Timekeeper: Sokhna Thiaw

Breann Eireland Tobias, University of Florida, “Fearing the Caregiver: Women in Manga Who Emasculate”
Muhammed Salem, American University in Cairo, “Male Family Members as Elders' Caregivers: Marital v. Filial Bonds in French and Iranian Cinema” (Zoom)
Samuel Afanbah, University of Iowa, “Femininity as a Catalyst of Care in Gouverneur de la rosée: Caring for the Environment, Caring for Man”
Kodjo Tovor, University of Iowa, “Care in Sports”

12:15-12:45

Visit to the Coup de dés exhibit (Main Library Gallery)

12:45-2:15

Lunch Break (on your own, see suggestions below)

2:15-3:15

Panel 3: Enslavement and Imprisonment: Contesting Carcerality
Phillips Hall, Room 318 – Hybrid

Chair: Dr. Leah Leone, Translation
Timekeeper: William Osei-Aborah

Diewng Dafong, University of Alabama, “The Disillusion of Freedom: The Role of Betrayal in Tituba’s Journey” (Zoom)
Christy Charnel, Harvard University, “Care at the Crossroads”
Richard X, III, Fordham University, “Prison Chaplaincy and the Pessimism of Care”

3:15-3:30

Coffee Break

3:30-4:45

Panel 4: Intergenerational Care: Navigating Trauma and Solidarity
Phillips Hall, Room 318 – Hybrid

Chair: Ike Okoro
Timekeeper: Kodjo Tovor

Jose Fabricio Lopez Cochachi, Emory University, “J’habite, donc je suis: An Ethics of Care in Two Amazonian Paintings by Rember Yahuarcani” (Zoom)
Kolade Kenneth, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, “Care and Intergenerational Responsibility in Comme nous existons by Kaoutar Harchi”
Sokhna Thiaw, University of Iowa, “Intergenerational Trauma in Breath, Eyes, Memory: ‘Doubling’ to Survive”
Katie Gilbert, University of Iowa, “Building Community: Mentorship, Language, and Culture in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literature”

4:45-5:00

Coffee Break

5:00-6:00

Keynote Presentation -  Exploring the Possibility of Decolonizing Care: Questioning Inhabitability in Toxic Environments
Schaeffer Hall, Room 40

Introduction: Dr. Anny-Dominique Curtius

Dr. Jennifer Boum Make, Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies, Georgetown University

All panels will take place in Schaeffer Hall, Room 40

8:45-10:00

Panel 5: Tactile, Tangible Forms of Care
Zoom

Chair: Dr. Gigi Durham, Journalism
Timekeeper: Katie Gilbert

Mdappally Jasim, IIUM University, Malaysia, “Seeing Care Through Art: A Human, Ethical, and Spiritual Perspective” 
Sanket Sakar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, “Tactile Model of Care against Local and Global Neglect: Lessons from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Film Black (2005)”
Pragya Dev, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, “Beyond Prosaic Blue(s): Carving Carescapes amidst Vulnerabilities in Cobalt Blue”
Sona Srivasta, Ashoka University, “Care-ful Reading: On Women, and Radical MetaFORMosis of Self-Care”
R. Harini, University of Delhi, “The Gendered Nature of Leisure: Deconstructing ‘Care-Giving’ and ‘Care-Receiving’ Patterns in South Asia”

10:00-10:15

Coffee Break

10:15-11:30

Panel 6: Wellbeing, Being Well
Hybrid

Chair: Dr. Asha Bhandary, Philosophy
Timekeeper: Samuel Afanabah

Grace Brimacombe-Rand, King’s College London, “Satirical Self-Care: Performing the ‘Sad Sick Girl’ in My Year of Rest and Relaxation” (Zoom)
Judith Neder, TU Dresden, “Period Heroes: Menstruation as Site of Heroism and Bonding in Chinese Dramas” (Zoom)
Isabella Carr, Harvard University, “Deathfat as Resistance: Reimagining Fatness, Care, and Subjectivity in the Ozempic Era”
Irene Pagano, University of Amsterdam, “Queer Crip Intimacies and the Monstrous in Dominic Mitchell’s In The Flesh” (Zoom)

11:30-12:30

Lunch Break – We will provide lunch in the CLCL of Phillips Hall

12:30-1:45

Panel 7: Navigating Precarity
Hybrid

Chair: Dr. Marie Kruger, English
Timekeeper: Manon Goujon

Jillian Joiner, Arizona State University, “Feminist Caring and Uncaring in Afrofuturist Films”
Maria Clara Tomé, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, “Portrayals of Poverty: The Linkages between Reproductive Labor and Poverty in Brazil in Current Days” (Zoom)
Ike Okoro, University of Iowa, “Care and Uncare: A Study of Albert Londres’s Terre d’ébène”
Joel Gabriel Ngameleu Ngameni, Washington University, St. Louis, “Care in the Context of Genocide: An Analysis of Un Dimanche à la piscine à Kigali by Gil Courtemanche and its Cinematic adaptation Un Dimanche à Kigali by Robert Favreau”

1:45-2:00

Coffee Break

2:00-3:15

Panel 8: Reframing Journalism and Mass Communication Education: The Role of Kindness in Building Connection and Purpose

Chair: Dr. Sujatha Sosale, Journalism & Mass Communication
Timekeeper: Emily Wieder

All presenters are from the University of Iowa
Munachim Amah
Erdoo Ankwagh
Cam Brown
Brian Ekdale
Javie Ssovi
Sarah Witmer
Rachel Young

3:15-3:30

Coffee Break

3:30-4:45

Panel 9: Self-Documenting Care
Hybrid

Chair: Dr. Downing Thomas, French & Italian
Timekeeper: William Osei-Aborah

Emily Wieder, University of Iowa, “The Char-Knutson Correspondence: A Case Study in Care in/around the Archives”
Daniel Folger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “The Role of Autofiction as Social Critique: Autobiographical Writing as a Political Tool and the Rebuilding of Lost Agency in Comme nous existons and Changer” (Zoom)
Lou Migliorini, Emory University, “Representing the Algerian War: The Algerian children’s Drawings of the Conflict in J’ai huit ans” (Zoom)
Manon Goujon, University of Iowa, “Maternal Voices in the Lyrical Poetry of Vilmorin”

4:45-4:55

Closing Remarks

All French and Francophone World Studies (FFWS) graduate student

We need to leave the building by 5:00pm due to university policies.