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Item Beauty of Suffering (Poster) : Representations of Violence Against Women in Spain (17th-21st Century)(2015-04-09) Perez Villanueva, Sonia; Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures; East Academic CenterWe will focus on the aesthetics of suffering, particularly on representations of gendered violence in Spain from the seventeenth century to contemporary times. We will analyze narrative forms— theatre, novels and scripts—and visual depictions—paintings and film—of violence, or in other words, we will explore the “beautiful” or grotesque spectacle of female suffering. This research has, of course, a common denominator: the control of women and the violence against them. In spite of the progress of time and the political efforts to protect victims of domestic violence in Spain, fiftythree women were killed by their husbands in 2014. Dr Sonia Pérez-Villanueva is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities at Lesley University. She is the author of The Life of Catalina de Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography (2014).Item Don't Shovel (Poster) : The Use of Farming and Culinary Tools as Resistance in Julie Otsuka's "The Emperor Was Divine"(2015-03-26) Izumi, Katsuya; East Academic CenterJulie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine (2002) discusses the traumatic experiences of a Japanese American family who, along with more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, was sent to internment camps during the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack. With its unusual use of farming and culinary tools, this novel can be read as a resistance statement both in its historical context and in Asian American literary traditions. Dr. Katsuya Izumi’s research focuses on food and identity in Asian American literature. He has taught American literature, English writing, and Japanese.Item Graphic Novels and the Art of Storytelling Post 9/11 (Poster)(2015-04-02) Takakjian, Cara; East Academic CenterCARA TAKAKJIAN - Assistant Professor - Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Bucknell University. In a discussion of contemporary Italian graphic novels, we will see how the comic medium—with its hybrid language and focus on reader participation—is uniquely adept at storytelling in the post 9/11 era. An analysis of the works of the comics artist, Gipi, reveals the comic form’s potential for melding the personal and the universal, and for engaging with contemporary problems of visuality in terms of looking, seeing, and understanding. Ultimately, Gipi’s comics comment on the ethical implications of our participation, or lack thereof, in the events that surround us, as he implicates himself and his readers in our current historical moment.