THURSDAY 2/26

All events in McKissick Museum or Gambrell Hall, as noted

2:00-6:00: Registration (McKissick Museum Main Lobby)

3:00-5:00: Tours (self-guided) of McKissick Museum and the Historic USC Horseshoe

3:30: Screening: "Southern Stews," with remarks by filmmaker Stanley Woodward (McKissick Museum Auditorium)

5:00-5:30: Official conference opening and welcome (McKissick Museum Auditorium)
Welcome from Dean John Skvoretz, College of Liberal Arts, University of South Carolina
Remarks by Dr. Alexander Ogden, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of South Carolina
Remarks by Dr. Judith Kalb, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of South Carolina

5:30-6:30: Reception (2nd floor lobby, McKissick Museum)

7:00-9:00: Roundtable moderated by Charles Bierbauer, "The Voice of the People in the American Political Process" (Auditorium, Gambrell Hall)

FRIDAY 2/27

All sessions in Russell House University Union

8:00-12:00: Conference registration (Room 204)

I. 8:30-9:30 (Russell House Theater)
Keynote Address: Russell Berman, Stanford University, "Literacy, Literature, and Democracy"
Chair: Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina

II. 9:45-11:45
A. European Vox Populi (Room 203)
Chair: Allen Miller, University of South Carolina

Pierre Zoberman, Université Paris 13 , "Between Incantation and Rhetorical Topos: The Voice of the People as Invention in Louis XIV's Absolutist France"
Kim Robertson, Culver College, "Diderot's Dialogic Imagination"
Nirmala Singh-Brinkman, The Citadel, "Andalucismo and Its Silent Supporter: The Role of Seville's Female Cigar-Maker in the Andalusian Regionalist Movement for Autonomy (1907-1936)"
Mary Ann Frese Witt, North Carolina State University, "The Chorus as Vox Populi in the Drama of Fascist Italy"

B. Public Sphere and Public Institutions in the Nineteenth Century (Room 205)
Chair: Rebecca Stern, University of South Carolina

Dallas Liddle, Augsburg College, "The Rhetoric of Journalism and the Mid-Victorian Literary Imagination"
Christopher Ely, Florida Atlantic University, "Thick or Thin: The Dispute between Newspapers and Learned Journals and the Identity of Russia's Reading Public"
Mark Schmeller, Syracuse University, "From Vox Pop to Black Box: The Jury in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Law, Politics, and Literature"
Hans von Rautenfeld, University of South Carolina, "Public Mindedness: The Representative Structure of Public Opinion"

12:00-1:30 LUNCH

III. 1:45-3:15
A. The Voice of the People in Song: Popular Music (Room 205)
Chair: Freeman Henry, University of South Carolina

Rachel Slayman Platonov, Harvard University, "Making High Culture Work For Us: Classic Russian Literature and Popular Voice in Avtorskaia Pesnia"
Esther Quin, Victoria University of Wellington, "The American Brecht: Bob Dylan and The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Randall Clark, North Georgia College and State University, "Do Anything That You Wanna Do: Rockabilly Music as Vox Populi"

B. Scripting the Female Body (Room 203)
Chair: M. Angelica Lopes, University of South Carolina

Emily Aleshire, University of South Carolina, "Reading the Female Bodies of Biblical Prosaic and Why the Gynocentric Subtext Survives/Subverts"
Amanda Bayer, University of South Carolina, "Critic and Text: The Colonizer and the Colonized"
Blair Orfall, University of Oregon, "Shakti"

IV. 3:30-5:00
A. Aesthetics for the Masses (Room 203)
Chair: Meili Steele, University of South Carolina

Nicholas Vazsonyi, University of South Carolina, "vox populi vox dei? Richard Wagner's Iconography of ‘pop’"
Jakob Norberg, Princeton University, "Aesthetic Collectivities: Alexander Kluge's Poetics of the Case Study"
Robert Adlington, University of Nottingham, "Music of the People? The Case of Louis Andriessen"

B. Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Voices (Room 205)
Chair: Amittai Aviram, University of South Carolina

Anne Fisher, University of Michigan, "What Does it Mean When the Voice of the People Belongs to a Con Man?"
Michael Gorham, University of Florida, "Voices of Glasnost in the Gorbachev Revolution"
Maia Solovieva, University of South Carolina, "Dialogue in Tolstaia's Slynx"

V. 5:15-6:15 (Russell House Theater)
Plenary: Morag Shiach, Queen Mary, University of London, "Modernism and Linguistic Authenticity: Constructing the Voice of the People, 1910-1935"
Chair: Alexander Ogden, University of South Carolina

7:00: Banquet, Mac's on Main

SATURDAY 2/28

All sessions in Russell House University Union

VI. 8:30-10:00
A. Media, Democracy, and Popular Expression (Room 301)
Chair: Agnes Mueller, University of South Carolina

Mark Dolan, Jacksonville University, "Cathartic Uplift: Women's Blues in the Chicago Defender, 1920-1923"
Soren Triff, University of Miami, "A Tale of Two American Voices: Latin America and the United States"
Maha Bashri, University of South Carolina, "Al-Jazeera, the Voice of the Arab Street?"

B. Southern Stories (Room 201)
Chair: Larry Rhu, University of South Carolina

Nina Levine, University of South Carolina, "Collaborative Games and Sir Thomas More"
Kenneth Campbell, University of South Carolina, "The Voice of African-Americans as Heard in Emancipation Day Speeches"
Brittany Powell, University of South Carolina, "Bowing to the Gridiron Gods: College Football as a Metaphor for Southern Culture"

VII. 10:15-11:15 (Russell House Theater)
Plenary: Debra Castillo, "Who Knows? Thoughts on Postcoloniality and Latin American Literary Culture"
Chair: Alejandro Bernal, University of South Carolina

11:30-1:00 LUNCH

VIII. 1:15-3:15
A. Peasants, Power, Poverty: The Subaltern Speaks (Room 301)
Chair: Nina Levine, University of South Carolina

Alejandro Bernal, University of South Carolina, "Silence + Words + Action > Latin America"
Patrick Greaney, University of Colorado, "The Beggar's Voice: Power and Poverty in Rilke and Foucault"
Alexander Ogden, University of South Carolina, "The Value of 'the People': An Econo-Critical Approach to Peasant Poets"
Kanishka Sen, Ohio Northern University, "Armando Ramirez: Me llaman la Chata Aguayo; Narratives of Street Vendors in Mexico City"

B. The Death of the People: Narrating Genocide (Room 201)
Chair: Jeanne Garanne, University of South Carolina

Sudip Minhas, Panjab University, "Narratives of the Silence: A Study of the Texts on Partition"
Peter Huk, University of Tennessee, "Enlivening a People Destroyed by Genocide: Peter Forgacs and the Distortional Voice of Documentary"
Christine Venter, University of Notre Dame, "Gacaca Courts in Rwanda: A Popular Response to Crisis"

IX. 3:30-5:00
A. Emerging Slavic and East European Voices (Room 301)
Chair: Judith Kalb, University of South Carolina

Kristin Vitalich, UCLA, "Dictionary as Historiography: Vuk's 1818 Serbian Dictionary and the Idea of a Serbian Language"
Kevin Karnes, University of South Carolina, "Discovering a 'Nation of Singers': Folk Song and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Baltic Russia"
Laura Olson, University of Colorado, "Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Folklore Scholarship"

B. Regional Identities, Elective Affinities, and the Aesthetics of Place (Room 201)
Chair: Maria Mabrey, University of South Carolina

Nanette de Jong, Rutgers University, "Forgotten Histories and (Mis)Remembered Cultures: The Comback Party of Curacao"
Georg Schwarzmann, University of South Carolina, "The Common Man in Pablo Neruda's Poetry"
M. Angelica Lopes, University of South Carolina, "Literature on a String"

We gratefully acknowledge the generous sponsorship of the Department of Languages Literatures, and Cultures; the College of Liberal Arts; the Program in Comparative Literature; McKissick Museum; the Walker Institute of International Studies; the Program in Latin American Studies; the South Carolina Honors College; and the Women's Studies Program.