2012
“Innovations and Anxieties”
Chair: Bridget Heaney
Keynote: Dr. Colin Milburn (Associate Professor of Englis at University of California, Davis)
Plenary: Dr. Valerie Karno (University of Rhode Island)
See the 2012 Conference schedule
2011
“(Pre)Occupations: Working, Seizing, Dwelling”
Co-Chairs: Mike Becker and Kim Evelyn
Keynote: Dr. Timothy Brennan (Professor of English, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, and American Studies at The University of Minnesota)
Plenary: Dr. Martha Elena Rojas (University of Rhode Island)
Download the 2011 Conference schedule
2010
“Carried Across: Translations, Temporalities, Trajectories”
Chair: Sara Murphy
Keynote: Dr. Rey Chow (Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University)
Plenary: Dr. Kathleen Davis (University of Rhode Island)
2009
“Bodies in Motion”
Co-Chairs: Jenn Brandt and Stephen Marchand
Keynote: Dr. Stuart Pimm (Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University)
2008
“Space, Place, and Imagination”
Chair: Laurie Carlson
Keynote: Mark Urman (U.S. Theatrical Head of THINKFilm)
Keynote: Deborah Davis (Author, Historian, & Veteran Film Executive)
2007
“Identities: Individual, Cultural, National”
Chair: Claire Reynolds
Keynote: Anne Harleman (local author)
