Session A

Saturday, Feb 22, 9:00-10:15am

Panel 1: Hispanic Cinema
Room: Sampson #211, Chair: Ruth Yuste-Alonso (Stetson University)

Trauma in Costa Rican Theatre: Bryan Vindas's La balada post-futurista de los moluscos (2019)
Elaine Miller, Christopher Newport University

Los nuevos giros en el cine boricua contemporáneo
Rosana Diaz Zambrana, Rollins College

Glitching Girls' Bodies: Virtual Reality and Cybermigration in "Dreams of the Jaguar's Daughter" (Salazar-Caro, 2019)
Andrea Gaytan Cuesta, University of North Florida

Panel 2: French Linguistics
Room: Sampson #213, Chair: Yves-Antoine Clemmen (Stetson University)

Le Français blasé: product of collective imagination or true linguistic behavior
Eve Rock, Western Carolina University

On Phonetic Transfer: What Are the Obstacles for Fonphone Learners of French?
David Achodo, University of Tennessee

Panel 3: Chinese Culture and Philosophy
Room: Sampson #215, Chair: Will Lehman (Western Carolina University)

The Simulation Hypothesis, Contemporary Capitalism, and Zhuangzi's Philosophy in Emily St. John Mandel's The Sea of Tranquility
Zhenyao Quan, University of Alberta

Disputed Realities: From Humor and Stand-up Comedy to the Politics of Reality
Shuhuibo Liang, Michigan State University

Session B

Saturday, Feb. 22, 10:30-11:45am

Panel 4: Hispanic Literature I
Room: Sampson #211, Chair: Joshua Deckman (Stetson University)

La imaginación radioactiva en Giovanna Rivero y Liliana Colanzi, y la cuestión del otro
Pablo Brescia, University of South Florida

El mito de Inkarrí: La memoria del cuerpo vulnerado en Adiós, Ayacucho de Julio Ortega
Andrea Magallanes, University of South Florida

El entenado como palimpsesto de dicotomías y dualidades humanas vistas a través del pensamiento ecológico
Alejandra Cancel Hernandez, University of South Florida

Panel 5: The Reality of Trauma in Francophone Literature
Room: Sampson #213, Chair: Yves-Antoine Clemmen (Stetson University)

The Grief Narrative: Writing and Reality in Marie Nimier's Petite soeur
Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University

Exil et trauma dans le roman francophone
Adamu Abubakar, University of Alabama

Postcolonial Traumas: Expressing the Real
Alex Lenoble, University of South Florida

Panel 6: Mideast and South Asian Culture & Literature
Room: Sampson #215, Chair: Margit Grieb (University of South Florida)

Ambiguity as a Fact of Existence: Reading Franz Kafka in the Arab World
Haidar Khezri, University of Central Florida

Redefining Shakchunni: An Intersectional Ecofeminist Dissection of Heteropatriarchal Bengali Society
Mashaekh Hassan, Florida Atlantic University

Language, Caste and Christianity: Exploring the Intersectional Dynamics of Modernisation of Dalit Christian Vernacular in Post-Abolition Kerala
Binsu Susan John, The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, India

Session C

Saturday, Feb. 22, 1:30-2:45pm

Panel 7: Hispanic Literature II
Room: Sampson #211, Chair: Frederic Leveziel (University of South Florida)

Carmen Duarte: Drama and Trauma or Recalibrating Cuban Reality in the 1980s
Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilin, Florida Atlantic University

Twenty Years of Writing the 11-M: The Impact of the Madrid Train Bombings on Spanish Literature (2004-2024)
Heike Scharm, University of South Florida

Panel 8: La réalité du traumatisme, comment il est exprimé, perçu, cru ou non
Room: Sampson #213, Chair: Yves-Antoine Clemmen (Stetson University)

Understanding Trauma through Effective Victim Interviewing
Olga Amarie, Georgia Southern University

Comment écrire le traumatisme? Etude de cas: "Failles" de Yanick Lahens, en réponse au séisme de 2010 qui décima Haïti
Aude Jehan, University of Alberta

Psychose collective dans Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Frederic Leveziel, University of South Florida

Panel 9: European Cinema
Room: Sampson #215, Chair: Margit Grieb (University of South Florida)

Alternative Facts: The Ends and Means of Werner Herzog's Ecstatic Truth
Will Lehman, Western Carolina University

Kona fer í strid:Using (In)visibility to Alter Reality
Margit Grieb, University of South Florida

De Sica's Realist Fantasy
Antonio Melchor, Eckerd College
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Panel 10: Linguistics and Culture
Room: Sampson #223, Chair: Snezhana Zheltoukhova (Stetson University)

"bro united the world through a meme": An Intercultural Pragmatic Analysis of a Viral Olympic Silver Medalist's Global Appeal
Kübra Çekmegeli, University of South Florida
Melike Akay, University of South Florida

Disputing Dictionaries: Language in the Crosshairs of the Culture Wars
James Mitchell, Salve Regina University

Impact of Eco-Friendly Trends in Social Media
Resat Amin, Florida Atlantic University

Session D

Saturday, Feb. 22, 3:00-4:15pm

Panel 11: Hispanic Literature III
Room: Sampson #211, Chair: Will Lehman (Western Carolina University)

Galicia Perdida y el Deseo Inalcanzable: Un Análisis Semiótico de la Poesía de Rosalía de Castro
Henri Hodge, University of Central Florida

Julia Navarro questions the past in Dime quién soy (Tell Me Who I Am)
Mariana Martinez Karandashova, Florida International University

Panel 12: Enhanced Realities in Francophone Cinema and Literature
Room: Sampson #213, Chair: Yohann Ripert (Stetson University)

Upcoming-War and Science-Fiction at the Verne School in France
Jean Prétat, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Between Realism and Fantastic: Cyrille Fleischman's Storytelling
Sylvie Blum-Reid, University of Florida

L'empire du néon: une critique techno-oreintaliste du film Enter the Void (2011) de Gaspar Noé
Arun Kumar, EFLY Hyderabad

Panel 13: German Literature and Culture
Room: Sampson #215, Chair: Margit Grieb (University of South Florida)

Of Mice and Wars: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Dresden in "Nussknacker und Mäusekönig" (1816)
Alina Dana Weber, Florida State University

Goethe, Faust, the Archangel Gabriel and His Gospel of "New Realism"
Christian Weber, Florida State University

Traumatic Violence: Rebellious Offspring in Post-Nazi Germany
Stephan Schindler, University of South Florida

Panel 14: Language Pedagogy
Room: Sampson #223, Chair: Snezhana Zheltoukhova (Stetson University)

Transforming Traditional Methods of Instruction with AI
Taoues Hadour Myers, University of Central Florida

Unleashing the Power of Collaborative Writing in the World Language Classroom
Memry Rasch, University of South Florida

Chatbot Language Tutors: Imaginary Worlds as Contexts for Conversation
Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University

Session E

Sunday, Feb. 23, 9:00-10:15am

Panel 15: Hispanic Culture, Translation, Pedagogy
Room: Sampson #211, Chair: Will Lehman (Western Carolina University)

La Ciguapa: Monstrous Intimacies of the Insular Caribbean and Its Diaspora
Joshua Deckman, Stetson University

Advancing Trilingual Competency and Cross-Cultural Competency within the U.S. Higher Education: The Case for Promoting Portuguese among Native, Heritage, and Advanced Spanish Speakers
Patricia Tome, Rollins College

Race, Affect, and Contested Realities in Lorca's Romancero gitano
Tyler Fisher, Florida Gulf Coast University

Panel 16: Reality remembered in Francophone culture
Room: Sampson #213, Chair: Yves-Antoine Clemmen (Stetson University)

Dire la réalité à travers le non-dit dans Mes mauvaises pensées de Nina Bouraoui
Martine Wagner, University of South Florida

Commemorating the Algerian War in France: Whose Reality Is Being Recalled?
Youri Buyle, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 17: Russian/Soviet Cinema & Culture
Room: Sampson #215, Chair: Stephan Schindler (University of South Florida)

Russian Cultural Appropriation of Ukraine and Mosaic Art
Anna Morozova, University of Alberta

Subject, Object, Self and Other: Time and Perception in Parajanov's Cinema
Robert Efird, Virginia Tech