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SELI 2021

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Annual Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel

Monday afternoon, Feb. 1, 2021

Welcome to the SELI 2021 conference!

This year the SELI community will gather on Monday afternoon, Feb. 1, for a three-part afternoon program.

Presenters in Panel #1, "Now," will reflect briefly on our pandemic existence, while in Panel #2, "Later," contributors will share their thoughts about what lies ahead. The concluding panel will delve deeper into one particular way of looking ahead, with five scholars presenting different viewpoints on a futurism inflected by race, nationality and politics. The "Happy Hour" break will offer an opportunity to socialize as well as some surprise activities.

All welcome; please register to receive the conference Zoom link.

Program

Conference Program

Monday, Feb. 1, 2021

3:45 Pre-SELI party

Greetings: Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)

4:00 - 5:15 Panel #1: Now

Moderator: Galia Benziman (Hebrew U)

Keren Omry (Haifa), The Blinking Cursor: Writing in Corona Times

Nitzan Halperin (BGU), "Welcome Back": Revisiting Fan Communities during Covid-19

Tammy Amiel Houser (Open U), Ali Smith and the Study of Literature in Surreal Times

Marcela Sulak (BIU), The Lyric Unbound by Time and Space

Maya Klein (TAU), Theory in the Now: The Pandemic and Ongoing Immediacy

Karen Alkalay-Gut (TAU), The Poetry Boom on Zoom

Dalal Ghattas (Haifa), The Teacher’s Asynchronous Presence: Where Is the Teacher?

5:15-5:30 Break

5:30-6:30 Panel #2: Later

Moderator: Milette Shamir (TAU)

Carra Glatt (BIU), June 22, 2021

Ilana Blumberg (BIU), Encountering Scholars and Scholarship on Youtube

Stephanie Ginensky (Kibbutzim/ Talpiot), How the Talmud Helped Me Adapt My Syllabus for Distance Learning

Jonathan Stavsky (TAU), Chaucer's Dark Matter

Olga Kuminova (BGU), Integrating Online Format into Courses for PhD Candidates

Dara Barnat (TAU), "When there are no roads": Lea Goldberg and Poetry of Ambiguity

6:30-7:15 SELI Happy Hour

Bring a beverage of your choice to one of our breakout rooms:

Find out how much you know about the history of Israel's English departments playing SELI Trivia Night with Eitan Bar-Yosef
Contribute to a collaborative story in the SELI Writing Lounge with Joelle Milman
Stretch your Zoomed-out self in the SELI Yoga Studio with Devra Katz
Or enter one of our lit-themed SELI Hangouts to share your drink with a small group of fellow revelers

Activities will start at 6:40. All rooms will close at 7:10, so we can start the third panel on time at 7:15.

7:15-8:15 Spotlight Panel: Futurism

Moderator: Naomi Mandel (Hebrew U)

Louise Bethlehem (Hebrew U), Everyday Futurism: Southern African Technsocialities

Karin Berkman (BIU / Hebrew U), “We took new stock of one another”: Tracy K Smith, Afrofuturism and Covid-19

Ruth S. Wenske (Hebrew U), Weaving the Web: An Afrofuturist Reckoning with Omniscience

Tal Zalmanovich (Haifa), Afrofuturism and the Decolonizing of the Curriculum

Norma Musih (BGU), Digital Nation: Arabfuturism and the Question of Palestine

8:15-8:30 post-SELI party

Register for the conference

Please follow this link to fill out the registration form.

The deadline for registration is Friday, January 29. Registered participants will receive the conference Zoom link by email on the day of the conference.

contact

Contact us

Email us with any question at seliconference@gmail.com.

Conference organizing committee: Eitan Bar-Yosef (BGU); Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa); Galia Benziman (Hebrew U); Milette Shamir (TAU); Yael Shapira (BIU). Organizational assistant: Noam Schiff (BIU/Hebrew U).