



April 9-10, 2010 at Texas Tech University in
Lubbock, Texas, U. S. A.
Texas Tech University houses the internationally known Southwest
Collections and the Vietnam Archives. Spring in Lubbock is mild and
sunny.
Keynote Speakers:
Eva Cherniavsky, Department of English, University of Washington
Colleen Lye, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley
Walter Mignolo, Department of Literature, Duke University
Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College
Art
Exhibition:
Margarita Cabrera,
Mexican artist living in El Paso, “US Immigration Policy and Maquiladora
Practices”
Joomi Chung, Korean artist resident in Miami, Ohio, “Installation Art
about South Korean-U.S. Relations”
Scott Townsend, U.S. visual artist in Raleigh, North Carolina,
“Interactive Installation and Film on ‘Border Relations’”
Qingsong Wang, Chinese photographer based in Shanghai,
“Photography and the Consumerist Invasion of China”
Special Thanks from Dr. Yuan Shu, Director of the
2010 Symposium:
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the
following individuals and academic units for their
generous support and contribution to the symposium and the
Comparative Literature Program:
1. Dr. Juan Muņoz and the President's Office on
Institutional Diversity
2. Dr. Bob Smith, Dr. Robert Stewart, and the Provost
Office
3. Dr. David Roach, Dr. Lawrence Schovanec, and the Dean's Office of the College
of Arts and Sciences
4. Dr. Carol Edwards, Dr. Brian Steele, and the College of Visual and Performing Arts
5. Mr. Joe Arredondo, Landmark Arts,
the Ryla T. & John F. Lott
Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts, and
the School of
Art
6. Dr. Fred Hartmeister and the Graduate School
7. Dr. Sam Dragga, Dr. Rich Rice, and the English Department
8. Dr. Fred Suppe, Mr. Phade Vader, and the Classical
and Modern Languages and Literatures Department
9. The University Comparative Literature Committee:
Drs. Kanika Batra, Curtis Bauer, John Beusterien, Sam Dragga,
Charles Grair,
Maria O'Connell, Patricia Pelley, Ann Dighastany
Ransdell, David Roach,
Yuan Shu, Sara Spurgeon, Fred
Suppe, Victoria Surliuga, James Whitlark,
and Priscilla Ybarra.