Keynote Speakers
Tom Conley, Harvard University
Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of
Romance Languages and Literatures. In his reserach he focuses on
Early Modern French Literature, Film and Media Studies, and on the intersection of
Literature and Graphic Imagination. His recent book publication is entitled A Map in a
Movie: A Study of Cartography and Cinema,
John Zilcosky, University of Toronto
John Zilcosky is Associate Professor
of German and Comparative Literature. His research interest include Psychoanalysis and
literary modernism, popular fin de siecle adventure narratives as well as the writings
of W.G. Sebald. In 2003 he published his book Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism,
and the Traffic of Writing