New Conference in Bar Ilan

Here is a poster for a conference in Bar Ilan in June. Looks very interesting; I advise anybody who is here in summer to attend.

Celebrating Inspiration:
A Conference in Honor of
Professor Emerita Ellen Spolsky
Beck Conference Auditorium
Monday, June 13th 2011
10:30 – 17:30
Program:
10:00 - 10:30 Gathering
10:30 - 10:50 Welcome and introduction: Dr. Naomi Rokotnitz
10:50 - 11:35 Plenary Speaker: Professor Emeritus Murray Roston
“The Comic Spirit in England”
11:35 - 11:50 Coffee + refreshments
11:50 - 13:30 Dr. Klarina Priborkin: “Voicing the Muteness: Writing, Cognition and
Communication in Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter”
Dr. Orley Marron: “Fantastic Notions and Beautiful Grotesques”
Dr. Amy Gelbart: “Pretend Play, Performance and Suicide in Philip Roth’s
The Humbling”
13:30 - 14:50 Lunch
14:50 - 16:40 Dr. Einat Avrahami: “Embodying Disability and its Discontents”
Dr. Naomi Rokotnitz: “Overcoming Alienation, Fear and Bias
Through Embodied Receptiveness in Dramatic Performance”
Dr. Glenda Sacks and Dr. Lynn Timna
“Pedagogy in the Flesh and Teaching the Conflicts”
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee + refreshments
17:00 - 17:30 Professor Emerita Ellen Spolsky