{"id":16,"date":"2017-01-10T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/romance-fiction\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2017-03-30T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T15:08:07","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/romance-fiction\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All events listed below are free of charge and open to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Parking: <\/strong>Parking is available on Spring Street and on the Williams College campus at the 62 Center for Theatre and Dance, the upper and lower chapel lots, plus several other locations to which Williams College security will guide you. Please arrive on time for those events you plan to attend. For more information about parking on the Williams College campus, please use the <a href=\"http:\/\/map.williams.edu\/map\/?id=640#!ct\/8158\">interactive map of Williams College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those with mobility issues who are attending conference panels should park in the lot behind Chapin Hall. Please use the rear entrance to Bernhard Music Center (to the Brooks-Rogers elevator) or the ramp at the front entrance of Chapin Hall (which connects to Brooks-Rogers).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Friday, April 21<\/h2>\n<p><strong>4:00 \u2013 6:30 pm: Screening of <em>Love Between the Covers<\/em><\/strong> at Images Cinema (50 Spring Street, Williamstown MA) followed by Q&amp;A with director Laurie Kahn, author Eloisa James (Mary Bly), and author\/publisher Radclyffe (Len Barot)<\/p>\n<h2>Saturday, April 22<\/h2>\n<p><strong>8:00 &#8211; 10:00 am: Panel 1: Theories of Pleasure <\/strong>(Brooks Rogers Auditorium on the Williams campus)<\/p>\n<p><u>Chair<\/u>: Leyla Rouhi, Williams College<\/p>\n<p><u>Panelists<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laura Frost, Stanford University: \u201cStories of O: \u00a0The Language of Orgasm in Women\u2019s Romance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Julie Cassiday, Williams College: \u201cA World Without Safe-Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Eric Selinger, DePaul University: \u00a0\u201cXenophile\u2019s Paradox: \u00a0Reading for Pleasure Across the Great Divides\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10:15 am &#8211; 12:15 pm: Panel 2: New Subjects and Audiences <\/strong>(Brooks Rogers Auditorium)<\/p>\n<p><u>Chair<\/u>: Alison Case, Williams College<\/p>\n<p><u>Panelists<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sonali Dev, author: \u201cGenre Structure and Learning to Dance Within its Boundaries\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hsu-Ming Teo, Macquarie University: \u00a0\u201cTigresses, Tang Dynasty, and the Ten Commandments: \u00a0The East Asian Romance Novels of Jade Lee, Jeannie Lin, and Camy Tang\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jayashree Kambl\u00e9, LaGuardia Community College: \u00a0\u201cWhen <em>Wuxia<\/em> Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Multiculturalism in Sherry Thomas\u2019s <em>My Beautiful Enemy<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Len Barot (Radclyffe), author and publisher: \u00a0\u201cLesbian Romances and the International Market in the Digital Age\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2:15 &#8211; 4:15 pm: Panel 3: New Media Platforms and the Global Marketplace <\/strong>(Brooks Rogers Auditorium)<\/p>\n<p><u>Chair<\/u>: Leyla Rouhi, Williams College<\/p>\n<p><u>Panelists<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Bly (Eloisa James), Fordham University, author: \u201cRomancing the World: \u00a0How and Where American Romance Sells\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Katy Regnery, author: \u201cFrom Stay-at-Home Mom to NYT Bestseller in 30 Months: A First-Hand Perspective on the Digital Revolution in the Romance Publishing Industry\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Wendell, <em>Smart Bitches, Trashy Books<\/em>: \u201cThe World is So Big; the World is So Small: The Global Community of Romance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Patience Bloom, Harlequin: \u201cHarlequin\u2019s International Program: A World of Romance Readers\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5:30 &#8211; 7:00 pm: Book Signing at Water Street Books <\/strong>(26 Water Street, Williamstown MA) with romance authors Patience Bloom, Alison Case, Sonali Dev, Eloisa James, Radclyffe, Katy Regnery, and Sarah Wendell\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/romance-fiction\/bios\/\">\u2192\u00a0Author bios available here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sunday, April 23:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>9:00 &#8211; 11:00 am: Panel 4: Transnational Romance <\/strong>(Brooks Rogers Auditorium)<\/p>\n<p><u>Chair<\/u>: Emily Vasiliauskas, Williams College<\/p>\n<p><u>Panelists<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jin Feng, Grinnell College: \u201cTime-Travel to P &amp; P: Web-based Chinese Fanfic of Jane Austen\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma: \u201cExploring His\/Her Library: Reading and Books in American and Russian Romance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kathrina Mohd Daud, University of Brunei Darussalam: \u201cHow \u2018halal\u2019 Are Muslim Romances?: Shariah Compliance and Contestations in <em>Ayat-ayat Cinta, The Translator<\/em>, and <em>She Wore Red Trainers<\/em>\u201d (Via skype)<\/li>\n<li>Heather Schell, George Washington University: \u201cAfter \u2018I Do\u2019: \u00a0Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-imagine the Happy Ending\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Romance Writers of America; The Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences; The Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; the Departments of German and Russian, Romance Languages, and English; the Programs in Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Leadership Studies; and the Michael Dively \u201961 Lecture Committee for Human Sexuality and Diversity.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All events listed below are free of charge and open to the public. 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