*All conference events are held in Rosenwald 405.
THURSDAY, 11/20
4:00pm-5:15pm
Keynote address by Claudia Rankine, Henry G. Lee Professor of English, Pomona College
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5:15pm-6:00pm
Opening reception
FRIDAY, 11/21
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00am-10:30am Panel I
Reading Aesthetic, Economic, and Moral Value
Chair: Christopher Taylor, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago
- Steven Maye, University of Chicago
“Sociologizing Kant: Contemporary Aesthetics from A Page of Madness” - Cassidy Picken, University of Chicago
“Gothic Debt; Or, What’s so Interesting about Ann Radcliffe?” - Angela Zito, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Hamlet‘s Disorder and the Humanist Disposition: Clearing the Table of Memory and Its Literary Consequences”
10:45am-12:15 am Panel II
The Body of/in the Archive
Chair: Julie Orlemanski, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago
- Julian Gill-Peterson, Rutgers University
“A Racial Memory of the Matter of Sex: Aesthetic Values of Archive and Body” - Marija Krtolica, Temple University
“Theorizing Convulsive Martyrdom” - E. Hella Tsaconas, New York University
“‘The Transgender Bodybuilder Who Attacks Heaps of Clay,’ or the Materiality of Becoming An Image“
12:15pm-12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm-1:45pm
Lunchtime public conversation with Claudia Rankine conducted by Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago
2:00pm-3:15pm Panel III
Narrative, Subjective, and Historical Closure (or Lack Thereof)
Chair: David Carroll Simon, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago
- Maria Vrcek, Rutgers University
“Timon’s Life: Human and Nonhuman Confusions in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens” - Kristen Tapson, New York University
“Striking Keys: Larry Eigner’s Parasitic Collisions?”
3:30pm-5:00pm Panel IV
The Visceral
Chair: Zachary Samalin, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago
- Jake Cowan, University of Texas at Austin
“Jakobson’s Latter @phasia: Language Disturbances in the Digital Age” - Chase Gregory, Duke University
“Falling in Frames: David B’s Epileptic and the ‘Disability Drive’” - Melissa Yang, University of Pittsburgh
“Sensations & Sustenance in Actual & Virtual Worlds”
5:05pm-5:35pm
Closing conversation