boundary 2 Anniversary Conference

An academic conference sponsored by the Geisel Professorship and the Dartmouth English Department

April 27, 2018
All day
Location
Wren Room, Sanborn House
Sponsored by
English Department
Audience
Public
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James E. Dobson

boundary 2 Anniversary Conference 

April 27 - April 29

All lectures will take place in the Wren Room, Sanborn House, Dartmouth College.

Free and open to the public.

Friday, April 27

1:30 - 2:30 Ronald Judy (Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies University of Pittsburgh): "Fanon on the Question of Species: Humanism as Restlessness (قَلَقٍ  عَلى)"

2:30 - 3:30 Leah Feldman (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago): "The Poetics of Alignment: Cold War Humanism across Global Souths"

3:30-4:30 Bruce Robbins (Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University): "The Novel and the Poor" 

4:30-5:30 Hortense Spillers (Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University): "To the Bone: Some Speculations on the Question of Touch"

 Saturday, April 28

10:00 - 11:00 Nergis Erturk (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Nazım via Lenin: The Prose of Communism"

11:00 - 12:00 Joseph Buttigieg (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Literature and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame): "Lorianism, or the Fragility of Critical Barriers"

LUNCH

1:30 - 2:30 Jonathan Arac (Mellon Professor of English, Director, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh): "Joseph Frank and the Untimeliness of Intelligence"

2:30 - 3:30 Donald Pease (The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities): "The Uncanny as Way of Being in Toni Morrison's Home"

3:30 - 4:30 Paul A. Bové (Distinguished University Professor, University of Pittsburgh): "Wallace Stevens and the Difficulty of Poetry"  

 

Sunday, April 29

10:00 - 12:00 Roundtable Discussion: Bill Spanos

Location
Wren Room, Sanborn House
Sponsored by
English Department
Audience
Public
More information
James E. Dobson