9:15 Robert Pippin
Welcome
Welcome
9:30 Thomas Pavel
Truth and Resonance in the Novel
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Nathan Tarcov
Funny Stories, Serious Thought: reflections on the first novelle of Boccaccio's Decameron
2:00 Lorraine Daston
All at Once and Completely Changed: Revelation in The Golden Bowl
3:00 Hans Joas
The Long Night of Mourning. Narration as a Way Out of Violence?
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Haun Saussy
A Spacewalk with Spatial Form
5:30: Reception (at Swift Hall, First Floor)
Saturday, May 17:
10:30 Coffee Served
11:00 Mark Payne
The Con-sociality of Nonhuman Life in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.
2:00 David E. Wellbery
Kafka at Thought: Lessons from the Trial-Manuscript
3:00 Rosanna Warren
Cinématoma: Max Jacob's Experimental Fictions
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Robert Pippin
What does the Childhood of Jesus have to do with Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus? On Titles