Conference Program

The Conference will be held in Swift Hall, Third Floor


Friday, May 16:

9:15 Robert Pippin
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