Friday, April 4
4:30p
Keynote Address
Vincent Pecora, "An Idea Like a Butterfly:" Virginia Woolf's Voyage Out and the Genealogy of Religion
Director, Humanities Consortium, UCLA
Saturday, April 5
8:30-9:00a
Welcome and coffee, tea, and pastries
9:00a-10:20p
Session 1
Text, Image, and Orality in Chinese Traditions (Seminar Room)
Faculty Discussant: Denis Mari, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Student Moderator: Michael Laver, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Peng Mu, Folklore
Xuanjuan: A Transitional Genre Between Orality & Literacy
Eli Albert, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Textual Mandate on the Periphery of the Chinese State
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Mimetic Functions of Pictorial Eulogies in Three Eastern Han Tombs
Session 2
Materiality and Ethe(o)reality (Moose Room)
Faculty Discussant: Roger Chartier, History
Student Moderator: Dierdra Reber, Romance Languages - Spanish
Erica Fruiterman, English
Some Thoughts on Book History
Acalya Kiyak, Architecture
Villard’s Sketchbook: The Transmission of Architectural Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Kyle Roberts, History
The Dairyman’s Daughter: The Material History of an Evangelical Text
10:20-10:30p | Coffee Break
10:30a-12:00p
Session 3
Historicity and the Evolution of Texts (Moose Room)
Faculty Discussant: Jennifer Snead, English
Student Moderator: Jonathan Hsy, English
Kevin Tracy, Classics
Stoic Emendations and the Concept of the Text.
David Hollenberg and Tarek Kahlaou, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
A Rare Nusayri Manuscript in Van Pelt’s Rare Book Room: A Preliminary Investigation
Claire Costley, English
Adultery, Murder, & the Writing of the Penitential Psalms
Session 4
Mapping America: Landscape, Image, and Knowledge (Seminar Room)
Faculty Discussant: Nancy Bentley, English
Student Moderator: Kristina Morris Baumli, English
Brian Gregory, Folklore
“The Road to Akron”: Reading the Post-Industrial Landscape
Jeff Alred, English
From Eye to We: The Problem of Envisioning the Thirties Documentary Book
Nicole Furlonge, English
“Words that set, then miss, the mark”: Narrative Unknowing in Toni Morrison’s Jazz
12:00-1:00p | Lunch
1:00-2:20p
Session 5
Cultural Encounters: Translating the Other (Seminar Room)
Faculty Discussant: Barbara Fuchs, Romance Languages
Student Moderator: Eli Albert, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Dierdra Reber, Romance Languages
From Knight to Critical Reader, via the Other: The Literary Makeover of Empire in Don Juan Manuel's El conde Lucanor
Jia Si, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
The Early English-Chinese Dictionaries & the Sino-Western Cultural Communications in the 19th Century
Michael Linderman, South Asia Regional Studies
Printing Pure Knowledge: Missionaries & Books in 18th Century India
Session 6
Undressing the Text (Moose Room)
Faculty Discussant: Vincent Pecora, Director, Humanities Consortium, UCLA
Student Moderator: Ellen Welch, Comparative Literature
Michael Wiedorn, Comparative Literature
The Novelist as Theoretician: Responding to David Harvey’s Reading of Raymond William’s “Loyalties”
Adam Graves, Relgious Studies
The Hermeneutics of Self: Textuality and the Social Sciences
Nancy Srebro, English
Masters and Subjects or Mastering the Subjects: Reading and “Oxen of the Sun”
2:35-3:45p
Session 7
See and the Text (Seminar Room)
Faculty Discussant: Wendy Steiner, English
Student Moderator: Anika Kiehne, German
Stephanie Harzewski, English
"Chick Lit" and Concurrent Media Phenomenon
Natasha Ruiz-Gomez, Art History
Pablo Takes a Bite of the Apple: Reading Picasso’s Early Still Lifes
Liliana Milkova, Art History
Bronzino’s "Cosimo I as Orpheus": Metamorphosis of a Ruler
Session 8
Intertextual Reflections (Moose Room)
Faculty Discussant: Peter Stallybras, English
Student Moderator: Jared Richman, English
Jonathan Hsy, English
Intertextuality and the Genre: Reading Marginalia in Shakespeare’s First Folio
Kristin Williams, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Ninjobon as Representations of Performance
Timothy Carmody, Comparative Literature
The Mirror: Intertextuality and Method
3:45-4:00p | Coffee Break
4:00-5:20p
Session 9
Performing the Extraordinary (Moose Room)
Faculty Discussant: Emma Dillon, Music
Student Moderator: Pamela Geller, Anthropology
Richard Mook, Music
“It’s a Healthy Kind of Thing”: (Con)Textualizing Barbershop Performance
Tim Ribchester, Music
Transcribing the Transcendent: Writing and Virtuousity in Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” Sonata
Meredith Malone, Art History
Noveau Réalisme: Performance and the Textual Prop
Session 10
Reading the Nation (Seminar Room)
Faculty Discussant: Carol Muller, Music
Student Moderator: Eli Albert, Asian and Middle Easter Studies
Patrick Spero, History
The Politicization of Popular Publications During the American War for Independence
Freyda Spira, Art History
The Making of a Court in Wittenberg
Kristina Baumli, English
And the Word Was Made Flesh: Woodrow Wilson’s Frontier Thesis
5:25-6:45p
Session 11
Alternate Writing Surfaces (Moose Room)
Faculty Discussant: Michael Solomon, Romance Languages
Student Moderator: Madera Gabriela Allen, Romance Languages
Seran Schug, Anthropology
Dancing the Self: Reading and Writing Bodies in Authentic Movements
Pamela L. Geller, Anthropology
Corporeality, Textuality, and the Maya
Josiah Davis, Classics
Textile and Codex in the Iliad
Session 12
Sharing the Pages: Text, Image, and Authorship (Seminar Room)
Roundtable Discussion
Dinner reception and informal discussion to follow conclusion of conference