Friday, March 1
5:00-6:00p
Keynote Address
J. Paul Hunter, The Necessity - and Perils - of Interdisciplinarity
Franke Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
6:00-8:00p | Reception
Saturday, March 2
9:00a | Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Eugene Narmour
Acting Director, Penn Humanities Forum
Stephanie Harzewski
Graduate Humanities Forum
9:10a-10:30a
Session 1
Multimedia Memory
Kristina Morris Baumli
Drowned in History: Benjamin, Allegory, and The Sound and the Fury
Brian Gregory
"I'm So Anxious to See Renfro Valley": Longing, Memory, and Desire in the Aural Landscape of Early Commercial Country Music
Gul Kacmaz
Architecture, Computer and Film: The Virtual House of Thomas
Michael Wiedorn
Absence and Memory in Patrick Modiano's "Rue des Boutiques Obscures"
Session 2
The Science of Time, the Time of Science
Nathan Jun
Late Latin and Medieval Conceptualizations of Time
Sayumi Takahashi
Of Bookworms and Wormholes: Writing Time and the Self in Post-Einsteinian Narrative
Kent Schmor Rudolph
Can There Be Objective Truth?
Cynthia Port
Accounting for Time: Virginia Woolf's Economies of Aging
10:45a-12:00p
Session 3
Spatial Struggles: Locating Self and Other
Jeremy Braddock
Pound's Other "Profile": Anthology as Autobiography
Katherine Paugh
Midwifery and Bodily Familiarity: The Dynamics of Contested Gendered Space
Dierdra Reber
Novelistic Reality as an Alternative to Dictatorship: Diamela Eltit's Theoretically Based Lumpérica
Session 4
Philadelphia and Its Spaces: Critical Regionalism in the City of Neighborhoods
a discussion with Kwali Farbes, Rosina Miller, Steven Reynolds, and Cory Thorne
1:00p-2:15p
Session 5
Generation to Generation: The Creation of Cultural Continuity
Luther Adams
"No Room For Possum or Crawfish": African-American Migration and the Civil Rights Movement in Louisville, Kentucky 1930-1960
Yasmine Al- Saleh
The North African Qur'an: Questions of Identity in the 21st Century
Isabel Taube
Assembling the Cultural Past: The Role of Memory in William Merritt Chase's Studio Images
Session 6
Controlling Political Memory
Gordana-Dana Grozdanic
Handke and Others: Literary Responses to the Wars in Former Yugoslavia
Yanna Yannakakis
New Frameworks for Understanding Space and Power in Colonial Mexico
Mark Sample
"Known but to God"(and DNA): Disturbing the Memory of the Tomb of the Unknown
2:30-3:50p
Session 7
Producing Urban Spaces
Robert P. Fairbanks, II
Blighted Spaces and the Politics of Everyday Life: Imagining Ethnographic Possibilities
Liz Greenspan
Seeing `Ground Zero': Access and Memorialization at the World Trade Center Site
James Saporito
Bourdieu and Lefebvre: Comparative Views of the Dialectic of Social Time and Social Space
Session 8
The Body as a Site of Memory
a roundtable with
Shannon Geary, Cynthia Port, Veronica Aplenc, Alexine Fleck, Jonathan Hsy, Martha Schoolman, Christopher Scott, Sue Sun Yom, Emily Zinn, Seran Schug, Lance Wahlert, Christopher Scott Lawinski.
Readings for this discussion are available at the Humanities Forum desk.
3:50-5:00p
Session 9
Notions of Time in Non-Western Cultural Discourse
Michael Hesson
"Time for You and Time for Me": Daylight Saving Time and Identity in Yucatán
Melissa Kerin
"The Wheel of Time": Reflections on a Tibetan Buddhist Thangka
John Nemec
Manifesting Shiva: Vyavahara in Somananda's "Shivadrishti" (The Vision of Shiva)
5:15-6:15p
Session 10
Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities
a conversation with
Dr. J. Paul Hunter, English
Dr. Ann Moyer, History
Dr. Joe Farrell, Classics (Dean of GSAS)
Dr. Eugene Narmour, Music
