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Conference on Stanley Cavell & Literary Studies

mardi 12 octobre 2010

La conférence aura lieu le 14-16Octobre 2010 à Harvard.

En voici le programme :

8:45-9:10. Richard Eldridge (Philosophy, Swarthmore College) and Bernard Rhie (English, Williams College), “Introduction : Cavell, Literary Studies, and the Human Subject”
9:10-9:35. Anthony Cascardi (Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, Spanish, U.C. Berkeley), “Cavell, Kant, and the Work of Literary Criticism”
9:35-10:00. Charles Altieri (English, U.C. Berkeley), “A Morality for Misanthropes : How Cavell’s Language for Morality Sets Off Wittgenstein’s Silence”
- 10:00-10:45. Response and Discussion : Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University)

11:05-11:30. Naomi Scheman (Philosophy and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota), “A Storied World : On Meeting and Being Met”
11:30-11:55. Toril Moi (Literature, English, and Theater Studies, Duke University), “Beauvoir and Cavell on the Other”
- 11:55-12:40. Response and Discussion : Michael Fischer (English, Trinity University)

12:40-2:00. Lunch (no scheduled conference lunch ; individuals should make their own plans)

2:00-2:25. Sarah Beckwith (English and Theater Studies, Duke University), “Shakepeare’s Private Linguists”
2:25-2:50. Lawrence Rhu (English, University of South Carolina), “On Cavell on Shakespeare : Losing Mamillius, Finding Perdita”
- 2:50-3:35. Response and Discussion : William Flesch (English, Brandeis University)

4:00-4:25. Andrew Miller (English, Indiana University), “On Not Being Someone Else”
4:25-4:50. Joshua Wilner (English and Comparative Literature, City College and The Graduate Center – CUNY), “’Communicating with Objects’ : Romanticism, Skepticism and the Specter of Animism”
- 4:50-6:00. Response and Discussion : Laura Quinney (English, Brandeis University)

7:00. Conference dinner at The Inn at Harvard (by invitation, for conference participants)

9:00-9:25am. Paul Grimstad (English, Yale University), “Emerson Discomposed”
9:25-9:50. Elisa New (English, Harvard University), “Neighboring, Near and Next-to in Cavell, Thoreau and William Carlos Williams”
- 9:50-10:35. Response and Discussion : William Day (Philosophy, Le Moyne College)

11:00-11:25. R.M. Berry (English, Florida State University), “Cultural Politics and the Universality of Aesthetic Judgment, or What’s so Scary about Conventions ?”
11:25-11:50. Garrett Stewart (English, University of Iowa), “The Word Viewed : Literary Skepticism Degree Zero”
- 11:50-12:35. Response and Discussion : D.N. Rodowick (Visual and Environmental Studies, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University)

12:35-2:00. Lunch (no scheduled conference lunch ; individuals should make their own plans)

2:00-2:25. John Gibson (Philosophy, University of Louisville) and Simona Bertacco (English, University of Milan and University of Louisville), “Skepticism and the Idea of Radical Otherness : Reflections on Postcolonial Subjects and Cavellian Humans”
2:25-2:50. Robert Chodat (English, Boston University), “Empiricism, Exhaustion, and Meaning What We Say : Cavell and Contemporary Fiction”
- 2:50-3:35. Response and Discussion : Jay Cantor (English, Tufts University)

4:00-6:00. Concluding roundtable discussion — intended to offer an opportunity for all who have attended the conference to reflect on its content and implications — to be kicked off by remarks from :
- Rita Felski (English, University of Virginia ; editor of the journal New Literary History)
- Garry Hagberg (Philosophy, Bard College and University of East Anglia ; coeditor of the journal Philosophy and Literature)
- Walter Jost (English, University of Virginia ; coeditor of Ordinary Language Criticism and author of Rhetorical Investigations : Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism)
- William Rothman (Motion Pictures and Film Studies, University of Miami ; coeditor of Cambridge University Press’ “Studies in Film” series)