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4/2, 12:30 p.m.
CONVERSATIONS IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Yanni Loukissas (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University), "Drawing Data Work," cosponsored by Cornell University Library’s Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services, Olin and Uris Libraries, Central New York Humanities Corridor, Department of Architecture, and National Endowment for the Humanities Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
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4/8, 4:30 p.m.
CNY humanities corridor digital humanities lecture series
Neil Fraistat (Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland), “The Promise(s) of Digital Humanities,” Guerlac Room, cosponsored by Central New York Humanities Corridor Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
4/12 - 4/13
law & literature conference
“New Directions in Law and Literature,” co-sponsored by Cornell Law School and Department of English, with support from Africana Studies & Research Center, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Department of Romance Studies, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Law and Society Program, Population and Development Program, and Sage School of Philosophy
4/12, 1:30 p.m. Welcome: Elizabeth Anker & Bernadette Meyler (Cornell) 2:00 p.m. Early Modern Conversations: Bradin Cormack (Chicago), Henry Turner (Rutgers), Elliot Visconsi (Notre Dame), with Moderator Benjamin Woodring (Harvard) 4:00 p.m. Persons and Lives: Eric Cheyfitz (Cornell), Paul Saint-Amour (Penn), Priscilla Wald (Duke), with Moderator Annelise Riles (Cornell) 4/13, 9:00 a.m. The Languages of Law and Literature: Eric Slauter (Chicago), Simon Stern (Toronto), Martin Stone (Cardozo), with Moderator Rayna Kalas (Cornell) 11:00 a.m. Gender and Performance: Janet Halley (Harvard), Julie Stone Peters (Columbia), Hilary Schor (USC), with Moderator Chantal Thomas (Cornell) 2:00 p.m. The Rights of Whom?: Wai Chee Dimock (Yale), Imani Perry (Princeton), Joseph Slaughter (Columbia), with Moderator Tracy McNulty (Cornell) 4:00 p.m. Madness, Affect, and Trauma: Peter Goodrich (Cardozo), Ravit Reichman (Brown), Jeannie Suk (Harvard), with Moderator Camille Robcis (Cornell) 5:30 p.m. Closing Conversation
4/12, 1:30 p.m. Welcome: Elizabeth Anker & Bernadette Meyler (Cornell)
2:00 p.m. Early Modern Conversations: Bradin Cormack (Chicago), Henry Turner (Rutgers), Elliot Visconsi (Notre Dame), with Moderator Benjamin Woodring (Harvard)
4:00 p.m. Persons and Lives: Eric Cheyfitz (Cornell), Paul Saint-Amour (Penn), Priscilla Wald (Duke), with Moderator Annelise Riles (Cornell)
4/13, 9:00 a.m. The Languages of Law and Literature: Eric Slauter (Chicago), Simon Stern (Toronto), Martin Stone (Cardozo), with Moderator Rayna Kalas (Cornell)
11:00 a.m. Gender and Performance: Janet Halley (Harvard), Julie Stone Peters (Columbia), Hilary Schor (USC), with Moderator Chantal Thomas (Cornell)
2:00 p.m. The Rights of Whom?: Wai Chee Dimock (Yale), Imani Perry (Princeton), Joseph Slaughter (Columbia), with Moderator Tracy McNulty (Cornell)
4:00 p.m. Madness, Affect, and Trauma: Peter Goodrich (Cardozo), Ravit Reichman (Brown), Jeannie Suk (Harvard), with Moderator Camille Robcis (Cornell)
5:30 p.m. Closing Conversation
Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
4/17, 4:30 p.m.
panel discussion
“Conversation on the Future of Academic Publishing in the Humanities,” a discussion on the ideas presented in Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy with Timothy Murray (Director, Society for the Humanities; Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art; English and Comparative Literature, Cornell), Peter J. Potter (Editor in Chief, Cornell University Press), Oya Rieger (Associate Uniersity Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Preservaiton Studies, Cornell University Library), and Moderator Kizer Walker (Cornell University Library), cosponsored by Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
4/19, 9:00 a.m.
society for the humanities fellows workshop
“Beyond Risk: Temporality, Aesthetics, Politics,” with 4:30 p.m. plenary Lecture by Ricardo Dominguez (Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego), “Constestational Design: The Aesthetics of Risk and the Risk of Aesthetics,” full schedule here Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
4/21, 10:00 a.m. LutosLawski at 100: a mini-conference
"Lutoslawski and Instrumental Drama—Calamity in Postwar Music," organized by Steven Stucky with speakers Daniel Strong Godfrey (Syracuse University), José Oliveira Martins (Eastman School of Music), and Michael Klein (Temple University), cosponsored by the Society for the Humanities and the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation B20 Lincoln Hall
4/23, 4:30 p.m. Visiting lecturer
Zhang Jishun (Professor of History and Chancellor Emeritus, East China Normal University; Senior Research Fellow, Yenching Institution, Harvard University), “Crossing the 1949 Divide: From St. Johns to NYU-Shanghai,” Guerlac Room, A.D. White House; cosponsored by East Asia Program Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
4/26 - 4/27 german studies conference
“Tragic Legacies: Antigone and Oedipus in Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis,” organized by Anette Schwarz (German Studies, Cornell), with speakers Rachel Bowlby (keynote address, Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at the University College London), Ulrike Vedder (German Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin), Olga Taxidou (Drama, Edinburgh University), Cynthia Chase (English, Cornell University), Miriam Leonard (Greek Literature, University College London), Joshua Billings (Humanities and Classics, Yale University), Elisabeth Strowick (German Studies, Johns Hopkins University), Silke-Maria Weineck (German Studies, Comp.Lit., University of Michigan), Erik Porath (Media Studies, Berlin), Andrea Krauss (German Studies, Johns Hopkins University), Kathrin Rosenfield (Drama and Philosophy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
4/30, 4:30 p.m. Visiting lecturer
Lawrence Buell (Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, emeritus, Harvard), “Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory,”cosponsored by Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Cornell Roundtable on Environmental Studies Topics (CREST) Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
