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The Seventeenth Annual GPH Symposium: ABSENCE AND MEMORY (Stanford, 5/16//2
9:00 Â -- Â Introductions
Gregory Freidin
Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
9:10 Â -- Â Opening Remarks
James Clifford
Professor, History of Consciousness
University of California at Santa Cruz
9:30 Â -- Â Session One: Â Myth & History
Peter Mann
Nostalgia for the Future: A Nietzschean Gloss on Virgil's Aeneid
Megan Rowe
O Caledonia!: Poetry, Identity, and the Land in Sir Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel and  Marmion
Stephanie Schmidt
Octavio Paz: Psychoanalysis, the Aztec Mother, and the Invention of the Other
11:15 Â -- Â Session Two: Â Translation & Interpretations
Ian E. Morgan
Loss and Memory in Poetic Translation
Ileana Drinovan
Learned Women: a Reading of Fontenelle's Entretiens as Farce
Al Duncan
Ô Malhereuse Iphigénie: Pagan Princess, Enlightenment Heroine in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride
 --  Lunch Break:  1:00  --Â
2:00 Â -- Â Session Three: Â Objects and Identity
Michael St. Clair
Remembering Objects: The Psychic Functions of Furbies and Their Cousins
Kate Clevenger
Choris: Â Understanding a California Icon
Anndretta Lyle
Bataille's General Economy and Contemporary Philanthropy
3:45 Â -- Â Session Four: Â Ethics and Self
Peter Woodford
Memory of the Self in Augustine
Melanie Reynard
Self-Experience and the Image
Raj Patel
The Lonely Crowd and Match Point: A Transformation into Other-Direction
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Refractions and Adaptations: Interdiscilinary Colloquium, 2009-10
GPH/DLCL Interdisciplinary colloquium in Humanities, AY 09-10
Dan Edelstein, "Inventing the Enlightenment"
Advance reading for October 9, 2009, Colloquium
Catherine Gallagher, When Did the Confederate States of Americ Free the Slaves
Catherine Gallagher, "When Did the Confederate States of Americ Free the Slaves." Representations, Spring 2007
Catherine Gallagher, The Rise of Fictionality
Catherine Gallagher, "The Rise of Novelistic Fictionality," Franco Moretti, ed., The Novel, 2 vols. (Princeton, 2006)
Mimesis & History. Interdisciplinary Colloquium in Humanities
Advance reading for the April 17 colloquium:
Aestheticism, Messianism, and the (Socio-) Biological Paradigm
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1. Osip Mandelstam, "The Nineteenth Century" (1922) The Complete Critical Prose, trans. Jane Harris. (Ardis: Ann Arbor, MI, 1997)
2. Walter Benjamin, "Notes on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Intro. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (Schoken Books: NY, 1968)___________________________________________________________
3. Bruce Mazlish, "Evolving Toward History," The Return of Science : Evolution, History, and Theory, eds. Philip Pomper and David Gary Shaw (Roman & Littlefield: Lanham, Md., 2002)
Advance reading for the February 27 colloquium with Yuri Slezkine:
A selection from his book, The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2004), pp. 127-44, 188-203 (the chapter "Babel's First Love: The Jews and the Russian Revolution")
I am also including here:
1. the short story by Isaac Babel that Slezkine's text refers to:
Isaac Babel, "First Love," trans. Peter Constantine (The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, ed. Nathalie Babel, trans. Peter Constantine, intro. Cynthia Ozick [W.W. Norton: NY, 2002]).2. the complete text of the chapter, "Babel's First Love: The Jews and the Russian Revolution"
Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2004), chapter "Babel's First Love" (pp. 105-203)
Isaac Babel, "First Love" (1925)
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, ed. Nathalie Babel, trans. Peter Constantine, intro. Cynthia Ozick. W.W. Norton: NY, 2002.
The Performative Icon (Bissera V. Pentcheva)
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The Performative Icon (Colloquium, 23 January 2009)
The Performative Icon (Colloquium, 23 January 2009)
James Sheehan, "Reflections on History"
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, "How [if at all] Can We Encounter What Remains Latent in Texts?"
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, "How [if at all] Can We Encounter What Remains Latent in Texts?" (Colloquium 10 October 2008)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, "How [if at all] Can We Encounter What Remains Latent in Texts?" (Colloquium 10 October 2008)
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Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam, “The Nineteenth Century” (1922) The Complete Critical Prose, trans. Jane Harris. (Ardis: Ann Arbor, MI, 1997)
GPH symposium Banquet 2009
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The Human Experience: Inside Humanities at Stanford University
To find out about Humanities at Stanford, visit the website The Human Experience
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