Graduate Program in Humanities Symposium
Welcome to the Eighteenth Annual GPH Symposium
REPRESENTING THE UNSPEAKABLE
May 15, 2009, Stanford Faculty Club Library
Description, Program, Abstracts
9:00 -- Introductions
Gregory Freidin
Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
9:10 -- Opening Remarks
James Clifford
Professor, History of Consciousness
University of California at Santa Cruz
9:30 -- Session One: 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 -- Session Two: 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 --
2:00 -- Session Three: Objects and Identity
Michael St. Clair
Remembering Objects: The Psychic Functions of Furbies and Their Cousins
Kate Clevenger
Choris: Understanding a California Icon
Anndretta Lyle
Bataille's General Economy and Contemporary Philanthropy
3:45 -- Session Four: 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
REPRESENTING THE UNSPEAKABLE
May 15, 2009, Stanford Faculty Club Library
Description, Program, Abstracts
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The Seventeenth Annual GPH Symposium
ABSENCE AND MEMORY
Invited Speaker: James Clifford, Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Stanford University
May 16, 2008
9:00 -- Introductions
Gregory Freidin
Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
9:10 -- Opening Remarks
James Clifford
Professor, History of Consciousness
University of California at Santa Cruz
9:30 -- Session One: 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 -- Session Two: 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 --
2:00 -- Session Three: Objects and Identity
Michael St. Clair
Remembering Objects: The Psychic Functions of Furbies and Their Cousins
Kate Clevenger
Choris: Understanding a California Icon
Anndretta Lyle
Bataille's General Economy and Contemporary Philanthropy
3:45 -- Session Four: 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