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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

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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