This year's Symposium, "Representing the Unspeakable," was moderated by Martin Jay, Sydney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at U.C., Berkeley, the author of, among others:

• The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research (1973, 1996)
• Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas (1984)
• Adorno (1984)
• Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (1993)
• Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (2004)

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10:00 Coffee

Introduction: Gregory Freidin, Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Opening Remarks: Martin Jay

Each paper to be followed by 10 minutes of discussion

10:30 -12:00 noon -- MEMORY

1. ZACHARY ASHBY (IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES)
Perpetrators and Victims: Estremida memoria and Spain's Violent Forgetting

2. HEATHER OTTO (HISTORY)

Maintaining Humanity on the Autre Planete: The Essential Place of Sex and Gender in Studies of the Holocaust

3. KELLY SUMMERS (HISTORY)

Jacques-Louis David's Greek Turn: Reconciling Art and Politics in Post-Terror France

1:30 - 2:30 -- GENDER

1. ALEX CHUNG-CHIEN CHEN (HUMANITIES, MA)

The Game of Love Turned Real: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘The Romaunt of the Page’ and the Trobairitz

2. JENNA REBACK (HUMANITIES MA)

Divided Selves: Lorca’s Play El Publico

2:45 - 3:45 -- AESTHETICS

1. S. GENE LEE (GERMAN STUDIES)

The Aesthetic of Play-Drive, Schiller's Undenkbarer Begriff (unthinkable concept)

2. MATTHEW MOORE (DRAMA)

Challenging Forms: Presence and the Act of Art Happening

3:45 -- Closing Remarks: Martin Jay
 
5:30 Symposium Banquet (St. Michael's Alley, Palo ALto)

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