Photo by Megan Cignoli
Thursday February 16th
Fales Library and Special Collections, 70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor
5:00-5:15 PM Welcome
5:15-6:45 Panel 1: Pedagogy
Chair: Claire Potter (The New School)
Panelists:
- Steven Maynard (Queen’s University)
- Tavia Nyong’o (New York University)
- Michael Roth (Wesleyan University)
- Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University)
7:00-8:00 Reception
Friday February 17th
The Humanities Initiative, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
10:00 AM – 11:30 Panel 2: Eighteenth Century
Chair: Marc Stein (York University)
Panelists:
- Rebecca Connor (Hunter College) “How to be Creative in a Hyper-Analytic World: What Henry Taught Me About Academe”
- Jasper Cragwall (Loyola University) “Methodist Gossip”
- Daniel Rosenberg (University of Oregon) “Toward a Quantitative History of Data”
11:30-1:00 PM lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Panel 3: Poetry and Literature
Chair: Allan Isaac (Rutgers University)
Panelists:
- Phillip Brian Harper (New York University) “On the Realness of Poetry”
- Michael Trask (University of Kentucky) “Elizabeth Bishop in the Valley of the Dolls.”
- Dorothy Wang (Williams College) “Poetry and Society”
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45-4:15 Panel 4: Queer Studies
Chair: Lisa Duggan (New York University)
Panelists:
- Janet Jakobsen (Barnard College) “Evangelist of Deep Gossip”
- Michael Lucey (University of California, Berkeley) “Misfit Gossip”
- Neville Hoad (University of Texas, Austin) “Abelove, Freud, Male Homosexuality, Africans and Americans”
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30 – 5:30 Keynote: Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester) “Art News Parties”
5:30 – 6:00 Closing Remarks from Henry Abelove (Wesleyan University, visiting New York University)
