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)

Photo by Megan Cignoli

This symposium honors the work and career of Henry Abelove, Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English, Emeritus, Wesleyan University, and Visiting Professor of English (Spring 2012), New York University. Join an international group of scholars discussing queer studies, eighteenth century studies, contemporary poetry, and radical pedagogy. The event is free and open to the public.

Schedule of Events (Full Schedule to Come)

5-8 PM Thursday February 16th, 2012, Fales Library and Special Collections, 70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor

• Roundtable on Radical Pedagogy
• Reception

10 AM – 6 PM Friday February 17th, The Humanities Initiative, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

Panels on:

• Eighteenth Century Studies
• Queer Studies
• Contemporary Poetry and Literature

Participants include: Douglas Crimp (keynote), Henry Abelove, Janet Jakobsen, Michael Trask, Claire Potter, Steven Maynard, Tavia Nyong’o, Michael Roth, Todd Shepard, Rebecca Connor, Marc Stein, Jasper Cragwall, Daniel Rosenberg, Allan Isaac, Philip Brian Harper, Dorothy Wang, Lisa Duggan, Michael Lucey and Neville Hoad.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Performance Studies, English, and Social & Cultural Analysis; the Programs in American Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies; the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Fales Library and the Humanities Initiative at NYU.