Date/Time
Date(s) - 27 Sep 2013
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Location
CUNY Graduate Center
Category(ies) No Categories
Critical/Liberal/Arts 2
27 September 2013
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
365 Fifth Avenue
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
* * Register HERE * *
9:00 – 10:00 am: Registration/Coffee & Tea
10:00 – 10:15 am: Opening Remarks
- Myra Seaman (College of Charleston) + Steven Kruger (Queens College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
10:15 – 11:30 am:
*some suggested readings (not hyperlinked below) may be available by request [email: [email protected]]
- Henry Turner, Rutgers University: “Universitas: On Corporate Personhood as a Critical Liberal Art, with Special Reference to Hamlet and to You”
Suggested Readings: (1) Jacques Derrida, “Where a Teaching Body Begins, and How it Ends,” in Who’s Afraid of Philosophy? : Right to Philosophy 1 (Stanford, 2002); (2) Jacques Derrida, “Mochlos, or The Conflict of the Facutlies” and “The Principle of Reason: the University in the Eyes of its Pupils,” in Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (Stanford, 2004); (3) Frederic William Maitland, “Moral Personality and Legal Personality,” in The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, Vol. 3 (Cambridge, 1911).
- The Hollow Earth Society [Ethan Gould + Wythe Marschall]: “Beyond U: The Organism That Therefore the Academy Is”
Suggested Readings: (1) Paul Boshears, “Open-Access and Para-Academic Practice,” continent. [blog], Nov. 12, 2012; (2) Aaron Bady, “The MOOC Movement and the End of Reform,” The New Inquiry: ZunguZungu [blog], May 15, 2013.
11:30 am – 12:30 pm:
- Eleanor Johnson, Columbia University: “Toad Poetry: A Call for a New Critical Vernacular”
Suggested Readings: (1) Juliana Spahr, Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism (Spectacular Books, 1998); (2) Lisa Robertson, Debbie: An Epic (New Star Books, 1997); (3) Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette (Penguin Poets, 1996).
- Ammiel Alcalay, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “From the Cairo Genizah to Diane di Prima’s Garage: Lost & Found & the Pedagogy of Transmission”
Suggested Readings: (1) Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry (City Lights Books, 1976); (2) selections from Gordon Brotherston, Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature (Cambridge, 1995); (3) Diane di Prima, “Old Father, Old Artificer”: Charles Olson Memorial Lecture, ed. Ana Božičević & Ammiel Alcalay, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative 3.4 (Fall 2012); (4) Carl O. Sauer, “Foreword to Historical Geography,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 31.1 (March 1941): 1-24; (5) selections from Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source: Selected Speeches by Amilcar Cabral (Monthly Review Press, 1973).
12:30 – 2:15 pm: LUNCH
2:15 – 3:15 pm:
- Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia: “Making with Gower”
Suggested Readings: (1) Alan Bray, “Wedded Brother,” in Alan Bray, The Friend (Chicago, 2003), 13-41; (2) C.S. Lewis, “Friendship—The Least Necessary Love,” in Friendship: A Philosophical Reader, ed. Neera Kapur Badhwar (Cornell, 1993), 39-47.
- Allen W. Strouse, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Potential Pilgrims: A Study in the Age of Post-Chaucer”
Suggested Readings: (1) Eileen A. Joy, “Weird Reading,” Speculations IV (2013): 28-34; (2) “Wayne Koestenbaum, “Metamorphoses (Masked Ball),” in The Milk of Inquiry (New York: Persea, 1999), 75-114; (3) Chaucer, “The Cook’s Tale,” in The Canterbury Tales.
3:15 – 4:15 pm:
- Jamie “Skye” Bianco, New York University: “Q3C: Queer, Creative, Critical Compositionism (or, Tooling Affection from Allure)”
Suggested Readings: (1) Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things [Intro. + Chaps. 1-2] (Duke University Press, 2010); (2) Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern,” Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 225-248.
- Eirik Steinhoff, University of Chicago: “Making nothing happen, or, The figure of default: placebo, sabotage, poetry”
Suggested Readings: (1) A Third Fiery Flying Roule (2011) + A Tenth Fiery Flying Roule (2011); (2) Elliott Colla, “The Poetry of Revolt” (2011) + “The People Want” (2012); (3) Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers’ Industrial Efficiency (1917) + Thorstein Veblen, “On the Nature and Uses of Sabotage,” chapter 1 of The Engineers and the Price System (1921).
4:15 – 4:45 pm: Coffee/Tea Break
4:45 – 5:45 pm:
- Michael Witmore, The Folger Library: “Fuzzy Structuralism”
Suggested Readings: (1) Sarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, and Michael Witmore, “Quantitative Formalism: An Experiment,” Pamphlet 1: Stanford Literary Lab (Jan. 15, 2011)
- Marina Zurkow + Una Chaudhuri, New York University: “Unthinking Survivalism: Inner Climate Change”
Suggested Readings: (1) Wallace Shawn, Grasses of a Thousand Colors: A Play (Theatre Communications Group, 2009); (2) Tara Brach, “mindfulness/guided meditations” , (3) “The 3 Things You Will Always Need in an Urban Survival Situation,” Survival Cache: The Gear Site for Survivalists.
5:45 – 6:00 pm: Closing Remarks
6:00 – 7:00 pm: Wine Reception