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Date/Time
Date(s) - 16 Sep 2011
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Location
The Graduate Center - CUNY

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To register, please send an email with your name and affiliation to: [email protected]. Registration fee is a $25.00 donation to the BABEL Working Group, to be collected on site or paid online. For CUNY students and faculty, there is no chargeprogram schedule
9:00 – 10:00 am

    • Reception: Coffee & Tea

10:00 – 10:15 am

    • Opening Remarks: Eileen Joy [Southern Illinois University Edwardsville +BABEL Working Group]

10:15 – 11:15 am

    • Anna Klosowska [Miami University of Ohio], “Aristotelean Aesthetics, East and West.” Specimen Texts: Aristotle [Poetics]; Averroes [Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics]; Hermannus Germanicus [Averrois Expositio Poeticae]; picture of Averroes.
    • Allan Mitchell [University of Victoria], “Cosmic Eggs, or, Events Before Everything.” Specimen Texts: Albertus Magnus [from On Animals];Bernardus Silvestris [from Megacosmos]; Macrobius [from The Saturnalia].
11:15 am – 12:15 pm

    • Kellie Robertson [University of Wisconsin-Madison], “Abusing Aristotle, from Phyllis to Graham Harman.” Specimen Texts: Alisdair MacIntyre [“A Disquieting Suggestion,” from After Virtue]; Alisdair MacIntyre [“How Aristotelianism Can Become Revolutionary”]; Graham Harman [“On the Undermining of Objects”].
    • RESPONSE: Drew Daniel [Johns Hopkins University + Matmos]
12:15 – 2:15 pm

    • LUNCH
2:15 – 3:15 pm

    • Julian Yates [University of Delaware], “Kitchen Shakespeare.” Specimen Texts: Bruno Latour [“An Attempt at a Compositionist Manifesto”];Shakespeare [Act 5 of Titus Andronicus]; Bruno Latour [“From the Concept of Network to the Concept of Attachment”].
    • RESPONSE: Liza Blake [New York University]
3:15 – 4:15 pm

    • Jeffrey Cohen [George Washington University + In The Middle], “Sublunary.”Specimen Texts: Sir Orfeo; Graham Harman [“On Vicarious Causation”].
    • RESPONSE: Ben Woodard [Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario + Naught Thought]
4:15 – 4:45 pm

    • Coffee/Tea Break

4:45 – 5:45 pm

    • Graham Harman [American University in Cairo + Object-Oriented Philosophy], “Aristotle With a Twist.” Specimen Text: Graham Harman [“Time, Space, Essence, and Eidos: A New Theory of Causation”].
    • RESPONSE: Patricia Clough [Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY]

5:45 – 6:00 pm

Closing Remarks: Nicola Masciandaro [Brooklyn College, CUNY]

6:00 – 7:00 pm

  • Wine Reception