Saturday, April 21, 8:15 am - 5:00 pm
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Thinking With Style:
Graduate Humanities Forum Inaugural Symposium

8:45am
Registration and Coffee

9:15
Welcome: Eugene Narmour, Acting Director, Penn Humanities Forum (Music)

9:30
Opening Remarks: James Hargrove (History of Art)

9:45 Session 1: Style in Place
Moderator: Anne Pushkal (History)
Brian Gregory (Folklore) - "Interrogating Modernists' "Style": Fallingwater in the Vernacular Landscape"
Natasha Ruiz-Gomez (History of Art) - "The Orientalist Style of Jean Nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe"
Anna Sloan (History of Art) - "Style and Religious Identity: Semiotics and Slippage in Indo-Islamic Art"

Talking Points - Discussant: James Hargrove

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Session 2: Choosing Your Words Carefully
Moderator: Stephanie Harzewski (English)
Katie Paugh (History) - "On Placentas and Patriarchal Authority: Childbirth in "Tristram Shandy" and the Work of Dr. William Shippen, Jr."
Anya Plutynski (Philosophy) - "Models and Analogies in Evolutionary Theory"
Karl Parker (English) - "Intersections and Productive Interferences Between Visual Art and Writing"

Talking Points - Discussant: Mary Beth Wetli

12:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:30 pm Session 3: Defining Aesthetics
Moderator: Sam DiIorio (Romance Languages)
Walker Trimble (South Asia Regional Studies) - "Analogy in Hindu and Early Christian Aesthetics"
Allison Stedman (Romance Languages) - "From "La Guerre de Prefaces" to "La Querelle du Cid": Style and Ideology in Early Seventeenth-Century
Ana Matous (Philosophy) - "Kant's Analytic of the Beautiful, Sec. IX"

Talking Points - Discussant: Steve Hauss

2:50 Session 4: Spectacular Styles
Moderator: Lucy Shanno (Music)
Scott Mann (Philosophy) - "Spectacle: Pro and Con"
Juliet Bellow (History of Art) - "Modernist Avant Garde and the Ballet Russe"
Laura Spagnoli (Romance Languages) - "Poisonous Fashion: Representing Morphine in fin-de-siècle Paris"

Talking Points - Discussant: Jennifer Dobe

4:00 Coffee Break

4:15 Session 5: Whither the Humanities? The History and Current State of Interdisciplinary Research
Rebecca Bushnell, Professor of English, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, School of Arts and Sciences
Joseph Farrell, Jr., Professor of Classical Studies, Associate Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Sheldon Hackney, Professor of History, Former Director, National Endowment for the Humanities, and President Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Gary Hatfield, Seybert Professor of Philosophy
Renata Holod, Professor and Chair of History of Art
Eugene Narmour, Kahn Distinguished Professor of Music and Acting Director, Penn Humanities Forum

5:30 Aperitifs