Friday-Saturday, March 1-2
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Graduate Humanities Forum
Second Annual Symposium

5:00 - 6:00 Keynote Address
The Necessity - and Perils - of Interdisciplinarity
J. Paul Hunter, Franke Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago

6:00 - 8:00 Reception

Saturday, March 2

9:00 Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Eugene Narmour
Acting Director, Penn Humanities Forum

Stephanie Harzewski
Graduate Humanities Forum

9:10-10:30
Multimedia Memory
Kristina Morris Baumli Drowned in History: Benjamin, Allegory, and The Sound and the Fury
Brian Gregory "I'm So Anxious to See Renfro Valley":
Longing, Memory, and Desire in the Aural Landscape
of Early Commercial Country Music
Gul Kacmaz Architecture, Computer and Film: The Virtual House of Thomas
Michael Wiedorn Absence and Memory in Patrick Modiano's "Rue des Boutiques Obscures"

The Science of Time, the Time of Science
Nathan Jun Late Latin and Medieval Conceptualizations of Time
Sayumi Takahashi Of Bookworms and Wormholes: Writing Time and the Self in Post-Einsteinian Narrative
Kent Schmor Rudolph Can There Be Objective Truth?
Cynthia Port Accounting for Time: Virginia Woolf's
Economies of Aging

10:45-12:00
Spatial Struggles: Locating Self and Other
Jeremy Braddock Pound's Other "Profile": Anthology as Autobiography
Katherine Paugh Midwifery and Bodily Familiarity: The Dynamics of Contested Gendered Space
Dierdra Reber Novelistic Reality as an Alternative to Dictatorship: Diamela Eltit's Theoretically Based Lumpérica

Philadelphia and Its Spaces: Critical
Regionalism in the City of Neighborhoods
a discussion with Kwali Farbes, Rosina Miller, Steven Reynolds, and Cory Thorne

1:00-2:15
Generation to Generation: The Creation of
Cultural Continuity
Luther Adams "No Room For Possum or Crawfish":
African-American Migration and the Civil Rights Movement in Louisville, Kentucky 1930-1960
Yasmine Al- Saleh The North African Qur'an: Questions of Identity in the 21st Century
Isabel Taube Assembling the Cultural Past: The Role of Memory in William Merritt Chase's Studio Images

Controlling Political Memory
Gordana-Dana Grozdanic Handke and Others.
Literary Responses to the Wars in Former Yugoslavia
Yanna Yannakakis New Frameworks for Understanding
Space and Power in Colonial Mexico
Mark Sample "Known but to God"(and DNA): Disturbing
the Memory of the Tomb of the Unknown

2:30-3:50
Producing Urban Spaces
Robert P. Fairbanks, II Blighted Spaces and the Politics of Everyday Life: Imagining Ethnographic Possibilities
Liz Greenspan Seeing `Ground Zero': Access and
Memorialization at the World Trade Center Site
James Saporito Bourdieu and Lefebvre: Comparative
Views of the Dialectic of Social Time and Social Space

The Body as a Site of Memory
a roundtable with
Shannon Geary, Cynthia Port, Veronica Aplenc,
Alexine Fleck, Jonathan Hsy, Martha Schoolman,
Christopher Scott, Sue Sun Yom, Emily Zinn, Seran Schug, Lance Wahlert, Christopher Scott Lawinski.
Readings for this discussion are available at the Humanities Forum desk.

3:50-5:00
Notions of Time in Non-Western Cultural Discourse
Michael Hesson "Time for You and Time for Me":
Daylight Saving Time and Identity in Yucatán
Melissa Kerin "The Wheel of Time": Reflections
on a Tibetan Buddhist Thangka
John Nemec Manifesting Shiva: Vyavahara in
Somananda's "Shivadrishti" (The Vision of Shiva)

5:15-6:15
Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities
a conversation with
Dr. J. Paul Hunter, English
Dr. Ann Moyer, History
Dr. Joe Farrell, Classics (Dean of GSAS)
Dr. Eugene Narmour, Music

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