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Friday, April 4,
4:30 pm
______________________________________ Bound, Unbound: Textuality
Within and Beyond the Book
3rd Annual Graduate Humanities
Forum Conference
Co-sponsored by GSAC, English, Anthropology, Art History, Comparative
Literature, East Asian Studies, Judaic Studies, Romance Languages, and
Women's Studies
KEYNOTE by Vincent
Pecora
Director, Humanities Consortium, UCLA
"An Idea Like a Butterfly":
Virginia Woolf's Voyage Out and the
Genealogy of Religion
The question of religion has had almost no role
in critical discussion of Virginia Woolf's novels, for good reasons. Woolf
seems to exhibit a genuine antipathy toward religion, and her writings
are for the most part focused on other issues, such as gender, art, and
the vicissitudes of consciousness. Yet strong currents of Clapham Sect
Evangelicalism have left their traces in her narratives, nowhere more
so than in her first novel, The Voyage Out. Though not the best
example of Woolf's genius, this novel can be seen as a kind of storehouse
from which so much of her mature writing borrowed, and in the composition
of which her own version of modernist technique emerged. In particular,
the novel reveals the intimate, if not always obvious, relations between
gender, bodies, social solidarity, and religion in Woolf's work.
Saturday, April 5,
8:30 am - 7:00 pm
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CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
3RD ANNUAL GRADUATE
HUMANITIES FORUM SYMPOSIUM
Welcome: coffee, tea, and pastries 8:30–9:00
am
TEXT, IMAGE, & ORALITY
IN CHINESE TRADITIONS
Seminar Room, 9:00–10:20 am
Faculty Discussant: Dennis Mair (AMES)
Student Moderator: Michael Laver (AMES)
· Xuanjuan:
A Transitional Genre Between Orality & Literacy
Peng Mu (Folklore)
· Textual
Mandate on the Periphery of the Chinese State
Eli Albert (AMES)
· Mimetic
Functions of Pictorial Eulogies in Three Eastern Han Tombs
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu (AMES)
MATERIALITY AND ETHE(O)REALITY
Moose Room, 9:00-10:20 am
Faculty Discussant: Roger Chartier (History)
Student Moderator: Dierdra Reber (Romance Languages-Spanish)
· Some
Thoughts on Book History
Erica Fruiterman (English)
· Villard’s
Sketchbook: The Transmission of Architectural Knowledge in the Middle
Ages
Acalya Kiyak (Architecture)
· The
Dairyman’s Daughter: The Material History of an Evangelical Text
Kyle Roberts (History)
Coffee Break 10:20-10:30 am
HISTORICITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF
TEXTS Moose Room, 10:30 am–12:00 pm
Faculty Discussant: Jennifer Snead (English)
Student Moderator: Jonathan Hsy (English)
· Stoic
Emendations and the Concept of the Text
Kevin Tracy (Classics)
· A
Rare Nusayri Manuscript in Van Pelt’s Rare Book Room: A Preliminary
Investigation
David Hollenberg & Tarek Kahlaou (AMES)
· Adultery,
Murder, & the Writing of the Penitential Psalms
Clare Costley (English)
MAPPING AMERICA: LANDSCAPE,
IMAGE, & KNOWLEDGE
Seminar Room, 10-30 am-12 pm
Faculty Discussant: Nancy Bentley (English)
Student Moderator: Kristina Morris Baumli (English)
· “The
Road to Akron”: Reading the Post-Industrial Landscape
Brian Gregory (Folklore)
· From
Eye to We: The Problem of Envisioning the Thirties Documentary Book
Jeff Allred (English)
·
“Words that set, then miss, the mark”: Narrative Unknowing
in Toni Morrison’s Jazz
Nicole Furlonge (English)
Lunch Break 12:00-1:00 pm
CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: TRANSLATING THE OTHER
Seminar Room, 1:00-2:20 pm
Faculty Discussant: Barbara Fuchs (Romance Languages)
Student Moderator: Eli Albert (AMES)
· From
Knight to Critical Reader, via the Other: The Literary Makeover of Empire
in Don Juan Manuel's El conde Lucanor
Dierdra Reber (Romance Languages)
· The
Early English-Chinese Dictionaries & the Sino-Western Cultural Communications
in the 19th Century
Jia Si (AMES)
· Printing
Pure Knowledge: Missionaries & Books in 18th Century India
Michael Linderman (SARS)
UNDRESSING THE TEXT
Moose Room, 1:00–2:20 pm
Faculty Discussant: Vincent Pecora (Director, Humanities Consortium, UCLA)
Student Moderator: Ellen Welch (Comparative Lit)
· The
Novelist as Theoretician: Responding to David Harvey’s Reading of
Raymond William’s “Loyalties”
Michael Wiedorn (Comparative Literature)
· The
Hermeneutics of Self: Textuality and the Social Sciences
Adam Graves (Religious Studies)
· Masters
and Subjects or Mastering the Subjects: Reading and “Oxen of the
Sun”
Nancy Srebro (English)
SEX AND THE TEXT
Seminar Room, 2:25-3:45 pm
Faculty Discussant: Wendy Steiner (English)
Student Moderator: Anika Kiehne (German)
· "Chick
Lit" and Concurrent Media Phenomenon
Stephanie Harzewski (English)
· Pablo
Takes a Bite of the Apple: Reading Picasso’s Early Still Lifes
Natasha Ruiz-Gomez (Art History)
· Bronzino’s
"Cosimo I as Orpheus": Metamorphosis of a Ruler
Liliana Milkova (Art History)
INTERTEXTUAL REFLECTIONS
Moose Room, 2:25-3:45 pm
Faculty Discussant: Peter Stallybrass (English)
Student Moderator: Jared Richman (English)
· Intertextuality
and the Genre: Reading Marginalia in Shakespeare’s First Folio
Jonathan Hsy (English)
· Ninjobon
as Representations of Performance
Kristin Williams (AMES)
· The
Mirror: Intertextuality and Method
Timothy Carmody (Comparative Literature)
Coffee Break 3:45-4:00 pm
PERFORMING THE (EXTRA)ORDINARY
Moose Room, 4:00-5:20 pm
Faculty Discussant: Emma Dillon (Music)
Student Moderator: Pamela Geller (Anthropology)
· “It’s
a Healthy Kind of Thing”: (Con)Textualizing Barbershop Performance
Richard Mook (Music)
· Transcribing
the Transcendent: Writing and Virtuousity in Tartini’s “Devil’s
Trill” Sonata
Tim Ribchester (Music)
· Noveau
Réalisme: Performance and the Textual Prop
Meredith Malone (Art History)
READING THE NATION
Seminar Room, 4:00-5:20 pm
Faculty Discussant: Carol Muller (Music)
Student Moderator: Eli Albert (AMES)
· The
Politicization of Popular Publications During the American War for Independence
Patrick Spero (History)
· The
Making of a Court in Wittenberg
Freyda Spira (Art History)
· And
the Word Was Made Flesh: Woodrow Wilson’s Frontier Thesis
Kristina Baumli (English)
ALTERNATIVE WRITING SURFACES
Moose Room, 5:25-6:45 pm
Faculty Discussant: Michael Solomon (Romance Languages)
Student Moderator: Madera Gabriela Allen (Romance Languages)
· Dancing
the Self: Reading and Writing Bodies in Authentic Movements
Seran Schug (Anthropology)
· Corporeality,
Textuality, and the Maya
Pamela L. Geller (Anthropology)
· Textile
and Codex in the Iliad
Josiah Davis (Classics)
SHARING THE PAGE: TEXT, IMAGE, & AUTHORSHIP
Seminar Room, 5:25-6:45 pm
Roundtable Discussion
Dinner reception and informal
discussion to follow conclusion of conference…
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