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Suspending (Dis)Belief
Fourth Annual Graduate
Humanities Forum Conference
March
26–27, 2004
______________________________________ Friday, March 26, 2004 5:00 pm
KEYNOTE by Peter
Stallybrass
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities
and Professor of English and Co-Director of the Penn Humanities Forum
"Materiality and Belief"
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Saturday, March 27 9:30
am
Welcome: coffee, tea, and pastries
9:30–10:00 am
Mediated Experience:
Tradition, Epistemology, and Memory
Moose Room, 10:00–11:45 am
Faculty Discussant: Sara
Nadal-Melsió, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages--Hispanic
Studies
Student Moderator: Jason
Rheins, Philosophy
· Erica
Miller, Romance Languages--Hispanic Studies
When
All Signs Have Been Erased: Memory and Belief in Sergio Chejfec’s
Los planetas
· Alexine Fleck, English
Sprees
of Abandon: Addiction and Belief in Drug Memoirs
· Phill Penix-Tadsen, Romance
Languages--Hispanic Studies
The
Emergent Paradigm of Textual Circuitry: Epistemological Reprocessing
in Digital Society
Magic, Myth, and
Mysticism
Seminar Room, 10:00-11:45 am
Faculty Discussant: Igor
Kopytoff, Professor of Anthropology
Student Moderator: Matthew
Rutz, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies--Near Eastern Languages
and Cultures
· Giovanna Faleschini Lerner,
Romance Languages--Italian
The
Magic of Painting in Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli
· Ömür Harmansah, History of
Art
The
Shepherd, the Cattle-Pen, and the Cedar Forest: Ideals of Divine Kingship,
Mythical City, and Fecund Landscapes in Early Mesopotamian Literature
· J Melvin, Religious
Studies
Belief,
Experience, and Religious History’s “Mystical Turn”:
Classifying the Writings of St. John of Avila
Lunch 12:00-1:00 pm
Heterogeneous
Beliefs: Accommodations and Limitations
Moose Room, 1:00-2:45 PM
Faculty Discussant: Carol
Muller, Associate Professor of Music and "Belief"
Topic Director (2003-2004) for the Penn Humanities Forum
Student Moderator: Holly Maluk
Plastaras, Anthropology (Emory University)
· Julia Rabig, History
“Black
Buffers”--Evangelical Entrepreneurship Meets Black Power on
the Streets of Washington, D.C.
· Jen Schaaf, History
Catholic
Womanhood as “True Womanhood”: The Dilemma of Moral Suasion
at the Center of Peter McCorry’s Mount Benedict
· Melina Bell, Philosophy
Perpetuating
Patriarchy: The Public Promotion of Traditional Marriage
Symbolic Dimensions of the
Material
Seminar Room, 1:00-2:45 pm
Faculty Discussant: Leonard
Primiano, Associate Professor of Religious Studies (Cabrini
College) and adjunct faculty in Folklore and Folklife
Student Moderator: Ellen
Welch, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
· Tarek Kahlaoui, History of Art
Using
the Infidels’ Golden Money as a Primary Currency: The Capitalization
of the Monetary System in Ottoman Tunisia (16th and 17th Centuries)
· Kathryn O’Rourke,
History of Art
Modern
Beliefs: Cathedrals, Catholics, and Capitalists in Late 20th-Century
Nicaragua
· Elias Muhanna,
Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
How
the Qaf Got Its Spots: Aesthetics of Ambiguity in Medieval Arabic
Inscriptions
Literary Conversions
Moose Room, 3:00-4:45 pm
Faculty Discussant: Liliane
Weissberg, Joseph P. Glossberg Term Professor of the Humanities
in Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
Student Moderator: Madera
Allan, Romance Languages--Hispanic Studies
· Catherine Nicholson, English,
and Briallen Hopper, English (Princeton University)
Religious
Belief and the Practice of Literary Criticism
· Namrata Poddar, Romance Languages--French
The
Oriental Discourse in Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps
Perdu
· Ellen Welch, Comparative Literature and
Literary Theory
A
Romance of Conversion: Lafayette’s Zayde and the Transformation
of Genre
Duplicities of Ideology and
Practice
Seminar Room, 3:00–4:45 pm
Faculty Discussant: Stefano
Cracolici, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages--Italian
Student Moderator: Mara
Taylor, Germanic Languages and Literatures
· Kristina Baumli, English
Belief,
Whiteness, and Double Consciousness in Faulkner’s The Sound
and the Fury
· Rika Saito, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Modern
Myth of Language Use: Making Women in Japanese Society
· Liliana Milkova, History of Art
Red
Horizons: Soviet Ideology and the Sots Art of Erik Bulatov
Reception and informal
discussion to follow conclusion of conference…
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Panel Topics
Mediated Experience: Tradition, Epistemology, and
Memory
Magic, Myth, and Mysticism
Heterogeneous
Beliefs: Accommodations and Limitations
Symbolic Dimensions
of the Material
Literary Conversions
Duplicities of
Ideology and Practice
Abstracts
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