Collecting the Unconscious
Reflections on Sleep and Dreams

Fifth Annual Conference of the Graduate Humanities Forum

Thursday • March 3, 2005 • 8:30am – 8:00pm
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk

Penn Recorder Ensemble
"Draw on, Sweet Night" performing music by Wilbye, Dowland, Gabrieli, Johnson, and others
5:00 pm • Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt Library


Keynote Address
5:30p • Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt Library
Dreams from/ Dreams of the
Nineteenth Century
Christine Stansell
Professor of History, Princeton University
Response:
Prof. Stephanie McCurry, History, Penn

7:00 pm • Reception concludes program
with music by John Andrew Bailey, harpsicord

Conference Panels • 8:30a–4:45p
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  • American Dreams: Three Approaches to Early American Literature (9-10:30a)
  • Dreams: Pleasure and Distress (9-10:30a)
  • Poster Session and Guided Poster Tours (10:45a-1:30p)
  • Dreams: Materiality and Imagination (10:45a-12:15p)
  • Dream Visions: Representations of Dream Consciousness across Disciplines (1:30-3p)
  • Reflections on the Surreal and the Real (1:30-3:00p)
  • Making Dreams Matter: Divination, Behavioral Science, and Ethnography
    (3:15-4:45p)
  • Dreaming and Reality: The 'Nature' of Dreams (3:15-4:45p)

Universities represented: Clark, Delaware, Drexel, George Washington, Lehigh, New School for Social Research, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Temple, Virginia Commonwealth, and Yale

 
 


 

About our keynote
Christine Stansell is professor of history at Princeton University, where she teaches American women's history as well as courses in the Program in the Study of Women and Gender. A leading historian of American women, she has long written about women's history, feminism, sexuality, and cities. Her books are City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1986), the anthology Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (1984), and American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (2000). Her review essays about American history and literature appear regularly in The New Republic.

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