18 February 2011 | 9:00am–4:45pm
Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

Virtual Histories
11th Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference

Conference Schedule
9:00–9:20a | Coffee and Remarks
9:20–10:50a | Session I Medium and Contact Moderator: Joseph Lavery, Comparative Literature, Penn
	Jesse Hoffman, English, Rutgers "Virtual Photohistory: Tennyson's In Memoriam"
	Chris Morales, Cultural Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam "No One Ever Really Dies on Facebook: Mourning Practices and the Metaphysics of the Virtual"
	Marla Pagan-Mattos, Comparative Literature, Penn "From Virtuous to Virtual: Poetic Access to Saintly Praesentia in the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X"
11:00a–12:30p | Session II Interjections Moderator: David Alff, English, Penn
	Peter Sachs Collopy, History & Sociology of Science, Penn "Virtual Revolutions"
	Jeehey Kim, Art History, CUNY Grad Center "Commemorating the Dead in Virtual Space"
	Sara Beth Levavy, Art History, Stanford "Projected Reality: The Interwar Newsreel and the Cinematic Vernacular"
12:30-1:30p | Lunch
1:30–3:00p | Session III Sonic Transubstantiation Moderator: Emily Zazulia, Music, Penn
	Brooke McCorkle, Music, Penn "Chopin's Virtual Voice"
	Daniel Morse, English, Temple "Your Friend the Phonograph: Advertising the Virtual Voice in Early Film"
	Patrick Wood Uribe, Music, Princeton "Written Music Examples in the Nineteenth Century: Imagined Sound and Virtual Performance"
3:15–4:45p | Session IV Seeing Virtually Moderator: Christen Mucher, English, Penn
	Lauren Klein, English, CUNY Grad Center "Virtual Research, Actual Lives: Text Mining Slavery's Digital Archive"
	Ella Mershon, English, UC Berkeley "Treating Objects Like Women: The Bodies of Humean Sympathy"
	Jason Zuzga, English, Penn "The Virtual Life of The Inner Life of a Cell"
5:00–6:30 | Keynote
	Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Griefing Culture and Incivility on the Internet