Steinhardt's Academic Initiatives and Global Programs asked us to circulate the following summer course description to our students.

Please contact the course instructor, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco (mso3@nyu[dot]edu) with any questions.

Remember that Steinhardt courses are outside of GSAS. Draper students can only transfer a *maximum of eight credits* from outside GSAS to their degrees, so please contact Robert Dimit (robert[dot]dimit@nyu[dot]edu) if you plan to enroll in this summer class.

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration

Course # INTE-GE.1545, INTE-GE.2545

Meets Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 2:00 – 5:00pm

5/21/2012 – 6/9/2012

4 points

Graduate students from all schools are welcome to enroll in this course.

The objective of this course is to introduce students to a sampling of recent theoretical and empirical work, in various academic disciplines, dealing with immigration. We will achieve this objective by systemically examining very recent research in comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives with a particular focus on the emerging Inter-American immigrant system. Students will learn about the most recent trends in Latin American, Caribbean, and to a lesser extent Asian migration to the US, and will compare the nature of current immigration scholarship in the United States to developments in other postindustrial settings. An examination of the comparative materials will highlight isomorphic conditions – as well as difference – in immigration debates, policies, processes, and outcomes. This course will be interdisciplinary. We shall examine recent data and theoretical work in a variety of fields

such as economics, education, law, policy, psychology, sociocultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, and sociology.

Please contact the course instructor, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco (mso3@nyu[dot]edu) with any questions.

CFP: 2012 AGLSP ANNUAL CONFERENCE

2012 AGLSP annual conference

The Crisis of the Book:
Worlds of Opportunity, Worlds of Change
October 18–20, 2012
Portland, Oregon

Hosted by the Reed College
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program

Call for papers/presentations

In the current electronic age, a few keystrokes will deliver vast amounts of information instantly and allow us to
communicate with a wide audience indiscriminately. In this changing landscape, what is the role of the printed book
as transmitter of knowledge and as material object? Revolutions in technology throughout history have changed the
way we receive and process information, even the way we think about ideas. From scroll to codex, printing press to
computer screen, just as familiar modes of communication disappear, new possibilities and opportunities take their
place. This interdisciplinary conference will place the transformation in print culture in a historical framework, and will
reflect upon the changing nature of text delivery and the experience of reading.

How is knowledge produced? What role does the text play as cultural, material, and sacred object? How do we “read”
historically, culturally, popularly, and what is the future of the practice of reading? What is the place of the modern
library in the electronic age? How does the new field of media studies reflect evolving social contexts? How do we “see”
graphic novels or navigate through hypertext fiction? What questions concerning copyright and intellectual property
does the digital age raise?

The 2012 AGLSP Annual Conference invites papers addressing how knowledge and ideas are produced and
disseminated. In this context, we welcome a broader definition of “text” to include electronic, film, pictorial, etc. Special
consideration will be given to submissions which address the integration of this theme into Liberal Studies curricula
and classes.

Paper presentation should be 20 minutes long with an additional 5 to 10 minutes for questions. Please submit a one
to two page abstract electronically to Barbara Amen (bamen@reed.edu), MALS director at Reed College, by May 1.
(Be sure to write “AGLSP Submission” in the subject line.) Also, please include multi-media requirements, although we
encourage presenters to give judicious consideration to the effective use of PowerPoint.

Additional conference information at aglsp.org

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity conference Saturday, 11/12/11

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity | Saturday, November 12, 2011
301 Philosophy Hall

Program:

9:00am-9:30am | Welcome and Breakfast

PANEL 1: "Edutecture CU Teachers College Collaborative"
9:30am-11:00am
"Edutecture: Post-Representiationalist Design as Post-Modern Praxis."

CU Teacher's College collaborative
Blake Victor Seidenshaw (Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, Teachers College, CU)
Victoria Netanus (Sociology and Education, Teachers College, CU)
Chris Moffett (Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, CU)
Monica Patrice Barra (Cultural Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY)
David Backer (Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, CU)
Ethan Jucovy (Independent Scholar)

PANEL 2: "Interdisciplinarity Between Art and Science"
11:00am - 12:30pm
Disscussant: Jay Gundacker, History

John R. Blakinger, UC Berkeley
Models for Art and Science Collaboration:
Gyorgy Kepes at MIT and the Rise of Cold War Interdisciplinarity in the Visual Arts

Matthew Ramirez, UC Berkeley
Towards a Physiology of Drama: Plot Algorithms with Applications in Playwriting, Interactive Drama, and Collaborative Filtering

Robert Lewis and Matthew Luckett, Michigan State and UCLA
Cowboy morality in historical mass media: Barriers to an interdisciplinary investigation of dime novels and westward expansion

12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch

KEYNOTE LECTURE
D. Graham Burnett presenting with Artist Lisa Young
1:30pm - 2:30pm

"In Lies Begins Responsibilities: Parafiction and Interdisciplinary Practice"

D. Graham Burnett is a professor of History, Princeton University and Editor, CabinetMagazine
Discussant: Marwa El Skakry, Associate Professor, Department of History

PANEL 3: Historical Interdisciplinarities and Interdisciplinary Histories
2:30pm - 3:30pm

Discussant: Owen Cornwall, MESAAS

Arthur Dudney, MESAAS, Columbia University
"Interdisciplinarity before Disciplines, the View from Early-Modern South Asia"

Irene Plantholt, Near Eastern Languages, Columbia University
"An interdisciplinary approach towards ancient Mesopotamian medicine"

3:30pm-3:45pm | Coffee

PANEL 4: Borders, Spaces, Disciplines
3:45pm - 5:15pm

Discussant: Yohann Ripert, Department of French and Romance Philology

Lori Cole, Department of Comparative Literature, NYU
"Reading Revista de Avance Across Disciplines"

Alvram Alpert, University of Pennsylvania
"Rousseau's Modernity and Suzuki's Zen"

Ginger Nolan, History of Architecture, Columbia University
"'Great Books for Fat Men' and Simple Tests for 'Savage Minds': How the Humanities Made a Global Humanity"

CONCLUDING PANEL:
5:15pm - 6:15pm

"On Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity"

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University
Lydia Liu, Wu Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, EALAC, Columbia University

Moderated by Stathis Gourgouris, Professor of Classics and Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

The ICLS Graduate Student Planning Committee would like to thank the following departments for their generous support: GSAC, GSAPP, EALAC, History, French and Romance Philology, MESAAS at Columbia University

For more information, please visit our website: icls.columbia.edu.

Interdisciplinary Project Seeks Contributors

Prometheus Mediated: Exploring Audience Perception Through an Evolution of Forms

Funded by the Lucrece Project: Creative Experiments in Critical Practice www.thelucreceproject.com

In his widely known 1964 book, Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man, media theorist Marshall McLuhan asserts “the medium is the message.” He theorizes that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived. Using the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus as content, we will express the story through three different mediums: a short theater performance, a short film piece and a new media piece that incorporates a variety of digital forms and social media tools to enhance the audience’s experience. Bringing together a dynamic group of scholars, artists and media makers interested in exploring form’s effect, not just on content but on the audience experience of content, the project will rely on a collaborative interdisciplinary process to shed new light on an old question. We are particularly interested in examining how the evolution of the mediated audience experience from a massive social gathering to an individual, human-computer interaction changes the implications and understanding of content. The project will be realized in a site-specific installation that allows audience members to experience each of the three pieces as individual forms and as a continuous media event.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Prometheus Mediated is an ambitious project calling on academic scholarship as well as a wide range of creative skills. We are looking for participants at all levels – those who want to be involved in a specific area of interest and those who want to take on a major creative role in realizing the piece. We are specifically looking for the following collaborators, listed below. Anyone interested please e-mail Joyce Mishaan at jhm347@nyu.edu by Monday, October 3rd.

Media Theory Scholars – Anyone with a background and/or interest in Media Theory.

Dramatic Writers – We will be adapting the Prometheus myth into three working scripts. This will include workshops exploring the themes and context of the story as well as the ways in which we can carry those themes across our different media platforms. Anyone with a specific interest in adaptation, classical stories and/or writing for new media especially encouraged to join the project!

Creative Producers – Anyone interested in getting involved at the producer level. We will be producing a site-specific installation including live theater, film projection and interactive media. Producers will be heavily involved in the project from start to finish, with a more intensive schedule in the spring semester. We are especially looking for highly organized, tech-savvy individuals who can help stretch a budget creatively.

Installation Artists – Participating artists will be heavily involved in the creative realization of the project, specifically in the spring semester. We’re looking for anyone with an interest in installation art or site-specific performance art.

Digital Media Producers – This is a major creative role in the project and as of yet very loosely defined. We will be creating a digital media piece as part of the installation and looking for anyone with a creative interest in new media art and the technical know-how to bring a project to life.

Tech Assistant – Looking for a tech savvy individual to help install and manage all echnical aspects of the project including audio, video and online media.

Director of Photography - Looking for a DP for a short film piece, approximately 2 – 3 day shoot during the Spring semester. We’d like the DP to be involved in the creative planning for the film, and would encourage participation during pre-production meetings in the Fall semester. Have a camera? Even better!

Sound Designer/Audio Mixer – Ideally looking for someone who can sound design for the installation piece and mix audio for the film shoot. 2 – 3 days of shooting in the spring semester plus pre-production meetings in the fall.

AD/Production Manager/Production Assistants – Anyone interested in being involved in the short film production. This can include crew support, script supervision and logistical support. 2 – 3 day commitment, on set. Happy to teach/train anyone looking to gain more set experience.

Performers – Looking for actors both for live performance and short film shoot. Roles TBD. Especially those interested in classical adaptations, site-specific performance art and new media projects.

Production Designer/Art Department – Looking for a production designer who is comfortable working across a variety of mediums, including live performance, film and digital media. We will be working with limited resources and are especially looking for someone who is adept at stretching a budget creatively. Participation will require some pre-production meetings in the fall semester and a heavier commitment during production in the spring. Also looking for art department support for those who would like to be involved with a lesser commitment.

Call for Papers: Stony Brook English Grad Conference

24th Annual Stony Brook University English Department.

Graduate Conference:

Instrument, Image, Ekphrasis: Intersecting Genres of Knowledge.

Location: Stony Brook University, Manhattan Campus
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012
Proposal Deadline: December 17, 2011

Keynote Speaker: Laura Kipnis

The Stony Brook Manhattan English Department Graduate Conference, the longest running interdisciplinary graduate student conference in the nation, welcomes papers and panels from all disciplines, including the arts, cultural studies, social and hard sciences, and the humanities. This year’s conference will feature a faculty-sponsored Best Paper Award; for details and registration visitwww.stonybrook.edu/gradconf

Call for Papers:
The tools of a trade can enclose: a poem becomes its form, patients become their diagnoses, people their demographic, and students their grades. Complex ideas about history, foreignness, alienation, memory, subject and object are often distilled into a single image produced by our instruments of "knowledge." The production of an instrument is ekphrastic: it blends genres and frames one genre within another: A paintbrush, x-ray or spreadsheet; a rubric, or questionnaire; a literary form – stream of consciousness, or fourteen lines towards a sonnet. Memory, artifact. Pen and ink. How do the instruments of a vocation establish a politics of communication? What do these images reveal, or obscure? When do they make us think, and when do they put an end to thinking?

The English Department at Stony Brook University is proud to offer an interdisciplinary call for papers that asks graduate scholars to reflect on the instruments of their discipline, and to think about how ekphrasis (ek as "out," and phrasis as "speaking") speaks out about the intersection of image, instrument, and genre. What is "instrumentality" in literature, or art, or philosophy? How is it the same, or different, in the social or hard sciences? Does it imply a certain mentality, or construct a static "reader"?

Abstracts can be up to 250 words, and should be submitted by Friday, December 17, 2011. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance shortly after the December deadline. Students interested in competing for the Best Paper Prize sponsored by Stony Brook English faculty must submit a completed paper no later than January 16, 2012 for consideration. Award winners will be announced at the conference. Email submissions to: SUNYSB.GradConf@gmail.com.

Paper and panel submission topics can address a broad range of interests. Diverse genre proposals are welcome, including music, art, science posters, social research, etc. Possible "instruments" are listed below:

Instruments of change: Migrations and Diasporas
Instruments of Memory: Cultural Memory, Testimonial Narratives, Memory and Written Record
Instruments of Place: Maps, regions, “Homelands” (real or imaginary)
Instrumentality, performance, and art (e.g. ekphrastic narratives)
Philosophy (e.g., debates over realism)
Rhetoric (e.g., the use of strategic reason in communication)
History (e.g., scientific instruments in the history of science)
Literature (e.g., literary devices, characters as instruments, Representations
of marginalized people as instruments, literary ekphrasis)
Art (e.g., the use of artistic tools or philosophical questions related to the use of art)
Image in popular media
Health science (i.e. the gaps between tools and the human subject).
Cultural texts
Linguistics and translation
Narrative: Myth, Borders, Storytelling
Visual/Performing Arts and Music; musical ekphrasis
Oral Traditions
Postmodernity and its narratives
Voice and reflexivity in oral and written texts
Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
Conquest and Political Memory
Globalization and indigenous cultures
Notional Ekphrasis
Displacement Heritage
Technology, gaming, and social media; emerging technologies
Children’s Stories- Language, Authority and Silence

Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame: Call for Papers

Faces Behind the Figures: Visions of Prosperity, Progress and Human Potential

The Fourth-Annual Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity, in conjunction with the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame and SIT Study Abroad, a program of World Learning, announces a student research conference on topics relevant to human development. This event will take place at the University of Notre Dame on February 10-11, 2012.

The conference is an opportunity to explore interdisciplinary, sustainable approaches to improving livelihoods and advancing human dignity. Our inspiration for this year’s theme comes from Eduardo Galeano’s work, “Those Little Numbers and People.” In it, he observes, “In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?” With these ideas in mind, we aim to uncover the meaning of human-centric development. How do both the real, everyday experiences of people merge with statistical indicators of poverty and development to reveal something about their lives?

All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to take part in this conversation. We welcome students to share their research experiences from a broad spectrum of topics.

For those interested in presenting a paper, please attach your abstract (limit 300 words) and complete the survey questions found on the conference website: www.nd.edu/~hdc. Only proposals received by the Monday, October 17 deadline will receive consideration. Invitations for participation will be extended no later than Monday, November 21. Students who accept invitations to present at the conference are responsible for securing funding for travel and other related expenses. More information will be forthcoming on our website. We hope that you will join us!

CFP: The Lucrece Project at NYU (Due 9/12)

THE LUCRECE PROJECT
at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Call for 2011-2012 Projects

The Lucrece Project is a graduate working research group sponsored by the NYU Humanities Initiative and English Department. We are a collective of artists and academics who are exploring and challenging the borders between “creative” and “critical” work and thought. We are currently soliciting proposals for creative cross-disciplinary projects that defy traditional categories of genre, medium, and working method.

The Lucrece Project is a graduate working research group sponsored by the New York

University Humanities Initiative and English Department. We are a collective of artists and

academics who are exploring and challenging the borders between “creative” and “critical”

work and thought. We are currently soliciting proposals for cross-disciplinary projects for our

2011-2012 year.

In the first year of the project, 2010-2011, we examined the story of Lucrece in all its genres,

media, and contexts, and took different creative, research-based, and affective approaches to

exploring the character of Lucrece and her story. Detailed information can be found on our

website: www.thelucreceproject.com.

We also funded three new works based on the legend: a play, a series of textile installations,

and a “hip hopera.” While very different in style, theme, and media, the three works were

developed in line with the Project's goals of collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and a marriage of

scholarly research with artistic method.

We are now requesting proposals for new works that satisfy these same goals. They do not

need to be based on the story of Lucrece, but we do expect that these projects will be

collaborative and will challenge borders between disciplines and methods, including the

boundary between traditionally conceived “academic work” and other kinds of creative and

artistic work. The projects can be in any media, any genre, and any form. In line with our

emphasis on process over product, these works should be developed consistently over the

course of the academic year and will be presented to the members of the Project and the

public (even if they are still works in progress) in April 2012.

In addition to funding these new works, The Lucrece Project will also organize a series of

plenary sessions throughout 2011-2012 during which we will continue our exploration of

method and process. Though these sessions will be largely separate from the new projects

being developed, we hope that the project organizers will participate in them.

Please submit the following to lucreceproject@gmail.com by Monday, September 12:

1. An outline of your proposed project (approximately one page).

2. A paragraph about how it fulfills the goals of The Lucrece Project.

3. A list of other people involved in the project, if known, and their roles. (We encourage

you to apply even if you do not yet know this; we can help you find collaborators, if

necessary.)

4. A rough plan for how the project will be developed - how often you will meet, how the

work will be divided, etc.

5. A draft budget. At the moment we are offering up to $1000 per project with the goal of

developing two works; these figures may change depending on the projects chosen.

To better understand The Lucrece Project, what we do, and what we’re looking for, please visit

our website, www.thelucreceproject.com.

If you have questions, email us at lucreceproject@gmail.com.

CFP: Comparative Caribbeans: Interdisciplinary Conference at Emory

Comparative Caribbeans: an Interdisciplinary Conference*
Emory University, Atlanta GA
November 3-5, 2011

This is why we stay with poetry. And despite our consenting to all the indisputable technologies; despite seeing the political leap that must be managed..., the full load of knowledge to be tamed..., at the bow there is still something we now share: this murmur, cloud or rain or peaceful smoke. …We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.

– Édouard Glissant

Recent debates in Comparative Literary studies have brought the very idea and practice of comparison under scrutiny. What are the limits and possibilities of comparison in a time marked by an ongoing process of globalization? What is the status of “world literature” as a category of analysis? What are the epistemological, political, and ethical stakes in doing work across disciplinary, linguistic, and geo-political boundaries?

This conference seeks to contribute to this ongoing discussion by taking the Caribbean as its point of departure. As a region marked by linguistic, historical, and geographical differences and as a site of displaced origins and rhizomatic identifications, the Caribbean not only necessitates comparatist perspectives, but may also help us reconfigure how comparison is thought and practiced.

We invite work that cuts across linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, bringing Caribbean art, literature, and culture into challenging dialogues with other traditions in order to map new trajectories for further comparative engagement. We are particularly interested in highlighting work that does not subsume Caribbean cultural and literary production under the umbrella of “area studies,” but instead draws on Caribbean aesthetic and philosophical traditions in an effort to rethink some of the theoretical and methodological axioms that underlie contemporary comparative studies.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Guillermina De Ferrari (Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Professor Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature, Cornell University)

Professor Mara Negrón (Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, University of Puerto Rico)

Professor Rubén Ríos Ávila (Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico)

Possible areas of inquiry:

• The Caribbean and Post-Structuralism
• Caribbean Perspectives on Theories of Trauma and Memory
• Comparative Post-Colonialities
• Plantation Traces: The Caribbean and the American South
• Theories and Poetics of Relation, Creolization, and Hybridity
• Comparative Approaches to Migratory Movements and the Caribbean Diaspora
• Eco-Criticism and Planetary Archipelagos: Remapping Geographies
• A Post-Revolutionary Caribbean? Liberation and Alternative Philosophies of History
• Artistic and Performative Engagements with the Caribbean
• Caribbean Vulnerabilities
• Caribbean Queer Mappings
• Piracy, the Law, and the State: Revisiting Sovereignty, Empire, and Capital

Please submit your abstracts of 300-500 words with a short bio to comparativecaribbeans@gmail.com by August 15, 2011. We invite submissions from senior and junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars.

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* Organized by the Graduate Students of Emory’s Comparative Literature Department

Call for Papers: Source of Life and Strife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Water (Due 5/31)

2011 Annual Conference
Source of Life and Strife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Water
October 13-15, 2011
The Gideon Putnam Resort
Saratoga Springs, NY
Host: Skidmore College

Dear AGLSP Members and Friends,

We have extended the deadline to May 31 for submission of proposals for the AGLSP annual conference in October. We hope you take advantage of this opportunity to explore the many issues around this element of life.

Call for papers guidelines are attached.

For information on conference registration and program, please visit www.aglsp.org.

Ellen Levine
Administrative Manager
AGLSP Office
Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
c/o Duke University
Box 90095
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-1987
919-681-8905 (fax)
www.aglsp.org

To respond to this email or contact the Association Office, send your email to "info@aglsp.org." Do not use the REPLY function.

Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
National Office
c/o Duke University
Box 90095
Durham, NC 27708-0095
Tel: 919.684.1987
Fax: 919.681.8905
www.aglsp.org

Memory: Silence, Screen and Spectacle Conference at New School, 3/24 - 3/26

The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School recommends...

the Fourth Annual New School Interdisciplinary Memory Conference:

Memory: Silence, Screen and Spectacle

March 24-26, 2011

The New School for Social Research, New York City

Speakers Include:

Marianne Hirsch, Susannah Radstone, Diana Taylor,

Yael Hersonski, Dirk Moses, William Hirst, Tom Allen,

Cynthia Milton, Daniel Levy, Louis Bickford, Jonathan Bach,

Rick Crownshaw, Susan Pearce, and many others

For information on the 2011 conference visit

www.newschool.edu/nssr/subpage.aspx?id=57135

or email nssrmemoryconference@gmail.com

Theories of Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries Rutgers Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference (2/26)

Theories of Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Rutgers Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference

"Theories of Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries" brings together scholars from across the humanities to investigate the centrality of theories of "life" to twentieth and twenty-first century theory and cultural production. In fields as diverse as vitalism, feminism, animal studies, political theory, aesthetics and psychoanalysis, presenters will highlight how the humanities investigates the ontological properties and ethical imperatives of life.

Plenary Speaker: Donna V. Jones, UC-Berkeley English: "The Career of
Living Things is Continuous"

Saturday, February 26, 2011
9am-7pm
Murray Hall, Plangere Center
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
More Information and free registration at:
http://theoriesoflifeconference.wordpress.com/
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Schedule:
9:00 am Coffee and Tea

9:15 Introduction

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Philosophies and Life: Values, Objects, Methods
moderator, Octavio Gonzalez, Rutgers University English

- "Hunger and Happiness" - Richard Dienst, Rutgers University, English
- “The Strange Fact of Critical Theory: Medusa, Feminist Poetics, and
the Wonder of Ekphrasis”- Anne Keefe, Rutgers University, English and
Tyson Lewis, Montclair State University, Department of Educational
Foundations
- “Life After Death: Freud’s Biogonic Myth”- Benjamin Fong, Columbia
University, Religion
- “What is a Lichen?: Species, Symbiosis, Reduction” - Derek Woods,
University of British Columbia, English

11:15 -12:45 Panel 2: Vitalist Traditions in Cultural Expression
moderator, Fred Solinger, Rutgers English

- “The Vitalist Debate in American Literature, 1950-2000”- John
McClure, Rutgers University English
- “Nietzschean Vitalism in German Musical Modernism”- Jonathan Gentry,
Brown University History -
- “The Limits of Life in the 20th and 21st Century: The Fetus and the
Refugee”- Heather Latimer, University of Manchester, English and
American Studies
- “History in the Service of Life: Nietzsche and Deleuze” - Allison M.
Merrick, University of Southampton, Philosophy

12:45-1:45 Lunch

2:00-3:15 Panel 3: Posthuman Ontologies and Subjectivites
moderator, Becca Klaver, Rutgers University, English

- "Life or Lives: The Question of 'Actually Existing Animals' " -
Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University, English
- “Life After Humanism”- Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University, English
- “"Artificial Life: Figuring the Robot and the End of the Human(ist)
World” - Bryan Conn, Case Western Reserve University, English

3:30-4:45 Panel 4: The (Bio)Politics of Life: Regulating and Organizing Life
moderator, Candice Amich, Rutgers English

- “Life at War: Biopower and Feminist Dissensus” - Harriet Davidson,
Rutgers University, English and Women and Gender Studies
- “Liberated Futures/ Multi-Dimensional Ruptures: Late Marcuse and
Black Critical Theory"- Carter Mathes, Rutgers University, English
- “When Thought and Life Coincide: Plasticity and Agamben’s
Form-of-Life”- Kelly Kawar, UC-Santa Barbara, English

5:00 - 7:00 Plenary Session: Donna Jones, UC-Berkeley English,
"The Career of Living Things is Continuous" - Introduced by Carter
Mathes, Rutgers University, English

A reception will follow.

For complete schedule, abstracts and registration:
http://theoriesoflifeconference.wordpress.com/
Contact: Philip Longo, phlongo@eden.rutgers.edu, Tyler Bradway,
tyler.bradway@gmail.com