EVENT DETAILS

Babel Working Group

9:00 – 10:00 am: Reception: Coffee & Tea

10:00 – 10:15 am: Opening Remarks

10:15 – 11:15 am [presentations]:

Aranye Fradenburg, University of California, Santa Barbara: “TBD”

Aaron Bady, University of California, Berkeley: “Representing Disobedience in the University of California”

11:15 am – 12:15 pm [presentations]:

Bruce Smith, University of Southern California: “The Politics of Sense Experience in Early Modern England”

Aaron Kunin, Pomona College: “Thinking Against”

12:15 – 2:15 pm: LUNCH

2:15 – 3:15 pm [presentations]:

Gaelan Gilbert, University of Victoria: “Martianus Capella & Saint Benedict: Encyclopaedic Satire & Philological Community at the Edge of Empire”

Brantley Bryant, Sonoma State University: “The Liberal Arts of Imposter Syndrome”


3:15 – 4:15 pm [film viewing + talk]:

Get Out of the Car (2010)

Thom Andersen, California Institute for the Arts

4:15 – 4:45 pm: Coffee/Tea Break

4:45 – 5:45 pm [panel discussion]:

Rebecca Davis, University of California, Irvine: “Childish Things: Charity and the Liberal Arts”

Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley: “Theories of Sensation: Sensory Experience”

CJ Gordon, University of California, Irvine: “Shakespearean Futurism”

David Shepard, University of California, Los Angeles: “Data for New Critical Computers: The Fiction of the Digital Humanities”

5:45 – 6:00 pm: Closing Remarks