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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
First Annual Conference on Politics, Criticism, and the Arts
Posted by Jonathan Neufeld on April 19, 2006 at 02:14 AM in noteworthy | Permalink
Vanderbilt Philosophy Department will be hosting the first annual Conference on Politics, Criticism, and the Arts. It will be this weekend, April 21-23 in Nashville. The speakers and talks are listed below.
Keynote Addresses
Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
"Der Amerikamüde or the Actuality of American Opera"
Commentary by Joy Calico, Vanderbilt University
Christoph Menke, University of Potsdam
"A Critique of Judgment: Aesthetic Negativity in Tragedy"
Commentary by Barbara Hahn, Vanderbilt University
Plenary Speakers
Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds, "Literature, Politics, and Analytic Aesthetics"
Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University, "The Great American Opera"
Pamela M. Lee, Stanford University, "Death by Media: Warhol's State of Exception"
Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago, "Vernacular Modernism: Tracking Cinema on a Global Scale"
Roundtable: Politics, Art, and the Disciplines
Roundtable participants will also include:
- Stephen Melville, Ohio State University
- Max Pensky, Binghamton University
- Monique Roelofs, Hampshire College
- Fred Rush, Notre Dame University
- Martin Scherzinger, Princeton University
- Lesley Stern, University of California San Diego
- Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University
- Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina
- Jonathan Gilmore, Yale University
- Maria Gough, Stanford University
- Tom Huhn, School of Visual Arts
- Michael Kelly, University of North Carolina
Charlotte
Looks like it is going to be a lot of fun.
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