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UPCOMING EVENTS 2007-2008:

April 11, 2008

Conference: Race and Narrative Theory

Event Date: Friday, April 11, 2008, 9:30 am - 4:45 pm
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

Participants: Ulka Anjaria, Jennifer Brody, Vilashini Cooppan, Dorothy Hale, Carla Kaplan, Ernesto Martínez, Paula Moya, James Phelan, Ramon Salidvar, and Kenneth Warren.

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PREVIOUS EVENTS:

November 01, 2005

Conference: Adventure

Event Date: Friday November 11, 2005 10am-5pm
Event Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

10:00-11:30
Lorna Hutson
"The Venture in the Adventure: Calculating Probability in a Renaissance Novella"
Giancarlo Maiorino
"Of Windmills and Millstones: Crossroads of the Picaresque"
Srinivas Aravamudan
"Chronotopes and Xenotropes"

11:45-12:45
Discussion

2:00-3:30
Sylvie Thorel
"Adventures of Love in Classical Theories of the Novel"
J. Doyne Farmer
"The Evolution of Adventure in Literature and Life"
Scott Bukatman
"Secret Identity Politics"

3:45-5:00
Discussion

Discussants: Sunil Agnani, Joshua Clover, Ursula Heise, Nicholas Paige

January 01, 2006

Conference: Illustration

Event Date: January 23, 2006 10am-5pm
Event Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

10:00-11:30
Emily Apter
"Kapital: The Novel (Madame Bovary)"
Sharon Marcus
"The Fashionable Female Gaze "

11:45-12:45
Discussion

2:00-3:30
Anne Higonnet
"The Culture of the Copy: Manet East/West "
Vanessa Schwartz
"Icons: Overused and Undervalued in Modernity's Visual Economy "
Anthony Vidler
"The Aerial Photograph: Nadar to Debord "

3:45-5:00
Discussion

Discussants: Nancy Armstrong, Leslie Camhi, Kate Flint, Christopher Prendergast, William Schaefer, Richard Terdiman

January 12, 2007

Conference: The Extreme Contemporary

Event Date: January 12, 2007
Speakers: Svetlana Boym, Joshua Clover, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Alan Liu, Bill
Luoma, Katie Salen
Discussants: Celeste Langan, Tyrus Miller, Sianne Ngai, Anne Wagner
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

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April 20, 2007

Workshop: For a Theory of the Novel of the 21st Century

Event Date: April 20-21 2007

Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall
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Please join us for our last event of the CSN 2006-2007 season. This two-day workshop gathers together a younger generation of novel scholars now emerging to national and international prominence to discuss future directions in the field.

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