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Politics, Criticism, and the Arts
Friday, April 13-Sunday, April 15, 2007
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Friday, April 13
Furman Hall 114
5:00–5:15 p.m. Welcome
5:15–7:00 p.m.
Keynote Address
Clement Greenberg and the Modernist Sensorium
Caroline A. Jones, Art History,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saturday, April 14
Buttrick Hall 101
9:15–10:45 a.m.
On Eric Santner’s “On Creaturely Life”
J.M. Bernstein, Philosophy, New School for Social Research
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Poetry and the Politics of Speed: A Panel Discussion
Celeste Langan, English, University of California at Berkeley
Joshua Clover, English, University of California at Davis
Ackbar Abbas, Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine
2:15–4:00 p.m.
Sensing Time: Music and the Question of Utopia
in Late Modernity
Richard Leppert, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature,
University of Minnesota
4:15–5:45 p.m.
On J.M. Bernstein’s “Against Voluptuous Bodies”
Eric Santner, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
Sunday, April 15
Buttrick Hall 101
10:00-11:45 a.m.
The New Religious Fundamentalism: Religion in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction
Boris Groys, Philosophy and Art History,
Center for Arts and Media Technology at Karlsruhe
Noon–2:30 p.m.
Concluding Lunch and Roundtable conducted by
Brian Soucek, Humanities, University of Chicago
Rachel Zuckert, Philosophy, Northwestern University
Other participants include:
Lisa Florman, Ohio State University
Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
Elizabeth Goodstein, Emory University
Espen Hammer, University of Essex
Robin James, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Michael Kelly, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Lutz Koepnick, Washington University
Mitchell Morris, University of California at Los Angeles
Monique Roelofs, Hampshire College
Fred Rush, University of Notre Dame
For more information, contact Gregg Horowitz (gregg.horowitz@vanderbilt.edu)
or Jonathan Neufeld (jonathan.a.neufeld@vanderbilt.edu) or call the Department of
Philosophy at Vanderbilt University (615-322-2637).
