Politics, Criticism, and the Arts
Friday, April 21-Sunday, April 23, 2006Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Friday, April 21
114 Furman Hall
5:45-6:00 p.m.
Welcome
Dean Richard McCarty, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University
6:00-6:15 p.m.
Introduction
Gregg M. Horowitz, Vanderbilt University
6:15-8:15 p.m.
Opening Keynote Address
Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
Der Amerikamuede or the Actuality of American Opera
Commentary by Joy Calico, Vanderbilt University
Saturday, April 22
114 Furman Hall
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Plenary Speakers
Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds, Literature, Politics, and Analytic Aesthetics
Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University, The Great American Opera
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Plenary Speakers
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
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Closing Keynote Address
Christoph Menke, University of Potsdam
A Critique of Judgment: Aesthetic Negativity in Tragedy
Commentary by Barbara Hahn, Vanderbilt University
Sunday, April 23
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Alexander Room, Vanderbilt Law School
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
For further information, please contact Gregg Horowitz or Jonathan Neufeld or call the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University (615-322-2637).
