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Conference Programme

In 2- and 3-person panels, papers should be no longer than 25 minutes to allow plenty of time for questions and comment. The single 4-person panel on the programme should aim for each paper lasting around 20 minutes.

Programme
Friday 9 May
0900 - 0930 Registration
0930 - 1110 Parallel Session 1
  Modernism, Selfhood and Cavellian Ethics
1.
 Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore) “Criticism and the Risk of the Self: Cavell’s Modernism”
2.
 Kevin Lamb (Columbia) “Cavell’s ‘Illustrious’ Style'”
3.
 Eric Fortier (University of Massachusetts Amherst) “Du Bois’s Moods: The Rhetorical Challenges of Double Consciousness”
Theorizing Romanticism I
1.
 Olaf Hansen (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University) “The Universal Fragment: Poiesis and Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell”
2.
 Ed Cutler (Brigham Young) “Romantic Philosophy Beyond Concord: Absolute Idealism and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass”
1110 - 1130 Refreshments  
1130 - 1310 Parallel Session 2
Cavellian Emersons I
1.
 David M. Robinson (Oregon State) “Stanley Cavell, ‘Aversive Thinking’, and Emerson’s ‘Party of the Future’”
2.
 Thomas Davis (Whitman College) “The Power of Passivity in Reading Experience”
3.
 Joan Richardson (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) “The Return of the Repressed: Cavell and Emerson”
Comparing Cavell
1.
 Erma Petrova (Ottawa) “Detecting Reality: the Inevitability of Meaning in Cavell and Baudrillard”
2.
 Paul Standish (Institute of Education, London) “Scepticism and Imagination in Cavell and Levinas”
3.
 Daniel Steuer (Sussex) “This New Yet Unapproachable Frankfurt: Philosophy ‘in a Negative Key’?”
1310 - 1415 Lunch
1415 - 1555 Parallel Session 3
Cavell’s Shakespeare: Issues and Instances 1
1.
 Laetitia Sansonetti (University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle) “‘Before I Know Myself, Seek Not to Know Me’: Fanaticism and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis”
2.
 Rui Romao (University of Beira Interior) “Reading Skepticism into Troilus and Cressida”
Cavell and American Poetry
1.
 Thomas Gardner (Virginia Tech) “Talking This Way: Cavell and Contemporary Poets”
2.
 J. Mark Smith (Grant MacEwan College) “‘No Man Can Hold Existence in His Head’: Yvor Winters, Stanley Cavell, and the Fate of American Modernism”
3.
 Rachel Malkin (Cambridge) “‘Touchstones of Intimacy’: Aesthetic Community in Stanley Cavell and Wallace Stevens”
1555 - 1625 Refreshments
1625 - 1730 Parallel Session 4
Cavell’s Shakespeare: Issues and Instances 2
1.
 Mark Robson (Nottingham) “Alienated Majesty: Cavell, Shakespeare and the Ordinary Uncanny”
2.
 Christopher Johnson (Harvard) “Cavell and the Hyperbolic”
Cavell and Modern(ist) Aesthetics
1.
 Hannah Eldridge (Chicago) “The Philosophical Problems of Modern Mice: or Kafka’s ‘Josefine’ as a Modernist Aesthetics”
2.
 Helena Martins (Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro) "On Being Naturally Modern"
1730 - 1830 Plenary Lecture

Russell B. Goodman (New Mexico)
  "'Experience' and The Republic: Emerson, Plato, Heidegger, Cavell"
1900 Conference Reception
 
Saturday 10 May
0930 - 1110 Parallel Session 1
Cavellian Emersons II
1.
 Thomas Constantinesco (University of Paris 7 – Denis Diderot) “Cavell’s Emerson: Philosophical Inheritance and Creative Misreadings”
2.
 Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso (University of Castilla-La Mancha) “Emerson, Cavell, and the Ethical Prospects of Literature”
3.
 Corey McCall (Elmira College) “Redeeming American Thought Through its Unsettling: Cavell’s Reading of Emerson”
Acknowledgment, Philosophy, Literature
1.
 Asja Szafraniec (Amsterdam) “A Waiting Game between Philosophy and Literature”
2.
 Anne-Lise Francois (Cornell) “Passing Judgment, Conceding Perfection: Free Indirect Style and Versions of the Cavellian Secular”
3.
 Amir Khan (Windsor) “The Stake of Acknowledgment”
1110 - 1130 Refreshments
1130 - 1310 Parallel Session 2
Theorizing Romanticism II
1.
 Ed Duffy (Marquette) “‘Flame Transformed to Marble’: From Intuition to Tuition in Shelley’s Adonais and Epipsychidion”
2.
 Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex) “Appearances and things in themselves: Cavell and Blake”
Reading American Romanticism I
1.
 David LaRocca “Reading Cavell Reading”
2.
 Isabelle Alfandary (Lyon) “Stanley Cavell and the ‘Pre-Philosophical Moment’”
3.
 Devin Zuber (Osnabrück) “Greening Cavell: Ecological Literary Criticism and the Problem of Philosophy”
1310 - 1415 Lunch
1415 - 1555 Parallel Session 3
Viewing the World: Criticism, Philosophy and Film
1.
 Victor Perkins (Warwick) “Reading, Reading-In and Seeing Through”
2.
 Edward Gallafent (Warwick) “Proving Relations: Parents and Children in Cavell’s Writing”

3.

 Andrew Klevan (Oxford) “Responding to the Moment”
4.
 Charles Warren (Boston University) “Film/Philosophy/Criticism”
Wordsworthian Reflections
1.
 Michael Fischer (Trinity College) “Scenes of Instruction in Wordsworth and Cavell”
2.
 David Rudrum (Huddersfield) “How to Do Things with Wordsworth”
3.
 John Hughes (Gloucestershire) "Wordsworth’s Epistemology of Orphanhood”
1555 - 1625 Refreshments
1625 - 1730 Parallel Sessions 4
Cavell, Autobiography and Memory
1.
 Anita Sherman (American University) “The Exemplarity of Stanley Cavell’s Memory”
2.
 William Day (Le Moyne College) “A Soteriology of Reading: Cavell’s ‘Excerpts from Memory’”
Intersections of Literature, Film and Philosophy
1.
 Paul Anderson (Michigan, Ann Arbor) “‘The First Full Loss of Form’: Agee After Cavell”
2.
 Tatjana Jukic (Zagreb) “An Heiress to Austin: Stanley Cavell, Henry James and the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman”
1730 - 1830 Plenary Lecture Jay Bernstein (New School)
  "How Tragedy Ends"
1930

Conference Dinner (optional, see Registration page for details)

 
Sunday 11 May
0930 - 1110 Parallel Session 1
  Reading American Romanticism II
1.
 Naoko Saito (Kyoto) “Deconfounding Reading: Cavell and Philosophy as Translation”
2.
 Prentiss Clark (Buffalo) “For an America, After Theodore Parker: Bearing American Literature’s Secret Heresy”
3.
 Garrett Stewart (Iowa) “Cavell’s Poescript”
The Claims of Criticism
1.
 Brent Kalar (New Mexico) “Cavell and the Rationality of Criticism”
2.
 Kim Evans (Redlands) “While Reading Wittgenstein”
3.
 William Rothman (Miami) “Stanley Cavell’s Philosophical Prose: A Marriage of Philosophy and Literature”
1110 - 1130 Refreshments
1130 - 1310 Parallel Session 2
  Reading Philosophy: Cavell’s Literariness/Literalness
1.
 Ralph Berry (Florida State) "Stanley Cavell’s Modernism: Is ‘Us’ Me?"
2.
 Timothy Gould (Metropolitan State College of Denver) “The Literal Truth: Cavell on Literality in Philosophy and Literature”
3.

Áine Kelly (Nottingham University)

 "Princes, Frogs and Craftsmen: Storytelling in The Claim of Reason"
Cavell’s Shakespeare: Issues and Instances 3
1.
 William Franke (Vanderbilt)

"Acknowledging Unknowing: Stanley Cavell and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature"
2.
 Marian Keane "Reading In: Cavell’s Four Allegories of Otherness”
3.
 Tom Sperlinger (Bristol) “‘Lives that have stories’: Cavell and the Surprise of Shakespeare’s Sonnets”
1310 - 1415 Lunch  
1415 - 1520 Parallel Session 3
  Corporeality, Biology, Literature and Philosophy
1.
 Joab Rosenberg (Cambridge) “Adam’s Body”
2.
 Robert Chodat (Boston University) “The Romance of the Hand and Its Apposable Thumb”
Cavell and Contemporary Fiction
1.
 Cato Wittusen (Chicago) “Skepticism and Raymond Carver’s Literary Minimalism”
2.
 Lawrence Rhu (South Carolina) “Richard Ford and the Philosopher’s Stones: Finitude and Frankness in the Bascombe Trilogy”
1520 - 1600 Refreshments
1600 - 1700 Discussion with Stanley Cavell
1700 - 1715 Closing remarks
End of conference



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