A5: Places, Memories, Citations

Seminar Leaders: Christopher Braider, University of Colorado and Herbert Marks, Indiana University

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Vanderbilt

David Damrosch, Columbia University: “The Buried Book: Networks of Antiquity in Herodotus and Setne Khamwas”

Stephen Owen, Harvard University: “Faces in the Crowd”

Harry Berger Jr., University of California – Santa Cruz: “Ionizing Poetry: Pleonexia, Logography, and the Platonic Critique of Socrates”

Laura Quinney, Brandeis University: “Wordsworth and Plotinus”

Herbert Marks, Indiana University: “‘And Fools Repeat Them’: Proverbs and the Commonplace”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Vanderbilt

James Nohrnberg, University of Virginia: “Frontiers in Dante’s Commedia”

Lisa Freinkel, University of Oregon: “The Shakespearean Fetish: Use and Abuse in the Early Modern Text”

Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland: “The Place of the Past in French Tragedy, 1550 – 1700”

William Flesch, Brandeis University: “Self-Citation”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Vanderbilt

Christopher Braider, University of Colorado – Boulder: “On Preliminary Matters, or Placing Descartes’s Meditations”

Ann Delehanty, Reed College: “From Poetics to Aesthetics: Interpreting Longinus’ On the Sublime, 1674-1710”

Daniel Selcer, Duquesne University: “The Uninterrupted Ocean: Leibniz and the Metaphysics of Encyclopedic Reference”

Jane Newman, University of California – Irvine: “Benjamin’s Baroque: Ursprung and the Limits of the Nation”