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Humanities Event (joint workshop with The Huntington)

Friday, May 10, 2013
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
5:00pm
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Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Materialities, Texts and Images

Friday, May 10

Morning  Session

9:30-11:00am - Peter Stallybrass (English, Penn), "The Materiality of Writing"
11:15am-12:45pm - Elor Halevi (History and Law, Vanderbilt), "The Things That Infidels Make: Modern Objects Before the Sacred Law of Islam"

Afternoon Session

2:00-3:.30pm - Elaine Treharne (English, Stanford), "Fleshy and Flimsy Inhabitations of the Medieval Codex"
3:45-5:15pm - Ken Alder (History of Science and Technology, Northwestern), "Thick Things:  Science and Technology as Performance"
 

 

Saturday, May 11th

Morning  Session

9:30-11:00am - Hollis Clayson (Art History, Northwestern), "Mary Cassatt's Lamp"
11:15am-12:45pm - Frank Trentmann (History, Birkbeck College, London, and SCI, Manchester), "Energizing History: Materiality, Networks and Practices"

Afternoon Session

2:00-2:30pm - MTI Fellows Stephanie Sobelle (Gettysburg College) and Alexander Wragge-Morley (Somerville College, Oxford) will introduce their projects for 2013-14
2:30 pm - General discussion introduced and moderated by Bill Brown
 

For more information, please contact Sabrina Boschetti by phone at Ext. 4228 or by email at [email protected].