Anachronic Shakespeare

Anachronic Shakespeare

A Poetics and Theory Conference

February 24-February 25, 2012

New York University

Jurow Hall, Silver Center

100 Washington Square East

New York, NY 10003

Friday, February 24th

10:00                       Welcome

10:15                       John Archer, Shakespeare’s Poor Beast (English, NYU)

11:45                      Stuart Elden, The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth (Geography, Durham University)

2:30                          Vike Plock, Made in Germany: Joyce Reading Goethe Reading Hamlet (English, University of Exeter)

3:45                          Rebecca Comay, Hamletizations (Benjamin, Schmitt…..) (Philosophy, University of Toronto)

5:30                        Keynote: Samuel Weber, Forgetting the Hobby-Horse: Hamlet Between Schmitt and Benjamin (Comparative Literature, Northwestern University)

6:30                         Response by Julia Lupton (English, UC Irvine)

 

Saturday, February 25th

10:00                       Anselm Haverkamp, Life in the Sonnets: On Life’s Anachronic Nature (English, NYU)

11:15                       Julia Lupton, Softscapes: Shakespeare by Design (English, UC Irvine)

2:00                          Closing Roundtable

Sponsored by the DFG Graduiertenkolleg Lebensformen und Lebenswissen (Graduate Research Colloquium in Forms of Life and the Know-How of Living), the NYU Certificate in Poetics and Theory, and the NYU Comparative Literature Department.

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Conference organized by Elizabeth Bonapfel, Martin Harries, Anselm Haverkamp, and Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz

Poetics and Theory Workshop

“… for example”

A Poetics & Theory Workshop on Exemplarity

Saturday, March 27

At the Humanities Initiative

20 Cooper Union, 5^th floor

12:00 Coffee

12:15 Welcome

12:30 Professor Paul Fleming: “The Perfect Story: Anecdote and Exemplarity in Linnaeus and Blumenberg”

(German, New York University)

1:30 Professor Neni Panourgía: “Stones”

(Anthropology, Columbia University)

2:30 Break

3:00 Professor Anthony Vidler: “Architecture’s Philosophic Exemplarity: from the chora to the temple and back”

(Dean of the School of Architecture, Cooper Union)

4:00 Professor Michèle Lowrie: “The Exemplum as an Affront to Theory”

(Classics, University of Chicago)

5:00 Reception

Questions? Contact Professor Paul Fleming at pf21@nyu.edu

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