The English Institute 2015

Friday Afternoon

, Sept. 18

2:00pm
Cutting a Figure
Jeff Dolven, Princeton University

3:30pm
The Figure, in Two, Three, and Four Dimensions
Christopher S. Wood, New York University

Saturday Morning, Sept. 19

9:30am
Compulsory Figures
Arthur Bahr, MIT

11:00am
Figuring Blackness in a Place without Race
Monica L. Miller, Barnard College

Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 19

2:00pm
Figuring the Facade
Anthony Vidler, The Cooper Union and Yale

3:30pm
Group discussion: text: Erich Auerbach’s “Figura”
discussion led by Sandra Macpherson, The Ohio State University

Sunday morning Sept. 20

9:00am
Form or Figure?
Anahid Nersessian, UCLA

10:30am
Figures in Excess, or the Matter of Inversion (On the Sublime)
Ian Balfour, York University

12:15pm
Roundtable: all conference speakers

Text: 
Figure
Session: 
74th Annual Meeting
Publication Date: 
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
University: 
Yale University
Date of publication: 
September 18-20, 2015
Past Conferences Date: 
Friday, September 18, 2015 to Sunday, September 20, 2015