The English Institute
BEYOND BELIEF
Friday, September 28 - Sunday, September 30, 2007
All events take place in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street. Registration check-in and coffee begins at 9 am each morning.
Friday, September 28 | |
9:30 am |
The Soul Once, The World Once: Beckett’s Low Church STEVEN CONNOR, Birkbeck College |
11:00 am |
Against Empathy PATRICK ANDERSON, UC San Diego |
12:30 pm |
Lunch |
2:00 pm |
Justice as Immanence VASSILIS LAMBROPOULOS, Michigan |
3:30 pm |
Reading/Sayings VIRGINIA JACKSON, Tufts |
12:30 pm |
Reception |
Saturday, September 29 | |
9:30 am |
On the Suspension of Disbelief: Ignorance and Innocence in Beckett BRANISLAV JAKOVLJEVIC, Minnesota |
11:00 am |
Le Cru: Derrida’s Blood GIL ANIDJAR, Columbia |
12:30 pm |
Lunch |
2:00 pm |
Speaking Freely: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Reality) Bomb JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT, The New School |
3:30 pm |
Proust’s Credulity RICHARD MORAN, Harvard |
Sunday, September 30 | |
9:30 am |
The Demon of Belief J.M. BERNSTEIN, The New School |
11:30 am |
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION from Human, All Too Human, “Of first and last things” from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, “Of the gift-giving virtue” Directed by JACQUES LEZRA, U Wisconsin |