Friday, October 6
1:00
Welcome
Enrique J. Lavernia, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UCI;
Georges Van Den Abbeele, Dean of Humanities, UCI; Seth Lerer, Chair, The English Institute
1:15
Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space
Mary Ann Doane, University of California, Berkeley
3:00
Extreme Reading
Brad Pasanek, University of Virginia
4:30
Coffee
4:45
Mandeville, the Jews, and World Domination
Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin
6:15
Reception
Saturday, October 7
9:00
Coffee
9:30
Bigness as the Unconscious of Theory
David Wittenberg, University of Iowa
11:00
The Conversation
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “The Structural Study of Myth”
12:15
Lunch
1:15
Narrative and Scale in the Anthropocene
Ursula Heise, University of California, Los Angeles
2:45
Fleas, Femtoseconds, and Fractals
John Durham Peters, Yale University
4:15
Coffee
4:30
Past Americana
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz
6:00
Reception