Dartmouth Events

boundary 2 Anniversary Conference 

April 27 - April 29

All lectures will take place in the Wren Room, Sanborn House, Dartmouth College.

Free and open to the public.

Friday, April 27

1:30 - 2:30 Ronald Judy (Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies University of Pittsburgh): "Fanon on the Question of Species: Humanism as Restlessness (قَلَقٍ  عَلى)"

2:30 - 3:30 Leah Feldman (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago): "The Poetics of Alignment: Cold War Humanism across Global Souths"

3:30-4:30 Bruce Robbins (Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University): "The Novel and the Poor" 

4:30-5:30 Hortense Spillers (Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University): "To the Bone: Some Speculations on the Question of Touch"

 Saturday, April 28

10:00 - 11:00 Nergis Erturk (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Nazım via Lenin: The Prose of Communism"

11:00 - 12:00 Joseph Buttigieg (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Literature and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame): "Lorianism, or the Fragility of Critical Barriers"

LUNCH

1:30 - 2:30 Jonathan Arac (Mellon Professor of English, Director, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh): "Joseph Frank and the Untimeliness of Intelligence"

2:30 - 3:30 Donald Pease (The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities): "The Uncanny as Way of Being in Toni Morrison's Home"

3:30 - 4:30 Paul A. Bové (Distinguished University Professor, University of Pittsburgh): "Wallace Stevens and the Difficulty of Poetry"  

Sunday, April 29

10:00 - 12:00 Roundtable Discussion: Bill Spanos