Program
Friday, March 23 |
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| Payne Room, Tang Museum | |
| 3–4:30 p.m. | Welcome |
| Barbara Black, English, and Michael Arnush, classics | |
| Introduction | |
| Joseph Cermatori, English | |
| Martin Puchner, Drama, English and Comparative Literature, Harvard | |
| “Storytelling from the Tablet to the Internet” | |
| 4:45–5:30 p.m. | Joel Brown and Brett Grigsby, music |
| “Barbara Allen,” “The Cherry Tree Carol,” by Edward Flower | |
| April Bernard, English | |
| “Elizabethan Ghosts: A Brief Poetry Reading” | |
| Robert ParkeHarrison, art, and Shana ParkeHarrison | |
| Photographic montage | |
| Will Bond, theater | |
| Ovid Metamorphoses 10: Pygmalion | |
| Debra Fernandez, dance, and Emily Gunter, Class of 2019 | |
| Hybrid | |
| Somers Room, Tang Museum | |
| 5:30–6:30 p.m. | Eliza Kent, religious studies |
| “Transforming Secular Space to Sacred: Roadside Shrines in Urban Tamil Nadu” | |
| Gordon Thompson, music | |
| “The Transfiguration of John Lennon: More Popular than Jesus, but Getting Better All the Time” | |
| Tang Museum Atrium | |
| 6:30–7 p.m. | Reception and book signing by Martin Puchner |
| The Written World: How Literature Shaped Civilization (Random House, 2017) |
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| Payne Room, Tang | |
| 7–9 p.m. | Dinner (RSVP) |
Saturday, March 24 |
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| Somers Room, Tang | |
| 8:30–9 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 9–10:30 a.m. | Dan Curley, classics |
| “‘After Euripides’: Correcting a Classic in Robinson Jeffers’ Medea” | |
| Sarah Goodwin, English | |
| “Metamorphoses of Sugar” | |
| Ryan Overbey, Buddhist studies | |
| “Imaginaires, Repertoires, Hyperobjects: Rethinking Intellectual History and Reading Buddhist Ritual Texts” | |
| 10:30–10:45 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:45–12:15 p.m. | Bina Gogineni, English |
| “The Disenchantment of the (Not Quite Whole) World” | |
| Crystal Dea Moore, social work | |
| “The Presence of Absence” | |
| Sara Lagalwar, neuroscience | |
| “Brain Plasticity: Pushing the Limits” | |
| Payne Room, Tang Museum | |
| 12:15–1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| Tang Museum | |
| 1:15–1:45 p.m. | Tours of the Tang Exhibitions |
| Ian Berry: Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp | |
| Rachel Seligman: This Place | |
| Somers Room, Tang | |
| 2–3 p.m. | Heather Hurst and Edwin Román-Ramirez, Anthropology |
| "Old Buildings, New Meanings” | |
| Jeff Segrave, Health and Human Physiological Sciences | |
| “The Modern Mythology of Sport” | |
| 3–3:15 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 3:15–4:15 p.m. | Catherine White Berheide, sociology |
| “Did Skidmore Change?” | |
| Joseph Cermatori, English | |
| “‘And We Shall Be Changed...’: Baroque Transfigurations in Thornton Wilder’s Everyday Aesthetics” | |
| Tang Museum Atrium | |
| 4:15–4:45 p.m. | Martin Puchner, Harvard |
| Closing remarks, followed by champagne toast (Atrium) | |