Program
The 2019 Humanistic Inquiry Symposium offers a robust, two-day schedule.
Friday, March 29 |
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Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Museum | |
2:30–4:00 p.m. | Barbara Black, English, and Michael Arnush, Classics |
Welcome | |
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Religion; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Science in Society, Wesleyan University | |
“The Horror of Wonder and the Mixture of Things: On Science as Religion, with Continual Reference to Einstein” | |
Atrium and Somers Room, Tang Museum | |
4:00–5:30 p.m. | Sarah DiPasquale, Dance |
“Meditations on a Miracle” | |
John Brueggemann, Sociology | |
“The Wonder of Sustainable Food” | |
Adam Tinkle, MDOCS: John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative | |
“Wandering/Wondering: a Report on the Uses of a Mobilized Audience” | |
Mezzanine, Tang Museum | |
5:45–6:45 p.m. | Reception |
Loading Dock, Tang Museum | |
7:00–8:00 p.m. | Carolyn Anderson and Gary Wilson, Theater |
“Off the Shelf” (RSVP only) | |
Saturday, March 30 |
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Somers Room Hallway, Tang Museum |
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8:30–9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
Somers Room, Tang Museum | |
9:00–10:30 a.m. | Maggie Greaves, English |
“'The Round, Turning World': Poetry, Nostalgia, and Planet Earth” | |
Ryan Overbey, Religion | |
“Manufacturing Wonder: The Theory and Practice of Awe in Buddhist Scriptures” | |
Michael Orr, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty; Art History | |
“The Thrill of Discovery: Identifying the Prayerbook of Archduke Albert VII of Austria” | |
10:30–11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Jason Ohlberg, Dance |
“Choreography as Civic ‘Seeing’: Inquiry and Advocacy through Museum-based Physical Research” | |
Nicholas Junkerman, English | |
“Returning to Wonder: Miracles, Secularization and Literary Studies” | |
Lena Retamoso Urbano, World Languages and Literatures | |
“Unsteady Matter: A Bilingual Poetry Reading” | |
Atrium, Tang Museum | |
12:30–1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
(RSVP only) | |
Tang Museum | |
1:15–1:45 p.m. | Ben Bogin, Asian Studies |
Tour of The Second Buddha, Wachenheim Gallery | |
Sarah Goodwin, English | |
Tour of Like Sugar, Malloy Wing | |
Somers Room, Tang Museum |
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2:00–3:30 p.m. | Sarah Sweeney, Art |
"Seeing the Unseen” | |
Larry Jorgensen, Philosophy | |
“The Rise and Fall of Wonder in 17th-Century European Philosophy” | |
Robert Boyers, English | |
“Resisting Wonder” | |
3:30–4:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
4:00–5:30 p.m. | Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins, with Carol Ann Elze, Music |
“What does ‘wonder’ sound like?” | |
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Theater | |
“Hemispheric Performance Making: Practices of Wonder and Decolonial Thought” | |
Joseph Cermatori, English | |
“A Theater History of Wonder: in four (very brief) scenes” | |
Atrium, Tang Museum |
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5:30–6:30 p.m. | Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University |
Closing remarks, followed by champagne toast | |
6:30 p.m. | Dinner (RSVP only) |