Schedule

CLS Graduate Student Conference 2006: Arresting the Flow
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FRIDAY, April 14

11:00
Check-in
Location [TBA]

12:00
Opening remarks

12:15
Dissolving the Subject: History and Philosophy of Flow

1) Flux and Becoming: Deleuze's Return to Heraclitus
--Ella Brians, Philosophy, New School University
2) Rationalism's Containment of the Mesmeric Fluid: Kant, Fichte, and Scholarly Discourse
--Sean Franzel, Germanic Studies, Cornell University
3) Surface in Flow: The Cutaneous and the Canvas in Francis Bacon's Work
--Marcel Finke, Art History, University of Leipzig

2:30
Containers: Spatial Restraint, Tension, Vibration

5) verwahrs: verse-vase
--Ena Jung, German, Princeton University
6) The Slow Object of Contemporary Art: Matthew Barney's Filmic Installation
--Jessica Santone, Art History, McGill University
7) A Cinema Without Organs: Musical Values and Fields of Vibrations in Horror Film
--Kelly Kirshtner, Visual Studies, University of California (Irvine)

4:00
Keynote address
Bernhard Siegert
“Floating Signifiers on the Mississippi: Herman Melville’s Confidence Man.”
Response
Peter Fenves

6:00
Wine & Cheese reception in Harris 108

SATURDAY, April 15

9:30
Breakfast (catered), Harris 108

10:00
Bodies and Circulation: The Economy of Flow

8) From Goethe's 'Pflanze' to Ford's 'Plant': The Comparison of Two Cultural Symbols
--Christian Weber, German and History & Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
9) Liquid Agencies in Thomas Heywood's 'Fair Maid of the West'
--Hillary Eklund, English, Duke University
10) The Life Aquatic in the Bourgeois Interior
--Isabel Kranz, Media of History-History of Media Graduiertenkolleg, Bauhaus University Weimar
11) Counter-Flow: Censorship and Digital Media Appropriations
--Abigail Derecho, Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University

12:00
Lunch (catered), Harris 108

1:30
Keynote address
Jules Law
"Transparency, Congelation, Arrest: Some Thoughts on Knowledge and Action in George Eliot"
Roundtable discussion
With Bernhard Siegert and Peter Fenves

3:00
The Rhythm and Regulation of Flow

12) The Flow of Traffic: Adorno on Poetic Language in Late Capitalism
--Heather Fielding, English, Brown University
13) Time/Frame: Flows of Duration in Hiroshi Sugimoto's 'Theaters' Series
--Stamatina Gregory, Art History, The Graduate Center (CUNY)
14) The Melody and Rhythm of Flow: Husserl and Benveniste
--Robert G. Ryder, Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University

4:30
The Pandemic: Fluid Communities

15) The Pen and the Syringe: Autoimmunity and the (Un)readability of Flowing Blood
--Neal DeRoo, Philosophy, Boston College
16) How the Bird Flew: Analyzing Discourses of National Accountability and Global Responsibility in Response to the Threat of a Global Avian Flu Pandemic
--Nick Muntean, Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas-Austin
17) Data/Cloud/Swarm. Swarm Dynamics and Flexible Topologies
--Sebastian Vehlken, Media of History-History of Media Graduiertenkolleg, Bauhaus University Weimar

6:00
Close of conference

Evening
Informal event hosted by CLS graduate students

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