Session I

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

East Asian Languages
& Civilizations

Michael Bourdaghs

Stuart 102

What Does the J in J-Pop Stand For?

English Language & Literature

Christina von Nolcken

Harper 140

Beowulf and its World

English Language & Literature

Larry Rothfield

Harper 130

Nobody thought of culture: Behind the Looting of the Baghdad Museum

English Language & Literature

Lisa Ruddick

Stuart 105

How Do We Discover That Other People Are Real? (REGISTRATION CLOSED)

MUSIC

Philip Gossett

Fulton Hall, Goodspeed

The Hot and the Cold: Did Verdi compose an opera on Shakespeare's "King Lear"?

Romance Languages & Literatures/ Art History

Daisy Delogu and Aden Kumler

Regenstein Special Collections

Love's Looks, Love's Books: The Thirteenth-Century Romance of the Rose

South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Gary Tubb

Stuart 104

Love and Religion in Classical Sanskrit Poetry

Keynote Address

11 a.m. - 12:00 noon

English Language & Literature

Jacqueline Goldsby

Mandel Hall, 1135 E. 57th Street

A Salon for the Masses: Black Chicago's Book Review and Lecture Forum, 1933-53


Session II

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

HUMANITIES

Civic Knowledge Project Panel

Stuart 105

What is Civic Knowledge?

Humanities Computing

Mark Olsen and Lec Maj

Stuart 101

Exploring Innovative research Technologies in the Humanities Division

East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Michael Raine

Film Studies Center, Cobb 307

Re-envisioning the Cinema: computer-based tools for film analysis

English Language & Literature

David Bevington

Harper 140

Shakespeare on Religion (REGISTRATION CLOSED)

English Language & Literature

Bill Brown

Harper 130

Objects, Other, and Us

Music

Shulamit Ran

Fulton Hall, Goodspeed

Taking on the Credo: a chanticleer Mass through a Jewish prism

Near eastern Languages & Civilizations

Norman Golb

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute

The Clash of Ideas Regarding the Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Recent Developments

Session III

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES

Film Studies Center, Cobb 307

Screening of Hands (1928) and Borderline (1930) Introductory comments by Jennifer Wild

English Language & Literature/ CREATIVE WRITING

Peter O'Leary, Megan Stielstra, and Garin Cycholl

Stuart 102

THE ART OF WRITING: THREE READINGS FROM THE COMMITTEE ON CREATIVE WRITING Introductory comments by Janice Knight

English Language & Literature

Richard Strier

Stuart 104

Bangs and Whimpers: The Two Texts of King Lear

GERMANIC STUDIES/ ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES/ DIVINITY SCHOOL

Robert Buch, Thomas Pavel, and Rana Choi

Harper 130

Does Literature Imitate Life? Erich Auerbach's Mimesis

HUMANITIES

Stuart 105

Screening of The CKP Remembers 1942-43 (2008) Introductory comments by Bart Schultz

Humanities

Herman Sinaiko

Stuart 101

Who was Socrates and What did he do?

Linguistics/ Anthropology

Alan Yu, Chris Kennedy, Robin Shoaps, and Jason Riggle

Landahl Center
Social Science 004

Landahl Center Open House: Ask a Linguist

Philosophy

Ted Cohen

Harper 140

The Mystery of Metaphor