Symposium Schedule
Milne 200, Downtown Campus
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9:00 a.m. Coffee and packet pickup
9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
Richard Barney (University at Albany)
9:30-11:20 a.m. Feeling It: Enabling and Disabling Community
Chair: Paul Stasi (University at Albany)
Charles Shepherdson (University at Albany), “’Sense’ and Community in Kant and Nancy”
Erica Fretwell (University at Albany), “Sense Ability in America”
Sarah Blackwood (Pace University), “Painting Portraits, Dismembering the Mind: Portraiture and the Somatic Mind in Nineteenth-Century America”
Stephen Tifft (Williams College), “The Politics of Disgust: Contradictions of Anarchism in the Riots over Jarry’s Ubu roi”
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch served in the Downtown Café, Husted Hall
12:30-2:00 p.m. Genealogies of Affect
Chair: Kir Kuiken (University at Albany)
Walter Johnston (Williams College), “Feeling Free: The Purposelessness of History in Kant”
Joel Sodano (University at Albany), “The Passionate Precursors of Affect: Eighteenth-Century Negotiations of Intensity”
Anita Sokolsky (Williams College), “The Resurrection Men: Dickens, Carlyle, Burke, and the Politics of Affectless Affect”
2:00-25 p.m. Break
2:30-4 p.m. Roundtable
Chair: Eric Keenaghan (University at Albany)
Peter Breiner (University at Albany)
Ian Balfour (York University)
James Lilley (University at Albany)
Wendy Roberts (University at Albany)
Torrey Shanks (University at Albany)
Morton Schoolman (University at Albany)
4:00-4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. Keynote
Ian Balfour (York University), “Pathos, Figure, Freedom: On Some Poetics and Politics in the Discourse of the Sublime”
To view a presentation's abstract, please click on the paper title.
9:00 a.m. Coffee and packet pickup
9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
Richard Barney (University at Albany)
9:30-11:20 a.m. Feeling It: Enabling and Disabling Community
Chair: Paul Stasi (University at Albany)
Charles Shepherdson (University at Albany), “’Sense’ and Community in Kant and Nancy”
Erica Fretwell (University at Albany), “Sense Ability in America”
Sarah Blackwood (Pace University), “Painting Portraits, Dismembering the Mind: Portraiture and the Somatic Mind in Nineteenth-Century America”
Stephen Tifft (Williams College), “The Politics of Disgust: Contradictions of Anarchism in the Riots over Jarry’s Ubu roi”
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch served in the Downtown Café, Husted Hall
12:30-2:00 p.m. Genealogies of Affect
Chair: Kir Kuiken (University at Albany)
Walter Johnston (Williams College), “Feeling Free: The Purposelessness of History in Kant”
Joel Sodano (University at Albany), “The Passionate Precursors of Affect: Eighteenth-Century Negotiations of Intensity”
Anita Sokolsky (Williams College), “The Resurrection Men: Dickens, Carlyle, Burke, and the Politics of Affectless Affect”
2:00-25 p.m. Break
2:30-4 p.m. Roundtable
Chair: Eric Keenaghan (University at Albany)
Peter Breiner (University at Albany)
Ian Balfour (York University)
James Lilley (University at Albany)
Wendy Roberts (University at Albany)
Torrey Shanks (University at Albany)
Morton Schoolman (University at Albany)
4:00-4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. Keynote
Ian Balfour (York University), “Pathos, Figure, Freedom: On Some Poetics and Politics in the Discourse of the Sublime”