The Crafty Reader:
A symposium in honor of Robert Scholes
Friday, May 12, 2017
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
Studio 1, Room S410
Poster
Free and open to the public.
RSVP HERE
Immediately following the symposium, there will be a reception followed by buffet dinner at the Factuly Club, 1 Magee Street.
Organized by Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies, Department of Modern Culture and Media
Co-sponsors include Cogut Center for the Humanities; Dean of the Faculty, C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureship; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Department of Literary Arts; Modernist Journals Project, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
The Crafty Reader Schedule
Please assist in our planning and r.s.v.p. for dinner and/or lunch—RSVP HERE
9:30 AM—Coffee and pastries
10:00-10:15 AM —Welcoming Remarks
Kevin McLaughlin, Dean of the Faculty, Brown
Lynne Joyrich, Chair, Modern Culture and Media, Brown
10:15-12:15 PM—Panel 1
Moderated by Ellen Rooney, Professor, English and Modern Culture and Media , Brown
A Semiotics of Transparency: Physiognomy and the Filmic Face
Mary Ann Doane, Professor, Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley
Ulysses: The Magazine
Sean Latham, Professor, English, University of Tulsa
A Long the River Runnins
Robert Arellano, Professor, Emerging Media & Digital Arts, Southern Oregon University
12:15-1:45 PM—Lunch
Brown Bag lunches will be provided.
2:00-4:00 PM—Panel 2
Moderated by Philip Rosen, Professor, Modern Culture and Media, Brown
The Girandoles of Robert Scholes
David Ben-Merre, Professor, English, Buffalo State
Speculative Reading: Forty Days and More
Marianne Hirsch, Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Remarks and Readings
Robert Coover, Professor, Literary Arts, Brown
4:00-4:15 PM—Coffee break
4:15-5:45 PM—Panel 3: Memories of Bob Scholes
Moderated by Lynne Joyrich, Chair and Professor, Modern Culture and Media, Brown
6:00 PM—Reception followed by buffet dinner
Brown Faculty Club, 1 Magee Street