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TENSE/TIMES
Literature, Anxiety,
Temporality
58th
Session
Friday - Sunday
October 1-3, 1999
Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way
Radcliffe Yard
Harvard University
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The 58th annual meeting of The English Institute
takes up questions of temporality in a variety of
contexts - literature (from the tense of sentences
to the time of literary periods), culture (from
Medieval catastrophe to electronic cool), and
history (from its theoretical impossibility to its
continuing necessity). What anxieties are encoded
in the times and tenses of writing? What notions of
past, present, and future shape contemporary
thinking?
Participants were encouraged to re-read Paul de
Man's essay "Literary History and Literary
Modernity" (in Blindness and Insight) in order to
foster a lively discussion among all registrants at
the Saturday afternoon Roundtable.
9:30
a.m.
CATHERINE GALLAGHER, University of California,
Berkeley
Undoing: The Plot to End All
Periods
11:00
a.m.
STEPHEN G. NICHOLS, Johns Hopkins University
Cycles of Terror: Death as History in
Restoration France
2:00
p.m.
JEROME J. MCGANN, University of Virginia
Scholarly Adventures in
Computerland
3:30
p.m.*
JAY CLAYTON, Vanderbilt University
Genome Time
5:30
p.m.
Reception
Barker Center-Thompson Room
*please note that Jay Clayton has
replaced Wahneema Lubiano for the Friday 3:30
p.m. talk.
9:30
a.m.
JENNIFER WICKE, University of Virginia
Sublime Lite: Millennial Anticlimax and the
American (End of) Century
11:00
a.m.
LOUISE O. FRADENBURG, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Group Time: Catastrophe, Survival,
Periodicity
2:00
p.m.
Roundtable: Re-reading DeMan's Literary
History and Literary Modernity
JONATHAN ARAC AND BARBARA JOHNSON
3:30
p.m.
ALAN LIU, University of California, Santa
Barbara
The Laws of Cool (Information Should Not Mean
But Be)
5:00
p.m.
Members Meeting
9:30
a.m.
JANE GALLOP, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Econstructing Sisterhood
11:00
a.m.
SAMUEL R. DELANY, State University of New York,
Buffalo
Historifying Marginal Practices
12:30
p.m.
Trustees and Supervisors Meeting
Program
directors
Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch, and Karen
Newman.
The Supervising Committee welcomes your ideas
for next year's topics and speakers. Please send
suggestions to committee members either by e-mail
(englinst@fas.harvard.edu)
or in writing prior to the beginning of the 1999
conference.
English Institute
Center for Literary & Cultural Studies
Harvard University
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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