2001 Conference

The English Institute 2001

The 2001 English Institute conference was a great success and we are hard at work planning the 2002 event. Please continue checking this website for more details and scheduling information! The 60th meeting of the English Institute will explore new work under four headings, a topic, a genre, an author and a text for group discussion. The topic panel, Bohemias, will inquire into the uneasy and uncertain relation these sites of artistic, social, and sexual experimentation bear to the dominant cultures from which they set themselves apart. We will consider the problematic genre of Romance which has been powerfully theorized and historically embedded, while recent studies of late Greek and Roman antiquity have prompted broad reconsideration of the "genre" from its inception through subsequent cultural history. The author panel will revisit Walt Whitman, for whose early career the bohemian subcultures of New York City were of decisive importance. A discussion will follow of Kristeva's "A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident" which is a 1974 manifesto for the responsibilities of intellectuals written at the moment that post-structuralism, Maoism, psychoanalysis, and feminism were swirling together in Paris's literary political vanguard. In response to your comments at last year's conference, we are pleased to announce online registration for the 2001 Conference. You can now register online. If a fee is owed, we offer credit card processing including Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover, or you may print out the completed registration form to be mailed in with a check or money order. Our registration form is secure and your credit card transaction is protected by SSL, the internet standard for encryption. 60th Session Saturday - Sunday December 15 - 16, 2001 Askwith Auditorium Longfellow Hall 13 Appian Way Near Harvard Square Harvard University Click here for lodging Click here for map Registration and Breakfast Saturday, 8:00 a.m. Askwith Auditorium I. BOHEMIAS Directed by Bruce Robbins, Rutgers University Saturday, 9:00 a.m. Andrew Ross, New York University The Industrialization of Bohemia Saturday, 10:15 a.m. Janet Lyon, Pennsylvania State University Sociability in the Metropole: Modernism's Bohemian Salons Saturday, 11:30 a.m. Jani Scandura, University of Minnesota "Down Under In Harlem":A Geography of the Blues Lunch Saturday, 1:00 p.m. (you may purchase a $10 ticket for this lunch at morning registration) II. ROMANCE Directed by Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Daniel L. Selden, University of California, Santa Cruz Holy Wandering: Historicizing Romance Saturday, 3:15 p.m. David Glimp, University of Miami, Coral Gables Generating Romance: The Example of Sir Philip Sidney Saturday, 4:30 p.m. Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz From 'Matière Antique' to 'Matière Sarrasine': Recontextualizing French Romance in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean Reception Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Horner Room, Agassiz House 14 Mason Street Just across the Radcliffe yard from Longfellow Hall Registration and Breakfast Sunday, 8:00 a.m. Askwith Auditorium III. WHITMAN Directed by Michael Warner, Rutgers University Sunday, 9:00 a.m. Michael Moon, The Johns Hopkins University Solitude, Singularity, Seriality: Whitman and Others Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Virginia Jackson, Rutgers University Your Name and Walt Whitman's Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Angus Fletcher, Professor Emeritus, The Graduate School, City University of New York "The readjustment of the whole theory and Nature of Poetry" Lunch Sunday, 12:45 p.m. (on our own) IV. KRISTEVA Led by Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Roundtable on Julia Kristeva's "A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident" 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 2001 conference. The English Institute The Humanities Center Harvard University Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138