The English Institute 2003:
Divided Loyalties

The 62nd annual meeting of the English Institute continues our custom of exploring exciting new work under four headings, but this year we have attempted to bring these headings under one guiding idea: Divided Loyalties. Inspired in part by how the events of 9/11 have compelled us to see attachments, allegiances, and convictions as never single but always torn, we will have a topic panel about "Cold War," an author panel devoted to Rudyard Kipling and a genre panel on "Translation" in order to explore how divided loyalties have marked our political, social, and linguistic lives. And for this year's concluding "Roundtable" we offer not the customary theoretical text for shared reading and group discussion, but a set of poems by Phillis Wheately, herself an instance of "translation" whose loyalties could hardly be more divided: "On being brought from Africa to America," "Niobe in Distress for her children slain by Apollo," and "To S.M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works." We can no longer accept web-based pre-registrations for the 62nd Session of the English Institute, as we have reached our full capacity. If you would like to be added to a waiting list, you may e-mail your request to englinst@fas.harvard.edu, or simply stop by the registration table to sign the list. First come, first served, for any remaining available seating. Thank you for your interest and support of the English Institute!

62th Session Friday - Sunday September 19 - 21, 2003 Thompson Room Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Harvard University Click here for lodging Click here for map

Friday, 19 September

9:30 AM	Cold War Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Cold War Liberals
11 AM	Cold War Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY Graduate Center, Once You Go Black: American Intellectuals and the End of African-American Innocence
Lunch at 12:30 PM
2 PM	Rudyard Kipling Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, Metaphysical Intelligence-Gathering, or Kipling's Guru English
3:30 PM	Rudyard Kipling Lecia Rosenthal, Tufts University, Vulgar Loyalties
5 PM	RECEPTION

Saturday, 20 September

9:30 AM	Rudyard Kipling Homi Bhabha, Harvard University, Divided Loyalties and Split Imperatives: Kipling's Late Work
11 AM	Cold War Deborah Nelson, University of Chicago, Table for One: Dining Out with the Pariahs
Lunch at 12:30 PM
2 PM	Translation Jacques Lezra, Wisconsin-Madison, The Indecisive Muse
3:30 PM	Translation Lydia Liu, University of Michigan, The Ideograph as a Super-Sign

Sunday, 21 September

9:30 AM

Translation Andrew Parker, Amherst College, Marx Translates Freud

11 AM

Roundtable Phillis Wheatley: Three Poems Discussion directed by Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University Participants are encouraged to read these selected poems in preparation for the Sunday Roundtable discussion: On being brought from Africa to America Niobe in Distress for her children slain by Apollo To S.M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works There are many wonderful and free on-line publications of Wheatley's book, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." We recommend the Renascence Editions version which can be found at http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/wheatley.html. If you prefer to buy the full book of poetry, we recommend the 2001 Penguin edition, edited by Vincent Carretta.

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