The English Institute

BEYOND BELIEF

Friday, September 28 - Sunday, September 30, 2007

All events take place in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street. Registration check-in and coffee begins at 9 am each morning.


Friday, September 28

9:30 am

The Soul Once, The World Once: Beckett's Low Church

STEVEN CONNOR, Birkbeck College

11:00 am

Against Empathy

PATRICK ANDERSON, UC San Diego

12:30 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

Justice as Immanence

VASSILIS LAMBROPOULOS, Michigan

3:30 pm

Reading/Sayings

VIRGINIA JACKSON, Tufts

12:30 pm

Reception


Saturday, September 29

9:30 am

On the Suspension of Disbelief: Ignorance and Innocence in Beckett

BRANISLAV JAKOVLJEVIC, Minnesota

11:00 am

Le Cru: Derrida's Blood

GIL ANIDJAR, Columbia

12:30 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

Speaking Freely: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Reality) Bomb

JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT, The New School

3:30 pm

Proust's Credulity

RICHARD MORAN, Harvard

Sunday, September 30

9:30 am

The Demon of Belief

J.M. BERNSTEIN, The New School

11:30 am

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

from Human, All Too Human, "Of first and last things"

from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, "Of the gift-giving virtue"

Directed by JACQUES LEZRA, U Wisconsin