Program
Friday, March 23 |
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| Payne Room, Tang Museum | |
| 3鈥�4:30 p.m. | Welcome |
| Barbara Black, English, and Michael Arnush, classics | |
| Introduction | |
| Joseph Cermatori, English | |
| Martin Puchner, Drama, English and Comparative Literature, Harvard | |
| 鈥淪torytelling from the Tablet to the Internet鈥� | |
| 4:45鈥�5:30 p.m. | Joel Brown and Brett Grigsby, music |
| 鈥淏arbara Allen,鈥� 鈥淭he Cherry Tree Carol,鈥� by Edward Flower | |
| April Bernard, English | |
| 鈥淓lizabethan Ghosts: A Brief Poetry Reading鈥� | |
| Robert ParkeHarrison, art, and Shana ParkeHarrison | |
| Photographic montage | |
| Will Bond, theater | |
| Ovid Metamorphoses 10: Pygmalion | |
| Debra Fernandez, dance, and Emily Gunter, Class of 2019 | |
| Hybrid | |
| Somers Room, Tang Museum | |
| 5:30鈥�6:30 p.m. | Eliza Kent, religious studies |
| 鈥淭ransforming Secular Space to Sacred: Roadside Shrines in Urban Tamil Nadu鈥� | |
| Gordon Thompson, music | |
| 鈥淭he Transfiguration of John Lennon: More Popular than Jesus, but Getting Better All the Time鈥� | |
| Tang Museum Atrium | |
| 6:30鈥�7 p.m. | Reception and book signing by Martin Puchner |
| The Written World: How Literature Shaped Civilization (Random House, 2017) |
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| Payne Room, Tang | |
| 7鈥�9 p.m. | Dinner (RSVP) |
Saturday, March 24 |
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| Somers Room, Tang | |
| 8:30鈥�9 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 9鈥�10:30 a.m. | Dan Curley, classics |
| 鈥溾�楢fter Euripides鈥�: Correcting a Classic in Robinson Jeffers鈥� Medea鈥� | |
| Sarah Goodwin, English | |
| 鈥淢etamorphoses of Sugar鈥� | |
| Ryan Overbey, Buddhist studies | |
| 鈥淚maginaires, Repertoires, Hyperobjects: Rethinking Intellectual History and Reading Buddhist Ritual Texts鈥� | |
| 10:30鈥�10:45 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:45鈥�12:15 p.m. | Bina Gogineni, English |
| 鈥淭he Disenchantment of the (Not Quite Whole) World鈥� | |
| Crystal Dea Moore, social work | |
| 鈥淭he Presence of Absence鈥� | |
| Sara Lagalwar, neuroscience | |
| 鈥淏rain Plasticity: Pushing the Limits鈥� | |
| Payne Room, Tang Museum | |
| 12:15鈥�1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| Tang Museum | |
| 1:15鈥�1:45 p.m. | Tours of the Tang Exhibitions |
| Ian Berry: Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp | |
| Rachel Seligman: This Place | |
| Somers Room, Tang | |
| 2鈥�3 p.m. | Heather Hurst and Edwin Rom谩n-Ramirez, Anthropology |
| "Old Buildings, New Meanings鈥� | |
| Jeff Segrave, Health and Human Physiological Sciences | |
| 鈥淭he Modern Mythology of Sport鈥� | |
| 3鈥�3:15 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 3:15鈥�4:15 p.m. | Catherine White Berheide, sociology |
| 鈥淒id Skidmore Change?鈥� | |
| Joseph Cermatori, English | |
| 鈥溾�楢nd We Shall Be Changed...鈥�: Baroque Transfigurations in Thornton Wilder鈥檚 Everyday Aesthetics鈥� | |
| Tang Museum Atrium | |
| 4:15鈥�4:45 p.m. | Martin Puchner, Harvard |
| Closing remarks, followed by champagne toast (Atrium) | |