Program
Friday, March 23 |
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| Payne Room, Tang Museum | |
| 3�4:30 p.m. | Welcome |
| Barbara Black, English, and Michael Arnush, classics | |
| Introduction | |
| Joseph Cermatori, English | |
| Martin Puchner, Drama, English and Comparative Literature, Harvard | |
| 淪torytelling from the Tablet to the Internet� | |
| 4:45�5:30 p.m. | Joel Brown and Brett Grigsby, music |
| 淏arbara Allen,� 淭he Cherry Tree Carol,� by Edward Flower | |
| April Bernard, English | |
| 淓lizabethan Ghosts: A Brief Poetry Reading� | |
| 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�6:30 p.m. | Eliza Kent, religious studies |
| 淭ransforming Secular Space to Sacred: Roadside Shrines in Urban Tamil Nadu� | |
| Gordon Thompson, music | |
| 淭he Transfiguration of John Lennon: More Popular than Jesus, but Getting Better All the Time� | |
| Tang Museum Atrium | |
| 6:30�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�9 p.m. | Dinner (RSVP) |
Saturday, March 24 |
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| Somers Room, Tang | |
| 8:30�9 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 9�10:30 a.m. | Dan Curley, classics |
| 湗After Euripides�: Correcting a Classic in Robinson Jeffers� Medea� | |
| Sarah Goodwin, English | |
| 淢etamorphoses of Sugar� | |
| Ryan Overbey, Buddhist studies | |
| 淚maginaires, Repertoires, Hyperobjects: Rethinking Intellectual History and Reading Buddhist Ritual Texts� | |
| 10:30�10:45 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:45�12:15 p.m. | Bina Gogineni, English |
| 淭he Disenchantment of the (Not Quite Whole) World� | |
| Crystal Dea Moore, social work | |
| 淭he Presence of Absence� | |
| Sara Lagalwar, neuroscience | |
| 淏rain Plasticity: Pushing the Limits� | |
| Payne Room, Tang Museum | |
| 12:15�1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| Tang Museum | |
| 1:15�1:45 p.m. | Tours of the Tang Exhibitions |
| Ian Berry: Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp | |
| Rachel Seligman: This Place | |
| Somers Room, Tang | |
| 2�3 p.m. | Heather Hurst and Edwin Rom谩n-Ramirez, Anthropology |
| "Old Buildings, New Meanings� | |
| Jeff Segrave, Health and Human Physiological Sciences | |
| 淭he Modern Mythology of Sport� | |
| 3�3:15 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 3:15�4:15 p.m. | Catherine White Berheide, sociology |
| 淒id 91传媒 Change?� | |
| Joseph Cermatori, English | |
| 湗And We Shall Be Changed...�: Baroque Transfigurations in Thornton Wilder Everyday Aesthetics� | |
| Tang Museum Atrium | |
| 4:15�4:45 p.m. | Martin Puchner, Harvard |
| Closing remarks, followed by champagne toast (Atrium) | |