Program
The 2019 Humanistic Inquiry Symposium offers a robust, two-day schedule.
Friday, March 29 |
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| Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Museum | |
| 2:30�4:00 p.m. | Barbara Black, English, and Michael Arnush, Classics |
| Welcome | |
| Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Religion; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Science in Society, Wesleyan University | |
| 淭he Horror of Wonder and the Mixture of Things: On Science as Religion, with Continual Reference to Einstein� | |
| Atrium and Somers Room, Tang Museum | |
| 4:00�5:30 p.m. | Sarah DiPasquale, Dance |
| 淢editations on a Miracle� | |
| John Brueggemann, Sociology | |
| 淭he Wonder of Sustainable Food� | |
| Adam Tinkle, MDOCS: John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative | |
| 淲andering/Wondering: a Report on the Uses of a Mobilized Audience� | |
| Mezzanine, Tang Museum | |
| 5:45�6:45 p.m. | Reception |
| Loading Dock, Tang Museum | |
| 7:00�8:00 p.m. | Carolyn Anderson and Gary Wilson, Theater |
| 淥ff the Shelf� (RSVP only) | |
Saturday, March 30 |
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| Somers Room Hallway, Tang Museum |
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| 8:30�9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| Somers Room, Tang Museum | |
| 9:00�10:30 a.m. | Maggie Greaves, English |
| �'The Round, Turning World': Poetry, Nostalgia, and Planet Earth� | |
| Ryan Overbey, Religion | |
| 淢anufacturing Wonder: The Theory and Practice of Awe in Buddhist Scriptures� | |
| Michael Orr, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty; Art History | |
| 淭he Thrill of Discovery: Identifying the Prayerbook of Archduke Albert VII of Austria� | |
| 10:30�11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m.�12:30 p.m. | Jason Ohlberg, Dance |
| 淐horeography as Civic 楽eeing�: Inquiry and Advocacy through Museum-based Physical Research� | |
| Nicholas Junkerman, English | |
| 淩eturning to Wonder: Miracles, Secularization and Literary Studies� | |
| Lena Retamoso Urbano, World Languages and Literatures | |
| 淯nsteady Matter: A Bilingual Poetry Reading� | |
| Atrium, Tang Museum | |
| 12:30�1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| (RSVP only) | |
| Tang Museum | |
| 1:15�1:45 p.m. | Ben Bogin, Asian Studies |
| Tour of The Second Buddha, Wachenheim Gallery | |
| Sarah Goodwin, English | |
| Tour of Like Sugar, Malloy Wing | |
| Somers Room, Tang Museum |
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| 2:00�3:30 p.m. | Sarah Sweeney, Art |
| "Seeing the Unseen� | |
| Larry Jorgensen, Philosophy | |
| 淭he Rise and Fall of Wonder in 17th-Century European Philosophy� | |
| Robert Boyers, English | |
| 淩esisting Wonder� | |
| 3:30�4:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:00�5:30 p.m. | Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins, with Carol Ann Elze, Music |
| 淲hat does 榳onder� sound like?� | |
| Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Theater | |
| 淗emispheric Performance Making: Practices of Wonder and Decolonial Thought� | |
| Joseph Cermatori, English | |
| 淎 Theater History of Wonder: in four (very brief) scenes� | |
| Atrium, Tang Museum |
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| 5:30�6:30 p.m. | Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University |
| Closing remarks, followed by champagne toast | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Dinner (RSVP only) |