Colloquium Program

All sessions will be held at the Hayward Room of the Minary Conference Center in the Hanover Inn. The Keynote Speech will be held in Ballroom West.

Please note that there will be a separate planning session for contributors to the Critical Editions version of The Tale of Genji on Friday morning.

Friday, September 26

1:00 ~ 1:20: Opening Remarks: Dennis Washburn

 

1:30 ~ 3:00: Session 1 Moderator: Monika Otter

Michael Clarke, NUI Galway: “Translation and Canonisation”

Carole Cavanaugh, Middlebury: “Thinking About Thinking in The Tale of Genji”

 

3:15 ~ 4:45: Session 2 Moderator: Lara Harb

Paula Varsano, Berkeley: “Returning to the Ancients”

Keith Vincent, Boston University: “Loving Sôseki”

 

Keynote Address and Reception  5:00 ~ 7:00

Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University

“Philology in Three Dimensions”

 

Saturday, September 27

9:00 ~ 9:20: Opening Remarks: Margaret Williamson

9:30 ~ 11:30: Session 3 Moderator: Michelle Warren

Sean Gurd, University of Missouri: “David Melnick’s Men in Aida”

Edith Sarra, Indiana University: “Recontextualizing Polygyny”

Alan Tansman, Berkeley (paper to be read): “This-Worldy Literariness”

 

1:00 ~ 1:20: Opening Remarks:  Pramit Chaudhuri

 

1:30 ~ 3:00: Session 4 Moderator: Levi Gibbs

Alex Beecroft, USC: “When is a Classic a Classic?”

James Heffernan, Dartmouth: “Classical Hospitality”

 

3:30 ~ 5:00: Session 5 Moderator: Allen Hockley

Joseph Farrell, UPenn: “Modernist Engagement with Latin and Greek”

Michael Emmerich, UCLA: “The Great Unread Classic of World Literature”