Keynote speakers
Stephen Mulhall, Oxford University, Philosophy
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin, History
Friday, February 22, 2012
Gilman 132
1:00 - 2:40 Panel 1: Repetition and the Art of Writing
Chair: Katherine Boyce-Jacino
James Masland
Wordsworth’s Return to Tintern Abbey: Repetition and the “Life of Objects”
Katherine Miller
Practices of Repetition and Revision in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Charles Gelman
Benjamin, Nietzsche, and the Irony of Translations
Coffee Break
3:10 - 4:40 Panel 2: Dialectics of Repetition
Chair: Martijn Buijs
Sean Hannan
Retention Machine: The Possibility of Repetition in Augustine and Hegel
Justin Humphreys
Hegel’s Kantian Recapitulation
Sean Bray
Murder as a Condition of Possibility for Morality in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Coffee Break
5:30 - 7:00 pm Keynote Address
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin, History
Repetition: Making the Eternal Recur
Saturday, February 23, 2012
Gilman 50
10:00 am Breakfast
10:30 - 12:00 Panel 3: Repetition, Memory, Amnesia
Chair: Larry McGrath
David Rambo
The Error-Image: On Memory and the Technical Relation
Kimberley Anne Garcia
Thomas De Quincey's Involutes: Repetition in Archival Mind and Manifold Memory
Brandon Pelcher
Forgetting and Repetition in Heidegger's Sein und Zeit
Coffee Break
2:00 - 3:30 pm Panel 4: Traumatic Repetitions
Chair: Misha Davidoff
Roy Scranton
Oppen’s Faith, Abraham’s Knife, and the “Myth of the Blaze”
Marissa Schwalm
Joining the Collective Memory: Trauma and Identity in Graphic Memoirs
Katherine Rochester
The Shadow’s Return: Circling the Video Loop in Paul Chan’s The 7 Lights
Coffee Break
4:30 - 6:00 pm Keynote Address
Stephen Mulhall (Philosophy, University of Oxford, New College)
Cinematic Repetition and How to Avoid It: Sequels, Prequels and Prometheus
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