Transformations: A Conference for Leonard Barkan
Thursday May 9 & Friday May 10, 2019
All events will be held in Chancellor Green Rotunda, unless otherwise indicated.(map)
Map to Conference Venues and Guest Parking for Conference
Thursday, May 9
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-3:20 Introductions
Tom Hare, Princeton University
Shirley Tilghman, Princeton University
3:20-4:20 Stephen Orgel, Stanford University
“How to be Classical”
Introduction: Tom Hare, Princeton University
4:20-4:30 Break
4:30-6:00 Panel 1: GROUNDS AND SOURCES
Chair: Marina Brownlee, Princeton University
Speakers:
Heather James, University of Southern California, “Ground and Grounds”
Ron Martinez, Brown University, “Italy”
Albert Ascoli, University of California-Berkeley “Being a Grown Up”
Dan Moss, Southern Methodist University, “Returning to Origins”
Philip Lorenz, Cornell University, “Religion”
Andrew Hui, Yale-NUS, “The Displaced Gods”
6:15-8:30 Reception at the Princeton Art Museum (map)
Friday, May 10
8:45-9:15 Breakfast
9:15-10:15 Marjorie Garber, Harvard University
“As ’Twere; or, Misrecognition”
Introduction: Jeff Dolven, Princeton University
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Panel 2: AESTHETIC PLEASURES
Chair: Lucia Allais, Princeton University
Speakers:
Alexander Nagel, New York University, “Michelangelo”
Susanna Berger, University of Southern California, “Images”
Joe Moshenska, Oxford University, “Taste”
Jerry Passannante, University of Maryland, “Leonardo”
Emily Vasiliauskas, Williams College, “The Secret Life of Statues”
William West, Northwestern University, “Aesthetics”
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Panel 3: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Russ Leo, Princeton University
Speakers:
Jennifer Waldron, University of Pittsburgh, “The Theatre”
David Landreth, University of California-Berkeley, “Sensuous Materialism”
Adam McKeown, Tulane University, “The City”
Michael Koortbojian, Princeton University, “Sustenance”
Richard Strier, University of Chicago, “The Winter’s Tale”
Giulio Pertile, St. Andrews, “The Body”
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Panel 4: PAST AND PRESENT
Chair: Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University
Speakers:
Joe Ortiz, University of Texas-El Paso, “Translation”
Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, “Ovid”
Kathy Eden, Columbia University, “Socrates”
Elizabeth Bearden, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Transumption”
Leah Whittington, Harvard University, “Humanism”
J.K. Barret, University of Texas-Austin, “The Future”
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:30 Thomas Laqueur, University of California-Berkeley,
“Leonard on Leonard and I”
Introduction: Nigel Smith, Princeton University
5:30-6:15 On Writing: Leonard Barkan and Ben Kafka in Conversation
6:15-7:30 Reception at Chancellor Green
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