Humanities Futures: Translations
Department: African American Studies
Date and Time: October 20, 2015 | 10:00 AM-4:30 PMEvent Location: Duke University, FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Event Details
10:15am – Welcome
10:30am – 12:00pm: Panel 1
Frank B. Wilderson, III, Professor of Drama, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and African American Studies, School of the Humanities, University of California Irvine
Afro-Pessimism and the End of Redemption
Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California
How Do We Read a Painting Now?
Respondent: TBD
Moderator: Giulia Ricco, Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Studies
12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 : Panel 2
Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center
Technologies of historical perception
Jacques Lezra, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, New York University
The End of Translation
Respondent: Esther Gabara, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Co-Director of Global Brazil Humanities Lab, Duke University
Moderator: Elizabeth Baltes, Ph.D. Candidate, Ancient Art and Archaeology, Duke University
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Break
3:00pm – 4:30pm: Panel 3
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature; Faculty Director, The Humanities Initiative at New York University
Locating Voice: Italian, Romance Studies, Hosts, Guests, Translations
Lorgia García Peña, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University
Almost Citizens: Racial Translations, National Belonging and the Global “Immigration Crisis”
Respondent: Michaeline A Crichlow, Professor of African & African American Studies, Duke University
Moderator: Alisha J. Hines, PhD Candidate, History and African & African American Studies, Duke University
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