The English Institute: Scale 2017 Conference

Department: English

Date and Time: October 6, 2017 - October 7, 2017 | 1:00 PM-6:00 PM

Event Location: Humanities Gateway 1030

Event Details


The English Institute
University of California, Irvine
SCALE, 2017 Conference
Oct. 6-7, 2017

University of California, Irvine, October 6-7, 2017
Conference Theory Text:
Claude Lévi-Strass, “The Structural Study of Myth”

School of Humanities
Humanities Gateway 1030
Friday, October 6

1:00
Welcome
Enrique J. Lavernia, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UCI;
Georges Van Den Abbeele, Dean of Humanities, UCI; Seth Lerer, Chair, The English Institute

1:15
Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space
Mary Ann Doane, University of California, Berkeley

3:00
Extreme Reading
Brad Pasanek, University of Virginia

4:30
Coffee

4:45
Mandeville, the Jews, and World Domination
Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin

6:15
Reception

Saturday, October 7
9:00
Coffee

9:30
Bigness as the Unconscious of Theory
David Wittenberg, University of Iowa

11:00
The Conversation
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “The Structural Study of Myth”

12:15
Lunch

1:15
Narrative and Scale in the Anthropocene
Ursula Heise, University of California, Los Angeles

2:45
Fleas, Femtoseconds, and Fractals
John Durham Peters, Yale University

4:15
Coffee

4:30
Past Americana
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz

6:00
Reception

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