"Failure is Our Greatest Option" Day 1
The Leslie Center for the Humanities presents the interdisciplinary conference, "Failure Is Our Only Option: The Question of Reading and the Politics of Literature", 5/10-5/11.
Failure is Our Greatest Option: The Question of Reading and the Politics of Literature
Day 1, Event Itinerary
To register for any of the conference events below please write to the Leslie Center for the Humanities at humanities.center@dartmouth.edu.
Tuesday, May 10: Hopkins Center Faculty Lounge (205 Hopkins)
3:00-3:30 PM
Opening Remarks: Robert St.Clair (Dartmouth College), "…And…now? On Reading (Flaubert) in the Dark"
3:30-6:00 PM
Reading Poetry: Theories, Figures, Complications
- Jonathan Strauss (Miami University), "Is a Poem ever Contemporary?"
- Victoria Zurita (Stanford University), "Revolutionary Individuals, Natural and Accursed Reading: José Martí and Arthur Rimbaud as Global Modernists"
- Seth Whidden (Oxford University), "Qui Parle? On Other Voices in the Lyric"
- Elissa Marder (Emory University), "Baudelaire's Black Notebooks"
Moderator: Robert St.Clair
We wish to thank the following entities, departments, and colleagues for their generous support in making this conference possible: The Leslie Center for the Humanities, The Department of French and Italian, the Guthrie Fund, Rebecca Biron (Director, the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College), David Laguardia (Chair of French and Italian, Dartmouth College), and Associate Dean Samuel Levy.
