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Program

All sessions will be held at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center.

Friday, April 29, 2005

9:00-10:30
Opening Reception & Brunch
11:00-12:30
Panel One

Introducer: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Michael Suk-Young Chwe, Rational Choice and the Humanities: Excerpts and Folktales

Paisley Livingston, Rationality and Creativity in the Arts

Alan Liu, Rational Choice and the Contemporary Problem of Creativity

Discussant: Lindsay Waters

12:30
Lunch
2:00-3:30
Panel Two

Introducer: Paula England

Muriel Niederle, Performing in Tournaments and Choosing Hard Tasks: Gender Differences

Dan Hausman, Rational Choice Theory and Consequentialism

Julie Nelson, Rationality and Humanity: A View from Feminist Economics

Discussant: Debra Satz

4:00-5:30
Keynote Address

Introducer: David Palumbo-Liu

Speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Speaking for the Humanities

Discussant and leader of discussion period: Colleen Lye


Saturday, April 30, 2005

8:30-9:30
Continental Breakfast
9:30-11:00
Panel One

Introducer: Akhil Gupta

Kenneth Arrow, Economists and Glory

Hazel Markus, Culture, Agency, and Choice

Regenia Gagnier, Semi-Detached Marriages and Literary Alternatives to Rational Choice

Discussant: Sylvia Yanagisako

11:15-12:45
Panel Two

Introducer: Mark Granovetter

Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Rational Doomsaying

John Dupre, Rational Choice in the Age of the Genome

John Bender, Rational Choice in Love

Discussant: David Kreps

12:45-1:45
Lunch
2:00-3:30
Keynote Address

Introducer: Debra Satz

Speaker: Jon Elster, Interpretation and Rational Choice

Discussant and leader of discussion period: Peter Stone