Thinking Allegory Otherwise

 

Friday                    25 February 2005

                              Allegory and Philosophy                       Moderator: Lanier Anderson (Stanford)

10:00-12:00                          Daniel Selcer (Duquesne University)

Bruno, Galileo, and the Mask of Copernicus

                                                                           Brenda Machosky (Stanford University)

                                                                                          Allegories of Absolute Rule: Hobbes’ Leviathan

                                                                           Karen Feldman (UC Berkeley)                         

                                                                                          Allegories of Failure:

                                                                                          On Conscience and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

 

                              12:00-1:15                            Lunch (participants and students by invitation)

 

                              Allegory and Law                                      Moderator: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford)

                              1:30-3:00                              Jody Enders (UC Santa Barbara)

                                                                                          Memories and Allegories of the Death Penalty:

Back to the Medieval Future

                                                                           Richard Ford (Stanford Law)             

                                                                                          Legal Reasoning as Allegory

 

                              Allegory and Science                               Moderator: Rachel Jacoff (Wellesley)

                              3:15-4:45                              James Paxson (University of Florida)

                                                                                          The Legacy of Allegory and Twenty-first Century Science

                                                                           Robert Harrison (Stanford University)

                                                                                          “Dans le royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont rois”

 

                              5:00-6:30                      Plenary Address: Angus Fletcher (CUNY Graduate Center)

                                                        “Allegory Without Ideas”             Response: Hayden White (Stanford)             

Reception Following at The Stanford Faculty Club

 

Saturday                26 February 2005

                              Rethinking Allegory in Literature      Moderator: Laura Wittman (Stanford)

10:00-12:00                          Stephen Orgel (Stanford)

                                                            What Knights Really Want

Catherine Martin (University of Memphis)

               Eliding Absence and Other Errors:

The Moral of Bacon’s Scylla and Milton’s Sin

Roland Greene (Stanford)

                                                                                          Thinking Allegorically in the Early Modern Colonial World

 

                              12:00-1:15                            Lunch (participants and students by invitation)

 

                              Allegory and Other Forms                    Moderator: Daniel Edelstein (Stanford)

1:15-3:15                              Gordon Teskey (Harvard)   

                                                            French Colonial Monuments and the Museum as Allegory

                                             Richard Wittman (UC Santa Barbara)

Political Polemic in Allegorical Form:

Town Planning Proposals in Eighteenth-Century Paris

                                             Blair Hoxby (Yale/Stanford Humanities Center)

                                                            Tragedy, Trauerspiel, and Allegory

              

                              3:30-5:00                      Plenary Address Harry Berger, Jr.  (UC Santa Cruz)

Response: Michael Marinnan (Stanford)

                                                                    Allegorical Capture and Interpretive Release

in 17th Century Dutch Painting

 

                       5:00-6:00                              Roundtable Final Discussion