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November 01, 2005

Conference: Adventure

Event Date: Friday November 11, 2005 10am-5pm

10:00-11:30
Lorna Hutson
"The Venture in the Adventure: Calculating Probability in a Renaissance Novella"
Giancarlo Maiorino
"Of Windmills and Millstones: Crossroads of the Picaresque"
Srinivas Aravamudan
"Chronotopes and Xenotropes"

11:45-12:45
Discussion

2:00-3:30
Sylvie Thorel
"Adventures of Love in Classical Theories of the Novel"
J. Doyne Farmer
"The Evolution of Adventure in Literature and Life"
Scott Bukatman
"Secret Identity Politics"

3:45-5:00
Discussion

Discussants: Sunil Agnani, Joshua Clover, Ursula Heise, Nicholas Paige