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

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Event Date: January 23, 2006 10am-5pm

10:00-11:30
Emily Apter
"Kapital: The Novel (Madame Bovary)"
Sharon Marcus
"The Fashionable Female Gaze "

11:45-12:45
Discussion

2:00-3:30
Anne Higonnet
"The Culture of the Copy: Manet East/West "
Vanessa Schwartz
"Icons: Overused and Undervalued in Modernity's Visual Economy "
Anthony Vidler
"The Aerial Photograph: Nadar to Debord "

3:45-5:00
Discussion

Discussants: Nancy Armstrong, Leslie Camhi, Kate Flint, Christopher Prendergast, William Schaefer, Richard Terdiman

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Event Date: Friday April 21, 2006 @ 3pm
Discussants: Discussants: Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, Aamir Mufti

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Event Date: Friday May 5, 2006 5pm
Discussants: Deidre Lynch, April Alliston, Susan Schuyler

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Bill Brown
Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English
University of Chicago

"Novel Objects: Object Relations in an Expanded Field"
(Event held February 23, 2006)

**Audio recording of professor Brown's lecture 51 min., 23.4MB

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Event Date: Friday Oct 27, 2006, 3pm
Discussants: John Bender, Margaret Cohen, Michael McKeon

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Event Date: January 12, 2007
Speakers: Svetlana Boym, Joshua Clover, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Alan Liu, Bill
Luoma, Katie Salen
Discussants: Celeste Langan, Tyrus Miller, Sianne Ngai, Anne Wagner

Conference: The Extreme Contemporary—click here for more details »

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Margaret Doody
John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature, Department of English, Notre Dame University

"Nasty Characters and Unlovable Styles: The Novel's Negative Way to Pleasure"

Event Date: Feb. 8, 2007, 7pm

**Audio recording of professor Doody's lecture 88 min., 40.2MB

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Event Date: March 1, 2007, 5pm
Discussants: Margaret Ferguson, Jody Greene, Carla Hesse

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Event Date: April 20-21 2007

Click here for maps and parking information

Please join us for our last event of the CSN 2006-2007 season. This two-day workshop gathers together a younger generation of novel scholars now emerging to national and international prominence to discuss future directions in the field.

Workshop: For a Theory of the Novel of the 21st Century—click here for more details »

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Event Date: February 15, 2008, 3:30 pm
Discussants: Alex Woloch, D.A. Miller, Sianne Ngai

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Fredric Jameson
William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies
Duke University

"Realism: A Theoretical Problem"

Event Date: Feb. 27, 2008, 5:30 pm

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Event Date: Friday, April 11, 2008, 9:30 am - 4:45 pm

Participants: Ulka Anjaria, Jennifer Brody, Vilashini Cooppan, Dorothy Hale, Carla Kaplan, Ernesto Martínez, Paula Moya, James Phelan, Ramon Salidvar, and Kenneth Warren.

Conference: Race and Narrative Theory—click here for more details »

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Event Date April 21, 2008, 5:00 pm
Discussants: Franco Moretti, John Plotz

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Book Discussion: Suzanne Keen, Empathy and the Novel

Event Date: November 7, 2008, 3:30 pm
Discussants: Blakey Vermeule, Deena Weisberg

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Event Date: January 16, 2009, 3:30 pm
Discussants: Franco Moretti, Leah Price

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Bruce Robbins
Professor, Columbia University

Event Date: April 9, 2009, 5:30 pm

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Event Date: Friday, April 10, 2008, 10 am - 5 pm

Participants: Amanda Anderson, Amanda Claybaugh, Pericles Lewis, Sean McCann, John Plotz, Harvey Teres, Michael Szalay.

Conference: Politics and the Novel—click here for more details »

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