Center for the Study of the Novel http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/ en Copyright 2008 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:34:55 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Conference: Adventure Event Date: Friday November 11, 2005 10am-5pm
Event Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

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

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2005/11/conference_adventure.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2005/11/conference_adventure.html Conferences Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:44:59 -0800 Conference: Illustration Event Date: January 23, 2006 10am-5pm
Event Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

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

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/01/conference_illustration.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/01/conference_illustration.html Conferences Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:37:35 -0800 Book Discussion:Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters Event Date: Friday April 21, 2006 @ 3pm
Discussants: Discussants: Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, Aamir Mufti
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/04/book_discussionpascale_casanov.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/04/book_discussionpascale_casanov.html Books at the Center Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:21:30 -0800 Book Discussion: Deidre Lynch, The Economy of Character Event Date: Friday May 5, 2006 5pm
Discussants: Deidre Lynch, April Alliston, Susan Schuyler
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/04/book_discussion_deidre_lynch_t.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/04/book_discussion_deidre_lynch_t.html Books at the Center Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:29:49 -0800 Ian Watt Lecture 2006 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

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/06/ian_watt_lecture_2006_1.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/06/ian_watt_lecture_2006_1.html Lectures Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:33:29 -0800 Book Discussion: Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity Event Date: Friday Oct 27, 2006, 3pm
Discussants: John Bender, Margaret Cohen, Michael McKeon
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/10/discussion_michael_mckeon_the.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2006/10/discussion_michael_mckeon_the.html Books at the Center Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:50:40 -0800 Conference: The Extreme Contemporary 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
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/01/conference_the_extreme_contemp_1.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/01/conference_the_extreme_contemp_1.html Conferences Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:07:26 -0800 Ian Watt Lecture 2007 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
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall
**Audio recording of professor Doody's lecture 88 min., 40.2MB

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/02/ian_watt_lecture_2007.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/02/ian_watt_lecture_2007.html Lectures Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:01:02 -0800 Book Discussion: Jody Greene, The Trouble With Ownership Event Date: March 1, 2007, 5pm
Discussants: Margaret Ferguson, Jody Greene, Carla Hesse
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/03/book_discussion_jody_greene_th_1.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/03/book_discussion_jody_greene_th_1.html Books at the Center Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:00:00 -0800 Workshop: For a Theory of the Novel of the 21st Century Event Date: April 20-21 2007

Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall
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.

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/04/workshop_for_a_theory_of_the_n_1.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2007/04/workshop_for_a_theory_of_the_n_1.html Conferences Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:09:41 -0800 Book Discussion: Peter Brooks, Henry James Goes to Paris Event Date: February 15, 2008, 3:30 pm
Discussants: Alex Woloch, D.A. Miller, Sianne Ngai
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/02/book_discussion_peter_brooks_h_1.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/02/book_discussion_peter_brooks_h_1.html Books at the Center Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:27:55 -0800 Ian Watt Lecture 2008 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
Location: Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/02/ian_watt_lecture_2008.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/02/ian_watt_lecture_2008.html Lectures Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:30:00 -0800 Conference: Race and Narrative Theory Event Date: Friday, April 11, 2008, 9:30 am - 4:45 pm
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

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

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/04/conference_race_and_narrative.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/04/conference_race_and_narrative.html Conferences Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:00:00 -0800 Book Discussion: Catherine Gallagher, The Body Economic Event Date April 21, 2008, 5:00 pm
Discussants: Franco Moretti, John Plotz
Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/04/book_discussion_catherine_gall.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/csn/blog/2008/04/book_discussion_catherine_gall.html Books at the Center Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:34:55 -0800