A5: Places, Memories, Citations

Seminar Leaders: Christopher Braider, University of Colorado and Herbert Marks, Indiana University

Friday, April 16, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Vanderbilt

David Damrosch, Columbia University: �The Buried Book: Networks of Antiquity in Herodotus and Setne Khamwas�

Stephen Owen, Harvard University: �Faces in the Crowd�

Harry Berger Jr., University of California � Santa Cruz: �Ionizing Poetry: Pleonexia, Logography, and the Platonic Critique of Socrates�

Laura Quinney, Brandeis University: “Wordsworth and Plotinus”

Herbert Marks, Indiana University: ��And Fools Repeat Them�: Proverbs and the Commonplace�

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Vanderbilt

James Nohrnberg, University of Virginia: �Frontiers in Dante�s Commedia�

Lisa Freinkel, University of Oregon: �The Shakespearean Fetish: Use and Abuse in the Early Modern Text�

Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland: �The Place of the Past in French Tragedy, 1550 � 1700�

William Flesch, Brandeis University: �Self-Citation�

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 � 10:15 AM, Vanderbilt

Christopher Braider, University of Colorado � Boulder: �On Preliminary Matters, or Placing Descartes�s Meditations�

Ann Delehanty, Reed College: �From Poetics to Aesthetics: Interpreting Longinus� On the Sublime, 1674-1710�

Daniel Selcer, Duquesne University: �The Uninterrupted Ocean: Leibniz and the Metaphysics of Encyclopedic Reference�

Jane Newman, University of California � Irvine: �Benjamin�s Baroque: Ursprung and the Limits of the Nation�