2008 CHCI Annual Meeting
The Humanities in an Age of Science
The Center for the Humanities
Washington University in St. Louis
March 14-15, 2008
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Meeting Theme
In an age in which science is often thought to dominate public discourse
and the research agendas of higher education, what is the place and role
of the humanities? Humanistic and scientific fields of knowledge are
lodged together in universities and colleges and share potential
intellectual spaces and concerns. How can humanists define places for
themselves inside and outside the modern university? Do our objects or
models of research need to be redefined or supplemented in light of the
current repositioning of hte humanities in higher education and in society
at large? To what extent are common or collaborative projects already in
the works? What kinds of questions--about ethics, the mind and the body
including race and gender, creative processes and the arts, ecology and
the environment--are engaging humanists and scientists, and how might
opening up the conversation between and among them benefit the production
of knowledge in contemporary society?
Host and Venues
The 2008 CHCI Annual Meeting is generously hosted by and organized with the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. The Center for the Humanities is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of humanistic thinking and the pursuit of letters as essential activities in the intellectual, political, and artistic life of Washington University, the community it serves, and the world. Dr. Gerald Early, Merle King Professor of Modern Letters, has been the Director of the Center and its predecessor, the International Writers Center, since 2001.
The meeting will take place at the Charles Knight Center on the Washington University campus, and at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, a dynamic museum of contemporary art housed in a building designed by Tadao Ando.
Registration
The registration fee is $75 for each CHCI member organization. For this fee, each organization may send any number of affiliated personnel (ie., the Director and Associate Director may attend for a single registration fee). Registration fees offset the direct costs of the meeting. Click here to register online and review lodging information.
Program
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Friday, March 14: Charles Knight Center, Room 200
8:30 am
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Greeting by Dean Edward S. Macias, Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Introduced by Gerald Early, Director, Center for the Humanities and Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, English, African studies, and African American studies, Washington University in St. Louis |
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Welcome by Srinivas Aravamudan, President, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Professor of English, Duke University |
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Introductory Remarks by Steve Meyer, Associate Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 9:00 am |
Keynote Lecture: Facts, Fiction, and the Slippery Slope
Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities, New York University
Introduced by Caroline Levander, Director, Humanities Research Center and Professor of English, Rice University |
| 10:30 am |
Break |
11:00 am |
Panel: Science, Race, and the Humanities |
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Race, Science, and Culture
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University |
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Race and Genetics: A Marxist Analysis of Their Role in Capitalist
Society, 1900-1940
Garland Allen, Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 12:30 pm |
Lunch (AB Dining Room, Charles Knight Center) |
| 1:30 pm |
Workshop: Inreach or Outreach? New Versions of an Old Challenge Facing Humanities Centers and Institutes |
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Kathleen Woodward, Director, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington (moderator) |
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Diane Touliatos, Director, Center for the Humanities, University of Missouri, St. Louis |
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Julia Heydon, Associate Director, Center for the Humanities, University of Oregon |
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Corrie Goldman, Outreach Officer, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University |
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Pauline Strong, Associate Director, Center for the Humanities, University of Texas-Austin |
| 3:00 pm |
Break - meeting moves to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts |
| 4:00 pm |
Panel: Technology and Art Making |
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Sensing Terrains: Art at the Intersections of Science and Technology
Patricia Olynyk, Director of Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis |
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Music, Print, and Sound Recording: Composers, Performers, and Listeners in Times of Technological Change
Richard Freedman, Professor of Music, Haverford College |
| 5:30 pm |
Reception at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts |
Saturday, March 15: Charles Knight Center, Room 200
8:30 am
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Members' Breakfast (AB Dining Room) |
9:00 am
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Keynote Lecture: The Assassin of Relativity
Peter Galison, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
Introduced by James Chandler, Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities and Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago |
| 10:30 am |
Break |
11:00 am |
Panel: Culture, Science, and Imagination
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The Science of the Soul
Sarah Rivett, Assistant Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis |
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Paris by Night in the Transatlantic Imaginary
S. Hollis Clayson, Professor of Art History and History, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, and Director, Alice Berline Kaplan Institute for the Humanities,
Northwestern University |
| 12:30 pm |
Lunch, New Directors Introductions and Discussion,
and CHCI Business Meeting
(AB Dining Room) |
| 2:30 pm |
Workshop: Models of Collaborative Work in Humanities Centers and Institutes
Organized by the Institute for Arts & Humanities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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John McGowan, Director, the Institute for Arts & Humanities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (moderator) |
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Anthony J. Cascardi, Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley |
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Ann Gaylin, Program Officer, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
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David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute |
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Julie Thompson-Klein, Professor of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Wayne State University |
| 4:00 pm |
Break |
| 4:30 pm |
Roundtable Discussion: The Role of the Humanities in an Age of Science |
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Emory Elliott, Distinguished Professor of English and Director, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside (Moderator) |
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Peter Galison, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University |
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Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities, New York University |
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Walton O. Schalick, III, Assistant Professor of Medical History, Rehabilitation Medicine, History of Science and Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Carl F. Craver, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 6:00 pm |
Buffet Dinner amd Closing Reception (O'Donnell Lounge, Knight Center) |
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