Program
| Thursday, March 10 | |
| 8:30 | Conference Registration/Coffee and Bagels |
| 9:15 | Welcome from Dean Stephen Cullenberg, CHASS |
| 9:25 | Welcome from Adriana Craciun, The Disorder of Things Series |
| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote Address: Adrian Johns (Professor of History, University of Chicago) "Inscriptions and Mechanisms in the Invention of Intellectual Property" Moderator: Deborah Willis (Chair of English, UC Riverside) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel I: Sounding Inscriptions Moderator: Georgia Warnke (Philosophy and Director, UCR Center for Ideas in Society) Heidi Brayman Hackel (English, UC Riverside) "Alphabets of the Body: Sign Language in Early Modern England" James Q. Davies (Music, UC Berkeley) "Unperformable Objects/Metapianistic Notation” |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch Reception |
| 2:00-3:00 | Graduate Research Panel 1: Thresholds of Visibility Moderator: Dana Simmons (History, UC Riverside) Melissa Lo (History of Science, Harvard) “Reading the Rainbow: Descartes’ Pictures and the Making of Méthode” Alan Lovegreen (English, UC Riverside) “Aerial Script: Surfaces in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Works” Lynn Huang (English, UC Berkeley) “The Science of Reading: A Phenomenology of Eighteenth-Century Fiction” |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break with Coffee and Cookies |
| 3:30-5:00 | Panel II: Inscriptions Unbound Moderator: Johannes Endres (Comparative Literature, UC Riverside) Luisa Calè (English and Humanities, Birkbeck, U of London) “Blake and Extra-illustration” Kirsten Silva Gruesz (Literature, UC Santa Cruz) "Technologies of the Textbook: Learning Spanish in English America" |
| 5:00-6:30 | Evening Reception |
| Friday, March 11 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Conference Opens; Coffee and Bagels |
| 9:00-11:00 | Panel III: Im/materiality Moderator: George Haggerty (English, UC Riverside) Malcolm Baker (History of Art, UC Riverside) "Cut in Stone: Statues, Busts, Inscriptions and the Commemoration of 'Great Men'” Adriana Craciun (English, UC Riverside) “What is an Explorer?” Miles Ogborn (Geography, Queen Mary, U of London) “Prescriptions: the material and the immaterial in eighteenth-century Jamaican plant knowledge” |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
11:30-12:30 |
Keynote Address: Jerome J. McGann |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch Reception |
| 2:00-3:00 | Graduate Research Panel 2: Thresholds of Legibility Moderator: Susan Zieger (English, UC Riverside) Sean Epstein Corbin (English, UC Riverside) "Civil War Graves in the Sentimental Imagination" Emily Pfeifer (History, UC Riverside) “At the Threshold: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Underwear” Matthew Crow (History, UCLA) “Textuality and Law in the American Revolution” |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break with Coffee and Cookies |
| 3:30-5:00 | Panel IV: Circulations Moderator: Jeanette Kohl (History of Art, UC Riverside) Randolph Head (History, UC Riverside) “Material order and spatial thinking in early modern archive organization” Daniela Bleichmar (Art History, USC) “Image / Word / Object: Multimedia Circulations of Natural Knowledge in the Early Modern World” |
| 5:00- 5:30 | Conference Roundtable and Closing Discussion |